Political science

  • A map of future ruins : on borders and belonging

    Creator

    Markham, Lauren

    Abstract

    "This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we've been told - and told ourselves - in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we've come to understand as order." - Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams. When and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the West's idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel the exclusion and demonization of migrants today?

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • Plundering the north : a history of settler colonialism, corporate welfare, and food insecurity

    Creator

    Hay, Travis

    Burnett, Kristin

    Abstract

    The manufacturing of a chronic food crisis Food insecurity in the North is one of Canada's most shameful public health and human rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay examine the disturbing mechanics behind the origins of this crisis: state and corporate intervention in northern Indigenous foodways. Despite claims to the contrary by governments, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), and the contemporary North West Company (NWC), the exorbitant cost of food in the North is neither a naturally occurring phenomenon nor the result of free-market forces.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    University of Manitoba Press

    Not specified
  • Reclaiming Anishinaabe law : Kinamaadiwin Inaakonigewin and the treaty right to education

    Creator

    Baskatawang, Leo

    Abstract

    A manifesto for the future of Indigenous Education in Canada In Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law Leo Baskatawang traces the history of the neglected treaty relationship between the Crown and the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3, and the Canadian government's egregious failings to administer effective education policy for Indigenous youth-failures epitomized by, but not limited to, the horrors of the residential school system.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    University of Manitoba Press

    Not specified
  • The arc of a covenant : the United States, Israel, and the fate of the Jewish people

    Creator

    Mead, Walter Russell

    Abstract

    In this bold examination of the Israeli-American relationship, Walter Russell Mead demolishes the myths that both pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists have fostered over the years. He makes clear that Zionism has always been a divisive subject in the American Jewish community, and that American Christians have often been the most fervent supporters of a Jewish state, citing examples from the time of J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller to the present day.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Prince Frederick

    HighBridge Audio

    Not specified
  • The land of hope and fear : Israel's battle for its inner soul

    Creator

    Kershner, Isabel

    Abstract

    A rich, wide-ranging portrait of the divisions among Israelis today, at a critical juncture in their country's history, by a veteran New York Times correspondent who has spent decades working in Israel." A wondrous tale told through the agonizing and uplifting stories of Israel's many tribes -- Jewish and Arab, religious and secular, new immigrants and veterans, soldiers and settlers."--Martin Indyk, author of Master of the Game, and former U.S. ambassador to Israel.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • It's OK to be angry about capitalism

    Creator

    Sanders, Bernie

    Abstract

    A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look likeIt's OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country's failure to address the destructive nature of a system that is fueled by uncontrolled greed and rigidly committed to prioritizing corporate profits over the needs of ordinary Americans.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Not specified
  • My hijacking : a personal history of forgetting and remembering

    Creator

    Hodes, Martha

    Abstract

    Drawing on deep archival research, childhood memories, and conversations with relatives, friends, and fellow hostages, a noted historian, a passenger on an airliner hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1970, sets out to understand both what happened in the Jordan desert and her own fractured family and childhood pain.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Not specified
  • Time to think : the inside story of the collapse of the Tavistock's gender service for children

    Creator

    Barnes, Hannah

    Abstract

    Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service for children. The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), based at the Tavistock and Portman Trust in North London, was set up initially to provide - for the most part - talking therapies to young people who were questioning their gender identity. But in the last decade GIDS has referred more than a thousand children, some as young as nine years old, for medication to block their puberty.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Frankfurt am Main

    Swift Press

    Not specified
  • Indigenous territorial autonomy and self-governance in the diverse Americas

    Abstract

    Across the Americas, Indigenous and Afro-descendent peoples have demanded autonomy, self-determination, and self-governance. By exerting their collective rights, they have engaged with domestic and international standards on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, implemented full-fledged mechanisms for autonomous governance, and promoted political and constitutional reform aimed at expanding understandings of multicultural citizenship and the plurinational state.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    University of Calgary Press

    Not specified
  • The urban food revolution : changing the way we feed cities

    Creator

    Ladner, Peter

    Abstract

    Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by rising food prices. With only a handful of corporations responsible for the lion's share of the food on our supermarket shelves, we are incredibly vulnerable to supply chain disruption. The Urban Food Revolution provides a recipe for community food security based on leading innovations across North America.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Gabriola Island, B.C.

    New Society Publishers

    Not specified