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  • Life Lessons

    The Case for a National Education Service

    by Melissa Benn ...
    A radical agenda to make our education system fit for the twenty-first centuryOur education system has been damaged by politicians who have arrogantly imposed a regime of market-driven reforms. It is time to reframe education as an essential public good, one arising from a hunger to find more engaging ways to learn and the powerful imperative to make our society genuinely equal.In this timely and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • School Wars

    The Battle for Britain's Education

    by Melissa Benn ...
    School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britain’s education system. Established during the 1960s and based on the progressive ideal of good schools for all, the comprehensive system has over the past decades come under sustained attack from successive governments.Now, with the growing inequalities of our current system, the damaging impact of spending cuts, the rise of “free schools” and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • What Should We Tell Our Daughters?

    The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female

    by Melissa Benn ...
    We have reached a tricky crossroads in modern women's lives and our collective daughters are bearing the brunt of some intolerable pressures. Although feminism has made great strides forward since our mothers' and grandmothers' day, many of the key issues - equality of pay, equality in the home, representation at senior level in the private, public and political sectors - remain to be tackled. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Truth About Our Schools

    Exposing the myths, exploring the evidence

    by Melissa Benn, Janet Downs ...
    "A superb, crucial, blistering expose of all the myths about our education system that are all too often used to attack it. Melissa Benn again proves why she is one of country's most formidable education campaigners - and why the powerful should fear her.Owen Jones, Guardian columnist and best-selling authorNever has it been more urgent to publicise the truth about what works and doesn't work in ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

  • Routledge Companion to Corporate Sustainability

    Edited by Thomas Clarke, Suzanne Benn, Melissa Edwards ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    The consequences for climate change range from a gradual to a catastrophic impact on the ecology, environment, economy and society. This book is about the present and future dangers of climate change and the possibilities for corporate sustainability. The work is intended as a companion for students, researchers and professionals interested in the analysis of climate change, and the many ... Read more

    $474.99 CAD

  • Sustainability

    A Key Idea for Business and Society

    by Suzanne Benn, Melissa Edwards, Tim Williams ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Business and Management
    The heightening impact of ecological and societal crises makes sustainability an increasingly urgent imperative, requiring a fundamental shift in how we understand and practice management and business.In this book, the authors set out the key characteristics of sustainability such as its temporal and multilevel effects and highlight the complex array of sustainability risks and opportunities for ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability

    by Suzanne Benn, Melissa Edwards, Tim Williams ...
    Since this classic book was first published in 2003, sustainability has increasingly been accepted as standard business practice for leading corporations, while the science itself has revealed how human activity has become the dominant force influencing irreversible changes in the planetary systems.The fourth edition of this trailblazing book on corporate sustainability provides new insights into ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • The Most Dangerous Man in Britain?

    The Political Writing

    by Tony Benn ...
    TONY BENN: FIREBRAND? NATIONAL TREASURE? A SOCIALIST FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYThis centenary anthology of Tony Benn’s speeches, writings and interviews is a timely reminder of his political potency and the urgency of his agenda across a wide set of issues: the consequences of empire, the need to embrace industrial change, reform of the state machine and the management of politics.Called the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit

    by Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya, Iwan Setiawan ...
    Understand the next level of marketingThe new model for marketing-Marketing 3.0-treats customers not as mere consumers but as the complex, multi-dimensional human beings that they are. Customers, in turn, are choosing companies and products that satisfy deeper needs for participation, creativity, community, and idealism.In Marketing 3.0, world-leading marketing guru Philip Kotler explains why the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Uncommon Wealth

    Britain and the Aftermath of Empire

    by Kojo Koram ...
    WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2023Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingShortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical PublishingLonglisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingA Guardian Book of the Year'Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh insights' Akala... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Does Education Matter?

    Myths About Education and Economic Growth

    by Alison Wolf ...
    "Education, education, education" has become an obsession for politicians and the public alike. It is seen as an economic panacea: an engine for growth and prosperity. But is there a link between increased spending on higher eductaion and economicgrowth? Professor Alison Wolf takes a critical look at successive governments' education policy and challenges many of the tenets of received wisdom: ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Best Business Books Ever

    The 100 Most Influential Management Books You'll Never Have Time To Read

    by Basic Books ...
    Given the urgency and immediacy of so many business problems and challenges, a solid grounding in the history and evolution of business thinking will help managers separate fad from fact and apply the cumulative wisdom of the writers whose ideas have demonstrated profound and lasting impact. From Sun Tzu's timeless Art of War to the inventors of modern management in the 1920s-'40s to the books ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD