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  • Offshore

    Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism

    Series series A Norton Short
    **A Financial Times Best Book of the YearFeatured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and recommended by Anne Applebaum on The Ezra Klein Show“An essential read for our times.” —Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of StrongmenAn eye-opening account of offshore finance: a secretive system making the rich richer while corroding democracy, capitalism, and the environment.**How do the rich keep getting richer, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Capital without Borders

    Wealth Managers and the One Percent

    “A timely account of how the 1% holds on to their wealth…Ought to keep wealth managers awake at night.”—Wall Street Journal“Harrington advises governments seeking to address inequality to focus not only on the rich but also on the professionals who help them game the system.”—Richard Cooper, Foreign Affairs“An insight unlike any other into how wealth management works.”—Felix Martin, New Statesman ... Read more

    $24.89 CAD

  • Pop Finance

    Investment Clubs and the New Investor Populism

    During the 1990s, the United States underwent a dramatic transformation: investing in stocks, once the province of a privileged elite, became a mass activity involving more than half of Americans. Pop Finance follows the trajectory of this new market populism via the rise of investment clubs, through which millions of people across the socioeconomic spectrum became investors for the first time. As ... Read more

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  • Paloma

    Happy Are Those

    Two people from very different backgrounds and circumstances struggle together to find God in a world of random injustice and human evil. Paloma has suffered bitter poverty and neglect as a child and exploitation and addiction as a teen and an adult. John Levi is a lawyer from a privileged, sheltered home who answers the call of God to pastor an inner-city church. Together, Paloma and John Levi ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Mercy, No Justice

    The Dominant Narrative of America versus the Counter-Narrative of Jesus’ Parables

    How can we be just and merciful? Are justice and mercy in conflict? Or are they aspects of the same truth? Christians in America are presented with two conflicting versions of justice and mercy. One version comes from the dominant secular narrative of America. Justice and mercy are contradictions. Mercy is devalued and discouraged. But within the counter narrative of God revealed through Torah, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Beatitudes, Discipleship, and the Justice of God

    The Twelve Steps of Discipleship in the Kingdom of Mercy

    What does Jesus call his disciples to do? To proclaim correct doctrines about Jesus? To avoid sinners and condemn sin? To impose their values and rules upon the wider society? To be supportive of the church? From the experience of almost three decades of work with the poor, the homeless, the crime victim, and the abused child as a lawyer and a United Methodist minister, Brooks Harrington hears ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Offshore

    Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism

    Narrated by Jennifer Walden ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 4 min

    How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world's ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign finance rules, and other laws that get in their way.In Offshore: Stealth ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red Dirt Witch

    A Graphic Novel

    A graphic novel adaptation of #1 New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin’s acclaimed short story “Red Dirt Witch”In this graphic novel adaptation of the #1 New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin’s short story “Red Dirt Witch”—which was featured in the 2018 short story collection *How Long ’Til Black Future Month?—*we are introduced to Emma, a single Black mother of three in a ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Capital Without Borders

    Wealth Managers and the One Percent

    Narrated by Christina Delaine ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 27 min

    How do the ultra-rich keep getting richer, despite taxes on income, capital gains, property, and inheritance?Capital without Borders tackles this tantalizing question through a groundbreaking multi-year investigation of the men and women who specialize in protecting the fortunes of the world's richest people. Brooke Harrington followed the money to the eighteen most popular tax havens in the world ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death, Deeds, and Descendents

    Inheritance in Modern America

    Series series Social Institutions and Social Change Series
    Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal instruments (wills, trusts, insurance policies, gifts inter vivos) and how, in turn, the instrument chosen ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

    "A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A vital, lucid, and enraging read." —Naomi KleinFive mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The subject? How to survive the "Event": the societal collapse they know is coming. Rushkoff argues that these men were under the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Pronoun Trouble

    The Story of Us in Seven Little Words

    With his trademark humor and flair, bestselling linguist John McWhorter busts the myths and shares the history of the most controversial language topic of our times: pronounsThe nature of language is to shift and evolve—but every so often, a new usage creates a whole lot of consternation. These days, pronouns are throwing curveballs, and it matters, because pronoun habits die hard. If you need a ... Read more

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