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The First Hippo on the Moon
HarperCollins Children's Books |
May 1, 2016 |
32 pages
Two big hippos. One enormous dream. Who can make it to the moon first?
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$4.99
Flat Stanley and the Lost Treasure
HarperCollins |
July 5, 2016 |
32 pages
Sometimes being flat comes in handy for Flat Stanley—like when he is surfing or rescuing a trapped dolphin from a net. In this exciting adventure, Flat Stanley and his brother, Arthur, find sunken treasure in an old shipwreck. But Stanley has to get rid of his gold bar in order to squeeze through... More Info
$7.99
Braids!
December 27, 2016 |
32 pages
More laugh-out-loud fun from best-selling author Robert Munsch! It's Saturday morning and Ashley just wants to go outside and play. Who cares if her hair is messy? Mom does! Ashley hates it when her mom puts braids in her hair. It looks nice when it's done, but she has to sit still for hours while... More Info
$10.99
Under Wildwood
Balzer + Bray |
September 24, 2013 |
592 pages
Under Wildwood is the second book in the New York Times bestselling adventure series the Wildwood Chronicles from Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, the acclaimed illustrator of The Mysterious Benedict Society. Ever since Prue McKeel returned home from the Impassable... More Info
$16.99
La Malédiction du Gardien de la Pierre
September 1, 2015 |
No summary available.
Literature - International
$21.95
The Afterlife of Birds
Freehand Books |
September 30, 2015 |
320 pages
Henry Jett’s life is slowly going nowhere. His girlfriend recently left, and his job in a local garage is uninspiring, considering that he doesn’t particularly like cars. Henry finds solace in his eccentric passion, rebuilding the skeletons of birds and animals. Meanwhile Henry’s brother,... More Info
$20.00
New Beginnings
Mosaic Press (NY) |
June 1, 2014 |
113 pages
New Beginnings is the sequel to Eric Koch’s landmark work The Golden Years: Glenn Gould, Marshall McLuhan, Lester B. Pearson, Rene Levesque & John G. Diefenbaker, published by Mosaic Press in 2013. Once again, Koch is inventing a new literary form that is special and astonishing, crafting... More Info
$32.00
News from the Red Desert
Random House Canada |
August 23, 2016 |
384 pages
From the award-winning author of The Water in Between and Consumption, the definitive novel of the Afghanistan war. News From the Red Desert begins in late 2001, when everyone believes the war is already won and the Taliban defeated, then leaps late in the severely escalated conflict--into the... More Info
$17.95
Life Sentences
December 20, 2014 |
368 pages
A dazzling new collection of essays -- on reading, writing, form, and thought -- from one of America's master writers. Beginning with personal, both past and present, it emphasizes William H. Gass's lifelong attachment to books and then moves on to ponder the work of some of his favorite writers... More Info
$10.95
A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance
February 1, 2015 |
56 pages
"Fasten your chastity belts, ladies and gentlemen, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride." From his legendary birth in a snowbank in northwestern Manitoba, through his metamorphosis to citizen-artist of the world, polyglot, playwright, pianist, storyteller, and irreverent disciple of the Trickster, Tomson... More Info
Political Economy
$33.00
Formations of the Secular
Stanford University Press |
February 3, 2003 |
269 pages
Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and... More Info
$19.95
My father was a freedom fighter
Pluto Pr |
March 30, 2010 |
320 pages
The frontline in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, Gaza is constantly reported as a place of violence and terror. Ramzy Baroud's memoir explores the daily lives of the people in that turbulent region: the complex human beings -- revolutionaries, mothers and fathers, lovers, and... More Info
$10.00
Socialism and Man in Cuba
Pathfinder Pr |
June 1, 2009 |
66 pages
Drawing on his experience as a central leader of the Cuban Revolution, Guevara explains why the revolutionary transformation of social relations necessarily involves the transformation of the working people organizing and leading that process. "To build communism it is necessary, simultaneous with... More Info
$19.95
Seasons of Hunger:
Pluto Press |
September 20, 2008 |
148 pages
Explores the annual crisis in food production which leads to the scurge of seasonal hunger.
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$31.95
Recreating Africa
The University of North Carolina Press |
September 29, 2003 |
296 pages
Africa and the transformation of culture in Brazil's slave society. Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as... More Info
Unusual Histories
$37.00
Vital Little Plans
Random House Canada |
October 11, 2016 |
544 pages
A new book by influential urbanist Jane Jacobs, released in Jacobs' centenary, and showing her evolution as a writer and thinker. Vital Little Plans will bring together for the first time a selection of essays, articles, speeches and interviews by the late Jane Jacobs. These works shed light on the... More Info
$34.95
Books for Living
Knopf |
December 27, 2016 |
268 pages
From the author of the best-selling and beloved "The End of Your Life Book Club"--a wonderfully engaging new book: both a celebration of reading in general and an impassioned recommendation of specific books that can help guide us through our daily lives. "I've always believed that everything you... More Info
$30.00
Plowed Under
November 11, 2014 |
322 pages
During the Great Depression, with thousands on bread lines, farmers were instructed by the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act to produce less food in order to stabilize food prices and restore the market economy. Fruit was left to rot on trees, crops were plowed under, and millions of piglets and... More Info
$14.95
Threshold
May 1, 2016 |
288 pages
This ambitious historical novel is a follow-up to Amanda West Lewis's very successful novel, September 17, published in 2013. Peter Gruber is a ten year old German boy who, in May of 1939, is dealing with the drowning death of his closest friend, living with his mother in Hamburg. The novel follows... More Info
$23.99
Last Woman Hanged
HarperCollins |
September 20, 2016 |
400 pages
One woman. Two husbands. Four trials. One bloody execution. The last woman hanged in NSW. In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands died suddenly.... More Info
Political Action
$15.00
House of Debt
University of Chicago Press |
April 23, 2015 |
227 pages
The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years before the recession—that the total amount of... More Info
$19.95
In Pursuit of Justice
September 1, 2014 |
128 pages
No summary available.
$27.95
Revolution Interrupted
Univ of Wisconsin Press |
April 14, 2011 |
230 pages
In October 1973 a mass movement forced Thailand's prime minister to step down and leave the country, ending nearly forty years of dictatorship. Three years later, in a brutal reassertion of authoritarian rule, Thai state and para-state forces quashed a demonstration at Thammasat University in... More Info
$30.95
Direct Struggle Against Capital
A K PressDistribution |
March 18, 2014 |
680 pages
This compelling collection of Peter Kropotkin's work helps recast him as the innovative revolutionary he truly was.
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$20.95
Inventing the Future
Verso |
October 4, 2016 |
256 pages
A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifest0... More Info
Philosophy
$19.95
In Defence of the Terror
January 5, 2016 |
144 pages
Provocative reassessment of the Great Terror as a price worth paying
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$26.50
Among the Dead Cities
Bloomsbury USA Academic |
June 19, 2014 |
376 pages
Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's most terrible extreme came the... More Info
$22.95
Measure Yourself Against the Earth
October 15, 2015 |
320 pages
Zizek meets Klein in this riveting collection of philosophic essays on politics, Sex and the City, Plato, Hitchcock and more.
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$35.00
Rethink
Scribner |
November 15, 2016 |
352 pages
A brilliant and groundbreaking argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch—from The Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic. Innovation is not always as innovative as it may seem. This is the... More Info
Pop Culture
$21.95
You Should Be Dancing
E C W Press |
August 1, 2015 |
272 pages
With worldwide sales of over 220 million records, the Bee Gees are the sixth bestselling music artists in history. Dennis Bryon's story of how he became the Bee Gees' drummer during their peak period offers many never-before-told tales about such infectious hits as Stayin' Alive, How Deep Is Your... More Info
$37.50
Party Out of Bounds
University of Georgia Press |
September 1, 2016 |
264 pages
"Published originally by Plume in 1991, Rodger L. Brown's Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes new photographs, a foreword by Charles Aaron, former editor and writer at SPIN magazine, and an essay on Athens, GA since the 'golden age' of Brown's... More Info
$34.00
All These Things That I've Done
Scribner |
September 27, 2016 |
288 pages
“The most trusted opinion in rock music” (Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins), Matt Pinfield offers the ultimate music fan’s memoir, a chronicle of the songs and artists that inspired his improbable career alongside some of the all-time greats, from The Beatles to KISS to U2 to The Killers.... More Info
$24.95
Monty Python's Flying Circus Episodes 27-45
Taylor Trade Pub |
April 16, 2013 |
264 pages
This book identifies and explains the plethora of cultural, historical, and topical allusions of the landmark series. Each entry indicates what sketch it appeared in and is cross-referenced between episodes. Entries cover literary and metaphoric allusions, symbolisms, names, peoples, and places; as... More Info
$36.50
Tranny
Hachette Books |
November 15, 2016 |
320 pages
"If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman/ My mother once told me she would have named me Laura/ I would grow up to be strong and beautiful like her."-The Ocean A searing account of her search for identity and true self, TRANNY reveals the struggles and victories that Laura Jane... More Info
Cookbooks
$29.95
Vegetarian Cooking Step by Step
Grub Street |
June 30, 2015 |
224 pages
Through more than 500 step-by-step photos, this cookbook explains the basic techniques of vegetarian cuisine and contains some its best recipes. The book is divided into four sections: on cereals, vegetables, tofu, seitan and tempeh, and nuts and seeds. Each section opens with an introduction to... More Info
$21.99
Ottawa Food
September 2, 2014 |
160 pages
During the past 20 years the food scene in Ottawa has changed from a landscape of pub grub-driven dining to a vibrant environment for trendy eateries and forward-thinking chefs. The once bland and mundane culinary culture has been transformed, and the result is an array of destination restaurants... More Info
$49.95
Vegan Bible
September 1, 2015 |
324 pages
The demand for vegan cookbooks is growing a pace as more and more people stop eating animal products for ethical or health reasons Vegan Bible containing more than 500 recipes and fully illustrated with pictures on every spread is the most comprehensive vegan cookbook on the market. Published in... More Info
$30.99
The Master Plants Cookbook
Running Press |
August 25, 2016 |
296 pages
Food isn't just food, it can be medicine! A plant-based, whole food diet can help prevent and even reverse chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, while also promoting a healthy weight. Far from being a fad, knowing the health benefits of certain foods have become "must-have"... More Info
Indigenous Studies
$27.95
Elder Brother and the Law of the People
University of Manitoba Press |
May 1, 2013 |
216 pages
Elder Brother and the Law of the People presents an entirely new way of viewing Aboriginal cultural identity on the northern plains.
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$14.95
A Little Rebellion
Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd |
July 1, 2002 |
149 pages
In 1964, social worker Bridget Moran attracted widespread attention and the wrath of the BC government with her open letter to Premier W.A.C. Bennett, charging the welfare department with gross neglect in addressing the problems of the province's needy. This very public dispute formed a small part... More Info
$22.50
The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge
Bison Books |
August 1, 1999 |
340 pages
For centuries, a persistent and important component of Lakota religious life has been the Inipi, the ritual of the sweat lodge. The sweat lodge has changed little in appearance since its first recorded description in the late seventeenth century. The ritual itself consists of songs, prayers, and... More Info
$29.95
Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut
International Polar Inst |
July 1, 2013 |
256 pages
This book, the fifth in a series anthologizing writings by Inuit in Nunavik over the last thirty-five years, presents articles on renewable resources and wildlife protection. Written by member of the Inuit community and non-Inuit who have worked closely with the community to better understand... More Info
$68.75
White man's club
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
November 1, 2007 |
395 pages
Tens of thousands of Indian children filed through the gates of government schools to be trained as United States citizens. Part of a late-nineteenth-century campaign to eradicate Native cultures and communities, these institutions became arenas where whites debated the terms of Indian citizenship,... More Info
Feminism
$18.00
Did You Just Call Me Old Lady?
December 1, 2016 |
128 pages
Did You Just Call Me Old Lady? is an upbeat look at aging and the impacts of Canada's increasingly aged population through the eyes of a ninety-year-old woman. Far from seeing older citizens as a burden and a strain on our public health care system, Lillian Zimmerman gracefully, and often... More Info
$19.95
Queersexlife
Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd |
May 1, 2008 |
255 pages
Brilliant and illuminating essays on the culture of sex within queer communities.
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$35.00
No Tea, No Shade
October 7, 2016 |
448 pages
"No Tea, No Shade" brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of black queer studies scholars, activists, and community leaders who build on the foundational work of black queer studies, pushing the field in new and exciting directions.
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$24.95
Defiant Desire
Psychology Press |
July 21, 1995 |
376 pages
Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from... More Info
$32.95
Delhi
September 13, 2016 |
160 pages
India's emerging LGBTQ community depicted in a groundbreaking series of gorgeous, full-colour photographs, in affordable and stylish paperback. Delhi offers a stunning series of more than 150 full-color documentary photographs and companion first-person texts, which together offer an unprecedented... More Info
Media, Science & Technology
$46.95
Vernal pools
McDonald & Woodward Pub Co |
July 21, 2017 |
426 pages
This is first book-length synthesis of the natural history, ecology, and conservation of the seasonally wet pools that occur throughout the formerly glaciated region of eastern North America -- essentially the Great Lakes Basin, New England, and adjacent areas of Canada and the United States.... More Info
$27.95
Men, Machines, and Modern Times
Mit Press |
August 19, 2016 |
344 pages
People have had trouble adapting to new technology ever since (perhaps) the inventor of the wheel had to explain that a wheelbarrow could carry more than a person. This little book by a celebrated MIT professor -- the fiftieth anniversary edition of a classic -- describes how we learn to live and... More Info
$25.99
Nights in Tents
Yucca Publishing |
September 27, 2016 |
248 pages
From an acclaimed musician comes an inside look at one of the most controversial and influential civil rights movements of our time. Occupational Hazard is a memoir of the profoundly moving, and often hysterical, circumstances a fifty-one-year-old middle class musician encountered when she... More Info
$31.50
Cradle to cradle
North Point Pr |
April 22, 2002 |
193 pages
Challenges the concept that industry must inevitably damage the natural environment as it argues that products should be designed so that after their useful life they provide nourishment for something else--as biological nutrients that safely reenter the environment or as technical nutrients that... More Info
$27.95
Borges and Memory
MIT Press |
September 21, 2012 |
213 pages
Imagine the astonishment felt by neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga when he found afantastically precise interpretation of his research findings in a story written by the greatArgentinian fabulist Jorge Luis Borges fifty years earlier. Quian Quiroga studies the workings ofthe brain--in particular... More Info
Environmental Politics
$19.95
Toxic burn
Univ Of Minnesota Press |
April 24, 2007 |
280 pages
Debates over global warming and fossil fuel dependence dominate public discussions of the environment. For many of us, these debates are abstract because environmental problems do not yet disrupt our daily lives. But in communities throughout the United States and around the globe, environmental... More Info
$18.50
Ripe
Counterpoint |
March 1, 2011 |
291 pages
Describes the history of tomatoes, their importance to cultures around the world, the plight of migrant laborers, and the journey of a typical tomato from field to table.
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$29.95
Celebrity and the environment
Zed Books |
August 15, 2009 |
193 pages
Celebrities are lending their name to conservation causes, and conservation itself is growing its own stars to fight and speak for nature. In this timely and essential book, Dan Brockington argues that this alliance grows from the mutually supportive publicity celebrity and conservation causes... More Info
$16.00
The Columbia River Treaty: A Primer
Rocky Mountain Books Ltd |
October 7, 2014 |
168 pages
The Columbia River Treaty: A Primer is a vital work that clearly explains the nature of this complex water agreement between Canada and the United States and how its impending update will impact communities, landscapes, industry and water supplies between the two countries for many years to come.... More Info
$27.95
Growing Resistance
University of Manitoba Press |
April 1, 2013 |
184 pages
Growing Resistance is the remarkable story of how Canadian farmers led an international coalition to a major victory for the anti-GM movement by defeating the introduction of Monsanto's genetically modified wheat. Through interviews with producers, industry organizations, and biochemical companies,... More Info
Biography
$17.95
Love in Vain
October 28, 2012 |
272 pages
Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the most enduring legends of modern music. Love in Vain is Alan... More Info
$20.00
Pray Standing
July 1, 2013 |
332 pages
A fascinating account of a life begun in Hong Kong, rooted in a family influenced equally by ancient Chinese tradition and modern Western perspective. Frank Ling survived the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, went on to flirt with a career in show business, overcame college and career challenges in... More Info
$33.50
Darling Days
Ecco |
September 27, 2016 |
400 pages
Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and art. This was a world of self-invented characters, glamorous superstars, and strung-out sufferers, ground zero of drag and performance art. Still, no... More Info
$26.95
Edward Koiki Mabo
July 21, 2017 |
238 pages
Here, largely in his own words, is the incredible story of Edward Koiki Mabo, from his childhood on the Island of Mer through to his struggle within the union cause and the black rights movement. Tragically, Mabo died just months before the historic High Court native-title decision that destroyed... More Info
$19.99
Year of Yes
Simon & Schuster |
September 13, 2016 |
352 pages
The instant New York Times bestseller from the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder shares how saying YES changed her life. “As fun to read as Rhimes’s TV series are to watch” (Los Angeles Times). She’s the creator and producer of... More Info
Health Studies
$22.95
The Little Book of You: a Journal of Health and Happiness
December 27, 2016 |
288 pages
Short, meaningful, and "easy," here are 365 micro-actions small goals relating to food, mind, movement, and connecting with others that anyone can complete at any time and take just a few minutes, and that will make you happier and healthier. Because small changes in your daily life can have a big... More Info
$25.00
Notes of a Love Song
FriesenPress |
May 14, 2015 |
360 pages
When Claire Verney agreed to 'for better or for worse, in sickness and in health' she never imagined the journey that lay ahead of her. Her husband Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease at the age of forty-six. Notes of a Love Song chronicles their lives as Claire becomes her husband's... More Info
$25.50
Merlin Stone Remembered
Llewellyn Publications |
July 21, 2017 |
360 pages
Discover the extraordinary life and profound contributions of Merlin Stone, the renowned feminist, author, artist, historian, and speaker. With unparalleled access to Merlin's unpublished writings, photos, and personal stories, Merlin Stone Remembered is a significant contribution to women's... More Info
$16.95
The Urban Cycling Survival Guide
E C W Press |
March 1, 2015 |
208 pages
City cycling made simple North America’s cities have long been the domain of the car, but thanks to the undeniable benefits of active transport, bicycles have an increasing presence in the urban landscape. Yet our cities weren’t designed for bicycles, making for intimidating, and sometimes... More Info
$16.95
How to Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You
Citadel Press |
June 28, 2016 |
256 pages
"No individual--not even Freud himself--has had a greater impact on modern psychotherapy." --Psychology Today CLASSIC SELF-HELP FROM A RESPECTED PIONEER OF PSYCHOTHERAPY From social anxiety to phobias to post-traumatic stress disorder, sources of anxiety in daily life are numerous, and can have a... More Info
Poetry
$18.95
Diversion
September 15, 2015 |
120 pages
New poems from one of Canada’s best-known poets Where most poetry seeks contemplative quiet, as in Wordsworth’s "emotion recollected in tranquility,” Diversion asks: What happens to poetry if one stops trying to block the incoming cacophony and instead embraces the multiple streams of data... More Info
$23.00
Citizen
Graywolf Press |
October 7, 2014 |
160 pages
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine’s long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine’s bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some... More Info
$18.95
Digsite
October 1, 2016 |
96 pages
Digsite draws on Nicholson's experience working in the Alberta oil sands and arboreal forest, taking an archaeological lens to its subject, and in this way, reimagines tens of thousands of years of human existence. These poems grow from a schism between the current place of living and the ones in... More Info
$26.00
Beautiful and Damned
October 11, 2016 |
416 pages
A man encounters God in a bar; a family is saved by a time traveler in the middle of the night; a journey into the mind of a severely autistic man; a woman finds herself one night out in the city, and more. "Beautiful and Damned" is a haunting and captivating collection, and proof that Robert M.... More Info
$19.95
Travelogue of the Bereaved
Tsar Publications |
April 14, 2014 |
94 pages
Poetry. African & African American Studies. These poems challenge the notion of "home" for persons of African descent born outside the continent. Closely attentive to form and content, narrative and emotion, history and the contemporary, they tell stories that are little known--the lives of... More Info
Canada
$22.99
Campaign Confessions
A J. Patrick Boyer Book |
September 10, 2016 |
184 pages
John Laschinger, Canada’s only full-time campaign manager, opens up about the fifty campaigns he has worked on around the world. From smoke-filled backrooms to social media, Laschinger gives unflinching detail on everything in a campaign manager’s arsenal.
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$19.95
That Lonely Section of Hell
October 11, 2016 |
368 pages
From her first assignment in 1998 to explore an increase in the number of missing women to the harrowing 2002 interrogation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, Lori Shenher tells a story of massive police failurefailure of the police to use the information about Pickton available to them,... More Info
$28.00
More Harm Than Good
July 1, 2016 |
170 pages
In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada's increasing involvement in and commitment to the "war on drugs." A primer on Canadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm... More Info
$19.95
Boiling Point
October 11, 2016 |
264 pages
"She has one of the most thorough and comprehensive understandings of her subject of anyone alive.” -- Globe and Mail We are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world’s fresh water, confident that we will always have enough. Water crises face other countries, but not... More Info
$24.95
Living with Uncle
James Lorimer & Company |
October 3, 2006 |
279 pages
Invaluable information on key issues for Canadians -- energy, water, security and surveillance, military integration, social services Living With Uncle examines the new realities of Canada's relations with the US in a world of a Conservative government in Ottawa, a trade agreement that often proves... More Info
Family
$22.99
When Strangers Meet
Simon & Schuster/ TED |
September 13, 2016 |
128 pages
When Strangers Meet reveals the transformative possibility of talking to people you don’t know—how these beautiful interruptions in daily life can change you and the world we share. When Strangers Meet argues for the pleasures and transformative possibility of talking to people you don’t... More Info
$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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$35.00
The Right to Be Parents
May 1, 2012 |
272 pages
Feminist Legal Theoryis just over a decade old in the United States and is even younger in most other countries. Here, Francis Olsen presents the best articles from within this burgeoning field. Drawing on literature which is extremely rich and varied, these volumes include articles from a range... More Info
$16.95
Spit That Out!
New Society Publishers |
September 13, 2016 |
176 pages
Asbestos in crayons and lead paint on toy cars?! Eco-chic mom Paige Wolf helps overloaded parents navigate today s toxic world"
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$26.95
The Parent's Guide to Specific Learning Difficulties
May 19, 2016 |
352 pages
From dyslexia to ADHD, from poor working memory to slow visual processing, Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) represent real differences in the way children learn. This book sets out to demystify SpLDs and provide practical strategies to support and motivate children throughout their education.
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Graphic Novels
$25.95
Michael Midas Champion: Book One
Inklit |
August 1, 2015 |
144 pages
Long-time Batman editor Jordan B. Gorfinkel and DC and Marvel superhero artist Scott Benefiel team-up to tell the tale of a new kind of hero... IT’S A SUPERHEROIC LIFE As Champion, the crimson guardian of his hometown Urbana Falls, Michael Midas battles vengeful samurai, wicked sorcerers and evil... 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
$36.95
Turning Japanese
May 10, 2016 |
228 pages
MariNaomi s newest graphic novel tours the mid-90 s US and Japanese illegal hostess bar scene and her own personal cultural awakening."
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$29.50
Incomplete Works
October 13, 2015 |
192 pages
Daydreams, fantasy, true love and procrastination feature strongly in this marvelous selection of Dylan Horrocks's shorter comics. Running from 1986 to 2012, Incomplete Works is both the chronicle of an age and a portrait of one man's heroic struggle to get some work done. From the creator of... More Info
$11.99
Goldie Vance
BOOM! Box |
October 11, 2016 |
112 pages
Move over Nancy, Harriet, & Veronica. There's a new sleuth on the block! Sixteen-year-old Marigold “Goldie” Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place. Her mom, who divorced her dad years ago, works as a live mermaid at a club downtown. Goldie has an insatiable... More Info
Race
$26.95
Dark Side of the Light
U of Minnesota Press |
February 24, 2006 |
165 pages
Enlightenment thinkers such as Rousseau and Montesquieu are best known for their humanist theories and liberating influence on Western civilization. But as renowned French intellectual Louis Sala-Molins shows, Enlightenment discourses and scholars were also complicit in the Atlantic slave trade,... More Info
$22.95
They Called Me Chocolate Rocket
Formac Publishing Company |
October 3, 2014 |
272 pages
In the ultra-competitive junior hockey leagues in the early 1960s, a young man could tolerate nearly anything that helped him stand out from the hordes of other prospects, so John Paris, Jr. did just that. The African-Canadian from Nova Scotia dazzled and dominated on the ice -- often facing racism... More Info
$22.50
Presente!
A K PressDistribution |
March 18, 2014 |
270 pages
Documenting the undocumented: voices of immigrant workers.
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$28.00
Blinded by the Whites
October 22, 2013 |
192 pages
The election of Barack Obama gave political currency to the (white) idea that Americans now live in a post-racial society. But the persistence of racial profiling, economic inequality between blacks and whites, disproportionate numbers of black prisoners, and disparities in health and access to... More Info
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Calling cards
State Univ of New York Pr |
June 30, 2005 |
303 pages
In recent decades, the concepts of race, gender, and culture have come to function as "calling cards." the terms by which we announce ourselves as professionals and negotiate acceptance and/or rejection in the academic marketplace. In this volume, contributors from composition, literature,... More Info
Class
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GENTRIFIER
UTP Insights |
April 3, 2017 |
256 pages
Gentrifier demystifies the idea of gentrification by opening a conversation that links the theoretical and the grassroots, spanning the literature of urban sociology, geography, planning, policy, and more.
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The Great Divide
April 19, 2016 |
448 pages
A singular voice of reason in an era defined by bitter politics and economic uncertainty, Joseph E. Stiglitz has time and again diagnosed America’s greatest economic challenges, from the Great Recession and its feeble recovery to the yawning gap between the rich and the poor. gathers his most... More Info
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Migrant Workers and the City
September 1, 2016 |
300 pages
Fascinating a must-read for academics, students and a general public interested in the situation of rural migrants in China. - Raul Delgado Wise Today China has the second largest economy in the world. The largest human migration in history has fueled this rapid growth as people move from the... More Info
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Death of the Liberal Class
Vintage Canada |
August 30, 2011 |
256 pages
The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good,... More Info
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Heirloom Flavor
Cool Springs Press |
September 15, 2013 |
256 pages
A full-color guide showcases 18 different heirloom vegetables, herbs and fruits, providing background information on their history and benefits and explaining how to plant, grow and harvest the produce, as well as how to save the seeds for next year's crop. Original.
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The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving
Firefly Books Ltd |
February 20, 2007 |
376 pages
Provides canning process recipes for jellies, jams, marmalades, conserves, relishes, salsas, chutneys, pickles, dessert sauces, fruit butter, vinegars, mince meats, and curds.
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Citizen Farmers
Abrams |
March 18, 2014 |
224 pages
Biodynamic farming, with its focus on ecological sustainability, has emerged as the gold standard in the organic gardening movement. Daron Joffe (known as Farmer D) has made it his mission to empower, educate, and inspire people to become conscientious consumers, citizens, and stewards of the land.... More Info
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You Bet Your Garden Guide to Growing Great Tomatoes
Fox Chapel Pub Co Inc |
April 1, 2012 |
96 pages
From backyards to terraces, this deliciously funny little book is also a serious guide on how to start and nurture an heirloom tomato patch. Radio host and master gardener Mike McGrath has a growing legion of fans who love his trademark wit. In You Bet Your Garden Guide to Growing Great Tomatoes,... More Info
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Farming Cuba
April 29, 2014 |
192 pages
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba found itself solely responsible for feeding a nation that had grown dependent on imports and trade subsidies. With fuel, fertilizers, and pesticides disappearing overnight, citizens began growing their own organic produce anywhere... More Info
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Pedagogy of the oppressed
Continuum Intl Pub Group |
September 1, 2000 |
183 pages
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the... More Info
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Manufacturing Consent
Pantheon |
July 21, 2017 |
412 pages
Examines the political role played by the media in shaping events, rather than just reporting on them, assesses the relationship between the media and the corporations that control and finance them, and discusses the fine distinctions between news and propaganda. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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Telling Tales
Penguin Classics |
August 27, 1992 |
417 pages
Records Marx's critical study of capitalism as an economic system and briefly evaluates his handling of the subject
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Capital
Penguin UK |
March 1, 1993 |
624 pages
Records Marx's critical study of capitalism as an economic system and briefly evaluates his handling of the subject
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Globalization
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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
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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
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Changing tides
Fernwood |
July 21, 2017 |
307 pages
This book brings together contributions from researchers and community workers from thirteen countries of the world. Juxtaposing academic case studies with accounts from activists and fisheries workers, it points to the ways in which globalization and associated resource degradation, privatization,... More Info
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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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