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  • Business and Government in Canada

    by Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    Boundaries between business and government are increasingly fluid and often transcended. Yet it remains important to acknowledge and make appropriate use of the fundamental differences between these sectors.Five areas that offer the most critical challenges to business and government in Canada today are corporate governance, lobbying and influence, security and privacy, public-private partnerships ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • From Machinery to Mobility

    Government and Democracy in a Participative Age

    by Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The Westminster-stylized model of Parliamentary democratic governance is out of step with today’s digitally and socially networked world. The resulting context for public sector governance brings both promise and peril – with profound consequences for public servants, elected officials, and citizens alike. This book presents a timely and thorough examination of the main sources of tension between ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • E-Government in Canada

    Transformation for the Digital Age

    by Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    The rapid expansion of the Internet has fueled the emergence of electronic government at all levels in Canada. E-government's first decade featured online service underpinned by a technically secure infrastructure. This service-security nexus entails internal governance reforms aimed at realizing more customer-centric delivery via integration and coordination across departments and agencies. Yet, ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • An Approach to Privatization in the 21St Century

    A fresh look at the issue of Privatizing the government.This book looks at the history of government and government organizations from the beginning through the period of Re-invention.The issue of privatization is not seen as the end all to solve governments problems rather it is seen as just one tool available to the politicians and government managers.Privatization is viewed as one method of ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Malady of the Mind

    Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention

    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 27 min

    “The most important book about schizophrenia in decades, and perhaps ever…a total game-changer.” —Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful MindA comprehensive, deeply researched, and highly readable portrait of schizophrenia—its history, its various manifestations, and how today’s treatments have promising and often lifesaving potential.This “incredibly captivating” (Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Abolitionists Remember

    Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation

    In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation’s growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so important.In the rush to mend fences after the Civil War, the memory of the past faded and turned ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Pursuit of Liberty

    How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America

    by Jeffrey Rosen ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 12 min

    The bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness shows how the opposing constitutional ideologies of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton have defined our country for 250 years, influenced presidents from Washington to Trump, and continue to drive the debate over the power of government today.With insight and a sweeping historical perspective, bestselling author and former president of the ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism

    Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement

    By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slavery. Here, Julie Roy Jeffrey explores the involvement of ordinary women — black and white — in the most significant reform movement prior to the Civil War. She offers a complex and compelling portrait of antebellum women’s activism, tracing ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Gilles Paquet

    Homo hereticus

    Series series Governance Series
    This volume explores and contextualizes the contributions of Gilles Paquet as a social scientist. A quintessential public intellectual, Gilles Paquet's long and multifaceted career has shown him to be a thinker of significant power and creativity. This self-described "homo hereticus"--always critical and sometimes controversial--has influenced scholars and policy makers in Canada and around the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    Series series Governance Series
    In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable resources are being invested in measuring and showcasing performance improvement.This book probes ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Galatians and 1 Thessalonians

    Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Galatians and 1 Thessalonians advances the interpretation of these letters by exploring how the Apostle Paul quotes, alludes to or "echoes" the Jewish Scriptures and other ancient materials. Comparative wording is at the forefront, whether in relation to Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, or prophecies and promises from Genesis, Habakkuk, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the Psalms ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

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    Unabridged

    21 hours 26 min

    Winner of the Terry McAdam Book AwardAs recommended on The Ezra Klein ShowFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the “engrossing” (The New York Times) secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund.In 1922, a young idealist named Charles Garland ... Read more

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