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  • The One Light

    by Koen Byttebier ...
    When the contemplatives of the world's traditions describe what they have found at the depth of things, are they describing the same reality? The One Light answers that they probably are and does so in two movements. Part One builds its case on various mutually supporting observations. Part Two offers a practical manual of the devout life. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Covid-19 and Capitalism

    Success and Failure of the Legal Methods for Dealing with a Pandemic

    by Koen Byttebier ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic determinants of Covid-19. From the end of 2019 until presently, the world has been ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the cause of this is (obviously) a virus, the extent to which this virus spread, and therefore the number of infections and deaths, was largely determined by socio-economic factors. From this, it ... Read more

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  • The Unfree Market and the Law

    On the Immorality of Making Capitalism Unbridled Again

    by Koen Byttebier ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book examines how legal systems and mechanisms give shape to the capitalist economic system. In this regard, it focuses on the most important of these systems, such as monetary and financial law, company law, fiscality, contract and labour law. Further, the book provides a thorough analysis of the underlying ethical values of said legal systems and mechanisms. It also gives an overview of ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • The Tools of Law that Shape Capitalism

    And How Altering Their Use Could Give Form to a More Just Society

    by Koen Byttebier ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The book provides a critical analysis of the legal mechanisms that help shape the capitalist system, and also makes proposals for deploying these tools in a different manner.Although often disguised in difficult legal jargon, in reality the main legal building blocks of the prevailing capitalist socio-economic system are simple, the most important being: (1) money; (2) the company form and (3) ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • Ethics of Socioeconomics

    Critical Observations on Capitalism through the Lens of a Lawyer

    by Koen Byttebier ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The book analyzes socioeconomic through the lens of a lawyer. In the past decade the world has witnessed some severe financial and economic crises, especially the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The author states that the socio-economic order has in the past four to five decades been thoroughly redesigned, generally favouring models that prioritize the ... Read more

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  • Towards a New International Monetary Order

    by Koen Byttebier ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents a thorough and critical evaluation of the monetary and financial system prevalent in Western economies. Further, it seeks to explain why this system so often leads to financial crises and why they have been dealt with unsatisfactorily in the past.In order to provide answers to these questions, the book investigates the monetary and financial system from a multidisciplinary ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Law and Sustainability

    Reshaping the Socio-Economic Order Through Economic and Technological Innovation

    Edited by Koen Byttebier, Kim van der Borght ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book deals with some aspects of the future shape of the socio-economic order which would be founded on sustainability principles and the role of law therein, instead of on the prevailing capitalist economic order. The volume elaborates in particular on how innovation, a crucial aspect of free-market capitalism and its laws which constitute the current socio-economic order, could result in a ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

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  • Data Assimilation Fundamentals

    A Unified Formulation of the State and Parameter Estimation Problem

    by Geir Evensen, Femke C. Vossepoel, Peter Jan van Leeuwen ...
    Series series Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment
    This open-access textbook's significant contribution is the unified derivation of data-assimilation techniques from a common fundamental and optimal starting point, namely Bayes' theorem. Unique for this book is the "top-down" derivation of the assimilation methods. It starts from Bayes theorem and gradually introduces the assumptions and approximations needed to arrive at today's popular data ... Read more

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  • The Perennial Philosophy

    An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West

    by Aldous Huxley ...
    An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley"The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions."With great wit and stunning intellect—drawing on a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Road to Freedom

    Economics and the Good Society

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom.We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for ... Read more

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  • Contemplative Prayer

    by Thomas Merton ...
    In this classic text, Thomas Merton offers valuable guidance for prayer. He brings together a wealth of meditative and mystical influences–from John of the Cross to Eastern desert monasticism–to create a spiritual path for today. Most important, he shows how the peace contacted through meditation should not be sought in order to evade the problems of contemporary life, but can instead be directed ... Read more

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