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Stinky Cecil in Operation Pond Rescue

By Paige Braddock
Andrews McMeel Pub | February 3, 2015 | 128 pages
The hilarious tale of a group of amphibians (and one free-range hamster) who set out to save their tiny pond home from one very large steamroller. Sometimes big stories happen in small places. Sometimes big things happen to small creatures. This is one of those stories . . . Cecil is a toad. A toad... More Info
Kids' Books
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Snoozefest

By Samantha Berger
Dial Books for Young Readers | January 22, 2015 | 40 pages
Snuggleford Cuddlebun, the sleepiest sloth in all of Snoozeville, attends the annual Snoozefest, where she gets free pajamas and other gifts, listens to bands and haiku, and, mostly, sleeps.  More Info
Kids' Books
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Treaty No. 9

By John Long
February 1, 2015 | 601 pages
For more than a century, the vast lands of Northern Ontario have been shared among the governments of Canada, Ontario, and the First Nations who signed Treaty No. 9 in 1905. For just as long, details about the signing of the constitutionally recognized agreement have been known only through the... More Info
Indigenous Studies
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The ABCs of Political Economy - Second Edition

By Robin Hahnel
Pluto Press | February 20, 2015 | 320 pages
This revised edition of ABCs is a lively and accessible introduction to modern political economy. Informed by the work of Marx, Veblen, Kalecki, Robinson, Minsky and other great political economists, Robin Hahnel provides the essential tools needed to understand economic issues today. Dispelling... More Info
Political Action
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Blaming the Victim

By Jairo Lugo-Ocando
Pluto Press | December 20, 2014 | 240 pages
Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of ways in which the global news media misrepresent and decontextualise the causes and consequences of... More Info
Political Economy
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Groundless Grounds

By Lee Braver
MIT Press (MA) | January 10, 2014 | 354 pages
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are two of the most important--and two of the most difficult--philosophers of the twentieth century, indelibly influencing the course of continental and analytic philosophy, respectively. In Groundless Grounds, Lee Braver argues that the views of both... More Info
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The Age of Consequences

By Courtney White
Counterpoint | January 1, 2015 | 256 pages
A former archaeologist and Sierra Club activist explores potential, real-world responses to what he believes to be a critical environmental juncture of dangerously low energy sources, drawing on personal experience to outline specific actionable ideas.  More Info
Environmental Politics

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Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her...
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Events

2015 04 Feb
6:00pm

Octopus Book Club - Clearing the Plains

You are invited to Octopus Book Club for a discussion of "Clearing the Plains, Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life" by James Daschuk! 

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2015 10 Feb
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Libya, Pan Africanism, African Unity and the quest for peace with Professor Horace Campbell

The Institute of African Studies presents a talk entitled “Libya, Pan Africanism, African Unity and the quest for peace.” This is a part of the African Studies Umeme: African Flashpoin

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2015 18 Feb
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Indigenous Healing Exploring Traditional Paths with RUPERT ROSS

Ross’s first book, Dancing with a Ghost, began his exploration of aboriginal approaches to justice and the visions of life that shape them. In his second book, Returning to the Teachings, Ross went on to examine the aboriginal preference for “peacemaker justice.”

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