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  • The Rise of Professional Society

    England Since 1880

    by Harold Perkin ...
    The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the non-capitalist "professional class" represents a new principle of social organization based on trained expertise and meritocracy, a "forgotten middle class" conveniently overlooked by classical social ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Origins of Modern English Society

    by Harold Perkin ...
    Bringing together subjects such as culture, religion, morals, politics, economics, and mentality, Perkin presents and applies a holistic concept of social history in the tradition of great historians of the past.In this classic text of social history, Harold Perkin explores the emergence of a new form of class society in Victorian England, which differed radically from early modern society. He ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • The Third Revolution

    Professional Elites in the Modern World

    by Harold Perkin ...
    This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet Union. It praises their achievements, but also warns of the greed and corruption of their elites, aking whether corruption rather than ideology ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Key Profession

    The History of the Association of University Teachers

    by Harold Perkin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Higher Education
    Originally published in 1969 Key Profession looks at the rise of the academic profession to its influence and importance, through the history of the Association of the University of Teachers, founded in 1919 and celebrating its half-centenary in 1969. As a study of a professional organization and political pressure group concerned with salary negotiations, conditions of service, academic freedom, ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

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    Origins

    The Search for Our Prehistoric Past

    by Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 7 min

    In Origins, Frank H. T. Rhodes explores the origin and evolution of living things, the changing environments in which they have developed, and the challenges we now face on an increasingly crowded and polluted planet. Rhodes argues that the future well-being of our burgeoning population depends in no small part on our understanding of life’s past, its long and slow development, and its intricate ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD

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    A Revolution in Three Acts

    by Simon Jenkins ...
    The history of Britain in the last thirty years, under both Conservative and Labour governments, has been dominated by one figure - Margaret Thatcher. Her election marked a decisive break with the past and her premiership transformed not just her country, but the nature of democratic leadership. In his 'argued history' Simon Jenkins analyses this revolution from its beginnings in the turmoil of ... Read more

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  • The Collapse of Globalism Revised Edition

    And The Reinvention Of The World

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    In 1999, John Ralston Saul began predicting that globalism would collapse. In 2005, he laid out this scenario in The Collapse of Globalism: and the Reinvention of the World Now he has enlarged the book, showing how today's crisis came about and suggesting what to do next. In this new edition, Saul describes the current financial crisis as a mere boil to be lanced. The far more serious problem is ... Read more

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  • Keynes

    The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist

    by Peter Clarke ...
    The ideas of John Maynard Keynes inspired the New Deal and helped rebuild world economies after World War II -and were later dismissed as "depression economics." Then came the great meltdown of 2008. Market forces that the world relied on suddenly failed to self-correct-and Keynes's doctrine of corrective action in an imperfect world became more relevant than ever.Keynes was not a traditional ... Read more

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  • The Commanding Heights

    The Battle for the World Economy

    by Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw ...
    The Commanding Heights is about the most powerful political and economic force in the world today -- the epic struggle between government and the marketplace that has, over the last twenty years, turned the world upside down and dramatically transformed our lives. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize joins with a leading expert on the new marketplace to explain the revolution in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Harold Wilson

    The Unprincipled Prime Minister?: A Reappraisal of Harold Wilson

    Edited by Andrew S. Crines, Kevin Hickson ...
    This year marks the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, the fiftieth anniversary of his most impressive general election victory and forty years since his dramatic resignation as Prime Minister. He was one of the longest-serving premiers of the twentieth century, having won a staggering four general elections, yet, despite this monumental record, his place in Labour's history remains somewhat ... Read more

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  • The Enigma of Capital

    And the Crises of Capitalism

    by David Harvey ...
    For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how unchecked neoliberalism produced the system-wide crisis that now engulfs the world. Beginning in the 1970s, profitability pressures led the capitalist class in advanced countries to shift away from ... Read more

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  • The Great Economists

    How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today

    by Linda Yueh ...
    What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time?'The best place to start to learn about the very greatest economists of all time' Professor Tyler Cowen, author of The Complacent Class and The Great Stagnation___________________________Since the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems -- but often their ... Read more

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