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: Leadership
White Identity Politics – Ashley Jardina
Published: February 20th 2019 Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108651984 (ISBN13: 9781108651981) The Ontario NDPs held their first Black Caucus meeting on a summer evening mid-August 2019. The meeting was well attended allowing for a variety of voices, that aren’t usually heard, an opportunity to say what’s on their mind and offer ideas to the…
Surveillance Capitalism – Shoshana Zuboff (3/3)
The Right to Sanctuary Sanc-tu-ar-y: A place of refuge or safety. 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…
Surveillance Capitalism – Shoshana Zuboff (2/3)
Hardcover, 691 pages * Published: January 15th 2019 by Public Affairs (first published May 22nd 2018) ISBN: 1610395697 (ISBN13: 9781610395694) * Edition Language: English 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…
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…
Moving towards a Bipolar World
An Essay Have you visited Huawei’s website? I have. While I was thumbing through its digital pages, I realized how much our world seems to be shrinking. Smart cities, the internet, the internet of things, neural networks around the globe in which we call earth is turning into one big ball of yarn threaded by…
Saving Medicare
Medicare in Canada is a government-funded universal health insurance program established by legislation passed in 1957, 1966 and 1984. The Canada Health Act does not cover prescription drugs, home care or long-term care or dental care, which means most Canadians rely on private insurance from their employers or the government to pay for those costs….
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…
