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  • Our Planetary Condition

    Foundations for a Politics with the Earth

    by Frederic Hanusch, Liza B. Bauer, Clemens Finkelstein, Claus Leggewie ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    An actionable framework for doing politics with Earth’s nonliving, living, and technological agencies to expand planetary habitability.Our Planetary Condition advances a simple yet transformative claim: We do not live on but are part of a planet whose nonliving, living, and technological forces actively shape politics. If keeping the Earth habitable is the defining challenge of our time, then ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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  • The Politics of Deep Time

    by Frederic Hanusch ...
    Series series Elements in Earth System Governance
    Human societies increasingly interact with processes on a geological or even cosmic timescale. Despite this recognition, we still lack a basic understanding of these interconnections and how they translate into politics. This Element provides an exploration and systematization of 'the politics of deep time' as a novel lens of planetary politics in three steps. First, it demonstrates why deep-time ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Democracy and Climate Change

    by Frederic Hanusch ...
    Series series Routledge Global Cooperation Series
    Democracy and Climate Change explores the various ways in which democratic principles can lead governments to respond differently to climate change. The election cycle can lead to short-termism, which often appears to be at odds with the long-term nature of climate change, with its latency between cause and effect. However, it is clear that some democracies deal with climate change better than ... Read more

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  • The Precipice

    Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

    by Toby Ord ...
    In this urgent and “thrillingly written” book, there is a case and solution for humanity’s last shot at survival (Sunday Times).**Humanity’s future is at risk. We face existential catastrophes, climate change, nuclear war, and more. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late.Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Migration in Southern Africa

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Pragna Rugunanan, Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access Regional Reader proposes new ways of theorizing migration in Southern Africa by arguing that traditional western forms of theorizing do not adequately fit the South-South migration context. It explores the existing definitions of a ‘migrant’ with a view to conceptualise a definition which will speak to the complexities, envisioning a more inclusive Southern African region. The ... Read more

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  • The Collapse of Western Civilization

    A View from the Future

    by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway ...
    The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Labour Law, Vulnerability and the Regulation of Precarious Work

    by Lisa Rodgers ...
    The shifting nature of employment practice towards the use of more precarious work forms has caused a crisis in classical labour law and engendered a new wave of regulation. This timely book deftly uses this crisis as an opportunity to explore the notion of precariousness or vulnerability in employment relationships.Arguing that the idea of vulnerability has been under-theorised in the labour law ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Ways of Being

    Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

    by James Bridle ...
    Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings— beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Human Caused Global Warming

    by Tim Ball PhD ...
    This book examines the claims of human induced global warming made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) using proper journalistic and investigative techniques. It explains how it was a premeditated, orchestrated deception, using science to impose a political agenda. It fooled a majority including most scientists. They assumed that other scientists would not produce science for a ... Read more

    $7.00 CAD

  • Planning and Transformation

    Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience

    by Philip Harrison, Alison Todes, Vanessa Watson ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Planning and Transformation provides a comprehensive view of planning under political transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers in an international and a local audience.In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South Africa, planners believed they would be able to successfully promote a vision of integrated, equitable and sustainable ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk

    Rethinking Our Response

    by Judith Curry ...
    Series series Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
    World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • New Public Management

    Current Trends and Future Prospects

    Edited by Kathleen McLaughlin, Ewan Ferlie, Stephen Osborne P ...
    The UK has played a pivotal role in the development of New Public Management (NPM). This book offers an original, comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of the New Public Management in the UK, and situates these analyses in a broader comparative perspective. Its chapters consider:competing typologies of NPMissues of professionalism within NPMdebates on social exclusion and ... Read more

    $147.02 CAD