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By William Blum. 2000
A critical look at the U.S. and its role as a superpower. Blum examines the U.S. foreign policy and its…
involvement in foreign elections and assassinations. He raises the question of why the U.S. has become the target of terrorists and discusses the issues of freedom and human rights in the U.S. 2000.By Andrew Nikiforuk. 2002
Dutch-born Wiebo Ludwig, former leader of a Christian Reformed Church in Goderich, Ontario, and his entourage, which consisted of his…
ever-growing family and a few sympathizers, decamped for Alberta in 1985 and bought a place called Trickle Creek - in oil country. What ensued was a long, nasty, and often violent conflict between Ludwig and the oil and gas industry over its legal right to drill on private land, regardless of landowners' concerns over the contamination of air and water by the pollutants that spew out of the wells. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2002.By Marika Pruska-Carroll. 1995
A teacher of Russian and Eastern politics at Concordia University, Pruska-Carroll travelled throughout Russia in the early 1990s, interviewing Russians…
about the changes in their country. She spoke to workers and professionals, artists and businessmen, students and drop-outs, and recorded their impressions and experiences of the new Russia, its people and values, and the new politics and economy. c1995By David Corn, Michael Isikoff. 2018
Hertig asserts that both the American and Canadian governments are intentionally misleading their citizens about the Pentagon's unprecedented plans to…
weaponize space, about the new Russian and Chinese nuclear missile build-ups, and about the destruction of important, long-standing arms control agreements. Other topics covered are why the so-called U.S. missile "defence" system is really about establishing a U.S. first-strike-from-space capability, why both Paul Martin and Stephen Harper want to join in George W. Bush's program, and how all these factors may be leading to a rapidly increasing danger of a nuclear apocalypse. 2004.By Jerry F Hough. 1988
The author argues that Gorbachev is breaking with Stalinist and Leninist legacy by opening the Soviet Union to western ideas…
and technology. His reforms are far-reaching and changes in global power relationships are imminent. 1988.By Nikki Giovanni. 2005
Account of Rosa Parks's decision to stay in her bus seat in 1955 Alabama, in defiance of segregation laws. Explains…
the resulting bus boycott by civil rights activists that led to the Supreme Court ruling ending racial segregation on buses. Grades 3-6. Coretta Scott King Award, Caldecott Honor. 2005.By Peter Carlson. 1983
Biography of the former cowboy, prospector, and silver miner who became the radical leader of the Industrial Workers of the…
World - the celebrated "Wobblies." He led miners in the bloody "labour wars" in Cripple Creek, Colorado, and textile workers in the famous "bread and roses" strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Prosecuted in two criminal cases, a "guilty" Haywood jumped bail and escaped to exile in Russia. Some strong language. 1983.By Colin Angus, Julie Angus. 2009
2006. Adventurers Julie and Colin Angus were checking a map of Europe when Julie noticed an interconnected water route from…
Colin's parents' homeland of Scotland past her mother's homeland, Germany, and on to her father's, Syria. What started as a funny idea of rowing to visit relatives resulted in an odyssey by oar (and bike) where Julie and Colin tested their relationship while exploring their roots. Some strong language. 2010, c2009.By Doreen Tovey. 1982
The author describes her introduction to the English countryside, as well as to the village "characters" she and her husband…
meet on their quest to find a country home of their own. 1982.By Eleanor Clark. 1974
By Anya M Shetterly. 1984
By Doris P Zimmerman, Henry M Robert. 1997
By Douglas Brinkley, Stephen E. Stephen Edward Ambrose. 1997
This complete revision looks at American foreign policy from 1938 to President Clinton's second term. It revises the coverage of…
postwar American foreign policy in the light of recent scholarship and current events - for example the Lebanon invasion by Marines in the mid-1950s receives increased coverage in the light of the American debacle there in 1983. 1997.In 2001, Stephen Harper reluctantly became the leader of the Canadian Alliance. A few short years later, he was the…
Prime Minister, and the shell-shocked Liberal Paul Martin was planning his retirement. What happened, to turn the political world upside down, taking Harper to the top and plunging Martin on a downward trajectory? 2006.By C. Richard Allen, Edwin O Guthman, Robert F Kennedy. 2018
In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy's death, a collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by…
commentary from notable historians and public figures. 2018. Uniform title: Speeches.By Niall O'Brien. 1987
O'Brien, an Irish missionary, spent 20 years in the Philippines helping to develop "base communities" among the Christian population. His…
efforts resulted in his arrest and imprisonment under the Marcos regime on false charges of murder. 1987.By John Ralston Saul. 1997
Saul examines Canadian myths - real, false, and denied - and reconciles them with the reality of today's politics, culture…
and economics. Using the words of Canadian novelists, poets, historians, songwriters, philosophers, painters and political figures, Saul uncovers the shape of the Canadian experiment. c1997.By Christopher Caldwell. 2009
Since World War II, mass immigration has been made possible by European secularism, tolerance, and equality, but when immigrants arrive,…
they are not required to adopt those values. Describes faulty asylum policies, anti-Americanism that connects European natives and Muslim newcomers, and the issues that drive them apart. Considers the appeal of sharia and jihad to a second generation that is more alienated from Europe than the first, and addresses how native Europeans confront the claims of newcomers. c2009.By Richard N Goodwin. 1988
The author was John Kennedy's chief advisor on Latin America and, after Kennedy's death, became Lyndon Johnson's chief speechwriter. His…
memoirs tell the story of a decade's politics and provide revealing and emotional glimpses of John and Bobby Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Some strong language. 1968.