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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
“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
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
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 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
NEW! Africentric Social Work Fernwood Publishing	This edited collection focuses on Africentric social work practice, providing invaluable assistance to undergraduate students in developing foundational skills and knowledge to further their …	David Este; Delores V. Mullings; Jennifer Clarke; Sulaimon Giwa; Wanda Thomas Bernard	272	2021	View
Almost Feral Breakwater Books	On July 2, 2015, influential social activist Gemma Hickey began a 908-kilometer walk across the island of Newfoundland to raise awareness and funds for survivors of religious institutional abuse. …	Gemma Hickey	264	2019	View
NEW! Anatomy of an Election Canada’s 2019 Federal General Election Through the Lens of Political Law Irwin Law Inc.	Elections are the high point of democracy. They provide scheduled opportunities for the people at large to have a participatory voice in their own government. They enable adult citizens to judge …	Gregory Tardi	838	2020	View
Any Other Way How Toronto Got Queer Coach House Books	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
Bearing Witness Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion Fernwood Publishing	Bearing Witness tells the story of the Explosion, and the catastrophic damage it caused, through the eyes and words of more than two dozen journalists and record keepers who experienced it first …	Michael Dupuis	221	2017	View
NEW! Bent out of Shape Shame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work Between The Lines	Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she …	Karen Messing	276	2021	View
NEW! Between Certain Death and a Possible Future Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis Arsenal Pulp Press	Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This …	Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore	368	2021	View
Big Business and Hitler James Lorimer and Company	For big business in Germany and around the world, Hitler and his National Socialist party were a welcome political development. Business was facing the Great Depression of in the 1930s, and for …	Jacques R. Pauwels	304	2017	View
Black Canadians History, Experience, Social Conditions Second Edition Fernwood Publishing	Black Canadians provides an authoritative reference for teachers, students and the general public who seek to know more about the Black Diaspora in North America. Arguments made in this book may …	Joseph Mensah	303	2010	View
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place Between The Lines	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
NEW! Black Loyalists in New Brunswick The lives of eight African Americans in colonial New Brunswick 1783-1834 Formac Publishing	Among the Loyalists who were transported to the shores of New Brunswick by the British after their defeat by revolutionary Americans were several hundred African Americans. Like their …	Stephen Davidson	146	2020	View