English & Literature Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Any Other WayHow Toronto Got Queer |
Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how … | Jane Farrow; John Lorinc; Stephanie Chambers; Tatum Taylor | 369 | 2017 | View |
![]() Crip KinshipThe Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid |
The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to … | Shayda Kafai | 201 | 2021 | View |
![]() Cure for HateA Former White Supremacist's Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion |
How does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in with and then recruiting for some of the most notorious … | Tony McAleer | 235 | 2019 | View |
![]() DisfiguredOn Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space |
A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020, AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21, AND A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022) Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what … | Amanda Leduc | 257 | 2020 | View |
![]() Double PregnantTwo Lesbians Make a Family |
Double Pregnant is author Natalie Meisner’s light-hearted, poignant and informative true story about starting a family with her wife Viviën. Because Viviën is a woman of colour … | Natalie Meisner | 192 | 2014 | View |
![]() Finding Our NicheToward a Restorative Human Ecology |
Imagine a world where humanity was not destined to cause harm to the natural world, where win-win scenarios—people and nature thriving together—are possible. No doubt contemporary … | Philip A. Loring | 168 | 2020 | View |
![]() NEW! Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint TeaHow I Beat the Shit Out of All My Addictions |
As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood was on track for to achieve his greatest goals: to die young and … | Alex Wood | 292 | 2021 | View |
![]() Gang Life10 of the toughest tell their stories |
For the first time, here’s a no-holds-barred inside account of life for criminal gang members in cities and towns across Canada. Mark Totten has slowly gained the confidence of gang members … | Mark Totten | 216 | 2014 | View |
![]() Holocaust to ResistanceMy Journey |
Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis … | Suzanne Berliner Weiss | 320 | 2019 | View |
![]() How We Go HomeVoices from Indigenous North America |
In myriad ways, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience—and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take … | Sara Sinclair | 344 | 2020 | View |
![]() In a Queer CountryGay and Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context |
In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most liberal of nations. Yet this picture of harmonious gay and lesbian assimilation is nothing … | Terry Goldie | 320 | 2001 | View |
![]() In Pursuit of JusticeJust Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op and the Fair Trade Movement |
This is the story of Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op, Canada’s first fair trade coffee roaster. This book describes its successes and its failures and details how a small group of people … | Errol Sharpe; Stacey Byrne | 144 | 2014 | View |
![]() Mad Hopestories by Heather Birrell |
In the stories of Mad Hope, Journey Prize winner Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both recognizable and alarming. A science teacher and former … | Heather Birrell | 224 | 2012 | View |
![]() NEW! Runaway ClimateWhat the geological past can tell us about the coming climate change catastrophe |
56 million years ago our planet experienced rapid, intense warming known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, resulting in a global temperature increase of about 7°C. Runaway … | Steven Earle | 256 | 2024 | View |
![]() Special Topics in Being a HumanA Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned the Hard Way about Caring For People, Including Myself |
S. Bear Bergman’s illustrated guide to practical advice for the modern age, filtered through a queer lens. As an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his … | S. Bear Bergman; Saul (Illus.) Freedman-Lawson | 272 | 2021 | View |
![]() Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature |
Issues of sexuality, censorship, and self-censorship in the formation of national and cultural identities are a focus of great interest in contemporary literary research. This is the first work … | Nitsa Ben-Ari | 423 | 2006 | View |