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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Pipeline on Wheels From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster View James Lorimer and Company	Identifies how big corporations moved to get fracked North Dakota Bakken oil and bitumen to refineries, regularly ignoring basic safety practices.	Bruce Campbell	9	2018	$0.90 Add
From NEW! Planning – Before the Flight From: This Is Your Captain Speaking View ECW Press	Chapter 1 explores the planning that takes place before a flight. The chapter includes descriptions of author Doug Morris’ life and path towards aviation, the motivations behind becoming a …	Doug Morris	33	2022	$3.30 Add
From Plastic: So Great, So Awful – Some New Directions From: The New Carbon Architecture View New Society Publishers	In this chapter the authors explore some of contradictions in plastic, and explain and evaluate the potential paths and barriers to how plastic might actually redeem itself and prove that it has …	Mikhail Davis; Wes Sullens; Wil Srubar	16	2017	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Postflight Checklists and Reflections From: This Is Your Captain Speaking View ECW Press	Chapter 7 focuses on the plan once it has landed on the ground. Topics discussed include airplane docking, VDGS (Visual Docking Guidance Systems), ground marshals, Captains controls, bridges, …	Doug Morris	16	2022	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Pre-Descent, In-Range, Landing and After Landing Checklist From: This Is Your Captain Speaking View ECW Press	Chapter 6 discusses the landing process. Topics explored include ILS (Instrument Landing System), speed limits and how they calculate speed, keeping outside clean, small verses large aircrafts, …	Doug Morris	25	2022	$2.50 Add
From Preface & Introduction A Paradigm Shift From: Samuel Cunard View Formac Publishing	Explains the importance of Samuel Cunard in giving a major push to the use of steamships and the paradigm shift of the first use of regularized transportation and communication by steamship …	John Boileau	5	2006	$0.50 Add
From Preface & Introduction From: Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure View Formac Publishing	Preface – explains the differences between editions of the book and what new material is in this one. Introduction – History of Oak Island, introduces the mystery of oak island and …		10	2013	$1.00 Add
From Privatization and Its Discontents From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this Chapter, de Villiers discusses the thorny issue of water privatization and commodification. He explores the difference between privatization of ownership and use and the ways in which …	Marq de Villiers	45	2018	$4.50 Add
From NEW! Privatized Policymaking on Toronto’s Waterfront From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs View James Lorimer and Company	Chapter 4 explores how smart cities projects allow private companies to shape municipal policies to suit their own interests as opposed to the interests of the population.	Natasha Tusikov	15	2020	$1.50 Add
From Profit Motive: The Main Driver of Technological Development From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	Profit Motive: The Main Driver of Technological Development demonstrates that profit maximization does not necessarily lead to the development of technologies and products best suited to meet the …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	20	2011	$2.00 Add
From Proposals & Partners From: Samuel Cunard View Formac Publishing	1835-1840. Looks at designing steamships for tranoceanic travel, looks at bids for steam ship companies involvment in the British mail service which Samuel Cunard went after as well as his competitors	John Boileau	10	2006	$1.00 Add
From NEW! (Pseudo-) Participation in Smart City Planning Sidewalk Labs’ Fraught Toronto Foray From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs View Collection: The Corporate Assault on Canadian Cities: Smart Cities, Public-Private Partnerships, and initiatives across Canada James Lorimer and Company	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
From Race to the bottom Inequality and poverty From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? View Between The Lines	The fourth chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? considers the equity and poverty aspects of public transit versus the automobile, asserting that communities that are serious about …	James Wilt	18	2020	$1.80 Add
From Rebuild: What You Build Matters, What You Don’t Build Matters More From: The New Carbon Architecture View New Society Publishers	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
From Reframing the Debate From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers begins approaching solutions for water crises by asking us to reframe the issue, by thinking and acting on a local level.	Marq de Villiers	6	2018	$0.60 Add
From Religion & Revolution From: Samuel Cunard View Formac Publishing	Examines Samuel Cunard’s family roots in religion and revolution, overview of his early life in Halifax	John Boileau	10	2006	$1.00 Add