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Provocations eBook Series

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  • Beyond the Promised Land

    The Movement and the Myth

    by David F. Noble ...
    Series Book 1 - Provocations
    Iconoclast David F. Noble traces the evolution and eclipse of the biblical mythology of the Promised Land, the foundational story of Western Culture. Part impassioned manifesto, part masterful survey of opposed philosophical and economic schools, Beyond the Promised Land brings into focus the twisted template of the Western imagination and its faith-based market economy.From the first recorded ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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    by Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco ...
    **Through a mixture of words and drawings, two award-winning journalists tell the stories of Americans surviving in the parts of the country most ravaged by capitalism, and the ways they manage to find hope“As moving a portrait of poverty and as compelling a call to action as Michael Harrington’s The Other America.” —The Boston GlobeA New York Times Bestseller • A Washington Post Best Book of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Right Balance

    Canada's Conservative Tradition

    by Hugh Segal ...
    In a manner that reflects his long-time academic and practitioner’s association with conservative politics and ideas in Canada, Hugh Segal traces the deep historical roots of Canadian conservatism and the themes that unite its pre- and post-confederation reality with today’s challenges and issues. The Right Balance connects the historical roots and exclusive intellectual principles of Canadian ... Read more

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  • The Ordinary Virtues

    Moral Order in a Divided World

    by Michael Ignatieff ...
    Winner of the Zócalo Book PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“Combines powerful moral arguments with superb storytelling.”—New StatesmanWhat moral values do we hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are the things we value converging or diverging? These twin questions led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight-nation journey in search of an ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • Tales of a New America

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    The Harvard political economist argues that Americans must rethink some important cultural myths and self-definitions if the U.S. is to retain its dominant role within the emerging global economy. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Free Trade Reimagined

    The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics

    by Roberto Mangabeira Unger ...
    Free Trade Reimagined begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against free trade. Instead, he attacks and revises the terms on which the traditional debate between free traders and protectionists has been joined.Unger's intervention in this major ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • 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 Fall of the House of Paisley

    The Downfall of Ian Paisley's Political Dynasty

    by David Gordon ...
    In this hard-hitting study of political power, award-winning journalist David Gordon studies the political downfall of Ian Paisley and his son and shines an uncompromising light on Northern Ireland's political elite. Ian Paisley, firebrand Ulster Protestant preacher and politician, spent forty years denouncing compromise as treachery. Then, in March 2007, he agreed a power-sharing pack with Sinn ... Read more

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  • Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion

    Social Sector Reform in Latin America

    by Kurt Weyland ...
    Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar reform even though it threatened to exacerbate income disparity and jeopardize state revenues. And Chile's pension privatization of the early 1980s has spread throughout Latin America and beyond even though many poor countries that have ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Fast Boat to China

    Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai

    by Andrew Ross ...
    Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.Yet few people know much about the other end — about the people who are actually working these jobs and how their own lives have been throw into tumult ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Globalization: The Key Concepts

    Edited by Annabelle Mooney, Betsy Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Viewed as a destructive force or an inevitability of modern society, globalization is the focus of a multitude of disciplines. A clear understanding of its processes and terminology is imperative for anyone engaging with this ubiquitous topic. Globalization: the Key Concepts offers a comprehensive guide to this cross-disciplinary subject and covers concepts such as:homogenizationneo ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Handbook of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Simon Springer, Kean Birch, Julie MacLeavy ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Neoliberalism is easily one of the most powerful discourses toemerge within the social sciences in the last two decades, and the number of scholars who write about this dynamic and unfolding process of socio-spatial transformation is astonishing. Even more surprising though is that there has, until now, not been an attempt to provide a wide-ranging volume that engages with the multiple registers ... Read more

    $66.99 USD