Alan Freeman

Steven Freeman

Encyclopedia of Krautrock, Kosmische Musik & Other Progressive, Experimental & Electronic Musics from Germany

The Crack in the Cosmic Egg

Guido De Marco

The twelve papers collected in this volume mark a new phase in the study of capitalism, centred on the reproduction of total social capital. They address the widely felt need to reconnect political economy with real-world phenomena, including financial crises, long-term stagnation, poverty, inequality, and economic injustice.

Money, Value and Marx’s Circuit of Capital

Boris Kagarlitsky

Radhika Desai

This book is a unique contribution to scholarship on the sources of the conflict in Ukraine. The volume brings together writers from Russia, Ukraine, Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia, many of whom attended a gathering of scholars and activists from all over Ukraine, held in Yalta, Crimea, just after the conflict in Eastern Ukraine erupted. Challenging both the demonization of Russia, which has become standard for Western writing on the topic, and the simplistic discourse of official Russian sources, this book scrutinises the events of the conflict and the motives of the agents, bringing to the fore the underlying causes of the most critical flashpoints of the post-Soviet world order. This volume offers a refreshing, profound perspective on the Ukraine conflict, and will be an indispensable source for any student or researcher. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal International Critical Thought.

Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism

David M. Culver

David Culver, figure clé tant du milieu des affaires que du milieu culturel canadien, raconte son enfance à Montréal, ses études aux universités McGill et Harvard et son service militaire pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Il décrit surtout sa spectaculaire ascension au sein d’Alcan, jusqu’à accéder au poste de président-directeur général, devenant du coup le chef d’une des plus grandes sociétés multinationales du Canada, dont le siège social était à Montréal. Ces mémoires lèvent le voile sur la gestion d’une multinationale bien enracinée en sol québécois. Il propose des conseils pragmatiques sur la manière de cultiver le talent, développer la technologie et surmonter les défis au sein d’une entreprise qui opère aux quatre coins de la planète. Au fil de délicieuses anecdotes et d’inoubliables rencontres avec des grands du XXe siècle – dont Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger et Jawaharlal Nehru – David Culver se révèle un imposant leader aux intérêts et aux talents multiples. Dans ses mémoires, David Culver médite sur sa passion pour l’architecture – et ses initiatives de protection du patrimoine montréalais par l’entremise de la Maison Alcan – et l’importance de la musique et du sport dans sa vie. Saisir sa chance témoigne de l’optimisme de Culver, qui a de tout temps cru que les choses les plus extraordinaires peuvent arriver lorsqu’on s’y attend le moins.

Mémoires de David M. Culver

Saisir sa chance

Expect Miracles is the personal and professional story of a leader in the worlds of business and culture. David Culver narrates his journey from his upbringing in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, through his studies at McGill and Harvard, his army service during the Second World War, to his impressive rise at Alcan to become chairman and chief executive officer of one of Canada's leading multinational corporations. The memoir provides an inside look into the management of a global company with roots deeply planted in Quebec and offers pragmatic advice on how to grow talent, foster technology, and handle adversity in a far-flung organization. Anecdotes of meeting the likes of Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, and Jawaharlal Nehru, reveal the experiences of a strong corporate leader who continued to live a Montreal life, while never losing his interest in discovering the world. A man of many interests and talents, Culver reflects on his long love affair with architecture - and his efforts to restore and preserve Montreal's heritage by creating Maison Alcan - and how music and sport helped shape his life. Expect Miracles is evidence of Culver's positive outlook and belief that the most extraordinary things can happen when you least expect them.

Recollections of a Lucky Life

Expect Miracles

'Küreselleşme', insanlığın refah, adalet ve barış çağı olarak ilan edilmişti. Peki, aradan geçen yıllarda 'küreselleşme' nasıl bir seyir izledi? Pek çok akademisyenin saptadığına göre, 'küreselleşme', 2000'li yılların başında bir kriz aşamasına girmişti. Bu geçici bir kriz olmadığı gibi, şu ya da bu uygulamadan değil, küreselleşme sürecinin kendisinden kaynaklanıyordu ve küreselleşmecilerin bu zorlukları aşabileceklerine dair bir belirti de yoktu. Bu olgulardan bazı sonuçlar çıkarılıyordu: Küreselleşme sadece adaletsiz değil aynı zamanda sürdürülemez de olabilirdi. Pek çok kişi yeni olayların küreselleşmenin sonunu yakınlaştırdığını düşünürken bazıları küreselleşmenin aslında hiç var olmadığını öne sürüyordu... Gerçek ne olursa olsun, küresel adalet ve barış hareketleri, tarihin yeni bir safhasıyla karşı karşıyaydı ve kendilerini bekleyen görevlerin derin bir analizini yapmalıydılar. Kendileri de küreselleşme karşıtı hareketler içinde yer alan bir grup yazar, bu ihtiyacı gözeterek, bugün dünyada neler olup bittiğini inceden inceye tahlil etmek, 'küreselleşme' diye bir şeyin olup olmadığını, neden ve ne ölçüde başarısızlığa uğradığını, sonuçlarının neler olduğunu, bu sürecin nereye doğru evrildiğini ve bütün bunların küresel adalet arayanlar için ne gibi olanaklar ve zorluklar sunduğunu ortaya koymak üzere bu kitabı oluşturdular: Deneyimlerden beslenen özgüvenli bir değişim hareketinin sesi olmak için...

Küreselleşmenin Krizi

The Benn Heresy

The GLA's Interim Metro Area Dataset

Frances Hutchinson

This radical re-evaluation of the economics of guild socialism and social credit exposes the fundamental flaws in global free market capitalism. The author shows why markets fail to achieve equilibrium; why the importance of the land is always under-estimated; why labor has been degraded into wage-slavery; and how economists fail to recognize that money, far from being a simple facilitator of exchange, has become the over-riding driving force in the economy.

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