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  • Universal

    Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World

    by Alex Neve ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    The 2025 Massey Lectures delivered by human rights activist and former secretary general of Amnesty International Canada Alex Neve.Universality is the core promise of the human rights order born out of the devastation of World War II and the Holocaust: these rights extend to everyone, everywhere, at all times, without exception. But the cruel reality is that the word universal also screams of our ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hand in Hand? Canada at the Human Rights and Peacebuilding Nexus

    Edited by Kirsten Van Houten, Alex Neve ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book includes contributions from both Canadian academics and civil society leaders. Drawing from critical international relations theory, it examines the policy and practice of the Canadian state and civil society on indigenous approaches to the emerging human rights and peacebuilding nexus. Authors address themes including foreign policy, inclusion, international justice and corporate ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Breaching the Peace

    The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro

    by Sarah Cox ...
    Breaching the Peace tells the story of the ordinary citizens who are standing up to the most expensive megaproject in BC history and the government-sanctioned bullying that has propelled it forward. Starting in 2013, journalist Sarah Cox travelled to the Peace River Valley to talk to locals about the Site C dam and BC Hydro’s claim that the clean energy project was urgently needed. She found ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Someone Your Own Age

    by Alex Neve ...
    Narrated by Hannah Melbourn ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 7 min

    Sometimes love doesn't follow the rulesOn the eve of her forty-second birthday, Esme's husband announces he's leaving her for a twenty-something sound bath practitioner. Desperate to avoid becoming her mother (who left her marriage in tatters and abandoned Esme as a child), she throws herself into her work, but when she meets new office temp Callum, Esme finds herself in the middle of what appears ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Humanitarian Intervention

    by Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East Timor, and Libya to Côte d�Ivoire, soldiers have rescued civilians in some of the world's most notorious war zones. But what about Syria? Why have we observed the Syrian slaughter and done nothing? Is humanitarian intervention in crisis? Is the so-called ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • A World in Disarray

    American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

    by Richard Haass ...
    **“A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all political persuasions—not to mention the president and his advisers—could benefit from reading.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAn examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United States unable to shape the world in its image, from the president of the Council on Foreign Relations**Things fall ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The End of American World Order

    by Amitav Acharya ...
    The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself declines or thrives under President Trump's leadership, the post-war liberal international order underpinned by US military, economic and ideological primacy and supported by global institutions serving its power and purpose, is coming to an end. But what will take its place? A Chinese world order? A re-constituted form of American ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • How We Lead

    Canada in a Century of Change

    by Joe Clark ...
    A passionate argument for Canada's reassertion of its place on the world stage, from a former prime minister and one of Canada's most respected political figures.In the world that is taking shape, the unique combination of Canada's success at home as a diverse society and its reputation internationally as a sympathetic and respected partner consititute national assets that are at least as valuable ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-first Century

    Principles, Methods, and Approaches

    by Jacob Bercovitch, Prof. Richard Dean Wells Jackson ...
    In the past, arbitration, direct bargaining, the use of intermediaries, and deference to international institutions were relatively successful tools for managing interstate conflict. In the face of terrorism, intrastate wars, and the multitude of other threats in the post–Cold War era, however, the conflict resolution tool kit must include preventive diplomacy, humanitarian intervention, regional ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Has the West Lost It?

    A Provocation

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline?In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, that it must stop seeking to intervene, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ethical Oil

    The Case for Canada's Oil Sands

    by Ezra Levant ...
    Canada's "no. 1 defender of freedom of speech" and the bestselling author of Shakedown makes the timely and provocative case that when it comes to oil, ethics matter just as much as the economy and the environment.**In 2009, Ezra Levant's bestselling book Shakedownrevealed the corruption of Canada's human rights commissions and was declared the "most important public affairs book of the year." In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Great Convergence

    Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    The twenty-first century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic. We are creating a new global civilization. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West is rising to Western living standards, and sharing Western aspirations. Yet Mahbubani, one of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook