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  • New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America

    Voice and Consequence

    by Kenneth E. Sharpe ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume describes and analyzes the proliferation of new mechanisms for participation in Latin American democracies and considers the relationship between direct participation and the consolidation of representative institutions based on more traditional electoral conceptions of democracy. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Practical Wisdom

    The Right Way to Do the Right Thing

    by Barry Schwartz, Kenneth Sharpe ...
    A reasoned yet urgent call to embrace and protect the essential, practical human quality that has been drummed out of our lives: wisdom.It's in our nature to want to succeed. It's also human nature to want to do right. But we've lost how to balance the two. How do we get it back?Practical Wisdom can help. "Practical wisdom" is the essential human quality that combines the fruits of our individual ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Managing in the Public Sector

    A Casebook in Ethics and Leadership

    by Brett Sharp, Grant Aguirre, Kenneth Kickham ...
    Casebooks in public administration have become intensely sophisticated with complex scenarios, richly detailed multi-step simulations, and demanding role playing requirements. While these types of cases and exercises have their place, Managing in the Public Sector is a casebook designed with maximum instructor flexibility and student engagement in mind. Featuring cases brief enough to be covered ... Read more

    $142.90 CAD

  • Handbook of the Equity Risk Premium

    by G. Constantinides, H.M Markowitz, R.C. Merton, S.C. Myers, P.A. Samuelson, W.F. Sharpe, Kenneth J. Arrow ...
    Series series Handbooks in Finance
    Edited by Rajnish Mehra, this volume focuses on the equity risk premium puzzle, a term coined by Mehra and Prescott in 1985 which encompasses a number of empirical regularities in the prices of capital assets that are at odds with the predictions of standard economic theory. ... Read more

    $145.59 CAD

  • Handbook of Sports and Lottery Markets

    by G. Constantinides, H.M Markowitz, R.C. Merton, S.C. Myers, P.A. Samuelson, W.F. Sharpe, Kenneth J. Arrow ...
    Series series Handbooks in Finance
    Its basic empirical research and investigation of pure theories of investment in the sports and lottery markets make this volume a winner. These markets are simpler to study than traditional financial markets, and their expected values and outcomes are uncomplicated. By means of new overviews of scholarship on the industry side of racetrack and other betting markets to betting exchanges and market ... Read more

    $145.59 CAD

  • The Eisenhower Presidency

    Lessons for the Twenty-First Century

    by Douglas Little, Andrew J. Polsky, Kenneth E. Collier, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Adam McMahon, David A. Nichols, Mark Shanahan, M. Stephen Weatherford, Zuoyue Wang, Meena Bose, Dale R. Herspring ...
    We are in the midst of a Dwight Eisenhower revival. Today pundits often look to Eisenhower as a model of how a president can govern across party lines and protect American interests globally without resorting too quickly to the use of force. Yet this mix of nostalgia and frustration with the current polarized state of American politics may mislead us. Eisenhower’s presidency has much to teach us ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

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    Practical Wisdom

    by Barry Schwartz, Kenneth Sharpe ...
    Narrated by Barry Schwartz ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    The surest route to a happier, more productive life and futureMost of us want to succeed. And most of us want to do the right thing. But we often forget that the way tosucceed is by doing the right thing, as Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe remind us in Practical Wisdom:The Right Way to Do the Right Thing. When the institutions that shape our society need to change, the peoplein them typically ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    Thinking

    The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction

    by John Brockman ...
    Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 35 min

    Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, Thinking presents original ideas by today's leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought.—Daniel Kahneman on the power (and pitfalls) of human intuition and "unconscious" thinking.—Daniel Gilbert on desire, prediction, and why getting what we want doesn't always make us happy. ... Read more

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    The Art of Choosing

    by Sheena Iyengar ...
    Narrated by Orlagh Cassidy ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 32 min

    The nationally recognized, leading authority on choice exposes the surprising truths behind the decisions we make everyday.Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go?Whether mundane or life-altering, the choices we make define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    The Bed of Procrustes

    Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 41 min

    By the author of the modern classis The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s ... Read more

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    Making Habits, Breaking Habits

    Why We Do Things, Why We Don't, and How to Make Any Change Stick

    by Jeremy Dean ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 31 min

    Say you want to start going to the gym or practicing a musical instrument. How long should it take before you stop having to force it and start doing it automatically?The surprising answers are found in Making Habits, Breaking Habits, a leading psychologist’s popular examination of one of the most powerful and underappreciated processes in the brain. Although people like to think that they are in ... Read more

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    Six Simple Rules

    How to Manage Complexity Without Getting Complicated

    by Yves Morieux, Peter Tollman ...
    Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 10 min

    New tools for managing complexity Does your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone. According to The Boston Consulting Group's fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness-that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision ... Read more

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