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Politics and government
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Author:Reid, Taylor Jenkins, Schiff, AdamSummary: -
Author:Barr, DamianSummary:Long-listed for the Green Carnation Prize and The Sunday Times' selection for Memoir of the Year.
"This amazing book tells the story of an appalling childhood with truth and clarity unsmudged by self-pity. It grips from beginning... -
Author:Block, ThomasSummary:In this disturbing, erudite and highly readable book by author, playwright and artist Tom Block, America is shown to be a surprising example of Machiavellian politics, utilizing all of the post-modern methods of information distribution...
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Author:Bach, Daniel C., Gazibo, MamoudouSummary:Pourquoi le néopatrimonialisme est-il si fréquemment utilisé pour caractériser les systèmes politiques Africains? Les pratiques auxquelles renvoie cette notion, qu’il s'agisse du clientélisme, de la corruption ou de la...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
When A.P. political reporter Lorena Hickok—Hick—is assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the 1932 Democratic presidential candidate, the two women become deeply, intimately involved. Their relationship begins with...
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Author:May, ElizabethSummary:A ringing manifesto for change from Canada's Green Party leader and Activist. We Canadians are waking up from our long political slumber to realize that there will not be change unless we insist upon it. We have a presidential-style...
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Author:Grant, JohnSummary:The idea of political unity contains its own opposite, because a political community can never guarantee the equal status of all its members. The price of belonging is an entrenched social stratification within the political unit itself...
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Author:Franken, AlSummary:For the first time since his bestselling Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot, Franken trains his subversive wit directly on the contemporary political scene. Now, the "master of political humor" (Washington post) destroys the myth of...
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Author:Keil, Roger, Mahon, RianneSummary:Caught in the trap of the nation-state and frozen in postwar bloc logic, critical political economy has been found wanting when it comes to problematizing space and scale. Globalization and the rise of world cities and regions have...
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Author:Jones, SheillaSummary:Over the past fifty years, Canada's Indigenous Affairs department (now two departments with more than 30 federal co-delivery partners) has mushroomed into a "super-province" delivering birth-to-death programs and services...
- Author:Vinet, Jean-FrançoisSummary:
Au lendemain de la Grande Révolution, le chaos règne partout. Alors que l'inquiétude grandit au sein de la communauté scientifique, les éléments se déchaînent, engendrant des conséquences qui dépassent l'entendement...
- Author:Elkins, CarolineSummary:
Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation...
- Author:Gagnon, CharlesSummary:
Dans cet essai, Charles Gagnon réfléchit à la place qu’occupe aujourd’hui, à l’échelle de la planète, un Québec pieds et poings liés par les politiques néolibérales des multinationales ; il propose également une nouvelle approche de la...
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Author:Henrie, MauriceSummary:Des réflexions sur des sujets essentiels, notamment la politique – car pendant de longues années, Maurice Henrie a travaillé à l’ombre des parlementaires fédéraux – des questions d’ordre littéraire et des sujets de nature...
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Author:Forand, ClaudeSummary:Au cours d’une fête organisée pour ses 30 ans de service dans la police, le sergent-détective Roméo Dubuc apprend que le populaire député Marc-André Plamondon vient d’être assassiné, d’une manière sordide, le soir même de la fondation...
- Author:Greenberg, Amy S.Summary:
The acclaimed author of A Wicked War now gives us the little known story of Sarah Polk: remarkably influential First Lady, and brilliant master of the art of high politics--a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American...
- Author:Bégin, Monique, Rae, BobSummary:
More than fifty years after most Canadian women received the right to vote, very few women were elected as members of Parliament and none came from Quebec. Canada's 1972 federal election marked a refreshing transition. Twice as many...
- Author:Dumas, AlexandreSummary:
Si l'on en croit l'historien Denis Vaugeois, les gens inventent des histoires depuis soixante ans à propos du gouvernement de Maurice Duplessis. Dans le domaine de la politique, l'image généralement acceptée du...
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Author:Ephron, DanSummary:The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin radically altered the future of both Israel and the Palestinians. In a riveting narrative, Ephron tells the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, for two years leading up to the...
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Author:Ashby, DarylSummary:This historical biography—based on the life of British Columbia pioneer John Muir—tells the amazing story of a family from Scotland who came out to Canada in the late 1840s to work as "consignee" labourers for the Hudson's Bay Company....
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