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  • Britain’s Cold War

    Culture, Modernity and the Soviet Threat

    by Nicholas Barnett ...
    The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the US and Soviet administrations have since remarked how far off the mark their predictions of the other's strengths and aims were. Yet so much of the cultural output of the period – in television, film, and literature – was concerned with the end of the ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

  • Why Purpose Matters

    And How It Can Transform Your Organisation

    by Nicholas Barnett, Rodney Howard ...
    Each of us has a desperate yearning for meaning and purpose but very few of us find it or are able to live it out in the organisations we work for. This book explains the process organisations go through to discover their purpose and then through an authentic and sustained leadership commitment embed it into their culture and make it their new way of organisational life. Ultimately, this book is ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cultural Encounters in the Age of Globalism

    1945 to the Present

    by Nicholas J. Barnett ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This textbook examines encounters between different cultures during the Global Age, outlining their historical, social, political, and economic contexts. Based around themes including tourism, migration, protest, display of cultures, and the examination of ‘mega-events’ like the Olympics, the book explores the ways in which people were able to experience other cultures from 1945 onwards. The ... Read more

    $57.69 CAD

  • The Clinical Witness

    Conflict, Catastrophe and Medical Testimony

    Edited by Nicolas Barnett, Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams ...
    This unique, interdisciplinary book critically examines the important roles that witness accounts from healthcare professionals have played in testifying to historical instances of genocide, mass killing, epidemic disease, and natural disaster over the past century. Knowledge and perceptions of many major disasters – natural and human-made – have been shaped by witness accounts provided by doctors ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Wisdom in the University

    Edited by Ronald Barnett, Nicholas Maxwell ...
    This provocative and challenging book questions how people think about what universities should seek to do and how they should respond to the grave problems of our age. It addresses issues such as:What is wisdom?Ought universities to seek, promote and teach wisdom and what would this involve?Does it mean we need a revolution in the aims and methods of academic inquiry?What imp... ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

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    The Phoenix Elite

    Sacred Blood

    by C.T. Clark ...
    Narrated by Greg D Barnett, Carrie Brewer, Nicholas Corda, David S Dear, Daryl Mayfield, Robb Moreira, Sandra Murphy, Keong Sim, Ken Teutsch, Tristan Wright, Sophie Zmorrod ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Phoenix Elite: Genesis Saga

    Unabridged

    10 hours 52 min

    Adam Eberhardt has always felt different, but he never would’ve guessed he was a clone of Albert Einstein. Science geeks don't usually live inside the body of a hulk. A brain that never shuts off can be a blessing or a curse, but Adam hasn’t felt many blessings during his sleepless nights, regular victims of his severe anxiety disorder. Weaving through harrowing childhood memories, science ... Read more

    $28.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silchester: The Landscape Setting of the Iron Age Oppidum and Roman City

    From the Neolithic to the Middle Ages

    by Michael Fulford, Catherine Barnett, Nicholas Pankhurst, Daniel Wheeler ...
    Silchester: The Landscape Setting of the Iron Age Oppidum and Roman City is the definitive report on the Silchester Environs Project, which combined extensive fieldwork and prospection to examine the Iron Age hinterland of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester), its settlement pattern, economy and development. The landscape setting of the Iron Age oppidum and Roman city of Calleva was initially explored ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Just Intervention

    by Terry Nardin, Nicholas Onuf, Simon Chesterman, Sohail Hashmi, Thomas G. Weiss, Amir Pasic, Richard Caplan, Martin L. Cook, Julie Mertus, Michael Barnett, Nicholas Wheeler ...
    Series series Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs series
    What obligations do nations have to protect citizens of other nations? As responsibility to our fellow human beings and to the stability of civilization over many years has ripened fully into a concept of a "just war," it follows naturally that the time has come to fill in the outlines of the realities and boundaries of what constitutes "just" humanitarian intervention.Even before the world ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Rus Slater ...
    Series series Collins Business Secrets
    The people management secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of People ManagementIncludes how to:• Build a business-like relationships with your direct reports• Set clear targets and monitor them• Understand different personality types and how to manage them• Deliver criticism and compliments in the right way• Mentor your ... Read more

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  • Fear

    An Alternative History of the World

    by Robert Peckham ...
    'Extraordinary' Ai Weiwei'Brilliant' Simon SchamaFear has long been a driving force - perhaps the driving force - of world history: a coercive tool of power and a catalyst for radical change. Here, Robert Peckham traces its transformative role over a millennium, from fears of famine and war to anxieties over God, disease, technology and financial crises.In a landmark global history that ranges ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

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  • What about Me?

    the struggle for identity in a market-based society

    by Paul Verhaeghe ...
    Translated by Jane Hedley-Prole ...
    According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today’s pay-for-performance mentality is turning institutions such as schools, universities, and hospitals into businesses — even ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Great Experiment

    Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    **One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer“[A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else, should read this book.” —Anne Applebaum**“A convincing, humane, and hopeful guide to the present and future by one of our foremost democratic thinkers.” —George Packer“A rare thing: [an] academic treatise . . . that may actually ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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