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    Mined for Machines: The Rare Materials That Make AI Possible: Inside the Hidden World of Minerals, Miners, and the New Resource Race for Intelligence

    by Oliver Kraus ...
    Narrated by Oliver Kraus ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 7 min

    Uncover the urgent geopolitical resource race and physical human cost driving the artificial intelligence revolution. While algorithms seem to exist in an invisible cloud, this eye-opening technology and economics deep-dive exposes the heavy infrastructure that makes global computing power possible. An essential listen for an informed morning commute, this gripping narrative plunges into the ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Concise History of the Tomb of Alexander the Great, A: How the World's Most Famous Tomb Vanished

    by Oliver Kraus ...
    Narrated by Oliver Kraus ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 49 min

    Dive into a gripping historical mystery and trace the shocking disappearance of antiquity's most legendary lost monument. Perfect for your morning commute, this suspenseful archaeology adventure investigates how a world-conquering king's golden mausoleum simply vanished. Uncover the ruthless political wars where a stolen royal corpse became the ultimate prize.Immerse yourself in the intellectual ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook to Tocqueville

    Life – Work – Reception

    Edited by Skadi Siiri Krause, Norbert Campagna, Oliver Hidalgo ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of Tocqueville's life, work and impact based on the current state of historical, philosophical and social science research. This volume is dedicated to an extremely multifaceted author who is still underestimated in many respects. It offers a compact and systematic presentation of various aspects of Tocqueville’s thought using a topical approach and ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

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  • The Constitution of Liberty

    The Definitive Edition

    by F.A. A. Hayek ...
    "One of the great political works of our time . . . The twentieth-century successor to John Stuart Mill's essay 'On Liberty.'" — NewsweekConservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government. Enter Nobel Prize–winning economist and political theorist F. A. Hayek, whose passionate warning against empowering states with greater economic control, The Road to ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Rhetoric of Reaction

    by Albert O. Hirschman ...
    With engaging wit and subtle irony, Albert Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative public figures, thinkers, and polemicists have been arguing against progressive agendas and reforms for the past two hundred years. He draws his examples from three successive waves of reactive thought that arose in response to the liberal ideas of the French ... Read more

    $31.39 CAD

  • The Terror of Natural Right

    Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, & the French Revolution

    by Dan Edelstein ...
    Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the "enemy of the human race"—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Equality

    The History of an Elusive Idea

    by Darrin M. McMahon ...
    The definitive history of the idea of equality—and why we’re so ambivalent about itEquality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don’t understand it? As much as we have struggled for equality, we have always been profoundly skeptical about it. How much do we want, and for whom?Darrin ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Foundations of Public Law

    by Martin Loughlin ...
    Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task. Building on the framework first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003), the book conceives public law broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence ... Read more

    $56.79 CAD

  • The Society of Equals

    by Pierre Rosanvallon ...
    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Since the 1980s, society’s wealthiest members have claimed an ever-expanding share of income and property. It has been a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon—the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. And just as significant as the social and economic factors driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • ECONOMIC SENTIMENTS

    by Emma Rothschild ...
    A benchmark in the history of economics and of political ideas, Rothschild shows us the origins of laissez-faire economic thought and its relation to political conseratism in an unquiet world. ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Constitutional Law and Precedent

    International Perspectives on Case-Based Reasoning

    Edited by Monika Florczak-Wątor ...
    This collection examines case-based reasoning in constitutional adjudication; that is, how courts decide on constitutional cases by referring to their own prior case law and the case law of other national, foreign, and international courts. Argumentation based on judicial authority is now fundamental to the resolution of constitutional disputes. At the same time, it is the most common form of ... Read more

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  • Human Rights on Trial

    A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights

    by Justine Lacroix, Jean-Yves Pranchère ...
    Series series Human Rights in History
    The first systematic analysis of the arguments made against human rights from the French Revolution to the present day. Through the writings of Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Louis de Bonald, Joseph de Maistre, Karl Marx, Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt, the authors explore the divergences and convergences between these 'classical' arguments against human rights and the contemporary ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD