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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Portapique From: Insurgent Love View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter explores the mass murders in Portapique, Nova Scotia, in 2020.	Ardath Whynacht	10	2021	$1.00 Add
From Poverty is Rediscovered From: When Poverty Mattered View Fernwood Publishing	-	Paul Weinberg	12	2019	$1.20 Add
From Power in the Holocene The Rise of Social Inequality From: Power View New Society Publishers	In this chapter, Heinberg explores physical as well as social power, as well as the ways in which humans have obtained power over each other, including warfare, predation, the wealth pump, state …	Richard Heinberg	67	2021	$6.70 Add
From Ready to Rally Marshalling Public Opinion, Then and Now From: A Good War View ECW Press	In Chapter 3, Klein examines the challenges the Canadian public face when trying to bring about climate action. Klein focuses on increasing widespread awareness through Public Education, …	Seth Klein	40	2020	$4.00 Add
From Regenerative Design From: Thriving Beyond Sustainability View New Society Publishers	Topics include: New Design Approaches and Objectives – Design Tools and Frameworks – Building Green Homes, Towns and Cities – BedZED – Greensburg – Växjö …	Andrés R. Edwards	18	2010	$1.80 Add
From Religious Fundamentalism vs. the Environment From: Canada after Harper View James Lorimer and Company	Joyce Nelson finds a close link between this political inaction and the adherence to religious fundamentalism by the Prime Minister and his closest allies.	Joyce Nelson	21	2015	$2.10 Add
From NEW! Research Methods and Design From: Resisting Eviction View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter, Crosby provides a methodological blueprint for doing research with social movements. He describes his work with the Herongate Tenant Coalition as political activist ethnography, …	Andrew Crosby	13	2023	$1.30 Add
From Rio to Kyoto The Road Not Taken From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	Analyzes the tactic of "greenwashing" and the use of terms like "sustainable development" allowing big business to adopt the language of environmentalism but none of the …	Donald Gutstein	16	2018	$1.60 Add
From Rivers and Lakes in Trouble From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers explores how surface water – lakes and rivers – are some of the most vulnerable to contamination and destruction as a result of human action.	Marq de Villiers	27	2018	$2.70 Add
From Running on empty Climate and environment From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? View Between The Lines	The third chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? asserts that deeply recommitting to public transit is a requirement for slowing climate catastrophe. The author demonstrates how each of …	James Wilt	20	2020	$2.00 Add
From Samantha Power in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths April 30, 2020 From: The World After Covid View House of Anansi Press	Samantha Power and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and international affairs and global politics. Topics include global social and economics inequalities, different countries’ responses …	Rudyard Griffiths	11	2021	$1.10 Add
From Struggling to Survive The New Democratic Party and Labour in the Neoliberal Era From: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada View Fernwood Publishing	Will neoliberalism remain hegemonic in a world recovering from a pandemic and prone to populist reactions to free market neoliberalism? In 2020, business acceptance of massive deficits, …	Alan Ernst; Bryan Evans	21	2021	$2.10 Add
From Systemic Discrimination Police and Race From: Crisis in Canada's Policing View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, the author outline the "broken windows" theory of policing, and how this has had disproportionate impacts on racialized people.	Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell	45	2021	$4.50 Add
From Teaching Is A Group Activitiy From: Freedom To Learn View New Society Publishers	Teaching is inherently a group activity and that makes all the difference. Humans (students in this case) respond differently in groups than in individual situations. Some important variables of …	Art Willans; Cari Williams	21	2018	$2.10 Add
From NEW! The Allende of the North From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	This chapter examines the Dave Barrett NDP government of British Columbia, which was in power from 1972-1975. Jackson later worked with the BC NDP caucus as they tried to resist the resurgent …	Andrew Jackson	8	2021	$0.80 Add
From The Douglas Legacy and the Future of Medicare From: Medicare View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses Tommy Douglas’s lasting legacy as a political leader through his introduction of universal health care	Greg; Marchildon	8	2007	$0.80 Add