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  • Training Copilot

    A Journey Toward Promptless AI Collaboration

    by Robert Varga ...
    Most people interact with AI one prompt at a time.Ask a question. Get an answer. Move on.But what happens when the conversation continues?What happens when an AI begins to understand your goals, your projects, your preferences, and the way you think?Training Copilot is a journey into a different way of working with artificial intelligence. Through an evolving partnership between Robert and Nova, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wounded City

    Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio

    by Robert Vargas ...
    In 2009, Chicago spent millions of dollars to create programs to prevent gang violence in some of its most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Yet in spite of the programs, violence has grown worse in some of the very neighborhoods that the violence prevention programs were intented to help. While public officials and social scientists often attribute the violence - and the failure of the programs - to a ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Uninsured in Chicago

    How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind

    by Robert Vargas ...
    Series Book 14 - Latina/o Sociology
    Why millions of Latinx people don’t access the healthcare system, even in times of needMore than a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, around eleven million Latinx citizens around the country remain uninsured. In Uninsured in Chicago, Robert Vargas explores the roots of this crisis, showing us why, despite their eligibility, Latinx people are the racial group least likely to ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • Family Activism

    Empowering Your Community, Beginning with Family and Friends

    by Roberto Vargas ...
    We live in a world that needs radical transformation if our children and grandchildren are to live healthy, peace-filled lives. But where to start? In this inspiring new book, activist Roberto Vargas says the answer lies surprisingly close: at home, with our closest relationships. In our daily lives we experience countless opportunities to empower, inspire, and support positive change in those ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Four Views on Free Will

    by John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, Manuel Vargas ...
    Series series Great Debates in Philosophy
    A lively and engaging debate between four representative views on free will, completely revised and updated with new perspectivesFour Views on Free Will is a robust and careful debate about free will, how it interacts with determinism and indeterminism, and whether we have it or not. Providing the most up-to-date account of four major positions in the free will debate, the second edition of this ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

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  • Domestica

    Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, With a New Preface

    by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ...
    In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context. ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Social Science

    by Alexander Rosenberg ...
    Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, history, and the disciplines emerging at the intersections of these subjects with biology. Philosophy is unavoidable for social scientists because the choices they make in answering ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Dream Hoarders

    How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

    by Richard V. Reeves ...
    Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves is continuing to challenge the class system in America.In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent?we are the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Power and Love

    A Theory and Practice of Social Change

    by Adam Kahane ...
    "A profound book that offers us a wise way to negotiate our toughest group, community, and societal challenges." —William Ury, New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Getting to YesTo try to solve their toughest problems, people either push for what they want at all costs or try to completely avoid conflict. Adam Kahane argues that these two seemingly contradictory approaches are each a reflection ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Science and the Good

    The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality

    by James Davison Hunter, Paul Nedelisky ...
    Series series Foundational Questions in Science
    Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral: "Important and timely."— The Wall Street JournalIn this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The "new moral science" led by such figures as E.O. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Richer Sex

    How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family

    by Liza Mundy ...
    A REVOLUTION IS UNDER WAY.Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. In The Richer Sex, Liza Mundy takes us to the exciting frontier of this new economic order: she shows us why this flip is inevitable, what surprising adjustments will have to be made along the way, and how both men and women will feel surprisingly liberated in the end.The bestselling author and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Solving Tough Problems

    An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities

    by Adam Kahane ...
    Adam Kahane has worked on some of the toughest, most complex problems in the world. He started out as an expert analyst and advisor to corporations and governments, convinced of the need to calculate “the one right answer.” After an unexpected experience in South Africa during the transition away from apartheid, he got involved in facilitating a series of extraordinary high-conflict, high-stakes ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD