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  • Who's in Charge Here?

    How Governments Are Failing the World Economy (an eSpecial from Riverhead Books)

    by Alan Beattie ...
    From the author of False Economy, a brief, incisive look into the pitfalls of the world economy, and those who run the show.In a short, brilliant, and unsparing examination of government-- from the age of the empire to our current systems-- Alan Beattie takes us through the intricacies of the contemporary economic world. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • City of the Lost: Part One

    by Kelley Armstrong ...
    Series Book 1 - City of the Lost
    In City of the Lost, a thrilling new eBook in six parts, New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Kelley Armstrong delivers us to Rockton, a secret little town in the far north where the hunted go to hide. And where a hunter has now come to play.Casey Duncan once killed a man and got away with it. Since then she’s become a talented police detective, tethered only to her job, her best ... Read more

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  • 1913

    In Search of the World Before the Great War

    by Charles Emmerson ...
    Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features -- last summers in grand aristocratic residences -- or its most destructive ones: the unresolved ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Collapse of Globalism Revised Edition

    And The Reinvention Of The World

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    In 1999, John Ralston Saul began predicting that globalism would collapse. In 2005, he laid out this scenario in The Collapse of Globalism: and the Reinvention of the World Now he has enlarged the book, showing how today's crisis came about and suggesting what to do next. In this new edition, Saul describes the current financial crisis as a mere boil to be lanced. The far more serious problem is ... Read more

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  • Webs of Power

    Notes from the Global Uprising

    by Starhawk ...
    Writing from the front lines, Starhawk chronicles the global justice movement sparked by Seattle’s 1999 anti-World Trade Organization protest. A life-long activist, Starhawk is deeply involved as a direct action participant and trainer in the antiglobalization movement.The book is divided into "Actions" and "Visions." In Part I, Starhawk begins with an overview of the complex political and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Global Evolution of Clinical Legal Education

    More than a Method

    by Richard J. Wilson ...
    Globally, the methodologies of legal education have not changed in any fundamental way, some methods dating back hundreds of years. Law schools have relied, for too long, on passive learning methods such as lectures or cases. Clinical legal education provides an alternative that is more than just another pedagogical method. It provides a way for students to experience their emerging professional ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • A Glance in the Rear View Mirror

    Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present

    by Eric Toussaint ...
    As the financial crisis continues to shake the economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideology long used to justify neoliberal policies. This informed and accessible primer drives a wedge into these cracks, allowing the non-expert to understand the flaws in the economic philosophy of the 1%. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The EU's Power in Inter-Organisational Relations

    by Hanna Ojanen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book studies inter-organisational relations from a new angle: power. Drawing on examples that highlight how the EU relates to NATO and to the UN, it shows how consequential inter-organisational relations are for the functioning and nature of the organisations, and how important it is to detect the forms of power exerted in these relations. Power, for international organisations, is above all ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Worldwide Knowledge?

    Global Firms, Local Labour and the Region

    by Martina Fuchs ...
    Series series Economic Geography Series
    Putting forward a comprehensive view of knowledge with a specific perspective on place and space, this book provides a new perspective on the globalisation of knowledge. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, the principal agenda of this volume is to open up a perspective ’beyond knowledge’ - i.e. beyond the interpretation of knowledge as scientific-technical knowledge. Author Martina Fuchs introduces ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Informal Workers and Collective Action

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, Martha A. Chen ...
    Informal Workers and Collective Action features nine cases of collective action to improve the status and working conditions of informal workers. Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, and Martha A. Chen set the stage by defining informal work and describing the types of organizations that represent the interests of informal workers and the lessons that may be learned from the examples presented in ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Spectacle

    Edited by Zahi Zalloua, Bruce Magnusson ...
    Series series Global Re-Visions
    Global media and advances in technology have profoundly affected the way people experience events. The essays in this volume explore the dimensions of contemporary spectacles from the Arab Spring to spectatorship in Hollywood. Questioning the effects that spectacles have on their observers, the authors ask: Are viewers robbed of their autonomy, transformed into depoliticized and passive consumers, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Migration and the Search for Home

    Mapping Domestic Space in Migrants’ Everyday Lives

    by Paolo Boccagni ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants. Home is usually perceived as what placidly lies in the background of everyday life, yet migrants’ experience tells a different story: what happens to the notion of home, once migrants move far away from their “natural” bases and search for new ones, often under marginalized living ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD