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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jeffrey ayres”
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  • Globalization and Food Sovereignty

    Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food

    Edited by Peter Andree, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael Bosia, Marie-Josee Massicotte ...
    In recent years, food sovereignty has emerged as a way of contesting corporate control of agricultural markets in pursuit of a more democratic, decentralized food system. The concept unites individuals, communities, civil society organizations, and even states in opposition to globalizing food regimes.This collection examines expressions of food sovereignty ranging from the direct action tactics ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Protest and Democracy

    by Erica S. Simmons, Jeffrey Ayres, Laura Macdonald, Jennifer M. Larson, Carew E. Boulding, Paul Kingston, Sofia Donoso, Nicolas Somma, Ted Goertzel, Eduardo Silva ...
    In 2011, political protests sprang up across the world. In the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the United States unlikely people sparked or led massive protest campaigns from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. These protests were made up of educated and precariously employed young people who challenged the legitimacy of their political leaders, exposed a failure of representation, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • North America in Question

    Regional Integration in an Era of Economic Turbulence

    by Jeffrey Ayres, Laura MacDonald ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
    Can North America survive as a region in light of the political turbulence provoked by the global economic crisis? Or have regional integration and collaboration reached a plateau beyond which disintegration is likely? In North America in Question, leading analysts from Canada, the United States, and Mexico provide theoretically innovative and rich empirical reflections on current challenges ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • A Perfidious Distortion of History

    the Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis

    by Jürgen Tampke ...
    A controversial and important work of revisionist history that rebuts the accepted version of the role of the Versailles Peace Treaty in the rise of Nazism and the unleashing of World War II.The Versailles Peace Treaty, the pact that ended World War I between the German empire and the Allies, has not enjoyed a positive reputation since its signing in June 1919. Conventional wisdom has it that the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • A City in Civil War – Dublin 1921–1924

    The Irish Civil War

    by Padraig Yeates ...
    The long-awaited concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates' 'Dublin at War' trilogyIn A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921–1924, acclaimed historian Pádraig Yeates turns his attention to Ireland's bloody and hard-fought Civil War and its impact on the capital city and its inhabitants.The fascinating A City in Civil War tells the story of Dublin's troubled passage to independence amidst the acrimony and ... Read more

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  • The Year of Disappearances

    Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922

    by Gerard Murphy ...
    'Every spy who was shot in Cork was buried so that nothing was known about them. They just disappeared.' These are the words of an IRA commander recalling the War of Independence in Cork city. The Year of Disappearances examines this claim and others like it. It uncovers a web of suspicion and paranoia that led to scores of men and boys being abducted from their homes before being executed as ... Read more

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  • Cities and the Creative Class

    by Richard Florida ...
    In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the Creative**Class, Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the millions of people who work in information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda

    Building a Bridge to a Sustainable Future

    by Felix Dodds, Jorge Laguna-Celis, Liz Thompson ...
    Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit", the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.Written by practitioners ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Abuse Of Power

    by Stanley Kutler ...
    Using thousands of hours of previously concealed tapes, a stunning revelation into the infamous Nixon White House and how far the administration went to cover up the abuse of power.Richard Nixon said he wanted his administration to be "the best chronicled in history." But when Alexander Butterfield disclosed the existence of a voice-activated taping system to a Senate committee in July 1973, Nixon ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation And Cooperation (Second Edition)

    by Ariel Dinar, Shlomi Dinar, Daene C Mckinney, Stephen C Mccaffrey ...
    Series Book 11 - World Scientific Series On Environmental And Energy Economics And Policy
    Bridges over Water places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the context of various disciplines, such as international relations, international law, international negotiations, and economics. It demonstrates their application, using various quantitative approaches, such as river basin modeling, quantitative negotiation theory, and game theory. Case-studies ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Social Vulnerability in European Cities

    The Role of Local Welfare in Times of Crisis

    Edited by C. Ranci, T. Brandsen, S. Sabatinelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    What has been the impact on social cohesion of contemporary cities in Europe, of the rise of new social risks and of the recent economic crisis? Focussing on 20 European urban contexts, this book provides an empirical analysis of the socio-economic transformations driving the emergence of new social risks and of the capacity of welfare policies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD