2018

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Paradoxes of Street Life

Paradoxes of Street Life

From: Staying Alive While Living The Life

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Keeping on Track: Performance Indicators for a Better Society

Keeping on Track: Performance Indicators for a Better Society

From: Curing Affluenza

Chapter 6 explores the indicators of a better society, discussing topics including gross domestic product (GDP), economic growth, child literacy and health, and protections. It includes an … 25 $2.50 Add
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Keys to Motivation

Keys to Motivation

From: Cracking the Boy Code

• Motivation is more emotional than analytical. It needs to draw upon personal sources of interest and excitement. • Adults and boys have different ideas about what merits effort. … 17 $1.70 Add
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Kick The Can

Kick The Can

From: No Place To Go

This chapter considers public toilet use and needs from the perspective of homeless people, and the effects of anti-vandalism measures. 20 $2.00 Add
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Kicking Up a Stink

Kicking Up a Stink

From: No Place To Go

This chapter examines the lack of attention given to public toilets in public planning documents, despite their importance to everyone. Lowe highlights a broad range of needs and relationships to … 23 $2.30 Add
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Kill Your Idylls

Kill Your Idylls

From: A Matter of Taste

In this chapter, the concept of foodie elitism is debated alongside a discussion of precision farming. Tucker identifies the complexity of introducing new technologies onto the old concept of a … 36 $3.60 Add
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Kimberley Strassel in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

Kimberley Strassel in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

From: Is American Democracy in Crisis - the Munk Debates

This chapter records a 2018 Munk Debate conversation with Kimberley Strassel and Rudyard Griffiths, discussing political divisions and the crisis of American democracy. ; ; ; 7 $0.70 Add
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Laundering with Language

Laundering with Language

From: Legalizing Theft

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Leaving a Good Man

Leaving a Good Man

From: Hard to Do

Korducki highlights the trauma of breaking up with her long-term partner and explores why society believes women are "hard-wired" to be nurturing mothers. 23 $2.30 Add
Legalizing Theft

Legalizing Theft

A Short Guide to Tax Havens

When our infrastructures deteriorate, when social benefits are frozen, when our living conditions are precarious, it is because of tax havens. A source of growing inequalities and colossal tax … 125 View
Let's Move On

Let’s Move On

Paul Okalik Speaks Out

Pangnirtung, where Paul Okalik was born, has survived starvation, epidemics, relocation, foreign language schooling, and confrontation with the Canadian justice system. That is what prompted Paul … ; 200 View
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Level The Playing Field

Level The Playing Field

From: A Finer Future

This chapter explores methods for addressing inequality in our society and asks whether basic income or job guarantees could be effective solutions. ; ; ; 21 $2.10 Add
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Libya: NATO Creates a Failed State

Libya: NATO Creates a Failed State

From: Oil and World Politics

Analyzes how NATO countries, including Canada, interpreted a UN resolution as justifying an aerial war against Libya in 2011, claimed humanitarian motives (Responsibility to Protect), and … 17 $1.70 Add
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Lie Back and Think of Paperwork

Lie Back and Think of Paperwork

From: Hard to Do

Korducki highlights the legal obstacles that prohibited many from getting married and prevented others from filing for divorce. 18 $1.80 Add
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Life's Short. Get a Divorce.

Life’s Short. Get a Divorce.

From: Hard to Do

Following the Second World War the number of marriages soared, but with new economic agency and the advent of the women’s liberation movement, the 1970s witnessed a new wave of divorce. 27 $2.70 Add
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Lighten Up

Lighten Up

From: Curing Affluenza

Chapter 3 explores productivity between the public and private sectors, discussing topics including wasted resources, ‘economic activity’, cycles of production, the ‘Washington … 41 $4.10 Add