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  • After Fukushima

    The Equivalence of Catastrophes

    by Jean-Luc Nancy, Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Yuji Nishiyama, Yotetsu Tonaki ...
    Translated by Charlotte Mandell ...
    The renowned philosopher offers "a powerful reflection on our times . . . and the fate of our civilization, as revealed by the catastrophe of Fukushima" (François Raffoul, Louisiana State University).In 2011, a tsunami flooded Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear meltdowns, the effects of which will spread through generations and have an impact on all living things. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Globalization: A Very Short Introduction

    by Manfred B. Steger ...
    Offers a stimulating introduction to globalization and its varying impacts across, between, and within societies. It is a highly readable book that contributes to a better understanding of the crucial aspects and dimensions of the developments and transformations that go by the name of globalization. - ;'Globalization' has become the buzz-word of our time. A growing number of scholars and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Making Globalization Work

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    "A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better."--Andrew Leonard, SalonFour years after he outlined the challenges our increasingly interdependent world was facing in Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offered his agenda for reform. Now in paperback, Making Globalization Work offers inventive solutions to a host of problems, including the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Changing the Food Game

    Market Transformation Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture

    by Lucas Simons ...
    By 2050, the world’s population is estimated to grow to 10 billion. To feed everyone, we will have to double our food production, to produce more food in the next 40 years than in the whole of the last 6,000. Changing the Food Game shows how our unsustainable food production system cannot support this growth. In this prescient book, Lucas Simons argues that the biggest challenge for our generation ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • In Defense of Globalization

    With a New Afterword

    by Jagdish Bhagwati ...
    In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics have been heard blaming it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, everything from child labor to environmental degradation and cultural homogenization. Now Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist, takes on the critics, revealing that globalization, when properly governed, is in fact the most powerful ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Race To The Bottom

    Why A Worldwide Worker Surplus And Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards

    by Alan Tonelson ...
    With the end of the 1990s economic boom, The Race to the Bottom deftly explores how the United States has entered a no-win global competition in which the countries with the lowest wages, weakest workplace safety laws, and toughest repression of unions win investment from the U.S. and Europe. Tonelson analyzes how the entry of such population giants as China, India, and Mexico into the global ... Read more

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  • Bananeras

    Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America

    by Dana Frank ...
    This story of Latina labor organizers is "a vital accounting of the struggles still being waged" (Margaret Randall, author of When I Look Into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance).Women who pick and pack bananas in Latin America have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives—while making gender equity central in their ... Read more

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  • Birth of Hegemony

    Crisis, Financial Revolution, and Emerging Global Networks

    by Andrew C. Sobel ...
    With American leadership facing increased competition from China and India, the question of how hegemons emerge— and are able to create conditions for lasting stability—is of utmost importance in international relations. The generally accepted wisdom is that liberal superpowers, with economies based on capitalist principles, are best able to develop systems conducive to the health of the global ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Conceit

    Western Rationality after Postcolonialism

    by Patrick Chabal ...
    In this radical new book, Patrick Chabal reveals how the future of the West is now inextricably linked to that of the non-West. The rise of the economic power of China and other Asian countries as well as urgent environmental issues now force the West to think in new ways about how to best face the future. This is an issue which runs far deeper than present debates on the decline of the West might ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Washington Consensus Reconsidered

    Towards a New Global Governance

    Edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Narcís Serra ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue
    This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyar and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus. Covering a wide range of issues from macro-stabilization to trade and the ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • World Society

    The Writings of John W. Meyer

    Edited by Gili S. Drori, Georg Krücken ...
    John W. Meyer's work broke new grounds in institutional thought in sociology and made him a central thinker for the emerging interdisciplinary field of neoinstitutionalism, while at the same time establishing institutional thought's comparative variant, world society theory. His scholarship plays a prominent role in contemporary social theory, and has shaped research areas such as international ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • World Anthropologies in Practice

    Situated Perspectives, Global Knowledge

    Edited by John Gledhill ...
    Series series Association of Social Anthropologists Monographs
    In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal. World Anthropologies in Practice demonstrates how global dialogues enable us to draw on local knowledge as well as differences of perspective to help overcome anthropology's eternal struggle against ethnocentrism and to strengthen the subject's ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD