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Connecting Canadians Investigations in Community Informatics
Funded for four years by the SSHRC’s Initiative for the New Economy, CRACIN systematically studied a wide variety of Canadian community ICT initiatives, bringing perspectives from sociology, computer science, critical theory, women’s studies, library and information sciences, and management studies to bear on networking technologies. A comprehensive thematic account of this in-depth researc…
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- 9781926836041.01
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- 518 pages
The Call Up to the Majors
This book explores the unique relationships between professional baseball teams and the unique ways professional baseball leagues are organized in North America with a primary focus on how proximity can and does impact consumer demand. Perhaps more than any other matter that arises in the business of baseball, proximity to other professional baseball teams is a concern that has uniquely shaped …
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- 978-1-4614-8924-5
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- XX, 121
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- Sports Economics, Management and Policy
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Experiencing Long-Term Unemployment in Europe
This book examines the everyday-life patterns of young adults under circumstances of vulnerability and precariousness. Its main focus is on the web of social relations that structure the everyday life of young people, for instance by providing resources and tools of solving problems, exerting pressures and voicing expectations, and shaping the person’s self-conception, identity, and well-bein…
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- 978-1-137-50487-6
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- XVI, 233
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Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia
This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model responds to the twenty-first century requirements for excellence and relevance in undergraduate education, contributors examine if it c…
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- 978-1-349-94892-5
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- X, 145
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Policy Controversies and Political Blame Games
Tujuan dari seri Kebijakan Publik Komparatif adalah untuk memajukan pemahaman kebijakan publik melalui publikasi hasil penelitian komparatif tentang sifat, dinamika, dan konteks tantangan kebijakan utama dan tanggapannya.
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- 9781108860116
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- T 306.2 HIN p
Vivre à nu La surveillance au Canada
Vivre à nu est l’œuvre d’une équipe de recherche multidisciplinaire et explique comment la surveillance s’accroît – pratiquement sans que personne y porte attention – dans toutes les sphères de notre vie. En analysant les principaux moyens employés par le secteur public et le secteur privé pour recueillir, faire le suivi, analyser et échanger des renseignements au sujet des ci…
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- 9781927356838.01
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- 287 pages
Transparent Lives Surveillance in Canada
The work of a multidisciplinary research team, Transparent Lives explains why and how surveillance is expanding—mostly unchecked—into every facet of our lives. Through an investigation of the major ways in which both government and private sector organizations gather, monitor, analyze, and share information about ordinary citizens, the volume identifies nine key trends in the processing of …
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- 9781927356777.01
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- 251 pages
Small Cities, Big Issues Reconceiving Community in a Neoliberal Era
If local governments accept a social agenda as part of its responsibilities, the contributors to Small Cities, Big Issues believe that small cities can succeed in reconceiving community based on the ideals of acceptance, accommodation, and inclusion. With contributions by Lorry-Ann Austin, Jacques Caillouette, Graham Day, Robert Harding, Wendy Hulko, Paul Jenkinson, Kathie McKinnon, Sharlene…
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- 9781771991636.01
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- 6 x 9, 334 pages
Interrogating Motherhood
Ross explores the topic of mothering from the perspective of Western society and encourages students and readers to identify and critique the historical, social, and political contexts in which mothers are understood. By examining popular culture, employment, public policy, poverty, “other” mothers, and mental health, Interrogating Motherhood describes the fluid and shifting nature of the p…
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- 9781771991438.01
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- OPEL (Open Paths to Enriched Learning)
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- 173 pages
Green Energy and Efficiency
"Addressing the major issues associated with green energy and energy efficiency, this book examines the economics of energy from the theoretical as well as applied perspectives. It makes a valuable contribution to existing discussion around environment and climate change issues, and provides an analysis of the socioeconomic and policy-oriented aspects of this topic. Each chapter is self-contain…
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- 978-3-319-03631-1
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- XII, 428
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- 621.312\'
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