Social Change

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left Recasting the Leftist Imagination Fernwood Publishing	What does the future hold for the left? How does the left adapt to, and prepare for, the crises of our time? In moments of crisis it is always important to rethink longstanding assumptions, …	A.T. Kingsmith; Julian von Bargen; Niko Block; Robert Latham	272	2020	View
NEW! Change for Good An Action-Oriented Approach for Businesses to Benefit from Solving the World’s Most Urgent Social Problems ECW Press	An action-oriented approach for businesses to solve the world’s most urgent social problems — and benefit from doing so. More than a year into a global pandemic, profit and …	Paul Klein	274	2022	View
Educating for Action Strategies to Ignite Social Justice New Society Publishers	The pursuit of freedom and justice is a timeless effort, but new activists may not know where to begin, while more experienced ones often become jaded or fatigued. The task of constructing a new …	Anthony J. Nocella II; Jason Del Gandio	259	2014	View
Emergent Agriculture Farming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy New Society Publishers	Long embraced by corporations who are driven only by the desire for profit, industrial agriculture wastes precious resources and spews millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere …	Gary S. Kleppel	195	2014	View
Expose, Oppose, Propose Alternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice Fernwood Publishing	Expose, Oppose, Propose explores the networks, discourses and practices through which transnational alternative policy groups exert political and cultural influence and assesses the challenges …	William K. Carroll	246	2016	View
Identity, Place, Knowledge Social Movements Contesting Globalization Fernwood Publishing	Grassroots organizations have long been involved in the education and mobilization of local populations. Through the development of coalition formation, broad-based campaign-organizing and …	Janet M. Conway	304	2004	View
Illusion or Opportunity Civil Society and the Quest for Social Change Fernwood Publishing	The failure of development strategies in the past few decades has given rise to a worldwide movement in the direction of “another development.” This is a form of development that is …	Henry Veltmeyer	142	2007	View
Resilience Imperative Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy New Society Publishers	We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwining forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The …	Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty	400	2012	View
Resist! A Grassroots Collection of Stories, Poetry, Photos and Analyses from the Quebec City FTAA Protests and Beyond Fernwood Publishing	In late April, tens of thousands of people gathered to protest at the Second People’s Summit of the Americas (the FTAA Summit). RESIST! is a collection of young peoples’ experiences …	Bethany Or; Darryl Leroux; Eloginy Tharmendran; Emmie Tsumara; Jen Chang; Steve Daniels	191	2001	View
Turning the World Right-Side Up Science, Community and Democracy Fernwood Publishing	The focus of this book is on the un-sustainability of the system that economists, in the name of science, have foisted upon society. Corporations and the economists who act as their apologists, …	John Kearney; Patrick Kerans	240	2006	View
From Forward Reading Peace Education From: Educating for Action Preview New Society Publishers	Editors Jason Del Gandio and Anthony J. Nocella II, along with volume contributors, present Educating for Action: Strategies to Ignite Social Justice as an engaging and instructive manual for …	Joy James	4	2014	$0.40 Add
From Hegemony, Couner-hegemony and Organic Crisis From: Expose, Oppose, Propose Fernwood Publishing	-	William K. Carroll	34	2016	$3.40 Add
From Introduction The Making and Meaning of Antiglobalization Movements From: Identity, Place, Knowledge Preview Fernwood Publishing	-	Janet M. Conway	18	2004	$1.62 Add
From Introduction From: Illusion or Opportunity Preview Fernwood Publishing	-	Henry Veltmeyer	4	2007	$0.64 Add
From Introduction From: Resist! Preview Fernwood Publishing	-	Bethany Or; Darryl Leroux; Eloginy Tharmendran; Emmie Tsumara; Jen Chang; Steve Daniels	3	2001	$0.30 Add
From Introduction On the Cusp of a Revolution From: Emergent Agriculture Preview New Society Publishers	Today’s shifting agricultural paradigm is doing much the same thing. It is changing the way we produce food, how and where we get it, and what it does to our health, our pocket books, and …	Gary S. Kleppel	5	2014	$0.50 Add