Public Policy

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Critical Views on the Nordic Countries’ Policies From: Scandinavian Common Sense View Baraka Books	This chapter outlines some critical perspectives on the Nordic model. In public health, as in economics, the complex interaction of many factors must be taken into account; therefore it is useful …	Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand	9	2015	$0.90 Add
From Crossing the carbon divide From: Oil’s Deep State View James Lorimer and Company	Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft provides an overview of the arguments presented in previous chapters outling the oil industry’s hold on democratic institutions and concludes …	Kevin Taft	14	2017	$1.40 Add
From Crowding out Congestion and safety From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? View Between The Lines	The fifth chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? evaluates the three revolutions using the criteria of congestion and safety. The author demonstrates that cars of any kind will not solve …	James Wilt	21	2020	$2.10 Add
From Crude Awakening From: Tar Sands Showdown View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter covers the early development of the tar sands with the following subsections: (a) black gold: the pioneers who developed the technology to extract oil from the tar sands; (b) land …	Tony Clarke	38	2008	$3.80 Add
From Cultural Indicators and Benchmarks in Community Indicator Projects From: Accounting for Culture View University of Ottawa Press	The presence of cultural indicators in community indicator projects has evolved from isolated scenes characterized by fledgling, pioneering attempts to that of an emerging field and more …	Nancy Duxbury	16	2005	$1.92 Add
From Cultural Participation A Fuzzy Cultural Policy Paradigm From: Accounting for Culture View University of Ottawa Press	Argues that "cultural participation" should be a basic building block of cultural citizenship, suggesting that the term is better thought of as a means but not an end of citizenship and …	Catherine Murray	23	2005	$2.76 Add
From NEW! Culture Club The Workplace Culture of Government Bureaucracy From: How Government Really Works View Formac Publishing	Chapter 2 explores government workplace culture, the chain of command and the lack of diversity inherent in many government departments.	Angela Poirier; Jane Allt	31	2020	$3.10 Add
From Cyber Cyber Everywhere From: Unicorn in the Woods View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, Pitt explores the career of Steve Lund, the key driver behind CyberNB, an agency designed to leverage New Brunswick’s homegrown expertise.	Gordon Pitts	15	2020	$1.50 Add
Damming the Peace The hidden costs of the Site C Dam	Since the 1970s, the Site C Dam in northeastern British Columbia’s Peace River Valley has been touted by BC Hydro and successive governments as necessary to meet the province’s …		272		View
From Data minecraft Surveillance and policing From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? View Between The Lines	Chapter seven of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? considers surveillance and policing of digital data associated with the new transportation revolution technologies. The author finds the new …	James Wilt	17	2020	$1.70 Add
From David Brooks in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths May 28, 2020 From: The World After Covid View House of Anansi Press	David Brooks and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and American political thinking. Topics include the lasting impacts of the pandemic on politics and specifically on attitudes toward …	Rudyard Griffiths	9	2021	$0.90 Add
From David Sarnoff’s Classroom From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	Sarnoff, the founder of RCA dropped out of elementary school to sell newspapers on the street. What he learned there he could never have learned in school.	John Taylor Gatto	12	2010	$1.20 Add
From Dealing With Extreme Behavior From: Freedom To Learn View New Society Publishers	No matter how we describe the process of creating cooperative behavior, some teachers always insist that they have to have methods to deal with very extreme behavior. The truth is they are right. …	Art Willans; Cari Williams	22	2018	$2.20 Add
From Defending Mother Earth From: The Reconciliation Manifesto View James Lorimer and Company	Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines the qualifications of Indigenous people to weigh in on climate matters and promote clean energy policies and relates this to economic decisions in Canada.	Arthur Manuel	5	2017	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Defending Indigenous Rights against the Just Society From: 1968 in Canada View University of Ottawa Press	This chapter traces the historical importance of, and interrelations between, developments in federal “Indian policy” and investments in fossil fuel extraction, and Indigenous …	Andrew Gemmell	27	2021	$2.70 Add
Degrees of Failure University Education in Decline Between The Lines	In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show …	Randle W. Nelsen	152	2017	View