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  • Canada and Climate Change

    de William Leiss ...
    Series Libro 2 - Canadian Essentials
    Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it is a global risk unlike anything in human experience.The federal government recently announced aggressive climate targets for Canada. We have committed to ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Deep Disposal

    A Documentary Account of Burying Nuclear Waste in Canada

    de William Leiss ...
    Canada is one of many countries around the world that use nuclear reactors to generate electrical power, in part to reduce our carbon footprint. Yet this energy produces hazardous, long-lived waste that emits dangerous radioactivity for tens of thousands of years.Nuclear waste, stored temporarily for decades, must be safely disposed of so it will not pose a serious threat to human health and the ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Deep Disposal

    A Documentary Account of Burying Nuclear Waste in Canada

    de William Leiss ...
    Canada is one of many countries around the world that use nuclear reactors to generate electrical power, in part to reduce our carbon footprint. Yet this energy produces hazardous, long-lived waste that emits dangerous radioactivity for tens of thousands of years.Nuclear waste, stored temporarily for decades, must be safely disposed of so it will not pose a serious threat to human health and the ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector

    And Other Black Holes of Risk

    de William Leiss ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Risk Management
    In the past two years, the world has experienced how unsound economic practices can disrupt global economic and social order. Today’s volatile global financial situation highlights the importance of managing risk and the consequences of poor decision making.The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector reveals an underlying paradox of risk management: the better we become at assessing risks, the more we ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • C.B. Macpherson

    Dilemmas of Liberalism and Socialism

    de William Leiss ...
    Focusing on two key themes - property and the state - Leiss tracks Macpherson's analysis of the contradictions of liberal-democracy through all of his writings, beginning with his 1935 M.A. thesis supervised by Harold Laski at LSE. His concluding chapter critically examines the core of Macpherson's political philosophy - the distinction between extractive and developmental powers - against the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Canada and Climate Change

    de William Leiss ...
    Narrado por Braden Wright ...
    Series Audiolibro 2 - Canadian Essentials

    Completo

    9 hora 36 minutos

    Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it is a global risk unlike anything in human experienceThe federal government recently announced aggressive climate targets for Canada. We have committed to ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • The Priesthood of Science

    A Work of Utopian Fiction

    de William Leiss ...
    Series series Cangrande
    The global political situation is increasingly volatile, and Hera and her sisters are sealed off from the rest of the world in southern Nevada. She is still tormented by her parents’ decision to genetically modify the brains of their twelve daughters—and by her own agreement to allow a similar procedure to be used on a much larger group of human embryos.That group of engineered embryos has become ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Russian Studies, Political Science, and the Philosophy of Technology

    de Joanna Drzewieniecki, Blair A. Ruble, William M. Reisinger, Marina Zaloznaya, Russell Bova, Nathaniel I. Richmond, Timothy K. Blauvelt, Christofer Berglund, David Foley, Andrew Feenberg0, William Leiss1, Carl Mitcham2, William N. Dunn3, Seymen Atasoy4, Vesna Danilovic5, Farida Jalalzai6, Lisa K. Parshall7, Claude E. Welch8, Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz9, Jesse Driscoll0, Munroe Eagles1, Guoli Liu2, Alexander J. Motyl4, John S. Nelson5, Frank C. Zagare6, Frederic J. Fleron Jr.7 ...
    This volume presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in political science and area studies with an emphasis on Russia. The contributors, all well-known in their specialties, share the conviction that advancement in the social sciences can only be achieved through plural methodological approaches and interaction with various disciplines. Their work in this collection provides critical ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • Social Communication in Advertising

    Consumption in the Mediated Marketplace

    de William Leiss, Stephen Kline, Sut Jhally, Jackie Botterill, Kyle Asquith ...
    Newly updated for the digital era, this classic textbook provides a comprehensive historical study of advertising and its function within contemporary society by tracing advertising's influence throughout different media and cultural periods, from early magazines through to social media. With several new chapters on the rise of the Internet, mobile, and social media, this fourth edition offers new ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • The Essential Marcuse

    Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

    de Herbert Marcuse ...
    The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism. His words are as relevant to today's ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Demon-Haunted World

    Science as a Candle in the Dark

    de Carl Sagan ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the renowned astronomer and author of Cosmos comes a “powerful [and] stirring defense of informed rationality” (The Washington Post Book World) in a world where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace.LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER • “Glorious . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Contact

    de Carl Sagan ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cosmos and renowned astronomer Carl Sagan’s international bestseller about the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space remains the “greatest adventure of all time” (Associated Press).The future is here…in an adventure of cosmic dimension. When a signal is discovered that seems to come from far beyond our solar system, a multinational team ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD