Hardcover, 426 pages *Published: November 13th 2018 by Crown * Original Title: Becoming * Edition Language: English URL: https://BecomingMichelleObama.com/ I’ve had a copy of Michelle Obama’s book since a day or two after Christmas 2018. Someone made an out-of-the-blue purchase after watching me pour through its pages for a couple of hours at an…
Category: Civic Engagement
Surveillance Capitalism – Shoshana Zuboff (1/3)
Surveillance Capitalism – Definition: A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; A parasitic economic logic in which the production…
Identity Leadership – Graham Steadman
Hardcover: 272 pages * Published: May 7th 2019 * Publisher: Center Street * ISBN: 1546083375 (ISBN13: 9781546083375) Ahmed El Hady, Big Think: “In our neuro-centric world-view, a person is equated to his brain. The neuro-discourse has penetrated all aspects of our lives from law to politics to literature to medicine to physics. As part of…
Why the Jews? – Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin
Paperback, 272 pages Published: August 12th 2003 by Touchstone (first published June 1st 1983) ISBN: 0743246209 (ISBN13: 9780743246200) Edition Language: English I don’t know about you but I’m a little worried about the upcoming elections for a variety of reasons and I am sure many feel the same. The 2015 federal election fell on my birthday. This year…
Ladies Up Stairs! My Life in Politics – Monique Begin
Hardcover, 540 pages Published: December 21st 2018 Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press ISBN: 0773555226 (ISBN13: 9780773555228) In January 1973, Monique Bégin was among the newly elected MPs rushing into the House of Commons for the opening of Parliament, when she was stopped at the doors by a Security Commissioner. Bégin was entering Parliament as one of the first three…
Pillars of Democracy – Representation
To celebrate its 25th-anniversary CPAC launched a four-part documentary series calledthe Four Pillars of Democracy: Justice, Freedom, Equality, and Representation which highlights four democratic events that have shaped our social and political landscape. Imagine, if you will, these four pillars are actually four legs to a dinner table that holds a feast of the various…
