Books: Recently Released and Upcoming Releases
Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual, by Clive Doucet, New Society Publishers, 272 pp., $20.95. Book’s Blurb: “Urban Meltdown reveals, castigates and inspires. This is an important book for anyone who cares about thinking differently, acting differently and making a real difference. Global warming is the issue of our time. Perhaps of […]
Recently Released and Upcoming Political Releases
Political Columns: Behind the Scenes with Powerful People, by Allan Bonner, Sextant Publications, 185 pp, $29.95. Book’s Blurb: A pragmatic tour de force: this book is filled with insights, rich and valuable experiences and constitutes a great learning. A very interesting book on how communication skills, behavioral trends and media relations can influence one’s success […]
Recently Released and Upcoming Releases
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels who brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England, by Lynne Olsen, Bond Street Books/ Doubleday Canada, 448 p., $36.95. Book’s blurb: “During the 1930s, as the rise of Nazism threatened western civilization, Winston Churchill’s was a lonely voice of warning of the coming danger, opposing the British government’s policy […]
Recently Released Books
* A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah, Douglas & McIntrye, 229 p., $26.95. Blurb: “A long way gone is a wrenching, beautiful, and mesmerizing tale. Beah’s amazing saga provides a haunting lesson about how gentle folks can be capable of great brutalities as well as goodness and courage. It […]
Anyone who cares about the future of Canada should read this book
Appointing Judges in an Age Of Judicial Power, Critical Perspectives from Around the World, Eds. Kate Malleson, Peter H. Russell, University of Toronto Press, 2006. 473 pp, cloth $90, paper $48. Professors Kate Malleson (St. Mary’s, University of London) and Peter H. Russell (emeritus University of Toronto) have given us an excellent and admirable collection […]
BOOKS: RECENTLY RELEASED AND UPCOMING RELEASES
French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s Blind Date with Quebec, by Chantal Hébert, Knopf Canada, 280 pp., $32.95. Book’s blurb: “With keen observations and a deep understanding of the many layers of Quebec–Canada relations, Hébert lays out the conditions that presided over the advent of Harper’s Conservative government and the disintegration of the already fractured Liberal coalition […]
Recently-released book
Canada Among Nations 2006: Minorities and Priorities, edited by Andrew F. Cooper and Dane Rowlands, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 368 pages, $29.95. Blurb: “The 2006 edition of Canada Among Nations examines two central themes: first, how two different forms of minority–Parliamentary and cultural–are shaping Canada’s international approach and, second, the emerging foreign policy priorities of the […]
Upcoming political, political philosophy, political economy, and public policy books from McGill-Queen’s University Press, and Anansi:
• The 2006 Federal Budget: Rethinking Fiscal Priorities, edited by Charles M. Beach, Michael Smart, and Thomas A. Wilson, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 300 p., $34.95 in paperback, March 2007. Blurb: “A critical evaluation of the 2006 federal budget, including major tax and program changes.” • Canadian and Mexican Security in the New North America: Challenges […]
What State of Denial lacks in readability it makes up for in insight and intrigue
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III. Bob Woodward New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. The water-cooler take on Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein has long been that Woodward was the plodding, anal one and Bernstein was the fun twin–the guy who could write his way out of a fix on deadline, howl at […]
The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa
Eddie Goldenberg, The Way It Works. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2006. A good way to measure who has genuine influence around Ottawa has always been this rule: “Those who know, don’t talk. Those who talk, don’t know.” In other words, a key requirement for playing an important role in government is the ability to […]
