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  • Revenant Ecologies

    Defying the Violence of Extinction and Conservation

    by Audra Mitchell ...
    Engaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to articulate the ethical scale of global extinctionAs global rates of plant and animal extinctions mount, anxieties about the future of the earth’s ecosystems are fueling ever more ambitious efforts at conservation, which draw on Western scientific principles to manage species and biodiversity. In Revenant Ecologies, Audra Mitchell argues that these ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • International Intervention in a Secular Age

    Re-Enchanting Humanity?

    by Audra Mitchell ...
    Series series Interventions
    International intervention is not just about ‘saving’ human lives: it is also an attempt to secure humanity’s place in the universe.This book explores the Western secular beliefs that underpin contemporary practices of intervention—most importantly, beliefs about life, death and the dominance of humanity. These beliefs shape a wide range of practices: the idea that human beings should intervene ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Revenant Ecologies

    Defying the Violence of Extinction and Conservation

    by Audra Mitchell ...
    Narrated by Holly Adams ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 29 min

    As global rates of plant and animal extinctions mount, anxieties about the future of the earth's ecosystems are fueling ever more ambitious efforts at conservation, which draw on Western scientific principles to manage species and biodiversity. In Revenant Ecologies, Audra Mitchell argues that these responses not only ignore but also magnify powerful forms of structural violence like colonialism, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Hybrid Forms of Peace

    From Everyday Agency to Post-Liberalism

    by Oliver P. Richmond, Audra Mitchell ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the role of everyday action in accepting, resisting and reshaping interventions, and the unique forms of peace that emerge from the interactions between local and international actors. Building on critiques of liberal peace-building, it redefines critical peace and conflict studies, based on new research from 16 countries. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings as an architect in Toronto, Ken Greenberg has long recognized that cities at their best provide much of ... Read more

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  • Aerotropolis

    The Way We'll Live Next

    by John D. Kasarda, Greg Lindsay ...
    An exploration of near-future urban planning as airports become the center of cities, changing the way we live and conduct business.Not so long ago, airports were built near cities, and roads connected the one to the other. This pattern—the city in the center, the airport on the periphery—shaped life in the twentieth century, from the central city to exurban sprawl. Today, the ubiquity of jet ... Read more

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  • The Hawks of Peace: Notes of the Russian Ambassador

    by Dmitry Rogozin ...
    The Hawks of Peace. Notes of Russian Ambassador is a unique analytical edition where Russian Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin shares his notes on personalities and events that shaped the history of post-Communist Russia, believing that without those it would be impossible to understand the past and envisage the future of his country. Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO until recently, in his ... Read more

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  • The Fog of Peace

    A Memoir of International Peacekeeping in the 21st Century

    by Jean-Marie Guehenno ...
    No small number of books laud and record the heroic actions of those at war. But the peacekeepers? Who tells their stories?At the beginning of the 1990s, the world exited the cold war and entered an era of great promise for peace and security. Guided by an invigorated United Nations, the international community set out to end conflicts that had flared into vicious civil wars and to unconditionally ... Read more

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  • Detroit

    A Biography

    by Scott Martelle ...
    At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit : A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • An Insider's Guide to the UN

    Third Edition

    by Linda Fasulo ...
    Termed “the indispensable source on the United Nations” by Joseph S. Nye of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, this book is now fully revised and updated to include new material on fragile states, R2P (responsibility to protect), recent Security Council issues such as the revolts in Libya and Syria, and a greatly expanded section on understanding and participating in a Model UN. "This easily ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Determinants of Success in UN Peacekeeping Operations

    by Jacques L. Koko, Essoh J. M. C. Essis ...
    This book examines forty-six UN peacekeeping operations, initiated from 1956 through 2006 to manage cases of intrastate and interstate conflicts, to identify the most significant factors that could help to explain the success or lack of success of such operations. Factor analysis is used to exploit the correlations between independent variables in order to regroup them into a smaller set of ... Read more

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  • Competitiveness And Growth In Brazilian Cities: Local Policies And Actions For Innovation

    by Zhang Ming ...
    The book contributes to answering the questions raised by mayors, governors, and federal government officials in Brazil: "What can cities do to improve economic performance and create jobs?" The question is approached through a review of theories and policy options for city competitiveness, preliminary benchmarking of Brazilian cities.The book concludes that to become and stay competitive, cities ... Read more

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