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Emerald Points eBook Series

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  • Resilient Democratic Governance

    Navigating Unity in Diversity for Sustainable Well-Being

    by Girol Karacaoglu ...
    Series series Emerald Points
    Though diversity and interconnectedness are inherent and integral to the natural order, they often clash in the social world. To address this, Resilient Democratic Governance: Navigating Unity in Diversity for Sustainable Well-Being proposes a comprehensive framework advocating for the harmonious integration of diversity and interconnectedness in social structures, emphasizing their pivotal role ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

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  • The Gardens of Democracy

    A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government

    by Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer ...
    American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Real World of Technology

    by Ursula Franklin ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraordinary changes since The Real World of Technology was first published. In four new chapters, Franklin tackles contentious issues, such as the dilution of privacy and intellectual property rights, the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Growth Fetish

    by Clive Hamilton ...
    'Right on target, and badly needed' - Noam Chomsky'Every now and then a book that is perfect in timing and tone hits my desk. Growth Fetish is that book. It is powerful and potentially transformative.' - Rev. Tim Costello'This book reveals the undelivered reality of economic growth and the hollow mantras of the Third Way. Growth Fetish provides a much needed road map to a new politics in a post ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

    Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up

    by David Colander, Roland Kupers ...
    How ideas in complexity can be used to develop more effective public policyComplexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While these standard narratives are ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Humanism in Business

    Edited by Heiko Spitzeck, Michael Pirson, Wolfgang Amann, Shiban Khan, Ernst von Kimakowitz ...
    What is the purpose of our economic system? What would a more life-serving economy look like? There are many books about business and society, yet very few of them question the primacy of GDP growth, profit maximization and individual utility maximization. Even developments with a humanistic touch like stakeholder participation, corporate social responsibility or corporate philanthropy serve the ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • The Ursula Franklin Reader

    Pacifism as a Map

    by Ursula Franklin ...
    Feminist, educator, Quaker, and physicist, Ursula Franklin has long been considered one of Canada’s foremost advocates and practitioners of pacifism. The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map is a comprehensive collection of her work, and demonstrates subtle, yet critical, linkages across a range of subjects: the pursuit of peace and social justice, theology, feminism, environmental protection ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Designing the New American University

    by Michael M. Crow, William B. Dabars ...
    A radical blueprint for reinventing American higher education.America’s research universities consistently dominate global rankings but may be entrenched in a model that no longer accomplishes their purposes. With their multiple roles of discovery, teaching, and public service, these institutions represent the gold standard in American higher education, but their evolution since the nineteenth ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Crisis on Campus

    A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future.In Crisis on Campus, Mark C. Taylor—chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University and a former professor at Williams College—expands on and refines the ideas presented in his widely read and hugely controversial 2009 New York Times op-ed. His ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Realizing Hope

    Life Beyond Capitalism

    by Michael Albert ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. Michael Albert would disagree.Realizing Hope offers a speculative vision of a future beyond capitalism - an alternative to the exploitation of human labour, the unchecked destruction of the earth, and the oppression of all for the benefit of the few. Participatory economics - parecon for ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Humanistic Management

    Protecting Dignity and Promoting Well-Being

    by Michael Pirson ...
    In a world facing multiple crises, our foundational institutions are failing to offer effective solutions. Drawing on the emerging consilience of knowledge, Michael Pirson debunks the fundamental yet outdated assumptions of human nature that guide twentieth-century management theory and practice - as captured in the 'economistic' paradigm - and instead provides an urgently needed conceptual and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics

    Nature and Society

    Edited by Clive L. Spash ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Since becoming formally established with an international academic society in the late 1980s, ecological economics has advanced understanding of the interactions between social and biophysical reality. It initially combined questioning of the basis of mainstream economics with a concern for environmental degradation and limits to growth, but has now advanced well beyond critique into theoretical, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD