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Old town road

Rural and intercity transit

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

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Chapter eight of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? looks at how the three revolutions in automobility intersect with rural areas’ transportation needs and with intercity transit, and ends … 18 $1.80 Add
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Opposition and Surveillance

From: When Poverty Mattered

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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Transportation Planning and Traffic Management

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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Unsustainable transport systems not only are a major contributor to atmosphere change, but also lead to increasing congestion, longer commuting times, increasing demands for shorter work hours to … 19 $1.90 Add
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Paying for Mobilization, Then and Now

From: A Good War

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In Chapter 8, Klein tackles the question of who will pay for it. In the chapter he explores how the financial backing was generated during the mobilized for the the Second World War and how we … 22 $2.20 Add
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Planning Smart Cities

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

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The Dream of the Smart City: Part 3 explores planning smart cities. Topics discussed include transportation, census data,  what is meant by urban ‘blight’, public and city … 15 $1.50 Add
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Precarious Employment and Occupational Health and Safety in Ontario

From: Boom, Bust and Crisis

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Putting Multi-Jurisdictional Impact Assessment into Action Under the Impact Assessment Act

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

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This chapter reviews, explains, and assesses traditional approaches to address Multi-jurisdictional Impact Assessment (MJIA) in order to place and evaluate the methods set out in the Impact … ; 29 $2.90 Add
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Styles of Rationing Health Care:

The United States vs. Canada

From: Medicare

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Looks at the erosion of the faith in US Health Care, Cost and Quality of US Health Care, a snapshot of Canada’s Health Care system, advantages and disadvantages of Singly-payer health care … 20 $2.00 Add
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Taking Action

From: Intrinsic Hope

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If we can accept that the global eco-social crisis is human caused, we have the possibility of taking effective action. Taking action is one of the best ways to nurture intrinsic hope. … 17 $1.70 Add
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The Codefather and His Kids

From: Unicorn in the Woods

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This chapter focuses on Gerry Pond, who after leaving Q1 Labs became the most important angel investor in Atlantic Canada. 9 $0.90 Add
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The Costs of Homeland Security

From: Borderlands

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In this chapter we suggest that neither a structure-based nor an agentbased analysis is sufficient to explain what history shows about the border. Rather, a more holistic, albeit tautological, … 28 $2.24 Add
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The Gig Is Up

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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This chapter is a small love note to the iwc (Immigrant Workers Centre) for always being willing to experiment to find new ways to build leadership and solidarity. It’s difficult for unions … 10 $1.00 Add
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The Glorious Gate

From: Overrun

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This chapter discusses efforts by un United States Army Corps of Engineers to construct a barrier to prevent the Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. 30 $3.00 Add