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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! "The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name" From: Len & Cub View Goose Lane Editions	The authors talk about how Len & Cub’s story/photographs came to be preserved in the archive and how we can piece together their story. It also discusses queer historical context.	Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt	11	2022	$1.10 Add
From The Pursuit of Global Justice From: Is This the End of the Liberal International Order? View Collection: Witnesses to Global Conflict: Canadian Authors' Accounts House of Anansi Press	In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan begins by recalling his experiences as a human rights lawyer in The Hague. He describes notable cases he was involved in and how it shaped his …	Payam Akhavan	85	2017	$10.20 Add
From NEW! The Quagmire of Mobility Tech The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The Dream of the Smart City: Part 6 explores urban mobility. Topics discussed include electrification, transportation, bike-share programs, walkability, the use of public space, autonomous …	John Lorinc	17	2022	$1.70 Add
From Chapter 1 The Quebec Question From: Quebec in Question View James Lorimer and Company	A brief account of the political circumstances in Quebec in the late 1960s, and the emergence of separatist support among the francophone population.	Marcel Rioux	10	1978	$1.00 Add
From Chapter 4 The Quiet Conversation of a Colonized People From: Quebec in Question View James Lorimer and Company	A brief survey of Quebec political, social and economic history from 1840 to 1945	Marcel Rioux	22	1978	$2.20 Add
From From Dispossession to Dependency From: The Reconciliation Manifesto View James Lorimer and Company	Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines Indigenous people and the Canadian government’s policies of dispossesion of land producing dependency. He highlights the percentage of …	Arthur Manuel	5	2017	$0.50 Add
From The Racialized Other and the Opium Act: The Early 1900s From: Heroin View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter examines socially constructed definitions of “good” vs “bad” drugs and narcotic prohibition in Canada. The unequal enforcement of drug laws and how this …	Susan C. Boyd	18	2022	$1.80 Add
From The Fallout of a Murder From: Any Other Way View Coach House Books	Ed Jackson recounts the fallout of the murder of 12 year old Emanuel Jaques in 1977 and the crackdown on the gay community that ensued.	Ed Jackson	4	2017	$0.40 Add
From The Rational-Humanist Roots of Equality Feminism From: Women and Work View Between The Lines	The author examines the historical roots of the equality feminist perspective, highlighting how education and work has been traditionally gendered.	Susan Ferguson	21	2020	$2.10 Add
From The Reactive Customer From: Charging Ahead View Baraka Books	This chapter looks at Hydro-Quebec’s customers and their perception of H-Q.	Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow	18	2019	$1.80 Add
From NEW! The Reckoning, Part I From: Wanda’s War View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 8 focuses on the Nuremberg trials, and other efforts to hold perpetrators of war crimes during the Second World War criminally responsible.	Marsha Faubert	17	2023	$1.70 Add
From NEW! The Reckoning, Part II From: Wanda’s War View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 14 discusses the questions surrounding compensation for many of the victims of Nazi war crimes that were still unresolved by the 1990s for their historical responsibilities of forced …	Marsha Faubert	18	2023	$1.80 Add
From The Reconstruction of Uncle Tom From: Uncle View Coach House Books	In this chapter, Thompson examines the "Mammy" figure, another stock character who was first depicted in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The chapter also touches on Confederate monuments, and …	Cheryl Thompson	11	2021	$1.10 Add
From The Resistance From: Resistance and Renewal View Arsenal Pulp Press	People rarely comply fully and easily to the introduction of oppression. Native children also produced counter-cultures in their resistance to the oppressive system which was Kamloops Indian …	Celia Haig-Brown	27	1988	$0.54 Add
From The Resistance From: TSQELMUCWÍLC View Arsenal Pulp Press	In Chapter Four the author describes forms of resistance by the students within Kamloops Indian Residential School.	Celia Haig-Brown; Garry Gotfriedson; Randy Fred	23	2022	$2.30 Add
From The Reunion From: On Love and Tyranny View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Heberlein explores ideas of forgiveness, and examines Arendt’s decision to forgive Martin Heidegger.	Ann Heberlein	10	2021	$1.00 Add