Geography
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() A Halifax BoyhoodGrowing up on the city's outskirts in the 1940s and 50s |
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 |
![]() Black Geographiesand the Politics of Place |
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in black geographic theory. Fourteen authors address specific geographic sites and develop their … | Katherine McKittrick | 272 | 2007 | View |
![]() Casa LomaCanada'’s Fairy-Tale Castle and Its Owner, Sir Henry Pellatt |
In this fifth edition, with new photography showing Casa Loma in its newly restored state, Bill Freeman takes readers on a tour of every significant room in this dramatic hillside castle, … | Bill Freeman; Vincenzo Pietropaolo | 96 | 2016 | View |
![]() Feminist CityA Field Guide |
Leslie Kern wants your city to be feminist. An intrepid feminist geographer, Kern combines memoir, theory, pop culture, and geography in this collection of essays that invites the reader to think … | Leslie Kern | 216 | 2019 | View |
![]() NEW! Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies |
From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time. … | Leslie Kern | 258 | 2022 | View |
![]() How We Changed TorontoThe inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980 |
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada’s largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, … | John Sewell | 349 | 2015 | View |
![]() Oak Island and Its Lost TreasureThird Edition |
Uncovering the British military’s role on Nova Scotia’s “Treasure Island” Civil engineers Graham Harris and Les MacPhie have spent over a decade investigating the enigma … | 264 | 2013 | View | |
![]() Shift ChangeScenes from a Post-industrial Revolution |
Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban … | Stephen Dale | 252 | 2021 | View |
![]() South End BoyGrowing up in Halifax in the tumultuous '30s and '40s |
In this memoir Jim Bennet introduces us to Halifax of the 1930s and ’40s: one full of coal smoke and rival gangs, chuffing freight trains and pine tar soap. He takes the reader along with … | Jim Bennet | 143 | 2015 | View |
![]() SubdividedCity-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity |
How do we build cities where we aren’t just living within the same urban space, but living together? Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any … | Jay Pitter; John Lorinc | 281 | 2016 | View |
![]() The Imperilled OceanHuman Stories From a Changing Sea |
An exploration of the earth’s last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future. On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana … | Laura Trethewey | 238 | 2020 | View |
![]() Their TownThe Mafia, the Media and the Party Machine |
This book is a classic of its kind — a no-holds-barred portrait of Hamilton civic life in the 1970s. The focus is on power — and the powerful. On the surface, power was wielded by the … | Bill Freeman; Marsha Aileen Hewitt | 166 | 2016 | View |
![]() UmingmakStuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic |
In 1967, Stuart Hodgson, a pugnacious British Columbia labour leader, was the newly-appointed Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, responsible for establishing a fledgling government in the … | Jake Ootes | 326 | 2020 | View |
From ![]() “No One Knows the Mysteries at the Bottom of the Ocean”From: Black Geographies |
Introduction to the themes of the book. Found in black geographies are a history of brutal segregation and erasure, but also processes that inform a different or new approach to the production of … | Clyde Woods; Katherine McKittrick | 13 | 2007 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() NEW! 1. Gentrification is . . . |
In Chapter 1, author Leslie Kern, examines the history of gentrification, how it became one of the focuses of her career as a feminist geographer, and an overview of the book’s chapters. … | Leslie Kern | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
From ![]() AcknowledgementsFrom: Feminist City |
Kern’s acknowledgements | Leslie Kern | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 Add |