Public Policy
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From ![]() Critical Views on the Nordic Countries’ Policies |
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 |
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From ![]() Crossing the carbon divideFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
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 |
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From ![]() Crowding outCongestion and safety |
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 |
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From ![]() Crude AwakeningFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
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 |
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From ![]() Cultural Indicators and Benchmarks in Community Indicator ProjectsFrom: Accounting for Culture |
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 |
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From ![]() Cultural ParticipationA Fuzzy Cultural Policy Paradigm From: Accounting for Culture |
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 |
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From ![]() NEW! Culture ClubThe Workplace Culture of Government Bureaucracy |
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 |
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From ![]() Cyber Cyber EverywhereFrom: Unicorn in the Woods |
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 PeaceThe 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 | ||
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From ![]() Data minecraftSurveillance and policing |
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 |
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From ![]() David Brooks in Conversation with Rudyard GriffithsMay 28, 2020 From: The World After Covid |
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 |
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From ![]() David Sarnoff’s Classroom |
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 |
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From ![]() Dealing With Extreme BehaviorFrom: Freedom To Learn |
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 |
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From ![]() Defending Mother Earth |
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 |
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From ![]() NEW! Defending Indigenous Rights against the Just SocietyFrom: 1968 in Canada |
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 FailureUniversity Education in Decline |
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 |

















