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  • Getting Through Security

    Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern

    par Mark Maguire, David A. Westbrook ...
    Getting Through Security offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of global security structures. The authors unveil the “secret colleges” of counterterrorism, a world haunted by the knowledge that intelligence will fail, and Leviathan will not arrive quickly enough to save everyone. Based on extensive interviews with both special forces and other security operators who seek to protect the ... En savoir plus

    $79.69 CAD

  • Out of Crisis

    Rethinking Our Financial Markets

    par David A. Westbrook ...
    Former Federal Reserve chair Greenspan recently said that the risk management paradigm is broken; thus our understanding of financial regulation no longer makes sense. More generally, the current financial crisis obliges us to rethink the relationships among "financial markets" and "governments." In Out of Crisis financial analyst David Westbrook illuminates the intellectual, business, and policy ... En savoir plus

    $76.94 CAD

  • Deploying Ourselves

    Islamist Violence, Globalization, and the Responsible Projection of U.S. Force

    par David A. Westbrook ...
    In Deploying Ourselves, David A. Westbrook puts the case for major reform of US national security. He argues that today's national security establishment is outdated and entrenched in a model of defence more befitting the post-World War II Cold War era than today's realities. In a world without military peers, Westbrook argues, the US must re-create its institutions in order to wield influence ... En savoir plus

    $56.33 CAD

  • Between Citizen and State

    An Introduction to the Corporation

    par David A. Westbrook ...
    Between Citizen and State is an intrepid and readable introduction to, and insightful commentary on, the role of the corporation in the modern world. Corporate actors have typical motivations, opportunities, temptations - they are characters, and their interactions follow familiar plotlines. Part I, Background, introduces the characters and their context. Part II, Internal Struggles, explains ... En savoir plus

    $147.02 CAD

  • City of Gold

    An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent

    par David A. Westbrook ...
    David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life. ... En savoir plus

    $97.55 CAD

  • Social Thought From the Ruins

    Quixote’s Dinner Party

    par David A. Westbrook ...
    Collections series A New Order of Social Things
    Through stories, conversations, and essays, this book pursues interwoven critical and philosophical inquiries into the nature of the contemporary in the North Atlantic, asking how are we to live as intellectuals, individually and in community?Social Thought From the Ruins: Quixote’s Dinner Party is the product of informal discussion and academic work done over the last two decades among an ... En savoir plus

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  • Don't Count on It!

    Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, "Mutual" Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism, and Heroes

    par John C. Bogle ...
    Praise for Don't Count On It!"This collection of Jack Bogle's writings couldn't be more timely. The clarity of his thinking—and his insistence on the relevance of ethical standards—are totally relevant as we strive to rebuild a broken financial system. For too many years, his strong voice has been lost amid the cacophony of competing self-interests, misdirected complexity, and unbounded greed. ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Unspeak

    How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality

    par Steven Poole ...
    "A sharply articulated, well-documented expos of the political and economic manipulation of language . . . Fans of Orwell, take heart."— Kirkus ReviewsWhat do the phrases "pro-life," "intelligent design," and "the war on terror" have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Money Problem

    Rethinking Financial Regulation

    par Morgan Ricks ...
    An "intriguing plan" addressing shadow banking, regulation, and the continuing quest for financial stability ( Financial Times).Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central questions remain unanswered. Should money creation be considered a "public" or "private" activity—or both? What do we ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Bring 'Em On

    Media and Politics in the Iraq War

    par Douglas Kellner, Heinz Brandenburg, Lisa Brooten, Elisia L. Cohen, Timothy M. Cole, Prof. Christian Fuchs, Mike Gasher, William B. Hart0, Fran Hassencahl1, Adel Iskandar2, Liz Jacka3, Andrew Jakubowicz4, Sue Curry Jansen5, Robert Jensen6, Matthew A. Killmeier7, Debra Merskin8, Tanja Thomas9, Fabian Virchow0 ...
    Collections series Communication, Media, and Politics
    How were the American people prepared for the war on Iraq? How have political agents and media gatekeepers sought to develop public support for the first preventive war of the modern age? Bring 'Em On highlights the complex links between media and politics, analyzing how communication practices are modified in times of crisis to protect political interests or implement political goals. ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • Our Wound is Not So Recent

    Thinking the Paris Killings of 13 November

    par Alain Badiou ...
    On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How are we to make sense of these violent acts and what do they tell us about the forces shaping our world today?In this short book the influential philosopher Alain Badiou argues that while these violent events are commonly portrayed as acts of Islamic ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Violent Geographies

    Fear, Terror, and Political Violence

    Modifié par Derek Gregory, Allan Pred ...
    "Violent Geographies is essential to understanding how the politics of fear, terror, and violence in being largely hidden geographically can only be exposed in like manner. The 'War on Terror' finally receives the coolly critical analysis its ritual invocation has long required."—John Agnew, Professor of Geography, UCLA"Urgent, passionate and deeply humane, Violent Geographies is uncomfortable but ... En savoir plus

    $118.99 CAD