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  • Borderless Economics

    Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism

    by Robert Guest ...
    An editor for The Economist looks at how international diasporas are accelerating and diversifying the flow of ideas, technology, and wealth, improving lives across the globe.A century ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call—or Skype—home the moment their flight has landed, and that's just the beginning. Thanks to cheap travel and easy ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Watchdogs and Whistleblowers

    A Reference Guide to Consumer Activism

    Edited by Stephen Brobeck, Robert N. Mayer ...
    This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of information about ways in which consumer activism has reshaped the economic and political well-being of citizens in the United States and around the world.This all-encompassing collection of information about consumer activism and the consumer movement will provide students, public officials, business groups, and other activists with a ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • The Foreman on the Assembly Line

    by Charles R. Walker, Robert H. Guest, Arthur N. Turner ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Automobile Industry
    As part of a 1950s study dealing with various phases of the impact of mass production on human behaviour, this volume, originally published in 1956 and now a classic of its time examines the technological environment and the foreman within management, from the foreman's point of view. The book presents case-history material, but behind this presentation and controlling it are broad concepts, one ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Killing the American Dream

    How Anti-Immigration Extremists Are Destroying the Nation

    by Pilar Marrero ...
    As the US deports record numbers of illegal immigrants and local and state governments scramble to pass laws resembling dystopian police states where anyone can be questioned and neighbors are encouraged to report on one another, violent anti-immigration rhetoric is growing across the nation. Against this tide of hysteria, Pilar Marrero reveals how damaging this rise in malice toward immigrants is ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    Why Things Catch On

    by Jonah Berger ...
    The New York Times bestseller that explains why certain products and ideas become popular.“Jonah Berger knows more about what makes information ‘go viral’ than anyone in the world.” —Daniel Gilbert, author of the bestseller Stumbling on HappinessWhat makes things popular? If you said advertising, think again. People don’t listen to advertisements, they listen to their peers. But why do people talk ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Citizen

    An American Lyric

    by Claudia Rankine ...
    * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. L... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Icons and Idiots

    Straight Talk on Leadership

    by Bob Lutz ...
    When Bob Lutz retired from General Motors in 2010, after an unparalleled forty-seven-year career in the auto industry, he was one of the most respected leaders in American business. He had survived all kinds of managers over those decades: tough and timid, analytical and irrational, charismatic and antisocial, and some who seemed to shift frequently among all those traits. His experiences made him ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Japan Restored

    How Japan Can Reinvent Itself and Why This Is Important for America and the World

    by Clyde Prestowitz ...
    In Japan Restored, New York Times bestselling author Clyde Prestowitz envisions post-bubble Japan in the year 2050, when the country's economic prosperity will have made it a world leader in every area.In 1979, the book Japan as Number One: Lessons for America by Harvard University professor Ezra Vogel caused a sensation in the United States by pointing out that Japan was surpassing America as ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Why She Buys

    The New Strategy for Reaching the World's Most Powerful Consumers

    by Bridget Brennan ...
    If the consumer economy had a sex, it would be female.If the business world had a sex, it would be male.And therein lies the pickle.Women are the engine of the global economy, driving 80 percent of consumer spending in the United States alone. They hold the purse strings, and when they’ve got a tight grip on them as they do now, companies must be shrewder than ever to win them over. Just when ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Citizenship

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Richard Bellamy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen of a modern, complex community? Why is citizenship important? Can we create citizenship, and can we test for it? In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, Richard Bellamy explores the answers to these questions and more in a clear and accessible way. He approaches the subject from a political perspective, to ... Read more

    $4.79 CAD

  • Jews, Confucians, and Protestants

    Cultural Capital and the End of Multiculturalism

    by Lawrence E. Harrison ...
    Multiculturalism—the belief that no culture is better or worse than any other; it is merely different—has come to dominate Western intellectual thought and to serve as a guide to domestic and foreign policy and development aid. But what if multiculturalism itself is flawed? What if some cultures are more prone to progress than others and more successful at creating the cultural capital that ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • I Spend Therefore I Am

    How We All Became Economic

    by Philip Roscoe ...
    A powerful exploration of how economic thinking has infiltrated every aspect of modern life, even our understanding of who we are and what it means to be a person.Economics is the academic success story of the 20th century, a potent force not just in markets and government, but in our everyday lives. It affects our decisions as consumers, of course, but also our education, our health, our social ... Read more

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