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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Harry Livingstone’s Forgotten Men Canadians and the Chinese Labour Corps in the First World War James Lorimer and Company	HARRY LIVINGSTONE was a small town doctor from Listowel, Ontario when he felt the pull of patriotism that led him to volunteer in the First World War. In 1917, Livingstone found himself embarking …	Dan Black	504	2019	View
Heroin An Illustrated History Fernwood Publishing	Heroin is an illustrated history of Canadian heroin regulation over two centuries. Susan Boyd points to our failure to address the overdose death epidemic caused by criminalizing drug users and …	Susan C. Boyd	251	2022	View
NEW! History of the Jews in Quebec University of Ottawa Press	The presence of Jews in Quebec dates back four centuries. Quebec Jewry, in Montreal in particular, has evolved over time, thanks to successive waves of migration from different regions of the …	Pierre Anctil	490	2021	View
Holocaust to Resistance My Journey Fernwood Publishing	Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis …	Suzanne Berliner Weiss	320	2019	View
Home and Native Land Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada Between The Lines	Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light—shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain. The …	Anna Stanley; Lisa Helps; May Chazan; Sonali Thakkar	256	2011	View
How We Go Home Voices from Indigenous North America Fernwood Publishing	In myriad ways, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience—and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take …	Sara Sinclair	344	2020	View
NEW! Identifying as Arab in Canada A Century of Immigration History Fernwood Publishing	While “Arabs” now attract considerable attention – from media, the state, and sociological studies – their history in Canada remains little known. Identifying as Arab in …	Houda Asal	240	2020	View
Imagined Truths Myths from a Draft-Dodging Poet twp	Memory is not only selective, it’s an amazing liar, con artist and spin doctor. History is what we choose to remember about the past in order to justify the present. Richard Lemm grew up in …	Richard Lemm	272	2021	View
Immodest and Sensational 150 Years of Canadian Women in Sports James Lorimer and Company	With the Canadian women’s Olympic hockey team and other high-profile female athletes in recent years drawing a healthy share of the sports media limelight, there is a perception that …	M. Ann Hall	96	2008	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
In Defiance Between The Lines	On February 7, 2012, as students in Quebec prepared to vote to go on strike, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois gave a rousing speech: “What you do today will be remembered. The decision you make will …	Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler	186	2015	View
NEW! In Praise of Retreat Finding Sanctuary in the Modern World ECW Press	From pilgrim paths to forest cabins, and from rented hermitages to arts temples and quiet havens for yoga and meditation, In Praise of Retreat explores the pleasures and powers of this ancient …	Kirsteen MacLeod	370	2021	View
In Search of a Better World A Human Rights Odyssey House of Anansi Press	A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human …	Payam Akhavan	401	2017	View
NEW! Indigenous Toronto Stories That Carry This Place Coach House Books	Rich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and present Beneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, …	Brian Wright-McLeod; Denise Bolduc; Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere; Rebeka Tabobondung	304	2021	View
NEW! Inside the Montreal Mafia The Confessions of Andrew Scoppa ECW Press	A groundbreaking, exclusive inside look at the North American Mafia and the Rizzuto family. For the first time in Canadian history, a high-ranking Mafioso agreed to break the code of omertà by …	Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin	240	2022	View
Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East From European Colony to US Power Projection Platform bar	One US military leader has called Israel “the intelligence equivalent of five CIAs.” An Israeli cabinet minister likens his country to “the equivalent of a dozen US aircraft …	Stephen Gowans	252	2019	View