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  • The Terrific Engine

    Income Taxation and the Modernization of the Canadian Political Imaginary

    by David Tough ...
    What do we mean by left wing or right wing? People started using the language of a political spectrum when early twentieth-century political parties began to distinguish their platforms by offering different approaches to income distribution.The Terrific Engine examines how the powerful tool of income taxation transformed the way people talk and think about politics in Canada. Drawing on heated ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Deep Justice

    by David Tough ...
    Maggie Pierce's life is in turmoil. After her quiet riverside pub was destroyed in a freak landslide, she and husband Ray take on a new pub set in an idyllic Berkshire village. The pub is everything Maggie ever dreamed of. In fact, the only blight on its otherwise perfect description is the recent, unexplained suicide of the previous landlord.But the new environment soon provokes endless bickering ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Pays for Canada?

    Taxes and Fairness

    Edited by David Tough, Elsbeth Heaman ...
    Canadians can never not argue about taxes. From the Chinese head tax to the Panama Papers, from the National Policy to the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, tax grievances always inspire private resentments and public debates. But if resentment and debate persist, the terms of the debate have continually altered and adapted to reflect changing social, economic, and political conditions in ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 25 No. 1, 2014

    by Ian Wereley, Andre Siegel, James Hull, Jonathan McQuarrie, Daniel J. Robinson, Alexandre Turgeon, Carla Marano, David Tough, Sharon Wall, Seth Adema, Victoria Lamb Drover, IAN MCKAY ...
    Series Book 25 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    Beginning just before WW1 and continuing into the postwar period, the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association mounted a campaign to sell Canadian consumers on the virtues of buying “Made in Canada” goods. Not simply an appeal to patriotism, this campaign had to convince Canadian consumers of the satisfactory quality of such goods — which manufacturers had to deliver the substance of — in an ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    by M. J. Arlidge ...
    Series Book 10 - Helen Grace
    EVERY CRIME IS CONNECTED. BUT WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS?THE CHILLING THRILLER FROM THE MIND OF MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER M. J. ARLIDGEA crimewave sweeps through the city and no-one is safe. An arson at the docks. A carjacking gone wrong. A murder in a country park. What connects all these crimes without causes, which leave no clues?Detective Inspector Helen Grace faces the rising tide of cases wh ... Read more

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  • What Is a Canadian?

    Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses

    Edited by Irvin Studin ...
    Each of these essays begins with the words “A Canadian is . . .”. Each one is very different, producing a fascinating book for all thinking Canadians.Irvin Studin is an idealistic young Canadian who wanted to do something extraordinary for his country. So he decided to approach leading Canadians — he calls them “sages” — to tell us what they believe defines us. The people who responded eagerly, to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries

    by Arend Lijphart ...
    In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies during the period from 1945 to 2010, Lijphart arrives at important—and unexpected—conclusions about what type of democracy works best.Praise for the previous edition:"Magnificent. . . . The best ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Empire Within

    Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal

    by Sean Mills ...
    Series Book 23 - Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec
    In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew on ideas of decolonization to rethink the meanings attached to the politics of sex, race, and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Communicating in Canada's Past

    Essays in Media History

    Edited by Gene Allen, Daniel Robinson ...
    Communicating in Canada's Past evolved out of essays presented at the inaugural Conference on Media History in Canada of 2006, which brought together media historians from across the disciplines and from both French and English Canada. The first collection of its kind, this volume assembles both well-established and up-and-coming scholars to address sizable gaps in the literature on media history ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Masters of the Universe

    Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics - Updated Edition

    by Daniel Stedman Jones ...
    How radical free-market ideas achieved mainstream dominance in postwar America and BritainBased on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since. Daniel Stedman Jones argues that there was nothing inevitable ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Hard Lessons

    The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement

    Edited by Dieter K. Buse, Peter Suschnigg, Mercedes Steedman ...
    This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred ... Read more

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  • The Friendly Dictatorship

    by Jeffrey Simpson ...
    Is Canada a dictatorship – albeit a friendly dictatorship? In this thoughtful book, Jeffrey Simpson argues that the Liberal Party’s re-election to a third majority government must raise the question: Is Canada in danger of becoming a de facto one-party state, ruled by an all-powerful leader?An effective parliamentary system presumes that at least one party is ready and capable of replacing the ... Read more

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