In 1974, India shocked the world by detonating a nuclear device. In the diplomatic controversy that ensued, the Canadian government expressed outrage that India had extracted plutonium from a Canadian reactor donated only for peaceful...
Political science
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Author:Touhey, RyanSummary: - Author:Swift, Jamie, Tomlinson, BrianSummary:
Ten activists, scholars, and writers analyze contemporary development issues linking Canada and the Third World, and provide an in-depth critique of Canada's role in perpetuating poverty in the nations of the South. Widely adopted...
- Author:Ahmad, EqbalSummary:
Edward W. Said once urged the legendary Eqbal Ahmad not to "leave your words scattered to the winds, or even recorded on tape, but collected and published in several volumes for everyone to read. Then those who don't have the...
- Author:Bafilemba, Fidel, Prendergast, JohnSummary:
Includes a PDF of photographs.
- Author:Waterstone, Marv, Chomsky, NoamSummary:
The authors reveal how connections between common sense and power can keep social justice movements divided and marginalized, and they show how to overcome these divisions.
- Author:Macfarlane, EmmettSummary:
The Canadian Senate has long been considered an institutional pariah, viewed as an undemocratic, outmoded warehouse for patronage appointments and mired in spending and workload scandals. After decades of debate about reform, in 2014...
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Constitutional politics is exceptionally intense and unpredictable. It involves negotiations over the very nature of the state and the implications of self- determination. Multinational democracies face pressing challenges to the...
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Governance of the federation is more complex today than ever before: perennial issues of federalism remain unresolved, conflicts continue over the legitimacy of federal spending power, and the accommodation of Quebec nationalism and...
- Author:Bunting, Annie, Quirk, JoelSummary:
Contemporary slavery has emerged as a source of fascination and a spur to political mobilization. This volume brings together experts to carefully explore how the language of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government...
- Author:Tilly, CharlesSummary:
The book accomplishes three main objectives. First, it presents a logic and method for describing contentious events, occasions on which people publicly make consequential claims on each other. Second, it shows how that logic yields...
- Author:Kelly, James B., Manfredi, Christopher P.Summary:
The introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 was accompanied by much fanfare and public debate. This book does not celebrate the Charter; rather it offers a critique by distinguished scholars of law and...
- Author:Gordon, EdSummary:
This book offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America. Bombarded with media, music, and social media messages that enforce stereotypes of people of color, journalist Ed Gordon shows what black power and black...
- Author:Anderson, Colin R., Brady, Jennifer, Levkoe, Charles Z., Koç, Mustafa, Anderson, Colin R., Beckie, Mary A., Bogdan, Eva A., Bomford, Mark, Brady, Jennifer, Braun, Jennifer A., Brock, Samara, Bunn, Robyn, Valentine Cadieux, Kirsten, Clement, Chantal, Detolle, Anais, Green, Arthur, Gupta, Ankit, Jennings, Robert, Johnson, Josee, Huddart Kennedy, Khan, Ahmed, Koc, Mustafa, Lee, Keith, Levkoe, Charles Z., Lowitt, Kristen, Martin, Wanda, Millious, Victoria, Mount, Phil, Mundel, Erika, Nash, Alan, Polyakov, Seriy, Rideout, Keren, Scott, Steffanie, Soma, Tammara, Sprague, Cathryn, Sumner, Jennifer, Szanto, David, Trenouth, Lani, Van Esterik, Penny, Ventresca, Matt, Wever, Cassie, Wong, Carmen, Zougris, KonstantinosSummary:
Few things are as important as the food we eat. "Conversations in Food Studies" demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely...
- Author:Leidner, GordonSummary:
An inspiring collection of stories from ordinary Americans who sought Lincoln's help during the Civil War. What was it like to meet our 16th President? Was he really as kind and honest as we perceive him to be today? This astonishing...
- Author:Rosen, JeffreySummary:
An intimate look at the life and career of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her own words, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center. Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and...
- Author:Nesbitt, BruceSummary:
This collection presents all of Earle Birney’s known published and unpublished writings on Trotsky and Trotskyism for the very first time. It includes their correspondence as well as a selection of Birney’s letters and literary writings...
- Author:Harrigan, James R., Davies, AntonySummary:
There are only two ways that humans work together: they cooperate with one another, or they coerce one another. And once you realize this fundamental fact, it will change how you see the world.In this myth-busting book, Antony Davies...
- Author:Mérand, FrédéricSummary:
How great powers react to their inevitable decline shapes their own destiny as well as the course of international politics. Leaders can decide to engage with others or isolate themselves; to build alliances or initiate war; to stoke up...
- Author:Brownlee, Jamie, Hurl, Chris, Walby, KevinSummary:
"Corporatizing Canada is an impressive collection by activist scholars focusing on the commercialization by stealth of the public sector. Its accessible style is well integrated around three dimensions of corporatization that...
- Author:Nunes, DevinSummary:
Once the party of anti-communism and tax-cutting under President Kennedy, the Democratic Party is now dominated by a surging socialist movement and led by a presidential candidate who vows to "transform" America. On a near-daily basis,...
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