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Auteur:Ramaswamy, VivekSommaire:A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism. There's a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every...
- Auteur:Fletcher, RaquelSommaire:
What does diversity mean for the Quebec identity? Who gets to consider themselves a Quebecer? The author, a young journalist who moved to Quebec City from Saskatchewan, has some critical questions for the adopted province she loves. Are...
- Auteur:O'Neil, CathySommaire:
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabricWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives-where we...
- Auteur:Laxer, EmilySommaire:
Over the last few decades, politicians in Europe and North America have fiercely debated the effects of a growing Muslim minority on their respective national identities. Some of these countries have prohibited Islamic religious...
- Auteur:Walia, HarshaSommaire:
Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism...
- Auteur:Gottlieb, ScottSommaire:
Dr. Scott Gottlieb reveals how COVID-19 was able to trounce America's pandemic preparations. As the pandemic unfolded, he was in regular contact with all the key players in Congress, the Trump administration, and the drug and...
- Auteur:Atluri, TaraSommaire:
Theodor Adorno once remarked that, "... every work of art is an uncommitted crime." This book is a tribute to political artists who deviate from the mainstream and create art that engages with questions of societal oppression...
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Auteur:Zapruder, AlexandraSommaire:Abraham Zapruder didn't know when he began filming President Kennedy's motorcade that his home movie would change not only his family's life but also American culture and history. Now his granddaughter tells the whole story for the...
- Auteur:Buttigieg, PeteSommaire:
Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation's current predicament—and how our future depends on finding ways to instill confidence in the American project, and in each other. Trust is the...
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Auteur:Manjoo, FarhadSommaire:Why has media punditry overtaken actual news? Manjoo explains how myths pushed by both partisans and marketers attract wide support, portraying that what is true matters less than true enough.
- Auteur:Wooldridge, Adrian, Micklethwait, JohnSommaire:
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying. A few governments proved adept at handling the crisis while many others failed. Are Western...
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Auteur:Goodman, AmySommaire:The Silenced Majority pulls back the veil of corporate media reporting to dig deep into the politics of "climate apartheid," the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the movement to halt the execution of Troy Anthony Davis,...
- Auteur:Klassen, Pamela E., Scheer, MoniqueSommaire:
Christmas is not a holiday just for Christians anymore, if it ever was. Embedded in calendars around the world and long a lucrative merchandising opportunity, Christmas enters multicultural, multi-religious public spaces, provoking both...
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Auteur:Policzer, Pablo, Bonner, Michelle, Feldmann, Andreas E., Guterrez Sanin, Francisco, McSherry, J. Patrice, Pereira, Anthony W., Piccato, Pablo, Schirmer, JenniferSommaire:Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world. It has suffered waves of repressive authoritarian rule, organized armed insurgency and civil war, violent protest, and ballooning rates of criminal violence. But is violence...
- Auteur:Dugstad Sanders, Andreas R., Sandvik, Pål R., Storli, EspenSommaire:
Industrialist John Paul Getty famously quipped, "The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights." Throughout history, natural resources have been sources of wealth and power and catalysts for war and peace. The...
- Auteur:Mayor, AdrienneSommaire:
Mayor delivers an account of Mithradates, the ruthless visionary who began to challenge Rome's power in 120 B.C. Machiavelli praised his military genius. Kings coveted his secret elixir against poison. Poets celebrated his victories,...
- Auteur:McGrane, DavidSommaire:
The New NDP is the definitive account of the evolution of the New Democratic Party's political marketing strategy in the early twenty-first century. In 2011, the federal NDP achieved its greatest electoral success - becoming the...
- Auteur:Roiphe, KatieSommaire:
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Auteur:Baldacci, DavidSommaire:Will Robie is a master of killing. A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the US government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst. No one else can match Robie's talents as a hit man, except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin,...
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