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  • Our Way to Fight

    Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine

    This book follows the dangerous lives of peace activists in Israel and Palestine. It explores the crises that stirred them to act, the risks they face, and the small victories that sustain them.Michael Riordon takes us to thousand year-old olive groves, besieged villages, refugee camps, checkpoints and barracks. In the face of deepening conflict, Our Way to Fight offers courageous grassroots ... Read more

    $14.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bold Scientists

    Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science

    As governments and corporations scramble to pull the plug on research that proves that they are poisoning our planet and rush to muzzle the scientists who dare to share their disturbing data, it seems the powerful have declared a war on science.Michael Riordon asks deep questions of bold scientists who defy the status quo including: an Indigenous biologist who integrates traditional knowledge and ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Our Way to Fight

    Israeli and Palestinian Activists for Peace

    The news coming out of the Israel-Palestine conflict remains grim. The region remains a symbol of instability fueled by violence and hatred.In Our Way to Fight, journalist and author Michael Riordon offers a different perspective, exploring the conflict through local Israeli and Palestinian peace activists who break all stereotypes. Riordon travels to thousand-year-old olive groves, besieged ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out Our Way

    Gay and Lesbian Life in the Country

    Michael Riordon celebrates the survival of ordinary, extraordinary people whose experiences are rarely reflected in the media. These stories of courage and humour were gathered in the course of two years and 27,000 kilometres of travel, and some three hundred in-person conversations. ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Eating Fire

    Family Life on the Queer Side

    Eating Fire follows in the steps of Riordon’s popular 1996 book Out our way, on gay and lesbian life in the country (BTL, 1996). This new set of tales examines the range in living patterns and relationships among queer families across Canada.Eating Fire illuminates the rich diversity in which people negotiate their personal and public identities. As in all his writing and radio work, Riordon ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • An Unauthorized Biography of the World

    Oral History on the Front Lines

    An Unauthorized Biography of the World explores the practice of engaged oral history: the difficult, sometimes dangerous work of recovering fragments of human story that have gone missing from the official versions.Michael Riordon has thirty years’ experience as a writer and broadcaster in the field. Readers will encounter a gallery of brave, passionate people who gather silenced voices and lost ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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  • Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word

    A Different Take on Taxes in Canada

    Series Book 3 - Canadian Commentaries
    Taxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it’s about the role of government, about citizenship and our collective well-being, about the Canada we want. The contributors, leading Canadian practitioners and scholars, explore how taxes have become a political “no-go zone” and how changes in ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Divide

    American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

    by Matt Taibbi ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis**Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles.Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world’s wealth. The ... Read more

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  • The Comeback

    How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power And Influence

    Once again, John Ralston Saul presents the story of Canada’s past so that we may better understand its present – and imagine a better future.Historic moments are always uncomfortable, Saul writes in this impassioned argument, calling on all of us to embrace and support the comeback of Aboriginal peoples. This, he says, is the great issue of our time – the most important missing piece in the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Israel

    A History

    "The most comprehensive account of Israeli history yet published" (Efraim Karsh, The Sunday Telegraph).Fleeing persecution in Europe, thousands of Jewish immigrants settled in Palestine after World War II. Renowned historian Martin Gilbert crafts a riveting account of Israel's turbulent history, from the birth of the Zionist movement under Theodor Herzl to the unexpected declaration of its ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After America

    Get Ready for Armageddon

    by Mark Steyn ...
    Mark Steyn's New York Times bestseller, After America, is now in paperback! Featuring a new introduction and updated throughout, After America takes on Obama's disastrous plan for our nation, and reveals exactly what a post-American world will look like if we don't change our ways soon. Says Steyn: "Nothing is certain but debt and taxes. And then more debt. If the government of the United States ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sharon

    The Life of a Leader

    by Gilad Sharon ...
    Drawn from extensive personal archives and filled withstartling revelations, the definitive biography of Ariel Sharon illuminates hislife and work from the penetrating perspective of his youngest son, Gilad Sharon—one of his father's closest confidants.Readers of George W. Bush's Decision Points, Tony Blair's A Journey,Yitzhak Rabin's The Rabin Memoirs, and Moshe Dayan's Story of My Life,as well ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus