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State Crime eBook Series

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  • State Crime on the Margins of Empire

    Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to Mining

    by Kristian Lasslett ...
    Series series State Crime
    This book offers a pioneering window into the elusive workings of state-corporate crime within the mining industry. It follows a campaign of resistance organised by indigenous activists on the island of Bougainville, who struggled to close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine, and investigates the subsequent state-corporate response, which led to the shocking loss of some 10,000 lives.Drawing on internal ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Battle of London

    Trudeau, Thatcher, and the Fight for Canada's Constitution

    by Frédéric Bastien ...
    Translated by Jacob Homel ...
    A bestseller in Quebec that describes the horse-trading, intrigue and unrest behind Trudeau’s quest to repatriate the Constitution.After the referendum in 1980, Pierre Elliott Trudeau turned his sights on repatriating the Constitution in an effort to make Canada fully independent from Britain. What should have been a simple process snowballed into a complicated intrigue.Quebec, which thought its ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eugene Forsey, Canada's Maverick Sage

    Canada's Maverick Sage

    by Helen Forsey ...
    Eugene Forsey's wit and wisdom are a legacy for the common good.Eugene Alfred Forsey (1904-1991) was one of Canada's foremost constitutional experts and a provocative voice for social justice and the common good. Legendary for his sharp wit and high principle, he brought encyclopedic knowledge, irascible tenacity and common sense to the causes of democracy, justice, and equality for all. Those ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Despot's Apprentice

    Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy

    by Brian Klaas ...
    ”[A] primer on the threat to democracy posed by—and I can’t believe I’m saying this—the current president of the United States.”—David Litt, New York Times bestselling authorDonald Trump isn’t a despot. But he is increasingly acting like The Despot’s Apprentice, an understudy in authoritarian tactics that threaten to erode American democracy, including:Attacking the pressThreatening rule of law by ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Federalist

    A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States

    by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the proposed Constitution, these papers stand as perhaps the most eloquent testimonial to democracy that exists. They ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Original Meanings

    Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Jack N. Rakove ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Words We Live By

    Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution

    by Linda R. Monk ...
    An informative look at America's Constitution, updated with rulings on issues such as immigration, gay marriage, gun control, and affirmative action.In The Words We Live By, Linda R. Monk probes the idea that the Constitution may seem to offer cut-and-dried answers to questions regarding personal rights, but the interpretations of this hallowed document are nearly infinite. For example, in the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • The Breakdown of Nations

    by Leopold Kohr ...
    A fascinating manifesto, proposing that the world should be split into smaller regions to distribute power more evenly.Written by one of the most original political thinkers of the 20th century, in The Breakdown of Nations, Leopold Kohr shows that throughout history people living in small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. He argues that virtually all our ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Democracy

    by Russell Hardin ...
    In his ground-breaking book, the leading political philosopher Russell Hardin develops a new theory of liberal constitutional democracy. Arguing against the standard consensus theories, the author shows how social co-ordination on limited, sociological mutual advantage lies at the heart of liberal constitutionalism when it works to produce stable government. The book argues that liberalism, ... Read more

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  • Russia Against the Rest

    The Post-Cold War Crisis of World Order

    by Richard Sakwa ...
    In this book Richard Sakwa provides a new analysis of the end of the Cold War and the subsequent failure to create a comprehensive and inclusive peace order in Europe. The end of the Cold War did not create a sustainable peace system. Instead, for a quarter of a century a 'cold peace' reflected the tension between cooperative and competitive behaviour. None of the fundamental problems of European ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A Brief View of the Constitution of the United States

    by Peter S. DuPonceau ...
    Peter Stephen Du Ponceau or DuPonceau, born Pierre-Étienne Du Ponceau, (June 3, 1760 - April 1, 1844) was a French philosopher and jurist who spent most of his life in the United States and was an avid student of the U.S. Constitution and the government. He also became well known in the field of linguistics for analyzing the indigenous languages of the Native Americans, building a collection of ... Read more

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  • The Odd Clauses

    Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions

    by Jay Wexler ...
    Take a hilariously entertaining tour through the lesser-known—and sometimes absurd!—clauses of the United States Constitution for fascinating insights on American history and constitutional law.If the United States Constitution were a zoo, and the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendments were a lion, a giraffe, and a panda bear, respectively, then The Odd Clauses would be a special exhibit of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD