2020

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
ohpikinâwasowin/Growing a Child Implementing Indigenous Ways of Knowing With Indigenous Families Fernwood Publishing	Western theory and practice are over-represented in child welfare services for Indigenous peoples, not the other way around. Contributors to this collection invert the long-held, colonial …	Avery Calhoun; Leona Makokis; Ralph Bodor; Stephanie Tyler	286	2020	View
On Nostalgia Coach House Books	On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially …	David Berry	161	2020	View
Rebuilding Halifax A History of the Halifax Relief Commission Formac Publishing	Using the perspectives of law, politics, public policy and intergovernmental relations, historian Barry Cahill describes the complex activities of an almost-unaccountable agency that took the …	Barry Cahill	226	2020	View
NEW! Renewal How Nature Awakens Our Creativity Compassion and Joy New Society Publishers	Why spend countless hours indoors in front of screens when being in nature feels so good? In learning why and how to nurture our emotional connection with nature, we can also regenerate the …	Andres R. Edwards	210	2020	View
Reset Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society House of Anansi Press	In the 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author and renowned technology and security expert Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the …	Ronald J. Deibert	339	2020	View
Restless Ideas Contemporary Social Theory in an Anxious Age Fernwood Publishing	How do we make sense of the rise of political strongmen like Trump and Erdoğan, or the increase in hate crimes and terrorism? How can we understand Brexit and xenophobic, anti-immigrant …	Tony Simmons	592	2020	View
Revolution at Point Zero Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle Between The Lines	Written between 1974 and 2012, Revolution at Point Zero collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this …	Silvia Federici	265	2020	View
NEW! Saved by Science The Hope and Promise of Synthetic Biology ECW Press	How can we accelerate the development of vaccines? How do we feed three billion people when 12 million died of hunger in 2019? Does synthetic biology hold the answer? With all the advances in …	Dr. Mark J. Poznansky	226	2020	View
NEW! Sentencing in Canada Essays in Law, Policy, and Practice Irwin Law Inc.	Sentencing in Canada contains a unique collection of essays that explore all key aspects of sentencing. The contributors include leading academics, criminal law practitioners, and members of the …	David Cole; Julian Roberts	500	2020	View
NEW! Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs Independent experts analyze often-controversial schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto’s failed Sidewalk Labs waterfront scheme James Lorimer and Company	"Smart cities" use surveillance, big data processing and interactive technologies to reshape urban life. Transit riders can see the bus coming on a map on their phones. Cities can …	Alexandra Flynn; Mariana Valverde	200	2020	View
NEW! Spectres of Fascism Historical, Theoretical and International Perspectives Between The Lines	Concerns over the rise of fascism have been preoccupied with the Trump presidency and the Brexit vote in the UK, yet, globally, we are witnessing a turn towards anti-democratic and illiberal …	Samir Gandesha	304	2020	View
Stolen Motherhood Surrogacy and Made-to-Order Children bar	Neither marginal nor secret, contracting surrogate mothers is growing rapidly and is regarded as socially progressive. Yet the “process” is vitiated from the get go, i.e., …	Maria De Koninck	194	2020	View
Take Back the Fight Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age Fernwood Publishing	Two decades of neoliberalism have destroyed a structured, pan-regional feminist movement in Canada. As a result, new generations of feminists have come to age without ever seeing the force that …	Nora Loreto	256	2020	View
NEW! Take Back the Tray Revolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions ECW Press	Good food generally doesn’t arrive on a tray, but Chef Joshna Maharaj knows that institutional kitchens have the ability to produce good, nourishing food, because she’s been making it …	Joshna Maharaj	258	2020	View
NEW! The Attack on Nova Scotia’s Schools The story behind 25 years of tumultuous change Formac Publishing	Nova Scotia’s public schools and their students have faced dramatic conflict and drastic change over the past 25 years. While critics charge that schools are failing kids, teachers have …	Grant Frost	180	2020	View
NEW! The Canadian Investor Challenges and Change in Canadian Capital Markets Irwin Law Inc.	The Canadian Investor is one of the clearest and most informative accounts of Canada’s financial system and the issues it has been facing since the 2008 financial market crash. This …	Anita Indira Anand	210	2020	View