2018

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
A Matter of Taste A Farmers' Market Devotee's Semi-Reluctant Argument for Inviting Scientific Innovation to the Dinner Table Coach House Books	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 Advocacy The Best of The Advocates’ Journal, 2005–2018 Irwin Law Inc.	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
An Economy of Well-Being Common-sense tools for building genuine wealth and happiness New Society Publishers	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
Basic Income for Canadians The key to a healthier, happier, more secure life for all James Lorimer and Company	This book explores basic income from a Canadian perspective. It reports on research from the original test in Manitoba in the 1970s to the Ontario initiative launched by the Wynne government, …	Evelyn L. Forget	216	2018	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
Care Work Dreaming of Disability Justice Arsenal Pulp Press	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 Own Child Sponsorship, the Discourse of Development, and the Production of Ethical Subjects Fernwood Publishing	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
Class Actions Controversy The Origins and Development of the Ontario Class Proceedings Act Irwin Law Inc.	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 Jail Women, Trauma, and Criminalization Fernwood Publishing	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 Code How to Understand and Talk with Boys New Society Publishers	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
Critical Development Studies: An Introduction Fernwood Publishing	Development studies is typically used by agencies concerned on improving the living conditions of people across the world by advancing capitalism as the institutional and policy framework of the …	Henry Veltmeyer; Raúl Delgado Wise	190	2018	View
Damming the Peace The hidden costs of the Site C Dam James Lorimer and Company	Since the 1970s, the Site C Dam in northeastern British Columbia’s Peace River Valley has been touted by BC Hydro and successive governments as necessary to meet the province’s …	Wendy Holm	272	2018	View
Freedom To Learn Creating a Classroom Where Every Child Thrives New Society Publishers	Disinterested students and behavioral problems are all too common in schools. Yet results show that behavior charts and other reward-and-punishment systems simply don’t work. Teachers are …	Art Willans; Cari Williams	220	2018	View
From the Inside Looking Out Competing Ideas about Growing Old 2nd Edition Fernwood Publishing	In From The Inside Looking Out, Auger, Tedford-Litle and Wallace-Allen seek to overcome the “us” and “them” dichotomy that characterizes much of the literature on aging. …	Brenda Wallace-Allen; Diane Tedford-Litle; Jeanette A. Auger	219	2018	View
Game Misconduct Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport Fernwood Publishing	“You’re not a human being, you’re a number, a product, an asset as long as you can perform. If you can’t perform, then you’re a liability and they’ll drop you.” Professional athletes suffer …	Nathan Kalman-Lamb	192	2018	View
Getting to Zero Canada Confronts Global Warming James Lorimer and Company	In this book, long-time social and environmental activist Tony Clarke provides hard-to-find information and analysis about what Canada is and is not doing as of 2018 to get to zero emissions. He …	Tony Clarke	248	2018	View