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  • The Fall of the American Empire

    by Kevin Grant ...
    America is entering a period of social and economic crisis. In this book, we examine causes, cures, and ways to mitigate the damage if the crisis turns out to be unavoidable. We explore how the actions of government have influenced events. Finally, we put the crisis into a larger context, that of the historical cycle of empire, and discuss how we can break the cycle once and for all. ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting Screwed: A Layman's Guide to Political Strategy

    by Kevin Grant ...
    If you're like most people then you live your life with no real understanding of the political game in which you're one of the pieces being played. But have no fear. As with any other game, there are explicit strategic and tactical considerations whose mastery will improve your understanding of the game. In Getting Screwed, Dr. Grant shows the readers how the game of politics is played. Among the ... Read more

    $6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vigilantes

    Private Justice in Popular Cinema

    by Kevin Grant ...
    For many people, the cinematic vigilante has been shaped by Charles Bronson's character in Death Wish and its sequels. But screen vigilantes have taken many guises, from Old West lynch mobs and rogue police officers to rape-avengers and military-trained equalizers.This book recounts the varied representations of such characters in films like The Birth of a Nation, which celebrated the violence of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Roots of Film Noir

    Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s

    by Kevin Grant ...
    Individual reviews of 90+ films created and released before 1941 are included here in the first title-by-title reference guide to the forerunners of film noir. Silent Hitchcock thrillers and German expressionist masterpieces, French poetic realist dramas and forgotten Hollywood B-movies, pseudo-Freudian gangster films and costume melodramas are among the works covered.The collection spans ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Civilised Savagery

    Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926

    by Kevin Grant ...
    In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called 'new slaveries' of European imperialism in Africa, condemning coercive systems of labor taxation and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Innovation Support in Latin America and Europe

    Theory, Practice and Policy in Innovation and Innovation Systems

    by Mark Anderson, David Edgar, Kevin Grant, Keith Halcro, Julio Mario Rodriguez Devis, Lautaro Guera Genskowsky ...
    Latin America represents one of the most dynamic business regions in the world. Innovation Support in Latin America and Europe explores the need for training innovation professionals, identifies appropriate strategies and best practice for ensuring its delivery, and reflects the outcomes of a major innovation and knowledge transfer project. Academics, business professionals, policy makers, and ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Last Weapons

    Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire, 1890–1948

    by Kevin Grant ...
    Series Book 16 - Berkeley Series in British Studies
    Last Weapons explains how the use of hunger strikes and fasts in political protest became a global phenomenon. Exploring the proliferation of hunger as a form of protest between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Kevin Grant traces this radical tactic as it spread through trans-imperial networks among revolutionaries and civil-rights activists from Russia to Britain to Ireland to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    The Adventures of Squirrel Fluffytail (Unabridged)

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    by Dolores McKenna ...
    Narrated by William Knox, Kevin Grant, Kristin Newton, Sheri Slone ...

    Unabridged

    19 min

    "Once upon a time, on a beautiful island that stood at the center of a great big lake, there lived in the heart of a kindly old oak tree a dear little squirrel family. There were three in all; father, mother and fluffytail and they were just the happiest family one could imagine." So begins the tale of little Fluffytail (whose tail was very fluffy indeed!) and her many adventures. A fun little ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    by Roger Ebert ...
    From America's most trusted and highly visible film critic, 100 more brilliant essays on the films that define cinematic greatness.Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to films with a ... Read more

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  • Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

    A Global Commentary

    Edited by Laura Spence, Mollie Painter-Morland ...
    Series Book 2 - The International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics Book Series
    This book is the first of its kind – a global overview of extant research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises. While vast amounts of corporate money, government policy and media time are directed at the social and ethical activities of large corporations, small businesses don’t generally attract the spotlight. This is wildly inappropriate, however, since upward of 90% of private ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Economic Complexity and Human Development

    How Economic Diversification and Social Networks Affect Human Agency and Welfare

    by Dominik Hartmann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development.While economic diversification can provide valuable new social choices and capabilities, it also tends to lead to more complex decision processes and changes to the set of capabilities required by people to self-determine their future. ... Read more

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  • The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

    A Library of America Special Publication

    by Pauline Kael ...
    A master film critic is at her witty, exhilarating, and opinionated best in this career-spanning collection featuring pieces on Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather, and other modern movie classics“Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply,” Pauline Kael once observed, “just because you must use everything you are and everything you know.” Between 1968 and 1991, as regular ... Read more

    $14.99 USD