Presents an account of the first five hundred days after September 11 that reveals previously undisclosed information about the terror wars, warrantless wiretapping, and the anthrax attacks.
Political science
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Author:Eichenwald, KurtSummary: - Author:Michel BrûléSummary:
Dans ce livre, Michel Brûlé, animé de l'ambition sincère d'améliorer le Québec, propose soixante-cinq mesures, voire davantage, puisque certaines idées ne sont encore qu'esquissées et s'inscrivent dans une...
- Author:Grenier, RobertSummary:
The "first" Afghan War was directed by Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani intelligence, Grenier defeated the Taliban and put Hamid Karzai in...
- Author:Collins, ChuckSummary:
For over thirty years, we’ve lived through a radical redistribution of wealth—upward, to a tiny fraction of the population. It’s as though we’re undertaking a bizarre social experiment to see how much inequality a democratic society can...
- Author:Lovell, W. GeorgeSummary:
When A Beauty that Hurts was first published in 1995, Guatemala was still one of the world's most flagrant violators of human rights. Now that a measure of "peace" has come to the country, George Lovell revisits the land...
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A practical, bipartisan call to action for the environment and sustainability. This book offers fresh thinking and forward-looking solutions from environmental thought leaders across the political spectrum.
- Author:Armstrong, ChrisSummary:
Chris Armstrong reveals how existing governing institutions are failing to respond to ocean crisis, arguing that we must do better to put equality, democracy, and sustainability at the heart of ocean politics.
- Author:Harvey, DavidSummary:
Neoliberalism-the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action-has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide...
- Author:Vidal Manzanares, CésarSummary:
On December 26, 1991, an event of extraordinary importance in universal history took place.It involved the dissolution of the Soviet Union, an event of enormous repercussions that almost no one had anticipated. In fact, only the...
- Author:Bush, George W.Summary:
"We have served America through one of the most consequential periods of our history..." President George W. Bush, 2006 State of the Union
- Author:Lamp, Kathleen S.Summary:
In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to...
- Author:Hayes, ChrisSummary:
Emmy Award-winning news anchor and New York Times best-selling author Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation. America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a post-racial world, but nearly every...
- Author:Dej, ErinSummary:
A Complex Exile shows that the homelessness sector inadvertently reinforces the social exclusion of people who are homeless. Over 235,000 people couch-surf, stay in emergency shelters, or live on the street in Canada every year. However...
- Author:Goldschmidt, Arthur, Davidson, LawrenceSummary:
The ninth edition of this widely acclaimed text has been revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in the Middle East. The book is distinguished by its clear style, broad scope, and balanced treatment.
- Author:D'Antonio, MichaelSummary:
Had he only saved the economy, Obama would be called a truly successful president. But he achieved so much more against great opposition that he can be counted as one of history's most consequential presidents. D'Antonio details...
- Author:Thrall, NathanSummary:
Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day. Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited...
- Author:Halfacre, Angela C., Barnett, CynthiaSummary:
Sustainability of the natural environment and of our society has become one of the most urgent challenges facing modern Americans. Communities across the country are seeking a viable pattern of growth that promotes prosperity, protects...
- Author:Watt, Gavin K., Morrison, James F., Smy, William A.Summary:
By 1781, the sixth year of the American rebellion, British strategic focus had shifted from the northern states to concentrate in the south. Canada’s governor, Frederick Haldimand, was responsible for the defence of the Crown’s largest...
- Author:Briggle, AdamSummary:
From the front lines of the fracking debate, a "field philosopher" explores one of our most divisive technologies. When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years later he...
- Author:Reiter, EsterSummary:
Driven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who came to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals. A Future Without Hate or Need brings to...
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