Henry John Cody was born in Embro, Ontario, on December 6, 1868. He was a great man in his day, in Toronto especially, in the Anglican church, in educational circles (both in school and university), and in the Conservative Party, but...
Political science
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Author:Masters, Donald CampbellSummary: - Author:Vindman, Alexander S.Summary:
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. Here...
- Author:O'Toole, FintanSummary:
A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book, from the author of Ship of Fools, about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole...
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Canada has become the first G7 country to legalize cannabis, and the world is watching. The primary concern facing the Liberal government as it seeks to fulfill its 2015 campaign promise to "legalize, regulate, and restrict access...
- Author:Davidsson, EliasSummary:
A large body of literature discusses the preplanned destruction of the Twin Towers and of W.T.C. number seven, while mainstream media have extensively reported about the reluctance of the Bush administration to investigate 9/11, the...
- Author:Moal, Frédéric LeSummary:
Qu'est-ce que le fascisme ? Cette question ne cesse de se poser aux historiens avec la même force qu'elle le faisait aux contemporains de Mussolini. Fut-il un mouvement réactionnaire, conservateur ou révolutionnaire ? Se situait-il...
- Author:Ringmar, ErikSummary:
This textbook pioneers a new approach to the study of international relations by historicizing the material traditionally taught in international relations courses and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates, and issues....
- Author:Blair, Tony, Hitchens, ChristopherSummary:
Intellectual juggernaut and staunch atheist Christopher Hitchens goes head-to-head with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of the Western world’s most openly devout political leaders, on the highly charged topic of religion....
- Author:Wilson, A. N.Summary:
A ruthless dictator who saved his country from economic ruin only to nearly destroy it in his quest for world domination, Adolf Hitler forever changed the course of history. Here, A. N. Wilson pulls back the curtain to reveal the man...
- Author:Hart, Bradley W.Summary:
Hitler's American Friends by Bradley W. Hart is an audiobook examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World...
- Author:Young, LaurenSummary:
A timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracy--using the past as a road map to navigate...
- Author:Anderson, Mark CronlundSummary:
Noam Chomsky and George W. Bush seldom agree, but they both argued that 9/11 stood alone in American history. Although the use of airplanes as weapons of mass destruction was new, Mark Anderson maintains that the response to the attack...
- Author:Glantz, AaronSummary:
In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America's housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised...
- Author:Agamben, GiorgioSummary:
Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the...
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Canada's residential school system for Aboriginal children was an educationsystem in name only for much of its existence. These residential schools werecreated for the purpose of separating Aboriginal children from their families, in...
- Author:Kendall, MikkiSummary:
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "One of the most important books of the current moment."- Time "A rousing call to action... It should be required reading for everyone."-Gabrielle Union, author of We're Going to Need More Wine. "A brutally...
- Author:Newcombe, HannaSummary:
It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress - an "onward and upward"...
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A citizen's guide to making the big city a place where we can afford to live. Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception - in part because of zoning that protects "stable...
- Author:Pogrund, BenjaminSummary:
On 21 March 1960, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), led a mass defiance of South Africa's pass laws. He urged blacks to go the nearest police station and demand arrest. When police opened fire...
- Author:Forsey, Eugene A.Summary:
Explores Canada's parliamentary system from the decisions made by the Fathers of Confederation, to the daily work of Members of Parliament in the Commons and Senate chambers. Also contains useful information on Canada's constitution,...
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