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By Greg Mortenson. 2009
Author of "Three Cups of Tea" and cofounder of the Central Asia Institute chronicles his school-building efforts and promotion of…
female literacy in remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Discusses Mortenson's long-term goals and shares anecdotes about those impacted by his work. Bestseller. 2009.By James Risen. 2006
New York Times reporter recounts anecdotes, often from anonymous sources, concerning CIA efforts to thwart terrorists since September 11, 2001.…
Discusses the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping program, the search for weapons of mass destruction, and the return of Afghanistan's opium trade. Posits that the CIA mission failed. Bestseller. 2006.The author of "The Automatic Millionaire" and "Smart Women Finish Rich" (DC27884) advises people who have neglected to manage money.…
Outlines saving, cutting credit card debt, budgeting, creating a self-directed retirement account, investing in the stock market, owning a home, getting a raise, and more. Bestseller. 2005.By Peter C Newman. 1988
These articles, which cover a period of 15 years, look at the Canadian identity and the changes which have occurred.…
Athough optimistic, Newman expresses concern for Canada's future. He includes a number of short articles about prominent Canadians. 1988.By Simon Sebag-Montefiore. 2004
There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore has…
unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge. 2004.By James Laxer. 2000
James Laxer travels to different regions in the U.S. in an effort to examine the social and political issues, trends…
and conflicts that shape the current American society. He observes the IMF protests in Washington, D.C., tracks the campaign of presidential candidate George W. Bush, visits an abortion clinic in Seattle, and enrols in a firearms training course in Springfield, Massachusetts. Some strong language; some descriptions of violence; graphic descriptions of an abortion procedure. 2000.By Jeffrey Simpson. 1988
Through the use of private letters, official documents and personal observations, the author examines the provincial and national use of…
patronage, from Sir John A. Macdonald's "purchase" of Nova Scotia's opponent of Confederation to the scandal-plagued Mulroney cabinet. 1988.Bestselling author of "The Automatic Millionaire" (DC27883) urges women, regardless of age or marital status, to secure their financial futures.…
Offers plans for investing, teaching kids about money, spending wisely, and aligning resources with personal values. Revised edition of the 1999 original includes success stories and Internet strategies. 2003.Bach offers advice on how couples can keep their financial lives in sync, with strategies on such concerns as investments,…
retirement and insurance. Bach also believes that all couples (gay and straight, married and unmarried) need to identify values as well as goals as their first step toward achieving financial security. 2003.By James Maskalyk. 2009
In 2007 James Maskalyk, a doctor newly recruited by Médecins Sans Frontières, set out for the contested border town of…
Abyei, Sudan. He spent his days treating malnourished children, coping with a measles epidemic and watching for war. Worn thin by the struggle to meet overwhelming needs with few resources, he returned home six months later more affected by the experience, the people, and the place than he had anticipated. Descriptions of sex, explicit strong language, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.By Michael Savage. 2016
For the past eight years there has been a retrovirus in the White House, and the last Presidential term has…
infected the body politic with hateful anti-American views and nation-destructive ideas. The entire Democratic Party, plus many Republicans, have been invaded and infected by these ideas. They just repeat them over and over to the detriment of the United States. The bad news? It is very difficult to detect that we have been infected until it is too late. This virus may force us to learn to live with our currently infected political system indefinitely. But, Savage knows what needs to be done in order to bring the government and country back to health. Bestseller. 2016.By Ezra Levant. 2009
As a result of appearing before the Human Rights Commission for publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons, Levant began investigating other…
Commission cases. He discovered some disturbing and even bizarre cases, and that human rights commissions now monitor political opinions, fine people for expressing politically incorrect viewpoints, censor websites, and even ban people, permanently, from saying certain things. Some strong language. 2009.By Dusko Doder. 1986
By Germaine Greer. 1984
Beginning with a simple comparison between the parent-child relationship in the affluent West and the villages in the Third World,…
the author leads the reader to ask some disturbing questions about our pre-conceived ideas of the nuclear family. Some descriptions of sex. 1984.By Dick Morris, Eileen McGann, Clayton Liotta. 2012
Morris and McGann believe that foreign countries such as China, Russia and the EU are ripping America off and plundering…
its economy, with the help of its own political and business leaders. With the unemployment rate soaring and the economic picture growing bleaker, this is a wake-up call for everyone from middle class workers and Tea Party conservatives to labour leaders and environmentalists who oppose globalism and its negative economic and environmental repercussions. 2012.By Claude Castonguay. 2012
Celui qu'on désigne comme le père de l'assurance maladie examine notre système public de santé aujourd'hui et ne reconnaît plus…
son enfant. Toujours aussi attaché aux valeurs de solidarité, d'universalité et d'équité qui le guidaient dans les années 70, il invite ici à un constat très sévère sur la façon dont les soins sont prodigués au Québec. Force est de constater que notre système de santé connaît de sérieux problèmes. Il ne fonctionne pas comme il devrait eu égard aux besoins des Québécois et aux énormes ressources que nous y consacrons. Le Québec ne peut plus se permettre d'investir chaque année des dizaines de milliards, en fait pratiquement la moitié du budget du gouvernement, sans objectifs et sans obligation de résultats, sans progrès réels. 2012.By Kathleen Ann Lahey, Kevin Alderson. 2004
Describes both the experiences of same-sex couples who have been able to marry, and the stories behind the scenes that…
explain how the legal battle was won. Using legal history and interviews, the authors investigate the two sides of this process. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2004.By Ann Crittenden. 1988
A history of the sanctuary movement to aid political refugees from Central American wars. Chronicles its origin in the early…
1980s through the 1986 court trial that convicted many of its leaders of smuggling and harbouring illegal aliens. c1988.By Joan Didion. 1983
In 1982 the author went to El Salvador. She describes the situation from the government's standpoint since she was unable…
to spend time with the guerrillas. Even so, the picture of terrorism emerges with fear and political repression. 1983.By Chrystia Freeland. 2000
Chrystia Freeland details the Russian transition from communism to capitalism and the ongoing repercussions. She takes us behind the scenes…
and shows us how a handful of powerful men who came to be known as the oligarchs and the young reformers squandered a historic opportunity to build a new Russia. She argues that while their achievements were considerable, their mistakes will deform Russian society for generations to come. 2000.