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Semaphore Series eBook Series

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  • Shopping Cart Pantheism

    by Randolph ...
    Series series Semaphore Series
    Glorifying consumerism as the de facto religion of our time, Shopping Cart Pantheism offers a preposterous yet challenging invitation to participate in commodity worship. As our narrator meanders the Las Vegas Strip, its sites and monuments become examples of Christian sainthood, miracles, worship, and dogma now transformed into icons of consumerism. Satiric, witty, and deeply insightful, Shopping ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    A Memoir

    by Eloisa James ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Wilde in Love, a joyful chronicle of a year in one of the most beautiful cities in the world: Paris.“What a beautiful and delightful tasting menu of a book: the kids, the plump little dog, the Italian husband. Reading this memoir was like wandering through a Parisian patisserie in a dream. I absolutely loved it.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray ... Read more

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  • Foolproof

    Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe

    by Greg Ip ...
    How the very things we create to protect ourselves, like money market funds or anti-lock brakes, end up being the biggest threats to our safety and wellbeing.We have learned a staggering amount about human nature and disaster -- yet we keep having car crashes, floods, and financial crises. Partly this is because the success we have at making life safer enables us to take bigger risks. As our ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Big Data in Practice

    How 45 Successful Companies Used Big Data Analytics to Deliver Extraordinary Results

    by Bernard Marr ...
    The best-selling author of Big Data is back, this time with a unique and in-depth insight into how specific companies use big data.Big data is on the tip of everyone's tongue. Everyone understands its power and importance, but many fail to grasp the actionable steps and resources required to utilise it effectively. This book fills the knowledge gap by showing how major companies are using big data ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • A Tour of Bones

    Facing Fear and Looking for Life

    by Ms Denise Inge ...
    A life-enhancing exploration of how to live well in the face of mortality.Author, academic and adventurer Denise Inge grew up in a large and rambunctious family on the east coast of America. She crossed the Sahara, charmed snakes in Marrakech and cycled the Adirondack mountains but her latest adventure is an interior one. It starts with the discovery that her house is built on a crypt full of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • History and Its Limits

    Human, Animal, Violence

    by Dominick LaCapra ...
    Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding extreme cases, specifically events and experiences involving violence and victimization. He asks how ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Race, Rights and Rebels

    Alternatives to Human Rights and Development from the Global South

    by Julia Suárez-Krabbe ...
    Series series Global Critical Caribbean Thought
    Human rights and development cannot be understood separately. They are historically connected by the idea of race, and have evolved concomitantly with the latter. As the tools of race, human rights and development have been forged in the effort to legitimize and maintain coloniality.While rights and development can be used as tools to achieve protection, specific political goals, or access in the ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Coach and Couch 2nd edition

    The Psychology of Making Better Leaders

    Edited by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Konstantin Korotov, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy, Caroline Rook ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Professor Manfred Kets de Vries and his colleagues have helped thousands of executives to increase their effectiveness in dealing with colleagues and clients, and to refocus their own professional and personal aspirations. This book is a volume of essays on leadership development topics written by academics, coaches, and change consultants. It explores how extraordinary leaders and thriving ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Being Human in a Consumer Society

    by Alejandro Néstor García Martínez ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    This book offers a new perspective on sociological studies of the consumer society, introducing neglected normative questions relating to the good life and human flourishing - subjects more commonly discussed in fields of moral, political, and social philosophy. With attention to a wide range of subjects, including postemotional law and responsibility, dehumanised consumption and prosumerism, ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Superpositions

    Laruelle and the Humanities

    Edited by Julius Greve, Professor Rocco Gangle ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
    One of the most important French philosophers working today, François Laruelle has developed an innovative and powerful repertoire of concepts across an oeuvre spanning four decades and more than twenty books. His work—termed non-philosophy or, more recently, non-standard philosophy—has garnered international attention in recent years and stands likely to have a significant impact on the critical ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Social Norms, Bounded Rationality and Optimal Contracts

    by Suren Basov ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book investigates the ways in which social norms and bounded rationality shape different contracts in the real world. It brings into focus existing research into optimal contracts, draws important lessons from that research, and outlines prospects for future investigation.Bounded rationality has acknowledged effects on the power of incentive provisions, such as deviations from sufficient ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Advanced Introduction to Consumer Behavior Analysis

    by Gordon Foxall ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This concise introduction presents a rigorous analysis of consumer choice ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD