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  • Imperfect Creatures

    by Thomas J. Maine ...
    With her eighteenth birthday on the horizon, Allison Khione has only three goals on her mindGraduate from high schoolProtect her friend from a serial killerConvince her sister she's left the assassin life behindHaving been raised as amage assassin, Allison and her twin brother Dakota grew up in a world of violence and brutality. It was only when they were fourteen years old that they were able to ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Imperfect Creatures

    by Thomas J. Maine ...
    With her eighteenth birthday on the horizon, Allison Khione has only three goals on her mindGraduate from high schoolProtect her friend from a serial killerConvince her sister she's left the assassin life behindRaised in Koros, an orphanage for mage assassins, Allison and her twin finally escaped into the world after fourteen years of brutal training and torment. Reunited with their long-lost ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reforming Social Services in New York City

    How Major Change Happens in Urban Welfare Policies

    by Thomas J. Main ...
    Reforming Social Services in New York City examines efforts across six decades to respond to poverty, joblessness, and homelessness through the establishment and periodic restructuring of the city's Human Resources Administration (HRA) and related social welfare agencies.As Thomas J. Main shows through archival research and interviews with key figures, the HRA has been the focus of several ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Rise of the Alt-Right

    by Thomas J. Main ...
    What is the Alt-Right, and how will it affect America?Donald Trump's election as president in 2016 suddenly brought to prominence a political movement that few in political circles or the mainstream media had paid much attention to: the so-called Alt-Right. Steven Bannon, Trump's campaign manager, was a leading figure in the movement, and the election results seemed to give it a real opportunity ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Rise of Illiberalism

    by Thomas J. Main ...
    How a more positive form of identity politics can restore public trust in governmentIlliberalism, Thomas Main writes, is the basic repudiation of liberal democracy, the very foundation on which the United States rests. Itsays no to electoral democracy, human rights, the rule of law, toleration. It is a political ideology that finds expression in such older right-wing extremist groups as the Ku ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Homelessness in New York City

    Policymaking from Koch to de Blasio

    by Thomas J. Main ...
    Can American cities respond effectively to pressing social problems? Or, as many scholars have claimed, are urban politics so mired in stasis, gridlock and bureaucratic paralysis that dramatic policy change is impossible? Homelessness in New York City tells the remarkable story of how America’s largest city has struggled for more than thirty years to meet the crisis of modern homelessness through ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Methodologies and Applications for Analytical and Physical Chemistry

    Edited by A. K. Haghi, Sabu Thomas, Sukanchan Palit, Priyanka Main ...
    Series series Innovations in Physical Chemistry
    This volume presents an up-to-date review of modern materials and concepts, issues, and recent advances in analytical and physical chemistry. Distinguished scientists and engineers from key institutions worldwide have contributed chapters that provide a deep analysis of their particular subjects. The chapters discuss the composition and properties of complex materials as well as mixtures, ... Read more

    $219.99 CAD

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  • How Propaganda Works

    by Jason Stanley ...
    How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

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  • Postethnic America

    Beyond Multiculturalism

    by David A Hollinger ...
    Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist alternative does nothing to stop the fragmenting of American society into competing ethnic enclaves, each concerned primarily with its own well-being. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Closing of the Liberal Mind

    How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left

    by Kim R. Holmes ...
    A former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and currently Acting Senior Vice President for Research at The Heritage Foundation, Kim R. Holmes surveys the state of liberalism in America today and finds that it is becoming its opposite—illiberalism—abandoning the precepts of open-mindedness and respect for individual rights, liberties, and the rule of law upon which the country was founded, and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Between Race and Reason

    Violence, Intellectual Responsibility, and the University to Come

    by Susan Searls Giroux ...
    Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although we think of "post-civil rights" as representing a colorblind or race transcendent triumphalism in national political discourse, Giroux argues that our present is shaped by persistent "raceless" racism at home and permanent civilizational war abroad. She ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Public Administration and Public Affairs

    by Nicholas Henry ...
    Public Administration and Public Affairs demonstrates how to govern efficiently, effectively, and responsibly in an age of political corruption and crises in public finance. Providing a comprehensive, accessible and humorous introduction to the field of Public Administration, this text is designed specifically for those with little to no background in the field. Now in its 13th edition, this ... Read more

    $274.99 CAD