Technology & Engineering
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From  NEW! Legislative and Policy ReviewFrom: Autonomous Vehicles |
In chapter three, Baker examines the different regulatory laws regarding vehicle automation on the federal, provincial, and international levels. | Nathan Baker | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Manufacturing automobilityThe anti-transit underpinnings of the “three revolutions” |
The second chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? outlines, defines and unpacks the implications of the three revolutions of automobility on the future of equitable public transit. The … | James Wilt | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Rebuild: What You Build Matters, What You Don’t Build Matters More |
In this chapter, the authors explore the difference between net-zero energy buildings and buildings with a low carbon footprint. | Larry Strain | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! The Selling of Toronto’s Smart CityFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs Collection: Media and Society: Canadian Cases and Issues |
Chapter 1 explores the stakeholders who initially pitched the partnership between the city of Toronto and Google’s urban planning division Sidewalk Labs. | Blayne Haggart | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From  The State of Our GroundwaterFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers explores how many parts of the world are being impacted or will be impacted by rapidly diminishing and increasingly polluted groundwater sources. | Marq de Villiers | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Treasure Proves Elusive |
1845-1866, the recommencment of the search for treasure on Oak Island (Truro Syndicate), issues with water while excavating, 1849 drilling program, | 15 | 2013 | $1.50 Add | |
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From  When Things Bite Back: Some Unintended Consequences of Modern TechnologyFrom: Techno-Fix |
When Things Bite Back explores, in depth, some of the many unintended environmental and social consequences of modern technologies, ranging from environmental pollution, global warming, species … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 38 | 2011 | $3.80 Add |
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From NEW! (Pseudo-) Participation in Smart City PlanningSidewalk Labs’ Fraught Toronto Foray From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 2 explores the factors that must be present for a smart cities project to be responsible and effective and then asses whether the Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto met any of these criteria. | Andrew Clement | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From  "A Boat Which is Not a Boat"From: Fastest in the World |
1908-1918. Outlines the development of Baldwin and Bell’s HD series from 1 to 4 and their quest for hydrofoil self-propulsion. | John Boileau | 12 | 2004 | $1.20 Add |
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From A Flood Tunnel is Confirmed |
1866-1885, the endeavors by the Halifax Company that are murky due to lack of surviving records | 6 | 2013 | $0.60 Add | |
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From  NEW! After Start Checklist |
Chapter 3 examines the matter of company procedures. The chapter explores topics including the captain’s duty, the airplanes mechanics, structures, and inner workings. | Doug Morris | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Canadian Motordom in Depression and WarFrom: Car Nation |
1930-1945. Looks at the downturn for the auto industry during the Great Depression, the unionization of the industry, and the effect of WWII on the auto industry. Specifically uses the life of … | Dimitry Anastakis | 17 | 2008 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Criminal and Quasi-criminal LiabilityFrom: Autonomous Vehicles |
In chapter four, Baker explores the potential challenges and issues which will arise from how automated vehicles are likely to affect their application of the Criminal Code in Canada. | Nathan Baker | 53 | 2021 | $5.30 Add |
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From  New Era for the LaboratoryFrom: Montreal and the Bomb |
This chapter outlines the evolution of the project, touching on The MAUD Committee, Lew Kowarski’s work on the project, The ZEEP design, chemicals experimentation, the De Gaulle meeting, … | Gilles Sabourin | 41 | 2021 | $4.10 Add |
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From  On Technology, Agriculture, and the ArtsTools with a Life of Their Own From: Peak Everything |
In assessing and understanding technology and its effects on people and nature, it is at least as important to pay attention to the energy that drives our tools as to the tools themselves and the … | Richard Heinberg | 17 | 2010 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Persecution, War, Alliance and Terrorism |
- | Daniel Paul | 23 | 2006 | $1.61 Add |
