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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Captured Hearts New Brunswick's War Brides Goose Lane Editions	Imagine you’re a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war …	Melynda Jarratt	148	2008	View
Car Nation An Illustrated History of Canada's Transformation Behind the Wheel James Lorimer and Company	Canadians fell in love with the car at first glance. They were scared by it too, and by its potential. Canada was quick to become a car nation, as the automobile was enthusiastically adopted by …	Dimitry Anastakis	96	2008	View
Casa Loma Canada'’s Fairy-Tale Castle and Its Owner, Sir Henry Pellatt James Lorimer and Company	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
Changing Tides An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene New Society Publishers	Change the story and change the future – merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene. As humanity marches on, causing mass extinctions and …	Alejandro Frid	220	2019	View
Charging Ahead Hydro-Québec and the Future of Electricity Baraka Books	Hydro-Québec manages one of the largest power grids on the continent. It is among the most profitable, the least expensive and the greenest. With a stunning renewable energy rate of 99.8 …	Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow	320	2019	View
Churchill and Fisher The titans at the Admiralty who fought the First World War James Lorimer and Company	A vivid study of the politics and stress of high command, this book describes the decisive roles of young Winston Churchill as political head of the Admiralty during the First World War. …	Barry Gough	656	2017	View
Circle Works Transforming Eurocentric Consciousness Fernwood Publishing	This book is intended to contribute to both the theoretical debate and classroom practice in the field of education. It explores the legitimacy of Aboriginal, holistic paradigms within some of …	Fyre Jean Graveline	304	1998	View
NEW! Cities Matter A Montrealer’s Ode to Jane Jacobs, Economist bar	Why do cities exist? Can’t we find better ways of organizing life on earth? With the climate crisis and other environmental issues, are cities part of the problem? Or can they help solve …	Charles-Albert Ramsay	152	2022	View
NEW! Class Action How Ontario's Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force Between The Lines	In this inspiring history of a union, labour historian Andy Hanson delves deep into the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and how it evolved from two deeply divided unions …	Andy Hanson	276	2021	View
NEW! Cobalt Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower House of Anansi Press	The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this “demon metal” has a horrific present and a troubled history. The modern …	Charlie Angus	336	2022	View
NEW! Country of Poxes Three Germs and the Taking of Territory Fernwood Publishing	Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a …	Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay	208	2022	View
Cuba-U.S. Relations Obama and Beyond Fernwood Publishing	Against the background of the history of Cuba–U.S. interconnectedness and in light of Obama’s initiative and Trump’s election, Arnold August deals with the relationship …	Arnold August	264	2017	View
Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers Canadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945 Goose Lane Editions	From 1940 to 1945, Internment Camp B at Ripples, some 35 kilometres east of Fredericton, played a considerable role in the Second World War. Chosen for its remote rural New Brunswick location, …	Andrew Theobald	178	2019	View
Decolonize Hipsters Between The Lines	Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that …	Grégory Pierrot	148	2021	View
NEW! Decolonize Museums Between The Lines	The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History, has remained much the same for over a century: a uniquely …	Shimrit Lee	296	2023	View
NEW! Decolonizing Sport Fernwood Publishing	Decolonizing Sport tells the stories of sport colonizing Indigenous Peoples and of Indigenous Peoples using sport to decolonize. Spanning several lands — Turtle Island, the US, Australia, …	Christine O’Bonsawin Janice Forsyth	288	2023	View