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Points of rebellion
Par William O Douglas. 1970
A comment on the ills of American society by former Supreme Court Justice. He speaks out against creeping conformity, bureaucratic…
mediocrity, Pentagon power, the increasing subservience of man to machine, and mounting incursions on privacy
Our Future: How Kids are Taking Action (Kids Making a Difference #4)
Par Janet Wilson. 2019
Young people from across the globe are raising awareness about what issues matter to them most and are working to…
protect the future that we all share. American Jaelun Parkerson kneels with his football teammates during the national anthem to protest racial injustice. Canadian Autumn Peltier spoke in front of the United Nations to raise awareness about water pollution Melati Wijsen from Indonesia started working at twelve-years-old to convince her government to ban plastic bags. And Tiassa Mutunkei from Kenya started a club for young people to stop elephants from being killed for their ivory tusks. Our Future shines a light on the efforts on ten brilliant and brave young activists who are making a difference for the future of our planet. The book's final pages give ideas for how young people can try and make a difference in their own lives and communities.
Dans ce nouveau recueil rassemblant ses meilleurs écrits, Frédéric Bérard peint avec franchise et sensibilité le portrait d'une année marquée…
par des polémiques aux allures de numéros de cirque. Il insiste : derrière les jongleurs et les clowns, la crise climatique continue de s'amplifier et les maux sociaux s'enveniment. Pour l'auteur, ce n'est qu’en cessant d'écouter ces commentateurs et autres illusionnistes s'époumonant en chœur que nous pourrons nous attaquer aux vrais défis de notre époque
Big Men Fear Me
Par Mark Bourrie. 2022
The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most influential media moguls. When George…
McCullagh bought The Globe and The Mail and Empire and merged them into the Globe and Mail, the charismatic 31-year-old high school dropout had already made millions on the stock market. It was just the beginning of the meteoric rise of a man widely expected to one day be prime minister of Canada. But the charismatic McCullagh had a dark side. Dogged by the bipolar disorder that destroyed his political ambitions and eventually killed him, he was all but written out of history. It was a loss so significant that journalist Robert Fulford has called McCullagh’s biography "one of the great unwritten books in Canadian history"—until now. In Big Men Fear Me, award-winning historian Mark Bourrie tells the remarkable story of McCullagh’s inspirational rise and devastating fall, and with it sheds new light on the resurgence of populist politics, challenges to collective action, and attacks on the free press that characterize our own tumultuous era.
Planète en ébullition: écologie, féminisme et responsabilité (Collection Polémos)
Par Laurence Hansen-Løve, Laurence Hansen-Love. 2022
Dans une synthèse aussi remarquable que stimulante, Laurence Hansen-Løve fait la cartographie de cette révolution planétaire, dont les accents écologistes…
et féministes sont susceptibles de nous faire basculer dans un monde aux fondations plus pérennes. Révolution au long cours contrairement aux révolutions politiques des derniers siècles, elle se déploie aux quatre coins du globe. Hansen-Løve nous fait découvrir les écrits et actions d'intellectuels engagés, de juristes éclairés, de militants écologistes, d'activistes du climat ou d'écoféministes déterminées, d'Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez à Naomi Klein, en passant Greta Thunberg et ses émules de grévistes du climat aux Philippines, en Inde, en Ouganda ou au Cambodge. À travers eux et elles, c'est tout un nouveau rapport au monde qui s'exprime, et un réel sens de la responsabilité – telle que l'a d'abord théorisé Hans Jonas – qui prend forme
The Secret Pocket
Par Peggy Janicki, Carrielynn Victor. 2023

La gauche réfractaire (Essai)
Par Michel Onfray, Eric Naulleau. 2022
Dialogue entre deux hommes qui se réclament du socialisme et des idéaux de Proudhon et de Jaurès. Ils dressent un…
inventaire des principes à défendre comme le service public, l'école républicaine, la culture classique ou l'intérêt général tout en critiquant certaines valeurs portées par la gauche parmi lesquelles la cancel culture, le wokisme et l'Europe libérale.
Le Royaume-Uni: un pays en crises ? (Idées reçues)
Par Clémence Fourton. 2021
Une analyse des dynamiques qui ont mené le Royaume-Uni au Brexit. L'auteure, spécialiste de la civilisation britannique contemporaine, contextualise le…
processus au regard de l'histoire du pays, évoquant les crises multiples : aggravation des inégalités sociales, montée du nationalisme, instabilité de l'Irlande, perte d'influence sur la scène diplomatique ou velléités de sécession de l'Ecosse.
L'Ukraine: de l'indépendance à la guerre (Idées reçues)
Par Alexandra Goujon. 2021
Depuis le début des années 2010, l'Ukraine est devenue le théâtre d'une nouvelle guerre froide, cristallisant les tensions existant entre…
la Russie et l'Occident. Derrière les clichés d'un état berceau de la Russie, terre des cosaques et grenier à blé du géant voisin, l'auteure dresse un portrait précis et documenté du pays.
Bouleversements: pour comprendre la nouvelle donne mondiale
Par François Hollande. 2022
L'ancien président de la République expose les conséquences, pour l'Europe et le monde, de la guerre russo-ukrainienne décidée par V.…
Poutine. Fort de son expérience, il livre son analyse et propose aux Français des idées et une direction à suivre dans ce nouveau contexte géopolitique.
The butler: a witness to history
Par Wil Haygood. 2013
Washington Post writer chronicles the life of African American butler Eugene Allen (1919-2010) who served in the White House for…
eight presidential administrations, from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan. Discusses the making of the 2013 movie starring Forest Whitaker. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2013
Taïwan face à la Chine: vers la guerre ?
Par Valérie Niquet. 2022
L'auteure questionne la probabilité d'une guerre imminente dans le détroit de Taïwan. Elle décrit l'histoire, les spécificités sociales et politiques…
ainsi que les enjeux géopolitiques de cet Etat non officiellement reconnu par l'ONU. Xi Jinping souhaite y affirmer la puissance de la Chine.
L'engrenage (Documents)
Par Sergueï Jirnov. 2022
Ancien agent du KGB et spécialiste en relations internationales, l'auteur livre son analyse du conflit en Ukraine et décrypte le…
rôle de V. Zelensky, E. Macron et J. Biden. Il se fonde sur son expérience et sa connaissance de V. Poutine pour expliquer les raisons de cette guerre, la réalité de la menace nucléaire ou encore l'enlisement des offensives militaires en Ukraine.
Un autre monde: l'ère des dictateurs
Par Alain Frachon. 2022
Une sélection des chroniques que l'auteur tient chaque semaine depuis 2014, augmentée d'une préface et d'un essai sur la Chine.…
L'ensemble brosse le tableau d'un monde nouveau marqué par la possible fin de l'Occident.
France-Algérie, 60 ans d'histoires secrètes: 1962-2022 (Grand pluriel)
Par Naoufel Brahimi El Mili. 2022

Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast
Par John Vaillant. 2023
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Golden Spruce and The Tiger comes a stunning account of a colossal wildfire,…
and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind.In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada's petroleum industry and America's biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world. For hundreds of millennia, fire has been a partner in our evolution, shaping culture, civilization, and, very likely, our brains. Fire has enabled us to cook our food, defend and heat our homes, and power the machines that drive our titanic economy. Yet this volatile energy source has always threatened to elude our control, and in our new age of intensifying climate change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in previously unimaginable ways. With masterly prose and a cinematic eye, Vaillant takes us on a riveting journey through the intertwined histories of North America's oil industry and the birth of climate science, to the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern forest fires, and into lives forever changed by these disasters. John Vaillant's urgent work is a book for—and from—our new century of fire, which has only just begun.
True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change
Par Jody Wilson-Raybould. 2022
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet, a groundbreaking and accessible roadmap to advancing true reconciliation…
across Canada.There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation? It is clear that people from all over the country want to take concrete and tangible action that will make real change. We just need to know how to get started. This book provides that next step. For Wilson-Raybould, what individuals and organizations need to do to advance true reconciliation is self-evident, accessible, and achievable. True Reconciliation is broken down into three core practices—Learn, Understand, and Act—that can be applied by individuals, communities, organizations, and governments. The practices are based not only on the historical and contemporary experience of Indigenous peoples in their relentless efforts to effect transformative change and decolonization, but also on the deep understanding and expertise about what has been effective in the past, what we are doing right, and wrong, today, and what our collective future requires. Fundamental to a shared way of thinking is an understanding of the Indigenous experience throughout the story of Canada. In a manner that reflects how work is done in the Big House, True Reconciliation features an “oral” history of these lands, told through Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices from our past and present. The ultimate and attainable goal of True Reconciliation is to break down the silos we’ve created that prevent meaningful change, to be empowered to increasingly act as “inbetweeners,” and to take full advantage of this moment in our history to positively transform the country into a place we can all be proud of.
It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People
Par Michael Simpson, Rueben George. 2023
A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on…
the front lines of the fight against an extractive industry, colonial government, and threats to the life-giving Salish Sea.It Stops Here is the profound story of the spiritual, cultural, and political resurgence of a nation taking action to reclaim their lands, waters, law, and food systems in the face of colonization. In deeply moving testimony, it recounts the intergenerational struggle of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation to overcome colonial harms and the powerful stance they have taken alongside allies and other Indigenous nations across Turtle Island against the development of the Trans Mountain Pipeline—a fossil fuel megaproject on their unceded territories.In a firsthand account of the resurgence told by Rueben George, one of the most prominent leaders of the widespread opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, It Stops Here reveals extraordinary insights and revelations from someone who has devoted more than a decade of his life to fighting the project. Rueben shares stories about his family’s deep ancestral connections to their unceded lands and waters, which are today more commonly known as Vancouver, British Columbia and the Burrard Inlet. He discloses how, following the systematic cultural genocide enacted by the colonial state, key leaders of his community, such as his grandfather, Chief Dan George, always taught the younger generations to be proud of who they were and to remember the importance of their connection to the inlet.Part memoir, part call to action, It Stops Here is a compelling appeal to prioritize the sacred over oil and extractive industries, while insisting that settler society honour Indigenous law and jurisdiction over unceded territories rather than exploiting lands and reducing them to their natural resources.
Agent of Change: My Life Fighting Terrorists, Spies, and Institutional Racism
Par Huda Mukbil. 2023
Huda Mukbil shares her experiences as a Black Arab-Canadian Muslim intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Her dazzling…
account reveals how racism, misogyny, and Islamophobia undermine not only individuals, but institutions and the national interest – and how addressing this can tackle populism and misinformation.
From Left to Right: Saskatchewan's Political and Economic Transformation
Par Dale Eisler. 2021
An in-depth look at the political landscape of Saskatchewan from its leftist roots to its shift in recent years to…
the right of centre.One of the most underreported stories in Canadian politics has been the political and economic transformation of Saskatchewan. The province that was the birthplace of the CCF-NDP and democratic socialism in North America has, over the last fifty years, undergone fundamental change that has altered its identity. It is now seen as the bastion of the centre-right Saskatchewan Party, which has become one of the most dominant provincial political parties in Canada.The story of that transformation, in which the once powerful NDP has been relegated to the political margins, reaches far beyond the province itself and reflects national and global events that have shaped the province over the course of the last half century. Modern Saskatchewan politics have been less about ideology and more about the influence of issues and events since the late 1960s and the lure of populist leaders who speak to an identity rooted in the province’s history.Consistent with Saskatchewan’s history, From Left to Right presents a blend of populism, a deeply embedded spirit of independence and personal initiative, coupled with communitarian values and the constant search for a better future.