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  • The Pirate Organization

    Lessons from the Fringes of Capitalism

    by Rodolphe Durand, Jean-Philippe Vergne ...
    A short history of piracy and capitalismWhen capitalism spread along the trade routes toward the Indies…when radio opened an era of mass communication . . . when the Internet became part of the global economy…pirates were there. And although most people see pirates as solitary anarchists out to destroy capitalism, it turns out the opposite is true. They are the ones who forge the path.In The ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Against the Great Reset

    Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order

    Edited by Michael Walsh ...
    Much more than a collection of essays by eminent writers, Against the Great Reset is intended to kick off the intellectual resistance to the sweeping restructuring of the western world by globalist elites.In June 2020, prominent business and political leaders gathered for the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, under the rubric of “The Great Reset.” In the words ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Politics: Ideas in Profile

    by David Runciman ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsIn the first title of an exciting new series one of the world's leading political scientists asks the big questions about politics: what is it, why we do we need it and where, in these turbulent times, is it heading? From the gap between rich and poor to the impact of social media, via Machiavelli, Hobbes and Weber, Runciman's comprehensive short ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Winning Power

    Canadian Campaigning in the Twenty-First Century

    by Tom Flanagan ...
    Campaigns are central to the practice of modern democracy and integral to political participation in the twenty-first century. In Winning Power, Tom Flanagan draws on decades of experience teaching political science and managing political campaigns to inform readers about what goes on behind the scenes.While the goal of political campaigning - using persuasion to build a winning coalition - ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Territory, Authority, Rights

    From Medieval to Global Assemblages

    by Saskia Sassen ...
    Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights, one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as "denationalization," it continues to be shaped, channeled, and enabled by institutions and networks originally ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Deadly Life of Logistics

    Mapping Violence in Global Trade

    by Deborah Cowen ...
    In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our “stuff” has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not surprising, Deborah Cowen reveals, if we understand its genesis in war.In The Deadly Life of Logistics, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • NO MEANS NO, THE KITCHENUHMAYKOOSIB INNINUWUG AND THE FIGHT FOR RESOURCE SOVEREIGNTY

    by DAVID PEERLA ...
    In 2006, the remote Ontario First Nation of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) said no to a mining company, was sued for $10 billion, had its leaders found in contempt of court and jailed but eventually prevailed when, three years later, the Ontario government paid the company $5 million to go away. This is how it happened. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Homo Economicus

    The (Lost) Prophet of Modern Times

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by Susan Emanuel ...
    The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness.In this wide-ranging new book, the leading economist Daniel Cohen traces our current malaise back to the rise of homo economicus: for the last 200 years, the modern world has defined happiness in terms of material ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century

    A Middle Way between West and East

    by Nicolas Berggruen, Nathan Gardels ...
    For decades, liberal democracy has been extolled as the best system of governance to have emerged out of the long experience of history. Today, such a confident assertion is far from self-evident. Democracy, in crisis across the West, must prove itself.In the West today, the authors argue, we no longer live in "industrial democracies," but "consumer democracies" in which the governing ethos has ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Dreamscapes of Modernity

    Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power

    by Sheila Jasanoff, Sang-hyun Kim ...
    Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological progress carry with them implicit ideas about public purposes, collective futures, and the common good. The book presents a mix of case studies—including ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anarchy Unbound

    Why Self-Governance Works Better Than You Think

    by Peter T. Leeson ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
    In Anarchy Unbound, Peter T. Leeson uses rational choice theory to explore the benefits of self-governance. Relying on experience from the past and present, Professor Leeson provides evidence of anarchy 'working' where it is least expected to do so and explains how this is possible. Provocatively, Leeson argues that in some cases anarchy may even outperform government as a system of social ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The End of Power

    Moisés Naím's masterpiece summarized in only 30 pages

    by Anonymous ...
    Series Book 1 - Summary
    "In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use and easier to lose", states Moisés Naím in his book The End of Power. In this review we outline his key ideas, which explain why power scattered among many actors, agents of new micropowers, poses one of the greatest current challenges. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus