2007

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The Politics of Voting-System Reform in Canada

The Politics of Voting-System Reform in Canada

From: The Politics of Voting

Assessment of why voting system reform is political, and how an understanding of those politics is necessary for effective reform. 21 $2.10 Add
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The Shadow Side

The Shadow Side

From: Payback

Payback is not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects. Rather, it is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central … 41 $4.92 Add
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The Southern Border of Mexico in the Age of Globalization

The Southern Border of Mexico in the Age of Globalization

From: Borderlands

This chapter analyzes the importance of Mexico’s southern border as an area involved both in the energy-integration process between Mexico-Central America and in the making of US national … 40 $3.20 Add
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The Struggle — at Home and in the World — for Health Care as a Human Right

The Struggle — at Home and in the World — for Health Care as a Human Right

From: Medicare

discusses the need for social justice and equality in terms of public health and democratic socialism 13 $1.30 Add
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The Truth about the Drug Companies

The Truth about the Drug Companies

From: Medicare

Examines the pharmaceutical industry and the paradox of what the drug companies say vs. what really happens. Concludes with a recommendation for pharmacare in Canada 7 $0.70 Add
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The Well-Packed Bag

The Well-Packed Bag

Don’t Forget Your . . .

From: Wanderlust

Chapter Eleven focuses on the invention of travel guides and guidebooks. The chapter explores the art of travel accounts in various forms of literature from early Christian pilgrims to guidebooks … 30 $3.00 Add
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The Wrong Kind of Rights:

The Wrong Kind of Rights:

The Charter Threat to Medicare

From: Medicare

Examines the threat that the charter presents to medicare and the people’s place in influencing medicare decisions 7 $0.70 Add
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To Your Health

To Your Health

Spas and Other Cures

From: Wanderlust

Chapter Nine focuses on traveling for one’s health. The chapter explorers the creation of spas and resorts for health, including roman baths, health spas and springs in the Middle Ages, … 12 $1.20 Add
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Towards a Politics of Community Economic Development

Towards a Politics of Community Economic Development

Governance and State-Civil Society Relations

From: Transforming or Reforming Capitalism

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Towards a Social Theory in Community Economic Development

Towards a Social Theory in Community Economic Development

Idealizing Community in the Era of Globalization

From: Transforming or Reforming Capitalism

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Towards African Diaspora Citizenship

Towards African Diaspora Citizenship

Politicizing an Existing Global Geography

From: Black Geographies

The African diaspora is in effect an already existing globalization of African peoples, but it preceded the economic and communications structures now defined as globalization. To … ; 32 $3.20 Add
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Towards an Economic Theory of Community Economic Development

Towards an Economic Theory of Community Economic Development

From: Transforming or Reforming Capitalism

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Transformation

Transformation

Part I: Roots

From: Good Crop / Bad Crop

Chapter 1 discusses agriculture and its relationship to the evolutionary process of seeds, the Green Revolution, the rise of transnational seed corporations, and more. 11 $1.10 Add
Transforming or Reforming Capitalism

Transforming or Reforming Capitalism

Towards a Theory of Community Economic Development

Growing worldwide interest in community economic development has led to a blossoming of “how to” manuals,as well as analyses of co-operatives, development corporations, gender, … 168 View
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Translated or Traduced? Canadian Literary and Political Theory in a German Context: Northrop Frye, Michael Ignatieff, and Charles Taylor

Translated or Traduced? Canadian Literary and Political Theory in a German Context: Northrop Frye, Michael Ignatieff, and Charles Taylor

From: Translating Canada

This chapter reveals that the importation, translation, marketing, and reception of English Canadian children’s literature in Germany have been governed by two major principles: first, up … 31 $3.10 Add
Translating Canada

Translating Canada

In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this patronage of … ; 351 View