Political Science
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From  She is Oranges that Explode |
In this chapter, the author explores the experience of refugees living in camps in Palestine. | Marcello Di Cintio | 38 | 2018 | $3.80 Add |
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From  Shun Thy NeighbourThe U.S.-Mexico Border From: Walls |
The author explores the history and harsh reality of the U.S.-Mexico border, focusing on the Mexican perspective and the plight of migrants looking to immigrate to the U.S.. | Marcello Di Cintio | 47 | 2013 | $4.70 Add |
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From  Silicon Valley NorthFrom: BlackBerry Town |
Howitt examines the growth of Kitchener-Waterloo’s growing reputation as a tech leader from the perspective of several staff and executives of other tech companies in the area. | Chuck Howitt | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Smart City Tech: A PrimerThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
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 |
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From  Soldiers without a Commander?From: In Defiance |
Social networks, the media, and their effects on the spontaneous actions of the strikers. | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 13 | 2015 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! State Jurisdiction over Air and SpacePART II: STATE JURISDICTION From: International Law, 3/e |
Chapter 6 examines state jurisdiction over air and space by exploring airspace, outer space, the committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, and prevention towards an arms race in outer space. | Craig Forcese; Joanna Harrington; John H. Currie; Valerie Oosterveld | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Stepping Up to a Larger Union Stage, 2010-19From: Leading Progess |
In this chapter, Russell explores how PIPSC dealt with issues and opportunities as it approached its hundred-year aniversary. PIPSC members confronted the Harper government’s muzzling of … | Jason Russell | 34 | 2020 | $3.40 Add |
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From  Surrogate Motherhood: A Gift of Life or Maternity Denied? |
In this chapter, feminist scholar Silvia Federici discusses surrogacy. She discusses ways in which it gives women agency over how they use their bodies. She also discusses how surrogacy can … | Silvia Federici | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Survivors StoriesMarie From: The Hope that Remains |
Marie was thirteen during the genocide and was saved along with her sister by Hutu women they knew. She explains finding her remaining family, recovering from her injuries and eventually making a … | Christine Magill | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Tapping the Veins of EcuadorFrom: Blood of Extraction |
- | Jeffery R. Webber; Todd Gordon | 45 | 2016 | $4.50 Add |
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From  Techno-nationalism and Meso-innovation Systems: A Cognitive Dynamics ApproachFrom: The New Geo-Governance |
Too many forces at work in the world economy would appear to suggest that, as globalization proceeds, national disintegration occurs, and sub-national components gain more importance. | Gilles Paquet | 18 | 2005 | $1.62 Add |
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From  Testing the Power SystemFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s current experimental projects/evolutions in the way that they are producing energy, looking at their experiments with solar, geothermal, and hydrogen … | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! The 1968 Thinkers’ Conference and the Birth of Canadian MulticulturalismFrom: 1968 in Canada |
From 13 to 15 December 1968, a meeting took place in Toronto that should be considered among the most important contributions to the birth of Canadian multiculturalism: the Thinkers’ … | Michael Temelini | 29 | 2021 | $2.90 Add |
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From  NEW! The Administrative Independence of the Federal CourtsA Case for Reform |
This chapter argues that judicial independence is a pillar of our constitutional democracy and as such is a principle anchored in the Canadian state structure and recognized as essential to the … | Martine Valois | 37 | 2021 | $3.70 Add |
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From  The AftermathA New War on Africa From: Slouching Towards Sirte |
In the Conclusion, Forte ends with an extension of one of the key themes in this book, namely that the war against Libya was also a war against Africa. He examines critical perspectives on regime … | Maximilian C. Forte | 42 | 2012 | $4.20 Add |
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From  The Construction of Domestic Work in Nineteenth-Century England and the Patriarchy of the WageFrom: Patriarchy of the Wage |
This chapter examines the history of our current understanding of "domestic work/women’s labour" and the effects of this relatively recent construction on women. | Silvia Federici | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
