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“tom urbaniak”

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  • Her Worship

    Hazel McCallion and the Development of Mississauga

    by Tom Urbaniak ...
    Mississauga is Canada's sixth largest city and its largest suburban municipality. Toronto's upstart western neighbour, with its multicultural population of more than 700,000, is a place not only of endless subdivisions and monotonous industrial parks, wide thoroughfares, and even wider expressways, but also of some distinctive older communities, notable lakefront and riverside parks, and ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Dignity, Democracy, Development

    A Citizen's Reader

    by Tom Urbaniak ...
    With these 61 readable essays, Cape Breton’s Tom Urbaniak brings a courageous, critical and constructive eye to problems of our time. Whether it’s revitalizing struggling communities, harnessing the power of small investors, reforming tired institutions or protecting parliamentary democracy, he is able to point to workable solutions. In this practical and thought-provoking reader, Prof. Urbaniak ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Company Houses, Company Towns

    Heritage and Conservation

    Edited by Andrew Molloy, PhD, Tom Urbaniak, PhD ...
    Former company houses and towns have meaning. They can inspire attachment and a sense of place. They can be tight-knit but also quintessentially global; their resources and products have served far-off markets while housing a mosaic of newcomers from around the world; they speak to the diversity of Canada and the immigrant experience. Their landscapes, though often threatened with abandonment and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Upstarts

    How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

    by Brad Stone ...
    A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store.Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb have ushered in a new era: redefining neighborhoods, challenging the way governments ... Read more

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  • The Effective Citizen

    How to Make Politicians Work for You

    by Graham Steele ...
    One of Canada's most compelling political writers reveals how government really works—and how ordinary citizens can make it work for them.A lawyer, analyst, and former Nova Scotia cabinet minister, Graham Steele shared a candid chronicle of his experiences in Canadian government with his acclaimed memoir What I Learned About Politics. Now he presents an insiders' guide to modern Canadians politics ... Read more

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  • The Great Climate Robbery

    How the Food System Drives Climate Change and What We Can Do About It

    by GRAIN ...
    The Great Climate Robbery connects analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet, and link peoples’ struggles over food to climate change. This book will help readers to understand the ways in which corporations control the food system and provide the analysis needed to challenge this control. ... Read more

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  • The Return of History

    Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Jennifer Welsh ...
    Series Book 2016 - The CBC Massey Lectures
    In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History, ... Read more

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  • We Are All Stardust

    Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know

    by Stefan Klein ...
    Translated by Ross Benjamin ...
    "The dazzling clutch of scientific minds caught in mid-thought here makes for a read that provokes thought in its turn. Delights abound." —Nature"What distinguishes scientists, in your eyes?" —Stefan Klein"First and foremost, curiosity." —Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize–winning chemistWhen Stefan Klein, an acclaimed journalist, sits down to talk with 18 of the world's leading scientists, he finds they ... Read more

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  • Building Social Business

    The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs

    by Muhammad Yunus ...
    **Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of *Banker to the Poor,***shows how entrepreneurial spirit and business smarts can be harnessed to create sustainable businesses that can solve the world's biggest problems--a reminder that capitalism can take kindlier forms” (Spectator)Social business is a visionary new model for capitalism developed by Muhammad Yunus, the practical genius who pioneered ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Banker to the Poor

    Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

    by Muhammad Yunus ...
    The “stirring” (Washington Post) story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the worldIn 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Twenty-three years later they won the Nobel Prize for Peace for their work in ... Read more

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  • Hurricane Hazel

    A Life with Purpose

    by Hazel McCallion, Robert Brehl ...
    Throughout her ground-breaking career in business and politics, Hurricane Hazel McCallion has seen it all. In 1978, she defeated a popular incumbent to win election as mayor of Mississauga, a rising city near Toronto that was, until then, a collection of towns, villages and farms. No one would have foreseen that the indomitable Hurricane Hazel would become so wildly popular she would remain mayor ... Read more

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