Philosophy

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Being and Swine The End of Nature (As We Knew It) Between The Lines	Forget everything you think you know about nature. Fahim Amir’s award-winning book takes pure delight in posing unexpected questions: Are animals victims of human domination, or heroes of …	Corvin Russell; Fahim Amir; Geoffrey C. Howes	228	2020	View
Changemakers Embracing Hope, Taking Action, and Transforming the World New Society Publishers	With every news report, the world seems to be careening off the rails. It’s all too easy to slip into despair waiting for co-opted, self-serving governments to act. The antidote to fear and …	Fay Weller; Mary Wilson	208	2018	View
Freedom To Learn Creating a Classroom Where Every Child Thrives New Society Publishers	Disinterested students and behavioral problems are all too common in schools. Yet results show that behavior charts and other reward-and-punishment systems simply don’t work. Teachers are …	Art Willans; Cari Williams	220	2018	View
God and Argument – Dieu et l’argumentation philosophique University of Ottawa Press	Given the challenge of anti-realism, anti-foundationalism, and post-modernism, is rational argument concerning religious belief still possible? This collection provides a broad range of …	William Sweet	277	1999	View
Honest Politics Now What ethical conduct means in Canadian Public Life James Lorimer and Company	Using high-profile political scandals as case studies, this book explores the standards of accountability to which Canadian politicians are now being held. This is the definitive up to date book …	Ian Greene	392	2017	View
NEW! I Want a Better Catastrophe Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor New Society Publishers	An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers WITH GLOBAL WARMING projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown …	Andrew Boyd	422	2023	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
Intrinsic Hope Living Courageously In Troubled Times New Society Publishers	Climate disruption. Growing social inequality. Pollution. We are living in an era of unprecedented crises, resulting in widespread feelings of fear, despair, and grief. Now, more than ever, …	Kate Davies	203	2018	View
Languages of the Unheard Why Militant Protest is Good for Democracy Between The Lines	“What we must see,” Martin Luther King once insisted, “is that a riot is the language of the unheard.” In this new era of global protest and popular revolt, Languages of …	Stephen D'Arcy	232	2013	View
Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx University of Ottawa Press	Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these …	Réal Fillion	185	2008	View
National Dreams Myth, Mystery, and Canadian History Arsenal Pulp Press	As Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past—the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National …	Daniel Frances	217	1997	View
Nature-Based Therapy A Practitioner's Guide to Working Outdoors with Children, Youth, and Families New Society Publishers	The number of children, youth, and families seeking help for a wide range of mental health concerns is growing at an alarming rate, and many struggle to thrive despite well-intentioned …	David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper	304	2019	View
Not Just a Pretty Face The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry New Society Publishers	Lead in lipstick? 1,4 dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful that they’ve kept themselves unregulated for …	Stacy Malkan	193	2007	View
On Love and Tyranny The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt House of Anansi Press	In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt, whose political philosophy and understandings of …	Ann Heberlein	272	2021	View
On Nostalgia Coach House Books	On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially …	David Berry	161	2020	View
Protecting Research Confidentiality What happens when law and ethics collide James Lorimer and Company	Lawyers and their clients can talk in complete confidence, secure that the law protects what they say from being revealed to anyone. Priests can hear confessions with reasonable certainty that no …	John Lowman; Ted Palys	432	2014	View