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City Politics in Canada

Canada's big cities are at the forefront of social and economic change. They account for most of Canada's population growth, they are magnets for immigrants from all parts of the world, and they have led …

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Stephanie Wakefield
Miami in the Anthropocene

"Miami in the Anthropocene explores the social, environmental, and technical transformations involved in climate adaptation infrastructure in a global city seen as climate change ground zero. Groundi…

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Brian E Adams
Activism, Majority Rule, and Local Democracy

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City Politics in Canada

Canada's big cities are at the forefront of social and economic change. They account for most of Canada's population growth, they are magnets for immigrants from all parts of the world, and they have led …

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Mary Childs
The Bond King

From the host of NPR's Planet Money , the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged investor changed American finance forever. Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he…

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Michael Sheldrick
From Ideas to Impact

*** NOW IN PAPERBACK - Featuring an Exclusive New Chapter on Entrepreneurship*** Accelerate your real-world, social impact by driving systemic policy changes **As Co-Founder of Global Citizen-an internat…

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James Dale
The Future of Bananas

The banana is the most eaten fruit in the world -- but its future is under threat. World expert Professor James Dale contemplates how we'll save the humble banana in this fascinating addition to the FUTUR…

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Jerry Avorn
Rethinking Medications

Suddenly, everything seems up for grabs about the medicines we take: Do they really work as advertised? Do some of them have dangerous, undisclosed side effects? Why are they so expensive, even unaffordab…

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Najja K Baptist
In the Spirit, in the Dark

How Black music shapes the political identity, consciousness, and engagement of Black youthFrom Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar, to J. Cole and Janelle Monae, Najja K. Baptist shows us how Black music has, mor…

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Andrea Bonime-Blanc
Governing Pandora

A road map for developing responsible and innovative governance systems based on generative AI and other exponential technologiesAs exponential technology rapidly advances, leaders in every sector are fac…

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Benjamin Selwyn, Christin Bernhold
Capitalist Value Chains

Is it true that Global Value Chains (GVCs) 'boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty', as commonly claimed? In this compelling book, Selwyn and Bernhold show how the mainstream notion of GVCs…

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Laurent Bossavie, Daniel Garrote Sanchez, Mattia Makovec
The Journey Ahead

This book seeks to enhance the understanding of migration in Europe and Central Asia, and to propose policy solutions tailored to the diversity of migration experiences and challenges in the region, to be…

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Nancy Folbre
Making Care Work

A bold critique of conventional economics that reveals why the time and money we devote to care work is vital to our economic future.Our economy is much bigger than the dollar value of things we buy and s…

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How States Respond to Crisis

Shedding new light on the nature of the state and its role in crisis response and development, this book brings together seven case study chapters authored by leading scholars of each country in a compara…

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Benoit Daviron
Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony

"In this open access magnum opus, published here in English for the first time, world-renowned critical development scholar Benoit Daviron blends Braudelian history and a food systems approach to sho…

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Sandy Baum, Michael Mcpherson
Can College Level the Playing Field?

Why higher education is not a silver bullet for eradicating economic inequality and social injusticeWe often think that a college degree will open doors to opportunity regardless of one's background or up…

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Kate Marvel
Human Nature

A Scientific AmericanBest Book of the YearA captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planetScientis…

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Brian E Adams
Activism, Majority Rule, and Local Democracy

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Torben M Andersen
Pension Economics

With the design of the pension system critically dependent on objectives and context, and many objectives and trade-offs to consider, real-world pension schemes are complex and rich in institutional detai…

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Jay Pitter
Black Public Joy

From one of North America's most influential public space experts comes a powerful treatise celebrating Black people's audacious, complex, and universally embraced public joy expressions.How much safety, …

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