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  • A Brief History of the Economy

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Economic growth is the religion of the modern world. It promises a solution to the most basic drama of our human existence: wanting what we don’t have. But we live in a time when the frenzied pursuit of economic growth is jeopardizing the planet’s viability and our very survival as a species. How did we get to this point in human history? How did we allow the pursuit of growth to become the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Hiram Bingham and the Dream of Gold

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Hiram Bingham was the ideal explorer-adventurer—handsome, rich, intelligent, brave, and tough. His life seems like something out of film hero Indiana Jones’s exploits in Raiders of the Lost Ark.The descendant of strong-willed missionaries, Bingham was born in Hawaii in 1875, At Yale he specialized in South American studies and became a college teacher. Gradually, the romance of the past took hold ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Infinite Desire for Growth

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Why society’s expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to come—is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the population has seen no increase in purchasing power over the last thirty years and the situation is not much ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • The Collaborative Career Methodology

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    The Collaborative Career Methodology: Transforming Career Uncertainty into Definitive Success is Dan Cohen's practical guide to taking ownership of a career. It draws on more than forty years of global leadership at IBM, Atos, Cognizant and DXC, and on a methodology he has presented to more than 37,000 people. The book argues that purpose comes from the convergence of three lenses. Ego is ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Adventures of Gibby and Libby

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Meet Gibby, a fun-loving 7-year-old alien boy from Dustbinville who loves to imagine and dream big. With his best friend Libby by his side, Gibby learns that imagination is powerful and that it's okay to try again when things don't go as planned. Together, they discover that believing in yourself can lead to wonderful surprises. This sweet and encouraging story is all about friendship, creativity, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Homo Economicus

    The (Lost) Prophet of Modern Times

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Susan Emanuel ...
    The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness.In this wide-ranging new book, the leading economist Daniel Cohen traces our current malaise back to the rise of homo economicus: for the last 200 years, the modern world has defined happiness in terms of material ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Homo Numericus

    The coming 'civilization'

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life that the digital revolution has not streamlined and dematerialized. Its objective was to reduce costs by forgoing face-to-face interactions, and it was a direct result of the free-market shock of the 1980s, which sought to expand the marketplace seamlessly in every possible dimension. Today, we can be algorithmically ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

  • The Economics of Rising Inequalities

    Edited by Daniel Cohen, Thomas Piketty, Gilles Saint-Paul ...
    This book is an in-depth discussion of rising inequalities in the western world. It explores the extent to which rising inequalities are the mechanical consequence of changes in economic fundamentals (such as changes in technological or demographic parameters), and to what extent they are the contingent consequences of country-specific and time-specific changes in institutions. Both the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Globalization and Its Enemies

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    A provocative argument that the frustrations of globalization stem from the gap between the expectations created and the lagging economic reality in poor countries.The enemies of globalization—whether they denounce the exploitation of poor countries by rich ones or the imposition of Western values on traditional cultures—see the new world economy as forcing a system on people who do not want it. ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • "The Female Marine" and Related Works

    Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic

    Edited by Daniel A. Cohen ...
    This is the first complete modern edition of The Female Marine, a fictional cross-dressing trilogy originally published between 1815 and 1818. Enormously popular among New England readers, the tale in various versions appeared in no fewer than nineteen editions over that brief four-year span. This new edition appends three other contemporary accounts of cross-dressing and urban vice which, ... Read more

    $23.69 CAD

  • From My Heart to Yours

    Touching the Soul

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    From My Heart to Yours is a collection of poems inspired by the life struggles, challenges and triumphs of Daniel J. Cohen. While incarcerated, he began writing as an outlet for what he was feeling inside. While writing, Daniel realized that the poems were not just for him, but for others. Thus From My Heart to Yours is an inspirational collaboration that will give the reader hope and revive their ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Inglorious Years

    The Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial order, imagining a future of technological liberation and unfettered prosperity. Industrial society did collapse, and a digital economy has risen ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD