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Stolen Motherhood

Stolen Motherhood

Surrogacy and Made-to-Order Children

Neither marginal nor secret, contracting surrogate mothers is growing rapidly and is regarded as socially progressive. Yet the “process” is vitiated from the get go, i.e., … 194 View
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Strange Bedfellows: The Multi-National Alliance Against Syria
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Strange Bedfellows: The Multi-National Alliance Against Syria

From: Syria

In this chapter, Kuzmarov and Kovalik traces the coordinated involvement of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Israel (operating alongside the United States) in the dismantling of Syria’s … ; 14 $1.40 Add
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Strangers Within Our Gates

Strangers Within Our Gates

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

Excerpt of a 1909 book by J.S. Woodsworth examining the advisability or justifiability of excluding as immigrants both individuals and classes of individuals. ; ; 3 $0.30 Add
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Impact Assessment for Projects on Federal Lands and Outside Canada
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Impact Assessment for Projects on Federal Lands and Outside Canada

The “Federal Projects” Process

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter explores the process set out in the Assessment Act (IAA) for the assessment of projects on federal lands and projects outside Canada; how this process differs from the rest of the … 24 $2.40 Add
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Strategies: Networking, Institutionalizing, Commodifying, and Brokering
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Strategies: Networking, Institutionalizing, Commodifying, and Brokering

From: The Consulting Trap

In Chapter Four, the authors identify four strategies that TPSFs (transnational professional service firms) have used to gain influence and entrench themselves in public policymaking and service … ; 34 $3.40 Add
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Striking for Status

Striking for Status

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

This chapter describes why undocumented migrants’ struggles for status are fundamentally about workers’ rights. In certain moments, like 2006 and 2017 in the US and 2008 in France, marginalized … 10 $1.00 Add
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Struggle Over the State 1945-1948

Struggle Over the State 1945-1948

From: Einstein on Israel and Zionism

In this chapter, Jerome explores Albert Einstein’s opposition to a Jewish state during the years of 1945 to 1948. 35 $3.50 Add
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Struggling to Defend Political Neutrality: 1979-2006

Struggling to Defend Political Neutrality: 1979-2006

From: Defending a Contested Ideal

This chapter will recount the debates of the last few decades about the principle of the political neutrality of the public service and the events that challenged the traditional norms and … ; 28 $2.80 Add
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Studying Classes in Advanced Capitalism
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Studying Classes in Advanced Capitalism

From: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism

This chapter starts with different standpoints for studying classes in advanced capitalism and establishes my current standpoint as an intellectual inside-outsider aligned with subordinate class … 23 $2.30 Add
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Subjects of empire

Subjects of empire

Indigenous peoples and the “Politics of Recognition” in Canada

From: Home and Native Land

Recognition-based models of liberal pluralism seek to reconcile Indigenous claims to nationhood with Crown sovereignty via the accommodation of Indigenous identities in some form of renewed … 26 $3.38 Add
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Substantive Principles of Fundamental Justice

Substantive Principles of Fundamental Justice

From: Fundamental Justice

Discusses substantive principles of fundamental justice, including generally applicable substantive principles, principles of penal responsibility, principles governing penal investigations and … 98 $9.80 Add
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Subverting the Gaze
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Subverting the Gaze

From: Decolonize Museums

In Chapter Two: Subverting the Gaze, Lee examines how museums have served as historical extensions of European and North American colonial projects. Topics discussed include the neutral aesthetic … 48 $4.80 Add
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Sue Rodriguez:

Sue Rodriguez:

Who Owns My Life? — 1993

From: The Right to Die

A landmark event in the history of the movement to legalize assisted death in Canada began with a videotaped statement issued to a parliamentary committee in 1992. In November of that year, a … 18 $1.80 Add