Greater participation by women in peace negotiations, policy-making, and legal decision-making would have a lasting impact on conflict resolution, development, and the maintenance of peace in post-conflict zones. Women, Peace, and...
Political science
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Author:Sanders, BernieSummary:Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In his new audiobook, America's most popular political figure speaks about what he's been doing to oppose the Trump agenda and strengthen the progressive...
- Author:Slee, TomSummary:
The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the 'old order'—and they've succeeded in effecting...
- Author:Rangwala, Tawfiq S.Summary:
WE Charity had changed the game. In its 25 years, the international development charity and youth empowerment movement impacted lives the world over. Innovation was at its core: while most charities focus on making the world a better...
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Author:Lee, Ann, Bremmer, IanSummary:While America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, a high unemployment rate and a surge in government debt, China’s economy is the second largest in the world, and many predict it will surpass the United States’ by 2020....
- Author:Theriault, VernonSummary:
Dans ce livre, Theriault décrit son expérience dans la mine du comté de Pictou, ses combats personnels à la suite du désastre et la façon dont il a donné un sens nouveau à sa vie en participant à la campagne de lobbying de...
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Author:Greenberg, Leah, Levin, EzraSummary:Shortly after Trump’s election, two outraged former congressional staffers wrote and posted a tactical guide to resisting the Trump agenda. This Google Doc entitled “Indivisible” was meant to be read by friends and family. No one could...
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Author:Sinema, Kyrsten, Napolitano, JanetSummary:Too many progressives are still using old-school divide-and-conquer tactics: demonize the other side, frighten the voters, scheme, and maneuver to try to win on your own terms.This approach hasn’t been particularly successful and has...
- Author:Le Glaunec, Jean-PierreSummary:
Le 25 mai 2020, George Floyd, un Afro-Américain de 46 ans, meurt sous le poids d'un policier blanc lors d'une arrestation à Minneapolis. Sa mort suscite l'indignation de l'opinion publique partout dans le monde et...
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Author:LUDLUM, RobertSummary:Andrew Trevayne, a self-made millionaire at 30, was irreproachable in his government career. Now head of one of the biggest foundations in the U.S. he thought no-one could touch him - or could they?
- Author:Mancini, Stephanie, Mancini, JosephSummary:
The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community development. Begun from scratch in 1982, it is now a vast network of practical supports for the unemployed, the...
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Author:Moscrop, DavidSummary:Brexit. Trump. Ford Nation. In this timely book, David Moscrop asks why we make irrational political decisions and whether our stone-age brains can process democracy in the information age.In an era overshadowed by income inequality,...
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Author:DOBBS, MichaelSummary:Francis Urquhart, ruthlessly expedient politician and newly appointed Prime Minister, engages in a battle of wills with the new King. Sequel to `House of cards'.
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Author:van Gelder, Sarah RuthSummary:The Occupy Wall Street movement named the core issue of our time: the overwhelming power of Wall Street and large corporations— something the political establishment and most media have long ignored. But the movement goes far beyond...
- Author:Chayes, SarahSummary:
A former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains how government's oldest problem is its greatest destabilizing force. Thieves of State argues that corruption is not just a nuisance; it is a major source of geopolitical turmoil....
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Author:Belz, MindySummary:"Everywhere militants were blowing up Christians, their churches, their shops. They threatened them with kidnapping. They promised to take their children. The message to these 'infidels': You have no place in Iraq. Pay a...
- Author:George, NegusSummary:
One of Australia's most respected journalists turns his unflinching gaze to the big issues which affect us. George takes on climate change, poverty, war, politics and more.
- 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:Swift, Jamie, McKay, IanSummary:
The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today's tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this...
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Author:Harris, KamalaSummary:From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our...
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