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Conflict and intervention in the Middle East are not uncommon occurrences. Yet when civil strife erupted in Lebanon in 1975, the events that followed were unusual indeed. Unlike most patterns of intervention, Syria displayed remarkable tactical flexibility by first...
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Oxford University Press
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1986-11-20
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One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence,...
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Penguin
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1984-05-31
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With a Foreword by Dr Gabor Maté.
Almost two years in and we continue to watch in horror as 2 million people living on 140 square miles of land bear an unprecedented and unfathomable pummelling by the Israeli Army. More bombs have been dropped on Gaza than in World War...
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Baraka Books
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2025-11-06
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This book debates a wide range of subjects reflecting Huxley's views towards the direction society is going. He puts forward a number of predictions, many of which resonate far beyond the time when it was written. A consistent theme throughout the essay is Huxley's...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-09-16
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Il trattato alfieriano è suddiviso in due libri: nel primo, Alfieri compie una attenta analisi dell'inscindibile binomio potere-tirannia, esaminando minuziosamente la figura del tiranno e la struttura del regime dispotico; nel secondo libro, analizza il modo di...
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Cactus
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2025-01-16
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In 1941, the RCMP recruited Frank Hadesbeck, a Spanish Civil War veteran, as a paid informant to infiltrate the Communist Party. For decades, he informed not only upon communists, but also upon hundreds of other people who held progressive views. Hadesbeck’s “Watch...
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Between the Lines
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2024-06-18
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In a series of illuminating essays, the renowned Harry Glasbeek unpacks how law has been used to ensure that workers' aspirations are kept in check. Law at Work uncovers how the legal system, through its structures and mechanisms, legitimizes and reinforces the...
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Between the Lines
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2024-04-02
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The information age has opened a new front of adversarial statecraft.The past decades have seen the rise and refinement of conflict enacted in the world of information, with tactics including seeding disinformation, the theft of sensitive data, confusing or obscuring...
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University of Calgary Press
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2024-01-30
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Beryl Potter was a reserved working-class mother of three living a decent life, or so it seemed, when a harmless slip and fall marked the unravelling of everything that she had known about herself and the world around her. Over the course of six years, she endured...
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Between the Lines
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2023-11-07
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"The Classic Collection of Marcus Garvey " is a remarkable compilation of the essential writings and speeches of Marcus Garvey, a visionary leader, and influential figure in the Pan-African and civil rights movements of the early 20th century. This anthology features...
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Andrii Ponomarenko
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2023-09-08
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Canadian laws are just, the police uphold the rule of law and treat everyone equally, and without the police, communities would descend into chaos and disorder. These entrenched myths, rooted in settler-colonial logic, work to obscure a hard truth: the police do not...
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Between the Lines
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2022-04-04
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How will governments and courts manoeuvre within the boundaries of protected civil liberties in this new era of hacktivism? This monograph discusses moral and legal issues of ethical hacking and reviews analytics and trends.How will governments and courts protect civil...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2019-04-09
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A Book that Transformed America
Civil Disobedience was Thoreau's first published book and continues to transform American discourse. It is unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of Christian institutions, and its many-layered storytelling.
The ideas...
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Pandora's Box Classics
Parution :
2018-09-24
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From its sudden emergence as a military force to be reckoned with in Syria and Iraq in June 2014 through its YouTube executions of hostages to its atrocious attacks in Paris in November 2015, the movement variously known as ISIS, Islamic State, and Daesh has captured...
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Between the Lines
Parution :
2018-02-27
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One of the most influential writers and reformers of his age, Thomas Paine successfully publicized the issues of his time in pamphlets that clearly and persuasively argued for political independence and social reform. Rights of Man, his greatest and most widely read...
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Green World Classics
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2017-11-18
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Drawing on interviews with 51 anti-authoritarian organizers to investigates what it means to struggle for “the commons” within a settler colonial context, Unsettling the Commons (ARP Books) interrogates a very important debate that took place within Occupy camps and is...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2017-11-15
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Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing
Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize
Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult
Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work
Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston...
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House of Anansi Press
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2017-09-30
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The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political,...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2015-09-25
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Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) involves lawsuits brought by individuals, corporations, groups, or politicians to curtail political activism and expression. An increasingly large part of the political landscape in Canada, they are often...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2014-02-18
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Contemporary states are generally presumed to be founded on the elements of nation, people, territory, and sovereignty. In the Horn of Africa however, the attempts to find a neat congruence among these elements created more problems than they solved. Leenco Lata...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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