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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From She Was So Beautiful My Heart Moved From: From Bombs to Books View	Describes the experience of an Afghan man forced into army service to graduate from school who marries a half-Russian, half-Uzbek woman and their escape the violence of the area to come to …	David Starr	18	2016	$1.80 Add
From Shock Treatment From: To Wawa with Love View	Discusses his father’s drinking problem, and the built up frustration of his mother which eventually led to an ultimatium which meant he got help	Tom Douglas	6	2012	$0.60 Add
From Shopping Without Borders From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do! View	Chapter 4 delves into electronic commerce. Traditional taxation principles that were devised more than half a century ago were based on a physical world, with tangible goods, and defined places …	Brigitte Alepin	11	2012	$1.10 Add
From Dissident in Search of Consensus From: Beverley McLachlin View	Addresses McLachlin’s role in transforming the way the Supreme Court approach to making decisions. Explains how, under McLachlin’s leadership, the Court became more consensual and …	Ian Greene; Peter McCormick	24	2019	$2.40 Add
From Signed, Sealed and Delivered? The TPP and Canada’s Public Postal Service From: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada View	Daniel Sheppard and Louis Century, lawyers at Goldblatt Partners, provide a compelling case study that warns how corporate interests in the U.S. might take advantage of these novel provisions to …	Daniel Sheppard; Louis Century	13	2016	$1.30 Add
From Silicon Valley North From: BlackBerry Town View	Howitt examines the growth of Kitchener-Waterloo’s growing reputation as a tech leader from the perspective of several staff and executives of other tech companies in the area.	Chuck Howitt	26	2019	$2.60 Add
From Silver Lining From: BlackBerry Town View	Howitt outlines the years following BlackBerry’s collapse, noting how many of the talented and educated tech workers BlackBerry was forced to lay off stayed in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, …	Chuck Howitt	16	2019	$1.60 Add
From Sisters in Struggle From: From Bombs to Books View	Describes as context the recent history of the Sudan, and recounts one family’s experience living through the 1983-84 violence in the country, their journey to refugee camps in Ethiopia and …	David Starr	17	2016	$1.70 Add
From NEW! Smart Cities as a Civic Leaders’ Survivor Game The Lure of Innovation in a Competitive World From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs View	Chapter 1 explores what leads municipal governments to persue smart city projects, whether they are seen as a quick and easy fix to deeper underlying infrastructure and urban planning issues, and …	Mariana Valverde	15	2020	$1.50 Add
From NEW! SNC-Lavalin Captured or Complicit? SNC-Lavalin and the Normalization of Corruption in Canada From: Corporate Rules View	In this chapter, Steven Bittle and Jennifer Quaid examine the SNC-Lavalin scandal and the normalization of corruption in Canada. Bittle and Quaid use three key moments in the evolution of the …	Jennifer Quaid; Steven Bittle	22	2022	$2.20 Add
From Social Upheaval From: Tar Sands Showdown View	Chapter 6 discusses the many ways in which the development of the tar sands has become a caldron that is brewing with social conflicts and tensions: (a) social conflicts: ranging from the …	Tony Clarke	39	2008	$3.90 Add
From Socialism and Democratization From: The Great Class War 1914-1918 View	The elite tries to exorcize the proletarian threat not only by using the “stick” of bloody repression but also the “carrot” of social legislation and political reforms. …	Jacques R. Pauwels	12	2016	$1.20 Add
From Socialism and Syndicalism: The Rising of the Working Class, 1870–1919 From: The Rise of the New West View	Details the rise of the working class in the west, separating the analysis of BC and Prairies, and showcasing the small victories that led to the rise	John F. Conway	26	2014	$2.60 Add
From Some Doctors Weigh In — 2013 From: The Right to Die View	The medical community has long had mixed feelings about assisted death. Some doctors claim that helping a patient die is a violation of the Hippocratic injunction to “do no harm,” …	Gary Bauslaugh	17	2016	$1.70 Add
From SOS Medicare: A (Cautionary) Tale of Two Conferences From: Medicare View	Discusses the 2 SOS Medicare Conferences and the importance of Public Health	Douglas; Shirley	8	2007	$0.80 Add
From Sound Recording and Radio: Intersections and Overlaps From: Cultural Industries.ca View	The interrelationship between radio and sound recording is the overarching theme in Richard Sutherland’s article.	Richard Sutherland	20	2012	$2.00 Add