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  • A plea to think differently in the digital world

    reflections on digitalization and society

    by peter hagedoorn ...
    Series Book 1 - fluid
    In just a few decades, economy and society have been digitalized. At any time every citizen can be informed of what is happening all over the world and he is "online" 24/7. All this has enormous effects on the way in which societies are functioning. The physical world of everyday life is no longer the decisive entity, but the digital world is actually the world in which the economy flourishes and ... Read more

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  • A World Without Work

    Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

    by Daniel Susskind ...
    A World Without Work: A Visionary Account of How AI Will Transform the World of WorkFrom mechanical looms to computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, but as Daniel Susskind demonstrates in A World Without Work, this time is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Revolutionary Wealth

    by Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler ...
    Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp and clarity that made their earlier books classics, the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Future Perfect

    The Case For Progress In A Networked Age

    by Steven Johnson ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now, Farsighted, and Extra LifeCombining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good For You, New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything from local governm... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How Change Happens

    by Duncan Green ...
    Human society is full of would-be 'change agents', a restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organizations, set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee human rights, get a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, achieve greater recognition for any number of issues, or simply be treated with respect. ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • Six Faces of Globalization

    Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters

    by Anthea Roberts, Nicolas Lamp ...
    An essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization, cutting through the complexity to reveal the fault lines that divide us and the points of agreement that might bring us together.Globalization has lifted millions out of poverty. Globalization is a weapon the rich use to exploit the poor. Globalization builds bridges across national ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Re:imagining Change

    by DOYLE CANNING, PATRICK REINSBOROUGH ...
    Re:Imagining Change provides resources, theory, hands-on tools and illuminating case studies for the next generation of innovative change-makers. This unique book explores how culture, media, memes and narrative intertwine with social change strategies, and offers practical methods to amplify progressive causes in the popular culture. This new, expanded second edition includes even more examples ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Myth of the Age of Entitlement

    Millennials, Austerity, and Hope

    by James Cairns ...
    We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel like, and think they deserve to have things handed to them. In The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Design after Capitalism

    Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow

    by Matthew Wizinsky ...
    How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles.The designed things, experiences, and symbols that we use to perceive, understand, and perform our everyday lives are much more than just props. They directly shape how we live. In Design after Capitalism, Matthew Wizinsky argues that the world of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Corporatizing Canada

    Making Business Out of Public Service

    by Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl, Kevin Walby ...
    From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public institutions and use business metrics to evaluate their performance, transforming public programs into corporate revenue streams.Senior managers use corporate methodology to set priorities in social services and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    Series series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Weaving Two Worlds: Economic Reconciliation Between Indigenous Peoples and the Resource Sector

    by Christy Smith, Michael McPhie ...
    The resource sector must embrace Reconciliation with Indigenous PeoplesMuch of the land, the waters, and all that lived upon or in them is, or was once, under the stewardship of Indigenous Peoples. But when it comes to resource extraction, Indigenous communities have often paid the highest price, and received the least in the way of benefit. That's changing, and quickly. Today and in the future, ... Read more

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