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Debating Ethics eBook Series

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  • Debating Brain Drain

    May Governments Restrict Emigration?

    by Michael Blake, Gillian Brock ...
    Series series Debating Ethics
    Many of the best and brightest citizens of developing countries choose to emigrate to wealthier societies, taking their skills and educations with them. What do these people owe to their societies of origin? May developing societies legitimately demand that their citizens use their skills to improve life for their fellow citizens? Are these societies ever permitted to prevent their own citizens ... Read more

    $30.95 CAD

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  • On Liberty

    bold-faced thoughts on free will, free speech, and the importance of individuality

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    On Liberty, John Stuart Mill's classic critique of the ethical limits of governmental authority, remains one of the most influential philosophical treatises ever written. This interactive edition in our popular Bold-Faced series prompts readers to reflect on the importance of free will, free speech, and dissent in a democratic society. It features an informative introduction by series editor Laura ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill

    On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism

    by John Stuart Mill, Dale E. Miller ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected for the first time in this volume are Mill’s three seminal and most widely read works: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism. A brilliant defense of individual rights versus the power of the state, On Liberty is essential reading for anyone interested in political thought and theory. ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • A Struggle to Walk With Dignity

    The True Story of a Jamaican-born Canadian

    by Gerald A. Archambeau ...
    Gerald Augustus Archambeau was born in Jamaica in 1933. Raised in Kingston by his three aunts, he was sent to Canada in 1947 to join his mother and stepfather in Montreal. He trained in the plumbing and steam-fitting trade, but at age eighteen decided to join the railway as a passenger car porter. He worked for Canadian Pacific and Canadian National until the 1960s, when declining passenger rail ... Read more

    $6.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Covering

    The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

    by Kenji Yoshino ...
    A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about the ways in which all of us have covered our true selves. . . . We really do feel ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Going Down Jericho Road

    The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign

    by Michael K. Honey ...
    The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade.Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers were chewed up like ... Read more

    $17.81 CAD

  • Cheating Justice

    How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law and Plotted to Avoid Prosecution- and What We Can Do about It

    by Cynthia Cooper, Elizabeth Holtzman ...
    President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney deceived Congress and the people to drive us into a war in Iraq; they claimed the right to wiretap illegally and to eavesdrop on citizens; and they authorized torture, unilaterally upending laws and violating international treaty obligations. Yet, both Bush and Cheney are audaciously unapologetic about their crimes. In his recent memoir, President ... Read more

    $23.03 CAD

  • Religion, Culture, and the State

    Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report

    Edited by Howard Adelman, Pierre Anctil ...
    The Canadian principle of reasonable accommodation demands that the cultural majority make certain concessions to the needs of minority groups if these concessions will not cause 'undue hardship.' This principle has caused much debate in Quebec, particularly over issues of language, Muslim head coverings, and religious symbols such as the kirpan (traditional Sikh dagger). In 2007, Quebec Premier ... Read more

    $25.91 CAD

  • Racial Culture

    A Critique

    by Richard T. Ford ...
    What is black culture? Does it have an essence? What do we lose and gain by assuming that it does, and by building our laws accordingly? This bold and provocative book questions the common presumption of political multiculturalism that social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality are defined by distinctive cultural practices.Richard Ford argues against law reform proposals that ... Read more

    $38.51 CAD

  • Collective Courage

    A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

    by Jessica Gordon Nembhard ...
    In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty ... Read more

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  • Borderlands Media

    Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants

    by David E. Toohey ...
    David E. Toohey’s Borderlands Media: Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants is an in-depth analysis which explores the immigrant experience using a mixture of cinema, literary, and other artistic media spanning from 1958 onward.Toohey begins with Orson Welles’s 1958 Touch of Evil, which triggered a wave of protest resulting in Chicana/o filmmakers acting out against ... Read more

    $142.28 CAD

  • Queers in Court

    Gay Rights Law and Public Policy

    by Susan Gluck Mezey ...
    In Queers in Court, Susan Gluck Mezey examines the contemporary battle for gay and lesbian rights in the United States, tracing the evolution of issues from same sex marriage and privacy rights to military service and employment discrimination. By combining analyses of nearly three hundred cases from both federal and state courts with detailed explorations of the paths these issues have taken ... Read more

    $50.21 CAD