2007

Showing 129–144 of 202 results

Title & Subtitle Abstract Contributors Pages Year Purchase
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Pinkwashing

Pinkwashing

From: Not Just a Pretty Face

A closer look at pink-ribbon products and what the leading cosmetics companies don’t tell you about breast cancer prevention. 15 $1.50 Add
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Poverty and Health:

Poverty and Health:

Implications for Health and Quality of Life

From: Medicare

Analyzes the relationship between poverty and health and how this has been missing from the health discussions by the policy makers 16 $1.60 Add
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Preface

Preface

From: Medicare

Gives a definition of Medicare so as to pinpoint the difference between the term in Canada and the US, a brief history of Medicare in Canada, outlines the conference in 2007 that led to this book. ; 7 $0.70 Add
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Privatization

Privatization

Part II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada

From: Good Crop / Bad Crop

Chapter 7 focuses on privatization, private seed companies versus public varieties, monopoly rights, the SeCan Association, competition and Secrecy, and the case study of soybean production in Canada. 25 $2.50 Add
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Prologue

Prologue

From: Not Just a Pretty Face

The cosmetics industry is in desperate need of a makeover. It is the unregulated, poorly studied chemical industry in a bottle. Toxic chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and learning … 4 $0.40 Add
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Protecting against International Insecurity and Armed Attack

Protecting against International Insecurity and Armed Attack

From: 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 … 38 $3.80 Add
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Protecting Medicare from Foreign Commercial Interests

Protecting Medicare from Foreign Commercial Interests

From: Medicare

Analyzes the Canadian Health Care System and to what extent it falls under the domain of trade treaties despite the assurance that it is beyond trade treaties reach 10 $1.00 Add
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Protecting Public Safety and Health

Protecting Public Safety and Health

From: National Security Law

Discusses natural threats to national security and public health and safety, such as extreme weather, seismic events, epidemic disease, industrial disasters and failures of critical … 24 $2.40 Add
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Putting on the Ritz

Putting on the Ritz

Hotels and Other Homes Away from Home

From: Wanderlust

Chapter Four focuses on hotels, inns, and other homes one uses while traveling. The chapter explores the history of hotels dating back to 1500 BC in Crete, to Roman Villa’s, Middle Eastern … 29 $2.90 Add
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Qualitative Research Methods in Language Test Development and Validation

Qualitative Research Methods in Language Test Development and Validation

From: Language Testing Reconsidered

This chapter introduces readers to several qualitative research methods as they relate to language testing and assessment, namely: Discourse and Conversation Analysis, Observation Checklists and … ; 17 $1.70 Add
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Reconceptualizing Resistance

Reconceptualizing Resistance

Habitus, Discourse and Place

From: Learning to Leave

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Secrecy

Secrecy

From: National Security Law

Discusses secrecy and national security, focusing on the concept of open government, international law and practice governing open government, Canadian open government laws, open courts and … 57 $5.70 Add
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Selecting Canadiana for the Young: The German Translation of English Canadian Children’s Literature

Selecting Canadiana for the Young: The German Translation of English Canadian Children’s Literature

From: Translating Canada

The following analytical overview of the twentieth century shows that the highly successful translation of English-language Canadian children’s literature into German has been structured … 24 $2.40 Add
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“Sittin’ on Top of the World”

“Sittin’ on Top of the World”

The Challenges of Blues and Hip Hop Geography

From: Black Geographies

In 1930, the Mississippi Delta was already in the devastating grip of the Great Depression. Hunger, evictions, and terror would haunt the region for another four decades. We must ask how could a … 36 $3.60 Add
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Skin Deeper

Skin Deeper

From: 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. 17 $1.70 Add
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Social Capital and Local Development

Social Capital and Local Development

A New Paradigm?

From: Illusion or Opportunity

17 $2.72 Add