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  • Anatomy of a Secret

    One Man's Search for Justice

    by Gerard McCann ...
    Raw and compelling, Anatomy of a Secret bravely shares long silenced, unspoken truths. As a boy, Gerard was sexually abused by a Catholic priest at his local church. As a grown man, he confronts the trauma of what he suffered and the psychological aftermath of his experience, grappling with shame, guilt and the devastating impact it had on his family, relationships and sense of self. Despite what ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ireland's Economic History

    Crisis and Development in the North and South

    by Gerard McCann ...
    This book explores the complex developments that have shaped Ireland's economic development, north and south, and led to recurring crises and instability.The Irish economy has been traditionally portrayed as a product of its political divisions and the colonial legacy, divided and analysed in terms of the hegemonic tensions that exist on the island. Influenced by these divisions, academics have ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theory and History

    The Political Thought of E.P. Thompson

    by Gerard McCann ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1997, the aim of this book is to look at the historical materialism of E.P. Thompson while introducing him as a political thinker of distinction. The study examines many aspects of Thompson’s life and work to give a comprehensive statement on his theory of historical change. It surveys the intellectual background from which he emerged; the core values of socialist humanism as ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • From the Local to the Global

    Key Issues in Development Studies

    Edited by Gerard McCann, Stephen McCloskey ...
    The international development sector has found itself confronting new challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights. Climate change has loomed large as a crisis for development practitioners and environmentalists, affecting the most vulnerable in the Global South. The ongoing financial crisis has created recurrent recessions in the global North, while causing budget lines to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • International Human Rights, Social Policy and Global Development

    Critical Perspectives

    by Fred Powell, Stephen McCloskey, Shivaun Quinlivan, Charles O’Mahony, Fiona Donson, Cathal O'Connell, Joe Finnerty, Dessie Donnelly, Ann Marie Gray, Benjamin Mallon, Fiona Dukelow, Birgit Schippers, Daniel Holder, Michal Cenker, Giovanni Farese, Diana Buttu, Peter Herrmann ...
    With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis.Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • COVID-19 in the Global South

    Impacts and Responses

    Edited by Carmody, Pádraig, McCann, Gerard ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together a range of experts across various sectors, this important volume explores some of the key issues that have arisen in the Global South with the COVID-19 pandemic. Situating the worldwide health crisis within broader processes of globalisation, the book investigates implications for development and gender, as well as the effects on ... Read more

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  • COVID-19, the Global South and the Pandemic’s Development Impact

    Edited by Gerard McCann, Nita Mishra, Pádraig Carmody ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Though a globally shared experience, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected societies across the world in radically different ways. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South.With international contributors from a variety of disciplines including health, economics and geography, the book investigates the ... Read more

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    Why Canada's Health Care System Needs To Be Dragged Into The 21c

    by Jeffrey Simpson ...
    Medicare is the third rail of Canadian politics. Touch it and you die. Every politician knows this truism, which is why no one wants to debate it. Privately, many of them understand that the health care system, which costs about $200 billion a year in public and private money, cannot continue as it is-increasingly ill-adapted to an aging population with public costs growing faster than government ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Dying to be Seen

    The Race to Save Medicare in Canada

    by Cathy MacNeil ...
    Canada’s public health care system is under attack. Defunding, deregulating, defrauding, and deliberate disintegration have manipulated Canadians into despising their once-beloved system as unsustainable, unfixable, and cost-prohibitive. There is a reason for that. Neoliberalism has the rescue medication locked within its assault armamentarium—privatization. The last stage of the takedown has ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Rescue

    From Global Crisis to a Better World

    by Ian Goldin ...
    An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford.Covid-19 left us at a crossroads: should we go back to 'normal', or use the lessons learned during the pandemic to shape a new society?But what does life after a pandemic look like, and how do we build a better, more hopeful future?Ian Goldin, Professor of Development and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • Global Health Governance

    by Jeremy Youde ...
    In recent years the spread of diseases such as AIDS, SARS and avian flu has pushed health issues towards the top of the international agenda. Such outbreaks have serious political, economic, and social consequences and remind the world of the necessity of global cooperation in order to deal effectively with the challenges they pose.Global Health Governance offers a comprehensive introduction to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Migration and Pandemics

    Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception

    Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia.The book addresses several ... Read more

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