Despite centuries of sustained attacks against their collective existence, Indigenous peoples represent over 5,000 languages and cultures in more than 70 nations on six continents. Most have retained social, cultural, economic, and...
Political science
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Author:Henderson, James (Sa`ke`j) YoungbloodSummary: - Author:McCreary, TylerSummary:
Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities examines the relationship between the Wet'suwet'en and hydrocarbon pipeline development, showing how colonial governments and corporations seek to control Indigenous claims and how the Wet'...
- Author:Hulko, Wendy, Wilson, Danielle, Balestrery, JeanSummary:
Dementia is on the rise around the world, and health organizations in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand are responding to the urgent need - voiced by communities and practitioners - for guidance on how best to address memory...
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Across the Americas, Indigenous and Afro-descendent peoples have demanded autonomy, self-determination, and self-governance. By exerting their collective rights, they have engaged with domestic and international standards on the rights...
- Author:Fevre, RalphSummary:
A belief in individual self-determination powered the development of universal human rights and inspired social movements from anti-slavery to socialism and feminism. At the same time, every attempt to embed individualism in systems of...
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The redistributive state is fading in Canada. Government programs are no longer offsetting the growth in inequality generated by the market. In this book, leading political scientists, sociologists, and economists point to the failure...
- Author:Sager, Eric W.Summary:
In Inequality in Canada, Eric Sager considers one of the defining – but hardest to define – ideas of our era and traces its different meanings and contexts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Sager shows how the idea of...
- Author:Hamilton, DwightSummary:
Since 9/11, Canada has been on the front lines of a New World Order that few understand. And in today’s world, secret intelligence is not just the first line of defence – it may be the only one. Editor Dwight Hamilton has assembled a...
- Author:Marland, Alex, Giasson, ThierrySummary:
Inside the Campaignis a behind-the-scenes look at the people involved in an election campaign and the work they do. Each chapter reveals the duties and obstacles faced during the heat of a campaign. Practitioners and political...
- Author:Kessler, RonaldSummary:
Kessler presents the first in-depth, unbiased account of the CIA's core operations, its abject failures, and its resounding successes.
- Author:Wead, DougSummary:
After dozens of books and articles by anonymous sources, Doug Wead presents a history of the Trump White House with the President and his staff talking openly, on the record. This book contains interviews with the President in the Oval...
- Author:Lowe-Walker, R.E.Summary:
Achieving socio-political cohesion in a community with significant ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity is a challenge in contemporary liberal democracies. Public policies and institutions shaped by the needs of the majority can...
- Author:Seidle, F. LeslieSummary:
The two studies in Interest Groups and Elections in Canada explore the nature and influence of special interest groups. They consider different aspects of the question, "In the context of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms...
- Author:Black, MaggieSummary:
The idea of reducing poverty and inequality and improving health, education, and job opportunities around the world is beyond criticism. Yet, the reality of development can often be confusion, contradiction, deceit, and corruption. This...
- Author:DeGennaro, Ramon P.Summary:
Since the end of World War II, groups such as the World Trade Organization, European Union, and G-20 have sprung up to promote trade, ensure financial stability, fight poverty, and perform other economic missions. Included among these...
- Author:Tamtik, Merli, Trilokekar, Roopa Desai, Jones, Glen A.Summary:
In the early twenty-first century international education emerged as an almost ubiquitous concept within discussions of educational curriculum; the objectives of schools, universities, and colleges; and government policies for K–12 and...
- Author:Lawson, StephanieSummary:
International relations emerged as a distinct academic discipline in the early twentieth century, but its philosophic foundations draw on centuries of thinking about human nature, power and authority, justice and injustice, and their...
- Author:Boyko, JohnSummary:
Into the Hurricane invites Canadians to consider how their political opinions and options are manipulated today by considering how they were manipulated yesterday. As Canadians fight for the future of health care, public education, and...
- Author:Orum, Anthony M.Summary:
Thoroughly revised and updated in this fifth edition, Political Sociology: Power and Participation in the Modern World illustrates the broad social bases of politics and also shows how politics and governmental actions can influence the...
- Author:Harding, LukeSummary:
New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding's personal, frontline reporting on Russia's harrowing invasion of Ukraine, the biggest news event of the year and an inflection point in...
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