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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
At Home Talks with Canadian Artists about Place and Practice Goose Lane Editions	In this intimate investigation of the artistic process, Lezli Rubin-Kunda explores the nuanced path of creative work and the way artists make sense of home and place within their art practice and …	Lezli Rubin-Kunda	232	2018	View
Canadian Culture in a Globalized World The impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life James Lorimer and Company	Since the first trade deal with the US in 1984, Canada has insisted on a "cultural exemption" to ensure that governments were free to protect Canadian culture and to restrict foreign …	Garry Neil	256	2019	View
Fighting For Space How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction Arsenal Pulp Press	North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of …	Travis Lupick	408	2017	View
In a Queer Country Gay and Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context Arsenal Pulp Press	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
NEW! John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Year Canada Was Cool James Lorimer and Company	John Lennon was the world’s biggest rock star in the late Sixties. With his new wife Yoko Ono, the duo were icons of the peace movement denouncing the Vietnam War. In 1969, at the height of …	Greg Marquis	250	2020	View
Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America Baraka Books	“Women” and “architecture” were once mutually exclusive terms. In an 1891 address, Louise Blanchard Bethune declared, “it is hardly safe to assert” that a …	Carla Blank; Tania Martin	234	2014	View
The Imaginary Indian The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture Arsenal Pulp Press	First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to …	Daniel Francis	284	1992	View
The Imaginary Indian, 1st Edition The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture Arsenal Pulp Press	First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the “Indian” image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to …	Daniel Francis	284	1992	View
From Introduction From: In a Queer Country View Arsenal Pulp Press	Queer literature review; "Queer Country?" Conference (1996)	Terry Goldie	11	2001	$0.11 Add
From Introduction Setting Out From: At Home View Goose Lane Editions		Lezli Rubin-Kunda	7	2018	$0.70 Add
From Introduction From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	In America today, overdose deaths are the highest they have ever been. Heroin has reached the middle class and suburban America. At the same time, public opinion has turned against the war on …	Travis Lupick	18	2017	$0.18 Add
From NEW! Introduction Becoming Cool: Canada in the 1960s From: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Year Canada Was Cool View James Lorimer and Company	The introduction sets the stage by exploring the Canadian cultural landscape of the 1960’s, the impact of the Centennial, Expo ‘67, and the election of Pierre Trudeau as prime minister.	Greg Marquis	13	2020	$1.30 Add
From Introduction From: Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel View Baraka Books	The introduction provides a brief history of architecture in the United States and Canada, the evolution of the laws, regulations, and standards that shaped modern architecture. It then provides …	Carla Blank; Tania Martin	22	2014	$2.20 Add
From Preface to the Second Edition, Acknowledgements, Foreword by Randy Fred, Introduction From: The Imaginary Indian, 1st Edition View Arsenal Pulp Press	Randy Fred debunks the concept of “Indians” and claims that Native people live within a world of imagery that isn’t their own. Daniel Frances further explores the myth that is …	Daniel Francis	43	1992	$1.72 Add
From Preface to the Second Edition, Acknowledgements, Foreword by Randy Fred, Introduction From: The Imaginary Indian View Arsenal Pulp Press	Randy Fred debunks the concept of “Indians” and claims that Native people live within a world of imagery that isn’t their own. Daniel Frances further explores the myth that is …	Daniel Francis	43	1992	$4.30 Add
From Locating and Re-locating From: At Home View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 1 focuses on author and artist Lezli Rubin-Kunda, who speaks on her own experiences with belonging, her art, and her sense of home as both a Canadian and Israeli.	Lezli Rubin-Kunda	13	2018	$1.30 Add

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