In November 1970, a storm set a collision course with the most densely populated coastline on Earth. Over the course of just a few hours, the Great Bhola Cyclone would kill 500,000 people and begin a chain reaction of turmoil, genocide...
Political science
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Author:Miklian, Jason, Carney, ScottSummary: - Author:Wooldridge, Adrian, Micklethwait, JohnSummary:
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying. A few governments proved adept at handling the crisis while many others failed. Are Western...
- Author:Molnar, PetraSummary:
With a foreword by E. Tendayi Achiume. A chilling exposé of the inhumane and lucrative sharpening of borders around the globe through experimental surveillance technology. In 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it...
- Author:Mallea, PaulaSummary:
A criminal prosecutor discusses the illegal drug trade and the failure of the so-called “War on Drugs” to stop it. In 1971, President Richard Nixon coined the term “War on Drugs.” His campaign to eradicate illegal drug use was picked up...
- Author:Turner, ChrisSummary:
A passionate and meticulously researched argument against the Harper government's war on science.
In this arresting and passionately argued indictment, award-winning journalist Chris Turner argues that Stephen Harper's attack on... - Author:Shawn OttoSummary:
Shawn Ottos provocative audio book investigates the historical, social, philosophical, political, and emotional reasons for why and how evidence-based politics are in decline and authoritarian politics are once again on the rise, and...
- Author:Kinsella, Warren, Chrétien, JeanSummary:
The term war room, in political parlance, was coined by the team of U.S. strategists (specifically James Carville) who worked for Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign in the early 1990s. In a nutshell, a war room is a political...
- Author:LivySummary:
Livy chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal, complete with elephants, crossing the Alps; the panic as they...
- Author:Lorinc, John, McClelland, Michael, Scheinberg, Ellen, Taylor, TatumSummary:
The story of the growth and destruction of Toronto’s first 'priority neighbourhood.' From the 1840s until the Second World War, waves of newcomers who migrated to Toronto - Irish, Jewish, Italian, African American and Chinese, among...
- Author:Mazzetti, MarkSummary:
Presents a revelatory account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special forces into competing covert paramilitary agencies responsible for the defeat of Osama bin Laden and other strategic war efforts, offering insight into...
- Author:Pilkington, RichardSummary:
In 1971, authorities in Islamabad perpetrated mass atrocities in East Pakistan. How did the North Atlantic powers - the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada - respond? The West and the Birth of Bangladesh explores decision-making...
- Author:Helberg, JacobSummary:
From the former news policy lead at Google, an urgent and groundbreaking account of the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the autocracies of China and Russia that could potentially crush democracy. From...
- Author:West, LindySummary:
Lindy West provides an incisive look at how patriarchy, intolerance, and misogyny have conquered politics and culture in America.
- Author:Craig, WilliamSummary:
A "virtually faultless" account of the final weeks of World War II in the Pacific and the definitive history of the battle for Stalingrad together in one volume (The New York Times Book Review). Author William Craig traveled to three...
- Author:Rowe, BillSummary:
Part memoir, part history, The Worst and Best of the Premiers and Some We Never Had is Bill Rowe’s most ambitious work of non-fiction to date. The book observes with a critical and humorous eye the landscape of Newfoundland and...
- Author:Fanon, FrantzSummary:
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's...
- Author:Russell, HelenSummary:
When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often...
- Author:Dowd, MaureenSummary:
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd traces the psychologies and pathologies in one of the nastiest and most significant battles of the sexes ever. If America is on the escalator to hell, then The Year of Voting Dangerously is the...
- Author:Roosevelt, TheodoreSummary:
The firsthand account of the life of adventurer, scholar, war hero, and twenty-sixth president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt.There must be the keenest sense of duty, and with it must go the joy of living. Here, in his own...
- Author:Scheer, RobertSummary:
The revelation that the government has access to a vast trove of personal online data demonstrates that we already live in a surveillance society. But the erosion of privacy rights extends far beyond big government. Intelligence...
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