2007
Showing 81–96 of 204 results
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From  CorporationPart II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada From: Good Crop / Bad Crop |
Chapter 5 examines the rise of corporations in agriculture in the 1970’s onward in Canada, The National Biotechnology Strategy 1983, policy reform, neoliberalism, and more. | Devlin Kuyek | 9 | 2007 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Explaining Canadian and Comparative Voting-System ChoicesFrom: The Politics of Voting |
Historical review of the origins of Canadian electoral institutions and subsequent reform debates to illustrate how the current system evolved, including a comparison to other western jurisdictions. | Dennis Pilon | 19 | 2007 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Fayuca Hormiga: The Cross-border Trade of Used Clothing between the United States and MexicoFrom: Borderlands |
This chapter details the “unauthorized” flow of used clothing across the US-Mexico border in light of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the twin cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad … | Mélissa Gauthier | 22 | 2007 | $1.76 Add |
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From  Federalism and the Politics of Diversity: The Canadian ExperienceFrom: Managing Diversity |
This chapter develops an argument based on the link between Canada’s growing urban diversity and the movement for increased municipal autonomy on the part of the largest Canadian cities. | Alain-G. Gagnon; Raffaele Iacovino | 20 | 2007 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Fulfilling the Douglas/Lloyd VisionFrom: Medicare |
Looks at how to fulfill the legacies of Tommy Douglas and Woodrow Lloyd and the steps that need to be taken in order to do so and outlines two promising areas of advancement | Allan E. Blakeney | 6 | 2007 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Going Down to the Sea in ShipsFrom: Wanderlust |
Chapter Five explores the history of sea travel and ships as methods of transportation. The chapter begins with the Greeks and Roman sailing across the Mediterranean world, charter ships of the … | Laura Byrne Paquet | 27 | 2007 | $2.70 Add |
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From  PaybackFrom: 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 | 45 | 2007 | $5.40 Add |
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From  Protecting against International Insecurity and Armed AttackFrom: National Security Law |
Discusses the challenges posed by international insecurity and armed attacks by focusing on issues such as the use of international force and collective self-defense, the proper use of military … | Craig Forcese | 38 | 2007 | $3.80 Add |
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From  Skin DeeperFrom: Not Just a Pretty Face |
How safe are your products? The Environmental Working Group builds the first-ever database of toxic ingredients in personal care products. | Stacy Malkan | 17 | 2007 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The “Other Women”: Canadian Women Writers Blazing a Trail into GermanyFrom: Translating Canada |
This chapter is concerned with German responses to the wave of translations of English Canadian women writers, a response that, in its enthusiasm, undoubtedly had a strong effect on the … | Brita Oeding | 14 | 2007 | $1.40 Add |
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From  The Boom YearsThe Classes of 1975-1986 From: Learning to Leave |
- | Michael Corbett | 45 | 2007 | $4.50 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 A New Northern Security AgendaFrom: Borderlands |
This chapter addresses the transformation of the security agenda, which has led to an integrating Arctic region where local agency influences broader issues and decisions. | Lassi Heininen | 47 | 2007 | $3.76 Add |
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From All AboardOur Enduring Love Affair with Trains From: Wanderlust |
Chapter Six examines trains and transportation by rail. The chapter explores the invention of trains, trains as connectors of the masses across the big countries of Canada and America, the … | Laura Byrne Paquet | 25 | 2007 | $2.50 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 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 |
