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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
BlackBerry Town How high tech success has played out for Canada's Kitchener-Waterloo James Lorimer and Company	The smartphone was an incredibly successful Canadian invention created by a team of engineers and marketers led by Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. But there was a third key player involved — …	Chuck Howitt	264	2019	View
Curing Affluenza How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World Between The Lines	Affluenza has not just changed the world, it has also changed the way we see the world. Short of money? Borrow some. Caught in the rain? Buy an umbrella. Thirsty? Buy a bottle of water and throw …	Richard Denniss	288	2018	View
Grocery Story The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Store Giants New Society Publishers	Food has become ground-zero in our efforts to increase awareness of how our choices impact the world. Yet while we have begun to transform our communities and dinner plates, the most …	John Steinman	306	2019	View
From Preface From: Curing Affluenza View Between The Lines	The preface from author Richard Denniss.	Richard Denniss	5	2018	$0.50 Add
From Rise of the Grocery Giants From: Grocery Story View New Society Publishers	This chapter begins the description of the actions and tactics of "big food". The history of the A&P grocery retalier is described, as well as Piggly Wiggly, the first self-service …	John Steinman	15	2019	$1.50 Add
From Who Wants To Be Connected All the Time? From: BlackBerry Town View James Lorimer and Company	Chuck Howitt details the early days of Mike Lazaridis’s career, including his time at the University of Waterloo and his budding relationship with Professor Mohamed Elmasry.	Chuck Howitt	7	2019	$0.70 Add
From Diagnosing the Disease From: Curing Affluenza View Between The Lines	Chapter 1 focuses on defining or diagnosing ‘affluenza’, discussing topics including environmental destruction, global inequality, culture of wasteful materialism, technological …	Richard Denniss	26	2018	$2.60 Add
From Licence To Be Radical From: BlackBerry Town View James Lorimer and Company	Examines the process Mike Lazaridis went through while choosing which university he would attend. Explains the history of the University of Waterloo, its technological facilities at the time and …	Chuck Howitt	17	2019	$1.70 Add
From Retailer Market Power From: Grocery Story View New Society Publishers	This chapter describes retailer market power– current and historical– in the United States, as well as efforts to contain this power. The 1980s and the US Regan administration’s …	John Steinman	14	2019	$1.40 Add
From A Good Dose of Materialism Helps a Bad Case of Affluenza From: Curing Affluenza View Between The Lines	Chapter 2 examines our current culture of convenience, discussing topics including consuming and producing, credit cards and credit card debt, consumerism (the love of buying things) verses …	Richard Denniss	27	2018	$2.70 Add
From Engineers for Hire From: BlackBerry Town View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses the early staff additions at Research in Motion, most notably the addition of Jim Balsillie. Reviews the development of RIM during the late 1980s and early 1990s.	Chuck Howitt	9	2019	$0.90 Add
From Food Prices and the People Who Grow Our Food From: Grocery Story View New Society Publishers	This chapter describes food prices and the effect on the people who grow our food. How is the price of food determined and how does it impact every other link in the food chain? How does market …	John Steinman	17	2019	$1.70 Add
From Going Mobile From: BlackBerry Town View James Lorimer and Company	Howitt details the creation and rollout of the Inter@ctive Pager 900. Examines the leadup to Research in Motion’s first smartphone.	Chuck Howitt	11	2019	$1.10 Add
From Grocery Stores The Food System’s Control Center From: Grocery Story View New Society Publishers	The anti-competetive business as usual practiced by Canada’s grocery giants and the testing of the boundaries of the law is described. Lost in this regime is flavour, genetic diversity, and …	John Steinman	25	2019	$2.50 Add
From Lighten Up From: Curing Affluenza View Between The Lines	Chapter 3 explores productivity between the public and private sectors, discussing topics including wasted resources, ‘economic activity’, cycles of production, the ‘Washington …	Richard Denniss	41	2018	$4.10 Add
From Interlude From: Grocery Story View New Society Publishers	This chapter describes alternative, viable, models for grocery stores and the "food shed" of local retailers and growers in Nelson, BC, and Viroqua, Wisconsin. The grocery store chains …	John Steinman	11	2019	$1.10 Add