Hartmann is perhaps best known for his fierce commitment to Jeffersonian democracy and his steadfast opposition to the corporatization of America. But in these pages you’ll also discover his Older and Younger Cultures Hypothesis, which...
Political science
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Author:Martin MeredithSummary: - 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...
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Author:Edwards, BeatriceSummary:In the United States today we have good reasons to be afraid. Our Bill of Rights is no more. It has been rendered pointless by heavy surveillance of average citizens, political persecution of dissenters, and the potential of indefinite...
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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...
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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...
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Author:Adler, BillSummary:"I want you to tell your children that when they hear all the talk and all the speculation and all the thousands of hours of so-called experts babbling away about this, that, or the other, that the true policy of this government is...
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A gripping account of four American spies at the dawn of the Cold War and the CIA's covert battles against communism, from the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia. "ENTHRALLING...CAPTIVATING READING, especially in the...
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Author:Urbina, Ian.Summary:A riveting, adrenaline-fueled journey through some of the most dangerous regions of the earth-the high seas, where lawlessness and physical risk prevail. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. Perhaps the wildest, and least...
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Author:Malice, MichaelSummary:Author Michael Malice takes us on an objective and unbiased tour of the New Right that elected Donald Trump-a movement many consider a mortal threat to our democracy. In 2016, a diverse faction of conservatives, united by fierce...
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Author:Saada, TassSummary:What motivates Islamic terrorists' What is in the mind of terror' Our news reports from the Middle East cover events-bombings, massacres, and suicide attacks. Our newscasters take time to explain who the players are-from...
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Over the two decades following the Second World War, the policy that would create "a nation of immigrants," as Canadian multiculturalism is now widely understood, was debated, drafted, and implemented. The established...
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Author:Webber, Jeffery R.Summary:Throughout the 2000s Latin America transformed itself into the leading edge of anti-neoliberal resistance in the world. What is left of the Pink Tide today' What is their relationship to the explosive social movements that...
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Author:Appadurai, ArjunSummary:We are living through a period of dramatic political change ' Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the...
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The Government of Natural Resourcesexplores the development of scientific and technical activity in Quebec from Confederation until the eve of the Second World War. At the turn of the twentieth century, the provincial government created...
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Author:Lowenthal, Mark M.Summary:Intelligence is, by definition, a shadowy business. Yet many aspects of this secret world are now more openly analyzed and discussed, a trend which has inevitably prompted lively debate about intelligence gathering and analysis: what...
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Author:Kellstedt, Paul M.Summary:The Fundamentals of Political Science Research provides an introduction to the scientific study of politics. It offers the basic tools necessary for readers to become both critical consumers and beginning producers of...
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Author:Fish, StanleySummary:From celebrated public intellectual and New York Times bestselling author, Stanley Fish, comes an urgent and sharply observed look at one of the most hotly debated issues of our time: freedom of speech. How does the First Amendment...
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Author:Skrabec, Quentin R.Summary:The author considers U.S. industrial policies that have shaped today's economic landscape and finds that, however well-intended, our polices have been misguided. Free trade was to promote world peace and democracy. No one foresaw...
- Author:Kopecky, ArnoSummary:
For readers of Ronald Wright, Rebecca Solnit, and Yuval Noah Harari, comes a compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity's latest and greatest calamity In The Environmentalist's Dilemma, award-winning journalist...
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