When winners write history, they sometimes "forget" to include their own embarrassing misjudgments. Fortunately, this take-no-prisoners edition of history isn't going to let the winners (or the losers) forget the mistakes of the past. Be prepared to laugh out loud—and gasp in horror—at the most painfully idiotic strategies, alliances, and decisions the world has ever known. These stupid wars have been launched by democracies as well as monarchies and dictatorships, in recent decades just a...

The British archives of the Napoleonic wars are unique, brimming with personal letters to family and friends or journals that record their innermost thoughts. The human aspect of war comes to the fore, the humor and exhilaration; the fears and miseries; the starvation and exhaustion; the horror and the joy.It is usually accepted that very few common soldiers of this period could read or write and that the few letters and journals that do exist emanate from more senior officers, who were re...

Preeminence is a powerful book; scintillating, brilliant, stimulating, exciting and easy to read, understand and appreciate. This book will change, transform and reverberate the world. This book will shake our mindsets, existence, attitudes and mannerisms into preeminence. This book will wake up the sleeping giants in our innermost, beliefs, endeavors and consciousness. This book will resuscitate our beliefs, prospective and perspectives to a vibrant, energetic, high-spirited and electrify...

The financial system is currently confronted with tremendous challenges from the global economy, trade, politics, demographics, and most recently from enormous technological advancements. These developments have the capacity to change the existing financial system fundamentally. This book addresses how technological developments and digitalization will impact the future of financial systems.This book is based on the results of a series of ten roundtables with high-level experts on ...

Nothing Is Ever Too Late There is nothing too late beyond reparations. There is nothing too late beyond changes. There is nothing too late beyond progressions. There is nothing too late beyond advancement. There is nothing ever too late beyond happiness. Don’t give up on your today. Because of the failures of yesterday. Don’t give up on your tomorrow. Because of the challenges of today. Don’t give up on your today. Because of the trials of yesterday. Don’t give up on your future. Because o...

Co-authored by a novelist and a scholar, Speaking of Writing follows four college students from diverse backgrounds as they face the challenges of reading, writing, and critical thinking in first-year composition classes and across the disciplines. Each chapter engages students in relatable, often humorous scenarios that focus on key challenges.Through its story-based approach, this brief rhetoric enacts process-based pedagogy, showing student writers grappling with fundam...

“Our beautiful mind” is like the ‘Bible’ that everyone wants to lay his hands on. Everything that’s needed for our positive progressions and empowerment in life is right here on these pages for our consumptions and reassurances. We can open any page and find impactful and comforting messages relevant to our needs, wants and desires, and relatable to our spiritual upliftment, and emotional delights.

Can a writing textbook inform and entertain? Can a very brief rhetoric also function as a stand-alone guide to college writing? Yes and yes. Speaking of Writing is a concise yet comprehensive rhetoric with readings. Informed by scholarship in Writing Studies, this book follows four college students from diverse backgrounds as they face the challenges of reading, writing, and critical thinking in first-year writing and across the disciplines. Each chapter engages students in relata...

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crunch, a pending era of budgetary austerity looms over Canada. Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises provides a roadmap through the difficult fiscal decisions that have characterized contemporary federal politics across four decades.The authors provide an accessible and comprehensive overview of the constraints that have affected budgetary outcomes in the recent past and that will affect the near future, with analysis spanni...

The Canada Pension Plan disability benefit is a monthly payment available to disabled citizens who have contributed to the CPP and are unable to work regularly at any job. Covering the program’s origins, early implementation, liberalization of benefits, and more recent restraint and reorientation of this program, Struggling for Social Citizenship is the first detailed examination of the single largest public contributory disability plan in the country.Focusing on broad pol...

A critical examination of Canadian regulatory governance and politics over the past fifty years, Rules and Unruliness builds on the theory and practice of rule-making to show why government "unruliness" - the inability to form rules and implement structures for compliance - is endemic and increasing.Analyzing regulatory politics and governance in Canada from the beginning of Pierre Trudeau's era to Stephen Harper's government, the authors present a compelling argument that...

Policy analysis in Canada brings together original contributions from many of the field’s leading scholars. Contributors chronicle the evolution of policy analysis in Canada over the past 50 years and reflect on its application in both governmental and non-governmental settings.As part of the International Library of Policy Analysis series, the book enables cross-national comparison of public policy analysis concepts and practice within national and sub-national governments, media,...