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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Refugees in Extended Exile

    Living on the Edge

    by Jennifer Hyndman, Wenona Giles ...
    Series series Interventions
    This book argues that the international refugee regime and its ‘temporary’ humanitarian interventions have failed. Most refugees across the global live in ‘protracted’ conditions that extend from years to decades, without legal status that allows them to work and establish a home. It is contended that they become largely invisible to people based in the global North, and cease to remain fully ... Read more

    $89.56 CAD

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  • The End of Imagination

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    Five books of essays in one volume from the Booker Prize–winner and "one of the most ambitious and divisive political essayists of her generation" ( The Washington Post).With a new introduction by Arundhati Roy, this new collection begins with her pathbreaking book The Cost of Living—published soon after she won the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things—in which she forcefully ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rebel Cities

    From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

    by David Harvey ...
    "David Harvey...has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals." —Naomi KleinA "forensic and ferocious" manifesto on the city as a center for anti-capitalist resistance from an acclaimed theorist (The Guardian)Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • One World Now

    The Ethics of Globalization

    by Peter Singer ...
    One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential concerns as climate change, economic globalization, foreign aid, human rights, immigration, and the responsibility to protect people from genocide and ... Read more

    $17.39 CAD

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  • Globalization and the Decolonial Option

    Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Arturo Escobar ...
    This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de ... Read more

    $103.14 CAD

  • The New Global Rulers

    The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy

    by Tim Büthe, Walter Mattli ...
    Global private regulations—who wins, who loses, and whyOver the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to international private-sector organizations. This internationalization and privatization of rule making has been motivated not only by the economic benefits of common rules for global markets, but also by the realization that government regulators often lack ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Virtual Migration

    The Programming of Globalization

    by A. Aneesh ...
    Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile phones, diet pills, and mortgages for companies based in other countries around the world. While their skills and labor migrate abroad, these workers remain Indian citizens, living and working in India. A. Aneesh calls this phenomenon “virtual migration,” and in this ... Read more

    $33.69 CAD

  • The China Reader

    Rising Power

    Edited by David Shambaugh ...
    The rise of China is the most significant development in world affairs in this generation. No nation in history has risen as quickly or modernized as rapidly as has China over the four decades. This sixth edition of The China Reader chronicles the diverse aspects of this transition since the late-1990s. It is comprehensive in scope and draws upon both primary Chinese sources and secondary Western ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • 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

    $90.92 CAD

  • Summary and Analysis of The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

    Based on the Book by Thomas L. Friedman

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Thomas L. Friedman 's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of The World Is Flat 3.0 by ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leadership in International Relations

    The Balance of Power and the Origins of World War II

    by A. Roth ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Using the engaging case of British security policy between the world wars, this book argues that an effective balance of power, which is the key to a stable international system, is a deliberate act of policy and that leaders play a determinative role in building an effective balance. ... Read more

    $116.09 CAD

  • When Care Work Goes Global

    Locating the Social Relations of Domestic Work

    Edited by Mary Romero, Valerie Preston, Wenona Giles ...
    Series series Gender in a Global/Local World
    Women who migrate into domestic labour and care work are the single largest female occupational group migrating globally at present. Their participation in global migration systems has been acknowledged but remains under-theorized. Specifically, the impacts of women migrating into care work in the receiving as well as the sending societies are profound, altering gendered aspects of both societies. ... Read more

    $81.42 CAD