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Labour of love: the fight to create a more humane Canada
Par Buzz Hargrove, Wayne Skene. 1998
The leader of the Canadian Auto Workers union shares his opinions on Bob Rae's NDP and the Tories' Common Sense…
Revolution. He argues that the "Days of Action" protests are vital to Canada as our governments threaten to unravel existing social programs. He believes that unless Canadians start to make their opinions known our social programs could disappear leaving thousands of Canadians with little or no support. 1998.La dette de Louis XV: le Québec, la France et de Gaulle
Par Christophe Tardieu. 2017
Vive le Québec libre ! Ce 24 juillet 1967, au balcon de l'hôtel de ville de Montréal, Charles de Gaulle…
lance un appel promis à entrer dans l'histoire. ''Vous venez de réparer la dette de Louis XV'' lui glisse un de ses conseillers, évoquant l'abandon de la Nouvelle-France à l'Angleterre en 1763. Qu'a voulu dire et faire le Général ? Avec quelle vision a-t-il préparé ce voyage ? Comment a-t-il mené ce périple sur les pas de Jacques Cartier et de tous les héros d'une formidable épopée ? Quelle mémoire a-t-il ranimée, quel avenir a-t-il dessiné, et au prix de quel scandale international ? Ce sont ces quatre jours d'incroyable odyssée et ces cinq siècles d'histoire contrastée dont Christophe Tardieu se fait ici le chroniqueur érudit et passionné. Sans en oublier la brûlante actualité : qu'en est-il aujourdhui de l'hégémonie américaine, de l'indépendantisme québécois, de l'indépendance française ? De la liberté des peuples face à la mainmise des empires ? De la survie des langues et des cultures au regard de la mondialisation ? 2017.La Palestine expliquée à tout le monde
Par Élias Sanbar. 2013
Berceau des trois monothéismes, la Palestine est sous les feux de son actualité violente, depuis que la création de l'État…
d'Israël en 1948 l'a vue comme une terre sans peuple pour un peuple sans terre. L'histoire de la Palestine contemporaine se souvient de celle des gens de Terre sainte mais commence avec son problème. Et chacun peut sentir plus ou moins confusément que l'équilibre du monde se joue là, sur ces quelques milliers de kilomètres carrés à l'orient de la Méditerranée. À ceux qui disent ne rien comprendre au conflit israélo-palestinien, Elias Sanbar répond en restituant la continuité d'une histoire - depuis le mandat britannique à partir de 1917 jusqu'à aujourd'hui - que tant de commentaires ont souvent faussée ou étouffée. La Palestine, c'est l'histoire d'un pays absent que les Palestiniens ont emporté dans leur exil. C'est aussi le long combat qu'il leur a fallu mener pour retrouver un nom, une visibilité, une existence enfin. La Palestine d'Elias Sanbar est polychrome, terre de pluralité, des origines et des croyances. 2013.La passion du Québec
Par René Lévesque. 1978
Kill the messengers: Stephen Harper's assault on your right to know
Par Mark Bourrie. 2015
The author exposes how trends have conspired to simultaneously silence the Canadian media and elect an anti-intellectual government determined to…
conduct business in private. Drawing evidence from multiple cases and examples, he demonstrates how budget cuts have been used to suppress the collection of facts that embarrass the government's position or undermine its ideologically based decision-making. Bourrie gives advice on how to take back your right to be informed and to be heard. 2015.Kennedy and Diefenbaker: fear and loathing across the undefended border
Par Knowlton Nash. 1990
The hatred that existed between President John Kennedy and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was most apparent during the Cuban Missile…
Crisis. This relationship had an important impact on the 1963 election which Diefenbaker lost to Lester Pearson.Kicking ass in Canadian politics
Par Warren Kinsella. 2001
Warren Kinsella is a lawyer and political consultant who has served as political aide to Jean Chrétien and played key…
roles in two successful Chrétien campaigns. He is also an enthusiastic advocate of tough, in-your-face politics - politics that infuriates opponents, but wins vote. Here, Kinsella reveals what really goes on inside campaigns, including insider stories from campaigns and campaigners in Canada and the United States. 2001.Journey beyond Samarkand
Par Yasushi Inoue. 1971
Jerusalem: the contested city (The modern scholar)
Par F. E Peters. 2003
New York University professor F.E. Peters delivers a course that will take you on a journey through the fascinating history…
of Jerusalem. As you explore the myriad contributions made to the city by the Jews, Christians, and Muslims, you'll come to understand why each religion reveres this holy place. 2003.Japan and the world since 1868 (International Relations And The Great Powers Ser.)
Par Michael A Barnhart. 1995
This text presents a survey of Japan's foreign relations since the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The author describes three searches…
for security: the search for sovereignty; the search for empire and the search for comprehensive security. 1995.In defiance
Par Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois. 2015
In 2012, more than 300,000 students across Quebec protested a tuition fee hike by striking from their classes. The author…
takes readers step-by-step through the strike, recounting the confrontations with journalists, ministers, judges, and police. Along the way he exposes the moral and intellectual poverty of the Quebec elite and celebrates the remarkable energy of the students who opposed the mercenary attitude of the austerity agenda. 2015. Uniform title: Tenir tête.I is for infidel: from holy war to holy terror: 18 years inside Afghanistan
Par Kathy Gannon. 2005
In 1986 Kathy Gannon headed to Afghanistan as a foreign correspondent, and for the next eighteen years she witnessed its…
tragic opera: the final collapse of communism followed by bitterly feuding warlords being driven from power by the Taliban; the subsequent arrival of Arabs and exiles, among them Osama bin Laden; and the transformation of the country into the staging post for a global jihad. She also observed the terrible, unforeseen consequences of Western intervention, the ongoing suffering of ordinary Afghans, and the ability of the most corrupt of the warlords to reinvent and reinsert themselves into successive governments. Some descriptions of violence. c2005.ISIS exposed: beheadings, slavery, and the hellish reality of radical Islam
Par Erick Stakelbeck. 2015
Terrorism expert Erick Stakelbeck pulls back the curtain on ISIS, the violent terrorist organization spreading death and hate in the…
Middle East. The rise of ISIS took the White House by complete surprise: President Obama called the group "JV," then was forced to reassess when ISIS began executing innocent American journalists. Now radicalized Americans and Europeans are joining ISIS's ranks. So who is ISIS? How powerful are they? And are they a threat to the homeland? 2015.Istanbul: a tale of three cities
Par Bettany Hughes. 2017
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three…
names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. 2017.Israel: a history
Par Martin Gilbert. 1998
Israel is a small and relatively young country, but its turbulent history has placed it squarely at the centre of…
the world stage this century. Martin Gilbert traces its history, from its beginnings with the dramatic declaration of Statehood in May 1948, through the many subsequent conflicts and political watersheds. Using contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts, drawing on his own intimate knowledge of the country and its people, the author weaves together all these dramatic events into a seamless narrative. 1998.Iraq (Major world nations)
Par J. P Docherty. 1999
Explores the people, history, culture, land, and economy of this Middle Eastern country, once called Mesopotamia, which is considered the…
"cradle of civilization." Also briefly discusses its modern wars with neighbours Iran and Kuwait. Grades 5-8. c1999.Inventing Japan, 1853-1964: 1853-1964 (Modern Library chronicles ; #11)
Par Ian Buruma. 2003
Buruma traces Japan's transformation from an isolated island shogunate into an expansive military empire and then a pacified and prosperous…
democracy. Beginning with Commodore Perry's 1853 naval mission to open Japan to American traders, he follows a century of history, culminating in Douglas MacArthur's remarkable - but flawed - achievement in guiding Japan toward democracy. 2003. (Modern Library chronicles ; 11)Inside the NDP war room: competing for credibility in a federal election
Par James S McLean. 2012
Analyzing the 2005-06 federal election campaign, McLean considers the ways in which the idea of credibility is used to explain…
how messages are crafted and articulated, how journalists are implicated, and what the Canadian public needs to know about what is at stake in the competition for votes. Offers insights into the NDP breakthroughs of 2011, the full meaning of Quebec's "orange wave," and the future of a party preparing for a new reality. 2012.Inside the Philippine revolution: The New People's Army And Its Struggle For Power
Par William Chapman. 1987
When Corazon Aquino took power in the Philippines, she quickly discovered that she had inherited Marcos' problem of domestic unrest.…
The New People's Army, the communist force in the Philippines, was established 20 years ago, and it controls at least 20 percent of the local political units. 1987.India: a history
Par John Keay. 2000
A five-thousand-year overview of the subcontinent from the Harappan people in the Indus Valley around 3000 B.C. to the nineteenth-century…
takeover by the British Raj. Presents a chronology of cultural and political developments that shaped the twentieth-century nations of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. c2000.