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Kids' Books
$19.95
Rabbit and the Not-So-Big-Bad Wolf
January 7, 2013 |
32 pages
Rabbit is afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, but the Not-So-Big-Bad Wolf brings a delightful surprise.
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$10.99
Big Nate: Genius Mode
HarperCollins |
May 7, 2013 |
224 pages
The third Big Nate comic compilation in the New York Times bestselling series by Lincoln Peirce! Big Nate is a New York Times bestseller and the star of his own comic strip! Here comes the latest comic compilation from Lincoln Peirce, all about king of detention and cartooning genius Nate Wright!... More Info
$17.99
Where Do You Look?
Tundra Books |
February 12, 2013 |
32 pages
A playful exploration of homonyms reveals how preschoolers can have fun with language, posing such questions as whether to find glasses on a shelf or a face and whether to find a wave at the beach or a train station, in an interactive story complemented by detailed collage illustrations.
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$10.95
Badger's Parting Gifts
Andersen Press |
May 16, 2013 |
28 pages
An award-winning picture book about bereavement. Badger is so old that he knows he will soon die. He tries to prepare his friends for this event, but when he does die, they are still grief-stricken. Gradually they come to terms with their grief by remembering all the practical things Badger taught... More Info
Literature - International
$22.99
The Painted Girls
December 14, 2012 |
368 pages
Paris, 1878. Following their father?s sudden death, the Van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is... More Info
$19.95
The Islands of Dr. Thomas
July 15, 2012 |
202 pages
In 1913 Dr. Louis Thomas and his family settle on the French islands of St. Pierre and Michelon. Enchanted by how this French land navigates the harsh climate of the Atlantic Ocean, he immerses himself in his passion for photography and captures the soul of the place. Yet despite his love for St.... More Info
$32.00
A World Elsewhere
Random House Digital, Inc. |
August 9, 2011 |
320 pages
Beloved author Wayne Johnston returns to the territory of his #1 national bestseller The Colony of Unrequited Dreamswith this sweeping tale of ambition, remorse and hope. A World Elsewherehas all the hallmarks of Wayne Johnston's most beloved and acclaimed novels: outsiders yearning for acceptance,... More Info
$24.95
Watermelon Syrup
Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
August 1, 2007 |
265 pages
Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Waterloo. Ontario, during the Depression, Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife. Cammy, and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to... More Info
$19.99
The Wolves of St. Peters
April 23, 2013 |
288 pages
A suspenseful, intoxicating mystery of art, young love and betrayal, set amid the glory and corruption of Renaissance Rome When young Francesco Angeli sees a golden-haired woman being pulled from the Tiber on a rainy Rome morning, he is shocked to realize that he knows her. It is 1508, and... More Info
Political Economy
$12.95
The Communist Manifesto
Broadview Pr |
August 30, 2004 |
256 pages
L.M. Findlay's elegant new translation is a work of textual and historical scholarship. Few books have had as much of an impact on modern history as The Communist Manifesto. Since it was first published in 1848, it has become the rallying cry for revolutionary movements around the world. This new... More Info
$42.95
Muslim spaces of hope
November 15, 2009 |
271 pages
This book, by a collection of distinguished post-colonial critics, acknowledges but challenges the contemporary "Islamic problem" by asking the ways Muslims experience hope and share it with others. Assertions of difference are put on hold, suggestions of compatibility entertained. Assumptions that... More Info
$12.95
On the Eve of the Millennium
House of Anansi Pr |
November 1, 1994 |
166 pages
No summary available.
$32.95
Peacebuilding and Reconciliation
Pluto Press |
September 15, 2012 |
240 pages
Peacebuilding and Reconciliation brings together a number of critical essays from members of the renowned Centre for Peace & Reconciliation Studies, based at Coventry University in the UK. This is a highly topical book covering the latest developments and issues in the discipline of... More Info
$12.95
Preempting Dissent
Arbeiter Ring Pub |
December 1, 2008 |
88 pages
The Bush administrations War on Terror ushered in a new logic of surveillance, suppressing public dissent and mobilizing both faith and fear. Elmer and Opel reveal the underlying logic of preemption whereby threats must be eliminated before they materialize, drawing on social theories and media... More Info
Political Action
$14.95
North America's Lost Decade?
House of Anansi Pr |
February 25, 2012 |
92 pages
As stock markets gyrate, Europe lurches from crisis to crisis, and recovery in the United States slows, the future of the North American economy is more uncertain than ever. Can individual entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, and governments create a new era of sustained economic growth? Or,... More Info
$17.50
Occupy the Economy
City Lights Publishers |
May 1, 2012 |
190 pages
** Author David Barsamian is currently on tour with stops in OH, B.C., and NM. Please check alternativeradio.org for the most up-to-date tour information. ** Today's economic crisis is capitalism's worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who... More Info
$32.00
Balance
May 21, 2013 |
368 pages
Two forefront economics draw on illuminating examples from history to offer insight into why powerful nations and civilizations break down under the heavy burden of financial imbalance, offering sobering arguments about America's current vulnerabilities and the preventative steps they believe must... More Info
$26.95
Bleakonomics
Pluto Press |
October 16, 2012 |
224 pages
Bleakonomics is a short and humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity, and financial instability.Written for anyone who is wondering how we've come to this point, Rob Larson holds mainstream economic theory up... More Info
$18.00
Vultures' Picnic
Plume |
September 19, 2012 |
404 pages
The best-selling author of Armed Madhouse shares a dramatic exposé of the relationship between the oil and banking industries while arguing that such environmental disasters as the Gulf oil spill and Exxon Valdez can be directly linked to corporate corruption and failed legislation. 75,000 first... More Info
Unusual Histories
$19.95
Why Not?
October 11, 2011 |
175 pages
The author of What Happened Later documents his recovery from suicidal depression, a journey during which he explored what makes people happy and what makes life worth living, in an irreverent personal account that considers topics ranging from working-class life and death to intoxication and art.... More Info
$49.99
The New York Times 36 Hours
Taschen America Llc |
November 27, 2011 |
700 pages
The ultimate travel guide to the USA and Canada To travel in North America is to face a delicious quandary: over these vast spaces, with so many riches from glittering cities to eccentric small towns and heart-stoppingly beautiful mountains and plains, how to experience as much as possible in... More Info
$14.95
10 Plants That Shook the World
January 22, 2013 |
132 pages
Dig up the amazing stories of the plants that have transformed our lives. Plants might start out as leafy things growing in the earth, but they can come into our lives in unexpected ways. And believe it or not, some have even played an exciting role in our world's history.
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$21.95
Marijuanamerica
Abrams Image |
April 2, 2013 |
272 pages
Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He’s also a longtime marijuana enthusiast who has made it his mission to better understand America’s long-standing love-hate relationship with our favorite (sometimes) illegal drug. His cross-country investigation started... More Info
$40.00
Return from the Natives
Yale University Press |
May 7, 2013 |
384 pages
DIV Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging the Second World War.
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Indigenous Studies
$34.95
Beyond Bear's Paw
Univ of Oklahoma Pr |
May 1, 2010 |
247 pages
In the fall of 1877, Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. Army troops. After a 1,700-mile journey across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, the Nez Perces headed for the Canadian border, hoping to find refuge in the land of the White Mother, Queen Victoria. But the army caught up... More Info
$14.95
Judgement at Stoney Creek
arsenal pulp press |
July 1, 2002 |
203 pages
Judgement at Stoney Creekhas been released in a new edition of an aboriginal studies classic: an engrossing look at the investigation into the hit-and-run death of Coreen Thomas, a young Native woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, at the wheels of a car driven by a young white man in central BC.
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$24.95
Carrying on "Irregardless"
Harbour Publishing |
October 1, 2012 |
120 pages
Carrying on "Irregardless" is a handsomely illustrated paperback based on the first exhibition to focus on humour in Northwest Coast First Nations art. The show, mounted by the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in Vancouver is titled after one of Bill Reid's favourite deliberate grammatical... More Info
$78.00
White mother to a dark race
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
July 1, 2009 |
557 pages
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal... More Info
$19.95
Dancing on Our Turtle's Back
Arbeiter Ring Pub |
June 15, 2011 |
198 pages
Many promote Reconciliation as a "new" way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence activist, editor, and educator Leanne Simpson asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence... More Info
Environmental Politics
$34.95
Sustainable Market Farming
New Society Pub |
February 5, 2013 |
400 pages
Growing for 100 ? the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower.
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$16.00
The No-Nonsense Guide to Animal Rights
June 15, 2006 |
143 pages
The protection of animal rights is more than a modern, western phenomenon. In fact, there is a long history of concern for animals around the world, and it is this concern that underlies today's animal rights movement. The No-Nonsense Guide to Animal Rightsexplains the key issues, charts the growth... More Info
$34.95
Who rules the waves?
Pluto Pr |
May 15, 2010 |
216 pages
With piracy raging in the Indian Ocean, international disputes over undersea oil and gas, and chronic overfishing, the oceans have rarely been subject to such varied and environmentally damaging conflict outside a world war. In Who Rules the Waves? Denise Russell gives us a rare insight into these... More Info
$24.95
The Thinking Beekeeper
New Society Pub |
January 1, 2013 |
288 pages
Give bees a chance ? the complete how-to and why-to for keeping bees in top-bar hives
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$20.00
The Ripple Effect
Scribner Book Company |
April 10, 2012 |
448 pages
Reveals how access to and preservation of fresh water is the planet's most pressing issue in the 21st century, in a book by the best-selling co-author of My Life in France that presents an array of colorful, obsessive, brilliant--and sometimes shadowy--characters through which these issues come... More Info
Philosophy
$20.95
Without Offending Humans
August 16, 2012 |
156 pages
Discusses the history of philosophy regarding human-animal realationships, arguing that historical philosophical indifference to animal life has in fact demeaned humanity.
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$34.95
Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume 1
Monthly Review Pr |
February 1, 2010 |
463 pages
This new work (the first in a two-volume series) by the leading Marxian philosopher of our day is a milestone in human self-understanding. It focuses on the location where action emerges from freedom and necessity, thefoundation of all social science. Today, as never before, the investigation of... More Info
$30.00
Henri Lefebvre on Space
U of Minnesota Press |
August 1, 2011 |
400 pages
Shows how Lefebvre’s theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.
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$24.95
The Pursuits of Philosophy
Harvard Univ Pr |
October 4, 2011 |
165 pages
Marking the tercentenary of David Hume's birth, Annette Baier has created an engaging guide to the philosophy of one of the greatest thinkers of Enlightenment Britain. Drawing deeply on a lifetime of scholarship and incisive commentary, she deftly weaves Hume’s autobiography together with his... More Info
$28.95
Introductions to Nietzsche
February 9, 2012 |
302 pages
A comprehensive and unusual introduction to Nietzsche, providing a separate introductory essay for each of his major works.
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Cookbooks
$21.95
Vegetarian Entrees That Won't Leave You Hungry
Experiment Llc |
October 18, 2011 |
243 pages
"Includes recipes for filling vegetarian entrees such as salads, soups, rice bowls, risottos, pasta, noodle dishes, dumplings, curries, oven-baked dishes, and eggs every which way"--Provided by publisher.
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$9.99
Preserving Made Easy
Firefly Books Limited |
May 31, 2012 |
320 pages
Features recipes and instructions for canning small batches of spreads and condiments, including such options as apple cranberry wine jelly, spiced pickled beets, and roasted tomato chutney.
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$25.50
The Ganja Kitchen Revolution
Green Candy Press |
November 13, 2012 |
228 pages
Written for all levels of kitchen skill, The Ganja Kitchen Revolution explores a whole host of international culinary influences and pairs every recipe with a cannabis strain whose flavor complements that of the dish ? creating a whole new type of cannabis cuisine than spans the globe! With... More Info
$27.99
The One-Block Feast
Ten Speed Pr |
March 15, 2011 |
256 pages
Draws on Sunset magazine's award-winning One-Block Diet blog to instruct readers on how to raise and produce all ingredients for numerous "from-scratch" meals, providing plans that include a sustainable vegetable garden, backyard bee hives, a chicken roost and more. Original.
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$35.00
The Longevity Kitchen
Random House Digital, Inc. |
February 26, 2013 |
256 pages
A volume of 125 whole-food recipes designed to combat and prevent a range of chronic diseases from inflammation and heart disease to high blood pressure and diabetes cites the potential health-bolstering roles of "superfood" ingredients while offering nutritional remedies for common symptoms and... More Info
Pop Culture
$28.00
Rise of the Vampire
Reaktion Books |
May 15, 2013 |
224 pages
Before Bella and Edward; Stefan and Damon Salvatore; and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, there was Lestat and Louis, The Lost Boys, and Buffy Summers. Before True Blood and Let the Right One In, there was Dark Shadows and Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. And then there is the most prominent of them... More Info
$29.95
The Encyclopedia of New Wave
Sterling Pub Co Inc |
May 1, 2012 |
304 pages
The Talking Heads, The Boomtown Rats, Blondie, Elvis Costello: this fun new addition to the successful Encyclopedia series celebrates the hugely influential New Wave musical movement of the late 1970s and 80s. Originating as a less-aggressive sister movement to punk, New Wave encompassed a wide... More Info
$19.95
The Enlightened Cyclist
Chronicle Books Llc |
March 21, 2012 |
240 pages
The joys of commuting by bike attract scores of new converts every year. But as fresh-faced cyclists fill the roads, they also encounter their share of frustrations-careless drivers, wide-flung car doors, zoned-out pedestrians, and aggressive fellow cyclists, to name a few. In this follow-up to the... More Info
$18.00
50 Licks
Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA |
February 26, 2013 |
288 pages
Behold the Rolling Stones: run-ins with the law, chart-topping successes, and now the World's Greatest Continually Operating Rock and Roll Band. 50 Licks tells the story of the Stones, right from its very origins. On July 12, 1962, London's Marquee Club debuted a new act, a blues-inflected rock... More Info
Feminism
$23.95
Freedom with Violence
Duke University Press Books |
October 3, 2011 |
318 pages
Explores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity.
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$37.50
Gay and Lesbian Asia
Routledge |
February 1, 2001 |
280 pages
How do Asian cultures construct queer genders, sexualities, and eroticism? Gay and Lesbian Asia demonstrates the astonishing diversity of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered identities in countries including Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines.... More Info
$17.95
Stonewall
St. Martin's Griffin |
June 1, 2005 |
352 pages
"Riveting...Not only the definitive examination of the riots but an absorbing history of pre-Stonewall America, and how the oppression and pent-up rage of those years finally ignited on a hot New York night." - Boston Globe In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a... More Info
$18.95
Lucy Parsons
Haymarket Books |
December 11, 2012 |
282 pages
The life and times of Lucy Parsons, early American radical and labor organizer, told definitively here.
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Health Studies
$17.00
Finding Your Way in a Wild New World
Atria Books |
January 1, 2013 |
320 pages
“The best known life coach in America” (Psychology Today) and bestselling author of Finding Your Own North Star provides a new transformational program for creating an unconventional life path to a sustainable way of life. Finding Your Way in a Wild New World is a remarkable guide to the most... More Info
$27.50
Classroom Conversations
New Press, The |
May 25, 2013 |
311 pages
In Classroom Conversations, nineteen essays by educators from Dewey to Delpit offer parents and new teachers an education degree in a nutshell. The Milettas-a mother and daughter pair of educators-frame these touchstone texts with commentary before and after, dual-generation dialogue explaining why... More Info
$41.95
The Push to Prescribe
Womens Pr |
September 30, 2009 |
297 pages
In recent years, heated debate has surrounded the pharmaceutical industry and how it has gained unprecedented control over the evaluation, regulation, and promotion of its own products. As a result, drugs are produced, regulated, marketed, and used in ways that infiltrate many aspects of everyday... More Info
$20.50
Forced to Care
Harvard Univ Pr |
March 5, 2012 |
272 pages
The United States faces a growing crisis in care. The number of people needing care is growing while the ranks of traditional caregivers have shrunk. The status of care workers is a critical concern. Evelyn Nakano Glenn offers an innovative interpretation of care labor in the United States by... More Info
$28.95
The Nature-Nurture Debates
Cambridge University Press |
July 31, 2012 |
250 pages
How is it possible that in more than one hundred years, the nature-nurture debate has not come to a satisfactory resolution? The problem, Dale Goldhaber argues, lies not with the proposed answers, but with the question itself.
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Biography
$15.95
Fidel Castro
The History Press |
October 25, 2006 |
160 pages
Fidel Castro is a dynamic and charismatic leader, who has led Cuba through success and failures since 1959. Son of a rich landowner, he became a radical revolutionary who attempted to overthrow the government in 1956 with a tiny band of followers. Using propaganda and subversion as much as sudden... More Info
$38.00
Interventions
Penguin Press HC |
September 4, 2012 |
383 pages
A former secretary-general of the United Nations shares his unique perspectives on the September 11; terrorist attacks the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan; the wars among Israel, Hezbollah and Lebanon; the humanitarian tragedies of Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia; and the geopolitical... More Info
$18.95
A Wedding in Haiti
Algonquin Books |
March 19, 2013 |
208 pages
Julia Alvarez has been called a one-woman cultural collision by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships—with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti. A teenager when Julia... More Info
$29.50
Detroit
Penguin Press HC |
February 7, 2013 |
304 pages
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Work and Other Sins presents an exposé of bureaucratic corruption and systemic arson in his home city of Detroit, tracing his work with a local fire brigade and his investigations into the daily lives of politicians, police officials, businesspeople and... More Info
$26.99
Breathe Deeply
March 12, 2013 |
256 pages
In June 2011, Susan Spencer-Wendel was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. It is a disease that systematically destroys nerves that power muscles; Susan, 45 years old and a mother of three, already walks with braces and is losing her... More Info
Media, Science & Technology
$22.95
The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading
The MIT Press |
February 1, 2011 |
219 pages
As we hurtle into thetwenty-first century, will we be passive downloaders of content or activeuploaders of meaning?
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$34.95
Challenge for Change
McGill Queens Univ |
February 1, 2010 |
574 pages
An examination of the radical politics and cinema of the legendary documentary film program devoted to social change.
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$13.50
Open Access
MIT Press |
July 20, 2012 |
242 pages
The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience atvirtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work"open access": digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensingrestrictions. Open access is made... More Info
$29.95
Ambient Commons
MIT Press (MA) |
March 8, 2013 |
320 pages
The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts andformats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appeareverywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Sensors, processors,and memory are not found only... More Info
Poetry
$19.95
A Short History of Forgetting
April 15, 2010 |
73 pages
As first collections of poems go, Paul Tyler’s A Short History of Forgetting is remarkable for its confidence, maturity of voice and control of form. Its style ranges from the aggressive pace, short measure and muscular language of its tightly-wound object poems, to gentler, more meditative... More Info
$19.95
Escape Velocity
Goose Lane Editions |
May 21, 2013 |
88 pages
Carmelita McGrath?s Escape Velocity ? the long awaited follow-up to her Atlantic Poetry Prize-winning collection To the New World ? culls overlooked fragments from our domestic lives and ferries them on unpredictable journeys. A conversation with a telemarketer becomes a monologue on overcoming... More Info
$16.95
The human shore
Harbour Pub Co |
October 16, 2006 |
71 pages
An accomplished collection by a poet sure to leave an indelible mark on Canadian poetry.
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$18.95
Letter from Brooklyn
E C W Press |
April 1, 2013 |
96 pages
Having lived part time in Brooklyn for the past several years, Jacob Scheier's new poems are solidly rooted in Jewish New York life and examine love, loss, history, identity, protest, and popular culture. At the heart of Letter from Brooklyn is the notion that we understand who we are by where we... More Info
Canada
$39.95
Progressive heritage
Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr |
April 1, 2002 |
322 pages
Most critics and literary historians have ignored Marxist-inspired creative literature in Canada, or dismissed it as an ephemeral phenomenon of the 1930s. Research reveals, however, that from the 1920s onward Canadian creative writers influenced by Marxist ideas have produced a quantitatively... More Info
$39.99
Discipline, Devotion, and Dissent
Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
December 1, 2012 |
350 pages
The education provided by Canada's faith-based schools is a subject of public, political, and scholarly controversy. As the population becomes more religiously diverse, the continued establishment and support of faith-based schools has reignited debates about whether they should be funded publicly... More Info
$27.95
A Concise History of Canada
March 31, 2012 |
312 pages
Margaret Conrad's history of Canada begins with a challenge to its readers. What is Canada? What makes up this diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state? What was its founding moment? And who are its people? Drawing on her many years of experience as a scholar, writer, and teacher of... More Info
Family
$16.95
The Long and the Short of It
Amer Cancer Society |
January 25, 2011 |
48 pages
Isabel wants her hair to be long while Emma struggles with hair loss due to chemotherapy, but when Isabel hears about hair donation she decides to help.
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$17.95
Mom, I'm Not a Kid Anymore: Navigating 25 Inevitable Conversations That Arrive Before You Know It
Experiment Llc |
May 7, 2013 |
256 pages
Raising a preteen can sneak up on you. Best friends can turn into crushes—or bullies—overnight, and suddenly everything you do is so embarrassing. Connecting with someone who not so long ago was your baby and now only responds in shrugs and eye-rolls is difficult, but open, respectful... More Info
$26.95
Raising Vegetarian Children
McGraw-Hill Companies |
September 25, 2002 |
300 pages
When parents choose a vegetarian lifestyle for their child, it can set family fingers wagging in dietary disapproval. It's no easier on steak-loving parents when Junior announces he's sworn off meat. With the strategies in Raising Vegetarian Children, parents can ease family tensions and learn to... More Info
$20.00
Zero Waste Home
Scribner |
April 9, 2013 |
304 pages
Part inspirational story of Bea Johnson (the “Priestess of Waste-Free Living”) and how she transformed her family’s life for the better by reducing their waste to an astonishing one liter per year; part practical, step-by-step guide that gives readers tools and tips to diminish their... More Info
Race
$35.00
Race, Ethnicity, and Policing
NYU Press |
March 15, 2010 |
535 pages
From Rodney King and "driving while black" to claims of targeting of undocumented Latino immigrants, relationships surrounding race, ethnicity, and the police have faced great challenge. Race, Ethnicity, and Policingincludes both classic pieces and original essays that provide the reader with a... More Info
$28.50
Confronting race
Univ of New Mexico Pr |
May 25, 2013 |
326 pages
In 1984, when Glenda Riley's 'Women and Indians on the Frontier' was published, it was hailed for being the first study to take into account the roles that gender, race, and class played in Indian/white relations during the westward migration. In the twenty years since, the study of those aspects... More Info
$35.95
Black Against Empire
Univ of California Press |
January 14, 2013 |
560 pages
Presents an overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party, revealing the political dynamics that drove the growth of this revolutionary movement, and its unraveling.
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$21.50
Color Me English
January 1, 2013 |
352 pages
The award-winning author of A Distant Shore presents a collection of observations on the dynamic notions of race, culture and belonging before and after the September 11 attacks, providing entries that consider such topics as his childhood memories about a Muslim fellow student and his... More Info
$21.00
Whitewashed
New York Univ Pr |
April 2, 2010 |
256 pages
Middle Easterners: Sometimes White, Sometimes Not- an article by John Tehranian The Middle Eastern question lies at the heart of the most pressing issues of our time: the war in Iraq and on terrorism, the growing tension between preservation of our national security and protection of our civil... More Info
Class
$19.95
Convicting the Innocent
Harvard University Press |
September 3, 2012 |
376 pages
This probing analysis of three of Giotto’s major works and the patrons who commissioned them goes beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers and illuminates the complex interactions between... More Info
$35.00
Failed Evidence
NYU Press |
September 3, 2012 |
260 pages
With the popularity of crime dramas like CSI focusing on forensic science, and increasing numbers of police and prosecutors making wide-spread use of DNA, high-tech science seems to have become the handmaiden of law enforcement. But this is a myth,asserts law professor and nationally known expert... More Info
$39.00
Resilience
State Univ of New York Pr |
November 6, 2008 |
254 pages
Academia can be overwhelmingly foreign and hostile to those who have poor or working-class backgrounds. For people who are from the working class and also queer, the obstacles to earning a graduate degree may prove insurmountable. Frequently discouraged from attending college in the first place,... More Info
$55.00
Writing Unemployment
April 17, 2013 |
280 pages
This landmark study explores the cultural and literary history of unemployment in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s, which were crucial decades in the formation of our current conception of Canada as a nation. Writing Unemploymentasks how writers with diverse political affiliations participated in... More Info
Graphic Novels
$27.50
The Hammer and the Anvil
Hill and Wang |
July 17, 2012 |
160 pages
The period leading up to the Civil War was one of great change. Congress divided itself between Northerners and Southerners, citizens on the frontier took up arms against one another, and movements for secession and abolition were more urgent than ever. In The Hammer and the Anvil, the... More Info
$33.50
Journalism
Metropolitan Books |
June 19, 2012 |
208 pages
The cartoonist creator of the Eisner Award-winning graphic novel Footnotes in Gaza presents a journalistic collection on the sidelines of wars around the world that includes articles on the American military in Iraq that have never been published in the United States, illuminating such subjects as... More Info
$19.95
Good Riddance
Abrams ComicArts |
May 7, 2013 |
224 pages
When you think you live in a Norman Rockwell painting—married 18 years, three kids, beautiful old house in the country, successful career as a writer—you don't expect there's another side to the canvas. Until you read a lovesick e-mail to your husband . . . that didn't come from you! Good... More Info
$29.99
The Ignorants
Nbm Publishing Company |
March 1, 2013 |
272 pages
A graphic novel that explores the nature of one's vocation, this book offers a look at the daily devotion to craft in two dissimilar professions. Étienne Davodeau is a comic artist—he doesn't know much about the world of winemaking. Richard Leroy is a winemaker—he's rarely even read comics.... More Info
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Susceptible
Drawn and Quarterly |
February 19, 2013 |
80 pages
A TRANS-CANADIAN EXPLORATION OF IDENTITY FROM A MULTITALENTED ARTIST AND MUSICIAN Geneviève Castrée has long been beloved for her mini-comics, comics, visual art, and music. There is a unique quality to all of her artistic endeavors—quiet, serene, depressing. Castrée’s keen eye for detail... More Info
International Politics & Socialism
$19.95
How the World Works
Counterpoint Press |
September 20, 2011 |
336 pages
According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is ?arguably the most important intellectual alive.” But he isn't easy to read . . . or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky,... More Info
$29.95
Socialist Register 2009
October 15, 2008 |
300 pages
Is this a new age of barbarism? The scale and pervasiveness of violence today calls urgently for serious analysis of: the 'war on terror' and counter-insurgencies; terror and counter-terror; suicide bombings and torture; civil wars and anarchy; urban gang warfare; and the persistence of chronic... More Info
$74.95
Antonio Gramsci Prison Notebooks
Capstone |
May 15, 2007 |
675 pages
This is the second volume of the only complete critical edition of these seminal writings in English, based on the authoritative Italian edition, "Quaderni del carcere," prepared by Valentino Gerratana. This volume encompasses notebooks 3, 4, and 5.
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Gardening
$17.95
Composting
Skyhorse Pub Co Inc |
April 1, 2012 |
112 pages
One of Britain's most well known organic gardenersshares his tips, tricks, and timeless wisdomon fruitful gardening without dangerous chemicalsand pesticides. These practical, user-friendly, full-colorguides are set up to help any beginning gardenersave time and money while growing a fruitful... More Info
$24.95
Timber Press Pocket Guide to Shade Perennials
Timber Press (OR) |
May 25, 2013 |
252 pages
Rich with descriptions and illustrations of more than 1000 readily available species and cultivars that will enliven and thrive in your shade garden. The easy-to-read format, illustrated with more than 300 photographs, makes this the perfect handy reference. You will find definitions of shade... More Info
$15.95
Kitchen Garden Cookbook: Tomatoes
Natl Trust |
July 1, 2011 |
96 pages
A charming guide to a vegetable patch staple, with recipes for both familiar and unusual dishes to help all gardeners make the most of their crop Everything a gardener and cook needs to know about the humble potato, both in the ground and on the plate, can be found in this resource. It contains a... More Info
$29.95
The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals
Storey Books |
March 23, 2011 |
360 pages
Presents a comprehensive guide to raising farm animals for food independence, from managing a honey bee hive to caring for and breeding meat and dairy cows, pigs, goats, and fowl.
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$19.95
Kiss My Aster
Storey Books |
December 18, 2012 |
159 pages
Combines illustrations with advice and suggestions for creating a garden tailored to personal specifications, including planting privacy hedges, laying out flower beds, building a patio, and digging a duck pond.
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Globalization
$29.50
Creating Room to Read
Viking Press |
February 7, 2013 |
320 pages
Traces the inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive who quit his lucrative career to found the Room to Read nonprofit organization that would build libraries for poor children throughout the world, describing how the organization has been challenged by the recent economic collapse.
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$19.95
How Bad Are Bananas?
Greystone Books |
April 1, 2011 |
256 pages
Discusses the carbon footprint--the carbon emissions used to manufacture and transport--everyday items, including paper bags and imported produce, and provides information to help build carbon considerations into everyday purchases.
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$16.95
English As a Global Language
March 29, 2012 |
228 pages
David Crystal's classic English as a Global Language considers the history, present status and future of the English language, focusing on its role as the leading international language. English has been deemed the most 'successful' language ever, with 1500 million speakers internationally,... More Info
$34.95
The will of the many
Pluto Pr |
October 1, 2009 |
284 pages
Never before has the idea of democracy enjoyed the global dominance it holds today, but neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy finds itself in deep crisis. Marianne Maeckelbergh argues that the most promising model for global democracy is not coming from traditional political parties or... More Info
$23.00
Shutting Down the Streets
NYU Press |
September 12, 2011 |
207 pages
Recently, a wall was built in eastern Germany. Made of steel and cement blocks, topped with razor barbed wire, and reinforced with video monitors and movement sensors, this wall was not put up to protect a prison or a military base, but rather to guard a three-day meeting of the finance ministers... More Info
Cuba
$17.00
The Havana Habit
Yale Univ Pr |
January 10, 2012 |
256 pages
Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In the engaging and wide-ranging "Havana Habit, " writer and scholar Gustavo Perez... More Info
$32.99
Where No Doctor Has Gone Before
Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
December 1, 2012 |
180 pages
Tens of thousands of people around the world die each day from causes that could have been prevented with access to affordable health care resources. In an era of unprecedented global inequity, Cuba, a small, low-income country, is making a difference by providing affordable health care to millions... More Info
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