Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 82 results for “philip howard”
Skip side bar filters

  • Everyday Freedom

    Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    "America is in a self-reinforcing spiral of decreasing trust, confidence, and capability. [Howard] shows us how to break out of it . . . short, clear, passionate." —Jonathan Haidt, New York Times-bestselling author of The Righteous MindSomething basic is missing in our culture. Americans know it. Nothing much works as it should. Simple daily choices seem impossible, or fraught with peril. In the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Scottish Shorts

    Edited by Philip Howard ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A collection of nine very different short plays by three remarkable generations of Scottish writers, selected and introduced by Philip Howard, Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, from 1996-2007.Mostly with casts of two or three, these plays are especially well suited to performance in studio theatres and at festivals.Snuff by Davey Anderson. Back from Iraq, Billy is in no mood ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Square: Sweet

    by Philip Howard ...
    The second volume of the extraordinary work from two-Michelin-star chef, Philip Howard that began with The Square: The Cookbook Volume 1: Savoury. Regarded amongst his peers as one of the world's great culinary artists, his lifetime of dedication and creativity has gone into writing this monumental work of gastronomic creativity and technical expertise. The Square: The Cookbook Volume 2: Sweet ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Death of Common Sense

    How Law Is Suffocating America

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense. Here Howard offers nothing less than a fresh, lucid, practical operating system for modern democracy. ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • The Square: Savoury

    by Philip Howard ...
    There are some books we publish which, from the outset, you know are going to be special. This was true of this exciting book from Philip Howard: a collection of recipes from his restaurant, The Square. We knew we wouldn't be able do the recipes justice in one volume, so it became two - a first volume, Savoury, followed by Sweet. We knew we couldn't limit it to the conventional two pages per ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Not Accountable

    Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    "Elected leaders come and go, but public unions just say no." Hiding in plain sight is a fatal defect of modern democracy. Public employee unions have a death grip on the operating machinery of government. Schools can't work, bad cops can't be fired, and politicians sell their souls for union support.With this searing five-point indictment, Philip K. Howard argues that union controls have ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Rule of Nobody

    Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: “What’s the right thing to do?”What’s wrong in Washington is deeper than you think.Yes, there’s gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive. It’s a broken governing system. From that comes wasteful government, rising debt, failing schools, expensive health care, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Concentration and Power in the Food System

    Who Controls What We Eat?

    by Professor Philip H. Howard ...
    Series series Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics
    Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control our food supply. Just how concentrated has this system become? At almost every key stage of the food system, four firms alone control 40% or more of the market, a level above which these companies have the power to drive up prices for consumers and reduce their rate of innovation. Researchers have ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Collapse of the Common Good

    How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    In pursuit of fairness at any cost, we have created a society paralyzed by legal fear: Doctors are paranoid and principals powerless. Little league coaches, scared of liability, stop volunteering. Schools and hospitals start to crumble. The common good fades, replaced by a cacophony of people claiming their “individual rights.”By turns funny and infuriating, this startling book dissects the dogmas ... Read more

    Was $7.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Saving Can-Do

    How to Revive the Spirit of America

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    Frustration with government is widespread, but neither party has a vision for making things work sensibly. In Saving Can-Do, Philip K. Howard shows how to revive our freedom to roll up our sleeves and act like Americans again.All societies periodically undergo a major shift in the social order. America is at one of those moments of change, but neither political party is offering a vision for ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Lie Machines

    How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives

    by Philip N. Howard ...
    Technology is breaking politics 'Äì what can be done about it?Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies that misdirect our attention, poison our political ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Handbook of Environmental Fate and Exposure Data For Organic Chemicals, Volume V

    by Philip H. Howard ...
    In order to assess the health and environmental effects of a chemical, you need to determine the exposure of the chemical to sensitive organisms as well as to assess the likely effects. The chemicals in Volume V of the Handbook of Environmental Fate and Exposure Data for Organic Chemicals set are mostly solvents and cover many of the natural products and hydrochlorofluorocarbons and ... Read more

    $419.13 CAD