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While Bourrie’s historical perspective is useful, he misses the chance to place Canada’s experience in an international scope. Many of the same restrictions seen in Canada are part of a worldwide trend.

Globe and Mail

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The Comeback’s tone seems downright smug at times...Fuel for apathy. This is why, regardless of your response to The Comeback, you have to read it. Don’t be an uninformed critic. Arm yourself, Canada.

Globe and Mail

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If you have ever wanted something, lost someone, thought, felt, or breathed, read this book. Listen to the audiobook. Download the Kindle version. You will not be disappointed.

Blog Critics

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Overall, the book would have benefitted from more stringent editing. The consistent use of working class Dublin colloquialism versus using the dialect only in dialogue might grate and runs the risk of making the work less accessible.

NY Journal of Books

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This is a must-read book -- most especially for every member of the Oireachtas and local authorities, for senior officials in central and local government, and -- yes -- for political lobbyists too.

Independent.ie

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Nothing is ever so dark that good people can’t make the world better by turning on more lights, he suggests, and that makes In One Person’s conclusion a thing of beauty.

AV Club

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facts are missing... much of the testimony has not been made public. In addition, court-subpoenaed documents have not been released, thus leaving gaps in the validity of the book’s details.

Examiner

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The Occupy protesters may have gone home, at least for now, but the issues they highlighted are front and center. And if you want to find out more about them, I thoroughly recommend “The Occupy Handbook.”

The New Yorker

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Structurally, that gives the authors a problem: a lot of pages to fill and not a lot of suspense. For this reason, the documentary might prove a more intriguing form for the material than the written account.

The Washington Post

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Maddow’s incisive look at the follies of militarism needs a deeper understanding of why America has so often embraced it.

Publishers Weekly

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"Chomp" is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.

LA Times

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No Time Like the Present is written in grammar-flouting stream-of-consciousness prose that is sometimes only comprehensible when you take a run at it.

Toronto Star

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...meticulously researched account of the coming shortage of natural resources

Publishers Weekly

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...it is highly desirable that the book becomes widely distributed and forms part of any sustainability discussion whether in the educational, commercial or political sector.

The Zed Books Blog

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Reading this book is like attending a seminar on the ills and opportunities of modern life.

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