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  • Being Human

    How to Thrive in an Ideas-Informed Future

    Collections series SocietyNow
    Provides a new and unique take on how to tackle many of the problems facing society today, ranging from improving individuals’ informed choices and behaviors, to new ways of developing policy that consider and account for what is valued by society beyond GDP.Explores the meaning of an ‘ideas-informed world’ – a world in which citizens regularly keep themselves up to date by actively engaging with ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Educating Tomorrow

    Learning for the Post-Pandemic World

    Collections series SocietyNow
    The post-pandemic world provides all of us with the opportunity to think differently about what we want for society. In Educating Tomorrow, Chris Brown and Ruth Luzmore explore what a post-Covid ‘blank slate’ education system could look like.Taking you on a journey which considers the past and present to inform their prediction of the obstacles and opportunities posed by a post-pandemic future, ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Out of Our Minds

    The Power of Being Creative

    par Ken Robinson ...
    Creativity is critical.Out of Our Minds explores creativity: its value in business, its ubiquity in children, its perceived absence in many adults and the phenomenon through which it disappears — and offers a groundbreaking approach for getting it back. Author Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognised authority on creativity, and his TED talk on the subject is the most watched video in TED ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • This Civilisation is Finished

    Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

    Industrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. The reckless combustion of fossil fuels means that Earth’s climate is changing disastrously, in ways that cannot be resolved by piecemeal reform or technological innovation. Sooner rather than later this global capitalist system will come to an end, destroyed by its own ecological contradictions. ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • Sociology

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Steve Bruce ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the individual's place in society and society's role in shaping the individual, and demonstrates the value of sociology for understanding the modern world. In this new edition Steve Bruce discusses ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

  • Positive Linking

    How Networks Can Revolutionise the World

    par Paul Ormerod ...
    According to Paul Ormerod, author of the bestselling Butterfly Economics and Why Most Things Fail, the mechanistic viewpoint of conventional economics is drastically limited - because it cannot comprehend the vital nature of networks. As our societies become ever more dynamic and intertwined, network effects on every level are increasingly profound. 'Nudge theory' is popular, but only part of the ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Work

    A Very Short Introduction

    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'. Work -- paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory -- is woven into the fabric of all human societies. For many of us, it becomes part of our identity. For others it is a tedious necessity. Living is problematic without paid work, and for many it is catastrophic. ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Futures We Make

    How our hobbies help make us whole and heal the planet

    par Paul Wildman ...
    https://www.facebook.com/TheFuturesWeMake - Hobbies—now that sounds like a great idea. We all have them in various guises. Most of them are hands-on and can be done in our spare time. So can we harness our hobbies to help the world? To help save our planet? Not only is this eBook a call to celebrate and recognise the importance hands-on craftwork plays in humanity, i.e. craft as play (adults) and ... En savoir plus

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  • The Bold and the Brave

    A History of Women in Science and Engineering

    par Monique Frize ...
    The Bold and the Brave investigates how women have striven throughout history to gain access to education and careers in science and engineering. Author Monique Frize, herself an engineer for over 40 years, introduces the reader to key concepts and debates that contextualize the obstacles women have faced and continue to face in the fields of science and engineering. She focuses on the history of ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis

    Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare

    par Sally Weintrobe ...
    Collections series Psychoanalytic Horizons
    Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also in ourselves.Sally Weintrobe argues that achieving the shift to greater care requires us to stop colluding with Exceptionalism, the rigid ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Against Fairness

    par Stephen T. Asma ...
    "Mr. Asma offers a rightly critical diagnosis of our obsession with egalitarianism." — The Wall Street JournalIn our zealous pursuit of fairness, we have banished our urges to like one person more than another, one thing over another, hiding them away as dirty secrets of our humanity. In Against Fairness, polymath philosopher Stephen T. Asma drags them triumphantly back into the light. Through ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Long View

    Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time

    par Richard Fisher ...
    A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.Humans are unique in our ability to understand time, able to comprehend the past and future like no other species. Yet modern-day technology and capitalism have supercharged our short-termist tendencies and trapped us in the present, at the mercy of reactive politics, quarterly business targets and 24-hour ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $9.99 CAD Maintenant $4.99 CAD