Recently Released Political Books
Current Directions in Financial Regulation edited by Frank Milne and Edwin H. Neave. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 302 pages. Blurb from the back cover: “The continuing rapid evolution of the financial system continues to challenge both management and regulators. Management strives to find cost-effective organizational structures that offer enough flexibility to respond quickly to environmental change. […]
New books at the Library of Parliament
1. Good government? Good Citizens?: Courts, Politics and Markets in a Changing Canada by W.A. Bogart. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. 248 pages. 2. La diversité culturelle: vers une convention internationale effective? by Gilbert Gagné. Saint-Laurent, Que.: Fides, 2005. 212 pages. 3. Possibilities and Limitations: Multicultural Policies and Programs in Canada by Carl James. Halifax, N.S.: […]
Political books coming out this fall
Coming off the heels of the passage of the controversial same-sex marriage legislation in the House and the Senate this summer, The Dundurn Group is set to release a new book by Canadian Press reporter Sylvain Larocque called From This Day Forward: The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage. Having followed the issue while working on the […]
Recently Released Political Books
The Fate of the Nation State edited by Michel Seymour, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 444 Pages, $34.95. Blurb from the back cover: “The fate of the nation-state has become one of the urgent issues of our time, concerning demonstrators in the streets at meetings of the WTO as much as the political leaders bargaining around tables […]
Recently Released Political Books
How Ottawa Spends 2004-2005: Mandate Change in the Paul Martin Era, edited by G. Bruce Doern, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 406 Pages, $29.95. Blurb from the back cover: “The 25th edition of How Ottawa Spends assesses the priorities, initial spending, and policy initiatives of the new Paul Martin era. Drawing on the work of academics and […]
Recently Released Political Reads
Inauspicious Beginnings: Principal Powers and International Security Institutions after the Cold War, 1989-1999, edited by Onnig Beylerian and Jacques Lévesque, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 314 Pages, $29.95. Blurb from the back cover: “This book addresses an important theoretical and operational issue in contemporary international relations, namely, the role played by international security institutions in the foreign […]
Library of Parliament’s Suggested Reading
Le Bassin du Saint-Laurent et les Grand Lac: cadre juridique, by Charles Bédard. Québec: Presse de l’Université Laval, 2004, 303 pages. The Boreal in the Balance: Securing the Future of Canada’s Boreal Region: A Status Report. Ottawa: Canadian Boreal Initiative, 2005, 66 pages. Lilac Moon: Dreaming of the Real West, by Sharon Butala. Toronto: HarperCollins, […]
Recently Released Political Books
Canada’s Regional Innovation Systems: The Science-Based Industries by Jorge Niosi, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 172 Pages, $65. Blurb from the back cover: “How is innovation spread across Canada? In a companion book to Canada’s National System of Innovation, Jorge Niosi shows how regional innovation is made up of complex systems in which each group of agents […]
Library of Parliament’s Suggested Reading:
Les sentinelles de la terre: pour prévenir les nouveaux désordres de la nature. Paris: Hachette Littératures, 2004. 185 p. The Business of Climate Change: Corporate Responses to Kyoto. Edited by Kathryn Begg, Frans van de Woerd and David Levy. Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing, 2005. 284 p. Environmental Governance Reconsidered: Challenges, Choices and Opportunities, by Robert F. […]
Recently Released Political Books
United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War 1: For Profits and Security, second edition, by Stephen J. Randall, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 418 pages, $34.95. Blurb from the back cover: “Exploring the relationship between the state and the private sector in the development of American foreign oil policy, Stephen Randall argues that policy has been […]
