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  • Everyday Energy Politics in Central Asia and the Caucasus

    Citizens’ Needs, Entitlements and Struggles for Access

    Edited by David Gullette, Jeanne Féaux de la Croix ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    The perception of Central Asia and its place in the world has come to be shaped by its large oil and gas reserves. Literature on energy in the region has thus largely focused on related geopolitical issues and national policies. However, little is known about citizens’ needs within this broader context of commodities that connect the energy networks of China, Russia and the West. This ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Kyrgyzstan beyond "Democracy Island" and "Failing State"

    Social and Political Changes in a Post-Soviet Society

    by Marlene Laruelle, Johan Engvall, Diana Asanalieva, Aisalkyn Botoeva, Asel Doolotkeldieva, David Gullette, Erica Marat, Madeleine Reeves, Elmira Satybaldieva0, Regine A. Spector1, Bermet Zhumakadyr kyzy2, Emil Nastridinov3, John Heathershaw4, Shairbek Juraev5, David W. Montgomery6 ...
    Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
    Kyrgyzstan is probably the best known of any central Asian country, the one that has elicited the most academic publications, reports by NGOs or advocacy groups, and op-eds in the media. The country opened up massively to Western influence through development aid for civil society and for economic reforms, faced two revolutions in 2005 and 2010, and experienced bloody interethnic conflict in 2010. ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

  • The Long Year

    A 2020 Reader

    by Andy Horowitz, Éric Charmes, Max Rousseau, Adam Tooze, Joan Wallach Scott, Andrew Lakoff, Keisha N. Blain, Natalia Molina, Marcia Chatelain, Michelle Cera, Gilles Guiheux, Ye Guo, Renyou Hou, Manon Laurent, Jun Li, Anne-Valérie Ruinet, Govindan Venkatasubramanian, Isabelle Guérin, Mathieu Ferry, Marine Al Dahdah, Neha Vora, Sulfikar Amir, Sherihan Radi, Mustafa Dikeç, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Simon Balto, Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Rachel Nolan, David Schmidt, Julie Livingston, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Xiaowei Wang, Priscilla Wald, Evan Lieberman, Warwick Anderson, Julia Foulkes, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Sophie Lewis, Guobin Yang, Sophie Gonick, Margaret O'Mara, Alfonso Fierro, Erick Corrêa, Ananya Roy, Gianpaolo Biaocchi, Jake Carlson, Quentin Ravelli, Jean-Paul Gagnon, Rikki J. Dean, Afsoun Afsahi, Emily Beausoleil, Selen A. Ercan, Miguel Centeno, Gautam Bhan, Joanne Randa Nucho, Yarimar Bonilla, Jacob A.C. Remes, Warren Breckman, Cordula Dittmer, Daniel F. Lorenz, Kathryn Cai, Eric Klinenberg, David S. Barnes, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Merlin Chowkwanyun ...
    Series series Public Books Series
    Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • A Day at the Beach

    by David Winn Gullett ...
    Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon to discuss the seasons of life and our desire to seek out something eternal. There are seasons in life that bring different experiences and challenges. To the children in this story, it is beach season and focusing on the present (or "now"). For their father, it is an opportunity to point out that God has created and made everything beautiful in its time. Let us ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

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  • Energy, Wealth and Governance in the Caucasus and Central Asia

    Lessons not learned

    Edited by Richard Auty, Indra de Soysa ...
    Series series Central Asia Research Forum
    Drawing upon recent progress in development economics and political science, the book provides fresh analysis of the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries transition to a market economy by tracing the impact of natural resource endowment. The book examines the synergies between energy-rich and energy-poor states and highlights the practical consequences of both well-managed and poorly-managed ... Read more

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  • Empty Planet

    The Shock of Global Population Decline

    by Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson ...
    From the authors of the bestselling The Big Shift, a provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape.For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning population will soon overwhelm the earth’s resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • China Urbanizes: Consequences, Strategies, And Policies

    by Yusuf Shahid; Saich Anthony ...
    The key challenges facing China in the next two decades derive from the ongoing process of urbanization. China's urbanization rate in 2005 was about 43%. Over the next 10-15 years, it is expected to rise to well over 50%, adding an additional 200 million mainly rural migrants to the current urban population of 560 million. How China copes with such a large migration flow will strongly influence ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • A Green and Global Europe

    by Nathalie Tocci ...
    After years of existential crisis, Europe has found a new raison d’être: the European Green Deal and the energy transition that lies at its core. This green Europe represents a normative vision, an economic growth strategy, as well as a route to a political Union that would enhance EU integration and legitimacy. But it can only be realized if it addresses head-on the social, economic, political ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Atlas of Challenges and Opportunities in European Neighbourhoods

    Edited by Pierre BECKOUCHE, Pierre BESNARD, Hugues PECOUT ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This atlas provides a macro-regional overview of the areas that surround the European Union, from the Sahara to the Middle East, Western Balkans to European Russia, Turkey to the Arctic. Detailing key socio-economic data as well as developmental trends, the maps provide a comprehensive territorial analysis at a local scale and explore the potential for regional integration and cooperation.These ... Read more

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  • The New Politics of Strategic Resources

    Energy and Food Security Challenges in the 21st Century

    Edited by Emily O'Brien, Bruce D. Jones, David Steven ...
    Since 2008, energy and food markets-those most fundamental to human existence-have remained in turmoil. Resource scarcity has had a much bigger global impact in recent years than has been predicted, with ongoing volatility a sign that the world is only part-way through navigating a treacherous transition in the way it uses resources. Scarcity, and perceptions of scarcity, increase political risks, ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • Spin Doctors

    How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic

    by Nora Loreto ...
    As Canada was in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century, Canadian media struggled to tell the story. Newsrooms, already run on threadbare budgets, struggled to make broader connections that could allow their audience to better understand what was really happening, and why. Politicians and public health officials were mostly given the benefit of the doubt that what they said was true and that ... Read more

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  • Survival of the City

    The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation

    by Edward Glaeser, David Cutler ...
    **“Expansive and entertaining. . . . [A] fast-paced and highly readable journey . . . the book serves as a useful tool in the effort to redefine the role of the city in an age of increasingly polarized politics, and reminds us that urban health is—as Fiorello La Guardia once remarked about cleaning the streets—not a Democratic or Republican issue.” —New York Times Book ReviewOne of our great ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD