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  • When Companies Rule

    Corporate Power from the East India Company to Silicon Valley

    by Maha Rafi Atal ...
    Company towns are back. From Indian oil refineries to Kenyan canned food factories to Amazon warehouses, companies today rule over the daily lives of around a million people. In these enclaves of unregulated corporate power, bosses suspend workers’ health care to break up strikes, police residents’ sex lives, and control what children learn in school. These stories echo those of colonial-era ... Read more

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    Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book.”—Anne-Marie Slaughter“A trenchant survey from 1989, with its democratic euphoria, to the current map of autocratic striving.”—David Remnick, New YorkerThe world is in turmoil. From Russia and Turkey across Europe to the United States, authoritarian populists ha... ... Read more

    $24.89 CAD

  • Uncommon Wealth

    Britain and the Aftermath of Empire

    by Kojo Koram ...
    WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2023Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingShortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical PublishingLonglisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingA Guardian Book of the Year'Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh insights' Akala... ... Read more

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  • Offshore

    Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism

    by Brooke Harrington ...
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    **A Financial Times Best Book of the YearFeatured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and recommended by Anne Applebaum on The Ezra Klein Show“An essential read for our times.” —Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of StrongmenAn eye-opening account of offshore finance: a secretive system making the rich richer while corroding democracy, capitalism, and the environment.**How do the rich keep getting richer, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Vulture Capitalism

    Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

    by Grace Blakeley ...
    Winner of the 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood PrizeIn the vein of*The Shock DoctrineandEvil Geniuses*, this timely and “galvanizing” (Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author) manifesto illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us—and how we can take back our economy.It’s easy to look at the state ... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Why We’re Getting Poorer

    A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How We Can Fix It

    by Cahal Moran ...
    An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us.‘A fascinating examination of the failures of modern economics, and how these failures are harming us all' Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism‘Easily one of the most compelling economics communicators of our generation.' Yuan Yang, FT columnist and MP for Earley and WoodleyDid you know that while we think of money as ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • European Union Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Anthony Arnull ...
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    The European Union is rarely out of the news and, as it deals with the consequences of the Brexit vote and struggles to emerge from the eurozone crisis, it faces difficult questions about its future. In this debate, the law has a central role to play, whether the issue be the governance of the eurozone, the internal market, 'clawing back powers from Europe' or reducing so-called 'Brussels red tape ... Read more

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  • The Digital Republic

    On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century

    by Jamie Susskind ...
    From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies?A Financial Times “Book to Read” in 2022Not long ago, the tech industry was widely admired, and the internet was regarded as a tonic for freedom and democracy. Not... ... Read more

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  • Public Administration

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stella Z. Theodoulou, Ravi K. Roy ...
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    Public administration ensures the development and delivery of the essential public services required for sustaining modern civilization. Covering areas from public safety and social welfare to transportation and education, the services provided through the public sector are inextricably part of our daily lives. However, mandatory budgetary cuts in recent years have caused public administrators to ... Read more

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  • Why Populists Are Winning

    and How to Beat Them

    by Liam Byrne ...
    **AS FEATURED ON THE REST IS POLITICS'Required reading' Andrew Marr, New Statesman'A welcome shot of serious thought' Financial Times**'A superb analysis of a big problem - but with solutions too!' Alastair CampbellIn 2024, two billion people went to vote – and populism won big. Donald Trump returned to the White House. Marine Le Pen surged in France. Reform UK became Britain's most successful far ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Three Dimensions of Freedom

    by Billy Bragg ...
    At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While authoritarians and algorithms threaten democracy, we argue over who has the right to speak.To protect ourselves from encroaching tyranny, we must look beyond this one-dimensional notion of what it means to be free and, by reconnecting liberty to equality ... Read more

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  • Control Science

    How Management Made the Modern World

    by Henry Snow ...
    What are the rules that govern our workday? Who made them? And how do these rules dominate the rest of our lives?Whether on Caribbean plantations in the seventeenth century or in Amazon warehouses today, the powerful have constantly developed new techniques to control workers—and new justifications for doing so. Ideas of control perfected on the factory floor have expanded to dictate our personal ... Read more

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