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  • How Cities Work

    Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken

    by Alex Marshall ...
    Series series Constructs Series
    "Marshall writes with wit, reason, and style . . . An excellent resource on the history and future of American cities." — Library JournalDo cities work anymore? How did they get to be such sprawling conglomerations of lookalike subdivisions, mega freeways, and "big box" superstores surrounded by acres of parking lots? And why, most of all, don't they feel like real communities? These are the ... Read more

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  • The Surprising Design of Market Economies

    by Alex Marshall ...
    Series series Constructs Series
    The “free market” has been a hot topic of debate for decades. Proponents tout it as a cure-all for just about everything that ails modern society, while opponents blame it for the very same ills. But the heated rhetoric obscures one very important, indeed fundamental, fact—markets don’t just run themselves; we create them.Starting from this surprisingly simple, yet often ignored or misunderstood ... Read more

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  • The Once and Future Liberal

    After Identity Politics

    by Mark Lilla ...
    "Terrific . . . essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we arrived in the Trump era and where the Democrats go from here." —Fareed Zakaria, CNNFollowing the shocking results of the US election of 2016, public intellectuals across the globe offered theories and explanations, but few were met with such vitriol, panic, and debate as Mark Lilla's. The Once and Future Liberal is a ... Read more

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  • The Democracy Project

    A History, a Crisis, a Movement

    by David Graeber ...
    A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America, from the co-author of The Dawn of EverythingDemocracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But can our current political system, one that seems ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers

    by Bernie Lucht, John Galbraith, Jane Jacobs, Eric Kierans, Martin King, Paul Goodman ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form. Important thinkers whose Massey Lectures are lamentably out of print include the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr ... Read more

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  • The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

    A History of Capitalism

    by Joyce Appleby ...
    "Splendid: the global history of capitalism in all its creative—and destructive—glory.”—The New York Times Book ReviewWith its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system seems universal and timeless. The framework for our lives, it is a source of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic, out of control. Yet what is now ubiquitous was not always so. Capitalism ... Read more

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  • Ages of American Capitalism

    A History of the United States

    by Jonathan Levy ...
    **A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead.“A monumental achievement, sure to become a classic.”—Zachary D. Carter, author of The Price of Peace**In this ambitious single-volume history of the United States, economic historian Jonathan Levy reveals how ... Read more

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  • Wealth and Democracy

    How Great Fortunes and Government Created America's Aristocracy

    by Kevin Phillips ...
    For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. Widely acknowledging Phillips as one of the nation's most ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The European Dream

    How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    The national bestseller that shows how the American Dream is languishing, surpassed worldwide by a powerful alternative in the lifestyle of the new Europe. ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Systemic Racism 101

    A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America

    by Living Cities, Aminah Pilgrim ...
    Discover how—and why—Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’s arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement.From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to ... Read more

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  • The Libertarian Mind

    A Manifesto for Freedom

    by David Boaz ...
    An updated edition of David Boaz’s timeless primer on libertarianism, with a new preface by the author.Libertarianism—the philosophy of personal and economic freedom—has deep roots in Western civilization and in American history, with increasing appeal to those dissatisfied with the status quo. The growth of executive power, chronic deficits, counterproductive foreign military interventions, ... Read more

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  • Public Relations

    by Edward L. Bernays ...
    Public relations as described in this volume is, among other things, society’s solution to problems of maladjustment that plague an overcomplex world. All of us, individuals or organizations, depend for survival and growth on adjustment to our publics.Publicist Edward L. Bernays offers here the kind of advice individuals and a variety of organizations sought from him on a professional basis during ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD