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The Truth about the Drug Companies

From: Medicare

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Examines the pharmaceutical industry and the paradox of what the drug companies say vs. what really happens. Concludes with a recommendation for pharmacare in Canada 7 $0.70 Add
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The World at 1°C: A Guide to Climate Violence

From: The Memory We Could Be

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Climate violence is always the result of a collision between acute weather conditions and acute social realities. Poverty, inequality, state neglect, improper planning and abandonment lay the … 21 $2.10 Add
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Think Tanks and Progressive Policy Institutions

From: The Fire and the Ashes

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In this chapter, Jackson discusses the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which worked closely with the labour movement to counter the development of right-wing thought and policies. It … 8 $0.80 Add
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Under the Shield of the Law

From: In Defiance

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Injunctions and legal manoeuvers to stop the strike. Students ignore court decisions. ; 15 $1.50 Add
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Downstream Impact on the Athabasca Delta

From: Damming the Peace

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Journalist Andrew Nikiforuk explores the linkages between the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, fracking in the adjacent Moberly Field, and the potential impact on … 8 $0.80 Add
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Via Chicago

From: Overrun

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In this chapter, the author travels to Chicago to explore the city’s waterways as another possible vector for Asian carp populations to access the Great Lakes 33 $3.30 Add
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What Now?

From: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

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The final chapter suggests potential courses of action on both individual and governmental levels. 21 $2.10 Add
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A Plausable Future: Approaching Apocalypse

From: The Memory We Could Be

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Climate change represents the extinction of predictability, a demolition of certainties. By the end of the 21st century, the environmental conditions on up to a third of the Earth’s surface … 24 $2.40 Add
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A World to Win

From: The Fire and the Ashes

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This chapter examines the activities of the Canadian Labour Congress in a global context, where it worked with organizations from other countries to codify basic labour rights. 5 $0.50 Add
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Abbreviations and Glossary

From: Fastest in the World

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Invitation to an Open Conspiracy: The Bartleby Project

From: Weapons of Mass Instruction

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The whole diseased empire of institutional schooling is, like the wonderful one-horse shay, extremely fragile. Its most vulnerable point, the glue that holds the thing together, is standardized … 14 $1.40 Add
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Aging Well

Strategies for Wellbeing Among Older Women in a “Restructuring” Ontario.

From: Care and Consequences

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All for What?

From: In Defiance

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Appendices

From: How Government Really Works

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Appendices include the Life Cycle of a Bureaucrat and a glossary of terms ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Appendices

From: The Happiness Policy Handbook

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Concept Menu of Happiness Policies – Happiness Lessons for the Workplace – Strategy Resources – The Happiness Proclamation – Model Press Releases for a Happiness … ; ; 85 $8.50 Add
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ICR Recognition

From: Inner City Renovation

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