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Degrowth

PART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks

From: Worlds at Stake

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Chapter 8 explores the idea of degrowth, as opposed to the role of perpetual economic growth which had led to the current ecological crisis. 20 $2.00 Add
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Demoviction 2018: Tenant Resistance to Domicide

From: Resisting Eviction

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Chapter 8 documents the second phase of demoviction in 2018 and the emergence of the Herongate Tenant Coalition to try and stop the evictions. Crosby explores a number of coalition tactics … 19 $1.90 Add
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Disarming Conflict

A Treaty to Control the Arms Trade

From: Disarming Conflict

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Energy and the Future of Farming

From: Emergent Agriculture

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We can and should energize our modern food production system with solar and other renewable energy sources, as has been done for most of the past 10,000 years. To be sure, the sun will always … 12 $1.20 Add
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Eve of Destruction

From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

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Analyzes how by 2012 the conditions were set for some kind of rail disaster: too litte regulation and few qualified inspectors. Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Railway was unprepared for … 18 $1.80 Add
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Fixing the Leaks

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

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In Chapter 7, I look at a broader range of tax reform proposals to address the major sources of the tax shortfall. 21 $2.10 Add
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Foreign-Investor Protections in the TPP

From: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada

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analyzes one of the most contentious features of the TPP and similar agreements going back to NAFTA. The investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism gives foreign investors the right … 16 $1.60 Add
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From Caring to Uncaring?

Coercive Tendencies in State Service Work

From: Anti-Terrorism

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From Environmental Crisis to Business Transition

From: The Big Stall

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Discusses how corporations came to recognize climate change as a profitable opportunity, and how public policy shifted from regulation of carbon emissions to measures that corporate leaders … 16 $1.60 Add
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Gender Equity Policies

From: Scandinavian Common Sense

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By definition, gender equity helps reduce social inequalities. Incontrovertibly women are enriched, both financially and as citizens, when they are included on an equal footing with men in all … ; ; 9 $0.90 Add
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Highlight norms to leverage BELONGING

From: Making Shift Happen

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This chapter begins the Section 2 of the book Behavioral Building Blocks with each letter of the word “BEHAVIORAL’’ corresponding to a chapter that explores a collection of related behaviour … ; ; ; 24 $2.40 Add
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How Basic Income Affects Different People

From: Basic Income For Canadians

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This chapter explores the impact of basic income on different populations including indigenous people, racialized people, and people with disabilities. 19 $1.90 Add
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Howard’s Way or Deane’s Way: Culture Wars in Contemporary Australia

From: Managing Diversity

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Over the past ten years at least, a period largely defined by the prime ministership of John Howard, but arguably extending back through twenty years of pronounced economic change and social … 20 $2.40 Add
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Ian Bremmer in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

June 3, 2020

From: The World After Covid

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Ian Bremmer and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and Black American experiences, future international impacts of the pandemic, technology and authoritarianism, economic futures, globalization, … 11 $1.10 Add
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Inside job

From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

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Kopecki profiles NDP MLA Heather McPherson, whose party held the balance of power in the 2020 Canadian Liberal minority government, and describes Alberta’s relationship to its oil … 30 $3.00 Add
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Interpreting Experience, Attributing Cause and Considering Options

From: Telling Tales

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