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“stephen joseph powell”

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  • Just Trade

    A New Covenant Linking Trade and Human Rights

    by Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol, Stephen Joseph Powell ...
    Documents Annex: http://www.nyupress.org/justtradeannex/index.htmlIt is generally assumed that pro-trade laws are not good for human rights, and legislation that protects human rights hampers vibrant international trade. In a bold departure from this canon, Just Trade makes a case for reaching a middleground between these two fields, acknowledging their coexistence and the significant points at ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • Profit Over People

    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • "They Take Our Jobs!"

    And 20 Other Myths about Immigration

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Series Book 1 - Myths Made in America
    Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, destroy the social fabric, challenge American identity, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society. Chomsky dismantles twenty of the most common assumptions and beliefs underlying statements like "I'm ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction

    by David A. Gerber ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety of historical processes--conquest, colonialism, the slave trade, territorial acquisition, and voluntary immigration. A thoughtful look at immigration, anti-immigration sentiments, and the motivations and experiences of the migrants themselves, this book offers a compact but wide-ranging look at one ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    by Morris P. Fiorina, Samuel J. Abrams ...
    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today’s party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate.Building on the arguments of Fiorina’s acclaimed Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, this book explains how contemporary politics differs from that of previous eras ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Right to a Healthy Environment

    Revitalizing Canada's Constitution

    by David R. Boyd ...
    Series series Law and Society Series
    Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Does North America Exist?

    Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11

    by Stephen Clarkson ...
    In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Clarkson asks whether North America "exists" in the sense that the European Union has made Europe exist.Clarkson's rigorous study of the many political and economic relationships that link Canada, the United States, and Mexico answers this unusual ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy, 2nd edition

    by Richard Swift ...
    Series Book 5 - No-Nonsense Guides
    In this updated edition of the No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy, Richard Swift explores how democracy has been constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class from Birmingham to Bangalore.The book includes chapter-length discussions of topics such as the economic meltdown, Barack Obama, eco-democracy, democratizing the economy, and democracy in the Global South. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?

    The Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate

    by Frances Fox Piven ...
    The sociologist and political scientist Frances Fox Piven and her late husband Richard Cloward have been famously credited by Glenn Beck with devising the “Cloward/Piven Strategy,” a world view responsible, according to Beck, for everything from creating a “culture of poverty” and fomenting “violent revolution” to causing global warming and the recent financial crisis. Called an “enemy of the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A People’s Senate for Canada

    Not A Pipe Dream!

    by Helen Forsey ...
    This little book is written for Canadians who care about our democracy and the future of our planet. The Senate, surprisingly, could make major contributions to both. A People’s Senate for Canada explains how we can make that happen.What if we had a Senate that was independent of party politics, truly committed to “sober second thought” and dedicated to the common good? What if Senate appointments ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The World Trade Organization

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Amrita Narlikar ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy and even outrage. Rulings on beef hormones and tuna-dolphin cases provide graphic examples of how the organization regulates and intrudes into areas of individual consumer choice, ethical preferences, and cultural habits. This deep and far-ranging impact ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank

    by Kevin Danaher ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    A veritable "Globalization for Dummies"10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank lays bare the most common myths of globalization in a clear and understandable way. Looking with hope to grassroots movement-building on a global scale, Global Exchange co-founder Kevin Danaher presents ten arguments for abolishing the IMF and World Bank and replacing them with democratic institutions that would make ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD