Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing issues such as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, microaggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word....
Political science
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Author:Oluo, IjeomaSummary: - Author:Wiseman, NelsonSummary:
In this volume, Nelson Wiseman skilfully describes the history of the New Democratic Party in Manitoba, tracing the roots of the social democratic movement to the years of mass immigration and social unrest that preceded the Winnipeg...
- Author:Munck, RonaldoSummary:
Social movements are a key feature of the political and social landscape of Latin America. Ronaldo Munck explores their full range, emanating from different sections of Latin American society and motivated by many different concerns,...
- Author:Powell, Benjamin, Lawson, RobertSummary:
The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free-market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to...
- Author:Frank, David, Ouellette, RéjeanSummary:
La Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick, fondée en 1913, est la deuxième plus ancienne fédération provinciale du travail au Canada. Son histoire remonte aux premières campagnes en faveur de l’indemnisation...
- Author:Silver, JimSummary:
This book examines the real life circumstances of low-income people who are forced to live in poor housing. It examines the history and current status of low-income housing in one typical Canadian city, Winnipeg. Poverty and racism and...
- Author:Spencer, EmilySummary:
The twenty-first century has brought the perfect storm of conditions to create substantive global instability. This contemporary operating environment (COE) is characterized by complexity, ambiguity, volatility, and constant danger. It...
- Author:Peckford, BrianSummary:
“Some day the sun will shine and have not will be no more.” These are the immortal words of Brian Peckford, who served as the third premier of Newfoundland, and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party from 1979 until his retirement...
- Author:Keenan, EdwardSummary:
Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of...
- Author:Paehlke, RobertSummary:
Some Like It Cold plunges headlong into the political conundrum of Canada's climate change debate. Focusing on the past responses of both Liberal and Conservative governments to the looming crisis - ranging from negligence to...
- Author:Aguirre, CarmenSummary:
Something Fierce, winner of Canada Reads 2012, is a gripping story of love, war and resistance. A rare first-hand account of revolutionary life, it takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictatorship-run Bolivia, post-Malvinas...
- Author:Hellyer, Paul, Royer, Louis, Lemyre, CarlSummary:
Mafia financière, ordre mondial, contacts extraterrestres Paul Hellyer révèle dans ce livre les failles de notre système bancaire et financier tout en analysant les causes de ce qui a fait déraper l’économie mondiale, dont l’...
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The concept of environmental justice has evolved over the past two decades to offer a new direction for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for...
- Author:Mead, Walter RussellSummary:
Chronicles the history of American foreign policy and argues that the United States has had a more successful foreign policy than any of the other great powers the nation has faced.
- Author:Veroni, CliveSummary:
In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, Clive Veroni's Spin is a fascinating investigation of how the techniques of political strategists are being applied to the world of consumer...
- Author:Golden, DanielSummary:
Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline in the global spy game. In a knowledge-based economy, universities are repositories of valuable information and research, where...
- Author:Boghosian, HeidiSummary:
"Everyone of us is under the omniscient magnifying glass of the government and corporate spies... . How do we respond to this smog of surveillance' Start by reading Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power...
- Author:Laxer, JamesSummary:
Three political leaders presided over the reshaping of the North American continent during the fiery 1860s. Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky, Davis in June 1808 and Lincoln the following February. John A....
- Author:Kotkin, StephenSummary:
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history...
- Author:Sullivan, RosemarySummary:
The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef...
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