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“catherine browne”

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  • Mediocracy

    The Politics of the Extreme Centre

    by Alain Deneault ...
    Translated by Catherine Browne ...
    There was no Reichstag fire. No storming of the Bastille. No mutiny on the Aurora. Instead, the mediocre have seized power without firing a single shot. They rose to power on the tide of an economy where workers produce assembly-line meals without knowing how to cook at home, give customers instructions over the phone that they themselves don’t understand, or sell books and newspapers that they ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Legalizing Theft

    A Short Guide to Tax Havens

    by Alain Deneault ...
    Translated by Catherine Browne ...
    When our infrastructures deteriorate, when social benefits are frozen, when our living conditions are precarious, it is because of tax havens. A source of growing inequalities and colossal tax losses, the use of tax havens by large corporations and wealthy individuals explains the increasingly popular austerity policies of governments in the West.With formidable efficacy and clarity, and in the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Fear, Love, and Liberation in Contemporary Québec

    A Feminist Reflection

    by Alexa Conradi ...
    Translated by Catherine Browne ...
    In response to rapid and unsettling social, economic, and climate changes, fearmongering now features as a main component of public life. Right-wing nationalist populism has become a hallmark of politics around the world. No less so in Quebec. Alexa Conradi has made it her life’s work to understand and to generate thoughtful debate about this worrisome trend. As the first President of Québec ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Natural Therapies for Overcoming Opioid Dependency

    Control Pain and Recover from Addiction with Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Herbs, Nutritional Supplements & Meditation and Lifestyle Practices

    by Catherine Browne ...
    With opioid dependency at epidemic levels, Catherine Browne, a doctor of acupuncture and Oriental medicine, provides an accessible and practical guide to the effective use of natural therapies in helping people wean off opioids, manage withdrawal symptoms, and address pain without opioids.Drawing on her extensive clinical experience, Dr. Browne explains how Chinese medicine, acupuncture and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Canada: A New Tax Haven

    Translated by Catherine Browne ...
    by Alain Deneault ...
    In Canada: A New Tax Haven, Alain Deneault traces Canada’s relationship with Britain’s Caribbean colonies back through the last half of the twentieth century, arguing that the involvement of Canadian financiers in establishing and maintaining Caribbean tax havens has predisposed Canada to become a tax haven itself – a metamorphosis well under way.Canada was linked to Caribbean nations long before ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Why Save the Bankers?

    And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    Reflections on politics, the economy, and the modern world by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.Thomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality, and that without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies will concentrate wealth in an ever smaller number of hands, threatening democracy. For years, his newspaper ... Read more

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  • We, the Others

    Allophones, Immigrants and Belonging in Canada

    by Toula Drimonis ...
    Ungrateful, opportunistic, moochers, dangerous, incompatible with our values and our way of life…Every immigrant demographic has heard these descriptors at some point in their migration history. We, the Others takes a contemporary look at the xenophobia, ethno-nationalism, and fear of the “other” that leads to discrimination and the belief that immigration is a polluting force.Rooted in the author ... Read more

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  • Liquid Modernity

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the ... Read more

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  • Time for Socialism

    Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty‑First Century**Praise for Time for Socialism:“Lively, thought‑provoking, grounded in facts, and resolutely optimistic—these essays grapple with the big questions of our time, from the rise of Trumpism and Brexit, to gender inequality and wealth taxation.”—Gabriel Zucman, University of California, ... Read more

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  • Wasted Lives

    Modernity and Its Outcasts

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    The production of 'human waste' – or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts – is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity.As long as large parts of the world remained wholly or partly unaffected by modernization, they were ... Read more

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  • Imperial Canada Inc.

    Legal Haven of Choice for the World's Mining Industries

    by William Sacher, Alain Deneault ...
    Translated by Fred A. Reed ...
    Imperial Canada Inc. sets out to ask a simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world’s mining companies?Created by the British North America Act of 1867, Canada, rather than turning away from its colonial past, actively embraced, appropriated, and perpetuated the imperial ambitions of its mother country. Two years later, it took possession of Rupert’s Land—all of the land ... Read more

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