A provocative and damning expose of the abuses of power by politicians run amok with big-spending habits, the book takes us down the rabbit hole of government waste and over-taxation and concludes that Canadians should be absolutely furious with our politicians, all of them.

This book assembles a rich history and analysis or large-scale, private and voluntary, community-based provision of social services, urban infrastructure, and community governance to restore the vitality of city life

The Joy of Freedom- An Economist's Odyssey brings free market economics to life through stories of those who have discovered it in their own lives. Henderson grew up in Manitoba so many stories have a local flavour for Frontier readers.

If you had the ear of the Prime Minister of Canada, what would you tell him? With Memos to the Prime Minister, 30 prominent thinkers in Canada (including the Frontier Centre's Peter Holle on medical savings accounts) get the chance.

Mr. Beito's research succeeds in casting light on the seemingly impenetrable area of fraternal history, an area that proves difficult to research due to many so-called secret societies failure to leave evidence of their history.

This work by UCLA management school "corporate renewal" professor Ouchi focuses on school reform. Ouchi bases his theory on sound principles derived from his research into a variety of successful schools. Educational management systems should be entrepreneurial rather than bureaucratic, he says. Give principals real control over their budgets, empower parents as genuine participants in school decisions, and student achievement will soar, even in communities beset by poverty and high immigration rates, two usual indicators of school failure.

This book is a straightforward look at the practical and economic realities of preserving the environment, including learning from past mistakes and failed environmental laws, to balancing property rights and the necessities required to preserve habitats, to what truly constitutes judicious and effective use of government action. Eco-nomics is an insightful, timely, and welcome contribution to Environmental Studies reading lists and policy reference collection.

Paul Driessen forcefully makes the case that the environmental movement has been needlessly anti-human. The real moral and technical challenge is to save both planet and people, and we've been given the intelligence and societal skills to do it. Hopefully, with the human population surge now ending, we'll feel free to be humane again."

This award-winning book presents cogent arguments in favour of globalization. See Johan Norberg's interview with the Frontier Centre at www.fcpp.org

Almost every indicator of health, environmental quality, safety, welfare and social conditions reveal great progress. This Cato Institute book is not for the "apocalyptic mind".

Former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith discusses "managed competition" and other reforms responsible for the turnaround of this mid-western U.S. city.

John O. Norquist is the Mayor of Milwaukee, currently serving his third four-year term. A well-known advocate of the "New Urbanism," a national movement dedicated to saving the American city provides valuable insights into unleashing the urban community.

The hole in the Ozone Layer is healing. The Amazon has shrunk by only 14 per cent since the arrival of Man. This hugely controversial book provides an interesting counterpoint to the frequently alarmist view presented by conventional green activists.

Minding the Public Purse (McGill-Queen’s University Press) is an insider’s look at the early 1990s, when Canada was in a fiscal crisis and Paul Martin ascended to the finance minister’s seat. Janice MacKinnon offers a close look at the way that Martin interacted with the other finance ministers, and shows how new fiscal policies, introduced in Saskatchewan and federally, helped balance the books.

The physical phenomena in climate and weather change are among the most complex in nature, and science can say very little about what will happen to our environment in the future. Yet a large international policy framework has been built precisely on the assumption that we know what is happening and how to control it. In Taken by Storm, Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick prove this internationally accepted assumption false and show that the widespread belief in global warming is really a house of cards. Taken By Storm is a vital first step towards dealing with environmental issues in a way that seeks real solutions and overcomes the tendency to replace scientific fact with indoctrinated fiction.

Educator Mark Holmes articulates the case for more parental control of our schools.

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