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Celebrated historian Barry Gough brings a defining era of Pacific Northwest history into focus in this biography of Richard Blanshard, the first governor of Vancouver Island—illuminating with intriguing detail the genesis and early days of Canada's westernmost province. Early one wintry day in March 1850, after seven weary weeks out of sight of land, a well-dressed Londoner, a bachelor aged thirty-two, stood at the ship's rail taking in the immensity of the unfolding scene.

A timely and insightful exploration of the implementation and impact of British Columbia's carbon tax, delving into the political and economic considerations behind the tax, and addressing misconceptions. Carbon taxation has become a political, social and economic hot potato in Canada (and beyond) and a major election issue. What is less known is that British Columbia established its own revenue-neutral carbon taxation policy in 2008. The compelling story of how and why has not yet been told.

At his first cabinet meeting Premier Dave Barrett takes off his shoes, leaps onto the leather-inlaid cabinet table and skids the length of the room. "Are we here for a good time or a long time?" he roars. His answer: a good time, a time of change, action, doing what was needed and right, not what was easy and conventional. He set the tone for a government that changed the face of the province. During the next three years, he and his team passed more legislation in a shorter time than any government before or since.

The office of lieutenant governor has been a constant in British Columbia from the province's colonial beginnings to the modern era. Originally tasked with selecting the province's premier, giving royal assent to provincial legislation, and invested with the power to dismiss governments, the role of the Crown's representative has continually evolved to meet the needs of society. Today the office's constitutional powers largely focus on community functions, but the role of lieutenant governor is more than ceremonial.

The Canadian postwar economic boom did not include one western coal-mining region. When the Canadian Pacific Railway switched to diesel power, over 2,000 coal-production jobs were lost in the Crowsnest Pass and Elk Valley. The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out tells the story of its fight for survival. Underground mine closures began in 1950, prompting attempts by unions, leftist parties, municipal governments, and business groups to save the local economy. Efforts to reindustrialize in the mid-1960s brought unregulated growth, unsafe working conditions, and pollution.

Elizabeth May was born to be an activist. As a young girl, Elizabeth was worried about the health of the planet and believed it was her job to protect it. While other children were playing, she was raising money for important causes, researching the latest science and organizing protests.

Instant #1 bestseller. A gripping first-hand account of the January 6th, 2021, insurrection from inside the halls of Congress—from origins to aftermath—as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution—by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it.

#1 New York Times Bestseller. The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents. "An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story...Gripping." – The Washington Post. "One of the most consequential and most prominent [careers] in American medicine in the past fifty years." – Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker. Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous – and most revered – doctor in the world today.

Time's #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year – A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Best Book of the Year – Winner of the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award – Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize and the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing – Longlisted for the Women's Prize – A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times – The New Yorker – The Economist – Chicago Public Library – CrimeReads – The Mary Sue.

L'implosion de l'URSS a remis l'histoire en mouvement. Elle avait plongé la Russie dans une crise violente. Elle avait surtout créé un vide planétaire qui a aspiré l'Amérique, pourtant elle-même en crise dès 1980. Un mouvement paradoxal s'est alors déclenché : l'expansion conquérante d'un Occident qui dépérissait en son cœur. La disparition du protestantisme a mené l'Amérique, par étapes, du néo-libéralisme au nihilisme ; et la Grande-Bretagne, de la financiarisation à la perte du sens de l'humour.