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Hippocrates and Francis Adams $62.20 |
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- John S. Oyer and Robert S. Kreider |
When After Virtue first appeared $33.02 |
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In Finding My Talk, fourteen aboriginal women who attended residential schools, or were affected by them, reflect on their experiences. They describe their years in residential schools across Canada and how they overcame tremendous obstacles to become strong and independent members of aboriginal cultures and valuable members of Canadian society.
$19.95 |
In Teaching Community, bell hooks shows how complex ideas of cultural theory can be simplified and made relevant to the lives of working people, and how the values of shared knowledge and learning can be a catalyst for progressive social change.
$23.95 |
Goat wakes up one morning simply bursting to explore the Great Outdoors. He has his tent, his rucksack, his binoculars, and even his favourite teddy, but Goat just can't decide where to go. After some gentle advice from the ever-patient Donkey, Goat discovers that the best place for a holiday might not be very far away at all and he pitches his tent in the garden . . . which means that Donkey can come along, too. Perfect!
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Tutu understood that justice — a genuine regard for human rights — is the only real foundation for peace. And so he stirred up trouble, courageously engaging in heated face-to-face confrontations with South Africa's leaders.
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The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism is a catalog of corporate horrors—poverty, exploitation, and injustice— as well as a damning indictment of capitalism created with both love and rage.
$10.95 |
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Beverly Bell, an activist and an expert on Haitian social movements, brings together thirty-eight oral histories from a diverse group of Haitian women. The interviewees include, for example, a former prime minister, an illiterate poet, a leading feminist theologian, and a vodou dancer. Defying victim status despite gender- and state-based repression, they tell how Haiti's poor and dispossessed women have fought for their personal and collective survival. $24.50 |
The hotly debated report from the frontlines of mounting backlash against multinational corporations.
$22.95 |
Three quarters of the planet is ocean and 80 per cent of all life lives here. They give us so much, yet we know relatively little about them. Planet Ocean is a window onto this secret world. Through stunning photographs, taken on a sixteen-month ‘Defending Our Oceans’ expedition, Greenpeace reveals wonderful sights that few people have seen, and also some that certain people would like us not to see. $42.00 |
Reinhold Niebuhr
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With her trademark combination of research, analysis, irreverence and passion, McQuaig shows how the elite has pushed us down a path with far-reaching consequences for us as a nation, and for our ability to find our own way in the world.
$34.95 |
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