Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson's lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today. In the rousing style he's famous for, celebrated historian Paul Johnson offers a fascinating...
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Eleven Exiles is a personal account of the American Revolution. By focusing on eleven different people who were on the losing side of the American Revolution, and who had to make new lives for themselves in what remained of British...
- Author:Litt, PaulSummary:
A political biography extraordinaire, Elusive Destiny reveals the inner workings of the Liberal Party in its heyday as charted through the meteoric rise and fall of John Napier Turner. It highlights Turner's vision for the country and...
- Author:Dutil, Patrice, MacKenzie, DavidSummary:
Embattled Nation explores Canada’s tense wartime election of 1917. Amidst the drama of the First World War, Canada’s most divisive election ever raised pivotal questions about Canada’s place in the war and the world. This book examines...
- Author:Laxer, James, Springer, JaneSummary:
"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail. The...
- Author:Chang, JungSummary:
From the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, and co-author of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of the unusual woman who ruled China for 50 years, from concubine to Empress,...
- Author:Marsden, Sarah GrayceSummary:
Migrant workers, though long welcomed in Canada for their labour, are often excluded from both workplace protections and basic social benefits such as health care, income assistance, and education. Through interviews with migrants and...
- Author:Price, MattSummary:
What separates campaigns that win from those that don’t? At any given moment, there are hundreds of campaigns under way that seek to persuade citizens or decision makers to think, act, or vote in a certain way. Engagement Organizing...
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"Entangling the Quebec Actadds original and valuable insight to existing scholarship on the Quebec Act, which has declined in the past half century despite significant constitutional developments in Canada and the rise of "new" imperial...
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The urgent need to resolve conflicts over forests, fisheries, farming practices, urban sprawl, and greenhouse-gas reductions, among many others, calls for a critical re-thinking of the nature of our democracy and citizenship. This work...
- Author:Guevara, CheSummary:
Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentine by birth, became a central leader of the Cuban revolution and one of the outstanding communists of the 20th century. This book is his firsthand account of the military campaigns and political events that...
- Author:Sandford, Robert WilliamSummary:
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. Fresh water is essential to both the ever-expanding human population and the ever-threatened...
- Author:Cliche, PierreSummary:
La budgétisation publique n'est pas un univers clos accessible aux seuls initiés qui, ce faisant, ont toute latitude pour agir à leur gré. Au contraire, il s'agit d'un monde fortement encadré, traversé par des courants normatifs majeurs...
- Author:Forsey, Helen, Romanow, RoySummary:
Eugene Forsey combined vision with protest and erudition with wit. A legacy for the common good: Eugene Forsey’s wit and wisdom.Feisty and erudite, Eugene Alfred Forsey (1904-1991) was an activist scholar, labour researcher,...
- Author:Duckworth, TammySummary:
In 2004, an Iraqi grenade blew through the cockpit of Tammy Duckworth's US Army Black Hawk helicopter. The explosion, which destroyed her legs and mangled her right arm, was a turning point in her life. But, as Duckworth shows in...
- Author:Delisle, R. J.Summary:
This leading casebook on Canadian evidence law combines text and excerpts from leading cases with commentary and problem scenarios.
- Author:Francisco, Albertino, Agostinho, NujomaSummary:
Very real practical problems face the islands, starting with the corruption, despotism and illegal activities of Presidents Pinto da Costa, Miguel Trovoada and Fradique de Menezes, and including the failure to properly exploit the...
- Author:Gardner, RobertSummary:
- Author:Potter, Pitman B.Summary:
Exporting Virtue critically explores the ways in which China is attempting to change international human rights standards to accommodate its interests.
- Author:Barkan, Ady.Summary:
In this inspirational and moving memoir-reminiscent of When Breath Becomes Air and The Bright Hour-activist Ady Barkan explores his life with ALS and how his diagnosis gave him a profound new understanding of his commitment to social...
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