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  • The Gentle Romance

    Stories of AI and humanity

    by Richard Ngo ...
    'Full of depth and insight-Richard's stories push me to think bigger. They are engaging and grounded in real ideas about the future.' - John Schulman, Creator of ChatGPTA collection of twenty-two riveting science fiction stories from leading AI researcher Richard Ngo.In Lentando, a 'zero-knowledge' consultant pieces together a secret from her deleted selves that could threaten the world order. In ... Read more

    $26.79 CAD

  • Political Conflict and Development in East Asia and Latin America

    Edited by Richard Boyd, Tak-Wing Ngo, Galjart Benno ...
    Long run processes of socio-economic change generate prodigious problems of social conflict and social control, and governments responsible for these processes must therefore manage the resultant conflict. Consequently, the success or failure of a government's management of such conflicts is a crucial factor in development outcomes.This volume investigates the political struggle for development ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • State Making in Asia

    Edited by Richard Boyd, Tak-Wing Ngo ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Including contributions from an international team of leading experts, this volume examines state making from a uniquely Asian perspective and reveals some of the misunderstandings that arise when states and state making are judged solely on the basis of Western history. The contributors argue that if we are to understand states in Asia then we must first recognize the particular combination of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Asian States

    Beyond the Developmental Perspective

    Edited by Richard Boyd, Tak-Wing Ngo ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental state theory. Asian States argues that regardless of the merits of the developmental state as an explanation of economic growth, it falls far short of being an adequate theory of the state in Asia. The contributors critically review claims about ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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  • Asian Anthropology

    Edited by Jan Van Bremen, Eyal Ben-Ari, Syed Farid Alatas ...
    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed ... Read more

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  • Life 3.0

    Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    by Max Tegmark ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.How ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Good Governance in the Era of Global Neoliberalism

    Conflict and Depolitization in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa

    Edited by Jolle Demmers, Alex E. Fernández Jilberto, Barbara Hogenboom ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    This new collection critically examines the new global policy of 'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and exactly what that means, under the microscope and examines the impact of neoliberal governance in a wide range of countries and territories, ... Read more

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  • Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

    by Jack Donnelly ...
    In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea of human rights itself-is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Labor Versus Empire

    Race, Gender, Migration

    Edited by Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Raul A. Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith, Linda Trinh Võ ...
    The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor. ... Read more

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  • Red Tape

    Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

    by Akhil Gupta ...
    Series series A John Hope Franklin Center book
    Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Global Migration and Development

    Edited by Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan, Annelies Zoomers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer. The potential positive role of migration for countries and regions the emigrants originate from has recently been acknowledged by, among others, the World Bank, United Nations Commissions and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). This ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Asia as Method

    Toward Deimperialization

    by Kuan-Hsing Chen ...
    Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of deimperialization became impossible to imagine in imperial ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD