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by Naomi Klein One of the greatest social commentaries of our time, No Logo tackles the issues surrounding the branded culture thrust upon Western society. Special attention is given to the misdeeds of a group of multi-national enterprises, including Nike, McDonald's, and Shell, as well as the special economic zones of Southern Asia. Other noteworthy issues include the McJob, and culture jamming. This book is one of the cornerstones in analyzing the growing anti-globalization movement. |
by Roméo Dallaire Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire of the Canadian Armed Forces was chosen to lead UNAMIR in 1993, a United Nations operation designed to ease tensions between the Hutu government in Rwanda and Tutsi rebel forces. Despite discovering plans for the genocide in January 1994, United Nations bureaucracy and international indifference to Africa allowed the genocide to occur without any significant opposition, leaving an estimated 800,000 Rwandese civilians to die. This memoir accounts the difficulties and the frustrating situation Dallaire (and the entire UNAMIR force) had to deal with day after day. |
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by Noam Chomsky The American state is a terrorist state. To anyone remotely interested in politics, American foreign policy, economic theory, or even someone that just watches the six o'clock news, this is not a surprising or jarring statement. In Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky, the father of modern linguistics and America's most well-known anarcho-syndicalist, drives home this notion with critical examples of unlawful use of force (whether military or economic) by the United States in Cuba, Turkey, Nicaragua, Iraq, and others. A must read for today's left-wing. |
by David Suzuki + Holly Dressel While much of today's non-fiction in the political and environmental genres is dripping with examples of how terrible mankind is, this book by Suzuki and Dressel is an uplifting change of pace. Citing various grassroots groups and political movements, including the Collins Pine sustainable logging company in Northern California, and a wide variety of organic farming laws in Germany, Suzuki and Dressel not only offer a glimmer of hope to environmentalists everywhere, but offer a comprehensive list of organisations, publications, and people that can and will help us strive to become a more sustainable society. |
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by Roy Woodbridge With the big "war" headline and soldiers' legs marching on the cover, the book may at first seem slightly misleading, but Woodbridge makes a case for a war he, and environmentalists around the globe, believes is a far more important battle; the establishment of sustainable development across the globe. Through the couse of the book, Woodbridge describes methods for governments, societies, and individuals to help better provision their ecological resources, and to work towards more useful governance in terms of this goal. Although a heavy read, The Next World War is a necessary call to arms for the environmentalist community. |
by Graham Fraser Canadians take for granted the status of being an officially bilingual nation. At the same time, many unilingual Anglophones have a skewed viewpoint of what bilingualism actually means for Canada. Fraser delivers in a straightforward fashion what Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau really wanted when they announced that they wanted Canada to be officially bilingual, and what the policy's effects have been on the English- and French-speaking communities from coast to coast. If you think the language issue is a dead issue in Canada, you need to read this book. |