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  • State Platform Capitalism

    The United States, China, and the Global Battle for Digital Supremacy

    by Steve Rolf, Seth Schindler ...
    Series series Elements in Reinventing Capitalism
    Global capitalism is being reshaped by two major trends. States have become increasingly interventionist, reshaping their economies in response to crises and geopolitical tensions. Secondly, digital platform giants have emerged from the US and China that concentrate political economic power in private hands. This Element argues that these trends are increasingly symbiotic. Digital platforms are ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Hamlet and Piglet, Plus Three More

    by Rolf Heimann, Steve Wide ...
    Narrated by Katrina Baylis ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Start-ups

    Unabridged

    1 hour 20 min

    Hamlet and Piglet by Rolf Heimann: Piglet is a kitten from the countryside with the reputation of being able to see ghosts. He is taken to the big city to keep a theatre free of rodents and to solve the mystery of the theatre's ghost, Hamlet. Tom by Rolf Heimann: When Tom's future foster-father, Mr Clayton, is curious about why they call the boy a little criminal, Tom explains that his misdeeds ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Transforming Glasgow

    Beyond the Post-Industrial City

    by Venda Louise Pollock, Douglas Robertson, David Baruffati, David MacLeod, Gordon Kennedy, Hugh Kippen, Ellie Murtagh, Larissa Naylor, Rebecca Madgin, James White0, Annette Hastings1, Claire Bynner2, Steve Rolfe3, Paulina Trevena4, Rebecca Kay5, Bruce Whyte6, Mhairi Mackenzie7, Julie Clark8, Mark Livingston9, Iain Docherty0, David Waite1, Stuart Patrick2, Ian Levitt3, Chik Collins4 ...
    Some 30 years after Glasgow turned towards regeneration, indicators of its built environment, its health, its economic performance and its quality of life remain below UK averages. This interdisciplinary study examines the ongoing transformation of Glasgow as it transitioned from a de-industrial to a post-industrial city during the 20th and 21st centuries. Looking at the diverse issues of urban ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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    The Great Hair Robbery, Plus Three More

    by Alan Horsfield, Steve Wide, Josie Montano, Rolf Heimann ...
    Narrated by Katrina Baylis ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Start-ups

    Unabridged

    1 hour 34 min

    The Great Hair Robbery by Alan Horsfield: Just before Christmas, Nellie discovers that someone has stolen everyone's hair. Bad Eggs by Steve Wide: The bad eggs, Eggbert, Rotten, Cracked and Fried, are in town, and they're hassling Omeletta du Champignon! Who's Wheelie the Fastest? by Josie Montano: Scooter, bike, skateboard, or rollerblades...whose wheels are the fastest? A group of kids who live ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    The Bloody Road to Castle Dracula

    Explore the History of Vampires and the Inspiration Behind Bram Stoker's Masterpiece

    by Steven J. Rolfes ...
    Narrated by Steve Marvel ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 3 min

    With the inquisitive heart of an adventurer and the rigor of a scholar, this spellbinding work leads listeners through centuries of dark folklore, lost legends, and the wild inspirations behind Bram Stoker's immortal classic.Volcanic cataclysms, secret aristocratic scandals, mysterious societies, and ominous landscapes all converge to cast their spell. Historian Steven J. Rolfes skillfully ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Digital Empires

    The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

    by Anu Bradford ...
    Financial Times Best Books of 2023 in Economics The global battle among the three dominant digital powers—the United States, China, and the European Union—is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In Digital Empires, her provocative ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • Six Faces of Globalization

    Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters

    by Anthea Roberts, Nicolas Lamp ...
    An essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization, cutting through the complexity to reveal the fault lines that divide us and the points of agreement that might bring us together.Globalization has lifted millions out of poverty. Globalization is a weapon the rich use to exploit the poor. Globalization builds bridges across national ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Progressive Capitalism

    How to Make Tech Work for All of Us

    by Ro Khanna ...
    Congressman Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary, “progressive” (James J. Heckman, Nobel Prize winner and professor of economics at the University of Chicago) roadmap to facing America’s digital divide, offering greater economic prosperity to all. In Khanna’s vision, “just as people can move to technology, technology can move to people” (from the foreword by Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics) ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Platform Socialism

    How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech

    by James Muldoon ...
    'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform CapitalismWhoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom.Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders, these ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Internet for the People

    The Fight for Our Digital Future

    by Ben Tarnoff ...
    **"For all the informational convenience the internet offers, it is deeply flawed. How can it be improved? Writer Ben Tarnoff proposes one possibility in this intriguing book, which urges the development of 'a public lane on the information superhighway.' It's worth checking out for yourself." – Seth MacFarlaneWhy is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it?**In Internet for the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Playing Our Game : Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten The West

    by Edward S. Steinfeld ...
    Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer and borrower of Beijing. The rise of China, many feel, necessarily means the decline of the West--the United States in particular. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. If anything, China's economic emergence is good for America. In this fascinating new book, Steinfeld asserts ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Trafficking Data

    How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty

    by Aynne Kokas ...
    Bronze Award, Axiom Business Book Awards Gold Medalist in Finance/Investing/Economics, Ippy Awards From TikTok and Fortnite to Grindr and Facebook, Aynne Kokas delivers an urgent look into the technology firms that gather our data, and how the Chinese government is capitalizing on this data flow for political gain. On August 6, 2020, the Trump Administration issued a ban on TikTok in the United ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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