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  • Modernising the People’s Liberation Army

    Aspiring to be a Global Military Power

    Edited by James Char ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    This volume examines the progress made by the Chinese military (the People’s Liberation Army, PLA) as it strives to meet its commander-in-chief’s directive to transform itself into a more capable fighting force.The book tracks the reforms undertaken by the PLA in meeting its commander-in-chief’s grand objectives set at the 2015 Central Military Commission Reform Work Meeting: for China’s armed ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Reshaping the Chinese Military

    The PLA's Roles and Missions in the Xi Jinping Era

    Edited by Richard A. Bitzinger, James Char ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    This edited volume examines the recalibration of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) roles and missions in China’s domestic and foreign policymaking since Xi Jinping’s ascension to power in late 2012.This book explores how China’s growing military prowess, along with Beijing’s ongoing shift away from "keeping a low profile," owes much to the policies of the China’s Communist Party under Xi ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Strategic Currents

    China and US Competition for Influence

    by Bernard F W Loo, James Char ...
    Series series Strategic Currents
    The advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution amidst the increasingly intensified global competition between the United States and China promises to be a major inflection point in human history. The authors assembled in this volume provide a sober assessment of this techno-nationalist contest and their implications for the rest of the world.Contents:Introduction: Technology Competition Between China ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television

    Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture

    by Lance Rubin, James Stone, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Charli Valdez, Maryann Erigha, Sarah Domet, April Miller, Sarah Hamblin, Jesseca Cornelson, Daniel Mattingly ...
    The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television: Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture sheds light on how imaginary works of fiction, film, and television reflect, refract, and respond to the recessionary times specific to the twenty-first century, a sustained period of economic crisis that has earned the title the “Great Recession.” This collection takes as its focus “Bust Culture,” a concept ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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    Wilderness and the American Mind

    Fifth Edition

    by Roderick Frazier Nash ...
    Narrated by James Anderson Foster ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 44 min

    Roderick Nash's classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of "books ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Stakeholder Capitalism

    A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet

    by Klaus Schwab ...
    Reimagining our global economy so it becomes more sustainable and prosperous for allOur global economic system is broken. But we can replace the current picture of global upheaval, unsustainability, and uncertainty with one of an economy that works for all people, and the planet. First, we must eliminate rising income inequality within societies where productivity and wage growth has slowed. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World

    Edited by Bob Rae ...
    In this timely book about Canada in a changing world, former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations Bob Rae brings together twenty of Canada’s leading voices to address urgent questions about Canadian sovereignty, at home and internationally.As our relationship with the United States becomes increasingly unpredictable, questions of Canada’s future have never been more pressing. Prominent ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Six Faces of Globalization

    Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters

    by Anthea Roberts, Nicolas Lamp ...
    An essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization, cutting through the complexity to reveal the fault lines that divide us and the points of agreement that might bring us together.Globalization has lifted millions out of poverty. Globalization is a weapon the rich use to exploit the poor. Globalization builds bridges across national ... Read more

    $25.89 CAD

  • Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World

    A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issuesFighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s leaders continue to pursue outdated policies that focus on one while worsening the tradeoffs between each of them. Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World shows how the nations of the world can achieve all three ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Playing Our Game : Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten The West

    by Edward S. Steinfeld ...
    Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer and borrower of Beijing. The rise of China, many feel, necessarily means the decline of the West--the United States in particular. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. If anything, China's economic emergence is good for America. In this fascinating new book, Steinfeld asserts ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Some Small Countries Do It Better: Rapid Growth and Its Causes in Singapore, Finland, and Ireland

    by Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima ...
    Countries worldwide are struggling to imitate the industrial prowess of the East Asian pacesetters, but growth accelerations have proven remarkably transient. Building a portfolio of tradable goods and services and steadily raising the level of investment in these activities, has generally defied the best policy efforts - in particular, bringing investment ratios on par with East Asian averages ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Project 2025

    A Deep Dive into the Policies and Impacts of a Conservative Vision to Reshape America's Future

    by Antonio G. Lanier ...
    Gain critical insights into how Project 2025's conservative policies will influence America's political, economic, and social landscape.In "Project 2025: A Deep Dive into the Policies and Impacts of a Conservative Vision to Reshape America's Future," you will gain an in-depth understanding of this ambitious project designed to reshape the socio-political and economic landscape of the United States ... Read more

    $8.44 CAD