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10 best books like Why Globalization Works (Martin Wolf): On Liberty, Much Ado About Nothing, Indian Horse, Love You Forever, Three Day Road, The Waste Land, Second Treatise of Government, How Rich Countries Got Rich And Why Poor Countries Stay Poor, The Nicomachean Ethics, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

On Liberty
AuthorJohn Stuart Mill
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077

Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support...
Much Ado About Nothing
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ISBN0743482751
Much Ado About Nothing, abridged.

CLAUDIO: So, um, Hero, I sorta maybe like you a whole lot will you go to the prom with me?

HERO: We should get married! Squeeeeeee!

BEATRICE: Pfft. Love is for stupid losers who are stupid.

BENEDICK: You know, you might get laid more...
Indian Horse
AuthorRichard Wagamese
ISBN1553654021
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he’ll find it only through telling his...
Love You Forever
AuthorRobert Munsch
ISBN0920668372
You have to read this creepy little book!
Licha, thank you so much for introducing this little gem to me.
A-MAZING!

So, I gathered 3 of my kids (ages 7, 10, & 12) around last night, and told them I wanted to get their opinion on a book. (view spoiler)[Would have loved to get the 15 year...
Three Day Road
AuthorJoseph Boyden
ISBN0143017861
It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is gravely wounded and addicted to morphine. As Niska slowly paddles her canoe on the three-day journey to bring...
The Waste Land
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0393974995
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot's own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.

For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition...
Second Treatise of Government
AuthorJohn Locke
ISBN0915144867
The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.
In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional...
How Rich Countries Got Rich And Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
AuthorErik S. Reinert
ISBN1845293266
In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment, rather than through free trade. Reinert suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven...
The Nicomachean Ethics
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0140449493
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul...
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
AuthorElinor Ostrom
ISBN0521405998
This book transformed the way I look at the world.

For many societal problems a standard dichotomy is between market-based solutions and government-based solutions. As anyone reading this review knows, much of our politics and public discourse is organized around arguments between these...
Becoming Human
AuthorJean Vanier
ISBN0809139006
Jean Vanier, a man I thoroughly respect, the founder of L'Arch, a community for the intellectually disabled. Such a thought-provoking book. I could not possibly say enough about it.
Some quotes to give you a feel for Vanier's perspective on humanity:

"I also believe that those we most...
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
AuthorSteven Weisenburger
ISBN0820310263
This Companion was extremely beneficial in reading Pynchon's novel, especially giving reference to the social context and pop culture allusions that appear on nearly every page. However, I had to often set it aside, only referring back to it every so often since there was so much information that it...
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
AuthorRobert D. Putnam
ISBN0691037388
Why do some democratic goverments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policy makers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful...
A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada
AuthorJohn Ralston Saul
ISBN0670068047
In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal...
Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility
AuthorDavid Weinberger
Make. More. Future. Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable than we've allowed ourselves to see.Now that technology is enabling us to take advantage of all the chaos it's revealing,...
Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph Of Canadian Pluralism
AuthorMichael Adams
ISBN0670063681
Around the world, sectarian tensions divide societies, sometimes erupting into violent confrontation. Some pundits argue that similar convulsions will shake Canada’s multicultural foundations. But Michael Adams argues that Canadians don’t see this as inevitable. Adams believes that...
Sorry, I Don't Speak French: Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away
AuthorGraham Fraser
ISBN0771047673
As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian — especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided country
Canada’s language policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies...
A Short History of Progress
AuthorRonald Wright
ISBN0786715472
Each time history repeats itself, the cost goes up. The twentieth century—a time of unprecedented progress—has produced a tremendous strain on the very elements that comprise life itself: This raises the key question of the twenty-first century: How much longer can this go on? With wit and erudition,...
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