In far too many organizational meetings, equal speaking opportunity seldom results in equal say. Factors such as race, class, and personal history too often inhibit open dialogue within and among groups, which can lead to a sense of...
Political science
- Author:Stout, LindaSummary:
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- Author:Brophy, James T., Keith, Margaret M.Summary:
When health care workers call a Code White, it's an emergency response for a violent incident: a call for help. But it's one that goes unanswered in hospitals, clinics, and long-term care homes across the country. Code White...
- Author:Rathke, WadeSummary:
America’s safety net is torn and tattered. Income inequality continues to grow—the gap between rich and poor has expanded fivefold in the last 25 years. For millions of working families achieving basic middle class comforts has begun to...
- Author:Mansfield, StephenSummary:
The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump exposed a deep divide in American politics and culture, one that pollsters and pundits didn't seem to realize was there. But Trump did, and he used it to his advantage in ways that surprised nearly...
- Author:Guevara, Juan MartinSummary:
On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the front pages that Che was dead, they decided to say...
- Author:Hird, Myra J.Summary:
"Canada's Waste Flowsis one of the first attempts not just to discuss the challenges posed by waste in a municipal or national framework, but to connect these municipal and national politics to global events. Hird examines Canada's...
- Author:Dowie, Mitchell C.G., Kordan, Bohdan S.Summary:
Since 1991, Canada has provided Ukraine with ongoing political and economic assistance. Never was this policy pursued with more urgency than in 2014, when Russian aggression prompted the Canadian government to elevate its support for...
- Author:Coleman, StephenSummary:
From its inception as a public communication network, the Internet was regarded by many people as a potential means of escaping from the stranglehold of top-down, stage-managed politics. If hundreds of millions of people could be the...
- Author:Pelosi, ChristineSummary:
Christine Pelosi presents leadership lessons from the campaign trail from a diverse array of over 40 public figures, lending advice for anyone who wants to run for office, advocate for a cause, or win a public policy issue. This book...
- Author:Evans, GeoffreySummary:
Brexit has changed everything - from our government, to our economy and principal trading relationship, to the organization of our state. This watershed moment, which surprised most observers and mobilized previously apathetic sections...
- Author:Lyon, DavidSummary:
In a critical analysis of the profound shift to big data practices among intelligence agencies, Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence highlights the challenges for civil liberties, human rights, and privacy protection.
- Author:Drolet, Jean-FrançoisSummary:
As a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and scholar of Latin and Greek, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. Beyond Tragedy and Eternal Peaceprovides...
- Author:Dobkin, DonaldSummary:
Mayor Bloomberg of New York City has described America's immigration policy as the greatest case of national suicide ever seen. Immigration lawyer Donald Dobkin decided to write a book on immigration in the belief that the American...
- Author:Forget, Evelyn. L.Summary:
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put millions out of work, the federal government...
- Author:Deneault, AlainSummary:
Le colon, figure mitoyenne qui ne se trouve ni dans la position invivable du colonisé ni dans celle, indéfendable, du colonisateur, est généralement relégué au statut de figurant du récit colonial. Complétant le diptyque de Memmi, Alain...
- Author:Simpson, Leanne BetasamosakeSummary:
Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline...
- Author:Alberta, Tim.Summary:
Politico Magazine's chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider's look at the making of the modern Republican Party-how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP...
- Author:Garrison, JamesSummary:
In America as Empire, Jim Garrison urges us to face up to the complexities and responsibilities inherent in the indisputable fact that America is now the world's single preeminent power. "America," Garrison writes, "has become what it...
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Written by a premier group of 21 thinkers from around the world, the second edition of Alternatives to Economic Globalization lays out democratic, ecologically sound, socially just alternatives to corporate globalization more fully,...