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“andre pratte”

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  • Ebola, Bombs, and Migrants

    Humanitarian Crises in a Security-Obsessed World

    by Joanne Liu ...
    Translated by Marisa Coulton ...
    A searing account of three interconnected global crises that defined the 2010s, and a powerful invitation to respond with compassionate solidarity.In Ebola, Bombs, and Migrants, Dr. Joanne Liu, former International President of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, draws on frontline experience to examine three major humanitarian crises of the 2010s, revealing the global obsession with ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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  • What I Wish I Said

    Confessions of a Columnist

    by Jaime Watt ...
    Just as they do on those television cooking contests when the bell rings and the contestants’ hands go up, at four o’clock on Friday afternoon, the column is filed—ready or not—to the columnist’s horror, discomfort, or self-satisfaction. Regardless, one exigent and unrelenting thought remains: what you wish you’d said.Such is the life of a weekly newspaper columnist.Unable to ignore the urge any ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Legacy

    How French Canadians Shaped North America

    Edited by Andre Pratte, Jonathan Kay ...
    A ground-breaking work of nation building, this unique biographical book by many of English and French Canada's best-known writers and thinkers -- Margaret Atwood, Lucien Bouchard, Dr. Samantha Nutt, Ken Dryden, etc. -- tells the story of the extraordinary legacy of the French contribution to our very way of life.In 1913, schoolgirls found a heavy metal plaque peeking out of the soil in St-Pierre, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Hope Is Better Than Fear (e-book original)

    Paying Jack Layton Forward

    by Random House ...
    An e-book original inspired by the vision of late NDP leader Jack Layton with short, personal essays by a diverse line-up of Canadian writers and activists.HOPE IS BETTER THAN FEAR reflects upon and looks forward on a number of issues that Jack Layton championed over the course of his extraordinary career as an activist, city councillor and federal politician, including homelessness, feminism, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • What's Happened to Politics?

    by Bob Rae ...
    Poised to capitalize on renewed political interest following the federal election, the trade paperback edition of What’s Happened to Politics? is sure to be necessary reading for every concerned Canadian citizen.Segmented electorates. Political leaders avoiding debate and dialogue in favour of an endless repetition of sound bites and vanity videos with little substance. Billions of dollars spent ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Our Own Worst Enemy

    The Assault from within on Modern Democracy

    by Tom Nichols ...
    A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble--but who is really to ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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  • Out of the Wreckage

    A New Politics for an Age of Crisis

    by George Monbiot ...
    A leading environmental and political commentator draws a roadmap towards new politics—offering a rallying cry for a new vision of what a ‘good’ society can be—in this “dazzling command of science and relentless faith in people” (Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine)What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the 21st century?A toxic ideology of extreme competition and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa

    by Stephen Lewis ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    "I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal, and often searing insider's perspective on our ongoing failure to help. Lewis recounts how, in 2000, the ... Read more

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  • The Fourth Revolution

    The Global Race to Reinvent the State

    by John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge ...
    From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-stateDysfunctional government: It’s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge show us, that is a seriously limited ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Purpose of Power

    How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

    by Alicia Garza ...
    An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter“Excellent and provocative . . . a gateway [to] urgent debates.”—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New YorkerNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Time • Marie Claire • Kirkus ReviewsIn 2013, Alicia Garza w... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fight the Right

    A Manual for Surviving the Coming Conservative Apocalypse

    by Warren Kinsella ...
    Everywhere you look, these days, Conservatives are winning elections. No matter where you look, the story is the same: white, angry men on the Right are winning power. The Left, meanwhile, is divided and dispirited, and rapidly losing ground. Fight the Right is a handbook on how to survive the nasty, brutish and short-sighted era in which we find ourselves and is designed to help progressives ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Lies and Falsehoods

    The Morrison Government and the New Culture of Deceit

    by Bernard Keane ...
    Series series The Crikey Read
    Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines Crikey's eye-opening dossier of Scott Morrison's documented lies with Keane's insightful take on why deceivers dominate in the new era of politics. This book is the first in The Crikey Read series by Crikey and Hardie Grant Books.All politicians lie. They twist the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD