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  • Technology, Globalisation and Migration

    Interconnected Challenges for Inequality and Skills

    Edited by Steven Dhondt, Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage, Leire Aldaz Odriozola ...
    This timely book examines three impactful changes to the labour market in recent decades: the rapid automation of production processes, surging international trade, and greater cross-border mobility and migration of workers. Expert authors assess how workers have benefited and suffered from these shifts and provide policymakers with recommendations on how to reduce inequality while securing ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity

    by Noel Ignatiev ...
    A new collection of essays from the bomb-throwing intellectual who described the historical origins and evolution of whiteness and white supremacy, and taught us how we might destroy it.For sixty years, Noel Ignatiev provided an unflinching account of “whiteness”—a social fiction and an unmitigated disaster for all working-class people. This new essay collection from the late firebrand covers the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Transatlantic Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins

    The Cultural Politics of “Us” versus “Them”

    Edited by Reindert Dhondt, Monica Jansen, Maria Bonaria Urban ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
    This volume brings together leading international experts in politics, discourse, memory, and culture to examine the complex entanglements of populism(s) and fascism(s) in political thought and cultural productions. The starting point is Argentine historian Federico Finchelstein’s assertion that the dynamics of transnational fascism and populist movements become clearer when viewed from the ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Student Revolt, City, and Society in Europe

    From the Middle Ages to the Present

    Edited by Pieter Dhondt, Elizabethanne Boran ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Due to the strong sense among the student community of belonging to a specific social group, student revolts have been an integral part of the university throughout its history. Ironically, since the Middle Ages, the advantageous position of students in society as part of the social elite undoubtedly enforced their critical approach. This edited collection studies the role of students as a ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Acta Historiae Neerlandicae/Studies on the History of the Netherlands VI

    by W. Brulez, A. C. F. Koch, E. H. Kossman, F. C. Spits, Joh. de Vries, P. L. Geschiere, Alice. C. Carter, J. Dhondt ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The five previous volumes of the Acta Historiae Neerlandicae appeared under the auspices of the Netherlands Committee for Historical Sciences. When in 1970 this Committee merged with the Historical Society to form the Dutch Historical Society (Nederlands Historisch Genootschap) an opportunity arose to rethink the aims of the Acta's original promotors. Also this sixth and succeeding volumes became ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Hemp and Sustainability

    by Fieke Dhondt, Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book highlights the positive and negative impacts that hemp fibre and textiles have on environment, while studying the effects of climate change on the growth of fibre hemp. Human-induced climate change challenge the availability of textile fibres, whereas today’s apparel industry leaves behind a substantial environmental footprint. Sustainable hemp textiles can lighten it. The book describes ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • London Bridge

    A Fictional Memoir

    by Steven Dhondt ...
    Tom Pierson’s freshman obsessions—with American literature and with the pert assistant to the dean of Abbott College—dominate his first term. When his idealism, inspired by Jack London’s portrayal of working-class struggles, collides with establishment forces, he learns to rue a lesson from London: that fate is often capriciously twisted.Steven Dhondt brings passion and literary sophistication to ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    by Thomas Sowell ...
    This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de ... Read more

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  • The Wannabe Fascists

    A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy

    by Federico Finchelstein ...
    Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship.With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political breed, the last outcome of the combined histories of fascism and populism: the wannabe fascists. This new type of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Age of Revolution

    1789-1848

    by Prof Eric Hobsbawm ...
    The first in Eric Hobsbawm's dazzling trilogy on the history of the nineteenth century.Between 1789 and 1848 the world was transformed both by the French Revolution and also by the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This 'Dual Revolution' created the modern world as we know it.Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant analytical clarity the transformation brought about in every sphere of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Invasive Plant Medicine

    The Ecological Benefits and Healing Abilities of Invasives

    by Timothy Lee Scott ...
    The first book to demonstrate how plants originally considered harmful to the environment actually restore Earth’s ecosystems and possess powerful healing properties• Explains how invasive plants enhance biodiversity, purify ecosystems, and revitalize the land• Provides a detailed look at the healing properties of 25 of the most common invasive plantsMost of the invasive plant species under attack ... Read more

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  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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