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Production and Productivity

From: Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change

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Public matters, grey matter

The brain and decision-making

From: Too Dumb for Democracy?

Chapter One explores the roots of our bad political decisions; but the author argues that none of those reasons are excuses for us to throw up our arms and say, “Well, what can you do? We … 30 $3.00 Add
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Reference re Alberta Statutes (Alberta Press Case), 1938

From: The Court and the Charter

Two members of the Supreme Court of Canada, in holding that the Act to ensure the Publication of Accurate News and Information was beyond the constitutional authority of Alberta legislature, … ; ; ; 6 $0.60 Add
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Reporting Back From Conditions Not of Our Choosing (2013)

From: Beyond the Fragments

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Responsible Government: Theory and Practice

From: Democratizing the Constitution

Historical review of responsible government in Canada in support of an argument that the current situation is in need of reform. 45 $4.50 Add
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Roots Run Deep

From: Visionaries, Crusaders, and Firebrands

Examines the roots of the NDP party. Looks at J.D. Woodsworth and William Irvine’s role in the political landscape of their time. Specifically analyzes the Agrarian Revolt, early … 32 $3.20 Add
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Series Editors

From: Development in Latin America

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Sight and Site on the Line

The Cultural Imaginary of Borderlands in North America

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

This chapter considers contemporary art and media projects located in North American border regions in the last decade and their role as critical practices and forms of translocal resistance … 22 $2.20 Add
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Sirte

Keystone of Independence

From: Slouching Towards Sirte

In Chapter One Sirte: Keystone of Independence, Forte contrasts the city of Sirte– found to be in near total ruin by the end of the 2011 Libyan Civil War– to the Sirte which was once … 39 $3.90 Add
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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

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 … 15 $1.50 Add
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Social Democracy and Labour

From: The Fire and the Ashes

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, … 7 $0.70 Add
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Social Inequalities in Health

A Real and Persistent Problem

From: Scandinavian Common Sense

The existence of social inequalities in health is now recognized as a very real and world-wide problem; this chapter examines systematic determinants of health, which are socially produced and … ; ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Socialism and Human Development

From: Human Development

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Starting as Professionals, 1920-1969

From: Leading Progess

In this chapter, the author discusses how the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada emerged and changed along with Canada during its first fifty years, when major external and … 27 $2.70 Add
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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