Recently Released Books
Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore, by James T. Patterson, Oxford University Press, 448 pages, $48. Blurb from the back cover: “Jim Patterson has done it again! Restless Giant is a worthy successor to his prize-winning Grand Expectations. Patterson writes with flair, an admirable sense of balance, and complete command […]
Recently Released Books
War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict by Michael Byers. Douglas and McIntyre Publishing Group, 214 pages, $35. Blurb from the back cover: “How should we respond to ‘the tension between a world that still wants a fair and sustainable international legal system and a superpower that hardly seems to care?’ That is the […]
Recently-released books
Against the Grain: An Irreverent View of Alberta by Catherine Ford, McClelland and Stewart, $34.99, 256 Pages. Blurb from the inside cover: “On the surface, [Alberta] appears to be monolithic in its politics, radically conservative in its opinions, and macho in its demeanour. But Catherine Ford shows that this is a lopsided outsider’s view of […]
New Release
The Politics of Bones: Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria’s Oil by J. Timothy Hunt. McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 389 pages, $36.99. Blurb from the back cover: “The Politics of Bones is a story that needed to be told. It takes us into the dark and violent heart of the infamous struggle for […]
Recently released political books
Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System, by Daiva K. Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan, University of Toronto Press, $27.50, 233 Pages. Book blurb: “While the designated ‘rights’ of capital to travel freely across borders have increased, the citizenship rights of many people, particularly the most vulnerable, have tended to decline. Using […]
Recently released political books
Will the Circle be Unbroken?: Aboriginal Communities, Restorative Justice, and the Challenges of Conflict and Change by Jane Dickson-Gilmore and Carol La Prairie, University of Toronto Press, 268 Pages, $29.95. Blurb from the back cover: “An excellent and timely study, Will the Circle Be Unboken? is written by two of the best researchers in the […]
Library Books From The Library of Parliament’s Collections This Week
1. Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy by Jamie Brownlee. Halifax, N.S.: Fernwood, 2005. 168 pages. 2. Inside the Boardroom: How Boards Really Work and the Coming Revolution in Corporate Governance by Richard Leblanc. Toronto: J. Wiley & Sons Canada, 2005. 314 pages. 3. Les parties et leurs transformations: le dilemme de la participation by […]
Soon to be released political books
New to Reader’s Digest this fall is a biography in photographs of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who led the allied forces during the Second World War. Simply called Churchill: An Illustrated History, by Brenda Ralph-Lewis, the book is a celebration of Mr. Churchill’s life as the 40th anniversary of his death approaches. Ms. […]
Recently Released Political Books
The Martyr’s Oath: The Apprenticeship of a Homegrown Terrorist by Stewart Bell, John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 254 pages, $36. Blurb from the back cover: “The Martyr’s Oath provides a unique vignette into the recruitment, training and operational deployment of young Canadian Muslims by Al Qaeda terrorists. It couples a biographical account of their personal […]
Political books coming out this fall
Labour day became a national holiday in 1894 and since then, Canadians have used the unofficial last day of summer to prepare to return to the long days of school or work. But according to Craig Heron and Steve Penfold’s new book printed by the University of Toronto Press, The Workers’ Festival: A History of […]
