2017

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice Social Justice Social Work Fernwood Publishing	This updated third edition of the immensely popular Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice introduces students to anti-oppressive social work, its historical and theoretical roots and the specific …	Donna Baines	381	2017	View
Education Law in Canada A Guide for Teachers and Administrators Irwin Law Inc.	Education Law in Canada: A Guide for Teachers and Administrators is a comprehensive examination of the many legal issues that impact public education in this country. With informative and easily …	David C. Young	377	2017	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
Fighting Dirty How a Small Community Took on Big Trash Between The Lines	Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a …	Poh-Gek Forkert	208	2017	View
Fighting For Space How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction Arsenal Pulp Press	North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of …	Travis Lupick	408	2017	View
Gunboats on the Great Lakes 1866-68 The British Navy's show of force at the time of Confederation James Lorimer and Company	This book describes British gunboat diplomacy practiced on the Great lakes in the aftermath of the US Civil War when Canada was negotiating Confederation and under Fenian attack. Cheryl MacDonald …	Cheryl MacDonald	192	2017	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
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
Is This the End of the Liberal International Order? The Munk Debate on Geopolitics House of Anansi Press	Be it resolved, the liberal international order is over… Since the end of World War II, global affairs have been shaped by three broad trends: the increasing free movement of people and …	Fareed Zakaria; Niall Ferguson; Rudyard Griffiths	106	2017	View
Land-Use Planning Irwin Law Inc.	Inevitably, we live our lives as part of a physical community. Whether one wants it or not, the law recognizes the connections our actions as owners or tenants create with others. Inevitably, …	Howard Epstein	687	2017	View
Mareva and Anton Piller Preservation Orders in Canada A Practical Guide Irwin Law Inc.	This book deals with two effective civil litigation tools used in cases of fraud. A Mareva injunction, also referred to as an “asset preservation order,” is a court order that …	David Crerar	387	2017	View
Mental Disorder and the Law 2/e A Primer for Legal and Mental Health Professionals Irwin Law Inc.	Canada’s criminal courts have struggled to deal effectively with the increase in mentally disordered accused. In 2017, we mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the proclamation of Bill C-30, …	Hy Bloom; Richard D. Schneider	425	2017	View
Montreal, City of Secrets Confederate Operations in Montreal During the American Civil War Baraka Books	“Barry Sheehy lays out the case for the involvement of the Confederates in a concise and convincing manner showing once and for all that Booth could not have carried out his plot without …	Barry Sheehy; Cindy Wallace	300	2017	View
Oil’s Deep State How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming — in Alberta, and in Ottawa James Lorimer and Company	Why have democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite dire warnings and compelling evidence of the profound and growing threat posed by global warming? …	Kevin Taft	256	2017	View
One Law for All? Weber v Ontario Hydro and Canadian Labour Law, Essays in Memory of Bernie Adell Irwin Law Inc.	These essays arise from a symposium in honour of the late Professor Bernard Adell, hosted by the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace at Queen’s University. The symposium marked the …	Elizabeth Shilton; Karen Schucher	391	2017	View
Radical Transformation Oligarchy, Collapse, and the Crisis of Civilization Between The Lines	Radical Transformation is a story about industrial civilization’s impending collapse, and about the possibilities of averting this fate. Human communities first emerged as egalitarian, …	Kevin MacKay	264	2017	View