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    Detective Stories – Volume 2

    E M Delafield to Anna Katharine Green

    by E M Delafield, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edith Stewart Drewery, Frank Howel Evans, Jacques Futrelle, Lettice Galbraith, John Galsworthy, Arthur Gask, Anna Katharine Green ...
    Narrated by Robert Maskell, Janet Fullerlove, David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Crash 1929

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    John Kenneth Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse.Arguing that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, Galbraith notes that the common denominator of all speculative episodes is the belief of participants that they can become rich without work. It was Galbraith's belief that a good knowledge of what happened in 1929 was the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Affluent Society

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    The classic by the renowned economist: "One of those rare works that forces a nation to re-examine its values" ( The New York Times).One of the New York Public Library's "Books of the Century"Hailed as a "masterpiece" ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch), this examination of the "economics of abundance" cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) and lays bare the hazards of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Tenured Professor

    A Novel

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    This biting satire of academia and high finance by the Harvard economist "is ingenious and humorous even as it chills and cuts close to the bone" ( The New York Times).John Kenneth Galbraith served in the Kennedy administration before becoming one of the twentieth century's foremost economists and public intellectuals. In A Tenured Professor, he spins his wealth of knowledge—and knowledge of ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Economics of Innocent Fraud

    Truth For Our Time

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchant new book distills this lifetime of experience in the public and private sectors; it is a scathing critique of matters as they stand today.Sounding the alarm about the increasing gap between reality and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Galbraith

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    "Graceful and often witty" insights from the legendary economist, drawn from his most influential works ( Library Journal).The Essential Galbraith includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of our time—from The Affluent Society, the groundbreaking book in which he coined the term "conventional wisdom," to The Great Crash, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of Financial Euphoria

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    The world-renowned economist offers "dourly irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth century to the recent plague of junk bonds." —The Atlantic.With incomparable wisdom, skill, and wit, world-renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith traces the history of the major speculative episodes in our economy over the last three centuries. Exposing the ways in which ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Good Society

    The Human Agenda

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    The legendary economist explains how a nation can remain both compassionate and fiscally sound, with "common sense raised to the level of genius" ( The New Yorker).This compact, eloquent book offers a blueprint for a workable national agenda that allows for human weakness without compromising a humane culture. Arguing that it is in the best interest of the United States to avoid excessive wealth ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers

    by Bernie Lucht, John Galbraith, Jane Jacobs, Eric Kierans, Martin King, Paul Goodman ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form. Important thinkers whose Massey Lectures are lamentably out of print include the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Life in Our Times

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    In his memoirs, John Kenneth Galbraith recalls amusingly, even brilliantly, the important and low moments in his life, the men and women he met who were great, only interesting, entertaining or even absurd.Galbraith studied agriculture in his native Canada and agricultural economics at UC-Berkeley. He taught at the University of California, served briefly in FDR’s administration and went on to ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD

  • American Capitalism

    The Concept of Countervailing Power

    by John Galbraith ...
    In his new introduction to this classic text on political economy, Galbraith reasserts the validity of the core thesis of American Capitalism: The best and established answer to economic power is the building of countervailing power. The trade union remains an equalizing force in the labor markets, and the chain store is the best answer to the market power of big food companies. This work remains ... Read more

    Was $94.99 CAD Now $85.19 CAD

  • Name-Dropping

    From FDR On

    by John Kenneth Galbraith ...
    "[A] charming memoir [that] serves to remind us that idealism and trust once existed in the White House and Washington, a fact that may seem unbelievable" ( Newsday).A New York Times Notable Book"Names? You want names? No one knows better ones than John Kenneth Galbraith," says the San Diego Union-Tribune. Name-Dropping covers the long and remarkable career of this economist and former ambassador, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus