Political Science

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
21st Century Socialism Reinventing the Project Fernwood Publishing	Bringing together a passionate group of socialists, 21st Century Socialism participates in the emerging and critical debate concerned with reinventing and rebuilding socialism.	Henry Veltmeyer	239	2011	View
A Beauty that Hurts Life and Death in Guatemala Between The Lines	When A Beauty That Hurts was published in 1995, Guatemala was still one of the world’s most flagrant violators of human rights. Now that a measure of “peace” has come to the …	W. George Lovell	288	2019	View
A People’s Senate For Canada Not a Pipe Dream! Fernwood Publishing	A People’s Senate for Canada combines grassroots experience, thorough research and critical commentary to create a people’s resource for positive change. This book offers a rationale, …	Helen Forsey	143	2015	View
About Canada: Health & Illness 2nd Edition Fernwood Publishing	Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by genetics, medical care and lifestyle choices. Governments, the media and disease associations reinforce this …	Dennis Raphael	192	2016	View
About Canada: Poverty Fernwood Publishing	For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and …	Jim Silver	192	2014	View
Activism That Works Fernwood Publishing	Activism That Works shares the stories of eight diverse social justice movements, from Oxfam Canada, to the Calgary Raging Grannies, to the Youth Project of Halifax, as they contemplate their own …	Elizabeth Whitmore; Maureen G. Wilson	192	2011	View
NEW! Anatomy of an Election Canada’s 2019 Federal General Election Through the Lens of Political Law Irwin Law Inc.	Elections are the high point of democracy. They provide scheduled opportunities for the people at large to have a participatory voice in their own government. They enable adult citizens to judge …	Gregory Tardi	838	2020	View
Are We Done Fighting? Building Understanding in a World of Hate and Division New Society Publishers	Unfounded beliefs and hateful political and social divisions that can cascade into violence are threatening to pull the world apart. Responding to fear and aggression strategically and with …	Matthew Legge	352	2019	View
NEW! Basic Income For Canadians From the Covid-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All James Lorimer and Company	Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put …	Evelyn L. Forget	258	2020	View
NEW! Beyond Contempt How Liberals can Communicate Across the Great Divide New Society Publishers	Liberal and progressive frustration, grief, and alarm over Trump’s destructive political agenda and behavior have prompted mounting disdain for Trump supporters and other conservatives. …	Erica Etelson	242	2020	View
Beyond the Fragments Feminism and the Making of Socialism Fernwood Publishing	Inspired by the activism of the 1970s that surrounded the triumph of the right under Margaret Thatcher in U.K., Beyond the Fragments was written to create stronger bonds of solidarity in a new …	Hilary Wainwright; Lynne Segal; Sheila Rowbotham	324	2013	View
NEW! Beyond the Periphery of the Skin Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism Between The Lines	More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements–all look at the body in its manifold …	Silvia Federici	161	2020	View
NEW! Billion Dollar Start-Up The True Story of how a Couple of 29-Year-Olds Turned $35,000 into a $1,000,000,000 Cannabis Company ECW Press	From early roadblocks and devastating personal and financial setbacks to explosive growth and some of the biggest cannabis deals in global history, Billion Dollar Start-Up not only recounts the …	Adam Miron; Julie Beun; Sébastien St-Louis	306	2021	View
BlackBerry Town How high tech success has played out for Canada's Kitchener-Waterloo James Lorimer and Company	The smartphone was an incredibly successful Canadian invention created by a team of engineers and marketers led by Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. But there was a third key player involved — …	Chuck Howitt	264	2019	View
Blood of Extraction Canadian Imperialism in Latin America Fernwood Publishing	Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian …	Jeffery R. Webber; Todd Gordon	400	2016	View
Bombardier Abroad Patterns of Dispossession Fernwood Publishing	In Bombardier Abroad, Thomas examines several cases of the Canadian aerospace giant’s work in the high-speed rail sector in South Africa, China/Tibet, and Israel/Palestine and argues that …	David P. Thomas	164	2018	View