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Secret ingredients: the brave new world of industrial farming
By Stuart Laidlaw. 2003
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Business and economics, Economics, Canadian non-fiction, Science and technology
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A vivid portrait of what modern industrial farming is, what it is doing to the environment, to farmers, to the…
plants and livestock we eat, and to us as consumers and as citizens. The author takes us from the dairy farms of Pennsylvania to Canada's prairie wheatfields, from the tomato greenhouses of southern Ontario to the potato fields of P.E.I. All along the way, he shows us food's secret ingredient - its hidden costs. 2003.No logo: taking aim at the brand bullies
By Naomi Klein. 2000
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Business and economics, Economics, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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As big companies such as McDonald's, Nike and Wal-mart keep getting bigger, consumers are becoming more wary of their attempts…
to force ready-to-wear lifestyles upon us. Klein discusses the growth of the corporate logo, and the resistance to the attempts of the big companies to move into every aspect of our lives. 2000.Fences and windows: dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate
By Naomi Klein, Debra Ann Levy. 2002
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Business and economics, Economics
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An eyewitness account of the anti-globalization movement. Klein investigates globalization and its consequences, and provides a survival guide for life in the world economy. 2002.
The nature of economies
By Jane Jacobs. 2000
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Business and economics, Economics, Canadian non-fiction
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Jacobs examines the similarities between the growth and change that occurs within an economy, and the growth and changes that…
occur within nature. She argues that through the study of systems found in nature we can better understand economic development.