2007
Showing 17–32 of 202 results
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From ![]() Banking on PovertyFrom: Illusion or Opportunity |
Henry Veltmeyer | 28 | 2007 | $4.48 Add | |
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From ![]() Beauty Myth BustersFrom: 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. | Stacy Malkan | 12 | 2007 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() 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. | Stacy Malkan | 18 | 2007 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() 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. | Stacy Malkan | 14 | 2007 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() 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 | Marie-Claude Prémont | 6 | 2007 | $0.60 Add |
![]() Black Geographiesand 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 … | Katherine McKittrick | 272 | 2007 | View |
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From ![]() Border Acrobatics between the European Union and Africa: The Management of Sealed-off Permeability on the Borders of Ceuta and MelillaFrom: Borderlands |
This chapter discusses the peculiar border regime that has governed people and commodity flows across the borders of Ceuta and Melilla since 1986. | Xavier Ferrer Gallardo | 19 | 2007 | $1.52 Add |
![]() BorderlandsComparing 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 … | Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly | 393 | 2007 | View |
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From ![]() Bounded Citizenship and the Meaning of Citizenship Laws: Ireland’s Citizenship ReferendumFrom: 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 … | Iseult Honohan | 26 | 2007 | $3.12 Add |
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From ![]() Canada’s Shared Destiny and the Future of MedicareFrom: 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 | Roy Romanow | 19 | 2007 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() 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 | May Tsung-Mei Cheng | 7 | 2007 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() Changing the Landscape in the Health Care Affordability DebateFrom: 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 … | Diana Gibson | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Chaoulli’s Legacy for the Future of Canadian Health Care PolicyFrom: 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 … | Colleen Flood | 45 | 2007 | $4.50 Add |
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From ![]() Citizenship, Statehood, and AllegianceFrom: 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 … | Helen Irving | 31 | 2007 | $3.72 Add |
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From ![]() City States and Cityscapes in Canada: The Politics and Culture of Canadian Urban DiversityFrom: 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 … | Caroline Andrew | 21 | 2007 | $2.52 Add |
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From ![]() CommodificationPart 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’ … | Devlin Kuyek | 30 | 2007 | $3.00 Add |













