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To Hell and Back - Humans of COVID (Hardcover): Barkha Dutt To Hell and Back - Humans of COVID (Hardcover)
Barkha Dutt
R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The lockdown of the first wave caused unprecedented devastation. And in 2022, Omicron has trigged a new challenge. When India's lockdown was first announced in March 2020, acclaimed journalist Barkha Dutt started an extraordinary series of road trips, recording the human story of the pandemic, one which she continues even today as we wrestle with the virus's latest avatar. In this book, she tells India's pandemic story through the stories of the people she covered - the migrant workers and politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats, doctors and nurses, factory workers and farmers, teachers and students, husbands and wives, parents and children. And through these accounts, she draws a startling picture not just of our plague years but the very nature of our country with its deep-rooted inequalities across class, caste and gender. Moving, gripping and vivid, To Hell and Back is an outstanding work by one of our foremost journalists, working at the height of her powers.

The Breach - The Untold Story of the Investigation into January 6th (Paperback): Denver Riggleman The Breach - The Untold Story of the Investigation into January 6th (Paperback)
Denver Riggleman
R380 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R83 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Make no mistake: modern information warfare is here and January 6th was just the first battle. That day, an unhinged mindset led to an attack on the Capitol, the most serious assault on American democracy since the end of the Civil War. And that thinking portends even darker days ahead. In The Breach, a former House Republican and the first member of Congress to sound the alarm about QAnon, Denver Riggleman, provides readers with an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the January 6th select committee's investigation. Riggleman, who joined the committee as senior technical advisor, lays out the full intent and scope of the plot to overturn the election. The book includes previously unpublished texts from key political leaders. And it also contains shocking details about the Trump White House's links to militant extremist groups?even during the almost-eight-hour period on January 6th when the White House supposedly had no phone calls. The man responsible for unearthing Mark Meadows's infamous texts shows how data analysis shapes the contours of our new war, telling how the committee uncovered many of its explosive findings and sharing revealing stories from his time in the Trump-era GOP. With unique insights from within the far-right movement and from the front lines of the courageous team investigating it, Riggleman shows how our democracy is balanced on a knife's edge between disinformation and truth. Here is a revelatory peek at the inner workings of the January 6th committee and a clear-eyed look at the existential threats facing the republic?and a blueprint for how America can fight to survive the darkest night before the dawn.

Exploring the Tomato - Transformations of Nature, Society and Economy (Paperback): Mark Harvey, Stephen Quilley, Huw Beynon Exploring the Tomato - Transformations of Nature, Society and Economy (Paperback)
Mark Harvey, Stephen Quilley, Huw Beynon
R1,503 Discovery Miles 15 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Exploring the Tomato engages with an apparently simple fruit in order to reveal major changes to society and economy. It treats the tomato as an object of fascination and as a probe into major historical changes in twentieth century capitalism. From first domestication to genetic modification, from Aztec salsa to supermarket pizza, the tomato has been continually transformed in the ways it has been produced, exchanged and consumed. This book explores what brings about a variety that is at once biological, historical and socio-economic. A conceptual framework of 'instituted economic process' demonstrates how different tomato forms are an expression of dynamic processes in capitalist economies and societies during the twentieth century. As both an early pioneer in mass production and a contemporary contributor to the creation of global cuisines, the tomato has been subject to intense innovation. Computerised total ecologies under glass, producing fresh tomatoes of all shapes, colours and sizes, compete with sun and southern climates across the world. To enter the variety of tomato worlds is to discover the variety of capitalism. Written in an accessible style, this book makes a major contribution to the emerging field of economic sociology and to our understanding of the innovation process. It should be read by anyone concerned with social science, particularly economists and sociologists, as well as those interested in food and the history of food.

Heat, Greed and Human Need - Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing (Hardcover): Ian Gough Heat, Greed and Human Need - Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing (Hardcover)
Ian Gough
R2,997 Discovery Miles 29 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'There are few scholarly books about climate change that take the issue of the distribution of its costs, and of the costs and benefits of its mitigation, as seriously as their absolute value. This is probably the best of those books that I have come across. Rigorously rooted in Gough's earlier work on theories of human need, the book is relentless in its pursuit of equity in respect of climate change and responses to it. Not everyone will agree with all its conclusions - for example that ''green capitalism merits the term contradiction'' - but they are unfailingly thought-provoking, as all good scholarship should be. Highly recommended.' - Paul Ekins, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, UK 'Gough applies his trademark scholarship on universal human needs to the urgent question of social policy for the transition to a de-carbonised world. Based on a clear-eyed analysis of a wide swathe of the social science literature, and an eco-social political economy perspective, his approach is both pragmatic and deeply rooted in ethics and social justice. Highly recommended and suitable for teaching at all levels.' - Juliet B. Schor, Boston College This exceptional book considers how far catastrophic global warming can be averted in an economic system that is greedy for growth, without worsening deprivation and inequality. The satisfaction of human needs - as opposed to wants - is the only viable measure for negotiating trade-offs between climate change, capitalism and human wellbeing, now and in the future. The author critically examines the political economy of capitalism and offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for keeping the rise in global temperatures below two degrees, while also improving equity and social justice. A three-stage transition is proposed with useful practical policies. First, 'green growth': cut carbon emissions from production across the world. Second, 'recompose' patterns of consumption in the rich world, cutting high-energy luxuries in favour of low-energy routes to meeting basic needs. Third, because the first two are perilously insufficient, move towards an economy that flourishes without growth. Heat, Greed and Human Need is vital for researchers and students of the environment, public and social policy, economics, political theory and development studies. For those advocating political, social and environmental reform this book presents excellent practical eco-social policies to achieve both sustainable consumption and social justice.

Too Big to Jail - Inside HSBC, the Mexican drug cartels and the greatest banking scandal of the century (Paperback): Chris... Too Big to Jail - Inside HSBC, the Mexican drug cartels and the greatest banking scandal of the century (Paperback)
Chris Blackhurst
R380 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R83 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Across the world, HSBC likes to sell itself as 'the world's local bank', the friendly face of corporate and personal finance. And yet, a decade ago, the same bank was hit with a record US fine of $1.9 billion for facilitating money laundering for 'drug kingpins and rogue nations'. In pursuit of their goal of becoming the biggest bank in the world, between 2003 to 2010, HSBC allowed El Chapo and the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most notorious and murderous criminal organizations in the world, to turn its ill-gotten money into clean dollars and thereby grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ever seen. Just how did 'the world's local bank' find itself enabling Mexico's leading drugs cartel, and the biggest drugs trafficking organization in the world, to launder cash through the bank's branch network and systems? How did a bank, which boasts 'we're committed to helping protect the world's financial system on which millions of people depend, by only doing business with customers who meet our high standards of transparency' come to facilitate Mexico's richest drug baron? And how did a bank that as recently as 2002 had been named 'one of the best-run organizations in the world' become so entwined with such a criminal, with one of the most barbaric groups of gangsters on the planet? Too Big to Jail is an extraordinary story brilliantly told by writer, commentator and former editor of The Independent, Chris Blackhurst, that starts in Hong Kong and ranges across London, Washington, the Cayman Islands and Mexico, where HSBC saw the opportunity to become the largest bank in the world, and El Chapo seized the chance to fuel his murderous empire by laundering his drug proceeds through the bank. It brings together an extraordinary cast of politicians, bankers, drug dealers, FBI officers and whistle-blowers, and asks what price does greed have? Whose job is it to police global finance? And why did not a single person go to prison for facilitating the murderous expansion of a global drug empire? Are some corporations now so big as to be above the law?

Before the Break of Dawn: - Secrets of the Namboodiri Women (Paperback): Devaki Nilayamgode Before the Break of Dawn: - Secrets of the Namboodiri Women (Paperback)
Devaki Nilayamgode
R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Addicted to Growth - Societal Therapy for a Sustainable Wellbeing Future (Paperback): Robert Costanza Addicted to Growth - Societal Therapy for a Sustainable Wellbeing Future (Paperback)
Robert Costanza
R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book takes a compelling approach to describing what is needed to create the kind of future that most people on Earth really want. Our global society is hopelessly addicted to a particular vision of the world and a future that has become both unsustainable and undesirable. Addicted to Growth frames our current predicament as a societal addiction to a 'growth at all costs' economic paradigm. While economic growth has produced many benefits, its side effects are now producing existential problems that are rapidly getting worse. Robert Costanza considers lessons from what works at the individual level to overcome addictions and applies them to a societal scale. Costanza recognises that the first step to recovery is recognising the addiction and that it is leading to disaster; however, simply pointing out the dire consequences of our societal addiction is only the first step and can be counterproductive by itself in motivating change. The key next step is creating a truly shared vision of the kind of world we all want, and the book explores creative ways to implement this societal therapy. The final step is using that shared vision to motivate the changes needed to achieve it, including adaptive transformations of our economic systems, property rights regimes, and governance institutions. An exciting contribution from a key thinker in the field, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of public policy and sustainability studies, and anyone interested in understanding and overcoming our societal addiction to growth.

The Breach - The Untold Story of the Investigation into January 6th (Hardcover): Denver Riggleman The Breach - The Untold Story of the Investigation into January 6th (Hardcover)
Denver Riggleman
R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Make no mistake: modern information warfare is here and January 6th was just the first battle. That day, an unhinged mindset led to an attack on the Capitol, the most serious assault on American democracy since the end of the Civil War. And that thinking portends even darker days ahead. In The Breach, a former House Republican and the first member of Congress to sound the alarm about QAnon, Denver Riggleman, provides readers with an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the January 6th select committee's investigation. Riggleman, who joined the committee as senior technical advisor, lays out the full intent and scope of the plot to overturn the election. The book includes previously unpublished texts from key political leaders. And it also contains shocking details about the Trump White House's links to militant extremist groups, even during the almost-eight-hour period on January 6th when the White House supposedly had no phone calls. The man responsible for unearthing Mark Meadows's infamous texts shows how data analysis shapes the contours of our new war, telling how the committee uncovered many of its explosive findings and sharing revealing stories from his time in the Trump-era GOP. With unique insights from within the far-right movement and from the front lines of the courageous team investigating it, Riggleman shows how our democracy is balanced on a knife's edge between disinformation and truth. Here is a revelatory peek at the inner workings of the January 6th committee and a clear-eyed look at the existential threats facing the republic, and a blueprint for how America can fight to survive the darkest night before the dawn.

From Chaucer to Arnold - Vol. 1 (Paperback): Andrew Jackson Georg From Chaucer to Arnold - Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Andrew Jackson Georg
R1,745 R1,656 Discovery Miles 16 560 Save R89 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
(u) Mzantsi Classics - Dialogues In Decolonisation From Southern Africa (Paperback): Samantha Masters, Imkhitha Nzungu, Grant... (u) Mzantsi Classics - Dialogues In Decolonisation From Southern Africa (Paperback)
Samantha Masters, Imkhitha Nzungu, Grant Parker
R300 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Save R66 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Though Graeco-Roman antiquity (‘classics’) has often been considered the handmaid of colonialism, its various forms have nonetheless endured through many of the continent’s decolonising transitions. Southern Africa is no exception. This book canvasses the variety of forms classics has taken in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and especially South Africa, and even the dynamics of transformation itself.

How does (u)Mzantsi classics (of southern Africa) look in an era of profound change, whether violent or otherwise? What are its future prospects? Contributors focus on pedagogies, historical consciousness, the creative arts and popular culture.

The volume, in its overall shape, responds to the idea of dialogue – in both the Greek form associated with Plato’s rendition of Socrates’ wisdom and in the African concept of ubuntu. Here are dialogues between scholars, both emerging and established, as well as students – some of whom were directly impacted by the Fallist protests.

Rather than offering an apologia for classics, these dialogues engage with pressing questions of relevance, identity, change, the canon, and the dynamics of decolonisation and potential recolonisation. The goal is to interrogate classics – the ways it has been taught, studied, perceived, transformed and even lived – from many points of view.

The Revolt of the Bees (Hardcover): John Minter Morgan The Revolt of the Bees (Hardcover)
John Minter Morgan
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Transitions to Good Governance - Creating Virtuous Circles of Anti-corruption (Hardcover): Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Michael... Transitions to Good Governance - Creating Virtuous Circles of Anti-corruption (Hardcover)
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Michael Johnston
R3,472 Discovery Miles 34 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why have so few countries managed to leave systematic corruption behind, while in many others modernization is still a mere facade? How do we escape the trap of corruption, to reach a governance system based on ethical universalism? In this unique book, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Michael Johnston lead a team of eminent researchers on an illuminating path towards deconstructing the few virtuous circles in contemporary governance. The book combines a solid theoretical framework with quantitative evidence and case studies from around the world. While extracting lessons to be learned from the success cases covered, Transitions to Good Governance avoids being prescriptive and successfully contributes to the understanding of virtuous circles in contemporary good governance. Offering a balanced but always grounded perspective, this collection combines analytic narratives of existing virtuous circles and how they were established, with an analysis of the global evidence. In doing so the authors explain why governance is so resistant to change, and describe the lessons to be remembered for international anti-corruption efforts. Exploring the primacy of politics over economic development, and in order to understand how vicious circles can be broken, the expert contributions trace the progress of countries that have successfully transitioned. Unprecedentedly, this book goes beyond the tests of different variables to showcase human agency on every continent, and reveals why some nations make the best and others the worst of the same development legacies. This comprehensive examination of virtuous circles of governance will appeal to all scholars with an interest in transitions, democratization, anti-corruption and good governance. Policy-makers and practitioners in the fields of international development, good governance and democracy support will find it an invaluable resource. Contributors include: A. Bozzini, D. Bupuet Corleto, C. Goebel, M. Johnston, V. Kalnins, L. Khatib, A. Kupatadze, M. Martini, A. Mungiu-Pippidi, P. Navia, R. Pineiro, D. Sebudubudu, E. Villarreal, B.W. Wilson, J.-S. You

Neues Allgemeines Deutsches Adelslexicon - Vol. 7 (Paperback): Ernst Heinrich Kneschke Neues Allgemeines Deutsches Adelslexicon - Vol. 7 (Paperback)
Ernst Heinrich Kneschke
R1,502 Discovery Miles 15 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Das gelehrte Teutschland - Lexikon der jetzt lebenden teutschen Schriftsteller. Band 4 (Paperback): Georg Christoph Hamberger Das gelehrte Teutschland - Lexikon der jetzt lebenden teutschen Schriftsteller. Band 4 (Paperback)
Georg Christoph Hamberger
R1,336 Discovery Miles 13 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A selection of leading cases in the common law - With notes. From the 3d English ed. (Paperback): Walter Shirley Shirley A selection of leading cases in the common law - With notes. From the 3d English ed. (Paperback)
Walter Shirley Shirley
R1,283 Discovery Miles 12 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Pathway of Life (Paperback): T. de Witt Talmage The Pathway of Life (Paperback)
T. de Witt Talmage
R1,354 Discovery Miles 13 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Footprints of Time - And a complete Analysis of our American System of Government (Paperback): Charles Bancroft The Footprints of Time - And a complete Analysis of our American System of Government (Paperback)
Charles Bancroft
R1,813 R1,719 Discovery Miles 17 190 Save R94 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Natural History - Vol. 3 (Paperback): Charles Knight Natural History - Vol. 3 (Paperback)
Charles Knight
R1,334 Discovery Miles 13 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Law Reports - Vol. 2 (Paperback): Anonymous The Law Reports - Vol. 2 (Paperback)
Anonymous
R1,387 Discovery Miles 13 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Treatise of the Law of Bills of Exchange - Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and Checks. Fifth Edition (Paperback): John Barnard... A Treatise of the Law of Bills of Exchange - Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and Checks. Fifth Edition (Paperback)
John Barnard Byles, George Sharswood
R1,817 R1,723 Discovery Miles 17 230 Save R94 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
International Encyclopedia of Civil Society (Hardcover, 2010): Helmut K. Anheier, Stefan Toepler International Encyclopedia of Civil Society (Hardcover, 2010)
Helmut K. Anheier, Stefan Toepler
R28,285 Discovery Miles 282 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recently the topic of civil society has generated a wave of interest, and a wealth of new information. Until now no publication has attempted to organize and consolidate this knowledge.

The International Encyclopedia of Civil Society fills this gap, establishing a common set of understandings and terminology, and an analytical starting point for future research. Global in scope and authoritative in content, the Encyclopedia offers succinct summaries of core concepts and theories; definitions of terms; biographical entries on important figures and organizational profiles. In addition, it serves as a reliable and up-to-date guide to additional sources of information.

In sum, the Encyclopedia provides an overview of the contours of civil society, social capital, philanthropy and nonprofits across cultures and historical periods. For researchers in nonprofit and civil society studies, political science, economics, management and social enterprise, this is the most systematic appraisal of a rapidly growing field.

Extinguishing the Raging Fire that is the Capitalist System (Paperback): Liziwe Ntshengulana Extinguishing the Raging Fire that is the Capitalist System (Paperback)
Liziwe Ntshengulana
R230 Discovery Miles 2 300 In Stock
The Texas Doctor and the Arab Donkey - Or, Palestine and Egypt as viewed by Modern Eyes (Paperback): Joseph Marstain Fort The Texas Doctor and the Arab Donkey - Or, Palestine and Egypt as viewed by Modern Eyes (Paperback)
Joseph Marstain Fort
R1,800 R1,706 Discovery Miles 17 060 Save R94 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rules for the Interpretation of Deeds - With a glossary (Paperback): Und Andere, Howard Warburton Elphinstone Rules for the Interpretation of Deeds - With a glossary (Paperback)
Und Andere, Howard Warburton Elphinstone
R1,488 Discovery Miles 14 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford Between A.D. 1859 and 1872 (Paperback): Edward Bouverie Pusey Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford Between A.D. 1859 and 1872 (Paperback)
Edward Bouverie Pusey
R1,281 Discovery Miles 12 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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