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  • Pollution, Politics, and Power

    The Struggle for Sustainable Electricity

    The electric power industry has been transformed over the past forty years, becoming more reliable and resilient while meeting environmental goals. A big question now is how to prevent backsliding.Pollution, Politics, and Power tells the story of the remarkable transformation of the electric power industry over the last four decades. Electric power companies have morphed from highly polluting ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Demolition Agenda

    The Dismantling of American Government . . . And How We Can Stop It

    A sweeping account of the first Trump administration’s systematic dismantling of the national agencies that protect our health, safety, and climate—and the progressive and equitable political future that is possible when we put people over power and greed“The sort of book that journalists, activists, and historians may want to keep on their shelves—forever.”**—**Forbes MagazineNow revised with a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedom to Harm

    The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival

    How much economic freedom is a good thing? This book tells the story of how the business community, and the trade associations and think tanks that it created, launched three powerful assaults during the last quarter of the twentieth century on the federal regulatory system and the state civil justice system to accomplish a revival of the laissez faire political economy that dominated Gilded Age ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Bending Science

    How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research

    What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in our air and water? How reliable is the science that federal regulators and legislators use to protect the public from dangerous products? As this disturbing book shows, ideological or economic attacks on research are part of an extensive pattern of abuse.Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner reveal the range of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition

    What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

    America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us.In this timely book, Robert B. Reich argues that nothing good happens in Washington unless citizens are energized and organized to make sure Washington acts in the public ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

    A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The System

    Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

    From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change.There is a mounting sense that our political-economic system is no longer working, but what is the core problem and how do we remedy it? With the characteristic ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Health Care in Canada

    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Lethal But Legal

    Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health

    Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back from their responsibility to protect public health by privatizing key services, weakening regulations, and cutting ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Project

    How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent, topic-by-topic guide to Project 2025, with everything you need to know about how the second Trump administration is remaking America—from a go-to authority at The AtlanticWhen President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, news spread about his implementation of Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page document published by the conservative ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • America, Compromised

    An analysis of "the Trump era, but not about Trump. . . . but on how incentives across a range of institutions have created corruption" ( New York Times Book Review)."There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are."So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of modern-day American institutions and the corruption that besets them—from the selling of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Health Care Paradox

    Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

    Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of MedicineFor decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD