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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
The Memory We Could Be Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future New Society Publishers	Heal the great separation between humans and nature, and help create a future worth remembering. The Memory We Could Be moves beyond the sterile, technical language around climate change and …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	338	2018	View
NEW! The Next Generation of Impact Assessment A Critical Review of the Canadian Impact Assessment Act Irwin Law Inc.	Legislated impact assessment requirements were first introduced over fifty years ago with the National Environmental Policy Act in the United States and have since spread to over a hundred and …	A. John Sinclair; Meinhard Doelle	614	2021	View
NEW! The Sea Is Rising and So Are We A Climate Justice Handbook Between The Lines	The Sea is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook is an invitation to get involved in the movement to build a just and sustainable world in the face of the most urgent challenge our …	Bill McKibben; Cynthia Kaufman	193	2021	View
The Tangled Garden A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age James Lorimer and Company	The emergence of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (the FAANGs) has created an unprecedented challenge to Canada’s news, television and film businesses. In this book Richard …	Richard Stursberg	224	2019	View
NEW! The Tenant Class Between The Lines	In this trailblazing manifesto, political economist Ricardo Tranjan places tenants and landlords on either side of the class divide that splits North American society. What if there is no housing …	Ricardo Tranjan	145	2023	View
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada A Citizen's Guide James Lorimer and Company	The Trans-Pacific Partnership, with its twelve participating countries on three continents, is the largest regional trade and investment agreement that Canada has ever negotiated. It is also one …	Scott Sinclair; Stuart Trew	216	2016	View
The World After Covid The Munk Dialogues on a Pandemic House of Anansi Press	From the world-renowned Munk Debates comes a collection of dialogues by leading intellectuals envisioning our post-pandemic future. During this time of social distancing, the acclaimed Munk …	Rudyard Griffiths	153	2021	View
Thriving Beyond Sustainability Pathways to a Resilient Society New Society Publishers	Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million …	Andrés R. Edwards	241	2010	View
Toward Sustainable Communities Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition New Society Publishers	The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, …	Marc Roseland	257	2012	View
Transforming the Field Critical Antiracist and Anti-Oppressive Perspectives For the Human Services Practicum Fernwood Publishing	This text focuses on field education in social work. It provides a framework and directions for responding to issues relating to racism and oppression. It also examines how power is embedded in …	Narda Razack	143	2002	View
Unicorn in the Woods Goose Lane Editions	As tech investors the world over search for elusive unicorns (start-ups valued at over $1 billion), acclaimed business journalist Gordon Pitts asks whether there can be a place for high-tech …	Gordon Pitts	264	2020	View
NEW! We’re all Climate Hypocrites Now How Embracing Our Limitations Can Unlock the Power of a Movement New Society Publishers	Our culture tells us that personal responsibility is central to tackling the climate emergency, yet the choices we make are often governed by the systems in which we live. Whether it’s …	Sami Grover	192	2021	View
Weapons of Mass Instruction A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling New Society Publishers	John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction, now available in paperback, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and …	John Taylor Gatto	241	2010	View
When Poverty Mattered Then and Now Fernwood Publishing	Founded in Toronto in 1968, the Praxis Corporation was a progressive research institute mandated to spark political discussion about a range of social issues, such as poverty, homelessness, …	Paul Weinberg	211	2019	View
NEW! Worlds at Stake Climate Politics, Ideology, and Justice Fernwood Publishing	The intensifying climate crisis has put the world on high alert. For those living in the high-consuming, high-polluting swaths of the world, it is clear that something about our society, our …	Aaron Saad	192	2022	View
From NEW! A Life on the Left From: The Fire and the Ashes Preview Between The Lines	In the opening chapter, Jackson describes his book as "part personal memoir, part historical analysis, and part political manifesto." He also discusses how the labour movement has been …	Andrew Jackson	12	2021	$1.20 Add