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  • The Russia-Ukraine War: A Manifestation of the ‘New Cold War’?

    Perspectives on Solutions from Peace Studies

    by Karim Fathi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The war in Ukraine has captivated the world. Current coverage is emotional and largely limited to the military aspects of the war. Contributions from Peace and Conflict Studies have been under-represented in the current debate. They are even subject to anti-pacifist criticism. The question of what is needed for a lasting peace is hardly addressed. This question is all the more important as this ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Multi-Resilience - Development - Sustainability

    Requirements for securing the future of societies in the 21st century

    by Karim Fathi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book, deliberately written in generally understandable language for all interested readers, paints a unique, transdisciplinary overall picture of resilience as a national and international social factor of our time. It shows that in terms of socio-political significance, the concept of resilience is in no way inferior to the older, hitherto dominant concepts of sustainability and development; ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • Kaput

    The End of the German Miracle

    by Wolfgang Münchau ...
    'Compelling' Guardian'Eloquent and comprehensive' Financial Times'Excellent' The Telegraph'Astonishing' The Times'An eye-opener' Gavin EslerUntil recently, Germany appeared to be a paragon of economic and political success. But recent events – from Germany's dependence on Russian gas to its car industry's delays in the race to electric – have undermined this view.In Kaput, Wolfgang ... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Theory U

    Leading from the Future as It Emerges

    by C. Otto Scharmer ...
    Access the deepest source of inspiration and visionWe live in a time of massive institutional failure that manifests in the form of three major divides: the ecological, the social, and the spiritual. Addressing these challenges requires a new consciousness and collective leadership capacity. In this groundbreaking book, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways and in so doing discover ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Small Firms and Innovation Policy in Japan

    Edited by Cornelia Storz ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This new book discusses the extent to which the Japanese economy encourages entrepreneurship and innovation.Although Japan has a strong reputation as an innovator, some people argue that this reputation is misplaced. Contrary to earlier expectations, the USA rather than Japan emerged as the leader in the biotech industries in the 1990s, and also many small firms in Japan supply only a few – or ... Read more

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  • Optimizing the German Workforce

    Labor Administration from Bismarck to the Economic Miracle

    by David Meskill ...
    Series Book 31 - Monographs in German History
    During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious program to control and develop the country’s human resources. Yet, these long-standing efforts to match as many workers as possible to skilled vocations and to establish a system of job training have received little scholarly attention, until now. The author’s account of the ... Read more

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  • The Entrepreneurial Self

    Fabricating a New Type of Subject

    by Ulrich Bröckling ...
    "This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. It is essential reading for all those who care about the incessant demands placed on us to become more than we are, to become entrepreneurs of our selves, to maximise and optimise our capacities in ways that align personal identity and political ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Lifelines of Our Society

    A Global History of Infrastructure

    by Dirk van Laak ...
    Translated by Erik Butler ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today’s strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Humanistic Management

    Protecting Dignity and Promoting Well-Being

    by Michael Pirson ...
    In a world facing multiple crises, our foundational institutions are failing to offer effective solutions. Drawing on the emerging consilience of knowledge, Michael Pirson debunks the fundamental yet outdated assumptions of human nature that guide twentieth-century management theory and practice - as captured in the 'economistic' paradigm - and instead provides an urgently needed conceptual and ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Germany and China

    How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security

    by Andreas Fulda ...
    As Europe finds itself once again caught between two superpowers – the USA and a rising China – little has been written about a relationship that will have a profound influence on the international order: the relationship between the People's Republic of China and Germany.In Germany and China, leading international relations expert Andreas Fulda looks critically at the increasingly interdependent ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The End of Illusions

    Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity

    by Andreas Reckwitz ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis ...
    We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another and the idea that humanity is on a progressive path to a better future seems like an illusion ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Long Shadow of German Colonialism

    Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism

    by Henning Melber ...
    From 1884 to 1914, the world's fourth-largest overseas colonial empire was that of the German Kaiserreich. Yet this fact is little known in Germany and the subject remains virtually absent from most school textbooks. While debates are now common in France and Britain over the impact of empire on former colonies and colonizing societies, German imperialism has only more recently become a topic of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD