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  • Politics Beyond the Capital

    The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America

    by Kent Eaton ...
    A recent wave of decentralization in Latin America has increased the prominence of politicians at the subnational level. Politics Beyond the Capital is the first book to place this trend in comparative historical perspective, examining past episodes of decentralization alongside contemporary ones to determine whether consistent causal factors are at play. At the center of the book is the rigorous ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Territory and Ideology in Latin America

    Policy Conflicts between National and Subnational Governments

    by Kent Eaton ...
    Series series Transformations in Governance
    Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly territorialized in the form of policy conflicts between national and subnational governments. Thanks to a series of trends like globalization, democratization, and especially decentralization, subnational governments are now in a position to more effectively challenge the ideological orientation of the ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Protestant Missionaries in Spain, 1869–1936

    "Shall the Papists Prevail?"

    by Kent Eaton ...
    Protestant Missionaries in Spain, 1869–1936: “Shall the Papists Prevail?” examines the history of the Protestant denominations, especially the Plymouth Brethren, throughout Europe that attempted to bring their churches to Spain just prior to Spain’s First Republic (1873–1874) when religious liberty briefly existed. Protestant groups labored feverishly, establishing churches and schools designed to ... Read more

    $168.99 CAD

  • Climate Change and National Security

    A Country-Level Analysis

    by Daniel Moran, Joanna I. Lewis, Carlyle A. Thayer, Paul D. Hutchcroft, Michael S. Malley, T.V. Paul, Daniel Markey, Ali Riaz, Celeste A. Wallander, Edward Schatz0, Chad Briggs1, Stacy D. VanDeveer2, Ibrahim Al-Marashi3, James A. Russell4, Gregory White5, Linda J. Beck6, E. Mark Pires7, Dennis Galvan8, Brian Guy9, Ngonidzashe Munemo0, Kent Eaton1, Jeffrey Cason2 ...
    In this unique and innovative contribution to environmental security, an international team of scholars explore and estimate the intermediate-term security risks that climate change may pose for the United States, its allies and partners, and for regional and global order through the year 2030. In profiles of forty-two key countries and regions, each contributor considers the problems that climate ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Cold, Hungry and in the Dark

    Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth

    by Bill Powers ...
    An energy industry insider delivers hard truths about the reality of fracking.Conventional wisdom has North America entering a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. But has industry been honest? Cold, Hungry and in the Dark argues that declining productivity combined with increasing demand will trigger a crisis that will cause prices to skyrocket, damage the economy, and have a profound ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of War (Illustrated Edition)

    With linked Table of Contents

    by Sun Tzu ...
    'The Art of War' is the most important book ever written about warfare and conflict. Lionel Giles' translation is the definitive edition, his commentary is indispensable. 'The Art of War' can be used and adapted in every facet of your life. It explains when and how to go to war, as well as when not to. Learn how to win any conflict whether it be on the battlefield or in the boardroom. Lavishly ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Waking the Giant

    How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes

    by Bill McGuire ...
    Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse. Temperatures were down six degrees; ice sheets kilometres thick buried much of Europe and North America and sea levels were 130m lower. The following 15 millennia saw an astonishing transformation as our planet metamorphosed into the temperate world upon which our civilisation has grown and thrived. One of the most dynamic periods in Earth ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

    by Jan Blommaert ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in often unpredictable ways. This phenomenon requires us to revise our understanding of linguistic ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jussi M. Hanhimaki ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind" to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimäki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understanding of how it was originally conceived, how it has come to its present form, and how it must confront new challenges in a rapidly ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Proofs of a Conspiracy

    by John Robison ...
    John Robison was a Scottish scientist, who late in life wrote the one of the definitive studies of the Bavarian Illuminati, "Proofs of a Conspiracy". He was a contemporary and collaborator with James Watt, with whom he worked on an early steam car, contributor to the 1797 Encylopedia Britannica, professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and inventor of the siren.Although Robison was ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Evil Axis of Finance: The US-Japan-China Stranglehold on the Global Future

    The US-Japan-China Stranglehold on the Global Future

    by Richard, Westra ...
    Why, despite the existence of raft of potential international investment outlets, is a major share of global wealth and savings mpelled toward a United States (US) Wall Street centered casino ? Why has an increasingly gapping chasm crystallized between ever bloating global financial activities and the real world economy of production and trade? How is it that wealthy governmentsinjecting ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation

    by Thomas Henfry, Gil Penha-Lopes ...
    Permaculture is a design system for sustainable human habitats and basis of a worldwide citizen-led movement present in over 100 countries.For decades, permaculture practitioners have devised creative responses to changes in local climatic conditions. In doing so, they have developed a collective knowledge and experience invaluable to global efforts to address climate change.This book seeks to ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD