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  • Code of the Suburb

    Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers

    by Scott Jacques, Richard Wright ...
    Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
    This ethnography of teenage suburban drug dealers "provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war" (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run).When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening in disadvantaged, crime-ridden, urban neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere. And teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Potato Beetles

    by Richard L. Jacques ...
    Based on over 2,500 specimens representing all the species of Leptinotarsa in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, this book includes studies on 31 of the 41 known species of the world. Included are host records, when available, and distribution data. The most complete information is available for nine species found in the United States. ... Read more

    $187.99 CAD

  • Statistics at Square Two

    by Michael J. Campbell, Richard M. Jacques ...
    STATISTICS AT SQUARE TWOAn easy-to-follow exploration of intermediate statistical techniques used in medical researchIn the newly revised third edition of Statistics at Square Two: Understanding Modern Statistical Applications in Medicine, a team of distinguished statisticians delivers an accessible and intuitive discussion of advanced statistical methods for readers and users of scientific ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The World's Great Sermons

    Volume II—Hooker to South

    by Kleiser Grenville, Thomas Hooker, Jeremy Taylor, Richard Baxter, Jacques-Bénigne Bousset, John Bunyan, John Tillotson, Louis Bourdaloue, John Howe, François Fenelon, Robert South ...
    Series Book 2 - The World's Great Sermons
    The aim in preparing this work has been to bring together the best examples of the products of the pulpit through the Christian centuries, and to present these masterpieces in attractive and convenient form. It is believed that they will be found valuable as instruction to ministers of to-day. They should also be helpful to others who, tho not preachers, yet seek reading of this kind for the ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Humanitarian Ecological Economics and Accounting

    Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy

    by Jacques Richard, Alexandre Rambaud ...
    Series series Economics and Humanities
    The strict conversation of financial capital allows accountants to preserve capitalism in its current form. Thus, building a more humane economy will require a new accounting model.Humanitarian Ecological Economics and Accounting: Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy argues for the adoption of a CARE model: comprehensive accounting in respect of ecology. This new model will take the traditional ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • UFOs and the National Security State

    Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973

    by Richard Dolan ...
    "The documentation is spectacularly good, the best ever on the UFO subject. And the conclusion is overwhelmingly powerful." —Whitley Strieber, New York Times–bestselling authorRichard M. Dolan is a gifted historian whose study of US Cold War strategy led him to the broader context of increased security measures and secrecy since World War II. One aspect of such government policies that has ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Economics, Accounting and the True Nature of Capitalism

    Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy

    by Jacques Richard, Alexandre Rambaud ...
    Series series Economics and Humanities
    Almost all economists, whether classical, neoclassical or Marxist, have failed in their analyses of capitalism to consider the underpinning systems of accounting. This book draws attention to this lacuna, focusing specifically on the concept of capital: a major concept that dominates all teaching and practice in both economics and management.It is argued that while for the practitioners of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Building Governance and Climate Change

    Regulation and Related Policies

    Edited by Richard Lorch, Jacques Laubscher, Edwin Hon-wan Chan, Henk Visscher ...
    The contribution of buildings to climate change is widely acknowledged. This book investigates how building regulatory systems are addressing the current and future effects of climate change, and how these systems can be improved. After presenting a comprehensive overview of how the current building regulatory system developed, some of the inadequacies are identified. The largest part of the book ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Capitalism as Megamachine

    A New Historical, Legal and Political Approach

    by Jacques Richard ...
    Series series Economics and Humanities
    The concept of a “megamachine” – a closed system operating to a pre-established utilitarian purpose which results in the machinisation of humanity – has existed in various forms since at least the late 19th century.This book builds on previous attempts to define and analyse the machine and argues that modern industrial capitalism is at the heart of it. The first part of the book takes stock of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Capital in the History of Accounting and Economic Thought

    Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy

    by Jacques Richard, Alexandre Rambaud ...
    Series series Economics and Humanities
    Starting with the first "scientific" economists such as Cantillon (1755) and Quesnay (1758) and ending with Piketty (2019), this book explores the treatment of the concept of capital in the history of accounting and economic thought.The work provides a rare juxtaposition of the reasoning, discourse and writings of accountants and economists. With regard to ‘capital’, this approach highlights the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Ordering Knowledge

    Disciplinarity and the Shaping of European Modernity

    Edited by Jean-Jacques Chardin, Sorana Corneanu, Richard Somerset ...
    Series series Études anglophones
    As the world struggles to come to grips with the rise of new populisms that call into question the legitimacy of technocratic expertise, the historical understanding of the processes by which the characteristically modern modes of meaning-making came into existence has never been so important. Politically-motivated attacks on ‘science’ are difficult to counter in a climate of generalised ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Radical Ecological Economics and Accounting to Save the Planet

    The Failure of Mainstream Economists

    by Jacques Richard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    The solutions and tools generally offered to policymakers on environmental issues – such as carbon pricing and environmental taxation – most often emanate from neoclassical economists. This book shows that the tools of these economists are ineffective for the job and must be replaced by methods from the sphere of ecological accounting.The work has four main themes: First, the book provides a ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD