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 […]
Trudeau falls in love with China, says it made him a better person
Two Innocents in Red China by Pierre Trudeau and Jacques Hébert, with a new introduction and afterword by Alexandre Trudeau Douglas & McIntrye, $32.95. Canadian relations with China are quite pathetic in many ways and this needs to change, says filmmaker and journalist Alexandre Trudeau. “Our capacity to do business there is extremely limited,” said […]
Books: Donner Prize short-list and winner Helleiner
Towards North American Monetary Union The Politics and History of Canada’s Exchange Rate Regime, by Eric Helleiner, 333pp, McGill-Queens University Press. Book’s Blurb: “This timely and superbly well-written book explains why monetary dis-union on this side of the Atlantic is likely to endure. Helleiner has a gift for combining first-rate historical, political, and economic analysis‚Äìprecisely […]
Bonner’s latest book a must-read for political junkies
Recently, I sat in the Member’s Gallery at Queen’s Park and watched Ontario Finance Minister Greg Sorbara deliver his budget speech. As the speech reached the 10-minute point, I felt myself drifting as I heard only a consistent speech rhythm over and over. I realized that it was not just the constant pattern of speech […]
