Literature Analysis
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  NEW! IntroductionA Warning From: Has Populism Won? |
The authors introduce the current context of populism and how the book will discuss authoritarian populism and it’s threat to liberal democracy. | Daniel Drache; Marc D. Froese | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Introduction – Democracy Between Revolution and WarFrom: Myths of Modern History |
The author introduces the book, discussing myths and mythologized history and the importance of teaching of teaching history and acknowledging bias. He also explores the history of democracy and … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 31 | 2022 | $3.10 Add |
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From  Introduction: A Fundamental Democratic Problem |
Overview of the authors’ argument that Canadian democracy has been undermined by the excess of power of the prime minister over the operations of the House of Commons. | Mark Jarvis; Peter Aucoin | 28 | 2011 | $2.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Introduction: Beyond the SilosToward a Social Justice Social Science From: Making Sense of Society |
In the introduction author Alex Khasnabish explains how the primary purpose of this book is to critically explore what social research is, what it does, and what it is and isn’t good for. … | Alex Khasnabish | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Part 1 Clearing the Cobwebs Around DemocracyDemocracy and U.S. Centrism From: Cuba and Its Neighbours |
- | Arnold August | 13 | 2013 | $1.43 Add |
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From  Part One The End of an Era? |
- | John Kearney; Patrick Kerans | 2 | 2006 | $0.20 Add |
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From  PrefaceFraming the Shot From: Damming the Peace |
B.C. filmmaker and photographer Alex Harris shares how she came to document the controversial Site C Dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley. Wroking with a handful of … | Alex Harris | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Preface to the New EditionFrom: Honest Politics Now |
Discusses ethics in politics and the effects of various forms of political corruption on democracy. | Ian Greene | 8 | 2017 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Prologue |
The introduction describes an encounter between the author and a man named Xi Xin Zhu, whose home was destroyed as a result of China’s rapid economic development. The author discusses the … | Michael Cormier | 6 | 2013 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Address to the Electors of TerrebonneFrom: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition |
Text of 1840 speech by Louis-Hyppolyte Fontaine promoting responsible government. | Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell | 4 | 2015 | $0.40 Add |
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From NEW! Becoming HumanDiversity and Evolution From: Making Sense of Society |
In Chapter 1, Khasnabish and co-author Anthony Davis explore what it means to be human, teasing out the interconnected relationship between our biological and social evolutions. The chapter … | Alex Khasnabish | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
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From Democracy in the U.S.From: Cuba and Its Neighbours |
- | Arnold August | 31 | 2013 | $3.41 Add |
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From Ethics and the Principles of DemocracyFrom: Honest Politics Now |
Discusses how ethical politics is a requirement for genuinely democratic government. | Ian Greene | 28 | 2017 | $2.80 Add |
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From Inequality and Democracy |
- | John Kearney; Patrick Kerans | 9 | 2006 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! PrefaceFrom: Anatomy of an Election |
A brief overview of the origins and major component elements of the federal electoral system. | Gregory Tardi | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Public matters, grey matterThe brain and decision-making From: Too Dumb for Democracy? |
Chapter One explores the roots of our bad political decisions; but the author argues that none of those reasons are excuses for us to throw up our arms and say, “Well, what can you do? We … | David Moscrop | 30 | 2019 | $3.00 Add |
