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  • The Local Economy Solution

    How Innovative, Self-Financing Pollinator Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity

    by Michael Shuman ...
    Reinventing economic development as if small business matteredIn cities and towns across the nation, economic development is at a crossroads. A growing body of evidence has proven that its current cornerstone—incentives to attract and retain large, globally mobile businesses—is a dead end. Even those programs that focus on local business, through buy-local initiatives, for example, depend on ... Read more

    $22.79 CAD

  • Going Local: New Opportunities for Community Economies

    by Michael Shuman, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Michael Shuman's lecture to the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires points to the shift that is occurring from a global economy focusing on cheap goods and the protection of private bottom lines to a local economy centering on place and ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Going Local

    Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age

    by Michael Shuman ...
    National drug chains squeeze local pharmacies out of business, while corporate downsizing ships jobs overseas. All across America, communities large and small are losing control of their economies to outside interests. Going Local shows how some cities and towns are fighting back. Refusing to be overcome by Wal-Marts and layoffs, they are taking over abandoned factories, switching to local produce ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • The Small-Mart Revolution

    How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition

    by Michael H Shuman ...
    Defenders of massive multinational chains like Wal-Mart and Fortune 500 big business argue that, like it or not, there is no alternative. Their huge scale and international reach, they claim, make them more efficient and profitable, better able to deliver value, and an uncontested boon for the job market. According to the big boys, locally owned small businesses are simply quaint remnants of the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Put Your Money Where Your Life Is

    How to Invest Locally Using Self-Directed IRAs and Solo 401(k)s

    by Michael H. Shuman ...
    Learn how to stop investing in Wall Street and start investing in your local community with this practical layperson's guide.Americans agree on very little these days, but we can all agree on one critical point: Wall Street can no longer be trusted. Yet most of us continue to invest our money in the stocks and bonds of Fortune 500 companies, transferring our capital far from where we live and work ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Local Stock Exchanges: The Next Wave of Community Economy Building

    by Michael Shuman, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Michael Shuman asks his audience how many have pension funds, and a fair number of hands go up, then enquires of those who have them, "How many are primarily invested in local business?” Almost no one raises a hand. Why is it that even “the most local ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • The Small-Mart Revolution

    How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition

    by Michael H. Shuman ...
    Defenders of massive multinational chains like Wal-Mart and Fortune 500 big business argue that, like it or not, there is no alternative. Their huge scale and international reach, they claim, make them more efficient and profitable, better able to deliver value, and an uncontested boon for the job market. According to the big boys, locally owned small businesses are simply quaint remnants of the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Security Without War

    A Post-cold War Foreign Policy

    by Michael Shuman, Hal Harvey ...
    The Cold War may be over, but the United States is still practicing Cold War foreign policies. From the Persian Gulf to El Salvador, from Bosnia to Somalia, U.S. policymakers continue to rely on force, threats, arms, and military aid. A fundamental redefinition of national security–beyond war and militarization, beyond bilateralism, beyond sovereign states–is long overdue. In Security Without War, ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Put Your Money Where Your Life Is

    How to Invest Locally Using Self-Directed IRAs and Solo 401(k)s

    by Michael H. Shuman ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 31 min

    "As so many Americans feel powerless to confront a financial system designed to serve the few, Shuman offers us real choices: tools that align our lives with our values. That's power. I love this highly readable, timely, surprising book."-Frances Moore Lappé, author of Daring Democracy and Diet for a Small PlanetAmericans agree on very little these days, but red state conservatives and blue state ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Raising Dough

    The Complete Guide to Financing a Socially Responsible Food Business

    by Elizabeth U ...
    More and more entrepreneurs are using food-based businesses to solve social and environmental problems - and yet the majority of them report that a lack of access to capital prevents them from launching, maintaining, or growing their ventures. Raising Dough is an unprecedented guide to the full range of financing options available to support sustainable food businesses.Raising Dough provides ... Read more

    $22.79 CAD

  • Simply Elegant Flowers With Michael George

    by Michael George, Bob Shuman ...
    New York's premier fashion industry florist, Michael George is known for his signature graphic, modern arrangements that are as popular in Manhattan hotels and storefronts as they are on the pages of Vogue and on the set of Good Morning America. In Simply Elegant Flowers, George shares his secrets for creating these beautiful arrangements as he guides you, season by season, through a year of ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

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    The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys Audiobook

    by Eddie Moore Jr., Ali Michael, Marguerite W. Penick-Parks ...
    Narrated by Benjamin Shuman, Elliot Schiff, George Washington III, Laurel Rankin, Michael Gaines, Monica Pryce, Nicholas Zanotti, Janet Simmons ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 19 min

    Empower black boys to dream, believe, achieveSchools that routinely fail Black boys are not extraordinary. In fact, they are all-too ordinary. If we are to succeed in positively shifting outcomes for Black boys and young men, we must first change the way school is “done.” That’s where the eight in ten teachers who are White women fit in . . . and this urgently needed resource is written ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD