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  • Dispatches from Mormon Zion

    by Ryan W. Davis ...
    In today's deeply divided world, how can people find common ground with each other?One of the earliest goals of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was to build a modern Zion—a community where people would share one heart and one mind. That vision raises questions that are profoundly relevant in today's divided society. Is unity of feeling and belief desirable or even possible? If so, ... Read more

    $31.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Questioning Beneficence

    Four Philosophers on Effective Altruism and Doing Good

    by Samuel Arnold, Jason F. Brennan, Richard Yetter Chappell, Ryan W. Davis ...
    Effective Altruism is a movement and a philosophy that has reinvigorated the debate about the nature of beneficence. At base, it is the consistent application of microeconomic principles to beneficent action. The movement has exposed that many forms of giving do little good (or do active harm), but others do tremendous good.Questioning Beneficence uses Effective Altruism as a launch pad to ask ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Why It's OK to Own a Gun

    by Ryan W. Davis ...
    Series series Why It's OK
    Why It’s OK to Own a Gun explores the right to self-defense, but also looks beyond it to what gun ownership fundamentally means in American life. Guns can provide a source of meaning that doesn’t depend on how much money you have or how important your job is. Guns can offer a sense of shared identity that’s not hung up on intellectual credentials or ideological orthodoxy. For many responsible gun ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • Against Democracy

    by Jason Brennan, Jason Brennan ...
    A bracingly provocative challenge to one of our most cherished ideas and institutionsMost people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us—it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more caring for one ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

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  • The Gender of Crime

    by Dana M. Britton, Shannon K. Jacobsen, Grace E. Howard ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime—from defining what crime is to governing how crime is punished. The second edition of this award-winning book maintains the accessible, reader-friendly narrative of the first edition with key updates and new material throughout, including increased focus on the intersections of race, class, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Butterfly Politics

    by Catharine A. MacKinnon ...
    The minuscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects. In this timely and provocative book, Catharine A. MacKinnon argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Basic Concepts in Criminology

    Handbook for Law Enforcement Personnel (Police, Corrections and Security Officers)

    by Asongwe N. Thomas ...
    Basic Concepts in Criminology is an introduction to criminology. It is intended to serve as resource material for prospective students of criminology and particularly for law enforcement officers in training and in the field. Criminology as a social science discipline is structured from a combination of concepts of sociology, psychology, and lawall relevant subjects to the law enforcement ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Punishing the Poor

    The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

    by Loïc Wacquant, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive “workfare” and expansive “prisonfare” under a philosophy of moral ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Anatomy of Racial Inequality

    With a New Preface

    by Glenn C. Loury ...
    Series series The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
    “Paints in chilling detail the distance between Martin Luther King’s dream and the reality of present-day America.”—Anthony Walton, Harper’s“Intellectually rigorous and deeply thoughtful…Loury’s book deals with racial stigma…in its political and philosophical aspects as a cause of black disadvantage…An incisive, erudite book by a major thinker.”—Gerald Early, New York Times Book Review“Lifts and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Poverty of Privacy Rights

    by Khiara M. Bridges ...
    The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy.The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of governmental power without limits. Courts have routinely upheld the constitutionality of privacy ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Sex Is as Sex Does

    Governing Transgender Identity

    by Paisley Currah ...
    ***Winner, Sexuality and Politics Book Award - American Political Science AssociationFinalist, PROSE Award - Government and Politics*What the evolving fight for transgender rights reveals about government power, regulations, and the law**Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for sex ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • N*gga Theory

    Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    by Jody David Armour ...
    "A MUST-READ FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING AND DISMANTLING MASS INCARCERATION." —Chesa Boudin, District Attorney of San Francisco America's criminal justice system is among the deadliest and most racist in the world and it disproportionately targets Black Americans, who are also disproportionately poor, hungry, houseless, jobless, sick, and poorly educated. By every metric of misery, this ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD