Political Science
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Making a Mark
Becoming a Public Purpose Community Developer by Mark Tigan
Like a great municipal development project, Making a Mark is a book that delivers on multiple fronts—part memoir full of interesting stories and people, part field guide to public-oriented community development, and all compelling read. Author...
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Reflections
Wisdom for the Young and Anyone Else Curious by Trevor R Shaw
Suddenly, here I am with most of my life in the rear-view mirror and not much road left ahead. I am wondering–ok, “What’s it all about, Alfie?” This is an attempt to answer that question and to leave something behind that might be of some use. At...
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From Failure to Failure
The Canadian Military’s Attempts to Manage Its Sexual Misconduct Crises, 2000–2022 by Allan English
What should we do when a critical institution says all the right things yet repeatedly fails to live up to its word? In their latest sexual misconduct crisis, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has clearly "failed as an institution to properly...
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The McNair-Flemming Years, Volume 2
A Public Record of Uncertain Times, New Brunswick 1930-1960 by James G. Long
The McNair-Flemming Years Volume 2, relates a shift of influence by the print media. Newspaper reporting of peacetime events had always expressed a known degree of partisan views, but these suddenly became toxic. The result was a transition of...
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Scarlet to Green
A History of Intelligence in the Canadian Army 1903-1963 by Major S.R. Elliot
Scarlet to Green details the ‘boom and bust’ cycles of the Canadian Army’s intelligence organization from its inception in 1903 to 1963, the eve of the Integration of the Canadian Armed Forces. The book analyzes the role of intelligence in...
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Save Our Troubled World
The Unprecedented Innovative Feasible World Salvation Project by James Chen
Today, when natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes seem to be regular occurrences, it can be hard to hold out hope for a better tomorrow. But in Save Our Troubled World, author James Chen dares to dream of a new era where the...
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Dying For Gold
The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders by Lee Selleck and Francis Thompson
On September 18, 1992 a violent explosion deep in Yellowknife's Giant mine took the lives of nine miners. The men had defied the picket lines that were the scene of violent clashes between the mineworkers and company security forces during a long...
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Rebooting Canada
A Fresh Start by Richard W. Makinen
People often complain about current Canadian governmental structures. They believe we are stuck with this system, fearing that change is impossible. But we can enhance the quality of life for all members of our Canadian society. In Rebooting...
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The McNair-Flemming Years, Volume 1
A Public Record of Uncertain Times, New Brunswick 1930-1960 by James G. Long
The McNair-Flemming Years is a two-volume history of New Brunswick politics and events, from the Depression to the beginning of the 1960s. Based largely on contemporaneous journalistic input from five daily New Brunswick newspapers, it is exactly...
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Eleven
by Paul Hanley
Eleven billion people will crowd this marvelous planet by century’s end. If the global economy were to grow five-fold during this period as predicted, humanity’s ecological footprint would exceed Earth’s biocapacity by 400%. We need to chart a...
