books by John Ralston Saul

books by John Ralston Saul

books:

John Ralston Saul

The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

John Ralston Saul

Free Press, 2002

Biting Commentary Essential to all Concerned Citizens
Saul has attempted to place the current use of language for the purpose of public discussion into historical terms. Through the unusual format of a dictionary-style argument, Saul convincingly argues that our public officials' obsession with a society conceived upon ...

Reflections Of A Siamese Twin: Canada At The End Of The Twentieth Century

John Ralston Saul

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1999

Identity of the north
Saul continues his attack on the "kidnapping" of language by political parties and leaders, and on the misconceptions of economics. There's a lot to digest in this book: Saul has degrees in Economics, History, and Political Science. In this work he blends rich ...

The Unconscious Civilization

John Ralston Saul

Free Press, 1999

Wake up and Smell the Oil Wal-Mart Shoppers
If the doubling, in less than a year, of the price of oil for no discernable reason (with no end in sight), and with absolutely no reaction from us or our government is not evidence that something is terribly wrong with our collective mind. Then surely an order of ...

Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness

Juri Peepre, Margaret Atwood, ...

Harbour Publishing, 2006

Accessing a great wilderness area..... GerryM
After visiting the yukon(from Australia)and travelling by road I was interested in learning about more inaccessable areas of the Yukon. The book is first and foremost a photographic journey in the great boreal wilderness area by way of the Snake, Bonnet Plume and Wind ...

Emily Carr (Extraordinary Canadians)
Lewis Desoto, 2008

On Equilibrium: Six Qualities of the New Humanism

John Ralston Saul

Da Capo Press, 2004

Challenging and Mind-Expanding
I really enjoyed this book. Saul's writing is somewhat challenging, but with effort it becomes rhythmic. I valued his perpectives on human orientations and how they balance each other. The notion of "equilibrium" in human activities is a sound one, especially in ...

The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World

John Ralston Saul

Overlook Hardcover, 2005

Mincing Mammon's minions
"Gimmie that old time religion" ran the gospel classic. Since the early 1970s, says Saul, a new religion has emerged, displacing existing dogmas. It's called "Globalism". Globalism lacks a deity, but provides us with a fresh dogma - "borderless commerce". The ranks of ...

Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada
John Ralston Saul

Penguin Books Canada, 2008

The Paradise Eater

John Ralston Saul

Fawcett, 1989

A must for dedicated Asiafiles!
The main character is a Canadian expat living in Bangkok who has almost, but not quite, "gone native". While the story line is excellent, what I find fascinating is the ancillary cast of characters and sub-plots, which move through Bangkok as the economy is beginning ...

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

John Ralston Saul

Vintage, 1993

AN INTELLECTUAL TOUR DE FORCE
John Saul makes the argument that when the world swung away from the faith-based beliefs of the Middle Ages to the rational thinking of the Age of Reason, it over-reacted in equating rational thinking with truth. In other words, rational arguments may lead to false ...

The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World

John Ralston Saul

Atlantic Books, 2006

Mincing Mammon's minions
"Gimmie that old time religion" ran the gospel classic. Since the early 1970s, says Saul, a new religion has emerged, displacing existing dogmas. It's called "Globalism". Globalism lacks a deity, but provides us with a fresh dogma - "borderless commerce". The ranks of ...

Baraka

John Ralston Saul

Doubleday, 1985

flawed
given what i know of john ralston saul and the blurb on the back, i expected much better from this book. decrying corporatism, positing it as a new ruling morality, is genuinely interesting, but i don't think this is an interesting way of presenting it. the ...

John Ralston Saul's Reflections of a siamese twin: an exchange.: An article from: Inroads: A Journal of ...
John Ralston Saul, Gerard Bouchard

Inroads, Inc., 2000

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