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Technologies of the New Real

With astonishing speed and little public debate, we now live in a reality where interactions with drones, robotic bodies, and surveillance are common. Synthetic biology is merging with artificial intelligence ...

Whipped

Whipped examines the hidden ways that political parties exert control over elected members of Canadian legislatures. Drawing on extensive interviews with politicians and staffers across the country, award-winning ...

Partisan Odysseys

By (author) Nelson Wiseman
Categories: History of the Americas

In Partisan Odysseys, Nelson Wiseman sets out to survey the history of Canada’s political parties. Uncovering distinctive motifs and events in Canadian party politics from pre-Confederation to the present, ...

Look Who's Watching, Revised Edition

Look Who’s Watching confirms in vivid detail that the trust placed by users in the Internet is increasingly misplaced. Based on illustrative anecdotal evidence and analysis of new survey data, Look ...

The Canadian Party System

By (author) Richard Johnston
Categories: Politics and government

The Canadian party system is a deviant case among Anglo-American democracies. In this political science tour de force, Richard Johnston makes sense of it. With a keen eye for history and deft use of analytic ...

The Blueprint

In this collection, Lewis and Everitt bring together a group of up-and-coming political scientists, as well as senior scholars to explore the recent history of the Conservative Party of Canada, covering ...

Radical Transformation

By (author) Kevin MacKay
Categories: Political activism

Drawing on a vast knowledge of history, human evolution, philosophy, and modern complexity theory, MacKay tells a story that recognizes the marvels of human civilization while revealing its dark tendency ...

Big Tent Politics

The Liberal Party of Canada is one of the most successful parties in the democratic world. It dominated Canadian politics for a century, practising an inclusive style of “big tent” politics that allowed ...

Nothing to Lose but Our Fear

While the scale of recent uprisings may be unprecedented, the refusal of fear is not unique to our time.

As the Egyptian revolution gained momentum, a common refrain echoed across Tahrir Square: “The ...

A Line in the Tar Sands

Tar sands “development” comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents—fighting a powerful international industry—are likened to terrorists; government environmental ...