The award-winning account of a critical yet overlooked Civil War campaign from the author of Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863. Though he barely escaped expulsion from West Point, John Bell Hood quickly rose...
Political science
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Author:Sword, WileySummary: - Author:Aivalis, ChristoSummary:
Pierre Elliott Trudeau – radical progressive or unavowed socialist? His legacy remains divisive. The Constant Liberal traces the charismatic politician’s relationship with the left and labour movements throughout his career. Christo...
- Author:Bakan, JoelSummary:
Bakan contends that the corporation is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality whose destructive behaviour, if left unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin. Backed by extensive research, the book draws on interviews...
- Author:Jalalzai, Musa KhanSummary:
The revelations of Mr. Edward Snowden sparked widespread outrage about the illegal surveillance mechanisms of N.S.A. and G.C.H.Q. The intelligence war between allies and friends broke into the open when France, Germany and Spain...
- Author:Jackson, D. MichaelSummary:
More than ever Canada’s constitutional monarchy should be treasured as a distinct asset for the nation. Following Queen Elizabeth II’s historic Diamond Jubilee in 2012, there is renewed interest in the institution of the Crown in Canada...
- Author:Stein, Janice GrossSummary:
We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be...
- Author:Xiao, MingSummary:
Emerging in China in the early 1990s, Falun Gong is viewed by its supporters as a folk movement promoting the benefits of good health and moral cultivation. To the Chinese establishment, however, it is a dissident religious cult...
- Author:Slaney, Beth, Darling, StanSummary:
A stalwart Tory, Stan Darling was a Member of Parliament for twenty-one years. In The Darling Diaries, he looks back on his career in politics, the places he has been, and some of the people he has met — Libyan dictator Gaddafi,...
- Author:Hawkins, GordonSummary:
This biography explores what drove William Smith to change his name, in the gold fields of California in the 1850s, to Amor De Cosmos. Hawkins traces how De Cosmos became one of the most feared journalists in British Columbia and then...
- Author:Payne, Tamara, Payne, LesSummary:
An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the authors interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a...
- Author:Schlesinger, Andrea BatistaSummary:
The spirit of inquiry is the engine of democracy. The democratic process is nothing less than citizens regularly asking what kind of society they want to live in and whom they want to lead them. But more and more people are avoiding the...
- Author:Nichols, TomSummary:
People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided...
- Author:Kakutani, MichikoSummary:
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America's retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House....
- Author:Soukup, Stephen R.Summary:
For the better part of a century, the Left has been waging a slow, methodical battle for control of the institutions of Western Civilization. During most of that time, "business"-and American Big Business, in particular-remained the...
- Author:Spencer, EmilySummary:
The Difficult War: Perspectives on Insurgency and Special Operations Forces is a collection of essays that deals with theoretical concepts related to insurgency as well as to the practice of irregular warfare. Since special operations...
- Author:Williams, PaigeSummary:
New Yorker staff writer Paige Williams delves into the riveting and sometimes perilous world of the international fossil trade through the true story of one man's devastating attempt to sell a Gobi Desert dinosaur skeleton from...
- Author:Anderson, AntonySummary:
Saturday, November 3, 1956. The United Nations about 10 p.m. Lester Pearson, Canada's foreign minister (and future prime minister) stands before the United Nations General Assembly. He is about read a proposal composed of seventy-eight...
- Author:Junor, PennySummary:
In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall-the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded"-esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and...
- Author:Ibbitson, JohnSummary:
Instant National Bestseller. One of Canada's foremost authors and journalists offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each other relentlessly, but who...
- Author:McKeough, Darcy, McQueen, RodSummary:
A refreshingly honest memoir about politics and private life
Few Canadians have served their nation as well and as widely as the Honourable Darcy McKeough. He was elected Member of Provincial Parliament for Chatham–Kent...
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