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Let them eat crypto : the blockchain scam that's ruining the world / by Howson, Peter,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The subject of immense hope, hype, and confusion, crypto has amassed countless headlines in recent years. With cryptocurrencies, NFTs and metaverse markets crashing, the underlying blockchain technology is still promised to solve global development challenges, whilst revolutionising every industry. But is the technology really a silver bullet? 'Let Them Eat Crypto' puts blockchain, cryptocurrency and 'Web3' under the microscope like never before. Peter Howson cuts through the jargon and bluster to tell an alarming story of how right-wing libertarian crypto entrepreneurs-often aided by charities, politicians, and philanthropists-seek out and exploit conditions of poverty, oppression, corruption, and conflict. Their goal? A new front of 'crypto-colonial' extractivism. 'Let Them Eat Crypto' reveals the alarming truth: far from 'banking the unbanked', saving the gorillas, or freeing people from oppressive governments, blockchain offers only false solutions, surveillance, and hi-tech snake oil.
Subjects: Blockchains (Databases); Cryptocurrencies.; Digital currency.; Financial services industry.; Fraud.; Investments.; World Wide Web;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A song of comfortable chairs / by McCall Smith, Alexander,1948-author.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE JOY AND THE LIGHT BUS COMPANY, ISBN 9780735281196. In this 23rd installment in the beloved 'No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency' series, Grace Makutsi encounters a pair of quandaries that will require all of her and Mma Ramotswes cleverness and generosity to resolve.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character); No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization); Office furniture industry; Women private investigators;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Triple crown : winning Canada's energy future / by Prentice, Jim,author.; Rioux, Jean-Sébastien,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.One of Canada's leading voices on our energy future offers a powerful case for taking back control of our resources. Canada has a world-class resource base and the capacity to become a world leader in the petroleum and other resource-based industries. But as former federal cabinet minister and Alberta premier Jim Prentice argues in this provocative and timely new book, we have lost our way. He outlines how our nation has repeatedly stumbled in its attempts to become a global player in the field, and how our policies and practices have failed to advance Canada's international interests as an energy producer and exporter with a record of sound environmental achievement. He highlights, for example, our stalled efforts to work with the United States to build new pipelines to the Gulf Coast, and the absence of the infrastructure Canada needs to make further inroads into the Asia-Pacific market. He notes how we have even faltered in our attempts to build pipelines across Canada to service our own citizens, and how Canada has also, to date, failed to craft fair and enduring business partnerships with its own indigenous peoples. Ultimately, one of Canada's greatest strengths has become a liability - economically, socially and environmentally. But what will the path forward look like? In Triple Crown, Jim Prentice makes a powerful argument for the inadequacy of current Canadian energy policy and asserts a new and forward-looking vision for converting our nation's vast resources into a secure, prosperous and environmentally responsible future that benefits all Canadians.
Subjects: Energy policy; Energy policy; Energy industries; Energy industries; Power resources; Power resources; Power resources; Petroleum industry and trade;
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The Wrecking Crew! [videorecording] / by Tedesco, Denny.; Lunch Box Entertainment.; Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm); Video Service Corp.;
Narrator: Denny Tedesco.Profiles the group of Los Angeles studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew -- featuring Tommy Tedesco, guitar; Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer drums ; Carol Kaye, Joe Osborne, bass -- who played on a slew of rock and pop hits during the sixties. Gifted, versatile and possessing the knack for turning a simple tune into something memorable, the Wrecking Crew were the players who turned the Wall of Sound in Phil Spector's head into a reality, and helped Brian Wilson create the musical vision that would redefine California pop. The Wrecking Crew also backed up everyone from Sonny and Cher, the Mamas and the Papas and the Monkees to Herb Alpert, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, but while they became legends in the music business, they were all but unknown to the millions of people who made their records some of the biggest hits of the day. Filmmaker Denny Tedesco -- whose father Tommy was a member of the Wrecking Crew and perhaps the most recorded guitarist in history -- brings the free-wheeling story of the most famous musicians you've never heard of to the screen with the documentary The Wrecking Crew, which includes interviews with Cher, Brian Wilson, Nancy Sinatra, Roger McGuinn, Mickey Dolenz, Dick Clark and many more.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Wrecking Crew (Musical group); Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Rock music; Rock music; Rock musicians; Sound recording industry;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Food is my teacher [videorecording] / by Soma, Tammara,screenwriter,film director,on-screen participant,film producer.; Yanchyk, Brandy,screenwriter,film director,film producer.; McIntyre Media,film distributor.;
Tammara Soma, Cease Wyss.In Tammara's first documentary, Food is My Teacher, she delves into the pains of the past, including her own harrowing experience dealing with an eating disorder, to showcase how food can heal communities, body and spirit. This is Tammara's first experience in creating a documentary. She co-wrote and co-directed Food is My Teacher with award-winning filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk, who also produced the film. They travelled across Alberta and British Columbia on a quest to learn how food is healing within different communities.E.DVD.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Eating disorders; Food; Food industry and trade; Food security; Food habits; Food;
For private home use only.
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Organic : a journalist's quest to discover the truth behind food labeling / by Laufer, Peter,1950-;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label. It is also a wakeup call about the dubious origins of food labeled organic. After eating some suspect organic walnuts that supposedly were produced in Kazakhstan, veteran journalist Peter Laufer chooses a few items from his home pantry and traces their origins back to their source. Along the way he learns how easily we are tricked into taking "organic" claims at face value. With organic foods readily available at supermarket chains, confusion and outright deception about labels have become commonplace. Globalization has allowed food from highly corrupt governments and businesses overseas to pollute the organic market with food that is anything but. The organic environment is like the Wild West: oversight is virtually nonexistent, and deception runs amok. Laufer investigates so-called organic farms in Europe and South America as well as in his own backyard in the Pacific Northwest. The book examines what constitutes organic and by whom the definitions are made. The answers will stun readers, who have been sold a questionable, highly suspect, and even false bill of goods for years"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Food; Food; Natural foods industry; Natural foods industry.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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I'll keep you safe / by May, Peter,1951-author.;
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Married people; Businesspeople; Woolen goods industry; Tweed; Secrets; Adultery; Explosions; Murder;
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Sons of Anarchy. [videorecording] / by Ferland, Guy,1966-; Hunnam, Charlie,1980-; Perlman, Ron,1950-; Sagal, Katey.; FX Productions.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;
Disc 1. Pilot -- Seeds -- Fun town.Disc 2. Patch over -- Giving back -- AK-51 -- Old bones.Disc 3. The pull -- Hell followed -- Better Half -- Capybara.Disc 4. The sleep of babies -- the revelator.Ron Perlman, Katey Sagal, Charlie Hunnam, Kim Coates, Dayton Callie, Maggie Siff.From the writer of The Shield and the producer of The Sopranos. This show takes you even deeper into the unexplored world of this outlaw Californian Motorcycle Club as its members struggle to balance family life and weapon-trafficking business.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, Dolby digital Surround, widescreen presentation (1.78:1), dual layer, Region 1, NTSC.
Subjects: Firearms industry and trade; Illegal arms transfers; Motorcycle clubs; Motorcyclists; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2009., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In the blood : how two outsiders solved a centuries-old medical mystery and took on the US Army / by Barber, Charles,1962-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The incredible true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once in a generation lifesaving product--and were persecuted for it by the U.S. Army. At the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, dramatized by the popular film Black Hawk Down, the majority of soldiers who died bled to death before they could even reach an operating table. This tragedy reinforced the need for a revolutionary treatment that could transform trauma medicine. So, when Frank Hursey and Bart Gullong--who had no medical or military experience--discovered that a cheap, crushed rock called zeolite had blood clotting properties, they brought it to the military's attention. The Marines and the Navy adopted the resulting product, QuikClot, immediately. The Army, however, resisted. It had two products of its own being developed to prevent excessive bleeds, one of which had already cost eighty million dollars. The other, "Factor Seven," had a more dangerous complication: its side effects could be deadly. Unwilling to let its efforts end in failure--and led by the highly influential surgeon Major John Holcomb--the Army set out to smear the reputations of the inventors whose product, they claimed, had its own risk. Over the course of six years, Hursey and Gullong engaged in an epic struggle with Holcomb for recognition--until a whistle blower inside the Army exposed Holcomb's financial ties to the pharmaceutical company that produced Factor Seven, a discovery that led to a massive lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. By withholding QuikClot--which would later become the medical miracle of the Iraq War--and using Factor Seven with its known, life threatening risks, Holcomb imperiled countless American lives. Using deep reportage and riveting prose, In the Blood recounts this little known David and Goliath story of corruption, greed, and power within the military--and the devastating, fatal consequences of unchecked institutional arrogance"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Gullong, Bart.; Hursey, Frank.; Hemorrhage; Medicine, Military; Surgical dressings; Wound treatment equipment industry;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pocket Ontario OH&S Act & Regulations. by Ontario.; Carswell Company.;
LSCMerger of: Pocket Ontario OH&S Act & Regulations. Construction, ISSN 1199-3456, and of: Pocket Ontario OH&S Act & Regulations. General edition, ISSN 1199-3464.
Subjects: Industrial hygiene; Industrial safety; Construction industry;
© c1996-, Carswell,
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