Political Philosophy

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Afghanistan: The TAPI Pipeline

From: Oil and World Politics

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Discusses Afghanistan’s geopolitically strategic location between Central and South Asia, and the long-planned pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India (TAPI). … 20 $2.00 Add
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An Interview With Nora Loretto

From: Crisis and Contagion

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In this chapter, Ian McKay interviews Nora Loretto. Nora Loreto is a Quebec City–based activist and author. Her works include From Demonized to Organized: Building the New Union Movement … 21 $2.10 Add
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Barrick Gold, the University of Toronto, and the Corporate Capture of the Canadian Government

Part Two: Dispossession Abroad

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

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In Chapter 7, author Sakura Saunders presents a historical account of how Canadian civil actors have attempted to compel the Canadian government to hold Canadian mining companies to account for … 28 $2.80 Add
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Carbon Pricing

Economists vs. the Public Interest

From: The Big Stall

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Reviews competing economic theories about tackling pollution. Explains Edmund Pigou’s work on "externalities" and neo-liberal ideas. An analysis of the two major policy proposals … 21 $2.10 Add
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Chapter 5

Merger Review

From: Canadian Competition Law & Policy

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Topics discussed in this chapter include the definition of a merger, the market power threshold, evaluations of competitive effect & efficiencies, procedural issues and remedies, and the … 80 $8.00 Add
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Chapter 6

Putting It All Together

From: Beyond Contempt

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This chapter provides an example of a conversation between two people with opposing political views who use the methods outlined in the book to have a constructive conversation. 16 $1.60 Add
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Class Consciousness in Advanced Capitalism: General Forms and Recent Trends

From: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism

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This chapter offers profiles of general patterns and trends in all these levels and forms of class consciousness since the early 1980s. The chapter concludes by tracking association between the … 47 $4.70 Add
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Development as Freedom: The Politics of Socialist Humanism

From: Human Development

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Drugs

Regulatory Capture and the Disabling of Drug Safety at Health Canada

From: Corporate Rules

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In this chapter, Michèle Brill-Edwards provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the Canadian government has quietly disabled the safety system for drugs in Canada. The Food and Drugs Act … 23 $2.30 Add
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Harper and Harrison

From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

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Discusses the deregulating agenda of the Harper majority government. How Government abandoned the precautionary principle in favour of a business friendly approach to regulation. Discussses the … 15 $1.50 Add
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Just Transition

From: Getting to Zero

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Discusses how the shift away from carbon-heavy industries should and could be done in a socially just way to ensure workers in sunset industries, Indigenous People, and immigrants will not be … 30 $3.00 Add
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Keeping on Track: Performance Indicators for a Better Society

From: Curing Affluenza

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Chapter 6 explores the indicators of a better society, discussing topics including gross domestic product (GDP), economic growth, child literacy and health, and protections. It includes an … 25 $2.50 Add
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Middle-Aged, Gifted and Black

Structures of Feeling in the Black Atlantic

From: Thinking While Black

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In this chapter the author connects Armond White’s film criticism in the New York Press and Paul Gilroy’s academic career at Goldsmiths College in London between the years of 1997 to … 23 $2.30 Add
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Migration "Crises" and the Left

In Search of the Political

From: Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left

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Governing Migrants through Criminalization – Governing Migrants through Humanitarianism – In Search of the Political 12 $1.20 Add
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Mussolini the Feminist

Did the Duce improve the status of women in Italy?

From: Mussolini Also Did A Lot of Good

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This chapter tackles the premise that the Fascist regime was more open to women’s rights than the regimes that preceded it and have followed it. The author examines how this Facist regime … 17 $1.70 Add
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Mutual Aid in the Medieval City

From: Mutual Aid

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In Chapter V, Kropotkin explores the growth of authority in barbarian societies, and they became medieval cities. The chapter examines topics including the evolution of Serfdom, fortified towns, … 21 $2.10 Add