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  • Cooperatives Confront Capitalism

    Challenging the Neoliberal Economy

    by Peter Ranis ...
    Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies.Through case studies spanning the US, Latin America and Europe, including valuable new work on the previously neglected cooperative movement in Cuba, Peter Ranis explores how cooperatives have evolved in response to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Composite Structures

    Effects of Defects

    by Rani Elhajjar, Peter N. Grant, Cindy Ashforth ...
    Presents the latest strategies in the development and use of composite materials for large structures and the effects of defectsPractical Design and Validation of Composites Structures: Effects of Defects offers an important guide to the use of fiber-reinforced composites and how they affect the durability and safety of engineering structures such as aircraft, ships, bridges, wind turbines as well ... Read more

    $97.00 USD

  • The Book of Choices

    Volume One

    by Redd Herring, Steve Drew, Maren Madalyn, Marie Eriksson, Amanda Pollet, Harriet Wren, James Lynch, Josh Clayton, T.A. Croy, Patrick Spiker, Daniel R. Hayes, Benjamin Hawley, Rani Jayakumar, Peter Culbert, Russell Mickler, Aalisha Green ...
    Series Book 1 - The Book of Choices
    Discover the Darkest Corners of Fate in the first volume of: The Book of ChoicesStep into a world where every choice comes with a price. The Book of Choices is an anthology of spine-chilling tales that explore the consequences of decisions made under duress.From haunted relics and cursed books to mysterious forces that twist reality, this collection of short stories by masterful authors will keep ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Executive Functions and the Frontal Lobes

    A Lifespan Perspective

    Edited by Vicki Anderson, Rani Jacobs, Peter J. Anderson ...
    Series series Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition
    This volume has as its primary aim the examination of issues concerning executive function and frontal lobe development. While many texts have addressed these issues, this is the first to do so within a specifically developmental framework.This area of cognitive function has received increasing attention over the past decade, and it is now established that the frontal lobes, and associated ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History

    Third Edition

    by Craig Heron ...
    In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century.This new edition has been completely updated, including a substantial new ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Science of Fear

    How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain

    by Daniel Gardner ...
    “An invaluable resource for anyone who aspires to think clearly” (The Guardian) from the New York Times bestselling author of Superforecasting and Future BabbleFrom terror attacks to collapsing economies, from painkiller epidemics to mass gun violence and poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. Yet we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Why are we so ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Consciousness and the Brain

    Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

    by Stanislas Dehaene ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZEFrom the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain**How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Emperor's New Drugs

    Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

    by Irving Kirsch, PhD ...
    Do antidepressants work? Of course -- everyone knows it. Like his colleagues, Irving Kirsch, a researcher and clinical psychologist, for years referred patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs before deciding to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually were. Over the course of the past fifteen years, however, Kirsch's research -- a thorough ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Think Forward to Thrive

    How to Use the Mind's Power of Anticipation to Transcend Your Past and Transform Your Life

    by Jennice Vilhauer, PhD ...
    Stop talking about your past and start creating your future Anticipating a positive future is the key to well-being and mental health. Yet when many people think of the future, they experience anxiety, depression, fear, and self-doubt. Unaware of how to change the future, most people are trapped in a cycle of re-creating their past. But your past does not have to define who you are or where you ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Global "Body Shopping"

    An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry

    by Xiang Biao ...
    Series series In-Formation
    How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism today. Global "Body Shopping" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living with Mild Cognitive Impairment:A Guide to Maximizing Brain Health and Reducing Risk of Dementia

    A Guide to Maximizing Brain Health and Reducing Risk of Dementia

    by Nicole D. Anderson, Kelly J. Murphy, Angela K. Troyer ...
    One in ten adults over 65 has some form of mild cognitive impairment or MCI--thinking problems that go beyond those associated with normal aging, but that fall short of the serious impairments experienced by people with Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias. This is the first book written specifically for individuals with MCI, for their loved ones, and for the health care professionals who treat ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Talking about Machines

    An Ethnography of a Modern Job

    by Julian E. Orr ...
    Series series Collection on Technology and Work
    This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair photocopiers and shares vignettes from their daily lives. He characterizes their work as a continuous highly skilled improvisation within a triangular ... Read more

    $22.99 USD