Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-...
Political science
- Author:Dunbar-Ortiz, RoxanneSummary:
- Author:Mainville, RobertSummary:
A pressing issue today is how to compensate Aboriginal peoples for the infringement of their rights. In this book, Robert Mainville examines Aboriginal and treaty rights in an historical and legal context, explaining their origins and...
- Author:Castro, JuliánSummary:
A candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America from Julián Castro, the keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, former San Antonio mayor, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, that chronicles his journey from...
- Author:Shilts, RandySummary:
An examination of the AIDS crisis critiques the federal government for its inaction, health authorities for their greed, and scientists for their desire for prestige in the face of the AIDS pandemic, in a twentieth anniversary edition...
- Author:Davis, Angela Y.Summary:
Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black liberation, feminist, queer, and prison-abolitionist movements for more than fifty years. This autobiography, first published and edited by Toni Morrison in...
- Author:Lonergan, EricSummary:
Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us...
- Author:Younge, GarySummary:
Award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It's a searing portrait of youth, family, and the way that lives can be shattered in an instant on any day...
- Author:Shellenberger, MichaelSummary:
Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last...
- Author:Griffiths, FranklynSummary:
This book in itself is testimony to transition in the affairs of the north circumpolar region. Written in 1988 and updated in 1990, the papers assembled here have been overtaken by events. Non-military or civil requirements thus seemed...
- Author:Legge, MatthewSummary:
Unfounded beliefs and hateful political and social divisions that can cascade into violence are threatening to pull the world apart. Responding to fear and aggression strategically and with compassion is vital if we are to push back...
- Author:Waldram, James B.Summary:
In past treaties, the Aboriginal people of Canada surrendered title to their lands in return for guarantees that their traditional ways of life would be protected. Since the 1950s, governments have reneged on these commitments in order...
- Author:Wilson, BruceSummary:
As She Began, an illustrated introduction to Loyalist Ontario, provides a general guide to the most crucial period in Ontario’s history, 1775 to 1800, when thousands of refugees from the American Revolution streamed into the land...
- Author:Brodie, IanSummary:
Offers a first-hand view of the inner workings of the Canadian federal government, with a particular focus on the interplay between the Prime Minister's Office, the Privy Council Office, the federal cabinet, and the role of...
- Author:Cooper, Christopher A. A.Summary:
Unlike most public servants, top administrators – those who manage thousands of personnel and oversee millions of dollars in public spending – are appointed by the head of government. At the Pleasure of the Crownis a detailed...
- Author:Garland, RobertSummary:
Roughly 2,500 years ago, the elite classes of Athens gradually ceded power to the inexperienced masses, thus establishing a radical democracy in which power derived from the votes of everyday citizens. The sequence of events that led to...
- Author:McQuade, BarbaraSummary:
American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation--the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth--and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right,...
- Author:Vogelstein, RachelSummary:
Bringing together political analysis and powerful storytelling from some of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman, Awakening chronicles the remarkable global impact of the #MeToo movement. Since 2017, millions have joined...
- Author:McGrane, DavidSummary:
Allan Blakeney believed in government as a force for good. As premier of Saskatchewan, he promoted social justice through government intervention in the economy and the welfare state. He created legal and constitutional structures that...
- Author:Rains, OmerSummary:
“You’ll never walk again.” California Senator Omer Rains had been a politician on the global stage, a power-broking lawyer of A-list celebrities, and conqueror of some of the highest mountains in the world. But when a paralyzing brain...
- Author:de Villiers, MarqSummary:
Shortlisted for the Donner Prize and the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award. Droughts, floods, and contamination of fresh water in the american Southwest, in the Great Lakes region, in Australia, in northern china, in the Middle East,...