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  • The Tipping Point: America at the Brink

    Important institutions have failed the United States in many ways, causing serious harm to the country. These trends can be reversed.

    by James Booth ...
    We are living in a very difficult time. The United States is greatly polarized. Important institutions are failing. People have lost confidence in the government. The country is in decline.What are the indications of decline? How did we get here? Which divisions are most harmful to the country? Can these trends be reversed? Can the divisions he healed? What can we do about it?In this book James F. ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philip Larkin

    Life, Art and Love

    by James Booth ...
    _______________'Superb … Booth's psychology is subtler than Motion's and more convincing' - Peter J. Conradi, Spectator'Booth's diligence is unquestionable and even readers who think they know the poems will see nuances they had previously missed … should render further attention by biographers superfluous for several years' - Guardian'Those of us who never warmed to Larkin the man or poet,... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Memory, Historic Injustice, and Responsibility

    What is it to do justice to the absent victims of past injustice, given the distance that separates us from them? Grounded in political theory and guided by the literature on historical justice, W. James Booth restores the dead to their central place at the heart of our understanding of why and how to deal with past injustice. Testimonies and accounts from the race war in the United States, the ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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    Peeler

    The BBC Radio 4 crime series

    Unabridged

    2 hours 57 min

    A six-part BBC Radio 4 crime drama set in nineteenth-century LondonIt is 1830, a year after Sir Robert Peel’s creation of the Metropolitan Police, known as the 'Peelers'. As the brand new bobbies patrol the beat in their smart blue uniforms, armed only with truncheons and rattles, they form the first line of defence against crime.But as this thrilling series opens, the fledgling detective force is ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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    $10.99 CAD

  • How Novels Work

    by John Mullan ...
    Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, 'Elements of Fiction', John Mullan examines novels mostly of the last ten years, many of which have become firm ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Culture of Corruption

    Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies

    Barack Obama's approval ratings are at an all-time low. A recent Gallup poll found that half of the Americans polled said Obama did not deserve a second term. Weary of the corruption that gushes from the White House faster than a Gulf Coast oil spill, voters are ready to put a cap on smear campaigns, pay-to-play schemes, recess appointments, and Chicago politics. In the updated paperback edition ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Tailspin

    The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It

    by Steven Brill ...
    In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America’s core values—meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself—have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Book To Love

    Favourite Guests of ABC TV's First Tuesday Book Club Share Their Most Loved Books

    by Various ...
    The first publication from FIRST TUESDAY BOOK CLUB, this book is a collection of specially commissioned writing from selected guests on a book they have loved and treasured.first tuesday book club has been blessed with entertaining, inspiring and provocative guests. Now, a selection of wonderful authors and booklovers featured on the show comes together to reveal the books closest to their hearts. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Gangster Government

    Barack Obama and the New Washington Thugocracy

    And in this new and stunning book, New York Times best-selling author David Freddoso (The Case Against Barack Obama) provides the much-needed exposé of an administration that has brought Chicago-style corruption and strong-arm politics to Washington, looking to reward its friends (the unions, federal workers, and other liberal interest groups) and punish its enemies (the private sector workers and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Unstoppable

    The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State

    by Ralph Nader ...
    Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. Now he ramps up the fight and makes a persuasive case that Americans are not powerless. In Unstoppable, he explores the emerging political alignment of the Left and the Right against converging corporate-government tyranny.Large ... Read more

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  • Mafia Democracy

    How Our Republic Became a Mob Racket

    It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince Greed. Lies. Corruption. These are the foundational elements of the American Mafia story. Here, the pursuit of power overshadows even the desire for a dollar, and self-interest outweighs the greater good. It's a world that's foreign to ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus