Field Notes – serie
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18 produkter
Hinterland
America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict
Av Phil A. Neel
Häftad, 2020
234 kr
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Over the last forty years, the landscape of the USA has been fundamentally transformed. It is partially visible in the ascendance of glittering coastal hubs for finance, infotech and the so-called ‘creative class’. But this is only the tip of an economic iceberg, the bulk of which lies in the …
Smart Machines and Service Work
Automation in an Age of Stagnation
Inbunden, 2020
203 kr
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In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies’ stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business world. In this rapid, global development, the promise of a new machine age has been accompanied by worries about accelerated joblessness thanks to new …
On Risk
Häftad, 2020
127 kr
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With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it?As we cope with the lengthening effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, considerations of everyday risk have been more pressing, and inescapable. In the past, everyone engaged in …
On Decline
Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever
Häftad, 2021
131 kr
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A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together?The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist attacks in Brussels and Nice, the Brexit vote—and the …
On Property
Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition
Häftad, 2021
117 kr
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Nominated for the Heritage Toronto Book Award • Longlisted for the Toronto Book Awards • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and …
On the Origin of the Worst Pandemic in 100 Years
An Investigation
Av Elaine Dewar
Häftad, 2021
160 kr
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In this compelling whodunnit, Elaine Dewar reads the science, follows the money, and connects the geopolitical interests to the spin.When the first TV newscast described a SARS-like flu affecting a distant Chinese metropolis, investigative journalist Elaine Dewar started asking questions: Was …
On Class
Häftad, 2024
149 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2024 Speaker's Book Award • Nominated for the 2024 Heritage Toronto Book Award • A Hamilton Review of Books Best Book of 2023Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn’t make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with …
On Browsing
Av Jason Guriel
Häftad, 2022
127 kr
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Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book AwardA defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon—and gaining new appreciation—amidst the bins and shelves of bricks-and-mortar shops.Written during the pandemic, when the world was marooned at home and consigned to scrolling screens, On Browsing’s …
On Failure
Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer
Häftad, 2023
235 kr
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Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it. Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to prepare them. Less a guide to writing and …
On Community
Av Casey Plett
Häftad, 2024
177 kr
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Finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction • Finalist for the 2024 Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature • One of CBC Books' Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the Fall • A Tyee Best …
On Death
Häftad, 2027
222 kr
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On Death explores our complicating and changing relationship with death.There used to be a time when death was everywhere about us, inescapable, back when we had higher infant mortality and a lower life expectancy, and before vaccines, when diseases would ravage populations. Funerals happened in …
On Treason
Alberta Separatism, Foreign Interference, and Canada's Survival in a Revolutionary Age
Häftad, 2026
249 kr
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“What is happening here in Alberta is an aberration. It does not resemble, in any fashion, democratic politics as normal in Canada. For the last ten years Canadians have watched these forces play out in the United States. But now these same forces have arrived here, within our own country. They are …
Happy Future is a Thing of the Past
The Greek Crisis and Other Disasters
Inbunden, 2018
180 kr
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Since 2010 Greece’s social and economic conditions have been irreversibly transformed, a result of austerity measures imposed by the European troika and successive Greek governments. These stringent restructuring programmes were intended to make it possible for Greece to avoid default and improve …
Endgame
Economic Nationalism and Global Decline
Inbunden, 2024
176 kr
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Globalization as we know it is over. Industrial policies dismissed as obsolete for decades have been embraced by governments worldwide, geopolitical tensions are reminiscent of those at the height of the Cold War, and a resurgent far-right challenges the very foundations of contemporary …
Managing Chaos
A creative’s guide for when the only consistency is inconsistency
Häftad, 2026
159 kr
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Managing Chaos
A creative's guide for when the only consistency is inconsistency
Inbunden, 2026
242 kr
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Something of his Art
Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach
Häftad, 2019
120 kr
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In the depths of winter in 1705 the young Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown as a composer and earning a modest living as a teacher and organist, set off on a long journey by foot to Lubeck to visit the composer Dieterich Buxterhude, a distance of more than 250 miles. This journey and its …
