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  • The Critique of Commodification

    Contours of a Post-Capitalist Society

    by Christoph Hermann ...
    In recent years activists around the globe have challenged the commodification of water, education, health care, and other essential goods, while academics have warned from unintended effects when everything can be bought and sold. But what is commodification? And what is the problem with commodification? In The Critique of Commodification, Christoph Hermann argues that commodification entails ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time

    by Christoph Hermann ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    John Maynard Keynes expected that around the year 2030 people would only work 15 hours a week. In the mid-1960s, Jean Fourastié still anticipated the introduction of the 30-hour week in the year 2000, when productivity would continue to grow at an established pace. Productivity growth slowed down somewhat in the 1970s and 1980s, but rebounded in the 1990s with the spread of new information and ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Privatization of Public Services

    Impacts for Employment, Working Conditions, and Service Quality in Europe

    Edited by Christoph Hermann, Jörg Flecker ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency, much less attention has been paid to the impacts of liberalization and privatization on employment, labor relations, and working conditions. This book ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

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    Steppenwolf

    by Hermann Hesse, Hermann Hesse ...
    Narrated by Christopher Saylor ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 59 min

    Steppenwolf (originally Der Steppenwolf) is the tenth novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse. Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929. The novel was named after the German name for the steppe wolf. The story in large part reflects a profound crisis in Hesse's spiritual world during the 1920s. Steppenwolf was wildly popular and has been a perpetual ... Read more

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    Siddartha

    by Hermann Hesse, Hermann Hesse ...
    Narrated by Christopher Saylor ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 35 min

    Siddhartha is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's 9th novel, was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. The story takes place in the ancient Nepalese kingdom of Kapilavastu. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Electoral Shocks

    The Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World

    by Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans, Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, Hermann Schmitt, Cees van der Eijk ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Electoral Shocks: The Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World offers a novel perspective on British elections, focusing on the role of electoral shocks in the context of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    The Glass Bead Game

    by Hermann Hesse ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 16 min

    The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literatureSet in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow ... Read more

    $41.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box

    50 Things You Need To Know About British Elections

    by Philip Cowley ...
    HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED... ... what emotions really influence where your cross goes on the ballot paper? ... whether people are claiming to vote when they haven't? ... which party's supporters are the kinkiest in bed? In the run-up to the most hotly contested and unpredictable election in a generation, this exhilarating read injects some life back into the world of British electoral politics. Sex, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Economics of Enough

    How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

    by Diane Coyle ...
    The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Brexit

    Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union

    by Harold D. Clarke, Matthew Goodwin, Paul Whiteley ...
    In June 2016, the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. As this book reveals, the historic vote for Brexit marked the culmination of trends in domestic politics and in the UK's relationship with the EU that have been building over many years. Drawing on a wealth of survey evidence collected over more than ten years, this book explains why most people decided to ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • What We Owe Each Other

    A New Social Contract for a Better Society

    by Minouche Shafik ...
    From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The European Union

    Economics and Policies

    by Ali M. El-Agraa ...
    The European Union has established itself as a leading text that provides readers from all disciplines with a sound understanding of the economics and policies of the EU. Its wealth of information, detail and analysis has ensured that previous editions have been read by a generation of students, researchers and policy makers. It covers all major EU policy areas as well as theories of economic ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD