Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century's world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today's UN is ill-equipped to deal w[...]
Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century s world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today s UN is ill-equipped to deal w[...]
Takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence.
A former curator at Banff's Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Edward Cavell has pored through hundreds of thousands of photographs in archives, museums and private collections across Canada and abroad. The striking black-and-white First Nations portraits in this collection chronicle a voyage thr[...]
Published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Today it is considered one of the most influential books ever written and its author is regarded as the father of classical economics. Smith did for economics what Darwin did for science[...]