Media & Communication Studies

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The Man’s Man

From: Imagined Truths

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The author further explores his relationship with his grandfather and family history. 16 $1.60 Add
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The Post-Liberal Order

Part II: The Insurgency

From: Has Populism Won?

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This chapter discusses how populist leaders are against liberal international order. This chapter discusses how populist figures continue to challenge liberal free-trade internationalism. ; 17 $1.70 Add
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The road to Trump

From: Oil’s Deep State

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Former Alberta opposition leader analyzes the ties between the fossil fuel industry and the hard right political movement that carried Donald Trump to the White House in 2016. 20 $2.00 Add
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What is to be Done?

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About War

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The author muses on Canadian culture and the ideas of epics and epic behaviour, which reduce the world to a dichotomy of black and white and as a result encourage militarism/"warrior … 46 $4.60 Add
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What is Wrong with Social Media?

An Anti-Capitalist Critique

From: The Socialist Register 2022

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Marcus Gilroy-Ware provides an authoritative and skeptical assessment of ‘what is wrong with social media’ and places the social pathologies they amplify within the capitalist … 20 $2.00 Add
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A Normal Person

From: Man at the Airport

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In this chapter, the author outlines how he became trapped in Malaysia after attempting to fly to Equador. 18 $1.80 Add
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August 2020: The End of CERB

From: Spin Doctors

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This chapter discuss Covid-19 during August 2020. Loreto examines the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (cerb); discussing who was eligible and when, how it impacted Canadians, and what the … 22 $2.20 Add
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Bad, Ugly, Good, Repeat

From: The Trauma Beat

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In this chapter, Cherry discusses the psychological impacts and ethical concerns of interviewing the family members of violent crime victims. Cherry explores varied responses to her survey: … 22 $2.20 Add
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Be Interesting, Or Else

From: The Next Big Thing

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"A decade after he gave Canadian journalism a kick in the backside as the founding editor of Conrad Black’s brash National Post newspaper, Ken Whyte came to campus. Most recently, as … 20 $2.00 Add
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Boxed In

Anxiety in the Masses

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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Anxiety and its little buddy stress are on the rise in adults and, most troubling, increasingly also in children, adolescents, and youth. We are all now consistently revving at much, much higher … 17 $1.70 Add
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Chapter 5

Canadarm, cufflinks and collaboration

From: Canadarm and Collaboration

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This chapter provides a biography of Chris Hadfield, the most experienced Canadian astronaut. Additional topics include the installation of Canadarm2 on the International Space Station and the … 28 $2.80 Add
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Putting It All Together

From: Beyond Contempt

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This chapter provides an example of a conversation between two people with opposing political views who use the methods outlined in the book to have a constructive conversation. 16 $1.60 Add
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Classroom Practice and Student-Friendly Suggestions

Up Close and Personal

From: Degrees of Failure

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The university’s current malaise owes much to an emphasis on the bottom line, on the primacy of vocational training in combination with elements such as an increasingly predatory education … 23 $2.30 Add
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Communication

From: Negotiating So Everyone Wins

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Strategic negotiators develop the skills, understanding and perspective to make considered and calculated choices about communication. Three forms of communication, the agent-principal … 37 $3.70 Add
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David Brooks in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

May 28, 2020

From: The World After Covid

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David Brooks and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and American political thinking. Topics include the lasting impacts of the pandemic on politics and specifically on attitudes toward … 9 $0.90 Add
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How Comfortably Does the Internet Sit on Canada’s Tundra? Reflections on Public Access to the Information Highway in the North

From: Cyberidentities

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Universal access to affordable technologies is at the heart of communication scholars’ thinking about democracy and empowerment. It is what gives cultural communities the power to represent … 15 $2.10 Add