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Resistance: Challenging Transnational Professional Service Firms
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Resistance: Challenging Transnational Professional Service Firms

From: 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 … ; 29 $2.90 Add
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Resistance Movement

Resistance Movement

From: 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 … 35 $3.50 Add
Resisting Eviction
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Resisting Eviction

Domicide 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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Responding

Responding

From: Losing me, While Losing You

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 … ; ; 42 $4.20 Add
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Responding to Water Crises: A Tale of Four Cities

Responding to Water Crises: A Tale of Four Cities

From: 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 … 21 $2.10 Add
Restructuring and Resistance

Restructuring and Resistance

Canadian 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 … ; 392 View
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Retreat, Reform, Restraint

Retreat, Reform, Restraint

From: 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 … 68 $6.80 Add
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Revitalization and Settler Colonial “Improvement”

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. 13 $1.30 Add
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Reweaving Our Economies Close to Home

Reweaving Our Economies Close to Home

From: 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 … ; 30 $3.00 Add
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Riding Your Bicycle
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Riding Your Bicycle

Chapter 2

From: Every Cyclist’s Guide to Canadian Law

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 … 40 $4.00 Add
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Right-Wing Ideology and Climate Change Denialism
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Right-Wing Ideology and Climate Change Denialism

PART 2: The System-Preserving Frameworks

From: Worlds at Stake

Chapter 5 critically examines the right wing phenomenon of climate change denialism. 22 $2.20 Add
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Rights, Intimacy, and Family Life

Rights, Intimacy, and Family Life

From: The Rights Revolution

From The Rights Revolution: 28 $2.80 Add
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Rights, Recognition, and Nationalism

Rights, Recognition, and Nationalism

From: The Rights Revolution

From The Rights Revolution: 29 $2.90 Add
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Rio to Kyoto

Rio to Kyoto

The Road Not Taken

From: The Big Stall

Analyzes the tactic of "greenwashing" and the use of terms like "sustainable development" allowing big business to adopt the language of environmentalism but none of the … 16 $1.60 Add
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Ritual Horror
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Ritual Horror

From: Seven Days in Halifax

In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Two of “Encounter on Urban Environment,” discussing the proposed amalgamation of Halifax, Dartmouth, and surrounding rural areas. … 14 $1.40 Add
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Rivers and Lakes in Trouble

Rivers and Lakes in Trouble

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers explores how surface water – lakes and rivers – are some of the most vulnerable to contamination and destruction as a result of human action. 27 $2.70 Add