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Girls’ Sport Run by Girls

Girls’ Sport Run by Girls

From: Immodest and Sensational

The 1920s had brought significant change to Canadian women’s sport with the growth of teams and leagues, especially those sponsored by industrial concerns, the beginning of international … 14 $1.40 Add
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Giving and Taking Offense

Giving and Taking Offense

Civility, Respect, and Academic Freedom

From: Academic Freedom in Conflict

Jamie Cameron concludes the book with an examination of the implications for academic freedom of the growing movement for civil discourse. She examines American and Canadian university respectful … 25 $2.50 Add
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Global Cultural Diversity Movement and the UNESCO Convention

Global Cultural Diversity Movement and the UNESCO Convention

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Describes the pushback to trade agreement impacts on culture internationally, and describes the creation of the UNESCO Convention (1970) and assesses the impact it has had on Canadian and global … 19 $1.90 Add
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Global Economy

Global Economy

From: Getting to Zero

Analyzes the impact of neo-liberalism, globalization, and free trade on global warming. Presents an analysis of corporate power as the key obstacle to meaningful climate action by governments and … 28 $2.80 Add
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Global Free Trade - From Goods to Services

Global Free Trade – From Goods to Services

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Trade agreements and the development of global trade through the second half of the 20th century. Analyzes how global trade agreements in that period affected Canada’s culture industry, … 15 $1.50 Add
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Global warming

Global warming

What industry knew and when they knew it

From: Oil’s Deep State

Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft analyzes the history of the science around global warming paying particular attention to the organizations and people involved with studying the … 20 $2.00 Add
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Globalization and the end of an alternative
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Globalization and the end of an alternative

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter explores the neoliberal agenda of the 1990s and how Canadian military interests aligned with those of the US around the globe while SNC-Lavalin grew in influence. In Libya there were … 14 $1.40 Add
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Glossary

Glossary

From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools

A list of key terms and definitions from the text. 2 $0.20 Add
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Glossary of Labour Centrals

Glossary of Labour Centrals

From: The Canadian Labour Movement

A comprehensive list of all labour centrals mentioned in each chapter. ; 3 $0.30 Add
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Going Mobile

Going Mobile

From: BlackBerry Town

Howitt details the creation and rollout of the Inter@ctive Pager 900. Examines the leadup to Research in Motion’s first smartphone. 11 $1.10 Add
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Going the Distance

Going the Distance

From: Protecting Research Confidentiality

In this concluding chapter we bring together the main themes of our examination of the ethics and law of research confidentiality by reflecting on how much things have changed — or not … ; 33 $3.30 Add
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Good Sense & Statistics at War

Good Sense & Statistics at War

From: Counting Out The Scholars

Outlines seven extended arguments about Pis: [1] Can Pis help build public post-secondary education? [2] Could and should Pis help make post-secondary education more "nimble" and … ; 27 $2.70 Add
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Government, industry and the medical profession

Government, industry and the medical profession

ménage à trois

From: Doctors in Denial

Describes how the alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry developed in the period from the 1960s to 2015. 27 $2.70 Add
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Grassroots Activism

Grassroots Activism

A Recent History

From: Quiet No More

chapter one surveys grassroots activism largely within the territorial boundaries of Mexico, Canada, and the United States (what Aboriginal activists call “Turtle Island”). Looks also … 28 $2.80 Add
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Grassroots Movements

Grassroots Movements

Cogs that Turn Larger Wheels

From: Quiet No More

Chapter two analyzes the role of grassroots movements in recent years and their common role as cogs that turn larger wheels (e.g., large progressive groups and institutions of mainstream … 44 $4.40 Add
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Green schemes, fossil dreams
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Green schemes, fossil dreams

The Trudeau government’s inconclusive climate legacy

From: The Trudeau Record

This chapter examines the Trudeau government’s response to the climate crisis, including the international and domestic agreements to reduce emissions, the national carbon pricing system, … 16 $1.60 Add