Sociology & Anthropology

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Doctors in Denial Why Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are Too Close for Comfort James Lorimer and Company	Examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of …	Joel Lexchin MD	344	2017	View
Doing Respectful Research Power, Privilege and Passion Fernwood Publishing	Doing Respectful Research is situated within a critical, feminist postmodern framework and addresses the complexities of conducting respectful qualitative research with human participants. Three …	Susan A. Tilley	294	2016	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
Early Intervention How Canada's social programs can work better, save lives, and often save money James Lorimer and Company	Governments and social agencies tackle the toughest social problems their citizens face — poverty, homelessness, mental and physical illness, violence, abuse, and more. Yet these problems …	James Hughes	232	2015	View
Educating for Action Strategies to Ignite Social Justice New Society Publishers	The pursuit of freedom and justice is a timeless effort, but new activists may not know where to begin, while more experienced ones often become jaded or fatigued. The task of constructing a new …	Anthony J. Nocella II; Jason Del Gandio	259	2014	View
Emergent Agriculture Farming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy New Society Publishers	Long embraced by corporations who are driven only by the desire for profit, industrial agriculture wastes precious resources and spews millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere …	Gary S. Kleppel	195	2014	View
Engage, Connect, Protect Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders New Society Publishers	While concern about the state of our land, air, and water continues to grow, there is widespread belief that environmental issues are primarily of interest to wealthy white communities. Engage, …	Angelou Ezeilo	256	2019	View
Essential Work Disposable Workers Migration, Capitalism, and Class Fernwood Publishing	Across the world we are witnessing daily the lethal effects of a rapid and scary hardening of borders, ignited and justified by manufactured fear and scarcity. In such conditions, highly …	Mostafa Henaway	230	2012	View
Everyday Evil Why Our World Is the Way It Is Tidewater Press	Instead of the epic, alien force of our imagination, anthropologist Monique Layton argues that evil is intrinsic to our humanity, constantly evolving with modern notions of morality. Much of the …	Monique Layton	270	2019	View
Everyday Violence in the Lives of Youth Speaking Out and Pushing Back Fernwood Publishing	Though interpersonal violence is widely studied, much less has been done to understand structural violence, the often-invisible patterns of inequality that reproduce social relations of exclusion …	Catherine Richardson/Kinewesquao; Eugenia Canas; Helene Berman; Kate Elliot	248	2020	View
Experiencing Difference Fernwood Publishing	Difference is a fundamental aspect of our human existence. This anthology emerges from the editor’s attempts to navigate the complex, variable and unpredictable materiality of difference. …	Carl E. James	333	2012	View
Expose, Oppose, Propose Alternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice Fernwood Publishing	Expose, Oppose, Propose explores the networks, discourses and practices through which transnational alternative policy groups exert political and cultural influence and assesses the challenges …	William K. Carroll	246	2016	View
F-Bomb Dispatches from the War on Feminism Goose Lane Editions	From pop icons to working mothers, women are abandoning feminism in unprecedented numbers. Even scarier, they are also leading the charge to send it to its grave. Across North America, women head …	Lauren McKeon	280	2017	View
Facing the Climate Emergency How to Transform Yourself With Climate Truth New Society Publishers	As the climate crisis accelerates toward the collapse of civilization and the natural world, people everywhere are feeling deep pain about ecological destruction and their role in it. Yet we are …	Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage	162	2020	View
False Security The Radicalization of Canadian Anti-Terrorism Irwin Law Inc.	On 20 October 2014, a terrorist drove his car into two members of the Canadian Armed Forces, killing Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent. Two days later, another terrorist murdered Corporal Nathan …	Craig Forcese; Kent Roach	633	2015	View
Feminist City A Field Guide Between The Lines	Leslie Kern wants your city to be feminist. An intrepid feminist geographer, Kern combines memoir, theory, pop culture, and geography in this collection of essays that invites the reader to think …	Leslie Kern	216	2019	View