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How do countries come to view themselves as being 'multicultural'? Us, Them, and Otherspresents a...
Kids' Books
$10.25
Clean Water
Flash Point |
August 18, 2009 |
40 pages
Discusses the composition and states of water, its importance to human beings, how humans obtain water, how humans are polluting the water supply, the effects of this pollution and strategies to address the problem. Original.
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$9.99
Face-Off at the Alamo
Tundra Books |
February 12, 2013 |
176 pages
The Screech Owls have come to the southern city of San Antonio, Texas, a surprising hotbed of American ice hockey. They are here to compete in the San Antonio Peewee Invitational, and between games can explore the fascinating canals that twist and turn through a maze of shops and restaurants in the... More Info
$4.99
Madeline's Tea Party
Penguin Young Readers |
May 24, 2012 |
32 pages
In this charming, easy-to-read story filled with full-color illustrations, Madeline hosts a fabulously dainty tea party, but when her naughty friend Pepito makes an appearance, havoc ensues! Simultaneous.
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$7.95
My Book of Simple Subtraction
Kumon Pub North America Ltd |
October 6, 2005 |
80 pages
"Use this book to help your child learn how to subtract the numbers 1 through 5 from whole numbers up to 20"--Cover.
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$8.79
Dueling with the Three Musketeers
Zonderkidz |
January 22, 2013 |
144 pages
Twins Linus and Ophelia and their friend, Walter, hope to rescue their friend's school from the headmistress' greedy brother with help from D'Artagnan of The Three Musketeers but their plans go horribly awry.
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Literature - International
$25.50
Shooting War
Grand Central Publishing |
November 19, 2007 |
192 pages
Catapulted into media stardom when he inadvertently captures a terrorist bombing on film and posts it online, anti-corporate blogger Jimmy Burns sets off for Iraq to pursue a dream of becoming a truth-telling war correspondent but is rapidly traumatized by the region's harsher-than-anticipated... More Info
$19.95
Agamemnon's Daughter
Anchor Canada |
April 2, 2013 |
272 pages
Now in paperback, one of the novels that garnered Kadare the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for fiction, plus two stunning new stories. Agamemnon's Daughteris an impeccably crafted, psychologically incisive tale of a disappointed lover's odyssey through a single day and his gradual... More Info
$18.95
The Sherpa and other fictions
Sumach Pr |
March 21, 2008 |
173 pages
In this riveting new collection, author Nila Gupta reveals intersections of contemporary Canadian and Indian cultures with raw authenticity. A young Canadian travels to India to explore her roots and find the woman who loved her like a daughter; a doctor struggles against military corruption as he... More Info
$30.00
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Little, Brown |
April 23, 2013 |
288 pages
A new collection of essays from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who has been called "the preeminent humorist of his generation" (Entertainment Weekly). From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his readers on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From... More Info
$23.00
In One Person
Vintage Books Canada |
January 29, 2013 |
448 pages
His most political novel sinceThe Cider House RulesandA Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving'sIn One Personis a story of unfulfilled love--tormented, funny and affecting--and an intimate, unforgettable portrait of the novel's bisexual narrator and main character, Billy Abbott. John Irving's new novel... More Info
Political Economy
$44.00
Subversives
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
August 21, 2012 |
752 pages
Subversives traces the FBI’s secret involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr. Through these converging narratives, the... More Info
$16.95
Karl Marx
June 15, 2012 |
224 pages
Provides an overview of Karl Marx, whose socialist ideas inspired communist revolutions throughout the world. Original.
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$35.95
Representing Jihad
Zed Books |
September 15, 2012 |
272 pages
The jihad has been at the center of the West's securitization discourse for more than a decade. Western theorists constantly use the jihadist as a discursive tool to further their neoliberal, military and market agendas, perpetuating massive gaps of understanding between "the West," Muslims and... More Info
$23.95
On American Soil
April 15, 2007 |
384 pages
Through his access to previously classified documents and information gained from extensive interviews, journalist Hamann tells the story behind World War II's largest army court-martial, where three African-American soldiers were charged with the lynching and murder of an Italian prisoner of war.
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$24.95
The Cnt in the Spanish Revolution
Pm Pr |
April 1, 2012 |
296 pages
A careful chronicle of political change and hope in 1930s Spain, this staggering work examines how the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), rose up against the oppressive structures of Spanish society. Documenting a history of revolution that failed at the hands of its enemies on both the... More Info
Political Action
$18.00
The Price of Inequality
W. W. Norton |
April 8, 2013 |
560 pages
A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.
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$25.00
The Neoliberal Deluge
October 7, 2011 |
416 pages
A critical collection on the politics of disaster and reconstruction in New Orleans
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$16.99
The Young Activist's Guide to Building a Green Movement and Changing the World
Ten Speed Press |
February 22, 2011 |
192 pages
A powerful and practical guide to environmental activism featuring proven strategies and lessons learned from the winners of Earth Island Institute’s Brower Youth Awards—America’s top honor for young green leaders. Some of the world’s most inspiring and effective leaders aren’t even old... More Info
$18.95
Parecomic
March 12, 2013 |
224 pages
Parecomic is a graphic novel about something that affects us all: the system we live in--what's wrong with it, and how we might be able change it for the better. Written by Sean Michael Wilson, and drawn by Carl Thompson, Parecomic is about Michael Albert--the visionary behind "participatory... More Info
$10.95
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Green Print |
February 1, 2012 |
93 pages
A seminal work on the power of nonviolent action, this classic book outlines, in a systematic way, the elements involved in successfully opposing military dictatorships by passive means. This work shows how nonviolent action grows from the fact that all governments depend on the cooperation, or at... More Info
Unusual Histories
$21.00
Something Fierce
Douglas & McIntyre Limited |
August 14, 2012 |
288 pages
A Canada Reads 2012: True Stories Contender! New in paperback, a gripping, darkly comic memoir of a young underground revolutionary during the Pinochet dictatorship in 1980s Chile. This dramatic, darkly funny narrative, which covers the decade from 1979 to 1989, takes the reader inside war-ridden... More Info
$28.95
Duels and Duets
August 25, 2011 |
252 pages
Why do men and women talk so differently and how do these differences interfere with communication between the sexes?
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$29.95
Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History
Firefly Books Limited |
January 25, 2011 |
223 pages
The fascinating stories of the plants that changed civilizations.
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$43.95
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace
March 18, 2013 |
272 pages
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace explores the social and political activism of American Jewish women from approximately 1890 to the beginnings of World War II. Written in an engaging style, the book demonstrates that no history of the birth control, suffrage, or peace movements in the United... More Info
$28.95
White Coat, Black Hat
Beacon Pr |
September 14, 2010 |
213 pages
“Beneath the white coats and sterile labs of the great American heath care system, Carl Elliott finds a drug-addled, gang-run, con game—sometimes bizarre, often hilarious. The noble arc that runs from Hippocrates to Sherwin Nuland washes out in a 'business model' apparently inspired by Timothy... More Info
Indigenous Studies
$27.95
Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada
Univ. of Manitoba Press |
August 31, 2010 |
202 pages
Indigenous media challenges the power of the state, erodes communication monopolies, and illuminates government threats to indigenous cultural, social, economic, and political sovereignty. Its effectiveness in these areas, however, is hampered by government control of broadcast frequencies,... More Info
$19.95
Cherokee thoughts, honest and uncensored
Univ of Oklahoma Pr |
October 31, 2008 |
200 pages
"Distinguished novelist Robert J. Conley here examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world. In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, and even sarcasm, this popular writer takes on politics, culture, his people's history, and what it means to be Cherokee." "Readers who... More Info
$65.00
Koasati traditional narratives
University of Nebraska Press |
June 1, 2010 |
303 pages
Koasati Traditional Narratives is the first published collection of oral literature of the Koasati Indians, who at the time of first contact with the West lived in the upper Tennessee River valley but now predominantly reside in western Louisiana. The works were gathered from several narrators... More Info
$15.95
Aski Awasis/Children of the Earth
Fernwood Pub Co Ltd |
September 1, 2010 |
112 pages
A celebration of the work of Yellowhead Tribal Services Agency (YTSA) in Alberta, this collection of essays describes the agency's bold new model that integrates First Peoples' adoption practices with provincial adoption laws and regulations. Now expecting closure to the long debate in Canada over... More Info
$18.95
Southern Ute Women
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
January 1, 2009 |
165 pages
After the passage of the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887, the Southern Ute Agency was the scene of an intense federal effort to assimilate the Ute Indians. The Southern Utes were to break up their common land holdings and transform themselves into middle-class patriarchal farm and pastoral families. In... More Info
Environmental Politics
$21.00
Outside the Box
Vintage Books Canada |
April 2, 2013 |
304 pages
When Canadian journalist Jeannie Marshall moved to Rome with her husband, she delighted in Italy's famous culinary traditions. But when Marshall gave birth to a son, she began to see how that food culture was eroding, especially within young families. Like their North American counterparts, Italian... More Info
$29.95
Green Gold
New Internationalist Pubns Inc |
November 1, 2008 |
176 pages
"In the heart of the Amazon basin lies the Yasuni UNESCO reserve, one of the most biologically diverse forests on the planet. It is home to the Waorani and some of the last indigenous peoples still living in isolation in the Amazon.
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$16.95
Wavelengths of Your Song
McGill Queens Univ |
April 1, 2013 |
144 pages
Intuitive environmentalism from the Canadian North is carried forth into creative global adventuring.
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$35.00
Fixing the sky
Columbia Univ Pr |
August 15, 2010 |
325 pages
Weaving together stories from elite science, cutting-edge technology, and popular culture, Fleming examines issues of health and navigation in the 1830s, drought in the 1890s, aircraft safety in the 1930s, and world conflict since the 1940s.
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$17.95
The Urban Birder
New Holland Pub Limited |
July 3, 2012 |
224 pages
Sharing advice on how to enjoy a birdwatching hobby in city environments, an uplifting guide by the ornithologist blogger at theurbanbirder.com traces the author's personal journey of discovery and shares engaging stories of bird and human encounters in parks, while traveling and through windows.
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Philosophy
$22.00
Ideas That Matter
January 3, 2012 |
448 pages
With customary wit and passion, a renowned philosopher examines the essential theories, movements and philosophies that will shape our world in the decades to come, from animal rights to bioethics and neurophilosophy, from war crimes and fundamentalism to globalization. Reprint.
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$29.95
Thinking With Irigaray
Suny Press |
November 1, 2011 |
296 pages
An interdisciplinary and contemporary response to Irigaray's work.
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$26.95
Being and Time
Suny Press |
July 1, 2010 |
482 pages
A revised translation of Heidegger's most important work.
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$24.95
Arts of the Political
Duke University Press Books |
March 22, 2013 |
253 pages
DIVIn the West, "the Left," understood as a loose conglomeration of interests centered around the goal of a fairer and more equal society, still struggles to make its voice heard and its influence felt, even amid an overwhelming global recession. In Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left,... More Info
$31.00
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
W. W. Norton |
May 6, 2013 |
384 pages
One of the world's leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.
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Cookbooks
$29.95
Everyday Kitchen for Kids
Whitecap Books |
September 3, 2012 |
216 pages
From the author of the international best-seller Kitchen for Kids comes an all-new cookbook that encourages child participation in meal preparation. Original.
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$25.00
California Cuisine and Just Food
MIT Press |
September 28, 2012 |
354 pages
Can a celebrity chef find common ground with an urban community organizer? Can amaker of organic cheese and a farm worker share an agenda for improving America's food? In the SanFrancisco Bay area, unexpected alliances signal the widening concerns of diverse alternative foodproponents.
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$27.95
Whole Grains for a New Generation
Stewart, Tabori and Chang |
October 1, 2012 |
272 pages
Whole Grains for a New Generation: Light Dishes, Hearty Meals, Sweet Treats, and Sundry Snacks for the Everyday Cook takes a fresh and creative perspective on the latest major cooking trend: whole grains. Liana Krissoff presents delicious recipes for modern everyday cooks and kitchens. With... More Info
$19.95
How to Host a Dinner Party
House of Anansi |
June 11, 2013 |
264 pages
We've all been there: twenty minutes before guests arrive, and you're unsure if you've got enough wine, or enough chairs, or whether your friend is a vegetarian or a vegan. Hosting a dinner party is hard, but Corey Mintz can help. For his popular Toronto Star column, "Fed," he has presided over 115... More Info
$21.95
Cooking Up the Good Life
U of Minnesota Press |
April 4, 2011 |
200 pages
Wholesome, fun recipes to cook with the seasons?from renowned Twin Cities chef Jenny Breen.
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Pop Culture
$29.95
Morris As Elvis
January 31, 2010 |
379 pages
Born on the Shuswap Indian Reservation in British Columbia, Morris Bates became the first professional Elvis impersonator, playing the Las Vegas strip for 10 years after the King's death. In Vegas he appeared on stage at the Silver Slipper, The Landmark Hilton, and Vegas World; he also gave command... More Info
$27.95
Stencil King
Lebowski |
March 15, 2011 |
160 pages
'In the beginning, before Street Art was even invented, Hugo Kaagman was getting up on the streets and walls of Europe. His work is the living embodiment of the collison between Punk and Art and Resistance. I wish more artists had more of Hugo's energy and less of their own pretensions. Forget all... More Info
$19.95
101 Forgotten Films
Oldcastle Books Ltd |
September 1, 2008 |
160 pages
Somewhere in the labyrinth of our memories are films that we have seen and cannot forget but frustratingly may never see again because they have mysteriously vanished from the public domain. They may be hidden away in a film studio's vault, buried beneath the floorboards of a filmmaker's home,... More Info
$13.99
The Quotable Stoner
Adams Media Corporation |
July 18, 2011 |
256 pages
"I love my FedEx guy 'cause he's a drug dealer and he don't even know it . . . and he's always on time." --Mitch Hedberg Talking about weed? It never gets old. There's just a whole lot to be said. And in this book, you'll find more than a thousand hilarious, half-baked quotes about marijuana and... More Info
$16.00
Wreck This Journal (Black)
Perigee Trade |
August 7, 2012 |
224 pages
The international bestseller… For anyone who's ever had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes this expanded edition of Wreck This Journal, an illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking readers to muster up their best mistake and... More Info
Feminism
$29.95
The Family Flamboyant
SUNY Press |
October 5, 2006 |
232 pages
Interrogates the normative heterosexual family from feminist, Jewish, and queer perspectives.
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$21.95
The End of Gay
May 16, 2000 |
320 pages
Gay is a phase. Not something people go through in adolescence, but, like feminism, a cultural, historical movement, on the way to something bigger. Through the prism of his own sexual past and present, with a wide array of references to pop culture, literature and history, Archer traces the rise... More Info
$20.00
An Unconventional Family
March 1, 2002 |
240 pages
Sandra Bem has written an autobiographical account of the Bems' nearly thirty-year marriage, which stands as both a personal history of the Bems' past & a social history of a key period in feminism's past. It is also a look into feminism's future, because of the Bems' children, now in their... More Info
$31.50
Pederasts and Others
Routledge |
August 1, 2004 |
258 pages
Examine how a community of support in Nineteenth-Century Paris became a blueprint for modern sexual identity! A unique social history, Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris is a valuable addition to the growing field of gay and lesbian studies.
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Health Studies
$28.00
The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care
New Trends Pub Incorporated |
March 16, 2013 |
336 pages
Offers a guide to child rearing and child nutrition that focuses on a nutrient dense diet from pregnancy through childhood and natural treatments for childhood illnesses.
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$21.95
Enter Mourning
May 1, 2009 |
200 pages
Chronicling the difficult journey through her mother's decline and death, the author describes her and her siblings' struggle while caring for aging parents and their immediate families, as the author must continuously shift her focus while dealing with difficult emotions raised by her brother and... More Info
$24.95
Rose Reisman's Choose It and Lose It
Whitecap Books |
September 20, 2012 |
160 pages
We all want to eat well, cut calories and keep ourselves and our families happy and healthy. But with all our commitments and claims on our time--work, school, hobbies, commuting and ferrying our kids to their extracurricular activities--we don't always have time for home-cooked meals. Fast... More Info
$27.95
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa
October 8, 2012 |
352 pages
Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in... More Info
$19.95
Women Who Care
September 15, 2010 |
178 pages
In her third year of medical training - discouraged by how little focus there was on caring - a young woman was faced with a decision: she could throw her hands up and quit or she could risk speaking up and work toward change. She decided to send out a call for submissions, asking women to share... More Info
Biography
$16.50
Seriously...I'm Kidding
Grand Central Publishing |
September 25, 2012 |
256 pages
I've experienced a whole lot the last few years and I have a lot to share. So I hope that you'll take a moment to sit back, relax and enjoy the words I've put together for you in this book. I think you'll find I've left no stone unturned, no door unopened, no window unbroken, no rug unvacuumed, no... 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
$28.50
A Man of Misconceptions
Riverhead Books (Hardcover) |
November 8, 2012 |
352 pages
Exploring the unconventional life of Athanasius Kircher, the legendary 17th-century priest-scientist who was either a genius or raving lunatic, this fascinating portrait of a man who lived during an era of radical transformation traces the rise, success and eventual fall of this colorful character.... More Info
$15.95
The Unlikely Secret Agent
Monthly Review Pr |
March 1, 2012 |
192 pages
No summary available.
$28.50
Lifesaving Lessons
Viking Press |
March 21, 2013 |
272 pages
"Life was pretty good for Linda Greenlaw. Her job and her lifestyle gave her the independence and freedom she so craved, she had a good relationship, and a blissful quiet home. And then one day the peace she so craved and valued that was an integral part of life on her beloved island was shattered.... More Info
Media, Science & Technology
$30.00
Cycling Science
November 15, 2012 |
192 pages
Every July hundreds of thousands flock to the Champs-Élysées in Paris—and millions more to their televisions and computers—to witness the dramatic conclusion of the grueling three weeks of the Tour de France. There is no better measure of the worldwide love of the bicycle. But of the 1.2... More Info
$17.99
Brain Wars
HarperPerennial |
May 7, 2013 |
320 pages
An acclaimed neuroscientist transforms our understanding of the relationship between the brain, the mind and consciousness Where does our sense of self originate? What happens to us after our body perishes? Can the mind exist without the body? These profound questions have engendered considerable... More Info
$28.50
Present Shock
Current |
March 21, 2013 |
256 pages
An award-winning author explores how the world works in our age of “continuous now” Back in the 1970s, futurism was all the rage. But looking forward is becoming a thing of the past. According to Douglas Rushkoff, “presentism” is the new ethos of a society that's always on, in real time,... More Info
$35.00
Radicalizing Enactivism
MIT Press |
December 14, 2012 |
206 pages
Most of what humans do and experience is best understood in terms of dynamicallyunfolding interactions with the environment. Many philosophers and cognitive scientists nowacknowledge the critical importance of situated, environment-involving embodied engagements as ameans of understanding basic... More Info
$34.50
The AIDS Conspiracy
Columbia Univ Pr |
January 20, 2012 |
224 pages
Examines conspiracy theories surrounding HIV and AIDS, focusing on two main widely believed falsehoods--that America manufactured AIDS to be a biological weapon and the belief that HIV is harmless and the true cause of AIDS are antiretroviral drugs.
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Poetry
$19.95
1996
House of Anansi Press |
April 9, 2013 |
88 pages
Sara Peters' visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of mystery and terror, we meet remarkable characters enduring unspeakable things, confronting... More Info
$18.95
The Fly in Autumn
Harbour Publishing |
March 25, 2009 |
94 pages
"The Fly in Autumn" is a nuanced work that constantly shifts between the inane and the macabre, between black humour and self-mockery.
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$17.95
My Life in Pictures
Now or Never Publishing Company |
April 15, 2013 |
181 pages
The prose poems of My Life in Pictures are about the life and times of Canadian poet and novelist, Christian McPherson. He runs his own narrative through a film projector and what illuminates onto the page is a poignant coming of age story, along with the harrowing trails of dealing with a mentally... More Info
$14.95
Poems for All the Annettes
House of Anansi Press |
March 12, 2013 |
104 pages
Originally published by Contact Press in 1962, then later by House of Anansi in 1967, and again in a revised, expanded edition in 1972, Poems for All the Annettes stands as one of the essential documents of the great Al Purdy's career. So many beloved poems are here?"At Roblin Lake," "At the Quinte... More Info
$16.95
Here Is Where We Disembark
Freehand Books |
September 1, 2010 |
104 pages
With her remarkable debut collection, Yukon poet Clea Roberts proffers a perceptive & ecological reading of the Canadian North’s past & present.Roberts deftly draws out the moments that comprise a cycle of seasons, paying as much attention to the natural—the winter moon’s second-hand... More Info
Canada
$29.95
Inside the Ndp War Room
McGill Queens Univ |
November 1, 2012 |
200 pages
A first-hand account of how decisions to represent political parties are made.
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$32.95
The Tower of Babble
Douglas & McIntyre |
August 14, 2012 |
288 pages
The ultimate CBC insider exposes the controversies, successes and dead ends of his time at the top. In 2004, CBC television had sunk to its lowest audience share in its history. That same year, Richard Stursberg, an avowed popularizer with a reputation for radical action, was hired to run English... More Info
$45.00
Reconciling Canada
February 3, 2013 |
576 pages
In this volume, leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences relate contemporary political and social efforts to redress wrongs to the fraught history of government relations with Aboriginal and diasporic populations.
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$35.50
Unhealthy times
Oxford University Press, USA |
March 15, 2001 |
254 pages
This unique work assembles in a readily accessible format an enormous amount of research in the areas of health and health care, within a broadly defined political economy framework. Divided into three sections, it covers homecare, globalization, and the comparisons between the Canadian system and... More Info
Family
$27.95
Fast-Forward Family
Univ of California Press |
March 1, 2013 |
297 pages
Called "the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted" by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families. In a study by the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives and Families, researchers tracked the daily lives of... More Info
$33.50
Planting Seeds
Parallax Press |
June 1, 2011 |
240 pages
Based on the Plum Village retreat program through which families with children practice mindfulness, meditation and peaceful communication, a book-and-CD set outlines activities and curricula that can be incorporated into school and community settings to build supportive, mutually beneficial... More Info
$18.95
Maternity Rolls
Fernwood Pub Co Ltd |
September 1, 2010 |
144 pages
Combining ethnology and memoir, this fascinating book describes the issues surrounding childbirth and motherhood for disabled women. The author, a paraplegic, tells about her own hunt for medical advice before getting pregnant--and then about the normal births of her two children--before widening... More Info
Race
$26.50
Remembering Medgar Evers
February 25, 2013 |
232 pages
As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississippi, Medgar Wiley Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes (including Emmett Till's murder) and to organize boycotts and voter registration drives. On June 12, 1963, he was shot in the back by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith... More Info
$27.50
Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul
State University of New York Press |
June 1, 2008 |
297 pages
Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul explores innovative approaches to analyzing cultural productions through which women of color have challenged and undermined social and political forces that work to oppress them. Emphasizing art-making practices that emerge out of and reflect concrete lived experience,... More Info
$35.95
Race, Racism and Development
Zed Books |
November 27, 2012 |
320 pages
Race, Racism and Development is the first book to place constructions of race and racism at the center of a comprehensive analysis of the dominant discourses and practices of development. The author compares and contrasts two key theoretical approaches to race the postcolonial approach and a... More Info
Class
$22.95
Good Places to Live: Poverty and Public Housing in Canada
Brunswick Books |
October 1, 2011 |
157 pages
Professor:
Prof. Fiona Meyer Cook
Course Codes:
SOWK 1000V
Semester:
Summer-2013
Demonstrating how public housing projects are stigmatized and stereotyped as havens of poverty, illegal activity, and violence, this study contends that the problems with which they are so often associated are not inherent but the result of structural inequalities and neoliberal government... 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
$27.50
The Politics of Inequality
January 20, 2012 |
251 pages
Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of... More Info
$35.00
River of Dark Dreams
Belknap Press |
February 26, 2013 |
560 pages
When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an “empire for liberty” populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy... More Info
Graphic Novels
$15.00
Obituary Man
Bdang |
May 1, 2013 |
84 pages
Behold: Obituary Man! A nondescript man who gains indescribable energy from reciting the eulogy at the funerals of strangers. He has never felt so alive!Maurice Petit is the unremarkable type, unaware of his own loneliness until, one morning, on his way to work he feels the crowds in the street... More Info
$19.95
The Listener
Arbeiter Ring Pub |
May 15, 2011 |
304 pages
The Listener reveals one of the world's most tragic acts of spin doctoring while weaving a compelling tale of complacency, art, power, and murder. It is a startling little-known story that changed the course of history. 1933: In a small German state, the last democratic election is about to take... 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
$24.99
Jewish in America
Nbm Publishing Company |
October 1, 2012 |
392 pages
Award-winning comics writer Neil Kleid explores two aspects of being Jewish in America in this banded set of his highly praised graphic novels: Brownsville and The Big Kahn.
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$18.95
Fun Home
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
June 5, 2007 |
240 pages
In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking... More Info
International Politics & Socialism
$32.99
Season in Hell
October 31, 2011 |
368 pages
Robert Fowler
Harper Collins Publishers Ltd.; November 2011
Hardcover; 368 pages
9781443402040
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$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
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
$16.99
Grow Your Own in Pots
Mitchell Beazley |
February 6, 2013 |
Discover the essential techniques to growing more than 60 vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers in containers. With this book you can use the best varieties and techniques to turn the tiniest space into a productive and attractive growing space. Follow 30 tried-and-tested 'recipes' to choose... More Info
$24.95
Timber Press Pocket Guide to Shade Perennials
Timber Press (OR) |
May 24, 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
$29.95
Landscape Planning
Firefly Books Limited |
February 15, 2008 |
247 pages
An updated edition of the best guide to all the basics of landscaping, from assessing the property to choosing plants -- projects, plant lists, sample plans, irrigation and much more. Illustrated throughout in color.
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$24.95
Royal Horticultural Society Small Garden Handbook
Firefly Books Limited |
February 19, 2013 |
224 pages
A comprehensive guide to planning, planting and maintaining a small garden. This in-depth reference packs a lot of information and expert advice into one easy-to-use resource. It is designed to help home gardeners discover the potential in a small piece of land and guide them step-by-step through... More Info
Globalization
$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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$31.00
Good Italy, Bad Italy
Yale University Press |
August 14, 2012 |
304 pages
Not long ago Italy was Europe's highly touted emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is viewed as a major threat to the future of the Euro, indeed to the European Union as a whole. Italy's political system is shorn... More Info
$24.95
Chocolate Nations
January 15, 2011 |
182 pages
FROM BEAN TO BAR - WHERE DOES YOUR CHOCOLATE COME FROM?Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury...From the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest... More Info
$19.95
Unfair Trade
Random House Business Books |
May 1, 2012 |
240 pages
How is it that our favourite brands can import billions of pounds' worth of goods from the developing world every year, and yet leave the people who produce them barely scraping a living? Is it that big business is incompatible with the eradication of poverty? And, if so, are charity and fair trade... More Info
$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
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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