Pulitzer-Prize winner Samantha Power is widely known as the moral voice of her generation. A relentless advocate for promoting human rights, she has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost...
Political science
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Author:Power, SamanthaSummary: -
Author:Schlesinger, Andrea BatistaSummary:The spirit of inquiry is the engine of democracy. The democratic process is nothing less than citizens regularly asking what kind of society they want to live in and whom they want to lead them. But more and more people are avoiding the...
- Author:Power, Elaine, Swift, JamieSummary:
Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious labour, stagnant wages, a climate crisis, and...
- Author:Raglin, RodSummary:
Young, talented, ambitious, Freyja Brynjarrson’s a photographer struggling to crash the art establishment, the challenges presented by her family and still keep true to her uncompromising ethic. Fate places her on the front line of a...
- Author:Palumbo, Arthur E.Summary:
In 2008, Alan Keyes, a Republican presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000, described the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States in the following way: "The doctrine of...
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Author:TACITUS, Publius CorneliusSummary:a history of the reigns of the four Roman Emperors succeeding Caesar Augustus. The surviving parts of the Annals extensively cover most of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero. The title Annals was probably not given by Tacitus, but derives...
- Author:Sisson, Dan, Hartmann, ThomSummary:
In this brilliant historical classic, Dan Sisson argues that Thomas Jefferson thought democratic revolutions would be necessary from time to time to break the grip of autocratic factions on the government. That is how Jefferson saw the...
- Author:Sanchez, JasperSummary:
Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the...
- Author:Mestrovic, Stjepan G.Summary:
A shocking follow-up study of Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq, this book outlines the treatment of US soldiers who apparently were following their orders as they understood them and who were then accused of having committed war crimes....
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Author:REED, JohnSummary:"Ten Days That Shook the World" is American journalist and socialist John Reed's first-hand account of the Russian October Revolution of 1917. While it is intended as an impartial and unbiased historical account, by Reed...
- Author:Zajko, MikeSummary:
Today's internet service providers mediate communication, control data flow, and influence everyday online interactions. In other words, they have become ideal agents of public policy and instruments of governance. In Telecom...
- Author:Barlow, MaudeSummary:
'Canada's best-known voice of dissent.' — CBC 'It's time we listened to the Maude Barlows of the world.' — CNN In this timely book, Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us...
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Author:Graham, JohnSummary:As President of the Giraffe Heroes Project, which since 1982 has been recognizing people who "stick their necks out for the common good," John Graham has seen what hundreds of average citizens around the world have done to bring about...
- Author:McIvor, BruceSummary:
Faced with a constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, Canada's "reconciliation project" has obviously gone off the rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor...
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Author:Barry, BruceSummary:A factory worker is fired because her boss disagrees with her political bumper sticker. A stockbroker feels pressure to resign from an employer who disapproves of his off-hours political advocacy. A flight attendant is grounded because...
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Author:Summary: - Author:Kisner, AdrienneSummary:
Adrienne Kisner's Six Angry Girls is a story of mock trial, feminism, and the inherent power found in a pair of knitting needles. Raina Petree is crushing her senior year, until her boyfriend dumps her, the drama club (basically...
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Author:Karger, Howard JacobSummary:Drive through just about any low-income neighborhood and you're sure to see streets lined with pawnshops, check cashers, rent-to-own stores, payday and tax refund lenders, auto title pawns and buy-here-pay-here used car lots. We...
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Author:Zandt, DeannaSummary:Social networks can be so much more than a way to find your high school friends or learn what your favorite celebrity had for breakfast. They can be powerful tools for changing the world. With Share This! both regular folks of a...
- Author:Greenwald, GlennSummary:
Takes readers on a fascinating ride through Brazilian politics as the author, his husband, the left-wing Congressman David Miranda, and a powerful opposition movement courageously challenge political corruption, homophobia, and tyranny...
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