Canada and Other Matters of Opinion

Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Anchor Canada | Current Affairs
978-0-385-66727-2 (0-385-66727-2)

September 7, 2010 | $22.00



A cornucopia of comment from Canada’s most opinionated man — a man seen, read, and listened to by millions of Canadians each week.

Canada’s most distinctive commentator presents his fearless and thought-provoking views on a head-spinning range of subjects, from Dr. Johnson’s greatness to Bono’s gratingness, from doubts about Obama to utter...

Permanently Blue

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Three Rivers Press | Current Affairs
978-0-307-71799-3 (0-307-71799-2)

September 7, 2010 | $16.00



In 2008 Democrats accomplished the political trifecta that had eluded them for more than 40 years:  get a progressive president elected and win landslide victories in the House and Senate at the same time.  The question is, was that the high point for the party? Or was it just the beginning...

Third World America

Hardcover | 288 pages | Crown | Current Affairs - American; Business & Economics; Political Science - Economic Conditions
978-0-307-71982-9 (0-307-71982-0)

September 7, 2010 | $26.99



It’s not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel with an eight-track player.  That the United States of America is in danger of becoming a third world nation.
 
The...

7 Deadly Scenarios

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Bantam | Current Affairs - International; Current Affairs - Military; Political Science - International Security
978-0-553-38472-7 (0-553-38472-4)

August 31, 2010 | $18.00



A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border. Major American cities are leveled by black-market nukes. China’s growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown. Pakistan’s collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons. What if the worst that could happen actually happens? How will we respond? Are we...

The Age of Persuasion

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Business & Economics - Advertising & Promotion; Business & Economics - Industries - Media & Communications Industries; Current Affairs - Mass Media
978-0-307-39732-4 (0-307-39732-7)

August 31, 2010 | $22.00



The ad men behind CBC Radio’s The Age of Persuasion combine lively social history and years of industry experience to show how the art of persuasion shapes our culture.

Witty, erudite and irrepressibly irreverent, The Age of Persuasion provides a hugely entertaining — and eye-opening — insider’s look at the ever-expanding world...

Murder Without Borders

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage Canada | Current Affairs - International; True Crime
978-0-679-31471-4 (0-679-31471-7)

August 31, 2010 | $22.00



“I am not interested in why man commits evil; I want to know why he does good.”
— Vaclav Havel

What makes a poor, small-town journalist stay on a story even though threatened with certain death, and offered handsome rewards for looking the other way?

Over four years, Terry Gould has travelled...

Somebody Else's Century

Hardcover | 256 pages | Pantheon | Current Affairs - International; History - Asia
978-0-375-42550-9 (0-375-42550-0)

August 31, 2010 | $30.00



From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West.
 
In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the East’s endeavor to adopt Western technology and all that we consider modern. He underscores a crucial distinction between modernization (the simple...

Creeping Failure

Hardcover | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Current Affairs - Mass Media; Computers - Internet - Security
978-0-7710-4148-8 (0-7710-4148-9)

August 24, 2010 | $29.99



The Internet is often called a superhighway, but it may be more analogous to a city: an immense tangle of streets, highways, and interchanges, lined with homes and businesses, playgrounds and theatres. We may not physically live in this city, but most of us spend a lot of time there, and...

Empire of Illusion

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Current Affairs; Current Affairs - American
978-0-307-39847-5 (0-307-39847-1)

August 24, 2010 | $19.95



Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion.

Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other...

The Tiger

Hardcover | 352 pages | Knopf Canada | Current Affairs; Nature - Animals
978-0-307-39714-0 (0-307-39714-9)

August 24, 2010 | $34.95



It's December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. To their horrified...

Crude World

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage | Current Affairs
978-1-4000-7545-4 (1-4000-7545-9)

August 10, 2010 | $17.95

The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has brought new attention to the huge costs of our oil dependence. In this stunning and revealing book, Peter Maass examines the social, political, and environmental impact of petroleum on the countries that produce it.

Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its...

Hostage Nation

Hardcover | 336 pages | Knopf | Current Affairs - International
978-0-307-27115-0 (0-307-27115-3)

August 10, 2010 | $31.00



A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle.

On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were rescued after being held for more than five years by the...

More Davids Than Goliaths

Hardcover | 256 pages | Crown | Political Science; Current Affairs - Political; Biography & Autobiography - Political
978-0-307-40838-9 (0-307-40838-8)

August 10, 2010 | $29.99



Harold Ford Jr. has long distinguished himself as a charismatic, results-oriented politician with fresh ideas. His career began at age 26 after he won his father’s Congressional seat, serving his Tennessee district for ten years. He stepped into the national spotlight with his electric keynote at the 2000 Democratic National Convention...

In the President's Secret Service

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Three Rivers Press | Current Affairs; Political Science - Political Freedom & Security - Intelligence
978-0-307-46136-0 (0-307-46136-X)

August 3, 2010 | $17.00



Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.

•    George W. Bush’s daughters would...

Morning Miracle

Hardcover | 288 pages | Doubleday | Current Affairs - Mass Media
978-0-385-52356-1 (0-385-52356-4)

July 20, 2010 | $32.00



An in-depth look at the Washington Post from a Pulitzer Prize–nominated Post veteran. Morning Miracle definitively answers the question “Do newspapers still matter?” with a resounding yes.

What The Kingdom and the Power did for the New York Times, Morning Miracle will do for the Washington Post. A reporter for more than...