2007

Showing 17–32 of 202 results

Title & Subtitle Abstract Contributors Pages Year Purchase
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Banking on Poverty

Banking on Poverty

From: Illusion or Opportunity

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Beauty Myth Busters

Beauty Myth Busters

From: Not Just a Pretty Face

From the “whitening trend” in Asia to the airbrushed models in the ads, the beauty industry sells toxic dreams around the world. 12 $1.20 Add
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Because We're Worth It!

Because We’re Worth It!

From: Not Just a Pretty Face

Breast cancer activists ask the world’s largest cosmetics companies to stop using chemicals linked to cancer and reproductive harm. 18 $1.80 Add
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Because We're Worth It Too!

Because We’re Worth It Too!

From: Not Just a Pretty Face

Teens and activists take on state legislators, Governor Schwarzenegger and largest worldwide supplier of nail products. 14 $1.40 Add
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Bill 33:

Bill 33:

The Fallout from the Chaoulli Decision in Quebec and its Impact on Equity in Healthcare

From: Medicare

An analysis of Bill 33 and what it means for Quebec Health Care 6 $0.60 Add
Black Geographies

Black Geographies

and the Politics of Place

Black Geographies and the Politics of Place is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in black geographic theory. Fourteen authors address specific geographic sites and develop their … 272 View
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Border Acrobatics between the European Union and Africa: The Management of Sealed-off Permeability on the Borders of Ceuta and Melilla

Border Acrobatics between the European Union and Africa: The Management of Sealed-off Permeability on the Borders of Ceuta and Melilla

From: Borderlands

This chapter discusses the peculiar border regime that has governed people and commodity flows across the borders of Ceuta and Melilla since 1986. 19 $1.52 Add
Borderlands

Borderlands

Comparing Border Security in North America and Europe

Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the … 393 View
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Bounded Citizenship and the Meaning of Citizenship Laws: Ireland’s Citizenship Referendum

Bounded Citizenship and the Meaning of Citizenship Laws: Ireland’s Citizenship Referendum

From: Managing Diversity

Different conceptions of political community favour different constellations of citizenship laws. Although most states in practice combine elements of these, they may also incline towards one or … 26 $3.12 Add
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Canada’s Shared Destiny and the Future of Medicare

Canada’s Shared Destiny and the Future of Medicare

From: Medicare

Examines the choice that we as Canadians make about medicare as one that is fundamentally intertwined with our nation’s values and its future. Looks at medicare reform from this persepective 19 $1.90 Add
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Canada’s Single-payer Medicare:

Canada’s Single-payer Medicare:

Role Model for Taiwan

From: Medicare

Examines the adoption of a single-payer medicare system in Taiwain that is based off the model of Canada’s system and looks at the potential for public underfunding 7 $0.70 Add
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Changing the Landscape in the Health Care Affordability Debate

Changing the Landscape in the Health Care Affordability Debate

From: Medicare

Looks at the Health Care affordability debate by exploring what is left out of the statistics used by the Government such as population growth, inflation and income growth. Looks at what it would … 8 $0.80 Add
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Chaoulli’s Legacy for the Future of Canadian Health Care Policy

Chaoulli’s Legacy for the Future of Canadian Health Care Policy

From: Medicare

I discuss the majority judges’ poor appreciation of the interface between public and private health insurance across different health care systems and how, subsequently, this lack of … 45 $4.50 Add
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Citizenship, Statehood, and Allegiance

Citizenship, Statehood, and Allegiance

From: Managing Diversity

Citizenship is simply a legal category, a matter of law. It does not, in and of itself, carry any particular individual qualities or attributes, or, with one arguable exception, give rise to any … 31 $3.72 Add
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City States and Cityscapes in Canada: The Politics and Culture of Canadian Urban Diversity

City States and Cityscapes in Canada: The Politics and Culture of Canadian Urban Diversity

From: Managing Diversity

The sociocultural foundations of this or that nation competing within a single territory is an old debate. The Quebec project is about allowing all cultures to participate in its construction for … 21 $2.52 Add
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Commodification

Commodification

Part II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada

From: Good Crop / Bad Crop

Chapter 6 explores the commodification of the agricultural industry by seed corporations, GURTS, patents and intellectual property, Monsanto’s Roundup Ready seeds, plant breeders’ … 30 $3.00 Add