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  • Debating Brain Drain

    May Governments Restrict Emigration?

    Serier serie Debating Ethics
    Many of the best and brightest citizens of developing countries choose to emigrate to wealthier societies, taking their skills and educations with them. What do these people owe to their societies of origin? May developing societies legitimately demand that their citizens use their skills to improve life for their fellow citizens? Are these societies ever permitted to prevent their own citizens ... Læs mere

    298,61 kr.

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  • On Liberty

    Filibooks Classics Edition

    Explore the timeless principles of individual liberty and societal limits in John Stuart Mill's seminal work, 'On Liberty.'This thought-provoking book delves into the crucial balance between personal freedom and social responsibility, offering keen insights into the nature of authority, liberty, and the human condition. Mill's powerful arguments continue to resonate in contemporary discussions on ... Læs mere

    23,50 kr.

  • The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill

    On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism

    Serier serie Modern Library Classics
    The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected for the first time in this volume are Mill’s three seminal and most widely read works: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism. A brilliant defense of individual rights versus the power of the state, On Liberty is essential reading for anyone interested in political thought and theory. ... Læs mere

    50,15 kr.

  • A Struggle to Walk With Dignity

    The True Story of a Jamaican-born Canadian

    Gerald Augustus Archambeau was born in Jamaica in 1933. Raised in Kingston by his three aunts, he was sent to Canada in 1947 to join his mother and stepfather in Montreal. He trained in the plumbing and steam-fitting trade, but at age eighteen decided to join the railway as a passenger car porter. He worked for Canadian Pacific and Canadian National until the 1960s, when declining passenger rail ... Læs mere

    56,61 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

    Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land?In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, ... Læs mere

    154,24 kr.

  • Cheating Justice

    How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law and Plotted to Avoid Prosecution- and What We Can Do about It

    President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney deceived Congress and the people to drive us into a war in Iraq; they claimed the right to wiretap illegally and to eavesdrop on citizens; and they authorized torture, unilaterally upending laws and violating international treaty obligations. Yet, both Bush and Cheney are audaciously unapologetic about their crimes. In his recent memoir, President ... Læs mere

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  • Religion, Culture, and the State

    Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report

    Redigeret af Howard Adelman, Pierre Anctil ...
    The Canadian principle of reasonable accommodation demands that the cultural majority make certain concessions to the needs of minority groups if these concessions will not cause 'undue hardship.' This principle has caused much debate in Quebec, particularly over issues of language, Muslim head coverings, and religious symbols such as the kirpan (traditional Sikh dagger). In 2007, Quebec Premier ... Læs mere

    203,49 kr.

  • Racial Culture

    A Critique

    What is black culture? Does it have an essence? What do we lose and gain by assuming that it does, and by building our laws accordingly? This bold and provocative book questions the common presumption of political multiculturalism that social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality are defined by distinctive cultural practices.Richard Ford argues against law reform proposals that ... Læs mere

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  • Hunting the Northern Character

    af Tony Penikett ...
    Canadian politicians, like many of their circumpolar counterparts, brag about their country’s “Arctic identity” or “northern character,” but what do they mean, exactly? Stereotypes abound, from Dudley Do-Right to Northern Exposure, but these southern perspectives fail to capture northern realities. In this passionate, deeply personal account of modern developments in the Canadian North, Tony ... Læs mere

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  • The Queen of America Goes to Washington City

    Essays on Sex and Citizenship

    Serier serie Series Q
    In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution. By beaming light onto the ... Læs mere

    233,61 kr.

  • The Navajo Political Experience

    Serier serie Spectrum Series: Race and Ethnicity in National and Global Politics
    Native nations, like the Navajo nation, have proven to be remarkably adept at retaining and exercising ever-increasing amounts of self-determination even when faced with powerful external constraints and limited resources. Now in this fourth edition of David E. Wilkins' The Navajo Political Experience, political developments of the last decade are discussed and analyzed comprehensively, and with ... Læs mere

    457,40 kr.

  • Collective Courage

    A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

    In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty ... Læs mere

    242,61 kr.