Books Published / Forthcoming this Decade
2011:
Hera the Buddha: A Work of Utopian Fiction. (Book Three of “The Herasaga.”). Forthcoming from The University of Ottawa Press.
2010:
The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector And Other Black Holes of Risk. The University of Ottawa Press.
2009:
C. B. Macpherson: Dilemmas of Liberalism and Socialism [1988]. Reprint edition with new Preface: Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2332
Black Holes of Risk: Collected Papers, 1995-2009. The University of Ottawa Press.
2008:
The Priesthood of Science: A Work of Utopian Fiction. (Book Two of “The Herasaga.”). The University of Ottawa Press.
Greek translation, Social Communication in Advertising, Athens: Kastaniotis.
2007:
The Essential Marcuse, edited with an Introduction by A. Feenberg & W. Leiss. Boston: Beacon Press.
Chinese translation, The Domination of Nature [1972], Beijing: Chongqing Publishing House.
2006:
Hera or Empathy, Ottawa: Magnus and Associates.
2005:
Social Communication in Advertising: Persons, Products, and Images of Well-Being [1986], with S. Jhally, S. Kline, and J. Botterill. New York: Routledge, third edition.
2004:
Mad Cows and Mother’s Milk: The Perils of Poor Risk Communication (with Douglas Powell). Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press [1997], second enlarged edition.
2001:
In the Chamber of Risks: Understanding Risk Controversies. McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2001.
Two of my books from The University of Ottawa Press – The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector and The Priesthood of Science – are available as ebooks or PDF file:http://www.press.uottawa.ca/search/node/leiss.
In addition, all of my books from McGill/Queens Press are available as eBooks for libraries. These include:
9780773575356 Leiss, W – C.B. Macpherson
9780773561922 Leiss, W. – The Limits to Satisfaction: An Essay on the Problem of Needs and Commodities
9780773562219 Leiss, W. – Under Technology’s Thumb
9780773564794 Leiss, W. – The Domination of Nature
9780773569515 Leiss, W. – In the Chamber of Risks: Understanding Risk Controversies
9780773572409 Leiss, W. – Mad Cows and Mother’s Milk: the Perils of Poor Risk communication
9780773564671 Leiss/Chociolko – Risk and Responsibility