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  • Twenty-three and a half hours' leave

    Enriched edition. Love, Sacrifice & the Turbulent Era of War: A Historical Fiction Journey

    by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kelsey Bates ...
    In "Twenty-three and a Half Hours' Leave," Mary Roberts Rinehart masterfully weaves a narrative that explores themes of love, sacrifice, and the fleeting nature of time against the backdrop of World War I. The novella is characterized by Rinehart's deft use of suspense and her ability to blend humor with poignant moments, encapsulating the anxieties and hopes of soldiers and their loved ones. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why We Can't Stop Caring

    Greater Intent, #1

    by Robert Bates ...
    Series Book 1 - Greater Intent
    Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate like an economy. Every experience, relationship, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why We Can't Stop Caring.

    How To Value What You Feel - And Why It Might Just Change Everything.

    by Robert Bates ...
    Series Book 1 - Greater Intent
    Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate like an economy. Every experience, relationship, ... Read more

    $7.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Analytic Narratives

    by Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Barry R. Weingast ...
    Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose a way of extracting ... Read more

    $84.69 CAD

  • Open-Economy Politics

    The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Coffee is traded in one of the few international markets ever subject to effective political regulation. In Open-Economy Politics, Robert Bates explores the origins, the operations, and the collapse of the International Coffee Organization, an international "government of coffee" that was formed in the 1960s. In so doing, he addresses key issues in international political economy and comparative ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Markets and States in Tropical Africa

    The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. Examining the origins of Africa’s "growth tragedy," Markets and States in Tropical Africa has for decades shaped the thinking of practitioners and scholars alike. Robert H. Bates’s analysis now faces a challenge, however: the revival of economic ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • When Things Fell Apart

    State Failure in Late-Century Africa

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order and the foundations of the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • When Things Fell Apart

    State Failure in Late-Century Africa

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order, and the foundations of the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Development Dilemma

    Security, Prosperity, and a Return to History

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Reassessing the developing world through the lens of Europe's pastToday’s developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second World War. Only a handful of these countries have subsequently attained a level of prosperity and security comparable to that of the advanced industrial world. The implication is clear: those who study the developing world in order to learn how development can be ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Why We Can't Stop Caring

    How To Value What You Feel - And Why It Might Just Change Everything

    by Robert Bates ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Eric E, Digital Voice River E, Digital Voice Bob E ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Greater Intent

    Unabridged

    5 hours 33 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Why We Can't Stop CaringLooking at What You Value and How It Changes EverythingWhy do some moments stay with us for years while others disappear almost instantly?Why can one conversation change the course of a life while a thousand others leave no trace?Why We Can't Stop Caring explores a simple but powerful idea: our emotional lives already operate ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Africa's Development in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James Robinson ...
    This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave trade, colonialism, Africa in the world economy, and culture's influence on accumulation and investment. Several of the ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Carneiro

    The Concise Evolutionary Essays

    Edited by Robert Bates Graber ...
    Robert L. Carneiro is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in anthropology in the twentieth century, best known for “A Theory of the Origin of the State” (1970). His efforts throughout his career brought cultural evolutionism from its nineteenth-century origins into the twenty-first century. This book is comprised of thirteen essays, ordered and balanced according to Carneiro’s ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD