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Innisfil and Uber

A Rural Municipality’s Misadventures in Smart Public Transit

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

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Chapter 10 explores smart city projects that make use of ridesharing and their pitfalls. 11 $1.10 Add
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Into the Fire

From: A Beauty that Hurts

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In this chapter, Lovell discusses tragic cases of doctors, teachers, and journalists who faced violence in Guatemala. 8 $0.80 Add
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Leadership 2.0

From: Peacemakers

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Examines what our leaders need to do in the peace process complete. Includes interviews with Paul Martin, Kim Campbell and Jody Williams. 19 $1.90 Add
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Mapping the Global Far Right and the Crisis of Statelessness

From: Border and Rule

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In this chapter, the author investigates the increasing internationalism of nationalist far-right movements. 27 $2.70 Add
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Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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This chapter illustrates how new unions and worker centres emerged to successfully organize in global cities like Toronto, New York and London and within the chokepoints of logistics hubs for … 14 $1.40 Add
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Modelling North American Integration:

Pushing the Envelope of Reality

From: Living with Uncle

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This chapter will introduce non-specialist readers to the theory and practice of CGE modelling. It will survey and reconsider the major predictions of CGE models regarding the effects of free … 37 $3.70 Add
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Montauban

From: On Love and Tyranny

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This chapter describes Arendt’s flight to Montauban, a small town whose socialist mayor refused to obey the new Vichy regime. There, she searched for information about her husband, until … 5 $0.50 Add
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New Era, Old Reality: The BC Legislature and Accountable Government

From: British Columbia Politics and Government

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Review of representative and responsible government in BC and assessments of parliamentary reforms. 13 $1.30 Add
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Of Motors and Batteries

From: Charging Ahead

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This chapter highlights some of H-Q’s commercial exploits as well as Karim Zaghib’s work and impacts on Hydro-Quebec. ; 13 $1.30 Add
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On the Frontiers of Capital

Nuclear Plants and Other Environmental Architectures

From: The Culture of Nature

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The author explores the impact of the atomic age on the environment and landscape. The chapter includes 17 photos and images. 39 $3.90 Add
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Overview of Voting Behaviour Theories

From: Election

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Examination of forces affecting voting behaviour according to the main theoretical pillars of voting research, particularly mobilization of constituents to vote and conversion of supporters of … 29 $2.90 Add
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Ownership Transfer: Accelerating Transition

From: Resilience Imperative

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The importance of closing the equity gap and the crucial role of low-cost finance have been central to the cooperative innovations we have featured in this book. In micro-ways they roll back the … ; 40 $4.00 Add
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Paris

Big Oil Gets Its Deal

From: The Big Stall

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Analyzes the 2015 Paris Accord on climate change and reports on how the proceedings came to be dominated by corporate interests. Analyzes the impact of decades of well funded denialism. Suggests … 22 $2.20 Add
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Peace after the Sun Goes Down

From: Disarming Conflict

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People to People, Nation to Nation

From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

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Text of the opening section of a summary of findings and recommendations of a 1996 report by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples established after confrontations between Mohawk warriors … ; ; 7 $0.70 Add