2007
Showing 193–208 of 224 results
| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 The Politics of VotingReforming Canada's Electoral System |
The Politics of Voting: Reforming Canada’s Electoral System is a timely examination of Canada’s voting system by one of Canada’s leading authorities on electoral reform. In a … | Dennis Pilon | 227 | 2007 | View |
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From The Politics of Voting-System Reform in CanadaFrom: The Politics of Voting |
Assessment of why voting system reform is political, and how an understanding of those politics is necessary for effective reform. | Dennis Pilon | 21 | 2007 | $2.10 Add |
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From  The Pool or the Patchwork Quilt: Individual and Group RightsFrom: The Rights Revolution |
From The Rights Revolution: | Michael Ignatieff | 30 | 2007 | $3.00 Add |
The Rights Revolution |
Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. Indeed, rights have become the trump … | Michael Ignatieff | 186 | 2007 | View |
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From  The Screen of HalFrom: The City of Words |
In this chapter, Manguel examines how societies have built exclusionary structures to manage perceived external threats, from Aristotle’s barbarians to modern economic machinery. | Alberto Manguel | 30 | 2007 | $3.00 Add |
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From  The Shadow SideFrom: 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 … | Margaret Atwood | 41 | 2007 | $4.92 Add |
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From  The Southern Border of Mexico in the Age of GlobalizationFrom: 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 … | Daniel Villafuerte Solís | 40 | 2007 | $3.20 Add |
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From  The Struggle — at Home and in the World — for Health Care as a Human RightFrom: Medicare |
discusses the need for social justice and equality in terms of public health and democratic socialism | Stephen Lewis | 13 | 2007 | $1.30 Add |
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From The Tablets of GilgameshFrom: The City of Words |
In this chapter, Manguel examines The Epic of Gilgamesh as a lens for understanding human identity and otherness. | Alberto Manguel | 25 | 2007 | $2.50 Add |
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From The Truth about the Drug CompaniesFrom: 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 | Marcia Angell | 7 | 2007 | $0.70 Add |
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From  The Underdeveloped CountyFrom: The Lost Massey Lectures |
In this lecture, delivered around 1965 and published in 2007, Galbraith examines the economics and politics of the developing world. | John Galbraith | 61 | 2007 | $6.10 Add |
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From  The Well-Packed BagDon’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 … | Laura Byrne Paquet | 30 | 2007 | $3.00 Add |
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From 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 | Andrew Petter | 7 | 2007 | $0.70 Add |
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From To Your HealthSpas 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, … | Laura Byrne Paquet | 12 | 2007 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Towards a Politics of Community Economic DevelopmentGovernance and State-Civil Society Relations |
Byron Sheldrick | 23 | 2007 | $2.30 Add | |
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From Towards a Social Theory in Community Economic DevelopmentIdealizing Community in the Era of Globalization |
Heather Graydon; Parvin Ghorayshi | 23 | 2007 | $2.30 Add |
