Author: Joanne Stanbridge
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443142999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
This fun- and fact-filled guide to Canada's government gets an update just in time for the Federal Election! In this easy-to-read, information-packed book, a comical duo (a keener student and her offbeat sidekick) guide readers through Canada's electoral and governing process. Nine chapters take the reader through topics like Confederation, federalism, monarchy, elections and voting, minority and majority governments, a day in the House of Commons -- plus updated items on Senate Reform and new legislation like the Fair Election act. Jam-packed with interesting photos and zany sections (like the ones that tell kids how to stump an adult!), Who Runs This Country, Anyway? takes a unique approach to this curriculum subject. It's perfect for teachers and students, future politicians, and anyone studying for the citizenship test!
Who Runs This Country, Anyway?
Author: Joanne Stanbridge
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443142999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
This fun- and fact-filled guide to Canada's government gets an update just in time for the Federal Election! In this easy-to-read, information-packed book, a comical duo (a keener student and her offbeat sidekick) guide readers through Canada's electoral and governing process. Nine chapters take the reader through topics like Confederation, federalism, monarchy, elections and voting, minority and majority governments, a day in the House of Commons -- plus updated items on Senate Reform and new legislation like the Fair Election act. Jam-packed with interesting photos and zany sections (like the ones that tell kids how to stump an adult!), Who Runs This Country, Anyway? takes a unique approach to this curriculum subject. It's perfect for teachers and students, future politicians, and anyone studying for the citizenship test!
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443142999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
This fun- and fact-filled guide to Canada's government gets an update just in time for the Federal Election! In this easy-to-read, information-packed book, a comical duo (a keener student and her offbeat sidekick) guide readers through Canada's electoral and governing process. Nine chapters take the reader through topics like Confederation, federalism, monarchy, elections and voting, minority and majority governments, a day in the House of Commons -- plus updated items on Senate Reform and new legislation like the Fair Election act. Jam-packed with interesting photos and zany sections (like the ones that tell kids how to stump an adult!), Who Runs This Country, Anyway? takes a unique approach to this curriculum subject. It's perfect for teachers and students, future politicians, and anyone studying for the citizenship test!
Secrets of the Temple
Author: William Greider
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671675567
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Reveals how the Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker engineered changes in America's economy.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671675567
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Reveals how the Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker engineered changes in America's economy.
The Valley of the Moon
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
"The Valley of the Moon" is a Utopia novel by the American writer Jack London. It is a life story of a young labourer, defeated by “the iron heel” of the industrial city, who found piece and joy in the countryside, at the Californian rancho.
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
"The Valley of the Moon" is a Utopia novel by the American writer Jack London. It is a life story of a young labourer, defeated by “the iron heel” of the industrial city, who found piece and joy in the countryside, at the Californian rancho.
The Valley of the Moon
Author: Jack London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Public
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
Book Description
Who owns all the oranges?
Author: Oran Burke
Publisher: ORBB LTD
ISBN: 0957268947
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
“You don’t subdue people by taking everything away at once. You chip away at things, slowly sculpting the system you want or need, or you control the flow of information so nobody realises the scope of what’s happening. That way, everyone gets used to each measure before you introduce the next.” In 2030, a journalist tries to explain to his 17-year-old daughter how Britain has ended up being ruled by politicians reluctant to give up their self-anointed positions of power. The media is tightly controlled, 30,000 people are held in prison camps and private security forces carry out the brutal needs of the government. The majority of the population conform while struggling to get by in an economy which has never recovered from the financial meltdown of twenty years before. As the conversation recounts more than three decades of changes, it’s clear their own family is not immune from the cruelty The Central Cabinet and their allies believe is necessary to maintain control and keep democracy’s replacement, The Stability System, in place.
Publisher: ORBB LTD
ISBN: 0957268947
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
“You don’t subdue people by taking everything away at once. You chip away at things, slowly sculpting the system you want or need, or you control the flow of information so nobody realises the scope of what’s happening. That way, everyone gets used to each measure before you introduce the next.” In 2030, a journalist tries to explain to his 17-year-old daughter how Britain has ended up being ruled by politicians reluctant to give up their self-anointed positions of power. The media is tightly controlled, 30,000 people are held in prison camps and private security forces carry out the brutal needs of the government. The majority of the population conform while struggling to get by in an economy which has never recovered from the financial meltdown of twenty years before. As the conversation recounts more than three decades of changes, it’s clear their own family is not immune from the cruelty The Central Cabinet and their allies believe is necessary to maintain control and keep democracy’s replacement, The Stability System, in place.
The Public
Author: Louis Freeland Post
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
Presidential Power
Author: Anita Croy
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 153456571X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The ability to have free and open debates about the government is an essential part of a healthy democracy. Readers are encouraged to find their own voice in these debates as they're introduced to the varying viewpoints surrounding the issue of presidential power. The main text helps readers back up their point of view with facts, and sidebars highlight the views of experts on this controversial issue. Discussion questions help readers strengthen their point of view, and exciting visual elements, including full-color photographs and graphic organizers enhance this essential critical thinking exercise.
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 153456571X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The ability to have free and open debates about the government is an essential part of a healthy democracy. Readers are encouraged to find their own voice in these debates as they're introduced to the varying viewpoints surrounding the issue of presidential power. The main text helps readers back up their point of view with facts, and sidebars highlight the views of experts on this controversial issue. Discussion questions help readers strengthen their point of view, and exciting visual elements, including full-color photographs and graphic organizers enhance this essential critical thinking exercise.
A River Runs through It and Other Stories
Author: Norman MacLean
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022647223X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022647223X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Author: Al Franken
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1455540439
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
From Senator Al Franken - #1 bestselling author and beloved SNL alum -- comes the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. "Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." -- Louise Erdrich, The New York Times This is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it. It's a book about our deeply polarized, frequently depressing, occasionally inspiring political culture, written from inside the belly of the beast. In this candid personal memoir, the honorable gentleman from Minnesota takes his army of loyal fans along with him from Saturday Night Live to the campaign trail, inside the halls of Congress, and behind the scenes of some of the most dramatic and/or hilarious moments of his new career in politics. Has Al Franken become a true Giant of the Senate? Franken asks readers to decide for themselves.
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1455540439
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
From Senator Al Franken - #1 bestselling author and beloved SNL alum -- comes the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. "Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." -- Louise Erdrich, The New York Times This is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it. It's a book about our deeply polarized, frequently depressing, occasionally inspiring political culture, written from inside the belly of the beast. In this candid personal memoir, the honorable gentleman from Minnesota takes his army of loyal fans along with him from Saturday Night Live to the campaign trail, inside the halls of Congress, and behind the scenes of some of the most dramatic and/or hilarious moments of his new career in politics. Has Al Franken become a true Giant of the Senate? Franken asks readers to decide for themselves.