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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Design of Envrionmentally Sustainable and Socially Appropriate Technologies From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	The Design of Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Appropriate Technologies suggests specific environmental and social design criteria for new technologies, the importance of the …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	21	2011	$2.10 Add
From The Dismal Arithmetic of Water From: Back to the Well View Collection: Water and Climate Change: Impacts on Canada and the World Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers outlines the anatomy of a water crisis, using the city of Sao Paulo Brazil as an example. He shows how limits in supply and distribution, in concert with growing …	Marq de Villiers	12	2018	$1.20 Add
From NEW! The Divided House of Labour From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	In this chapter, Jackson examines the Canadian Labour Congress, which appointed him senior economist on May Day 1989. He suggests that the CLC is a fragile body compared with central labour …	Andrew Jackson	17	2021	$1.70 Add
From The Douglas Legacy and the Future of Medicare From: Medicare View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses Tommy Douglas’s lasting legacy as a political leader through his introduction of universal health care	Greg; Marchildon	8	2007	$0.80 Add
From The dynamics of democracy From: Oil’s Deep State View James Lorimer and Company	Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft offers a brief analysis of how a modern democracy functions through its institutions which go far beyond elected legislative bodies.	Kevin Taft	7	2017	$0.70 Add
From The Economic Cost of Border Security: The Case of the Texas-Mexico Border and the US VISIT Program From: Borderlands View University of Ottawa Press	The purpose of this chapter is to estimate the potential economic cost of the implementation of one component of the “smart borders” policy, the US VISIT program, to Texas border …	J.Michael Patrick	34	2007	$2.72 Add
From The Effects of the Welfare Control System on People of Colour From: Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty View Fernwood Publishing		Kiran Mirchandani; Wendy Chan	14	2005	$1.40 Add
From The Electric Revolution From: Charging Ahead View Baraka Books	This chapter situates Hydro-Quebec and its impressive system and evolution in the context of the global electricity industry. It delves more into the history of H-Q and Quebec politics.	Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow	18	2019	$1.80 Add
From The Electronic Health Record: The Neglected Key to Saving Medicare From: Medicare View James Lorimer and Company	Examines the Electronic Health Record and its role to play in the realization of first-rate, safe, efficient, and just health care	Steven Lewis	8	2007	$0.80 Add
From The Elusiveness of Full Citizenship Accounting for Cultural Capital, Cultural Competencies, and Cultural Pluralism From: Accounting for Culture View University of Ottawa Press	Most discussions about cultural capital seem to revolve around the consumption or use of cultural goods and services. This chapter attempts to address some aspects of a more fundamental role that …	Karim H. Karim	13	2005	$1.56 Add
From NEW! The End of Eastern From: Rebound View Coach House Books	In this chapter, King examines the legacy of Eastern Commerce High School in Toronto.	Perry King	10	2021	$1.00 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another The Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	The historic global shift from a regime of cheap fossil fuel energy sources to one of declining and expensive fossil fuels and scarce replacements will impact every living person, every …	Richard Heinberg	15	2010	$1.50 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another Bridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. Climate Change has to do with carbon emissions and their effects — including the impacts on …	Richard Heinberg	19	2010	$1.90 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another Boomers' Last Chance? From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	In this chapter I hope to explore some of the circumstances that have made us Boomers what and who we are, and to argue that, having failed to live up to some of our expressed ideals and now …	Richard Heinberg	14	2010	$1.40 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another A Letter From the Future From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	Greetings to you, people of the year 2007! You are living in the year of my birth; I am one hundred years old now, writing to you from the year 2107. I am using the last remnants of the advanced …	Richard Heinberg	12	2010	$1.20 Add
From The Environment Good Stories, Bad Policies, and What to Do From: Canada after Harper View James Lorimer and Company	Peter Robinson then rounds out our survey of the environment by discussing how a rights-based mobilization offers the best hope for bringing government environmental policy into line with …	Peter Robinson	7	2015	$0.70 Add