2018
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() A Distinct Alien RaceThe Untold Story of Franco-Americans - Industrialization, Immigration, Religious Strife |
“The French number more than a million in the United States…. They are kept a distinct alien race, subject to the Pope in matters of religion and of politics. Soon…they will govern you, … | David Vermette | 394 | 2018 | View |
![]() A Finer FutureCreating an Economy in Service to Life |
Humanity is in a race with catastrophe. Is the future one of global warming, 65 million migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality, and grid-locked politics? Or one of empowered … | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 450 | 2018 | View |
![]() A Matter of TasteA Farmers' Market Devotee's Semi-Reluctant Argument for Inviting Scientific Innovation to the Dinner Table |
How did farmer’s markets, nose-to-tail, locavorism, organic eating, CSAs, whole foods, and Whole Foods become synonymous with "good food"? And are these practices … | Rebecca Tucker | 137 | 2018 | View |
![]() Advocates and AdvocacyThe Best of The Advocates’ Journal, 2005–2018 |
It’s been 13 years since The Advocates’ Society published Ethos, Pathos, and Logos: The Best of The Advocates’ Society Journal 1982–2004, recalling the classical lynchpins … | 392 | 2018 | View | |
![]() All Our RelationsFinding the Path Forward |
In this urgent and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. From Northern … | Tanya Talaga | 290 | 2018 | View |
![]() An Economy of Well-BeingCommon-sense tools for building genuine wealth and happiness |
In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it’s difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about … | Mark Anielski | 242 | 2018 | View |
![]() At HomeTalks with Canadian Artists about Place and Practice |
In this intimate investigation of the artistic process, Lezli Rubin-Kunda explores the nuanced path of creative work and the way artists make sense of home and place within their art practice and … | Lezli Rubin-Kunda | 232 | 2018 | View |
![]() Back to the WellRethinking the Future of Water |
Droughts. Floods. Contamination. Climate change. The perils to the global fresh-water supply have never been so clear or so numerous, as the crisis in Cape Town’s water supply in early 2018 … | Marq de Villiers | 378 | 2018 | View |
![]() Bombardier AbroadPatterns of Dispossession |
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 |
![]() Canadian Business LawThird Edition |
Canadian Business Law, 3rd Edition provides a comprehensive overview of business law through a legal risk management perspective. Readers will gain a working knowledge of key concepts across … | Tamra Alexander | 472 | 2018 | View |
![]() Care WorkDreaming of Disability Justice |
In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and long-time disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 266 | 2018 | View |
![]() Change a Life, Change Your OwnChild Sponsorship, the Discourse of Development, and the Production of Ethical Subjects |
Peter Ove argues in Change a Life, Change Your Own, child sponsorship is successful not because it addresses the needs of poor children, but because it helps position what it means to live … | Peter Ove | 188 | 2018 | View |
![]() ChangemakersEmbracing Hope, Taking Action, and Transforming the World |
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 |
![]() Class Actions ControversyThe Origins and Development of the Ontario Class Proceedings Act |
Winner of the 2019 Peter Oliver Prize in Canadian Legal History Shortlisted for the Speaker’s Book Award 2019 The Ontario Class Proceedings Act, 1992 represented a major innovation in civil … | Suzanne Chiodo | 302 | 2018 | View |
![]() Coming Back to JailWomen, Trauma, and Criminalization |
Drawing on the stories of forty-two incarcerated women, Coming Back to Jail broadens the focus to examine the role of trauma in the women’s lives. Resisting the popular move to understand … | Elizabeth Comack | 272 | 2018 | View |
![]() Cracking the Boy CodeHow to Understand and Talk with Boys |
All too quickly, talkative, affectionate young boys seem to slip away. Adolescents may be transformed overnight into reclusive, seemingly impenetrable young people who open up only to their … | Adam Cox | 163 | 2018 | View |