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  • The Unlucky Country

    The Republic of the Philippines in the 21St Century

    by Duncan Alexander McKenzie ...
    This book is about the Republic of the Philippines. It is the truth about the country, as seen through the eyes of a foreigner who lives there, and has been associated with the country since 1981. It tells of the culture, the people, the economy, the poverty, the disasters, the politics and of the need for change. The Philippines can find the road to prosperity. This book explains what needs to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Open Society as an Enemy

    A critique of how free societies turned against themselves

    by J. McKenzie Alexander ...
    Nearly 80 years ago, Karl Popper gave a spirited philosophical defence of the Open Society in his two-volume work, The Open Society and Its Enemies. In this book, J. McKenzie Alexander argues that a new defence is urgently needed because, in the decades since the end of the Cold War, many of the values of the Open Society have come under threat once again. Populist agendas on both the left and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unwinding Privatization

    Cities and the Restoration of Public Power

    Edited by Alba Alexander, Larry Bennett, Evan McKenzie, Michael A. Pagano ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    How remunicipalization can be implemented to restructure urban governance.Across North America, Europe, and the Global South, public services such as water and energy that were once privatized have returned to public sector functions—an intriguing new development known as remunicipalization. Unwinding Privatization, edited by Alba Alexander, Larry Bennett, Evan McKenzie, and Michael Pagano, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Philippines: Dangers and Health Risks

    by Duncan Alexander McKenzie R.N. ...
    The Philippines is an island paradise. For the majority of tourists their visit to the ‘Pearl of the Orient Sea’ is uneventful and they return with happy memories of a wonderful vacation. There are however, as with anywhere on this planet, dangers lurking. Here in this book I discuss these dangers so that the traveler, while not worrying excessively, may be alert and prepared for these threats. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100

    Edited by Roman Frigg, J. McKenzie Alexander, Laurenz Hudetz, Miklos Rédei, Lewis Ross, John Worrall ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book offers new insights into issues raised in philosophy of mathematics and in philosophy of science by Imre Lakatos. Lakatos was one of the most significant philosophers of the 20th Century, and his ideas remain important and relevant today. November 2022 saw the centenary of Lakatos’s birth, and the event was marked by an international conference held at the LSE – where Lakatos ... Read more

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  • Excommunication

    Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation

    by Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, McKenzie Wark ...
    Series series TRIOS
    Always connect—that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself—those messages that state: "There will be no more messages"? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark turn our usual understanding of media ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evolutionary Game Theory

    by J. McKenzie Alexander ...
    Series series Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy
    Evolutionary game theory originated in population biology from the realisation that frequency-dependent fitness introduced a strategic element into evolution. Since its development, evolutionary game theory has been adopted by many social scientists, and philosophers, to analyse interdependent decision problems played by boundedly rational individuals. Its study has led to theoretical innovations ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Private Metropolis

    The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance

    Edited by Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, Alba Alexander ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regionsIn recent decades metropolitan regions in the United States have witnessed the rise of multitudes of “shadow governments” that often supersede or replace functions traditionally associated with ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Psychic Phenomena: A Clinical Investigation

    by Duncan Alexander McKenzie R.N. ...
    A Registered Nurse heads out on a motorbike into the remote regions of the Philippines in search of ghosts, vampires, poltergeists and ghouls. He is preoccupied with the question: “Do psychic phenomena actually occur and if so what is their true nature?” This book describes his research and provides fascinating examples of cases of possession, hauntings and folklore that merges with reality. He ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The World's Great Sermons

    Volume VII—Halle toFarrar

    by Kleiser Grenville, Edward Everett Hale, William Magee, Joseph Seiss, Alexander Maclaren, Howard Crosby, Robert William Dale, Henry Liddon, William M. Taylor, John Hall, Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Alexander McKenzie, Joseph Parker, Frederic Farrar ...
    Series Book 7 - The World's Great Sermons
    Collections of sermons by noted preachers of different periods are not an altogether uncommon contribution to literature. Italy, Germany, Holland, France, Great Britain and the United States have in this way furnished copious illustrations of the gifts of their illustrious preachers. Such treasures are found in the Latin and even in the Greek Church. Protestant communions especially, in line with ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Logic of Discipline

    Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government

    by Alasdair Roberts ...
    Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault. Faced with many failed reform projects, advocates of discipline realized that they had underestimated the complexity of governmental change. Opponents of discipline emphasized the damage to democratic values that followed from the empowerment of new groups of technocrat-guardians. A sweeping account of ... Read more

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  • The System Worked

    How the World Stopped Another Great Depression

    by Daniel W. Drezner ...
    International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption at worst, and this perception is generally not far off the mark. In the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Daniel W. Drezner, like so many others, looked at the smoking ruins of the global economy and wondered why ... Read more

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