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  • Legal Actions for Future Generations

    Edited by Emilie Gaillard, David M. Forman ...
    Series Book 1 - Générations futures, Paix et Environnement / Future generations, Peace and the Environment
    At present, legal definitions of justice take account of a wide spectrum of concepts operating as juridical tools to protect future generations. Environmental justice, climate justice and protection of the Commons figure alongside new ways of conceiving justice itself, which must evolve in order to fit our changing world. It cannot be denied that we live in an era of wide-ranging transformation ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

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  • A Brief History of Equality

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight for it, and constantly (re)invent the myriad of institutions that will bring it about. This book is ... Read more

    $21.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mediocracy

    The Politics of the Extreme Centre

    by Alain Deneault ...
    Translated by Catherine Browne ...
    There was no Reichstag fire. No storming of the Bastille. No mutiny on the Aurora. Instead, the mediocre have seized power without firing a single shot. They rose to power on the tide of an economy where workers produce assembly-line meals without knowing how to cook at home, give customers instructions over the phone that they themselves don’t understand, or sell books and newspapers that they ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Shock of the Anthropocene

    The Earth, History and Us

    by Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ...
    Translated by David Fernbach ...
    Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years.How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a “human species” that upset the Earth ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Book Review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

    Understand inequality in the modern world

    by 50Minutes ...
    Series series Book Review
    It can be hard for busy professionals to find the time to read the latest books. Stay up to date in a fraction of the time with this concise guide.Thomas Piketty’s 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century was an immediately bestseller in the UK and US, and has been widely praised by both economists and the general public. Piketty provides a richly detailed account of the development of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $18.99 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Globalising the Climate

    COP21 and the climatisation of global debates

    Edited by Stefan Aykut, Jean Foyer, Edouard Morena ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    Frequently presented as a historic last chance to set the world on a course to prevent catastrophic climate change, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the Climate convention (COP21) was a global summit of exceptional proportions. Bringing together negotiators, scientists, journalists and representatives of global civil society, it also constituted a privileged vantage point for the study of ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • A Concise History of World Population

    by Massimo Livi-Bacci ...
    The latest edition of this classic text has been updated to reflect current trends and implications for future demographic developments. The areas of Africa, international migration and population and environment have been strengthened and statistical information has been updated throughout.A new edition of this classic history of demography text, which has been updated to strengthen the major ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Living territories to transform the world

    by Patrick Caron, Elodie Valette, Tom Wassenaar, Geo Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge, Vatché Papazian ...
    What resources underpin the development of a territory? What does territorial management of resources mean? What specific characteristics and opportunities does territorial organization offer for agricultural production, regulation of sectors, and services? How are territorial public policies conceived and applied? But also, what are the limits of the territorial approach? How does a territorial ... Read more

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  • The History of Development

    From Western Origins to Global Faith

    by Gilbert Rist ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Series series Development Essentials
    In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world system, the rise of US hegemony, and the supposed triumph of third-worldism, through to new concerns about the environment and globalization.Assessing ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Operating Law in a Global Context

    Comparing, Combining and Prioritising

    by Jean-Sylvestre Bergé, Geneviève Helleringer ...
    Lawyers have to adapt their reasoning to the increasingly global nature of the situations they deal with. Often, rules formulated in a national, international or European environment must all be jointly applied to a given case. This book seeks to make explicit the analysis the lawyer engages in every time he or she is confronted by the operation of several laws in different contexts.This reasoning ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD