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  • Deep Disposal

    A Documentary Account of Burying Nuclear Waste in Canada

    by William Leiss ...
    Canada is one of many countries around the world that use nuclear reactors to generate electrical power, in part to reduce our carbon footprint. Yet this energy produces hazardous, long-lived waste that emits dangerous radioactivity for tens of thousands of years.Nuclear waste, stored temporarily for decades, must be safely disposed of so it will not pose a serious threat to human health and the ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Canada and Climate Change

    by William Leiss ...
    Series Book 2 - Canadian Essentials
    Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it is a global risk unlike anything in human experience.The federal government recently announced aggressive climate targets for Canada. We have committed to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Canada and Climate Change

    by William Leiss ...
    Narrated by Braden Wright ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Canadian Essentials

    Unabridged

    9 hours 36 min

    Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it is a global risk unlike anything in human experienceThe federal government recently announced aggressive climate targets for Canada. We have committed to ... Read more

    $19.95 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Courage Code

    7 Communication Strategies to Change the Way We Work, Live, and Lead

    by Leisse Wilcox ...
    In a world reshaped by AI and automation, the one thing we can't outsource is relationships.The COURAGE Code is a bold, practical guide to leading with emotionally intelligent communication in times of rapid change. Chief People Officer, award-winning speaker, and leadership consultant Leisse Wilcox shares seven powerful strategies to help you communicate clearly, lead confidently, and build ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Alone

    The Truth + Beauty of Belonging

    by Leisse Wilcox ...
    This book is a love letter to anyone and everyone who's ever felt the slow burning sting of being alone and wondered what the hell to do about it.The relationship we have with our Self is the foundation upon which all other relationships are built, so why are we so afraid of being alone?Alone: The Truth + Beauty of Belonging explores that question and reexamines everything we know and feel about ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Essential Marcuse

    Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism. His words are as relevant to today's ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Russian Studies, Political Science, and the Philosophy of Technology

    by Joanna Drzewieniecki, Blair A. Ruble, William M. Reisinger, Marina Zaloznaya, Russell Bova, Nathaniel I. Richmond, Timothy K. Blauvelt, Christofer Berglund, David Foley, Andrew Feenberg0, William Leiss1, Carl Mitcham2, William N. Dunn3, Seymen Atasoy4, Vesna Danilovic5, Farida Jalalzai6, Lisa K. Parshall7, Claude E. Welch8, Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz9, Jesse Driscoll0, Munroe Eagles1, Guoli Liu2, Alexander J. Motyl4, John S. Nelson5, Frank C. Zagare6, Frederic J. Fleron Jr.7 ...
    This volume presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in political science and area studies with an emphasis on Russia. The contributors, all well-known in their specialties, share the conviction that advancement in the social sciences can only be achieved through plural methodological approaches and interaction with various disciplines. Their work in this collection provides critical ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD

  • To Call Myself Beloved

    A Story of Hope, Healing and Coming Home

    by Leisse Wilcox ...
    This is a story of coming home to yourself.To Call Myself Beloved: A Story of Hope, Healing, and Coming Home offers the permission you've been looking for to simply be yourself and accept that with courage, pride, and grace. It really is that simple, even if it is that complicated.Too many of us are tethered to the expectations of other people, living with the feeling that we need to look outside ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Unión Europea para Dummies

    by Olaf Leisse ...
    Translated by Silvia Yusta Fernández ...
    Series series Para Dummies
    Conflictos bélicos, relaciones internacionales, globalización, terrorismo o migración son algunas de las cuestiones que se abordan en el seno de la UE y en las que chocan intereses nacionales, se negocian contradicciones aparentemente irreconciliables y se intenta llegar a una solución en la que todas las partes puedan estar en última instancia de acuerdo. Este libro pretende arrojar algo de luz ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Mandated Science: Science and Scientists in the Making of Standards

    Science and Scientists in the Making of Standards

    by L. Salter, W. Leiss, Edwin Levy ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    For a long time I would not eat strawberries. In 1977, a scandal broke about a testing laboratory having falsified the data that was used to register a large number of pesticides. The Canadian government, along with several others, began the process of re-evaluating both the procedures for testing and these specific chemicals. One chemical proved particularly controversial, the commonly-used ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Religious Minorities in Turkey

    Alevi, Armenians, and Syriacs and the Struggle to Desecuritize Religious Freedom

    by Mehmet Bardakci, Annette Freyberg-Inan, Christoph Giesel, Olaf Leisse ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book considers the key issue of Turkey’s treatment of minorities in relation to its complex paths of both European integration and domestic and international reorientation. The expectations of Turkey’s EU and other international counterparts, as well as important domestic demands, have pushed Turkey to broaden the rights of religious and other minorities. More recently a turn towards ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • C.B. Macpherson

    Dilemmas of Liberalism and Socialism

    by William Leiss ...
    Focusing on two key themes - property and the state - Leiss tracks Macpherson's analysis of the contradictions of liberal-democracy through all of his writings, beginning with his 1935 M.A. thesis supervised by Harold Laski at LSE. His concluding chapter critically examines the core of Macpherson's political philosophy - the distinction between extractive and developmental powers - against the ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD