2017

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A Mighty Time

From: Clean Money Revolution

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A Mighty Time Early Roots The Dirty Campaign against Al Gore Sr. To the White House Door with Jimmy Carter Dark Money: Lewis Powell’s Legacy A 500-Year Calling Q&A with Don Shaffer ; 22 $2.20 Add
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A New Way of Lovin": Queer Toronto Gets Schooled by Jackie Shane

From: Any Other Way

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Social historian Steven Maynard recounts how Jackie Shane, a trans R&B musician who performed in Toronto throughout the 1960s, sparked discussion throughout Toronto. Any discussion of queer … 8 $0.80 Add
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Anti-Oppressive Practice

Neoliberalism, Inequality and Change

From: Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice

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This chapter looks at some of the broad social, political and economic forces shaping social work practice and workplaces, including globalization, neoliberalism, and managerialism. 25 $2.50 Add
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British North America to 1864

From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces

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Describes the legal and political factors in the emergence of the Canadian federation, covering the period from 1773 to 1864. 18 $1.80 Add
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Campus Parking and the Car as a Third Place

Asphalt Grievances and Commuter Sociability

From: Degrees of Failure

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Using the examples of three Canadian schools, this chapter demonstrates how issues concerning the automobile, especially both the lack and expansion of on-campus parking, have become major policy … 13 $1.30 Add
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Canada’s Constitutional Development before 1867

From: Constitutional Law, 5/e

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Review of the development of representative and responsible government in Canada before Confederation. ; ; 21 $2.10 Add
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Chapter 1: Notes from a Blind Man

From: Seven Fallen Feathers

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In this reading, Tanya Talaga recalls how she first became invested in the stories of the seven missing and murdered indigenous students while working as a political reporter covering indigenous … 38 $4.56 Add
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Childhood

From: The Teen Sex Trade

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A first person true account of a Black woman’s youth in Halifax, Nova Scotia entailing growing up with four of her eight siblings, the volatile relationship between her parents, and her … 18 $1.80 Add
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Collapse

From: Radical Transformation

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Readings in Part 1 of this title entitled "The Crisis of Civilization" explore the factors that have brought our society to the brink of collapse, from the increasingly complex systems … 12 $1.20 Add
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Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It

From: The New Carbon Architecture

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This chapter draws upon the results of Life Cycle Assessment studies to summarize what we know about whole building embodied carbon, and to highlight best opportunities for innovation and … ; 15 $1.50 Add
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Drafting ADR and Arbitration Clauses for Commercial Contracts

From: A Practitioner's Guide to Commercial Arbitration

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The author outlines common errors made in drafting arbitration clauses and the role of procedure in promoting effective dispute resolution. A checklist and draft standard arbitration clauses are … 26 $2.60 Add
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Eating

From: Curry

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This chapter focuses on South Asian culture through eating, cookbooks, and nostalgia. There is an exploration of South Asian food writing and its intersection with colonialism, international … 36 $3.60 Add
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Empire, War and Revolution

From: Big Business and Hitler

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Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines the situation in Germany from 1900-1919 that led to Hitler’s rise to power paying particular focus on the German elite of aristocrats and … 12 $1.20 Add
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EPIC

The oil industry comes to call

From: Oil’s Deep State

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Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft describes the commercial crimes unit of the RCMP’s 2011 investigation into Bruce Carson’s lobbying activities which exposed the strategies … 15 $1.50 Add
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Ethics and the Principles of Democracy

From: Honest Politics Now

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Discusses how ethical politics is a requirement for genuinely democratic government. 28 $2.80 Add
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Feminists eat their young: The fourth wave, a fractured sisterhood, and the cataclysmic divide between feminist generations

From: F-Bomb

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In this chapter, the author discusses the plurality of definitions that are assigned to feminism by different groups and the often intergenerational conflict that occurs between movements with … 25 $2.50 Add