"Small-scale, family fishing enterprises manage to persist despite a range of difficult economic and ecological changes and disruptions. Red Flags and Lace Coiffes is an ... ethnography that explores how and why family-based...
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Auteur:Dibbell, JulianSommaire:The author discusses how he earned his fortune by aquiring virtual goods during massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMPORGs) and selling them for real money on eBay.
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Auteur:Clapp, JenniferSommaire:This comprehensive and accessible text fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces...
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Auteur:Mills, StephanieSommaire:Bigger has not turned out better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward looks a lot...
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Auteur:Brault, SimonSommaire:"Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits," proclaims the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Simon Brault takes...
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Michael Lewis examines the fallacy behind the major league baseball refrain that the team with the biggest wallet is supposed to win. Over the past four years the Oakland Athletics, a major league team with a minor league payroll, have...
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Auteur:Sowell, ThomasSommaire:Thomas Sowell goes beyond the political view of immigration and presents the whole phenomena of migration and immigration and the major role it plays in the general advancement of the human race.
- Auteur:Vorst, Charlotte van deSommaire:
Based on hundreds of interviews with Manitoba farm men and women, Making Ends Meet reconstructs the common history shared by modern farm women as well as by their mothers and grandmothers. It explores women's changing roles on the...
- Auteur:Leridon, MatthiasSommaire:
Et si l'Afrique, contrairement aux discours pessimistes qui lui collent à la peau, se portait bien ? Et si le continent, loin d'être la terre damnée que les médias s'attachent à dépeindre, recelait d'étonnantes réserves d'excellence, d'...
- Auteur:Proctor, Bob.Sommaire:
Under Bob Proctor's expert tutelage, learn to overcome your fear of money, and how to attract it while maintaining harmony in both professional and personal spheres.
- Auteur:Roth, SolenSommaire:
Fragments of culture often become commodities when the tourism and heritage business showcases local artistic and cultural practice. But what happens when local communities become more involved in this cultural marketplace?...
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A citizen's guide to making the big city a place where we can afford to live. Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception - in part because of zoning that protects "stable...
- Auteur:Winston, Andrew S.Sommaire:
All too often, companies push so-called green initiatives to the side when the economy hits a downturn. Winston illustrates why this is a mistake and offers a comprehensive plan for reversing this trend, delivering short-term gains, and...
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Auteur:Frieden, Jeffry A.Sommaire:International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before--such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people...
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While games of chance have been part of the Aboriginal cultural landscape since before European contact, large-scale commercial gaming facilities within First Nations communities are a relatively new phenomenon in Canada. First Nations...
- Auteur:Vance, AshleeSommaire:
Journalist relates the life of Elon Musk (born 1971), founder of PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors. Discusses Musk's early life in South Africa, his interest in science fiction and practical applications of ideas presented, and his...
- Auteur:Hanley, PaulSommaire:
The sweeping changes that make a 'full world' work-involving dual processes of destruction and reconstruction-will transform global culture, agriculture, and ultimately the human race. Eleven is a call to consciousness. Only an 'ethical...
- Auteur:McConaghy, DennisSommaire:
The Keystone XL pipeline was the most controversial North American energy infrastructure project of our time, and its history and demise serve as a cautionary tale for Canada, a country that will remain mired in regulatory dysfunction...
- Auteur:Luby, BrittanySommaire:
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada's hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse...
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Auteur:Powers, BillSommaire:Conventional wisdom has North America entering a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. But has industry been honest? Cold, Hungry and in the Dark argues that declining productivity combined with increasing demand will trigger...
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