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Watchdogs and Gadflies

Author : Tim Falconer
Publisher : Gotham
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watchdogs and Gadflies written by Tim Falconer and published by Gotham. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadians have a long and storied history of activism. This book examines the current generation of activists, and charts some of their successes. Through interviews with both veterans and relative newcomers, the author explores the grassroots community and individual agendas motivating people to work for what they see as the greater good. What he finds is that, far from the "left-wing nuts" label critics would pin on them, activists come in all shapes, sizes, and political stripes: from lawyers like Craig Jones (who first came to prominence during the APEC demonstrations) to scions of respected families like Duff Conacher and privileged housewives such as Priscilla De Villiers (who pushed for gun registration after her daughter was shot). All have one thing in common – the desire for change and a concern for what they see as injustice in the world. The broader picture is looked at in chapters about globalization, methods of communication and publicity-grabbing, and the demonization of activists.

The Troublemaker's Teaparty

Author : Charles Dobson
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0865714894
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book The Troublemaker's Teaparty written by Charles Dobson and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wholesome manual for raising hell!

Advocacy Groups

Author : Lisa Young
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774840323
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Advocacy Groups written by Lisa Young and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advocacy Groups uses the Audit standards of responsiveness, inclusiveness, and participation to examine advocacy groups in Canada and assess the ways that they contribute to, or detract from, Canadian democracy. It argues that group activity represents an important form of political participation. Though some interests face greater organizational challenges than others, advocacy groups can play critical compensatory roles for interests that are often unrepresented in traditional political institutions. It also finds that while Canadian advocacy groups employ a wide range of strategies to draw attention to their concerns, those with greater financial resources generally have greater access to government decision-makers. This has been accentuated by recent trends in the reduction of government funding to advocacy groups. The book concludes with several recommendations for 'best practices' that groups can follow in their internal organization and efforts to influence public policy, as well as for actions that governments can take to engage in constructive consultation with groups.

Field Guide to the U.S. Economy (Large Print 16pt)

Author : Nancy Folbre
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459617819
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Field Guide to the U.S. Economy (Large Print 16pt) written by Nancy Folbre and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensively revised and expanded with the most up-to-the-minute data, this new edition of the Field Guide to the U.S. Economy brings key economic issues to life, reflecting the collective wit and wisdom of the many progressive economists affiliated with the Center for Popular Economics. User-friendly and accessible, the book covers a wide range of subjects, including workers, women, people of color, government spending, welfare, education, health, the environment, macroeconomics, and the global economy, as well as brand-new material on the war in Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security, the prison-industrial complex, foreign aid, the environment, and pharmaceutical companies. This new edition includes cartoons on every page, along with a glossary and analytical tool kit to help readers along the way.

Big Guns

Author : Steve Israel
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150111803X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Big Guns written by Steve Israel and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Steve Israel, the Congressman-turned-novelist who writes “in the full-tilt style of Carl Hiaasen” (The Washington Post), a comic tale of the mighty firearm industry, a small Long Island town, and Washington politics: “Congress should pass a law making Big Guns mandatory reading for themselves” (Nelson DeMille). When Chicago’s Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America’s cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of a huge arms company in Asabogue, Long Island, is worried. In response, he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate. Asabogue’s Mayor Lois Leibowitz passes an ordinance to ban guns in the town—right in Otis Cogsworth’s backyard. Otis retaliates by orchestrating a recall election against Lois and Jack Steele, a rich town resident, runs against her. Even though the election is for the mayor of a small village on Long Island, Steele brings in the big guns of American politics to defeat Lois. Soon, thousands of pro-gun and anti-gun partisans descend on Asabogue, and the bucolic town becomes a tinderbox. Meanwhile, Washington politicians in both parties are caught between a mighty gun lobby and the absurdity of requiring that every American, with waivers for children under age four, carry a gun. What ensues is a discomfiting, hilarious indictment of the state of American politics. “New York congressman-turned-novelist Steve Israel delivers a second brilliant political satire” (Booklist, starred review). “An entertaining satire” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Big Guns is “a wonderfully irreverent satire about the fractured and fractious American political and lobbying system…a rollicking comedic trip” (Publishers Weekly).

Not for Sale

Author : Gordon Laxer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551117522
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Not for Sale written by Gordon Laxer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thorough and challenging book." - Maude Barlow, National Chairperson, Council of Canadians

Autonomy and the Situated Self

Author : Rachel Haliburton
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073916872X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Autonomy and the Situated Self written by Rachel Haliburton and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioethics tells a heroic story about its origins and purpose. The impetus for its contemporary development can be traced to concern about widespread paternalism in medicine, mistreatment of research subjects used in medical experimentation, and questions about the implication of technological developments in medical practice. Bioethics, then, began as a defender of the interests of patients and the rights of research participants, and understood itself to play an important role as a critic of powerful interests in medicine and medical practice. Autonomy and the Situated Self argues that, as bioethics has become successful, it no longer clearly lives up to these founding ideals, and it offers a critique of the way in which contemporary bioethics has been co-opted by the very institutions it once sought (with good reason) to criticize and transform. In the process, it has become mainstream, moved from occupying the perspective of a critical outsider to enjoying the status of a respected insider, whose primary role is to defend existing institutional arrangements and its own privileged position. The mainstreaming of bioethics has resulted in its domestication: it is at home in the institutions it would once have viewed with skepticism, and a central part of practices it would once have challenged. Contemporary bioethics is increasingly dominated by a conception of autonomy that detaches the value of choice from the value of the things chosen, and the central role occupied by this conception makes it difficult for the bioethicist to make ethical judgments. Consequently, despite its very public successes, contemporary bioethics is largely failing to offer the ethical guidance it purports to be able to provide. In addition to providing a critique, this book offers an alternative framework that is designed to allow bioethicists to address the concerns that led to the creation of bioethics in the first place. This alternative framework is oriented around a conception of autonomy that works within the ethical guidelines provided by a contemporary form of virtue ethics, and which connects the value of autonomous choice to a conception of human flourishing.

Contentious City

Author : John Mollenkopf
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610444019
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Contentious City written by John Mollenkopf and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few public projects have ever dealt with economic and emotional issues as large as those surrounding the rebuilding of lower Manhattan following the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. Picking up the pieces involved substantial challenges: deciding how to memorialize one of America's greatest tragedies, how to balance the legal claim of landowners against the moral claim of survivors who want a say in the future of Ground Zero, and how to rebuild the Trade Center site while preserving the sacredness and solemnity that Americans now attribute to the area. All the while, the governor, the mayor, the Port Authority, and the leaseholder competed with one another to advance their own interests and visions of the redevelopment, while at least leaving the impression that the decisions were the public's to make. In Contentious City, editor John Mollenkopf and a team of leading scholars analyze the wide-ranging political dimensions of the recovery process. Contentious City takes an in-depth look at the competing interests and demands of the numerous stakeholders who have sought to influence the direction of the recovery process. Lynne Sagalyn addresses the complicated institutional politics behind the rebuilding, which involve a newly formed development commission seeking legitimacy, a two-state transportation agency whose brief venture into land ownership puts it in control of the world's most famous 16 acres of land, and a private business group whose affiliation with the World Trade Center places it squarely in a fight for billions of dollars in insurance funds. Arielle Goldberg profiles five civic associations that sprouted up to voice public opinion about the redevelopment process. While the groups did not gain much leverage over policy outcomes, Goldberg argues that they were influential in steering the agenda of decision-makers and establishing what values would be prioritized in the development plans. James Young, a member of the jury that selected the design for the World Trade Center site memorial, discusses the challenge of trying to simultaneously memorialize a tragic event, while helping those who suffered find renewal and move on with their lives. Editor John Mollenkopf contributes a chapter on how the September 11 terrorist attacks altered the course of politics in New York, and how politicians at the city and state level adapted to the new political climate after 9/11 to win elected office. Moving forward after the destruction of the Twin Towers was a daunting task, made more difficult by the numerous competing claims on the site, and the varied opinions on how it should be used in the future. Contentious City brings together the voices surrounding this intense debate, and helps make sense of the rival interests vying for control over one of the most controversial urban development programs in history. A Russell Sage Foundation September 11 Initiative Volume

Disability, Mothers, and Organization

Author : Melanie Panitch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135903786
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Disability, Mothers, and Organization written by Melanie Panitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists. Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights, these women learned to mother as activists, struggling in their homes and communities against the debilitating and demoralizing effects of exclusion. Activist mothers recognized the importance of becoming advocates for change beyond their own families and contributed to building an organization to place their issues on a more public scale. In highlighting this under-examined movement, this book contributes to the scholarship on Disability Studies, Women's Students, Sociology, and Social Movement Studies.

Balanced Christianity

Author : John Stott
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830871918
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Balanced Christianity written by John Stott and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians tend to polarize. Some have an intellectual faith, while others are more emotional. Some focus on structure while others focus on freedom. And some champion evangelism while others advocate for social action. John Stott's classic statement of balanced Christianity shows how we can hold these tensions together in biblical, faithful ways.

Bad Singer

Author : Tim Falconer
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1770894462
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Bad Singer written by Tim Falconer and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music and Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia, Bad Singer follows the delightful journey of Tim Falconer as he tries to overcome tone deafness — and along the way discovers what we’re really hearing when we listen to music. Tim Falconer, a self-confessed “bad singer,” always wanted to make music, but soon after he starts singing lessons, he discovers that he’s part of only 2.5 percent of the population afflicted with amusia — in other words, he is scientifically tone-deaf. Bad Singer chronicles his quest to understand human evolution and music, the brain science behind tone-deafness, his search for ways to retrain the adult brain, and his investigation into what we really hear when we listen to music. In an effort to learn more about his brain disorder, he goes to a series of labs where the scientists who test him are as fascinated with him as he is with them. He also sets out to understand why we love music and deconstructs what we really hear when we listen to it. And he unlocks the secret that helps explain why music has such emotional power over us.

Religion and Representation

Author : Ingrid Mattson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443875147
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Representation written by Ingrid Mattson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Representation: Islam and Democracy brings together a series of reflections, studies and observations that examine the complex relationship between political representation and Islam. Through the perspectives of theology, history, sociology, philosophy and political science, contributions to this volume explore the connections between religious beliefs, religiosity, political ideals and political behaviour. Grounded in the experience of both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority states, the chapters represent a broad cross-section of approaches that emerge from a process of exchange and dialogue, which began with a three-day conference in London, Canada in March 2012. Beyond demonstrating how Islam and democracy are compatible, the authors in this volume employ theological reasoning, theoretical insight, logical argumentation and empirical data to explore in detail the points of connection. Contributions encompass a broad spectrum of interpretations of Islam, as well as consideration of critical and compelling issues and controversies across a range of contemporary settings.

Social Policy and Practice in Canada

Author : Alvin Finkel
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554588863
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Social Policy and Practice in Canada written by Alvin Finkel and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History traces the history of social policy in Canada from the period of First Nations’ control to the present day, exploring the various ways in which residents of the area known today as Canada have organized themselves to deal with (or to ignore) the needs of the ill, the poor, the elderly, and the young. This book is the first synthesis on social policy in Canada to provide a critical perspective on the evolution of social policy in the country. While earlier work has treated each new social program as a major advance, and reacted with shock to neoliberalism’s attack on social programs, Alvin Finkel demonstrates that right-wing and left-wing forces have always battled to shape social policy in Canada. He argues that the notion of a welfare state consensus in the period after 1945 is misleading, and that the social programs developed before the neoliberal counteroffensive were far less radical than they are sometimes depicted. Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History begins by exploring the non-state mechanisms employed by First Nations to insure the well-being of their members. It then deals with the role of the Church in New France and of voluntary organizations in British North America in helping the unfortunate. After examining why voluntary organizations gradually gave way to state-controlled programs, the book assesses the evolution of social policy in Canada in a variety of areas, including health care, treatment of the elderly, child care, housing, and poverty.

That Good Night

Author : Tim Falconer
Publisher : Penguin Books Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book That Good Night written by Tim Falconer and published by Penguin Books Canada. This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Good Night is for every Canadian worried about dying some day--or who loves someone who's getting close. Medical advances mean our demise will likely be a negotiated event, not simply nature taking its course. We may seek guidance from the professional ethicists now on staff at major hospitals, but even they have no obvious answers for the toughest question we'll ever face: how and when do you want to die? Tim Falconer once again transforms a complicated subject into a thoughtful, readable and engaging book, one that shows us what ethicists do while tackling the difficult dilemmas that precede the modern death. By sharing the compelling stories of those who've made hard choices, by considering living wills and by exploring the merits of assisted suicide and euthanasia, That Good Night untangles a topic that touches us all.

The Global Gun Epidemic

Author : Wendy Cukier
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Gun Epidemic written by Wendy Cukier and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cukier (justice studies and information technology management, Ryerson U., Toronto) and Sidel (social medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) consider gun violence and control using a public health model, and compare statistics from the US with other countries. They analyze firearm ownership, why more guns correspond to an increase in deaths, the global trade, gun running and culture, regulation and various national approaches, and movements towards gun control internationally. Includes information on Africa, Asia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Central America, China, Columbia, Columbine High School (Colorado) shootings, deaths from firearms, domestic violence, firearm marketing and promotion, Europe, France, Germany, Great Britain, gun industry and trade, Hungerford mass shooting (Great Britain), India, Japan, National Rifle Association (NRA), New Zealand, Port Arthur (Australia) massacre, Russian Federation, school shootings, South America, suicides, Switzerland, United States, women, etc.

Nunggubuyu Myths and Ethnographic Texts

Author : Jeffrey Heath
Publisher : Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nunggubuyu Myths and Ethnographic Texts written by Jeffrey Heath and published by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island. This book was released on 1980 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Age is No Barrier

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Joint Committee on the Problems of the Aging
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Age is No Barrier written by New York (State). Legislature. Joint Committee on the Problems of the Aging and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: