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  • Fremont Older and the 1916 San Francisco Bombing

    A Tireless Crusade for Justice

    by John C. Ralston ...
    On Saturday, July 22, 1916, as "Preparedness Day" parade units assembled south of San Francisco's Market Street, a terrorist bomb exploded, killing ten people and wounding forty. San Francisco was outraged. Instead of searching for the perpetrators, however, the district attorney used the bombing as an excuse to arrest, try and convict two obscure labor figures without evidence. Author John C. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Comeback

    How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power And Influence

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Once again, John Ralston Saul presents the story of Canada’s past so that we may better understand its present – and imagine a better future.Historic moments are always uncomfortable, Saul writes in this impassioned argument, calling on all of us to embrace and support the comeback of Aboriginal peoples. This, he says, is the great issue of our time – the most important missing piece in the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Fair Country

    Telling Truths About Canada

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed. An obstacle to our progress, Saul argues, is that Canada has an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Canada has no better interpreter than prolific writer and thinker John Ralston Saul. Here he argues that Canada did not begin in 1867; indeed, its foundation was laid by two visionary men, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin. The two leaders of Lower and Upper Canada, respectively, worked together after the 1841 Union to lead a reformist movement for responsible government run by elected ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Unconscious Civilization

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    From the author of Voltaire's Bastards comes a philosophical examination of how corporatism has become so deeply ingrained into our society, how it's destroying democracy, and how we can fight against it.In this intellectual tour de force John Ralston Saul argues that our society is only superficially based on the individual and democracy, and the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dark Diversions

    A Traveler's Tale

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    In Dark Diversions, acclaimed author John Ralston Saul stages a black comedy of international proportions that takes the reader from New York to Paris to Morocco to Haiti. When he's not encountering dictators in Third World hot spots, Saul's unnamed journalist narrator moves in privileged circles on both sides of the Atlantic, insinuating himself into the lives of well-to-do aristocrats. Through ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Voltaire's Bastards

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    With a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise.With a new introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) astutely ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • How to Understand Quantum Mechanics

    by John P Ralston ...
    Series series IOP Concise Physics
    How to Understand Quantum Mechanics presents an accessible introduction to understanding quantum mechanics in a natural and intuitive way, which was advocated by Erwin Schrödinger and Albert Einstein. A theoretical physicist reveals dozens of easy tricks that avoid long calculations, makes complicated things simple, and bypasses the worthless anguish of famous scientists who died in angst. The ... Read more

    $46.09 USD

  • The Doubter's Companion

    A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    A long and distinguished tradition of writers have used the form of a satirical dictionary to undermine the received ideas of their day. Voltaire wrote a sharply humorous "Philosophical Dictionary," while Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English language was derisive and opinionated. These early dictionaries and encyclopedias were really weapons in a struggle for the soul of civilization between ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • On Equilibrium

    Six Qualities of the New Humanism

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    This international bestseller and “intellectual tour de force” (The Montreal Gazette) is both an attack on our weakness for ideologies and a manual for humanist action. ... Read more

    $15.95 USD

  • Extraordinary Canadians Lester B Pearson

    by Andrew Cohen ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    In his 2 terms as prime minister, from 1963–1968, Lester B. Pearson oversaw the revamping of Canada through the introduction of Medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, the Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the Auto Pact, and the new Maple Leaf flag. Pearson came to power after an impressive career as a diplomat, where he played a vital role in the creation of NATO and the United Nations, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Man in Blue Pyjamas (The)

    A Prison Memoir

    by Jalal Barzanji ...
    Translated by Sabah A. Salih ...
    Series series Wayfarer
    The style of my book must be in small pieces, as my life has been in pieces. (Jalal Barzanji) From 1986 to 1988 poet and journalist Jalal Barzanji endured imprisonment and torture under Saddam Hussein’s regime because of his literary and journalistic achievements—writing that openly explores themes of peace, democracy, and freedom. It was not until 1998, when he and his family took refuge in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD