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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Decolonizing Trauma Work Indigenous Stories and Strategies Fernwood Publishing	In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the “soul wound” …	Renee Linklater	175	2014	View
NEW! Dinner on Mars The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth ECW Press	From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars — and 9 billion Earthlings too …	Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman	232	2022	View
Disarming Conflict Why Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield Between The Lines	Wars fought over the past quarter century have been a spectacular failure. The overwhelming majority end in military stalemate and are settled at the negotiating table, with the grievances that …	Ernie Regehr	232	2015	View
Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk Between The Lines	Public transportation is in crisis. Through an assessment of the history of automobility in North America, the “three revolutions” in automotive transportation, as well as the current …	James Wilt	306	2020	View
NEW! Dream States Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias Coach House Books	Is the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, …	John Lorinc	290	2022	View
NEW! Earthkeeping love notes to tough times Goose Lane Editions	The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other. In nine sections, …	Gary Saunders	316	2022	View
Fastest in the World The Saga of Canada's Revolutionary Hydrofoils Formac Publishing	Like the builders of the Avro Arrow, the pioneers of hydrofoils are celebrated in this book for their world-class accomplishments. When Alexander Graham Bell was experimenting with flying …	John Boileau	98	2004	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
From Subjects to Citizens A Hundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada University of Ottawa Press	Australia and Canada are both lively, multicultural societies with British constitutional traditions. Historically, they have faced similar challenges in defining and sustaining citizenship that …	Linda Cardinal; Pierre Boyer	328	2004	View
From Suffragette to Homesteader Exploring British and Canadian Colonial Histories and Women's Politics Through Memoir Fernwood Publishing	From Suffragette to Homesteader opens a unique window into the past. Central to this book is a powerful memoir written in 1952 by Ethel Marie Sentance as an anniversary present for her husband, …	Emily van der Meulen	203		View
NEW! From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge Canada and the Civil War ECW Press	Filled with engaging stories and astonishing facts, From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge examines the role of Canadians in the American Civil War Despite all we know about the Civil War, its …	Brian Martin	353	2022	View
Gay Marriage The Story of a Canadian Social Revolution James Lorimer and Company	A history of the fight for same-sex marriage in Canada. Few issues have dominated recent Canadian politics like the legalization of same-sex marriage. As a political correspondent for The …	Louisa Blair; Sylvain Larocque	312	2006	View
Gender & Sexuality Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists Fernwood Publishing	The freedoms and liberties that every community, workplace and individual in Canada enjoys are due to the many struggles and social movements in our country’s history. Yet the stories, …	Scott Neigh	217	2012	View
NEW! Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies Between The Lines	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
NEW! Ghosts in a Photograph NeWest Press	In Ghosts in a Photograph, award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn …	Myrna Kostash	304	2022	View
Gunboats on the Great Lakes 1866-68 The British Navy's show of force at the time of Confederation James Lorimer and Company	This book describes British gunboat diplomacy practiced on the Great lakes in the aftermath of the US Civil War when Canada was negotiating Confederation and under Fenian attack. Cheryl MacDonald …	Cheryl MacDonald	192	2017	View