Political Science

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Small Beginnings – Stepping in the Right Direction From: A People's Senate For Canada View Fernwood Publishing		Helen Forsey	16	2015	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Smart Cities and the Origins of Utopian Urbanism The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The Dream of the Smart City: Part 2 explores the origins of utopian urbanism. Topics discussed include history of urban planning, the history of ghetto’s, Bauhaus and the Garden City …	John Lorinc	16	2022	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Smart Cities as a Civic Leaders’ Survivor Game The Lure of Innovation in a Competitive World From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs View James Lorimer and Company	Chapter 1 explores what leads municipal governments to persue smart city projects, whether they are seen as a quick and easy fix to deeper underlying infrastructure and urban planning issues, and …	Mariana Valverde	15	2020	$1.50 Add
From NEW! Smart Cities, Big Data, and a Question of Trust The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View Coach House Books	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
NEW! Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs Independent experts analyze often-controversial schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto’s failed Sidewalk Labs waterfront scheme	"Smart cities" use surveillance, big data processing and interactive technologies to reshape urban life. Transit riders can see the bus coming on a map on their phones. Cities can …		200		View
From NEW! Smart City Tech: A Primer The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The Dream of the Smart City: Part 1 explores the tech needed to create a smart city. Discussing topics including what makes technology ‘smart’, ‘machine learning’ …	John Lorinc	18	2022	$1.80 Add
From NEW! Smart City Tech and the Promise of Green Cities The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The Dream of the Smart City: Part 5 explores the possibility of green cities with smart innovation. Topics discussed include post-industrial cities, climate change, pollution, urban …	John Lorinc	16	2022	$1.60 Add
From Smart Communities and the Geo-governance of Social Learning From: The New Geo-Governance View University of Ottawa Press	Smart communities are creating new geo-governance challenges: they require a new form of governance and leadership if they are to yield their promised returns, and this will only emerge in action …	Gilles Paquet	19	2005	$1.71 Add
From NEW! SNC-Lavalin Captured or Complicit? SNC-Lavalin and the Normalization of Corruption in Canada From: Corporate Rules View James Lorimer and Company	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 …	Jennifer Quaid; Steven Bittle	22	2022	$2.20 Add
From So What’s Stopping You? From: Curing Affluenza View Between The Lines	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 NEW! So, You Want a Master? Psychoanalytic Considerations on the Intellectual’s Responsibility in Light of Traumatic Repetition From: Spectres of Fascism View Between The Lines	In this chapter the author employs logical principles extrapolated from psychoanalytic clinical practice to account for the ways in which the unconscious participates in the political realm. The …	Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez	22	2020	$2.20 Add
From “Sober Second Thought” – Why Have a Senate at All? From: A People's Senate For Canada View Fernwood Publishing		Helen Forsey	21	2015	$2.10 Add
From Social Co-ops and Social Care From: Humanizing the Economy View New Society Publishers	On Civil Society and the Social Economy On Reciprocity Social Co-operatives The Case for Co-op Approach to Social Care Beyond Defensiveness Creating a Social Marker	John Restakis	32	2010	$3.20 Add
From NEW! Social Democracy and Labour From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	In this chapter, the author discusses the conditions and circumstances that labour movements faced during his career. Topics include the rise of student activism, the culture wars of the 1970s, …	Andrew Jackson	7	2021	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Social Democracy in a Neo-Liberal Era From: Class Action View Between The Lines	In Social Democracy in a Neo-liberal Era Hanson explores how conditions changed, or failed to change, after the election of Ontario’s first NDP premier. The chapter discusses topics such …	Andy Hanson	20	2021	$2.00 Add
From Social Inclusion From: About Canada: Health & Illness 2nd Edition View Fernwood Publishing		Dennis Raphael	21	2016	$2.10 Add