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  • The Business of Emotions in Modern History

    Edited by Mandy L. Cooper, Dr Andrew Popp ...
    Series series History of Emotions
    The Business of Emotions in Modern History shows how businesses, from individual entrepreneurs to family firms and massive corporations, have relied on, leveraged, generated and been shaped by emotions for centuries. With a broad temporal and global coverage, ranging from the early modern era to the present day in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, the essays in this volume highlight the rich ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Curiosity of School

    Education And The Dark Side Of Enlightenment

    by Zander Sherman ...
    It's one thing we all have in common. We've all been to school. But as Zander Sherman shows in this fascinating, often shocking account of institutionalized education, sending your kids off to school was not always normal. In fact, school is a very recent invention. Taking the reader back to 19th-century Prussia, where generals, worried about soldiers' troubling individuality, sought a way to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • In Defense of a Liberal Education

    by Fareed Zakaria ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition.**The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Intellectuals and Race

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America*Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.The views of individual intellectuals ... Read more

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  • Bourgeois Equality

    How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

    by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...
    How standards of living have skyrocketed since 1800, and the political philosophy that made it possible: "Persuasive…richly detailed and erudite."— Financial TimesThere's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in this concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The XX Factor

    How The Rise Of Working Women Has Created A Far Less Equal World

    by Alison Wolf ...
    For most of history, being female defined the limits of a woman’s achievements. But now women can be successful careerists equal to men. In Norway, women legally must constitute a third of all boards; in the U.S.A., women have gone from being 3 percent of practising lawyers in 1970 to 40 percent today. Currently, more than seventy million educated women work alongside men. ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • The History Manifesto

    by Jo Guldi, David Armitage ...
    How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of David Graeber's Debt

    The First 5,000 Years

    by Sulaiman Hakemy ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of generating profit and exerting control, is central to grasping the way in which our society really works.David Graeber's contribution to this debate is to apply his anthropologists' training to the understanding of a phenomenon often considered purely ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Adam Smith’s America

    How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism

    by Glory M. Liu ...
    The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America’s founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue. Today, Smith is one of the most influential icons of economic thought in America. Glory Liu traces how ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • Decolonizing Design

    A Cultural Justice Guidebook

    by Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall ...
    A guidebook to the institutional transformation of design theory and practice by restoring the long-excluded cultures of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities.From the excesses of world expositions to myths of better living through technology, modernist design, in its European-based guises, has excluded and oppressed the very people whose lands and lives it reshaped. Decolonizing ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Unsettling the Great White North

    Black Canadian History

    Edited by Michele A. Johnson, Funké Aladejebi ...
    An exhaustive volume of leading scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history, Unsettling the Great White North highlights the diverse experiences of persons of African descent within the chronicles of Canada’s past. The book considers histories and theoretical framings within the disciplines of history, sociology, law, and cultural and gender studies to chart the mechanisms of exclusion and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption

    Edited by Frank Trentmann ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal. The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent years, and it has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a great divergence between East and West? Did the twentieth century see the triumph of global ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD