From the award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of Seward and Stanton, here is the critically acclaimed and definitive biography of John Jay: a major Founding Father, a true national hero, and a leading architect of...
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Auteur:Stahr, WalterSommaire: - Auteur:McCullough, DavidSommaire:
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America's founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. In this powerful, epic biography...
- Auteur:Wong, Jan.Sommaire:
The author recounts her experiences during her six years as The Globe and Mail's Beijing correspondent. She presents a portrait of a paradoxical China, from peasant tax revolts to the new consumerism and the world of the closeted...
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Auteur:Ferguson, Julie H.Sommaire:James Douglas' story is one of high adventure in pre-Confederation Canada. It weaves through the heart of Canadian and Pacific Northwest history when British Columbia was a wild land, Vancouver didn't exist and Victoria was a muddy...
- Auteur:Vidal, GoreSommaire:
Volumes have been written about Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, but no previous work captures the intimate and vital details the way Vidal's does. His consummate skill takes the reader into the minds and private rooms of these great...
- Auteur:Boyko, JohnSommaire:
Into the Hurricane invites Canadians to consider how their political opinions and options are manipulated today by considering how they were manipulated yesterday. As Canadians fight for the future of health care, public education, and...
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Auteur:Wead, DougSommaire:After dozens of books and articles by anonymous sources, Doug Wead presents a history of the Trump White House with the President and his staff talking openly, on the record. This book contains interviews with the President in the Oval...
- Auteur:Palmater, Pamela D.Sommaire:
This book is a collection of the best blogs from Indigenous Nationhood produced by well-known lawyer, activist and academic Pamela Palmater. Her blogs offer critical legal and political commentary and analysis on legislation, Aboriginal...
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Auteur:Estulin, DanielSommaire:On November 8, 2016, the seemingly impossible became real: Donald Trump---billionaire tycoon with fundamentally xenopobic, savage, and populist speech---won the presidency and began endangering values like democracy and world peace....
- Auteur:Rever, JudiSommaire:
A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame. Through...
- Auteur:Park, YeonmiSommaire:
"I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea." - Yeonmi Park "One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller "Park's...
- Auteur:Gordis, DanielSommaire:
WINNER OF THE RABBI SACKS BOOK PRIZE A nuanced examination of the Israel's past, present, and future, after reaching its seventy-fifth anniversary and enduring its most challenging year ever, from the two-time National Jewish Book...
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Auteur:Dhamoon, RitaSommaire:Theories of liberal multiculturalism have come to dominate debates about identity and difference politics in contemporary western political theory. Identity/Difference Politics offers a nuanced critique of these debates by switching the...
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Auteur:Lucht, BernieSommaire:An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radio’s Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues— most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy — some of the great intellectuals of our time...
- Auteur:Buttigieg, ChastenSommaire:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town, his relationship with...
- Auteur:Akunyili-Parr, ChidiogoSommaire:
Inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu — the importance of community over the individual — and outraged by injustice, Dora Akunyili took on fraudulent drug manufacturers whose products killed millions, including her sister. A...
- Auteur:Leonnig, Carol, Rucker, PhilipSommaire:
The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig. The true story of what took place in Donald Trump's White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What...
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Auteur:Penikett, TonySommaire:Canadian politicians, like many of their circumpolar counterparts, brag about their country’s “Arctic identity” or “northern character,” but what do they mean, exactly? Stereotypes abound, from Dudley Do-Right to Northern Exposure, but...
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Auteur:Rushford, GregSommaire:Get the inside scoop on the most powerful city on Earth Washington, D.C.: Capital of the Free World; the most powerful city on Earth. No other country, company, or international organization can compare with the reach and wealth of the...
- Auteur:Odell, JennySommaire:
A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention-and our personal information-that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about...
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