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  • Psychiatric Ethics in Late-Life Patients

    Medicolegal and Forensic Aspects at the Interface of Mental Health

    Edited by Meera Balasubramaniam, Aarti Gupta, Rajesh R. Tampi ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The process of aging is frequently associated with changes in the physical and mental functioning of older adults, challenging their autonomy and rendering them vulnerable to exploitation. Certain illnesses that are more common in older adults can affect their capacity to function independently. These include the capacity to make medical decisions, live independently, manage finances, to name a ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Transparency in Global Environmental Governance

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Aarti Gupta, Michael Mason ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    A critical assessment of whether transparency is a broadly transformative force in global environmental governance or plays a more limited role.Transparency—openness, secured through greater availability of information—is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of economic, political, and ethical problems in an interconnected world. The “transparency turn” in global ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • The Environment and International Relations

    by Kate O'Neill ...
    Series series Themes in International Relations
    The new edition of this exciting textbook introduces students to the ways in which the theories and tools of international relations and other social science disciplines can be used to analyse and address global environmental problems. Kate O'Neill develops an innovative historical and analytical framework for understanding global environmental issues, integrating insights from different ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Introducing Globalization

    Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration

    by Matthew Sparke ...
    Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, inviting them to become participants rather than just passive learners.Identifies and explores the major economic, political and social ties that comprise contemporary global interdependencyExamines a broad sweep of topics, from the rise of ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism

    by Colin Crouch ...
    The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off this challenge. The reason is that while neo liberalism seems to be about free markets, in practice it is concerned with the dominance over public life ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Academia, Inc.

    How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities

    by Jamie Brownlee ...
    Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s higher education system.Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • How Numbers Rule the World

    The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    Series series Economic Controversies
    Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers?In How Numbers Rule the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Entrepreneurial Society

    A Reform Strategy for the European Union

    by Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, Mark Sanders ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access book builds on the European Union’s (EU) Horizon 2020 project ‘Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society’ (FIRES). The authors outline how Europe can move towards more inclusive, innovative and sustainable growth through reforms that will rekindle its entrepreneurial spirit. Based on decades of research and countless discussions with stakeholders, the book ... Read more

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  • Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

    The Innovation Economy and Society Nexus

    by G. Bruce Doern, David Castle, Peter Phillips ...
    Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy presents new critical analysis about related developments in the field such as significantly changed concepts of peer review, merit review, the emergence of big data in the digital age, and the rise of an economy and society dominated by the internet and information.The authors scrutinize the different ways in which federal and provincial ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Marketcraft

    How Governments Make Markets Work

    by Steven K. Vogel ...
    Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously or evolve naturally. Rather they are crafted by individuals, firms, and most of all, by governments. Thus "marketcraft" represents a core function of government comparable to statecraft and requires considerable artistry to govern markets effectively. Just as real-world statecraft can be masterful or muddled, so it is with marketcraft. In Marketcraft, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Governing through Goals

    Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation

    Edited by Norichika Kanie, Frank Biermann ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier Millennium Development Goals, but they also signaled a larger ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Private Authority

    Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance

    by Jessica F. Green ...
    Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of private authority--one in which states delegate authority to private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors generate their own rules ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD