On la connaît surtout pour ses luttes contre les violences subies par les femmes. Pourtant, Gisèle Halimi est aussi une grande combattante de la violence faite au corps colonisé et aux victimes de toutes les oppressions : de genre,...
Political science
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Author:Navaro, IlanaSummary: - Author:Tillotson, ShirleySummary:
A book about tax history that’s a real page-turner? Give and Take is full of surprises. A Canadian millionaire who embraced the new federal income tax in 1917. A socialist hero who deplored the burden of big government. Most surprising...
- Author:Frieden, Jeffry A.Summary:
International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before--such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people...
- Author:Ferguson, Gerry A.Summary:
This book has been specifically created to make it easier for professors to offer a law school course on global corruption. It is also designed as a resource tool for all persons working in the anti-corruption field. The first chapter...
- Author:Ferguson, GerrySummary:
Created as part of the UNODC's Anti-Corruption Academic Initiative (ACAD), Global Corruption: Law, Theory & Practice is a key resource for lawyers, public officials, and business persons of tomorrow on anti-corruption laws and...
- Author:Ellwood, WayneSummary:
Globalization has an ever-increasing effect on our lives. It has made the world smaller and brought us closer together yet it can also make us more vulnerable and divided. The deregulation of finance and banking and the crisis they led...
- Author:Honey, Michael K.Summary:
With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, Michael Honey brings to life the magnetic characters who clashed on the Memphis battlefield: stalwart black workers; fiery black ministers; volatile, young, black-power advocates;...
- Author:Stoller, MattSummary:
"Every thinking American must read" (The Washington Book Review) this startling and "insightful" (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.
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In 2004, Paul Martin asked Justice John Gomery to lead a public inquiry into potential misspending in the federal Sponsorship Program, a relatively small investment of taxpayers' money to try to convince Quebeckers of the benefits...
- Author:Duflo, Esther, Banerjee, Abhijit V.Summary:
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how traditional western-centric thinking has failed to explain what is happening to people in a newly globalized world. This precise but accessible book covers many of the most essential issues...
- Author:Biddulph, Sarah, Biuković, LjiljanaSummary:
With isolationism and protectionism strengthening in response to the forces of globalization, the interrelationship of the national and supranational in shaping good governance norms has become increasingly relevant. Good Governance in...
- Author:Taubman, WilliamSummary:
A comprehensive biography of the final leader of the Soviet Union chronicles Gorbachev's rise from peasant to politician and describes how his liberal policies ended the Cold War and unintentionally provoked the breakup of the USSR.
- Author:Brock, Deborah R.Summary:
Neoliberalism is most commonly associated with free trade, the minimal state, and competitive individualism. But it is not simply national economies that are being neoliberalized - it is us. Inspired by Michel Foucault and other...
- Author:Benay, AlexSummary:
Governments all over the world are consistently outpaced by digital change, and are falling behind. Digital government is a better performing government. It is better at providing services people and businesses need. Receiving benefits...
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Public access to government information forms the foundation of a healthy liberal democracy, but because this information can be precarious, it needs stewardship. Government Information in Canada provides analysis about the state of...
- Author:McWhinney, EdwardSummary:
Since Canada may be faced with a period of minority governments, it has become increasingly important to understand the role of the Head-of-State, the Governor General, in facing the challenge of dysfunctionality. Edward McWhinney...
- Author:Wright, Marie-BethSummary:
Grace Margaret Patten Sparkes (1908–2003) was born in Grand Bank, the youngest of ten children born to Elizabeth Hickman and John B. Patten. A lover of music, curling, and politics, this fierce anti-Confederate made a name for herself...
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Traditional leadership is a factor that has long been overlooked in evaluations of rural local government in much of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. Grassroots Governance, an interdisciplinary and intercontinental collection, addresses...
- Author:Vucetic, SrdjanSummary:
Greatness and Declinesheds new light on Britain's interactions with the rest of the world while demonstrating new possibilities for constructivist foreign policy analysis. Arguing that Britain's search for greatness in world affairs was...
- Author:Katz-Rosene, Ryan M., Martin, Sarah J.Summary:
It seems an irrefutable truth that raising animals for meat has become unsustainable. Land is being eroded and destroyed, water resources overdrawn, greenhouse gases over-emitted, and energy and crops unnecessarily diverted - all to...
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