Author: Ezra Levant File Type: epub ReviewI was at a low moment, and beginning to fear that our adversarial culture was dying and the open society was losing its will to resist, when Ezra Levant showed that every citizen has the birthright of a little spark, and a grown-up duty to kindle that spark into a flame. Let the bureaucrats dotheir worst the tongue and the word are chainless and nothing is sacred except this freedom above all.br Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Greatbr br If were not careful, if we force the Ezras in this country to shut up, our freedom of speech could be next.br Rick Mercer, in a rant from the *Rick Mercer Reportbr ullWe are not yet three months into 2009, but Ezra may well have written the most important public affairs book this year. br The National Postbr lulI read Shakedown and I am awed at Levants persistence and powers of endurance. br Rex Murphy, in the Globe & Mailbr Why is Ezra Levant the flavour of the month? Dare I say because he deserves to be? br Metro Vancouverbr eloquent and powerful br London Free Pressbr puts everything on the line in the way the best Canadian journalists always did. br Ottawa Citizenbr Let me put in a plug for Levants new book, Shakedown, which lays out, in example after example, how government-appointed human rights bodies warped the noble mission for which they were created. br The Halifax Chronicle Heraldbr ...By the end of Levants book, readers will be left wondering whether it is enough to prune back the commissions, or, as he prefers, to weed them out altogether. br Macleansbr From the Hardcover edition.Winner of the Writers Trust of Canada Samaras - Best Canadian Political Book of the Last 25 Years br Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is a shocking and controversial look at the corruption of Canadas human rights commissions.br On January 11, 2008, I was summoned to a 90-minute government interrogation. My crime? As the publisher of Western Standard magazine, I had reprinted the Danish cartoons of Mohammed to illustrate a news story. I was charged with the offence of discrimination, and made to appear before Albertas human rights commission for questioning. As crazy as it sounds, I became the only person in the world to face legal sanction for printing those cartoons.br As a result of this highly publicized event, Ezra Levant began investigating other instances in which innocent people have had their freedoms compromised by bureaucrats presuming to protect Canadians human rights. He discovered some disturbing and even bizarre cases, such as the tribunal ruling that an employee at a McDonald s restaurant in Vancouver did not have to wash her hands at work. And the human rights complaint filed by a Calgary hair stylist against the women at a salon school who called him a loser. In another case that seemed stranger than fiction, an emotionally unstable transvestite fought for and won the right to counsel female rape victims, despite the anguished pleas of those same traumatized victims. Human rights commissions now monitor political opinions, fine people for expressing politically incorrect viewpoints, censor websites, and even ban people, permanently, from saying certain things. br The book is a result of Levants ordeal and the research it inspired. It shows how our concept of human rights has morphed into something dangerous and drastically different from its original meaning. Shakedown is a convincing plea to Canadians to reclaim their basic liberties.br From the Hardcover edition.

Author: Steven Methven File Type: pdf This book attempts to explicate and expand upon Frank Ramseys notion of the realistic spirit. In so doing, it provides a systematic reading of his work, and demonstrates the extent of Ramseys genius as evinced by both his responses to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , and the impact he had on Wittgensteins later philosophical insights. **About the Author S.J. Methven is Junior Research Fellow and College Lecturer in Philosophy at Worcester College, Oxford. He completed his Ph.D at Cambridge University, before which he received an MPhil and BA from Birkbeck College, University of London. This book attempts to explicate and expand upon Frank Ramseys notion of the realistic spirit. In so doing, it provides a systematic reading of his work, and demonstrates the extent of Ramseys genius as evinced by both his responses to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , and the impact he had on Wittgensteins later philosophical insights.

Author: Tom Inglis File Type: pdf The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs of meaning that keep us going. To help reveal the complexity and intricacy of the webs of meaning in which they are suspended, Tom Inglis interviewed one-hundred people in their native home of Ireland to discover what was most important and meaningful for them in their lives. Inglis believes language is a medium there is never an exact correspondence between what is said and what is felt and understood. Using a variety of theoretical lenses developed within sociology and anthropology, Inglis places their lives within the context of Irelands social and cultural transformations, and of longer-term processes of change such as increased globalisation, individualisation, and informalisation. **About the Author Tom Inglis is Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. His books include Moral Monopoly The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church in Modern Ireland (1998), Lessons in Irish Sexuality (1998), Religion and Politics (2000), Truth, Power and Lies (2003), Global Ireland Same Difference (2008), Making Love A Memoir (2012), Love (2013) and Are the Irish Different? (2014).

Author: Naftali Raz File Type: pdf It has been said more than once in psychology that one persons effect is another persons error term. By minimising and occasionally ignoring individual and group variability cognitive psychology has yieled many fine achievements. However, when investigators are working with special populations, the subjects, and the unique nature of the sample, come into focus and become the goal in itself. For developmental psychologists, gerontologists and psychopathologists, research progresses with an eye on their target populations of study. Yet every good study in any of these domains inevitably has another dimension. Whenever a study is designed to turn a spotlight on a special population, the light is also shed on the mainstream from which the target deviates.This book examines what we can learn about general and universal phenomena in cognition and its brain substrates from examining the odd, the rare, the transient, the exceptional and the abnormal.