Recently released book
On Assignment in Afghanistan: Maritimers at War, photography by Christian Laforce, text by Chris Lambie, Nimbus, 96 pp., $18.95. Book’s blurb: “Canadian troops–among them a disproportionate number of Maritime men and women–have been on assignment in Afghanistan since 2002. To bring the day-to-day lives of the troops back home, and to document in particular the […]
What’s so wrong with first past the post? Lots
OTTAWA–Anyone who has tried to write a book can attest that it is no easy task. With so many other worldly distractions, it takes considerable willpower to keep the mind sufficiently focused and the seat firmly planted in a chair, day after day. As my learned friend Donald Savoie once described it, in order to […]
NEW POLITICAL BOOKS
Brian Mulroney, Memoirs, 1939-19993, by Brian Mulroney, Douglas Gibson, 1,121 pp., $52. Book’s blurb: “This is a unique book about a unique Canadian life–about a boy, born and raised in a working-class family in remote Baie-Comeau, who rose to the highest office in the land. How he got there, an outsider fighting his way to […]
Recently Released Books
How Canada Spends 2007-2008: The Harper Conservatives – Climate of Change, edited by G. Bruce Doern, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 324 pp. Book’s blurb: “In the twenty-eighth edition of How Ottawa Spends leading Canadian scholars examine the Harper government’s agenda in the context of Stéphane Dion’s election as Liberal opposition leader and the emergence of climate […]
Canadian photographer captures beauty, tragedy in Afghan women
Forsaken, by Lana Slezic, Anansi Canada. Book’s blurb: “In 2004, award-winning Canadian photographer Lana Slezic went to Afghanistan with, in her own words, ‘preconceived notions and a knapsack pull of naivety.’ She believed the ousting of the Taliban in 2001 meant that girls were back in school, women could choose whether or not to wear […]
Newly Released Books
Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge, by Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard and Nik Rivers, McClelland & Stewart, 280 pp, $29.99. Book’s blurb: “Take Jeffrey Simpson, renowned political expert, and writer of clear prose aimed at the intelligent reader. Add Mark Jaccard, prize-winning author of academic books, and Simon Fraser University’s famed climate change guru. […]
Recently-released political books
Where War Lives, by Paul Watson, McClelland & Stewart, 384 pages, available August 18, 2007. Book’s blurb: “With the click of a shutter, the world came to know Staff Sgt. William David Cleveland as a desecrated corpse. On October 4, 1993, Paul Watson took his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Cleveland- the U.S. soldier whose Black […]
Books Recently Released
• The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq, by Gwynne Dyer, McClelland & Stewart, 280 pp., $21.99, available June 30. Book’s blurb: “The Invasion of Iraq by the United States and the ongoing, ferocious insurgency it has provoked, will forever change the political landscape, not just in Iraq, but in the whole of […]
Upcoming Releases From UBC Politics Press
• In Search of Canadian Political Culture, by Nelson Wiseman, UBC Press, 288 pp., $34.95, available in September. Book’s blurb: “In Search of Canadian Political Culture will become a vital resource for work in a number of fields– politics, sociology, history. Wiseman’s book is provocative, stimulating, rich in historical detail and insights, and written with […]
New Books: Upcoming Political Releases
Churchill and the Jews, by Martin Gilbert, McClelland & Stewart, 384 pp., $39.99. Book’s Blurb: “Born into a British class and society that was far from well-disposed towards Jews, Churchill rejected anti-Semitic attitudes. In the early 1920s, as a senior member of the British government, Churchill took a lead in securing for the Jews a […]
