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Books narrated by Gilbert Breton

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  • Alternatives to Neoliberalism

    Towards Equality and Democracy

    by Karel Williams, Sukhdev Johal, Jeremy Gilbert, Colin Crouch, Andrew Cumbers, Michael Moran, Grahame Thompson, Zoë Irving, Kevin Farnsworth, Ted Benton, Anna Coote ...
    In this collection, innovative and eminent social and policy analysts, including Colin Crouch, Anna Coote, Grahame Thompson and Ted Benton, challenge the failing but still dominant ideology and policies of neo-liberalism.The editors synthesise contributors’ ideas into a revised framework for social democracy; rooted in feminism, environmentalism, democratic equality and market accountability to ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Taoist Religion

    by Warren Gilbert Benton ...
    The term Taoism (also known as Taouism or Daoism), refers to a school of philosophical thought and a religion, which both share ideas and concepts of Chinese origin and emphasize living in harmony with the Tao (“Way”) and have had a profound influence on Chinese culture over the centuries. The Tao Te Ching, a book containing teachings attributed to Lao-tse, along with the later writings of ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ethics of Confucius

    by Warren Gilbert Benton ...
    Kǒng Fūzǐ, or Kung-fu-tse (latinized into Confucius in the late 16th century by the early Jesuit missionaries) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Born around 550 B.C., he descended from one of the many royal families which had figured in the past as rulers of tribes or provinces of ancient China. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Buddhism

    by Warren Gilbert Benton ...
    How important has Buddhism been to China historically? How much did the thought and philosophy of Buddhism contribute to the formation of Chinese culture as we know it today? The great American journalist Warren Gilbert Benton (1850-1931), with his short but interesting essay Chinese Buddhism, published in February 1891 on the magazine Popular Science Monthly, attempted to answer these questions. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Pauperism to Poverty

    by Karel Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare
    First published in 1981, From Pauperism to Poverty consists of seven essays, three of which focus on the English poor law between 1800 and 1914 and four of which examine texts of social investigation by Mayhew, Engels, Booth and Rowntree. Rather than making a specialist contribution to the history of social thought and policy, the essays raise general questions about current ways of writing ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Why are the British Bad at Manufacturing?

    by Karel Williams, John Williams, Dennis Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Economics
    This book, first published in 1983, offers a new explanation for the poor performance of British manufacturing since 1950. Rather than invoke orthodox economic theory or general social factors, the book analyses four national conditions – enterprise control over the labour process; market structure and the composition of demand; the relation of manufacturing enterprise to financial institutions ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

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  • The Invention of a New Religion

    by Basil Hall Chamberlain ...
    Voltaire and the other eighteenth-century philosophers, who held religions to be the invention of priests, have been scorned as superficial by later investigators. But was there not something in their view, after all? Have not we, of a later and more critical day, got into so inveterate a habit of digging deep that we sometimes fail to see what lies before our very noses? Modern Japan is there to ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Great Learning

    by Confucius ...
    The Great Learning was one of the "Four Books" in Confucianism. The Great Learning had come from a chapter in the Classic of Rites which formed one of the Five Classics. It consists of a short main text attributed to the teachings of Confucius and then ten commentary chapters accredited to one of Confucius' disciples, Zengzi. The ideals of the book were supposedly Confucius's; however the text was ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Historical Destiny of the United States

    The Mystery of the American Money

    by Emmet Fox ...
    In order to understand the special work which the United States has been called upon to do in the history of Humanity, we have first to remember that the American people are, historically, that section of the people of Europe whose task it was to explore the continent of America, to subdue it and to develop it. It is impossible to understand the historical significance and importance of any ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seven Lucky Gods of Japan

    by Reiko Chiba ...
    This Japanese Shinto book profiles each of the "Seven Luck Gods"—important deities in Japanese culture.The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan are a group of deities whose origins stem from Indian, Chinese, and indigenous Japanese gods of fortune. Not all of the gods are mythical beings. One of them is an actual historical person. Each of the seven gods has been recognized as a deity for more than a ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Great Learning (Unabridged)

    Translated by James Legge ...
    by Confucius Confucius ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: “The Great Learning (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Great Learning

    by Confucius ...
    An introduction and foundational guide for the further study of Confucian texts. The Great Learning provides a step-by-step illustration of how all aspects of society, ranging from the refinement of the self to the order within one's household or state is ultimately dependent upon the expansion of one's knowledge. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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