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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
“I Hate Feminists” December 6, 1989, And Its Aftermath Fernwood Publishing	On December 6, 1989, a man walked into the engineering school École Polytechnique de Montreal, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and, declaring “I hate feminists,” killed fourteen young women. “I …	Melissa Blais	140	2014	View
“Indians Wear Red” Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs Fernwood Publishing	With the advent of Aboriginal street gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba Warriors, and Native Syndicate, Winnipeg garnered a reputation as the “gang capital of Canada.” Yet beyond the …	Elizabeth Comack; Jim Silver; Larry Morrissette; Lawrence Deane	176	2013	View
(Ab)Using Power The Canadian Experience Fernwood Publishing	This book represents the first systematic effort in this country to integrate a variety of topics related to power abuse into a single collection. Each essay has been chosen on the strength of …	Dorothy E. Chunn; Robert Menzies; Susan Boyd	287	2001	View
"At the Barricades" A Memoir Irwin Law Inc.	Best known as General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, a position he held for over 40 years, A. Alan Borovoy was at the centre of many of the most profound and difficult …	Alan Borovoy	395	2014	View
“Too Asian”? Racism and Post-Secondary Education Between The Lines	The now notorious Maclean’s article “Too Asian?” from the magazine’s 2010 campus issue has sparked a national furor about race in Canadian higher education. Since the …	Davina Bhandar; Jeet Heer; Michael C.K. Ma; RJ Gilmour	224	2012	View
14 Arguments in Favour of Human Rights Institutions Irwin Law Inc.	Today, many human rights commissions are threatened or are no longer in existence. This book argues in support of our human rights institutions, including the new Canadian Museum for Human …	Ken Norman; Lucie Lamarche; Shelagh Day	447	2014	View
NEW! 1968 in Canada A Year and Its Legacies University of Ottawa Press	The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one, unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of a new national consciousness among Canadians. …	Andrew C. Holman; Christopher Kirkey; Michael K. Hawes	400	2021	View
21st Century Socialism Reinventing the Project Fernwood Publishing	Bringing together a passionate group of socialists, 21st Century Socialism participates in the emerging and critical debate concerned with reinventing and rebuilding socialism.	Henry Veltmeyer	239	2011	View
A Beauty that Hurts Life and Death in Guatemala Between The Lines	When A Beauty That Hurts was published in 1995, Guatemala was still one of the world’s most flagrant violators of human rights. Now that a measure of “peace” has come to the …	W. George Lovell	288	2019	View
NEW! A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate Everyone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change New Society Publishers	A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate is an accessible myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth’s climate over 4.6 billion years, and how and why human-caused global …	Steven Earle	210	2021	View
A Finer Future Creating an Economy in Service to Life New Society Publishers	Humanity is in a race with catastrophe. Is the future one of global warming, 65 million migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality, and grid-locked politics? Or one of empowered …	Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis	450	2018	View
NEW! A Good War Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency ECW Press	Canada needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to prevent a catastrophic 1.5 degree increase in the earth’s average temperature — assumed by many scientists to be a …	Seth Klein	465	2020	View
A Halifax Boyhood Growing up on the city's outskirts in the 1940s and 50s Formac Publishing	Anyone who grew up in the late 1940s and 50s will recognize themselves and their experiences in this story of a Halifax boyhood. Whether its the thrill of skating while holding someones hand for …	Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel	96	2014	View
A Lucky Life Formac Publishing	As a longtime pediatrician, Richard Goldbloom placed a high value on connecting with and communicating with his patients and their parents. His ability to reach an audience is evident in this …	Richard B. Goldbloom	304	2013	View
A Matter of Taste A Farmers' Market Devotee's Semi-Reluctant Argument for Inviting Scientific Innovation to the Dinner Table Coach House Books	How did farmer’s markets, nose-to-tail, locavorism, organic eating, CSAs, whole foods, and Whole Foods become synonymous with "good food"? And are these practices …	Rebecca Tucker	137	2018	View
A New Kind of Union Unifor and the birth of the modern Canadian union James Lorimer and Company	This book describes the unique process by which the Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) decided not just to merge but to create …	Fred Wilson	256	2019	View