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From Rites of PassageSelf Formation in Liminal Space From: The Power Manual |
Rites of Passage, highlights Victor Turner’s thinking on liminality, the space of transformation, the ritual of transitioning from one state to another. One leaves behind previous … | Cyndi Suarez | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
From NEW! Russia: Friend or Foe?Part III: A New Cold War? From: China Unbound |
Chapter 8 features reporting from Russia that gathers evidence and points towards potential areas of global conflict with Chinese interests in the region and looks for what can be done to avoid … | Joanna Chiu | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 Add |
From Saddam |
Chapter Nine focuses on Saddam Hussian. During the 1970s, Saddam used Iraq’s oil wealth to pursue ambitious programs of social reform and economic uplift, earning him the plaudits of the … | Stephen Gowans | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
From Sex, Gender, and Feminist Theory |
- | Murray Knuttila; Wendee Kubik | 27 | 2000 | $2.70 Add |
From Shared and Divergent ValuesFrom: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition |
1991 essay by Charles Taylor in support of a "deep" diversity to promote equality and unity. | Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
From She Was So Beautiful My Heart MovedFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes the experience of an Afghan man forced into army service to graduate from school who marries a half-Russian, half-Uzbek woman and their escape the violence of the area to come to … | David Starr | 18 | 2016 | $1.80 Add |
From NEW! Smart Cities, Big Data, and a Question of TrustThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 4 discusses questions of personal data. Topics discussed include open access, data and privacy, data bias, open data, and municipal dashboards. | John Lorinc | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
From NEW! SNC-LavalinCaptured or Complicit? SNC-Lavalin and the Normalization of Corruption in Canada From: Corporate Rules |
In this chapter, Steven Bittle and Jennifer Quaid examine the SNC-Lavalin scandal and the normalization of corruption in Canada. Bittle and Quaid use three key moments in the evolution of the … | Steven Bittle | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
From So What’s Stopping You?From: Curing Affluenza |
Chapter 9 concludes with a call to action, discussing topics including democratic reform and citizen influence, Neoliberalism, communal goals and future cultural changes. | Richard Denniss | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |
From Southern Canada Did Not Get Developed Without National SupportFrom: Let's Move On |
Okalik discusses his experiences with colleagues from other territories and provinces as well as with Greenland. He speaks more about his policy decisions and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. | Paul Okalik | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
From NEW! Spinning a Yarn |
Chapter 9 explorers intra-governmental communications, how messages are drafted and shared and stumbling blocks to getting the message out. | Angela Poirier; Jane Allt | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
From Stalin’s Soviet Union:An Unloved but Useful Partner From: The Myth of the Good War |
Focuses particular on 1942-43 to analyzes the Soviet Union’s contribution to the war and although opinions about the Societ Union were negative they proved to be extremely useful | Jacques R. Pauwels | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
From Survivors StoriesBeatrice From: The Hope that Remains |
Beatrice describes her childhood in Rwanda before the genocide, during which she was a young adult. She had left Rwanda for Burundi before and during the main part of the genocide, which had … | Christine Magill | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
From Tax CutsPart of the Problem, Not the Solution From: Canada after Harper |
Trish Hennessy relates how the obsession with tax cuts promoted by neoliberal governments has served as a convenient excuse for slashing social programs. | Trish Hennessy | 15 | 2015 | $1.50 Add |
From The Battery of the North EastFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter is about Hydro-Quebec and energy-trading. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
From The Campaign of 1950-1953 |
Chapter nine, The Campaign of 1950-1953 provides a Korean perspective on the Korean War. From the perspective of the Republic of Korea, the movement of its military forces north of the 38th … | Stephen Gowans | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |