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Author:Trump, Mary L.Summary: - Author:Robinson, RandallSummary:
A national best-selling author and founder of the TransAfrica forum, Randall Robinson is one of the most respected voices of the African-American community. In this powerful book, he convincingly argues that African Americans must fight...
- Author:London, DouglasSummary:
A revealing CIA memoir from a 34-year veteran of the agency who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents before and after 9/11--full of rich details and sharp assessments--providing an invaluable perspective on the state...
- Author:Sharpton, AlSummary:
Reverend Al Sharpton will take you behind the scenes of some unexpected places--from officiating Michael Jackson's funeral, hanging out with Jay-Z and President Barack Obama at the White House, to taking charge of the Trayvon Martin...
- Author:PlatoSummary:
"Behold! Human beings living in an underground den. Like ourselves, they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave." With that statement, Plato--one of the greatest...
- Author:Rodin, JudithSummary:
Building resilience-the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively-is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of...
- Author:Welsh, JenniferSummary:
#1 National BestsellerPart of the CBC Massey Lectures SeriesIn 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History.”...
- Author:Lasch, ChristopherSummary:
In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened...
- Author:Poitras, JacquesSummary:
In The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, CBC reporter Jacques Poitras provides a journalist’s account of how Bernard Lord rose to the top in provincial politics and why his path could lead to Ottawa. The clean...
- Author:Boyd, David R.Summary:
Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd, one of Canada’s leading environmental lawyers, describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could have a...
- Author:Joy, MeghanSummary:
"Compellingly presented and convincing in its conclusions, The Right to an Age-Friendly Cityis a serious and impressive look at -- and evaluation of -- Toronto's approach to providing a system of care for the city's senior citizens."...
- Author:Haidt, JonathanSummary:
Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind , social psychologist Jonathan Haidt...
- Author:Ignatieff, MichaelSummary:
With an updated preface by the author. Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. Indeed, rights have become the trump card...
- Author:Marrs, JimSummary:
Throw out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don't believe anything you hear from the government-The Rise of the Fourth Reich reveals the...
- Author:Boot, MaxSummary:
In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908- 1987), the man said to be...
- Author:Oliphant, ThomasSummary:
A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy's wily campaign to the White House, beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956. A young and undistinguished junior plots his way to...
- Author:Ferguson, Barry, Wardhaugh, RobertSummary:
The Rowell-Sirois Commission and the Remaking of Canadian Federalisminvestigates the groundbreaking inquiry launched to reconstruct the federal system - revealing its impact on the high politics of federal-provincial relations and its...
- Author:Richardson, MattSummary:
If you think you’ve already heard everything there is to know about the royal family - think again! Even Queen Victoria herself would be amused (not to mention astonished) by the hundreds of revelations to be found within The Royal Book...
- Author:Marks, John D.Summary:
A "Manchurian Candidate" is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in...
- Author:Fraser, John, CMSummary:
Award-winning journalist, author, and royal authority John Fraser explores the endurance and allure of the Crown in Canada. With his trademark wit and artful agility, Fraser looks at the Crown's evolution from the Age of Deference to...
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