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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Stolen Motherhood Surrogacy and Made-to-Order Children	Neither marginal nor secret, contracting surrogate mothers is growing rapidly and is regarded as socially progressive. Yet the “process” is vitiated from the get go, i.e., …	Maria De Koninck	194	2020	View
From Surrogacy’s Emergence, Development, and International Expansion From: Stolen Motherhood View	The author begins by examining the social, cultural, and economic factors that underpin surrogacy, claiming that it is essential to examine it in today’s context while identifying the …	Maria De Koninck	32	2020	$3.20 Add
From Syria From: Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East View	Chapter Ten focuses on Syria. Before the British and French divided Turkey’s West Asian possessions in 1920, Syria comprised territory covering today’s Palestine, Israel, Jordan, …	Stephen Gowans	13	2019	$1.30 Add
From NEW! The Backward City Section 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter View	Chapter 12 focuses on cities dubbed “backward,” calling them a category of Backward Cities and exploring how they can evolve into a more forward economy. This chapter discusses topics …	Charles-Albert Ramsay	6	2022	$0.60 Add
From The Book of Mormon Is Racist—Why Isn’t Anyone Talking about It? From: Bigotry on Broadway View	This chapter outlines the many racist aspects of The Book of Mormon, as perceived by the author.	Claire J. Harris	5	2021	$0.50 Add
From The Child at the Heart of Surrogacy From: Stolen Motherhood View	This chapter focuses on the children at the "heart" of surrogacy, highlighting these children’s wellbeing, future, and all other considerations, which the author argues are …	Maria De Koninck	23	2020	$2.30 Add
From NEW! The City Region Section 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter View	Chapter 8 focuses on how urban growth impacts surrounding areas, discussing impact on rural areas, industrial diversity, the value of land to build factories, houses for workers and their …	Charles-Albert Ramsay	4	2022	$0.40 Add
From NEW! The Forward City Section 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter View	Chapter 7 Economic literature now uses the term Jacobs’ agglomeration, and the term “forward city” is original to this text. The chapter describes “Jacobs …	Charles-Albert Ramsay	6	2022	$0.60 Add
From NEW! The Future of Montreal and 2nd-rank Cities Section 4: Cities as a Dynamic Economy From: Cities Matter View	Chapter 15 reflects on the future of the city of Montreal, exploring topics including the history of Montreal, Jacobs’ opinion on Montreal, comparison to Boston, the challenges of being a …	Charles-Albert Ramsay	24	2022	$2.40 Add
From NEW! The Hub/Entrepot City Section 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter View	Chapter 9 examines entrepot cities, which are cities that serve as warehouses to export product from a nearby supply region as it is waiting to be transported to other markets. It discusses …	Charles-Albert Ramsay	6	2022	$0.60 Add
NEW! The Killer’s Henchman Capitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster	Summer 2021, the novel coronavirus is scything through populations worldwide. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announces the Covid-19 pandemic will end “when the world …	Stephen Gowans	280	2022	View
From The Pieces of the Puzzle From: Stolen Motherhood View	This chapter examines three dimensions of surrogacy more closely: "the health of mother and child, the use of anthropological knowledge in the debate surrounding it, and the illusion that …	Maria De Koninck	22	2020	$2.20 Add
From NEW! The Supply Region Section 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter View	Chapter 10 explores supply regions also know as resource economies, which are areas that are endowed with highly demanded natural resources and exploited as such. This chapter discusses the …	Charles-Albert Ramsay	5	2022	$0.50 Add
From NEW! The Transplant Region Section 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter View	Chapter 11 describes how transplant regions are brought to life by the transfer of work from a congested city to a lower-cost production area. The chapter explores their relationship with supply …	Charles-Albert Ramsay	5	2022	$0.50 Add
From The Unbearable Whiteness of Oklahoma! From: Bigotry on Broadway View	The author explores the ways in which Okahoma! is about whiteness.	Soraya Nadia McDonald	10	2021	$1.00 Add
From NEW! Urban Land Values Section 1: The Economist’s City From: Cities Matter View	Chapter 3 examines urban land value, discussing topics including land value, the choice between urban, suburban or rural, types of buildings such as office towers, apartment buildings, rental …	Charles-Albert Ramsay	10	2022	$1.00 Add