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  • The Dictator's Handbook

    Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

    by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith ...
    “A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority.” —Wall Street JournalBruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fishers and Plunderers

    Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea

    by Alastair Couper, Hance D. Smith, Bruno Ciceri ...
    Abuses and slavery at sea are largely missing from narratives of work and environmental exploitation in the mainstream. This book shines a light on the exploitation of fish and fishers alike in a global industry driven by profits.Conservation and human rights in this industry are huge problems: with vast overprovision of vessels and shortages of fish, labour costs are targeted and young men are ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spoils of War

    Greed, Power, and the Conflicts That Made Our Greatest Presidents

    by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith ...
    Two eminent political scientists show that America's great conflicts, from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror, were fought not for ideals, or even geopolitical strategy, but for the individual gain of the presidents who waged them.It's striking how many of the presidents Americans venerate-Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, to name a few-oversaw ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Neurocomputational Models Of Cognitive Development And Processing - Proceedings Of The 14th Neural Computation And Psychology Workshop

    by Alastair Smith, Padraic Monaghan, Katherine Twomey, Gert Westermann ...
    Series Book 22 - Progress In Neural Processing
    This volume presents peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW14), which took place in July 2014 at Lancaster University, UK. The workshop draws international attendees from the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research in psychology, computational modeling, artificial intelligence and psychology, and aims to drive forward our ... Read more

    $137.49 CAD

  • Study Guide for the Life in the UK Test 2025 Digital Edition

    The essential study guide for the British citizenship test

    by Henry Dillon ...
    The digital edition of the leading independent series includes the complete testable materials from Life in the United Kingdom: A Guide for New Residents, the official Home Office materials.Passing the Life in the UK test is a compulsory requirement for anyone wanting to live permanently in Britain or become a British citizen. This practical study guide makes preparing for the test a lot easier. ... Read more

    $14.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Blue Remembered Earth

    by Alastair Reynolds ...
    Narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith ...
    Series series Poseidon's Children

    Unabridged

    21 hours 44 min

    BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history … out beyond the solar system, into interstellar space and the dawn of galactic society.One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Dictator's Handbook

    Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

    by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith ...
    Narrated by Dan Woren ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 38 min

    “A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority.” —Wall Street JournalBruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Anticipating Instability

    Assessing and Removing Risks Before They Happen

    by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, Alastair Smith ...
    A theory of politics that looks at what did not happen—or non-events—to explain policy change, economic development, democratization, and “autocratization.”Anticipating Instability puts forward a general theory of politics that attempts to explain the very many destabilizing political events in history that did not happen. Although most of us do not pay close attention to what did not occur, ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • The Logic of Political Survival

    by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, James D. Morrow ...
    The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who produce peace and prosperity turned out of office while those who preside over corruption, war, and misery endure? Considering this political puzzle, they also answer the related economic question of why some countries experience successful economic development and others do not. The authors construct ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Social Work and the Visual Imagination

    Seeing with the Mind's Eye

    Edited by Lynn Froggett, Julian Manley, Martin Smith, Alastair Roy ...
    Images are inscribed in the memory more easily than words, and some remain with the viewer for a lifetime. Combining hindsight, insight and foresight, the chapters in this book turn a spotlight onto various aspects of health, social work and socially engaged arts practice. The visual imagination is evoked in this book to help practitioners see beneath the surface of contentious and problematic ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Study Guide for the Life in the UK Test: 2024 Digital Edition

    The essential study guide for the British citizenship test

    by Henry Dillon ...
    The digital edition of the leading independent series includes the complete testable materials from Life in the United Kingdom: A Guide for New Residents, the official Home Office materials.Passing the Life in the UK test is a compulsory requirement for anyone wanting to live permanently in Britain or become a British citizen. This practical study guide makes preparing for the test a lot easier. ... Read more

    $14.42 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life in the UK Test: Practice Questions 2025 Digital Edition

    Questions and answers for the British citizenship test

    by Henry Dillon ...
    Featuring more than 475 questions based on Life in the United Kingdom: A guide for new residents, the official Home Office materials, Life in the UK Test: Practice Questions 2025 Digital Edition is the ideal study companion for anyone taking the Life in the UK test.Passing the Life in the UK test is a compulsory requirement for anyone wanting to live permanently in Britain or become a British ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus