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From ![]() Wall Street’s Empire |
The United States has an empire, even if it’s not often called one. More often, the U.S. Empire is widely referred to by various euphemisms, anodyne terms which make the unacceptable appear … | Stephen Gowans | 20 | 2017 | $2.00 Add |
![]() WallsTravels Along the Barricades |
Winner, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, and City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize Shortlisted, Dolman Travel Book Award Longlisted, … | 288 | View | ||
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From ![]() Wang Dan’s Shooting Star |
This chapter begins with the author meeting with Wang Den in London, one of the student leaders of the Tiananmen Square Uprising. The chapter goes on to provide a detailed day-by-day account of … | Michael Cormier | 33 | 2013 | $3.30 Add |
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From ![]() Wang Juntao’s Exile |
This chapter begins with the story of a Chinese exile named Wang Juntao, who was a student leader during the 1989 uprising and now lives in New York. The author goes on to discuss the legacy of … | Michael Cormier | 16 | 2013 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Wanting a Child versus Human DignityFrom: Stolen Motherhood |
The author critiques the for-profit contract based model of surrogacy and looks at the implications of this model. She touches on concepts of medical ethics, individualism, social infertility, … | Maria De Koninck | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Wants and Needs |
In this chapter, the author unpacks our consumer impulses, and how a consumer state of mind does not encourage environmental action. | Sami Grover | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() War and Peace – Illusions of Partnership at Conservative-First Nations Gathering40943 From: Indigenous Nationhood |
Pamela Palmater | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add | |
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From ![]() War, Globalization, and Reproduction2000 From: Revolution at Point Zero |
The essays in part 2 of the book explore the patriarchal foundations that the global economy is built on. The essays in this section cover topics including the International Women’s … | Silvia Federici | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Warning SignsFrom: BlackBerry Town |
Howitt asseses Research in Motion as its success is threatened by rival companies – most notably Apple’s iPhone. | Chuck Howitt | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Warrior Nation |
The author explores the rise of militarist attitudes in Canada and Canadian involvement in various wars and military operations around the world in recent history. The author discusses epic … | Noah Richler | 80 | 2012 | $8.00 Add |
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From ![]() Wars and Rumours of WarsHow Wars Start From: Disarming Conflict |
Ernie Regehr | 21 | 2015 | $2.10 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Was Sidewalk Toronto a PR Experiment or a Development ProposalFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 6 asks the question of whether Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs project was a realistic urban development program or a PR stunt by Google to market their products on a large stage. | David Murakami Wood | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
![]() Washington’s Long War on Syria |
When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The … | Stephen Gowans | 280 | 2017 | View |
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From ![]() Washington’s Power Projection Platform in the Pacific |
Chapter eleven, Washington’s Power Projection Platform in the Pacific focuses on the shift in shift in politics in South Korea by 1993. The Berlin Wall had fallen, the German Democratic … | Stephen Gowans | 10 | 2018 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Washington’s State Islamic Allies |
Most people in the West remember the Arab Spring protests as touching the Arab republics—Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and of course, Libya and Syria. They seldom remember, or know at all, that … | Stephen Gowans | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and FreedomFrom: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition |
Excerpt of a 2005 book by Taiaiake Alfred describing a strategic vision of nonviolent contention as a means for indigenous peoples to regain freedom and achieve political independence. | Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add |
















