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Kids' Books
$7.99
Daisy Dreamer and the World of Make-Believe
Little Simon |
April 4, 2017 |
128 pages
Hi! I’m Daisy Dreamer and my totally true imaginary friend Posey invited me to his amazing world of make believe! Oh, and you’re totally invited, too! Remember me? Daisy Dreamer? Of course you do, silly! And you remember my totally true imaginary friend, Posey, too. Obviously! But did you know... More Info
$17.95
Memoirs of a Sidekick
Kids Can Press Ltd |
October 4, 2016 |
240 pages
Seventh-grader Boris Snodbuckle has a strange name, a quirky personality and no chance of beating Robert Pinsent, the most popular boy in school, to become president of the student council. Even Boris’s best friend and sidekick Adrian (the book’s narrator) thinks it’s hopeless. But Boris... More Info
$8.95
Ukaliq
October 15, 2012 |
32 pages
Ukaliq is a fun and informative activity book about Nunavut, designed for readers aged three to six.It’s jam-packed with comics, stories, games, facts, photographs, and illustrations, providing young readers with entertaining and engaging opportunities to practice their independent reading... More Info
$19.49
I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It
Running Press |
April 4, 2017 |
240 pages
I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It is tech analyst Jess Kimball Leslie's hilarious, frank homage to the technology that contributed so significantly to the person she is today. From accounts of the lawless chat rooms of early AOL to the perpetual high school reunions that are... More Info
$21.95
Iggy Peck, Architect
Harry N. Abrams |
October 1, 2007 |
32 pages
Ever since he was a baby, Iggy Peck has built towers, bridges, and buildings, which comes in handy when his second grade class is stranded on an island during a picnic.
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Literature - International
$43.95
Without God
Penn State University Press |
February 10, 2017 |
176 pages
Addresses the religious, metaphysical, and existential dimensions of French novelist Michel Houellebecq's work. Argues that Houellebecq is the foremost contemporary chronicler of the spiritual anxieties of Western and specifically French modernity.
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$22.99
The Baker's Secret
HarperCollins Publishers |
May 2, 2017 |
320 pages
On June 5, 1944, as dawn rises over a small town on the Normandy coast of France, Emmanuelle is making the bread that has sustained her fellow villagers in the dark days since the Germans invaded her country. Only twenty-two, Emma learned to bake at the side of a master, Ezra Kuchen, the village... More Info
$34.95
Into the Water
May 2, 2017 |
352 pages
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense. With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers around the world in her novel The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins... More Info
$22.00
The Regional Office Is Under Attack!
Riverhead |
April 11, 2017 |
416 pages
Read it! Jess Walter, New York Timesbestselling author ofBeautiful Ruins "[R]eminded me that reading can be FUN. Buzzfeed "A tour-de-force." Laura Miller, Slate In a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization the Regional Office and its coterie of super-powered female assassins... More Info
$22.00
The Goldfinch
Back Bay Books |
April 7, 2015 |
784 pages
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE "The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King, The New York Times Book... More Info
Political Economy
$35.95
Nepal in Transition
March 12, 2012 |
350 pages
Since emerging in 2006 from a ten-year Maoist insurgency, the "People's War," Nepal has struggled with the difficult transition from war to peace, from autocracy to democracy, and from an exclusionary and centralized state to a more inclusive and federal one. The present volume, drawing on both... More Info
$34.00
The American Spirit
Simon & Schuster |
April 18, 2017 |
176 pages
A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States—winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others—that reminds us of fundamental American principles. Over the course of his... More Info
$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
$29.95
Critical Approaches to International Security
Polity |
March 9, 2015 |
320 pages
During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of EastÐWest hostilities, however, brought ‘critical’ perspectives to the fore as scholars sought to explain the emergence of new challenges to... More Info
Unusual Histories
$35.00
Three Minutes to Doomsday
Scribner |
April 18, 2017 |
352 pages
This edge-of-your-seat memoir from former FBI agent Joe Navarro reveals the shocking, inside details of how he spearheaded a 1980s investigation into a colossal espionage breach that would have left the US defenseless in a Soviet attack. In 1988 FBI Agent Joe Navarro divides his time among SWAT... More Info
$27.95
James Baldwin
Arcade Publishing |
February 1, 2015 |
464 pages
James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon—Go Tell It on a Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Another Country, The Fire Next Time, and The Evidence of Things Not Seen—he explored issues of race and racism in America, class... More Info
$22.00
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts
Scribner |
April 11, 2017 |
256 pages
“A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews,... More Info
$38.00
Age of Anger
Macmillan |
February 7, 2017 |
400 pages
One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism... More Info
$12.95
Flames of the Tiger
Heritage House Publishing Co |
April 1, 2015 |
176 pages
An honest portrayal of the complexities of World War II and the impact of propaganda on the young.
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Political Action
$41.95
The Secure and the Dispossessed
Pluto Press (UK) |
November 13, 2015 |
248 pages
While the world's scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the unfolding impacts of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but challenges and opportunities. For them, melting ice caps mean newly accessible fossil fuels, borders to be secured from 'climate refugees',... More Info
$15.95
Platform Capitalism
Polity |
November 21, 2016 |
120 pages
What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major... More Info
$34.95
Liberating Temporariness?
June 1, 2014 |
360 pages
An in-depth and wide-ranging critique and analysis of the rising tide of temporariness in political and social life.
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$17.50
Occupy the Economy
City Lights Publishers |
May 1, 2012 |
190 pages
** Author David Barsamian is currently on tour with stops in OH, B.C., and NM. Please check alternativeradio.org for the most up-to-date tour information. ** Today's economic crisis is capitalism's worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who... More Info
$10.95
The party without bosses
Arbeiter Ring Pub |
September 9, 2003 |
87 pages
A decade before his death in 1992, French activist and radical psychoanalyst Felix Guattari visited Brazil and interviewed Lula (Luis Inacio Lula da Silva), trade unionist and leader of the new formed Brazilian Workers' Party (PT). This is the outcome of this summit of radicals. Their discussion... More Info
Philosophy
$16.00
Man's Search for Meaning
Beacon Press |
September 25, 2017 |
165 pages
Frankl's timeless memoir and meditation on finding meaning in the midst of suffering With a new Foreword by Harold S. Kushner and a new Biographical Afterword by William J. WinsladePsychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death... More Info
$26.50
Pedagogy of Hope
Bloomsbury USA Academic |
June 19, 2014 |
240 pages
With the publication of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire established himself as one of the most important and radical educational thinkers of his time. In Pedagogy of Hope, Freire revisits the themes of his masterpiece, the real world contexts that inspired them and their impact in that very... 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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$13.50
Introducing Postmodernism
Totem Books |
September 25, 2017 |
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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$12.50
Introducing Foucault
Icon Books |
August 1, 2009 |
175 pages
Presents an account, in graphic novel form, of Foucault's life and his philosophies on the concepts of power, authorship, transgression, and sex, and discusses how his ideas have influenced modern society.
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Pop Culture
$24.95
Homeland and Philosophy
Open Court |
November 1, 2014 |
288 pages
In Homeland and Philosophy, 23 philosophers tackle the issues that Showtime's award-winning show Homeland asks us to consider. The drama, which centers on Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody's release from an al-Qaeda prison, and CIA Agent Carrie Mathison's distrust of his intentions, asks questions of... 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
$22.95
Sisterhood of the Squared Circle
April 11, 2017 |
320 pages
Documenting the rise of women’s wrestling from sideshow to WWE main event Sisterhood of the Squared Circle presents the fascinating history of women’s wrestling, from the carnival circuit of the late 1800s to today’s hugely popular matches. With more than 100 wrestler profiles, find out how... 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
$32.95
Rock Star
JHU Press |
September 4, 2014 |
264 pages
"All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are stars," states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history of rock stardom. This deceptively simple statement belies the complex definition and meaning of stardom and more specifically of rock icons. Shumway looks at... More Info
Cookbooks
$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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$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
$38.50
Renewing America's Food Traditions
Chelsea Green Publishing |
May 15, 2008 |
304 pages
This work represents a dramatic call to recognize, celebrate, and conserve the great diversity of foods that give North America the distinctive culinary identity that reflects its multi-cultural heritage. Included are recipes and folk traditions associated with 100 of the continent's rarest food... More Info
Indigenous Studies
$12.95
The First Beaver
September 17, 2015 |
32 pages
This is a story about trust between parents and children and the importance of being true to oneself. Young Reedee, born with shimmering brown hair the colour of Mother Earth, is different from the other people in her village, and it isn’t just her hair that sets her apart. At night, while the... 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
$32.50
All That Remains
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
April 1, 2009 |
229 pages
In this dynamic collection of essays, Arnold Krupat, one of the leading critics of American Indian writing, storytelling, and film, offers insightful and provocative analyses of representations by and about Native peoples, past and present. He considers the relations between tricksters in... More Info
$21.95
Dance Lodges of the Omaha People
Univ of Nebraska Pr |
June 1, 2008 |
214 pages
After the Omaha Nation was officially granted its reservation land in northeastern Nebraska in 1854, Omaha culture appeared to succumb to a Euro-American standard of living under the combined onslaught of federal Indian policies, governmental officials, and missionary zealots. At the same time,... More Info
$22.95
Modern Blackfeet
January 1, 2014 |
144 pages
Modern Blackfeet sheds light on the politics, economics, society, and especially the acculturation of the Blackfeet Indians of Montana. The Blackfeet Reservation has an established government and an active and diverse population that has long supported itself through ranching, industry, and oil and... More Info
Feminism
$31.00
Afghan Women
Zed Books |
August 15, 2007 |
176 pages
This book looks at how Afghan women have fought repression and challenged stereotypes, both within the country and in diasporas in Iran, Pakistan, the US and the UK. Covering topics from the Taliban and the impact of 9/11 to the role of NGOs and the growth of the opium economy, Rostami-Povey gets... More Info
$24.95
Defiant Desire
Psychology Press |
September 25, 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
$29.95
Bar Codes
Univ of British Columbia Pr |
August 30, 2007 |
242 pages
Examines women lawyers' attempts to reconcile their professional obligations with other aspects of their lives; charts the life courses of women who constitute a first wave -- an avant-garde -- in a profession designed by men, for men, where formal codes of conduct and subtle cultural norms promote... More Info
$30.00
Tainted Witness
January 17, 2017 |
224 pages
In 1991, Anita Hill brought testimony and scandal into America's living rooms during televised Senate confirmation hearings in which she detailed the sexual harassment she had suffered at the hands of Clarence Thomas. The male Senate Judiciary Committee refused to take Hill seriously and the... More Info
$35.00
Writing Caste/Writing Gender
August 15, 2013 |
424 pages
A pathbreaking study of Dalit women’s writings and lives, Writing Caste/Writing Gender offers a powerful counternarrative to the mainstream assumptions about the development of feminism in India in the twentieth century.
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Media, Science & Technology
$42.58
Intelligence in the Flesh
Yale University Press |
August 15, 2015 |
344 pages
An enthralling exploration that upends the prevailing view of consciousness and demonstrates how intelligence is literally embedded in the palms of our hands.
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$31.95
You are Still Being Lied to
Disinformation Company |
September 25, 2017 |
447 pages
Presents a collection of articles that challenge popular beliefs, covering such topics as the Iraq War, the Bible code, Islam, AIDS, and mass media.
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$17.99
Forces of Nature
William Collins |
March 9, 2017 |
288 pages
Sunday Times Bestseller A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions. 'What is motion?' 'Why is every snowflake different?' 'Why is life symmetrical?' To answer these and... More Info
$22.99
Dark Territory
Simon & Schuster |
March 28, 2017 |
352 pages
“An important, disturbing, and gripping history” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent and employ cyber wars—where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a... 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
Environmental Politics
$19.95
The Burning Question
Greystone Books |
October 8, 2013 |
256 pages
The Burning Question reveals climate change to be the most fascinating scientific, political and social puzzle in history. It shows that carbon emissions are still accelerating upwards, following an exponential curve that goes back centuries. One reason is that saving energy is like squeezing a... More Info
$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
$32.95
Oil Culture
October 15, 2014 |
456 pages
Some chapters originally appeared in the Journal of American Studies, Volume 46, Special Issue 02 (May 2012).
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$24.95
Turn Here Sweet Corn
U of Minnesota Press |
March 7, 2012 |
344 pages
A master class in organic farming, a lesson in entrepreneurship, a love story, and a legal thriller
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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
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
$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
$21.95
Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left
New Press |
October 1, 2013 |
400 pages
Howard Zinn was perhaps the best-known and most widely celebrated popular interpreter of American history in the twentieth century, renowned as a bestselling author, a political activist, a lecturer, and one of America's most recognizable and admired progressive voices.
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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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$22.00
Pink Ribbons, Inc.
Univ Of Minnesota Press |
May 19, 2008 |
208 pages
In this revelatory and at times shocking book, King traces how breast cancer has been transformed from a stigmatized disease and individual tragedy to a market-driven industry of survivorship.
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$20.50
The Long Arc of Justice
April 1, 2007 |
142 pages
Richard D. Mohr adopts a humanistic and philosophical approach to assessing public policy issues affecting homosexuals. His nuanced case for legal and social acceptance applies widely held ethical principles to various issues, including same-sex marriage, AIDS, and gays in the military. Mohr... More Info
$29.99
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Touchstone Books |
October 4, 2011 |
944 pages
"The gold standard for women's health books, in time for the fortieth anniversary of the book's first publication, featuring new material and a completely updated approach to critical women's health issues. The name "Our Bodies, Ourselves" has become synonymous with women's health and protecting... 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
$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
$22.95
Performance Bond
Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd |
February 1, 2005 |
176 pages
A new collection of hip-hop-inspired poetry that fuses history and contemporary black politics; includes a CD of a turntable performance.
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$19.95
A Short History of Forgetting
April 15, 2010 |
73 pages
As first collections of poems go, Paul Tyler’s A Short History of Forgetting is remarkable for its confidence, maturity of voice and control of form. Its style ranges from the aggressive pace, short measure and muscular language of its tightly-wound object poems, to gentler, more meditative... More Info
Canada
$22.95
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada
Lorimer |
October 1, 2016 |
224 pages
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the latest international investment and trade deal that Ottawa has signed on to. But with almost two years to the January 2018 deadline to ratify its signature, the Trudeau government has enabled and encouraged public debate about whether the TPP is right for... More Info
$22.95
Harperism
James Lorimer & Company |
August 31, 2014 |
288 pages
Margaret Thatcher transformed British political life forever. So did Ronald Reagan in the United States. Now Canada has experienced a similar, dramatic shift to a new kind of politics, which author Donald Gustein terms Harperism.
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$17.95
The Little Book of Ontario
April 30, 2017 |
80 pages
In The Little Book of Ontario, George Fischer captures the crystal clear lakes, sprawling forests, and glittering skylines of the Heartland Province. From the Great Lakes to the Canadian Shield, Fischer takes readers on a visual journey, with nearly 80 stunning full-colour photographs, across... More Info
$24.95
Visionaries, Crusaders, and Firebrands
James Lorimer |
March 27, 2012 |
248 pages
It's visionary, principled leaders-not just policies and programs-that are key to the NDP's importance in Canadian public life
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Family
$48.99
Girls, Texts, Cultures
Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
April 30, 2015 |
330 pages
This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls’ experience. It brings together scholars from girls’ studies and children’s literature, fields that have traditionally conducted their research separately, and the collaboration... More Info
$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
$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
$23.95
A Gift of Time
JHU Press |
January 12, 2011 |
408 pages
A Gift of Time is a gentle and practical guide for parents who decide to continue their pregnancy knowing that their baby's life will be brief. When prenatal testing reveals that an unborn child is expected to die before or shortly after birth, some parents will choose to proceed with the pregnancy... More Info
Graphic Novels
$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
$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
$24.95
Attack
Firefly Books |
September 14, 2016 |
152 pages
A timely and disturbing journey that illuminates the human cost of terrorism and deceit.
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$26.95
Once@9
Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultura |
October 14, 2016 |
136 pages
"Originally published in Spanish. A graphic novel, part documentary, part fiction, using the fotonovela form to imagine the two hours before the terrorist attack against the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994. Explores the faulty police investigation of the atrocity, and minorities'... More Info
$31.50
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
November 12, 2008 |
416 pages
From the author of Fun Home -- the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others For twenty-five years Bechdel’s path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes (with a quarter of a million... More Info
Race
$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
$36.00
Whiteness in Zimbabwe
Palgrave MacMillan |
April 15, 2010 |
204 pages
Here is a look at how our relationship to the land is shaped by historical migration, conquest, and long-term residence. European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule.... More Info
$32.95
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
$22.50
Presente!
A K PressDistribution |
March 18, 2014 |
270 pages
Documenting the undocumented: voices of immigrant workers.
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Class
$30.00
The Presumption of Guilt
Palgrave Macmillan |
June 22, 2010 |
256 pages
"Shortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. The ensuing media firestorm ignited debate across the country. The... More Info
$22.95
Assembling women
Ilr Pr |
September 25, 2017 |
208 pages
Despite the massive influx of women into the labor force as a result of globalization, the gender inqualities at work have remained largely unchanged. This book addresses two related questions: What has prompted the feminization of manufacturing work in d
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$30.95
The Lure of the City
Pluto Pr |
November 15, 2011 |
224 pages
Cities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions. They can be at once visually stunning, culturally rich, exploitative, and unforgiving. In The Lure of the City, Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the potential of cities to meet the economic, social, and political challenges of... More Info
$29.95
A new new deal
Ilr Pr |
October 1, 2009 |
275 pages
A Century Foundation Book In A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism and build a sense of common purpose between labor and community organizations. Dean and Reynolds demonstrate how alliances organized... More Info
Gardening
$18.95
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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$24.95
Timber Press Pocket Guide to Shade Perennials
Timber Press (OR) |
September 25, 2017 |
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
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Landscape Planning
Firefly Books Limited |
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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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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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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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Capital
Penguin UK |
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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
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Telling Tales
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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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Remembering the dismembered continent
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318 pages
Armah, Ayi Kwei
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Paperback
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Changing tides
Fernwood |
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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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Unfair Trade
Random House Business Books |
May 1, 2012 |
240 pages
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