Political Science
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() 21st Century SocialismReinventing the Project |
Bringing together a passionate group of socialists, 21st Century Socialism participates in the emerging and critical debate concerned with reinventing and rebuilding socialism. | Henry Veltmeyer | 239 | 2011 | View |
![]() A Beauty that HurtsLife and Death in Guatemala |
When A Beauty That Hurts was published in 1995, Guatemala was still one of the world’s most flagrant violators of human rights. Now that a measure of “peace” has come to the … | W. George Lovell | 288 | 2019 | View |
![]() A People’s Senate For CanadaNot a Pipe Dream! |
A People’s Senate for Canada combines grassroots experience, thorough research and critical commentary to create a people’s resource for positive change. This book offers a rationale, … | Helen Forsey | 143 | 2015 | View |
![]() About Canada: Health & Illness 2nd Edition |
Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by genetics, medical care and lifestyle choices. Governments, the media and disease associations reinforce this … | Dennis Raphael | 192 | 2016 | View |
![]() About Canada: Poverty |
For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and … | Jim Silver | 192 | 2014 | View |
![]() Activism That Works |
Activism That Works shares the stories of eight diverse social justice movements, from Oxfam Canada, to the Calgary Raging Grannies, to the Youth Project of Halifax, as they contemplate their own … | Elizabeth Whitmore; Maureen G. Wilson | 192 | 2011 | View |
![]() Anatomy of an ElectionCanada’s 2019 Federal General Election Through the Lens of Political Law |
Elections are the high point of democracy. They provide scheduled opportunities for the people at large to have a participatory voice in their own government. They enable adult citizens to judge … | Gregory Tardi | 838 | 2020 | View |
![]() Are We Done Fighting?Building Understanding in a World of Hate and Division |
Unfounded beliefs and hateful political and social divisions that can cascade into violence are threatening to pull the world apart. Responding to fear and aggression strategically and with … | Matthew Legge | 352 | 2019 | View |
![]() Basic Income For CanadiansFrom the Covid-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All |
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put … | Evelyn L. Forget | 258 | 2020 | View |
![]() Beyond ContemptHow Liberals can Communicate Across the Great Divide |
Liberal and progressive frustration, grief, and alarm over Trump’s destructive political agenda and behavior have prompted mounting disdain for Trump supporters and other conservatives. … | Erica Etelson | 242 | 2020 | View |
![]() Beyond the FragmentsFeminism and the Making of Socialism |
Inspired by the activism of the 1970s that surrounded the triumph of the right under Margaret Thatcher in U.K., Beyond the Fragments was written to create stronger bonds of solidarity in a new … | Hilary Wainwright; Lynne Segal; Sheila Rowbotham | 324 | 2013 | View |
![]() Beyond the Periphery of the SkinRethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism |
More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements–all look at the body in its manifold … | Silvia Federici | 161 | 2020 | View |
![]() BlackBerry TownHow high tech success has played out for Canada's Kitchener-Waterloo |
The smartphone was an incredibly successful Canadian invention created by a team of engineers and marketers led by Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. But there was a third key player involved — … | Chuck Howitt | 264 | 2019 | View |
![]() Blood of ExtractionCanadian Imperialism in Latin America |
Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian … | Jeffery R. Webber; Todd Gordon | 400 | 2016 | View |
![]() Bombardier AbroadPatterns of Dispossession |
In Bombardier Abroad, Thomas examines several cases of the Canadian aerospace giant’s work in the high-speed rail sector in South Africa, China/Tibet, and Israel/Palestine and argues that … | David P. Thomas | 164 | 2018 | View |
![]() British Columbia Politics and Government |
British Columbia remains Canada’s most politically dynamic province. This book — which includes coverage of the 2009 provincial election — provides an overview of BC’s … | Dennis Pilon; Michael Howlett; Tracy Summerville | 426 | 2009 | View |