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  • The Bias That Divides Us

    The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking

    A provocative, timely analysis that asks: What does science tells us about the bias that poisons our politics?We don’t live in a ‘post-truth’ society—but a ‘myside’ society in which no one can agree on accepted truth and facts.In The Bias That Divides Us, psychologist Keith Stanovich argues provocatively that we don’t live in a post-truth society, as has been claimed, but rather a myside society. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Wahhabi Code

    How the Saudis Spread Extremism Globally

    by Terence Ward ...
    An Eye-Opening, Concise Look at the Source of the Current Wave of Terrorism, How it Spread, and Why the West Did NothingLifting the mask of international terrorism, Terence Ward reveals a sinister truth. Far from being “the West’s ally in the War on Terror,” Saudi Arabia is in reality the largest exporter of Wahhabism—the severe, ultra-conservative sect of Islam that is both Saudi Arabia’s ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • Nine Black Robes

    Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    New York Times Editor's Choice"Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business in the Trump years with a history of its private dramas and conflicts... The deeper ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • The Return of Great Powers

    Russia, China, and the Next World War

    by Jim Sciutto ...
    **Instant New York Times BestsellerThe essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe.**The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called “The End of History.” Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Reading the Constitution

    Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism

    A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.The relatively new judicial philosophy of textualism dominates the Supreme Court. Textualists claim that the right way to interpret the Constitution and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Love Your Enemies

    How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERTo get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against American, creating a “culture of contempt”—the habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect, but as worthless and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • Memoirs

    Politics was always Brian Mulroney’s real love. As an undergraduate in Nova Scotia he amazed his friends by getting Prime Minister Diefenbaker on the phone, and he rose fast in the Tory ranks in Quebec as a young Montreal lawyer. He tried for the leadership of the party in 1976, losing to Joe Clark, then returned to win a rematch in 1983. The next year, he ran the most successful election campaign ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Lemon Tree

    An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

    by Sandy Tolan ...
    A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST“Extraordinary … A sweeping history of the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum … Highly readable and evocative.” – The Washington PostThe tale of a simple act of faith between two young people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East – with an updated afterword by the author.In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Big Cheat

    How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family

    Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by Donald Trump and his family.While the world watched Donald Trump’s presidency in horror or delight, few noticed that his lifelong grifting quietly continued. Less than forty minutes after taking the oath of office, Trump began turning the White House into a money machine ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Fire Weather

    The Making of a Beast

    by John Vaillant ...
    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’ TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGA stunning account of the colossal wildfire at Fort McMurray, and a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • I'll Take Your Questions Now

    What I Saw at the Trump White House

    The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yetStephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lady Melania Trump’s communications director and eventually chief of staff. Few members of the Trump ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • This Changes Everything

    Capitalism vs. the Climate

    by Naomi Klein ...
    WINNER 2014 – Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-FictionForget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Petroleum Papers

    Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change

    Series series Washington Post Best Book of the Year
    Explosive discoveries: Dembicki’s reporting proves that the U.S. oil companies responsible for the tar sands in Alberta have known since 1959 that their industry would cause a climate crisis. And they did nothing. And they covered it up.For readers of Dark Money**:** Similar to Jane Mayer, who showed in Dark Money how the wealthy far-right is shaping the fate of America today, Dembicki shows how ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Betrayal

    The Final Act of the Trump Show

    by Jonathan Karl ...
    ***THE INSTANT New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and IndieBound BESTSELLER*****An NPR Book of the DayPicking up where the New York Times bestselling Front Row at the Trump Show left off, this is the explosive look at the aftermath of the election—and the events that followed Donald Trump’s leaving the White House all the way to January 6—from ABC News' chief Washington correspondent. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Carbon Capture

    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooked climate change mitigation pathway.The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2), and these CO2 emissions are a major driver of climate change. Carbon capture offers a path to climate change mitigation that has received relatively little attention. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Exhausted of the Earth

    Politics in a Burning World

    Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it's about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done?To answer this question, Ajay Singh Chaudhary brings together both the science and the politics of climate change. He shows how a new politics particular to the climate catastrophe demands a bitter struggle between those attached ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Unspeakable

    by Chris Hedges ...
    Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot.The War on Terror is a profitable crusade against convenient enemies. Muslim rage” is an understandable response to US state terror. Rising oligarchy in America has made democracy a sham and turned the electoral process into an increasingly absurd circus. Police violence against minorities is part of a systematic effort to crush ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Former Guy

    Doonesbury in the Time of Trumpism

    by G. B. Trudeau ...
    Series series Doonesbury
    Though the title doesn't mention him by name, Former Guy looms large in American politics and culture even after leaving the Executive Office of the President. This latest Doonesbury collection picks up in the heat of the 2020 presidential campaign, chronicles the infamy of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and continues into the next administration, the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, and the many manifestations ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedom

    A Disease Without Cure

    We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom.The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it we encounter contradictions. In this new philosophical exploration, Slavoj Žižek argues that the experience of true, radical freedom is transient and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction

    by Helen Graham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction offers a powerfully-written explanation of the war's complex origins and course, and explores its impact on a personal and international scale. It also provides an ethical reflection on the war in the context of Europe's tumultuous twentieth century, highlighting why it has inspired some of the greatest writers of our time, and how it continues to resonate today in ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle

    Why Individual Climate Action Matters More than Ever

    by Lloyd Alter ...
    Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiencyLiving the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff.The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon emissions to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees and avert ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Absolute Recoil

    Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    A contemporary philosophical masterwork from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals ” (New York Review of Books)Philosophical materialism in all its forms – from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism – has failed to meet the key theoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s argument in this pathbreaking and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Revolution at the Gates

    Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917

    by V.I. Lenin ...
    Series series The Essential Zizek
    The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn’t he stand for the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire twentieth-century?Lenin, however, deserves wider consideration than this, and his writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. They reveal his ability to grasp the significance of an extraordinary ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Understanding Trump

    by Newt Gingrich ...
    Learn how Trump is making America great again -- and why government and media elites attack his vision -- in this "inspiring and informative" book from one of his key political advisors (Sean Hannity).Donald Trump is unlike any president we've ever had. The only person ever elected to be commander in chief who has not first held public office or served as a general in the military, Trump's ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD $2.99 CAD