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  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Canada’s Role in Africa’s Extractive Sectors

    Edited by Nathan Andrews, j. Andrew Grant ...
    Africa’s natural resource sectors are experiencing unprecedented levels of foreign investment and production. Hailed as a means of reducing poverty and reliance on foreign aid, the role of foreign corporations in Africa’s extractive sector is not well understood and important questions remain about the impact of such activities on people and on the environment.With reference to global governance ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • China in the Era of Xi Jinping

    Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges

    by Robert S. Ross, Jo Inge Bekkevold, Zhiyue Bo, Yongnian Zheng, Cuifen Weng, Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Stig Stenslie, Gang Chen0, Linda Jakobson1, Andrew Nathan2, Helge Hveem3, T J. Pempel4, Mingjiang Li5 ...
    Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking economic expansion and military modernization that Xi inherited has convinced him that China can transform into a twenty-first-century superpower.In this collection, leading scholars from the United States, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Democracy

    by Andrew J. Nathan ...
    A highly original and convincing book by one of our best-informed China specialists, offering an entirely new perspective on the nature of democracy as the Chinese practice it—and, incidentally, as we practice it too.What do the Chinese mean by the word “democracy”? When they say that their political system is “democratic,” does this mean that they share our ideas about liberty, civil rights, and ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Popular Culture in Late Imperial China

    Edited by David Johnson, Andrew J. Nathan, Evelyn S. Rawski ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies on China
    Popular Culture in Late Imperial China delves into the vibrant and multifaceted world of non-elite Chinese culture during the late imperial period, spanning roughly from 1550 to 1920. This collection of essays challenges the overemphasis on elite narratives in Chinese historical studies, highlighting the importance of exploring the values, ideas, and cultural expressions of the broader populace. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa

    Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

    Edited by Nathan Andrews, J. Andrew Grant, Jesse Salah Ovadia ...
    There is no question that Africa is endowed with abundant natural resources of different magnitudes. However, more than a decade of high commodity prices and new hydrocarbon discoveries across the continent has led countless international organizations, donor agencies, and non-governmental organizations to devote considerable attention to the potential of natural resource–based development.Natural ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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    A Day Like Any Other

    The Life of James Schuyler

    by Nathan Kernan ...
    Narrated by Andrew Gibson ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 16 min

    Nathan Kernan's A Day Like Any Other is the definitive biography of the great American poet who was an original member of the so called New York School of poetry. Kernan goes back to trace the tumultuous arc of the poet's life and work.Born in Chicago in 1923, James Schuyler grew up in Washington, DC, and upstate New York before moving to New York City in 1944, where he fell into the social orbit ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Randomedy

    Novels with Structure, Organization, Fluidity, Cohesion, and Clarity Are for Losers

    by Nathan Andrew Roberts ...
    An Islamo-facist terrorist with shifty eyes who ends up being nothing more than a red herring. A CNN anchorwoman who is too attractive to have gotten her job based solely on her questionable credentials. A wizened and respected CNN anchorman whose famous beard could be its own situation room topic. A nuclear physicist with precognitive abilities and fondness for being killed by buses in the first ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement

    Edited by Karin Buhmann, Alberto Fonseca, Nathan Andrews, Giuseppe Amatulli ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement (MSE) is both a concept and a management approach, drawing on a combination of theoretical and applied knowledge areas (e.g., impact assessment, business and human rights, and stakeholder theory). MSE has become a key element of corporate sustainability risk-based due diligence as a process that responsible business enterprises are expected to apply to identify ... Read more

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  • How East Asians View Democracy

    Edited by Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, Doh Chull Shin, Andrew J. Nathan ...
    East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy.This book is the first to report the results of a large-scale survey-research project, the East Asian ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • In the Shadow of the Rising Dragon

    Stories of Repression in the New China

    Edited by Xu Youyu, Hua Ze ...
    Over the last decade China has undergone a transformation. After the dark days of the Cultural Revolution, it has emerged as one of the twenty-first century's most powerful economies, with millions of citizens now entering the middle class. Yet, despite these rapid changes, China's human rights record remains abysmal, and a heavy shroud of secrecy protects the one-party system from accountability. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease

    Epidemiology, Assessment, and Management

    Edited by Andrew J. Krentz, Nathan D. Wong ...
    Addressing a topic of utmost importance in the field, this text addresses the epidemiology, diagnosis, assessment, and management of patients with metabolic syndrome-focusing on implications for cardiovascular disease risk. With an abundance of clearly organized tables, flowcharts, and practice guidelines, this blue-ribbon source succinctly analyze ... Read more

    $247.34 CAD

  • Extractive Bargains

    Natural Resources and the State-Society Nexus

    Edited by Paul Bowles, Nathan Andrews ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is the first to focus on state-led ‘extractive bargains,’ designed to reach a social consensus on the extent of extractive activities, how they should be governed and their negative consequences mitigated. These state-led ‘bargains’ have taken a number of different forms and offer varying degrees of promise in meeting environmental and social concerns. The book critically examines ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD