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" In 1921, despite the passing of legislation intended to ease the consequences of illegitimacy for...
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$8.50
Dinosaurs Love Cheese
March 1, 2016 |
32 pages
PICTURE BOOKS. AUSTRALIAN. A delightful picture book about a world of hidden animals that only a child can see. Giraffes can't resist the trees, I like milk and sandwiches ... But who stole the cheese?. Ages 0+
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$12.95
Circle, Triangle, Elephant
Phaidon Press |
May 8, 2017 |
22 pages
A clever and refreshing approach to learning about shapes, with a bit of silliness mixed in This unexpected take on shapes offers a breath of fresh air within this well-established toddler concept genre. With bright block-art visuals and a rhythmic, read-aloud text, this book begins by offering... More Info
$17.99
Dark Shadows
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books |
March 14, 2017 |
128 pages
The Chicken Squad is back for their fourth (mis)adventure, and this time they’re facing their darkest mystery yet: shadows! A hilarious, “easy to read” (Booklist) chapter book from the bestselling author of Click, Clack, Moo and The Trouble with Chickens. There’s a big, SHADOWY, mystery... More Info
$16.95
Mr. Particular
Sterling Children's Books |
May 10, 2016 |
40 pages
Meet Mr. Particular--the world's choosiest champion! This superhero's super picky: he says NO to squishy mud, gross green things, tucked-in shirts, humming, and anything with coconut. But, when his friends in the "Super-Duper Group" finally get fed up with his fussiness, can Mr. Particular prove... More Info
Literature - International
$17.00
A Grain of Wheat
Penguin Classics |
May 29, 2012 |
272 pages
Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a... More Info
$36.50
Difficult Women
Grove Press |
January 3, 2017 |
272 pages
"A collection of stories of ... hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection"--
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$16.95
The Female Detective
February 15, 2015 |
328 pages
In 1864, the British writer James Redding Ware, under the pseudonym Andrew Forrester, published The Female Detective, introducing readers to the first professional female detective character, Mrs. Gladden, and paving the way for the more famous female detectives of the early twentieth century,... More Info
$22.95
Meet Me Halfway
April 21, 2015 |
202 pages
When Johnquell, an African American teen, suffers a serious accident in the home of his white neighbor, Mrs. Czernicki, his community must find ways to bridge divisions between black and white, gay and straight, old and young. Set in one of the nation’s most highly segregated cities—Milwaukee,... More Info
$24.95
Changes
Feminist Press |
January 1, 1993 |
196 pages
Esi, a divorced professional woman in Ghana, falls in love with an attractive married man, but is uncertain she wants to make the changes necessary for a relationship
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Political Economy
$32.50
From Marx to Gramsci
May 10, 2016 |
364 pages
A comprehensive almost mini course in the key figures of the Marxist tradition.
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$24.00
Listen, Liberal
Picador |
March 14, 2017 |
336 pages
Liberals like to believe that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, then the country will be on the right course. Unfortunately this view fundamentally misunderstands the modern Democratic Party. Drawing on years... More Info
$24.95
If Mayors Ruled the World
August 31, 2014 |
472 pages
In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time - climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns and people - the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's... 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
$18.50
Seeking Palestine
Olive Branch Press |
January 30, 2013 |
224 pages
How do Palestinians live, imagine and reflect on home and exile in this period of a stateless and transitory Palestine and a sharp escalation in Israeli state violence and accompanying Palestinian oppression? How can exile and home be written? In this volume of new writing, fifteen innovative and... More Info
Unusual Histories
$17.99
All about love
Harper Paperbacks |
January 9, 2001 |
239 pages
Presenting radical new ways to think about love, the acclaimed cultural critic, feminist, and author examines the role of love in our personal and professional lives and how it can be used to end struggles between individuals, communities, and societies. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 40,000... More Info
$22.99
The Marriage Bureau
HarperCollins Publishers |
April 18, 2017 |
368 pages
In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London’s Bond Street and set about the delicate business of matchmaking. Drawing on the bureau’s... More Info
$38.95
Spectacular Mexico
November 1, 2014 |
344 pages
In the wake of its early twentieth-century civil wars, Mexico strove to present itself to the world as unified and prosperous. The preparation in Mexico City for the 1968 Summer Olympics was arguably the most ambitious of a sequence of design projects that aimed to signal Mexico's arrival in the... More Info
$19.99
Delta Lady
Harper Paperbacks |
April 11, 2017 |
256 pages
The two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter bares her heart and soul in this intimate memoir, a story of music, stardom, love, family, heritage, and resilience. She inspired songs—Leon Russell wrote “A Song for You” and “Delta Lady” for her, Stephen Stills wrote... More Info
$35.00
A Stitch of Time
Simon & Schuster |
May 2, 2017 |
384 pages
For fans of Brain on Fire and My Stroke of Insight, an incredible first-person account of one woman’s journey to regaining her language and identity after a brain aneurysm affects her ability to communicate. Lauren Marks was twenty-seven, touring a show in Scotland with her friends, when an... More Info
Political Action
$19.95
In Pursuit of Justice
September 1, 2014 |
128 pages
No summary available.
$25.00
Beautiful Trouble
February 10, 2014 |
474 pages
From Cairo to cyberspace, from Main Street to Wall Street, today?s social movements have a creative new edge that?s blurring the boundaries between artist and activist, hacker and dreamer. But the principles that make for successful creative action rarely get hashed out or written down. Until now.... More Info
$19.95
Underminers
New Society Pub |
September 10, 2013 |
384 pages
A practical guide for radical change
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$24.95
Organizational Discourse
Polity |
January 12, 2015 |
224 pages
How can we study organizations from a discursive perspective? What are the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of each perspective on organizational discourse? To what extent do discourse and communication constitute the organizational world? This accessible book addresses these questions by... More Info
$20.50
Ecosocialism
Haymarket Books |
May 5, 2015 |
120 pages
Ecosocialists believe that the prevention of an unprecedented ecological catastrophe and the preservation of a natural environment favourable to human life are incompatible with the expansive and destructive logic of the capitalist system. In Ecosocialism, Michael Lowy, Research Director at Paris'... More Info
Philosophy
$20.00
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It
Penguin |
May 2, 2017 |
224 pages
A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times–bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . Daniel Klein’s fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy resonates in everyday life. Readers of his... More Info
$24.95
Derrida Now
John Wiley & Sons |
January 4, 2016 |
200 pages
For more than 30 years and until his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida remained one of the most influential contemporary philosophers. It may be difficult to evaluate what forms his legacy will take in the future but Derrida Now provides some provocative suggestions. Derrida’s often–controversial... More Info
$13.50
Introducing Postmodernism
Totem Books |
April 22, 2018 |
189 pages
Explains the idea of postmodernism in graphic novel format, a concept that has been used to define the cultural condition of the world.
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$60.00
Deleuze, The Dark Precursor
JHUP |
August 9, 2012 |
264 pages
Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most important French philosophers of the twentieth century. Eleanor Kaufman situates Deleuze in relation to others of his generation, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, and she engages the provocative... More Info
$12.50
Introducing Buddha
Icon Books |
February 28, 2009 |
175 pages
Introduces the basic tenents of Buddhism, and discusses the religion's influence on Asia and Western thought through stories and illustrations.
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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
$25.99
Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin
Musicians in Their Own Words |
April 1, 2017 |
480 pages
In a series of more than 50 interviews that span seven decades, many never before seen in print, this is the story of Led Zeppelin told by the people who knew it best—the members of the band. This book shoots down the folklore and assumptions about Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and... More Info
$21.50
How to Be Perfect
September 27, 2016 |
112 pages
"Eat an orange every morning." "Make eye contact with a tree." "Wear comfortable shoes." Ron Padgett's ninety-nine-line prescription for human perfection is both tongue-in-cheek and deeply felt, solidly good advice. In this offbeat, warm, humorous edition, each line springs to life with Novak's... More Info
$22.95
The David Brent Songbook
Blue Streak |
November 8, 2016 |
192 pages
“I’m a friend first, boss second. Probably an entertainer third.” The Office’s David Brent is back in a new film documentary following his incredible musical tour… Relive all of David’s greatest hits with his official songbook, brought to you by the man, the myth, the legend... More Info
$33.95
The Complete Pink Floyd
Sterling |
March 1, 2016 |
448 pages
This is THE essential book for all Pink Floyd fans: the most amazingly comprehensive guide to the band's entire career, complete with rare and never-before-seen photographs plus key memorabilia. Representing years of painstaking research by Floyd expert and documentarian Glenn Povey, it covers... More Info
Cookbooks
$24.95
Ripe from Around Here
Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd |
June 1, 2010 |
240 pages
Features a collection of 180 vegetarian recipes, along with discussions about mindful eating and the importance of using locally grown foods throughout the year.
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$20.95
Vegan a la Mode
Skyhorse Pub Co Inc |
June 1, 2012 |
256 pages
Dozens of easy and delicious recipes for dairy-free, egg-free, andflavorful frozen desserts.
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$27.95
Complete Book of Home Preserving
April 22, 2018 |
448 pages
From the experts, the definitive book on home preserving. Bernardin Home Canning Products are the gold standard in home preserving supplies, the trademark jars on display in stores every summer from coast to coast. Now the experts at Bernardin have written a book destined to become the Bernardin... More Info
$23.95
Grills Gone Vegan
March 5, 2013 |
192 pages
Move over meat! With Grills Gone Vegan, plant-based proteins, vegetables, and even fruits take centre stage on the grill to bring out their rich, deep flavours. Veteran vegan chef and cookbook author Tamasin Noyes shows how readers can think beyond burgers and kebabs and create everything from... More Info
$19.95
Rose Murray's Canadian Christmas Cooking
Whitecap Books Limited |
October 1, 2013 |
104 pages
Think back to your favourite Christmas food memory. Perhaps it was the first turkey you dressed and baked yourself; the sweet smell of cranberries ladled onto your plate; or the mouth-watering anticipation of finally getting to taste your grandparent's signature pie. First published in 1979, Rose... More Info
Indigenous Studies
$21.95
Lighting the Eighth Fire
Arbeiter Ring Pub |
November 18, 2008 |
232 pages
This remarkable collection of essays by leading Indigenous scholars focuses on the themes of freedom, liberation and Indigenous resurgence as they relate to the land. They analyze treaties, political culture, governance, environmental issues, economy, and radical social movements from an... More Info
$24.95
X-Marks
May 10, 2010 |
220 pages
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, North American Indian leaders commonly signed treaties with the European powers and the American and Canadian governments with an X, signifying their presence and assent to the terms. These x-marks indicated coercion (because the treaties were made... More Info
$34.95
Makúk
University of British Columbia Press |
February 28, 2009 |
431 pages
John Lutz traces Aboriginal people's involvement in the neweconomy, and their displacement from it, from the arrival of the firstEuropeans to the 1970s. Drawing on an extensive array of oralhistories, manuscripts, newspaper accounts, biographies, andstatistical analysis, Lutz shows that Aboriginal... 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
$27.95
Coyote Warrior
Bison Books |
January 1, 2010 |
344 pages
From White Shield to Washington DC, new Indian wars are being fought by Ivy League-trained lawyers called "Coyote Warriors"--among them a Mandan/Hidatsa named Raymond Cross. Coyote Warrior tells the epic story of the three tribes that saved Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery from starvation,... More Info
Feminism
$22.00
Created equal
Palgrave Macmillan |
September 1, 2009 |
208 pages
A first entry in a new series, written in conjunction with Amnesty International, evaluates the global issue of women's rights as demonstrated by arenas ranging from prostitution and abortion to education and slavery. Original.
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$22.95
Ain't I A Woman
August 1, 2006 |
bell hooks
South End Press; 1981
Paperback; 205 pages
9781897071199
A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between various forms of oppression. Ain't I a Woman examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of... More Info
$18.95
I Am Woman
Global Professional Publishi |
April 22, 1996 |
142 pages
Professor:
Prof. Tracey Lindberg
Course Codes:
CML 3374
Semester:
Winter-2018
One of the foremost Native writers in North America, Lee Maracle links her First Nations heritage with feminism in this visionary book. "Maracle has created a book of true wisdom, intense pride, sisterhood and love." -Milestones Review
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Media, Science & Technology
$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
$46.95
Vernal pools
McDonald & Woodward Pub Co |
April 22, 2018 |
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
$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
$27.00
The Gene
Scribner |
May 16, 2017 |
608 pages
The #1 New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle). “Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled... More Info
$16.95
Mr Tompkins in Paperback
March 26, 2012 |
202 pages
Since his first appearance over sixty years ago, Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many thousands of readers as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams and adventures lead him into a world inside the atom. George Gamow's classic provides a delightful explanation of the central concepts in... More Info
Environmental Politics
$24.95
Peace Out
Red Deer Press |
July 15, 2014 |
184 pages
Every energy sector out there wants a piece of the Peace River Valley, one of the last great wild places in North America. The oil industry wants it, the frackers, the solar, wind and nuclear industries. Why? As Charles Wilkinson paddles through the issues he engages hydro and natural gas energy... More Info
$24.95
Carbon Rush
Red Deer Press |
April 30, 2013 |
212 pages
Written by award-winning documentarian Miller, this book focuses on the real meaning of carbon trading, and looks at the zero-sum formula where the amount of carbon-based pollution is not being reduced--only moved by brokers among countries.
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$29.95
Ivory, Horn and Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis
Firefly Books Limited |
September 3, 2013 |
192 pages
As recently as ten years ago, out of every ten African elephants that died, four fell at the hands of poachers. The figure today is eight. Rhinoceroses are being slaughtered throughout their ranges. The Vietnamese one-horned rhinoceros is extinct, the western black rhino is now believed to be... More Info
$22.95
Rebuilding the Foodshed
Chelsea Green Publishing |
April 22, 2018 |
321 pages
Droves of people have turned to local food as a way to retreat from our broken industrial food system. From rural outposts to city streets, they are sowing, growing, selling, and eating food produced close to home—and they are crying out for agricultural reform. All this has made "local food"... More Info
Biography
$20.00
It's All about Kindness
May 15, 2011 |
256 pages
As a writer, broadcaster, and social activist, June Callwood made other people her business. Despite personal tragedies, including the death of her youngest son, Casey, Callwood tried to better the lives of those in difficult situations. She founded many organizations, including Casey House, a... More Info
$17.95
Fidel Castro
March 15, 2013 |
224 pages
Fidel Castro had ruled the island of Cuba for fifty-two years when ill health forced him to step down in 2008. Over the course of that time, he changed Cuba from a republic to a communist state and became one of the most divisive leaders in the second half of the twentieth century. For some, he is... More Info
$29.50
Looking for Palestine
Riverhead Books (Hardcover) |
August 1, 2013 |
304 pages
A frank and entertaining memoir, from the daughter of Edward Said, about growing up second-generation Arab American and struggling with that identity. The daughter of a prominent Palestinian father and a sophisticated Lebanese mother, Najla Said grew up in New York City, confused and conflicted... More Info
$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
Health Studies
$29.95
Eat Your Greens
New Society Publishers |
October 14, 2014 |
352 pages
Turn over a new leaf with these nutritional powerhouses for your kitchen garden
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$23.95
Resilient Grieving
Experiment |
March 21, 2017 |
256 pages
The first popularization of the science and practice of resilient grieving in a practical guide, urging a more proactive, supportive, mindful, and positivepath to recovery that offers an alternative to Kubler-Ross s five stages"
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$28.50
Eternity's Sunrise
Routledge |
April 27, 2011 |
248 pages
Following on from A Life of One'¬"s Ownand An Experiment in Leisure, Eternity'¬"s Sunriseexplores Marion Milner'¬" s way of keeping a diary. Recording small private moments, she builds up a store of '¬Übead memories'¬". A carved duck, a sprig of asphodel , moments captured in her travels in... More Info
$23.00
The Dirt Cure
Atria Books |
April 11, 2017 |
384 pages
In this “carefully researched, compellingly written game-changer for children’s health” (Mark Hyman, MD), Maya Shetreat-Klein, MD, reveals the shocking contents of children’s food, how it’s seriously harming their bodies and brains, and what you can do about it. And she presents a... More Info
Poetry
$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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$28.95
Morning in Serra Mattu
McSweeneys Books |
April 15, 2014 |
150 pages
A mosaic of interrelated stories exploding with personality, myth, and geohistorical weight, Morning in Serra Mattu is a profound, joyful meditation on life in modern Sudan. Arif Gamal seamlessly blends large-scale political realities with the local and the traditional: “old villages/whose... More Info
$29.95
The Dennis Lee Omnibus
April 8, 2017 |
352 pages
This book is an exhilarating revelation. No other poet in Canada has the depth and range of Dennis Lee. Jazzman, jester, and metaphysician, hardball political thinker and passionate lover, he has been publishing poems for fifty years, working across the spectrum from nursery rhymes and skipping... 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
$16.00
Satisfying Clicking Sound
Signal Editions |
May 1, 2014 |
64 pages
Satisfying Clicking Sound is a book that’s never afraid to make a show of itself. Jason Guriel gives us a quick-thinking colloquial style able to segue deftly from deadpan wit to deep emotion. Like the hard-to-master knuckleball he celebrates as being “less spun / than blown / out onto the air,... More Info
Canada
$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
$29.95
Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes
November 1, 2011 |
286 pages
Told from an ordinary man's perspective, these are the journal and letters of Wilhelm Weike as he accompanied Franz Boas?the father of modern anthropology?on his journey to the arctic from 1883 to 1884. This extraordinary document of early arctic history provides a plain, direct view of the Inuit... More Info
$34.95
Fertile Ground
McGill Queens Univ |
June 1, 2014 |
384 pages
Ideas of choice and rights traditionally dominate discussions concerning reproduction and gender politics. Fertile Ground argues that the current political climate in Canada necessitates a broader understanding of the links between the politics of reproduction, the state, and gender relations.... More Info
$25.00
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
March 7, 2017 |
288 pages
"A debut collection of essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada, "a land of ice and casual racism," addressing sexism, cultural stereotypes and the universal miseries of life by the irreverent, hilarious and incomparable rising star and cultural observer, Scaachi Koul. In... More Info
$24.95
Out Standing in the Field
April 9, 2017 |
448 pages
Some books are catalysts. Shake Hands with the Devil was one. For 2017, that book is Out Standing in the Field. In her memoir, Sandra Perron describes her experience of the Canadian Military - one of the most important institutions of our nation. What she has to say is exactly what the top brass... More Info
Family
$17.00
Rad Dad
PM Press |
September 1, 2011 |
200 pages
A compilation of top-selected essays from the award-winning magazine and the Daddy Dialectic blog features contributions by best-selling writers, musicians and others on issues challenging today's fathers, from gender politics and sperm donations to war and racism. Original.
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$35.00
The Toddler Brain
Da Capo Lifelong |
February 14, 2017 |
320 pages
What if, despite the best of intentions, we are raising our children to succeed in a world that no longer exists?The Toddler Brain helps parents recognize the connection that exists between their own parenting behaviors and their child’s ability to acquire valuable twenty-first-century skills.... More Info
$24.50
Raising the Transgender Child
Seal Press (CA) |
November 22, 2016 |
272 pages
Written by top experts in the field, Raising the Transgender Child offers much-needed answers to all the questions parents and other adults ask about raising and caring for transgender and gender diverse children: Is this just a phase? Did I do something to cause this? How do we protect these... More Info
$32.95
The Homegrown Preschooler
May 1, 2013 |
224 pages
With the accessibility of a parenting how-to book and the thorough educational foundation of an expensive boxed curriculum, this guide will inspire parents to use their homes as classrooms as they take advantage of the naturally rich learning opportunities that occur in everyday home life. Parents... More Info
Graphic Novels
$33.50
Audubon, on the Wings of the World
Nobrow Press |
September 1, 2016 |
184 pages
A stunningly illustrated graphic novel charting the life and adventures of the passionate bird-lover and explorer, John James Audubon.
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$34.99
Roughneck
Simon and Schuster |
April 18, 2017 |
272 pages
From the New York Times bestselling author and award-winning creator of Essex County, Secret Path, Descender, and The Underwater Welder comes an all-original graphic novel about a brother and sister who must come together after years apart to face the disturbing history that has cursed their... More Info
$26.95
The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen
Quirk Books |
February 5, 2017 |
240 pages
A woman's place is saving the universe. Think comic books can't feature strong female protagonists? Think again! In The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen you'll meet the most fascinating exemplars of the powerful, compelling, entertaining, and heroic female characters who've populated comic... More Info
$19.95
Hard Core Logo
List |
May 6, 2017 |
152 pages
"Joe Dick coaxes his former Hard Core Logo bandmates to overcome personal differences and reunite for a benefit concert for their ageing punk mentor. In this graphic take on the story originally conceived by Michael Turner and made into a critically acclaimed film by Bruce McDonald, Canadian... More Info
$22.95
Mooncop
Drawn and Quarterly |
September 20, 2016 |
96 pages
The Guardian cartoonist relates the daily deadpan adventures of the last policeman living on the moon "Living on the moon . . . Whatever were we thinking? . . . It seems so silly now." The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the... More Info
Race
$34.95
The Audacity of Races and Genders
October 8, 2009 |
212 pages
In this exciting and insightful new work, Zillah Eisenstein weighs up the new anti-imperial possibilities created by the 2008 election of Barack Obama. Eisenstein likens the end of the Bush/Cheney presidency to the fall of Stalin, or Pinochet, and asks whether this is a key historical moment that... More Info
$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
$18.50
The Sellout
Picador |
March 1, 2016 |
304 pages
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the... More Info
$27.95
Educations in Ethnic Violence
Cambridge Univ Pr |
November 30, 2011 |
240 pages
In Educations in Ethnic Violence, Matthew Lange analyzes ways in which education contributes to ethnic violence.
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Class
$22.99
Ghetto
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
April 18, 2017 |
304 pages
A five-hundred-year story of exclusion and containment, from the first Jewish ghetto to the present On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in a closed quarter, il geto—named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck, and soon... More Info
$24.00
The South Side
Picador |
April 4, 2017 |
272 pages
Mayors Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel have touted and promoted Chicago as a "world class city." The skyscrapers kissing the clouds, the billion-dollar Millennium Park, Michelin-rated restaurants, pristine lake views, fabulous shopping, vibrant theater scene, downtown flower beds and stellar... More Info
$10.95
Emergent publics
Arbeiter Ring Pub |
April 22, 2018 |
102 pages
Recently much of the Left has shifted emphasis away from issues of class, toward "democracy." Indeed, democracy is now emerging as an overarching label for the goals of anti-globalization activists. What is the relationship between such social movements and democracy? In Emergent Publics, Ian Angus... More Info
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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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Gardening
$19.95
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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$41.00
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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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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$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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How to Get Your Lawn Off Grass
Harbour Publishing |
February 1, 2002 |
208 pages
This is a vital publication for all North Americans who are concerned about water scarcity and water quality.
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International Politics & Socialism
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Remembering the dismembered continent
April 22, 2018 |
318 pages
Armah, Ayi Kwei
Per Ankh Publishing
Paperback
9782911928147
1885, Berlin: European and American globalizers set up colonies that impoverished Africans by exporting raw resources to fuel European and American prosperity.
1960s: "Independent" Africa's rulers, far from uniting Africa to create... More Info
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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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Manufacturing Consent
Pantheon |
April 22, 2018 |
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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Globalization
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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 |
April 22, 2018 |
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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