Public Policy
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From  Power in NatureFrom Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception From: Power |
In this chapter, the author takes a look at some of the powers that arose in living things long before humans emerged. | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
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From Power in the AnthropoceneThe Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels From: Power |
This chapter details forms of fossil fuel power such as coal, oil, and gas. Heinberg suggests that through the development and exercise of these fossil fuel powers, we have changed not only the … | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
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From Power in the HoloceneThe Rise of Social Inequality From: Power |
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 |
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From Power in the PleistoceneOn Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes - And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs From: Power |
This chapter describes prehistoric forms of human power, including stone tools, fire, animal skins, and language. | Richard Heinberg | 43 | 2021 | $4.30 Add |
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From  Precarious Employment and Occupational Health and Safety in OntarioFrom: Boom, Bust and Crisis |
John Peters | 15 | 2012 | $2.25 Add | |
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From  Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers |
This chapter specifically follows the rise of temporary placement agencies as a tool of employers to utilize undocumented, precarious and racialized migrants for capital. The shift from … | Mostafa Henaway | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: Medicare |
Gives a definition of Medicare so as to pinpoint the difference between the term in Canada and the US, a brief history of Medicare in Canada, outlines the conference in 2007 that led to this book. | Bruce Campbell; Greg Marchildon | 7 | 2007 | $0.70 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
Outlines the author’s fascination with the tar sands, the three trips that he has taken to them, why the third trip was exponential different due to the changes in Canada, outlines the … | Tony Clarke | 6 | 2008 | $0.60 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: Peak Everything |
In titling this book Peak Everything, I was suggesting that humanity has achieved an unsustainable pinnacle of population size and consumption rates, and that the road ahead will be mostly … | Richard Heinberg | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
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From  AfterwordSettling with Canada: A Debt Coming Due |
Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson looks at how indigenous activist Arthur Manuel’s work continues on. He examines how Canada has forged the debt due to Indigenous people on the balance sheets … | Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From  PrefaceFraming the Shot From: Damming the Peace |
B.C. filmmaker and photographer Alex Harris shares how she came to document the controversial Site C Dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley. Wroking with a handful of … | Alex Harris | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Preface |
Author Garry Neil introduces his argument, explaining why Canadian culture is important and highlighting his background and experience on this subject. | Garry Neil | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Preface |
An introduction to the structure and purpose of the book and author acknowledgements. | Joseph Lyons; Zachary Spicer | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: Ideology over Economics |
In this section the author outlines his background as well as providing a list of terms and initialisms that will be used throughout the rest of the text. | John Loxley | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: Bent out of Shape |
Karen Messing | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add | |
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From  PrefaceFrom: A Good War |
Seth Klein | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add |
