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  • Hot Stove Trivia

    Volume 1

    by Kidd Russell ...
    Whether you are sitting at the ballpark on a lazy summer afternoon or counting down the days until the start of spring training, Hot Stove Trivia will always keep you in the game with more than two hundred fascinating trivia questions about Americas pastime. Discover amazing facts about baseballs best and brightest, from the games greatest sluggers to the Cy Young-award-winning pitchers and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The History and Politics of Sport-for-Development

    Activists, Ideologues and Reformers

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on the major social and political forces that have shaped the ways in which sport has been understood, organized, and contested in an effort to engender social change.Integrating the history of international development with the history of modern sport, the authors examine the underpinnings of sport-for-development from the mid-19th through the early 21st centuries. Including ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    A More Perfect Union

    A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community

    Narrated by Terrence Kidd ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    America is at a pivotal crossroads. The soul of our nation is at stake and in peril. A new public narrative is needed to unite Americans around common values and to counter the increasing discord and acrimony in our politics and culture. The moral vision of Martin Luther King Jr.'s beloved community, which animated and galvanized the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, provides a hopeful ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008

    To Remember is to Resist

    Edited by Russell Field, Bruce Kidd ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    1968 was a year of protest in civil society (Prague, Paris, Chicago) and a year of protest in sport. After a world-wide campaign, the anti-apartheid movement succeeded in barring South Africa from the Olympic Games, while US athletes from the Olympic Project for Human Rights used the medals podium to decry the racism of North America. Meanwhile, students in Mexico demonstrated against social ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Our Story, Our Politics, Our Future

    by Ken Dryden ...
    In this passionate, thought-provoking vision for Canada, Ken Dryden argues that we have paid a price for having the wrong sense of ourselves as a country. The old definition of Canada – genial but sometimes too self-deprecating and ambition-killing – is no longer the real story. Through recent global events such as Barack Obama’s election and first year in office; the climate conference in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How Canadians Communicate IV

    Media and Politics

    Substantial changes have occurred in the nature of political discourse over the past thirty years. Once, traditional media dominated the political landscape, but in recent years Facebook, Twitter, blogs and Blackberrys have emerged as important tools and platforms for political campaigns. While the Canadian party system has proved surprisingly resilient, the rhythms of political life are now very ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Our Media, Not Theirs

    The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media

    Series series Open Media Series
    Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and Nichols begin by detailing how the media system has come to be dominated by a handful of transnational conglomerates that use their immense political and economic power to saturate the population with ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Is the EU Doomed?

    by Jan Zielonka ...
    Series series Global Futures
    The European Union is in crisis. Crippled by economic problems, political brinkmanship, and institutional rigidity, the EU faces an increasingly uncertain future.In this compelling essay, leading scholar of European politics, Jan Zielonka argues that although the EU will only survive in modest form - deprived of many real powers - Europe as an integrated entity will grow stronger. Integration, he ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada

    Revisiting ten notable days from recent history, Aaron W. Hughes invites readers to think about the tensions, events, and personalities that make Canada distinct. These indelible dates interweave to offer an account of the political, social, cultural, and demographic forces that have shaped the modern nation. The diverse episodes include the enactment of the War Measures Act, hockey’s Summit ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    At a time when diplomatic practices and the demands imposed on diplomats are changing quite radically, and many foreign ministries feel they are being left behind, there is a need to understand the various forces that are affecting the profession. Diplomacy remains a salient activity in today's world in which the basic authoritative actor is still the state. At the same time, in some respects the ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The Political Origins of Inequality

    Why a More Equal World Is Better for Us All

    This far-reaching study examines how political policies and paradigms have deepened global inequality, and how to reframe the debate to address it.Inequality is the defining issue of our time—one in which the global 1% now owns half the world's wealth. In this magisterial study, Simon Reid-Henry rewrites the story of globalization as one about the management of inequality. Reaching back to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lessons Learned

    Reflections of a University President

    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    An insider's account of higher education from a legendary university leaderLessons Learned gives unprecedented access to the university president's office, providing a unique set of reflections on the challenges involved in leading both research universities and liberal arts colleges. In this landmark book, William Bowen, former president of Princeton University and of the Andrew W. Mellon ... Read more

    $17.29 USD