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  • Oil and Development in Ghana

    Beyond the Resource Curse

    by Nathan Andrews, Pius Siakwah ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Political Economy of Africa
    This book gives a comprehensive overview of Ghana’s hydrocarbon economy using actor network and assemblage theories to contest the methodological nationalism of mainstream accounts of the resource curse in resource-rich countries.Drawing upon recent field research focused on Ghana’s oil and gas sector and utilizing the theoretical framework of actor network theory, the authors contend that there ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Gold Mining and the Discourses of Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana

    by Nathan Andrews ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book critically examines the practice and meanings of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and how the movement has facilitated a positive and somewhat unquestioned image of the global corporation. Drawing on extensive fieldwork material collected in Ghanaian communities located around the project sites of Newmont Mining Corporation and Kinross Gold Corporation, the monograph employs ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • China in the Era of Xi Jinping

    Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges

    by Robert S. Ross, Jo Inge Bekkevold, Zhiyue Bo, Yongnian Zheng, Cuifen Weng, Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Stig Stenslie, Gang Chen0, Linda Jakobson1, Andrew Nathan2, Helge Hveem3, T J. Pempel4, Mingjiang Li5 ...
    Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking economic expansion and military modernization that Xi inherited has convinced him that China can transform into a twenty-first-century superpower.In this collection, leading scholars from the United States, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Canada’s Role in Africa’s Extractive Sectors

    Edited by Nathan Andrews, j. Andrew Grant ...
    Africa’s natural resource sectors are experiencing unprecedented levels of foreign investment and production. Hailed as a means of reducing poverty and reliance on foreign aid, the role of foreign corporations in Africa’s extractive sector is not well understood and important questions remain about the impact of such activities on people and on the environment.With reference to global governance ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa

    Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

    Edited by Nathan Andrews, J. Andrew Grant, Jesse Salah Ovadia ...
    There is no question that Africa is endowed with abundant natural resources of different magnitudes. However, more than a decade of high commodity prices and new hydrocarbon discoveries across the continent has led countless international organizations, donor agencies, and non-governmental organizations to devote considerable attention to the potential of natural resource–based development.Natural ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Teen Beach Movie

    by Sarah Nathan, Disney Book Group ...
    Narrated by Andrew Eiden ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 56 min

    BACK IN TIMEMcKenzie and her boyfriend Brady are having the best summer ever when Mack’s aunt arrives to bring her back east for school. Before Mack leaves for her exclusive prep school, she and Brady decide to surf one last wave for the summer. But after a surfing mishap, the duo finds themselves transported into a classic m1960s beach movie musical! They soon discover that there is an intense ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    A Day Like Any Other

    The Life of James Schuyler

    by Nathan Kernan ...
    Narrated by Andrew Gibson ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 16 min

    Nathan Kernan's A Day Like Any Other is the definitive biography of the great American poet who was an original member of the so called New York School of poetry. Kernan goes back to trace the tumultuous arc of the poet's life and work.Born in Chicago in 1923, James Schuyler grew up in Washington, DC, and upstate New York before moving to New York City in 1944, where he fell into the social orbit ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries

    Rights, Processes, and Tensions

    Edited by Paul A. Haslam, Nathan Andrews, Karin Buhmann, Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu, Mark Stoddart ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This volume examines how communities, companies, and governments contest and contribute to the evolution of norms, rules and decision-making procedures that govern stakeholder consultation in the extractive industries.In recent years international organisations, governments and companies around the world have dramatically reformed the regime that governs consultations with community stakeholders ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing African Studies Pedagogies

    Knowledge Production, Epistemic Imperialism and Black Agency

    Edited by Nathan Andrews, Nene Ernest Khalema ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Chapter 1 “Re-Storying African (Studies) Pedagogies: Decolonizing Knowledge and Centering Black Agency?” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Extractive Bargains

    Natural Resources and the State-Society Nexus

    Edited by Paul Bowles, Nathan Andrews ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is the first to focus on state-led ‘extractive bargains,’ designed to reach a social consensus on the extent of extractive activities, how they should be governed and their negative consequences mitigated. These state-led ‘bargains’ have taken a number of different forms and offer varying degrees of promise in meeting environmental and social concerns. The book critically examines ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Quiet State

    Micro-Surveillance and Normalisation in Tibet

    by Robert Barnett ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book is both a meticulously researched account of newly emerging forms of rule in the Chinese borderlands and a broader theoretical intervention into the study of authoritarian governance.Taking the current situation in Tibet as its case study, The Quiet State shows how local officials in Tibet have developed previously unknown methods to micromanage and surveil certain social ... Read more

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  • Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease

    Epidemiology, Assessment, and Management

    Edited by Andrew J. Krentz, Nathan D. Wong ...
    Addressing a topic of utmost importance in the field, this text addresses the epidemiology, diagnosis, assessment, and management of patients with metabolic syndrome-focusing on implications for cardiovascular disease risk. With an abundance of clearly organized tables, flowcharts, and practice guidelines, this blue-ribbon source succinctly analyze ... Read more

    $253.99 CAD