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  • Radical Hamilton

    Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder

    by Christian Parenti ...
    ALEXANDER HAMILTON AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE: This bold, revisionist biography of the polarizing Founding Father reframes the founding of the United States and the history of capitalism.“Wide-ranging, carefully researched, and forcefully written.” —Alan Taylor, author of Thomas Jefferson's EducationIn retelling the story of the radical Alexander Hamilton, Parenti rewrites the history early ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Tropic of Chaos

    Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence

    by Christian Parenti ...
    From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure.In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Soft Cage

    Surveillance in America, From Slavery to the War on Terror

    by Christian Parenti ...
    On a typical day, you might make a call on a cell phone, withdraw money at an ATM, visit the mall, and make a purchase with a credit card. Each of these routine transactions leaves a digital trail for government agencies and businesses to access. As cutting-edge historian and journalist Christian Parenti points out, these everyday intrusions on privacy, while harmless in themselves, are part of a ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of XXVI AIMETA Conference 2024

    Edited by Massimiliano Fraldi, Cristian Marchioli, Maria Grazia Naso, Vincenzo Parenti Castelli, Luciano Rosati ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the XXVI Conference of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA), held in Naples, Italy, on September 2–6, 2024. The conference topics encompass all aspects of general, fluid, solid, and structural mechanics, as well as mechanics for machines and mechanical systems, including theoretical, computational, and ... Read more

    $358.99 CAD

  • Capitalist Punishment

    Prison Privatization and Human Rights

    by Alex Friedman ...
    Over 100,000 people in the U.S. are incarcerated in prisons owned and operated by private corporations--a booming business. But how are the human rights of prisoners and prison employees affected when prisons are run for profit? An accomplished group of human rights writers and activists explores the historical, political and economic context of private prisons: * How are prisoners' lives ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Big Fail

    What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind

    by Joe Nocera, Bethany McLean ...
    From the collaborators behind the modern business classic All the Devils are Here comes a damning indictment of American capitalism—and the leaders that left us brutally unprepared for a global pandemicIn 2020, the novel coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear that the U.S. could not adequately protect its citizens. Millions of Americans suffered—and over a million died—in less than two years ... Read more

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  • Alexander Hamilton and the Battle of Yorktown, October 1781

    The Winning of American Independence

    by Phillip Thomas Tucker ...
    Discover the little-known role Alexander Hamilton played in the decisive battle of the American Revolution: Yorktown.Alexander Hamilton and the Battle of Yorktown, October 1781 is the first book in nearly two and a half centuries that has ever been devoted to the story of Alexander Hamilton’s key contributions in winning the most decisive victory the of the American Revolutionary war at Yorktown. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Legacy of Violence

    A History of the British Empire

    by Caroline Elkins ...
    From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globeSprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century ... Read more

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  • Arriving Today

    From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

    by Christopher Mims ...
    Shortlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Current Events & Public AffairsThe Wall Street Journal technology columnist reveals the fascinating story behind the misleadingly simple phrase shoppers take for granted—“Arriving Today”—in this eye-opening investigation into the new rules of online commerce, transportation, and supply chain management.We are at a tipping point in retail ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • In Search of a Kingdom

    Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    “FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceIn this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus reveals the singular adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history.“Entrancing . . . Very good indeed.” —Wall Street JournalBefore he was ... Read more

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  • Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door

    How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator

    by Martha Stout Ph.D. ...
    From Dr. Martha Stout’s influential work The Sociopath Next Door, we learned how to identify a sociopath. Now she tells us what we actually can do about it.“Mandatory reading on how to effectively deal with sociopaths before you get hurt.”—Joe Navarro, former FBI special agent and the author of Dangerous PersonalitiesWhile the best way to deal with a sociopath is to avoid him or her entirely, ... Read more

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  • Brazil: A Biography

    by Lilia M. Schwarcz, Heloisa M. Starling ...
    A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the presentFor many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it remains largely unknown.In an extraordinary ... Read more

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