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  • The Globalization Reader

    Edited by Frank J. Lechner, John Boli ...
    An introduction to the issues surrounding the complex and controversial realities of today's interconnected world, the revised sixth editionSince its initial publication*, The Globalization Reader* has been lauded for its comprehensive coverage of the issues surrounding globalization. Now in its sixth edition, the Reader has been thoroughly revised and updated and continues to review the most ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • The American Exception, Volume 2

    by Frank J. Lechner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines what makes the United States an exceptional society, what impact it has had abroad, and why these issues have mattered to Americans. With historical and comparative evidence, Frank J. Lechner describes the distinctive path of American institutions and tracks changes in the country’s national identity in order to assess claims about America’s ‘exceptional’ qualities. The book ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • The American Exception, Volume 1

    by Frank J. Lechner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines what makes the United States an exceptional society, what impact it has had abroad, and why these issues have mattered to Americans. With historical and comparative evidence, Frank J. Lechner describes the distinctive path of American institutions and tracks changes in the country’s national identity in order to assess claims about America’s ‘exceptional’ qualities. The book ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • The Netherlands

    Globalization and National Identity

    by Frank J. Lechner ...
    Series series Global Realities
    The Netherlands is the first concise, authored introduction available on the topic. The Netherlands has been a key entrepot in the world capitalist system for centuries, but because of relatively recent demographic changes, it has become symbolic of the clash of European and Islamic cultures. Perhaps the most secular nation in the world, it now houses a very large Islamic population. That ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • The Search for Fundamentals

    The Process of Modernisation and the Quest for Meaning

    Edited by Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen, Jan Berting, Frank Lechner ...
    Modernity dissolves absolute certainties; late modernity dissolves them absolutely. In the modern world system there appears to be no firm, unchallenged ground on which to construct a meaningful canopy. But around the world, many individuals and groups long for a kind of cultural coherence that they believe once existed. They search for fundamentals. While these may be sought in religious ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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  • American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

    A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

    by Roberto Sirvent, Danny Haiphong, Glen Ford ...
    “Fake news existed long before Donald Trump…. What is ironic is that fake news has indeed been the only news disseminated by the rulers of U.S. empire.”—From American Exceptionalism and American InnocenceAccording to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history—news that slavery is a thing of the past, that we don’t live on stolen land, that ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

    America and the World in the Free Market Era

    by Gary Gerstle ...
    The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces- ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Reactionary Mind : Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

    Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

    by Corey Robin ...
    Late in life William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring" said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it" as conservatives do "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex." With this unlikely conversation began Robin's decade-long foray into the conservative mind. What is conservatism and what's truly at stake for its ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Great Divergence

    America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It

    by Timothy Noah ...
    For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a ... Read more

    $18.49 CAD

  • Our Divided Political Heart

    The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent

    by E.J. Dionne Jr. ...
    America today is at a political impasse; we face a nation divided and discontented. Acclaimed political commentator E.J. Dionne argues that Americans can't agree on who we are as a nation because we can't agree on who we've been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us "Americans."Dionne places our current quarrels in the long-standing tradition of struggle between two core ... Read more

    $12.19 CAD

  • Dear White America

    Letter to a New Minority

    by Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation.Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation's diverse cultural reality, a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of White Christian America

    by Robert P. Jones ...
    Series series Award-Winning History
    “Quite possibly the most illuminating text for this election year” (The New York Times Book Review).*Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion*Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, spells out the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality—that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.For most of our nation’s history, White Christian ... Read more

    $22.50 CAD