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Congo stories : battling five centuries of exploitation and greed / by Prendergast, John,1963-author.; Bafilemba, Fidel,author.; Souleymane, Soraya Aziz,writer of foreword.; Eggers, Dave,writer of postface.; Namegabe, Chouchou,writer of afterword.; Ilus, Sam,1979-illustrator.; Gosling, Ryan,1980-photographer.;
Subjects: Resource curse; Mines and mineral resources;
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Blood legacy : reckoning with a family's story of slavery / by Renton, Alex,1961-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Alex Renton explores what inheritance - political, economic, moral and spiritual - has been passed to the descendants of the slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved.
Subjects: Renton, Alex, 1961-; Compensation (Law); Distributive justice.; Slavery; Slavery; Slavery; Slavery;
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Gardening in a changing world : plants, people and the climate crisis / by Moore, Darryl,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Darryl Moore is an award-winning garden and landscape designer and writer focusing on contemporary garden and landscape design and planting. He is director and co-founder of the innovative urban landscape organization Cityscapes, realizing creative approaches to greening city spaces through novel design ideas that ensure ecological, economic and social sustainability. His book Gardening in a changing world is essential reading for professionals and students of horticulture and garden and landscape design -- and anyone interested in showcasing sustainability and ecology in public places.
Subjects: Gardening; Landscape gardening; Landscaping industry;
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Davos man : how the billionaires devoured the world / by Goodman, Peter S.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, a masterwork of reporting and explanatory journalism that exposes how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world has transformed 21st century life and dangerously destabilized democracy"--
Subjects: Billionaires.; Capitalism; Democracy.; Wealth;
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Doppelganger : a trip into the mirror world / by Klein, Naomi,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Over the past twenty-five years, Naomi Klein has charted and documented our politics and culture with a series of trenchant bestselling books laying bare the effects of branding, austerity, and climate profiteering on our societies and souls. With Doppelganger, Klein takes a more personal turn, braiding together elements of tragicomic memoir, chilling political reportage, and cobweb-clearing cultural analysis, as she dives deep into what she calls the Mirror World--our destabilized present rife with doubles and confusion, where far right movements playact solidarity with the working class, AI-generated content blurs the line between genuine and spurious, New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers further scramble our familiar political allegiances, and so many of us project our own carefully curated digital doubles out into the social media sphere. Klein begins this richly nuanced intellectual adventure story by grappling with her own doppelganger--a fellow author and public intellectual whose views are antithetical to Klein's own, but whose name and public persona are sufficiently similar that many people have confused the two over the years. From there, she turns her gaze both inward to our psychic landscapes--drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, and bell hooks, to name a few--and outward, to our intersecting economic, environmental, medical, and political crises. Ultimately seeking to escape the Mirror World and chart a path beyond confusion and despair, Klein delivers a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now."--
Subjects: Conservatism; Conservatism; Misinformation.; Social media and society.; Social media; Social media; Social media;
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The green New Deal : why the fossil fuel civilization will collapse by 2028, and the bold economic plan to save life on earth / by Rifkin, Jeremy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In 'The Green New Deal', renowned economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin provides an urgent plan to confront climate change, transform the American economy, and create a green post-fossil fuel culture. Rifkin is one of the most popular social thinkers of our time. He is the bestselling author of 19 books including 'The End of Work', and his books have been translated into more than 35 languages. Rifkin is also an advisor to the European Union and heads of state around the world.
Subjects: Clean energy; Energy policy; Sustainable development;
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Canada : the people / by Kalman, Bobbie,1947-;
Examines various aspects of life in Canada, including school, work, play, the French and British heritage, immigration, and issues that must be resolved with native peoples and the French-speaking population in Quebec.LSC
© c2010., Crabtree Pub.,
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Move : the forces uprooting us / by Khanna, Parag,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a continuous feature of human civilization has been mobility. History is replete with seismic global events--pandemics and plagues, wars and genocides. Each time, after a great catastrophe, our innate impulse toward physical security compels us to move. The map of humanity isn't settled--not now, not ever. The filled-with-crises 21st century promises to contain the most dangerous and extensive experiment humanity has ever run on itself: As climates change, pandemics arrive, and economies rise and fall, which places will people leave and where will they resettle? Which countries will accept or reject them? How will the billions alive today, and the billions coming, paint the next map of human geography? Until now, the study of human geography and migration has been like a weather forecast. Move delivers an authoritative look at the "climate" of migration, the deep trends that will shape the grand economic and security scenarios of the future. For readers, it will be a chance to identify their location on humanity's next map"--
Subjects: Climatic changes; Emigration and immigration; Human beings; Human geography.; Migration, Internal;
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The revenge of power : how autocrats are reinventing politics for the 21st century / by Naím, Moisés,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Moisés Naím's The Revenge of Power is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world. In his New York Times bestselling book The End of Power, Moisés Naím examined power-diluting forces. In The Revenge of Power, Naím turns to the trends, conditions, and behaviors that are contributing to the concentration of power, and to the clash between those the forces that weaken power and those that strengthen it. He concentrates on the three "P"s-populism, polarization, and post-truths. All of which are as old as time, but are combined by today's autocrats to undermine democratic life in new and frightening ways. Power has not changed. But the way people go about gaining it and using it has been transformed. The Revenge of Power connects the dots between global events and political tactics that, when taken together, show a profound and often stealthy transformation in power and politics worldwide. Using the best available data and insights taken from recent research in the social sciences, Naím reveals how, on close examination, the same set of strategies to consolidate power pop up again and again in places with vastly different political, economic, and social circumstances, and offers insights about what can be done to ensure that freedom and democracy prevail. The outcomes of these battles for power will determine if our future will be more autocratic or more democratic. These outcomes will, in turn, depend on the capacity of our democracies to survive the attacks and dirty tricks of autocratic leaders bent on weakening the checks and balances that limit their power. Naím addresses the questions at the heart of the matter: What are, in practice, those attacks and tricks? Why is power concentrating in some places while in others it is fragmenting and degrading? And the big question: What is the future of freedom?"--
Subjects: Democracy.; Polarization (Social sciences); Populism.; Power (Social sciences); Truthfulness and falsehood;
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The global economy as you've never seen it : 99 ingenious infographics that put it all together / by Ramge, Thomas,1971-author.; Garcia-Landa, Adrian,author.; Schwochow, Jan,author.; translation of:Ramge, Thomas,1971-Wirtschaft verstehen.English.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203) and index.An ingeniously conceived tour of the global economy and all its key components, illuminated one by one in 99 large-scale, full-colour infographics. The economy is a complex, world-spanning, layer-upon-layer-upon-layer behemoth: One could argue that almost every aspect of our lives is connected to the realms of business and finance. And yet few of us truly understand it -- even the world's foremost economists can't seem to agree on how it runs.
Subjects: Economics.; Graphic methods.; International economic relations.; Money.;
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