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  • North Carolina in the Anxious Age

    People, Places, and Policies That Will Shape the North Carolina Economy Through the Turbulent Twenty-First Century

    We live in a collective moment that, for many, goes beyond uncertainty and holds unease and worry about the future. And while most, if not all, of these “Anxious Age” issues affect other states and even nations, Michael L. Walden, one of the foremost experts in North Carolina economics, makes clear the specific ways they’ll affect North Carolinians, making this a must-read for policymakers, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Disunionia

    A Political Thriller

    The United States’ political system has fractured into multiple tribal groups. A federal budget hasn’t been passed in years, and presidents are routinely impeached during their first month in office. States have closed their borders and thumbed their collective noses at the federal government. The country is running on fumes, and foreign powers know it. It seems it’s only a matter of time before ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Tax Turmoil

    A Dia Fenner Economic Thriller

    Economist Dia Fenner has settled down in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband Ethan and infant daughter Ava. She is now the fiscal adviser to the new Libertarian Governor of North Carolina. When the Governor proposes an ambitious plan to simplify taxes, lower rates, and eliminate tax perks to certain groups, she puts Dia in charge of selling the plan to the public and pushing it through the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • North Carolina beyond the Connected Age

    The Tar Heel State in 2050

    For years, North Carolina has been one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the state’s people, industries, jobs, places, environment, and government. Much of this change resulted from the information and technology revolution, which connected the state more fully to the country and the world. But we are now moving beyond the connected age, argues Michael L. Walden ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • North Carolina in the Connected Age

    Challenges and Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy

    At a time when North Carolina’s population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the state’s leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future.Today we are living in a technologically connected age that has completely transformed the North Carolina economy, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Fiscal Fiasco

    A Dia Fenner Economic Thriller

    Professor Dia Fenner is on a sabbatical leave at Duke University studying the best way for retirees to invest their money. There's a personal reason for her work - her mother Ava was fleeced of her retirement savings by an unscrupulous financial adviser. But someone wants to stop Dia - first by stealing her data and then by threatening her life. But who's the culprit - the New York bank CEO, the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    Jewish Children Yudishe Kinder (Unabridged)

    Narrated by Michael Walden ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 31 min

    Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about life in a late 19th-century Russian-Jewish village -- the world of my grandparents. Sholem Rabinovich was born in Pereiaslav, Ukraine and later immigrated to New York. His short stories about Tevye and his daughters were freely adapted into the musical ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    Tax Turmoil

    A Dia Fenner Economic Thriller

    Unabridged

    4 hours 43 min

    Economist Dia Fenner has settled down in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband Ethan and infant daughter Ava. She is now the fiscal adviser to the new Libertarian Governor of North Carolina. When the Governor proposes an ambitious plan to simplify taxes, lower rates, and eliminate tax perks to certain groups, she puts Dia in charge of selling the plan to the public and pushing it through the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New York Commuter's Glossary

    The New York Commuter's Glossary is a collection of words and phrases--neologisms, mashups, made-up terms--that defines the life of the train commuter into, out of, and around New York City, from the tense fight for leg room with the rider facing you ("kneegotiations"), to the frightening feeling of waking up on the train and bolting for the door, certain that the present stop is your own ( ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

    For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit. They document the proliferation of regressive regulations that ... Read more

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  • Resilience and Opportunity

    Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita

    Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Commentary and analysis typically focused on what went wrong in the post-disaster emergency response. This forward-looking book, however, presents a more cautiously optimistic view about the region's ability to bounce back after multiple disasters.Catastrophes come in different forms-hurricanes, recessions, and oil spills, to name a ... Read more

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  • Human Capital Investment for Central City Revitalization

    Series series Contemporary Urban Affairs
    Viewing poverty as a condition that is fed and renewed on a daily basis by social and economic structures, this book focuses on the ways in which poor residents can be helped to improve their own situations, their living conditions, and the central city itself. Also includes four maps. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD