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2021., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 363.72 H668c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From shipments of Canadian waste rotting in developing countries to overflowing landfills and ineffective recycling programs, Canada is facing a waste crisis. Canadians are becoming increasingly aware that waste is an acute environmental and human health issue--and a complex one, the solutions to which are often contradictory. Canada's Waste Flows is an honest look at the production and movement of Canadian waste, from region to region and across the globe, and its consequences. Through a series of timely empirical case studies, the book reveals waste as less of a technological problem and more of a material, economic, political, historical, and cultural concern. Canada's Waste Flows demonstrates that Canadians are misdirecting their attention to post-consumer waste and their responsibility for minimizing it through recycling; waste must be understood as a social justice issue, and in particular as a symptom of ongoing settler colonialism. A critical and compelling book that will generate conversation and incite change, Canada's Waste Flows uncovers how Canada's role as a global leader in waste production and export is key to changing Canada's waste future."--
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c2004., W.W. Norton & Company Call No: 973.931 M649c Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Summary Note: "But as Mark Crispin Miller argues that we are living in a state that would appall the Founding Fathers: a state that is neither democratic nor republican, and no more "conservative" than it is liberal. He exposes the Bush Republicans' unprecedented lawlessness, their bullying religiosity, their reckless militarism, their apocalyptic views of the economy and the planet, their emotional dependence on sheer hatefulness, and, above all, their long campaign against American democracy."--BOOK JACKET.
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1998., Viking Call No: 336.71 M173c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the past four years, the Chretien government has slashed our cherished social programs more deeply than Brian Mulroney's Tories ever dared. We were told that Canada's deficit problems left no alternative; international financial markets would cut us off if we didn't start slashing. We did as we were told, and the deficit has all but disappeared. Yet now that we've reached this deficit-free nirvana -- the point at where we were told the world would once again be our oyster -- there are certain things we apparently still can't have, such as jobs and social programs.The popular belief is that we can't have these things because of factors beyond our control --because globalization and technology have left us powerless to acheive them. But in this provocative book, Linda McQuaig argues that we are not really powerless. She shows that the international community in fact has the tools to regulate the world financial system in a way that would harness its enormous energy to our collective advantage. This was done before -- for three prosperous decades after the Second World War -- and can be done again. If anything, advances in computer technology would actually make the regulation of capital easier now.This book challenges one of the most widely held beliefs of our time. And it shows how, if we stopped buying into the cult of impotence, we could create a new order that would put the rights of people before the rights of capital.
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2021., Random House Call No: NEW 330.973 A547e Edition: Random House Trade Paperback Edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone and convincing the country that the mid-century consensus about the function of the American government was all wrong. Only a writer with Andersen's crackling energy, deep intelligence, and ability to see complex systems with clarity could make such a vital book both intellectually formidable and completely entertaining. In his diagnosis of what happened and what it means for us today, Andersen spares no one, committing to a pinpointing of his own boomer generation as accessories to the great dismantling of the American experiment.
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2005., Palgrave Macmillan Call No: 956.7044 A547f Edition: Updated edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2017., Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company Call No: 320.973 C548g Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The American empire projectSummary Note: In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider a world imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. These twelve interviews, conducted from 2013 to 2016, examine the latest developments around the globe: the devastation of Syria, the reach of state surveillance, growing anger over economic inequality, the place of religion in American political culture, and the bitterly contested 2016 U.S. presidential election. In accompanying personal reflections on his Philadelphia childhood and his eighty-seventh birthday, Chomsky also describes his own intellectual journey.
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Ã2018., General, Crown Publishing Call No: 321.8 L664h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have studied the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang - in a revolution or military coup - but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one. Drawing on research and historical examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die, and how ours can be saved. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are Professors of Government at Harvard University"--Provided by publisher.
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2022., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Bio R429h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A Philippine journalist who received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize traces her career spent challenging corruption in her country and presents strategies for speaking truth to power and standing up against authoritarians to battle information and lies.
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2023., Hurst & Company Call No: NEW 321.8 N331l Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A specter is haunting Europe and the specter of anti-democratic, right-wing nationalism. This has finally exposed as ill-based the astonishingly widely shared belief that unleashing capitalism will, sooner or later, lead societies to democratic politics. It's nothing more than the big liberal myth. Krishnan Nayar explores the history of six major pioneers of modernity--Britain, America, France, Germany, Russia and Japan-- from the seventeenth century's Cromwellian revolution to Donald Trump's election, via the Age of Darwinian the pre-Second World War, pre-consumerist, pre-welfare state capitalism of severe economic instability and a penurious working class. Nayar shows that, in this period, capitalist industrialization was far more likely to lead to modernized right-wing autocracy than democracy, which got a chance thanks simply to fortunate circumstances in a few countries. Capitalism only underpinned democracy in the post-war period due to transient the existence and character of the post-1945 Western welfare systems owed far more than is admitted by most historians to the challenge posed by the Russian and Chinese revolutions. The return of large-scale, extremist right-wing politics should not, therefore, come as a surprise. As autocratic China grows in strength, and Russia returns to expansionism, can democracy be rescued from a capitalism of dire instability and inequality?
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2020., Adult, Sourcebooks Inc Connect to this eBook title Cover image Summary Note: Based off the original workbook, Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 90,000 people downloaded the Me and White Supremacy Workbook. The updated and expanded Me and White Supremacy takes the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources. Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. The numbers show that readers are ready to do this work-let's give it to them.
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2019., Adult, Flatiron Books Call No: 305.42 G259m Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A timely call to action for women's empowerment by the influential co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation identifies the link between women's equality and societal health, sharing uplifting insights by international advocates in the fight against gender bias.
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2017., General, Tim Duggan Books Call No: 321.909 S675o Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience."--Provided by publisher.
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-- People versus democracy.2018., Harvard University Press Call No: 321.8 M928p Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From India to Turkey, from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. Two core components of liberal democracy--individual rights and the popular will--are at war, putting democracy itself at risk. In plain language, Yascha Mounk describes how we got here, where we need to go, and why there is little time left to waste.--
