Public Policy
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From ![]() The Canadian Hydrofoil ProjectFrom: Fastest in the World |
1948-1957. The naval applications and development of hydrofoil design are explored. | John Boileau | 8 | 2004 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Remembering WinterFrom: Living Disability |
Emily Macrae writes about the difficulties she has as someone who limps getting around in the snow, as well as her twin brother’s experience in a wheelchair in the winter. She discusses different … | Emily Macrae | 9 | 2024 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Research BackwaterFrom: Overrun |
In this chapter, the author visits the Louisiana Bayous and meets with researchers studying Asian carp. Topics include the challenges researchers face in collecting usable data to understand the … | Andrew Reeves | 31 | 2019 | $3.10 Add |
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From ![]() Research Methods and DesignFrom: Resisting Eviction |
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 |
![]() ResetReclaiming the Internet for Civil Society |
In the 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author and renowned technology and security expert Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the … | Ronald J. Deibert | 339 | 2020 | View |
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From ![]() NEW! Resistance: Challenging Transnational Professional Service FirmsFrom: The Consulting Trap |
In Chapter Five, the authors consider how the power of TPSFS can be contested, discussing some of the strategies that have been taken up to resist the incursion of these firms into public … | Chris Hurl; Leah B. Werner | 29 | 2024 | $2.90 Add |
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From ![]() Resistance MovementFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
Chapter 7 discusses the building of a social movement of resistance against the massive and rapid development of the tar sands for crude exports to the US: (a) campaign networks: the various … | Tony Clarke | 35 | 2008 | $3.50 Add |
![]() NEW! Resisting EvictionDomicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing |
Resisting Eviction centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property … | 188 | View | ||
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From ![]() Responding |
This chapter concerns caregiver’s responses to their important one’s diagnosis, the impact becoming a full-time caregiver had on their own health and wellness, and the effect this had … | Brenda Wallace-Allen; Diane Tedford-Litle; Jeanette A. Auger | 42 | 2021 | $4.20 Add |
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From ![]() Responding to Water Crises: A Tale of Four CitiesFrom: Dry Run |
In chapter 3, we looked at contemporary water crises in Australia, Atlanta and San Diego. We’ll learn what their successes can teach us about how to create effective water conservation … | Jerry Yudelson | 21 | 2010 | $2.10 Add |
![]() Restructuring and ResistanceCanadian Public Policy in an Age of Global Capitalism |
This collection surveys major areas of neoliberal policy restructuring by various levels of Canadian government. Unlike other academic studies it also considers theoretical and practical issues … | Colin Mooers; Mike Burke | 392 | 2000 | View |
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From ![]() Retreat, Reform, RestraintFrom: Reset |
In the final chapter, the author turns to the question “What is to be done?” The negative implications of social media are increasingly acknowledged and well documented. But what to … | Ronald J. Deibert | 68 | 2020 | $6.80 Add |
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From ![]() Revitalization and Settler Colonial “Improvement”From: Resisting Eviction |
In the introductory chapter of this book, Andrew Cosby describes the investigatory purpose of this book and maps out the content covered in the following chapters. | Andrew Crosby | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() Reweaving Our Economies Close to HomeFrom: Resilience Imperative |
Despite 60 years of global economic expansion, incomes over the last 30 years have stagnated. People who were once beneficiaries of spiralling growth are no longer participants. The migration of … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 30 | 2012 | $3.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Riding Your BicycleChapter 2 |
In Riding Your Bicycle Waters outlines the most important legal rules that apply to bicycle riding in Canada. The chapter does this through discussion topics including the statutory definitions … | Christopher Waters | 40 | 2022 | $4.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Right-Wing Ideology and Climate Change DenialismPART 2: The System-Preserving Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 5 critically examines the right wing phenomenon of climate change denialism. | Aaron Saad | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
















