2024

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge What It Will Take to Deal with American Decline, Inequality and the Climate Crisis James Lorimer and Company	Neoliberalism arrived in Ottawa with the Mulroney government in 1984, and has continued as widely accepted common sense about government until today. Neoliberalism’s basic tenets – reduce public …	Alex Himelfarb	184	2024	View
NEW! Canada Vs California How Ottawa took on Netflix and the streaming giants James Lorimer and Company	Canada vs California provides a road map of the tense battle between Canadian content and California’s billion dollar businesses that threaten to drown it out. Howard Law’s Canada vs. …	Howard Law	232	2024	View
NEW! Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 A New History for the Twenty-First Century James Lorimer and Company	Colonialism and Capitalism: A New History of Canada offers readers access to a clear-eyed understanding of Canada’s past, explaining how recently-acknowledged dark facts about our history are …	Bryan D. Palmer	444	2024	View
NEW! Ending Homelessness in Canada The Case for Homelessness Prevention James Lorimer and Company	Homelessness is at critical levels. This book identifies the causes and offers ideas about what it will take to prevent Canadians from finding themselves without a roof over their head. More …	James Hughes	186	2024	View
NEW! Murder in Renfrew County The predator who left three women dead- and the justice system that failed to stop him James Lorimer and Company	The murder of three women in Ontario’s Renfrew County, and the inquest into violence against women that followed. The story of the murder of three women in Ontario’s Renfrew county by …	Dean Beeby	226	2024	View
NEW! Runaway Climate What the geological past can tell us about the coming climate change catastrophe New Society Publishers	56 million years ago our planet experienced rapid, intense warming known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, resulting in a global temperature increase of about 7°C. Runaway …	Steven Earle	256	2024	View
NEW! The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada James Lorimer and Company	There are more billionaires than ever in Canada – and they are capturing an ever-growing share of the country’s wealth. Meanwhile 90% of Canadians are steadily losing ground. …	Lars Osberg	288	2024	View
NEW! The Story is in Our Bones How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis New Society Publishers	A dominant, human-centered worldview has brought us to the brink of social, ecological, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, deep cultural and climate justice analyses, and …	Osprey Orielle Lake	394	2024	View
NEW! The Story of Upfront Carbon How a Life of Just Enough Offers a Way Out of the Climate Crisis New Society Publishers	When you look at the world through the lens of upfront carbon, everything changes Think that buying an electric car or switching to a heat pump is going to save the planet? Think again. We must …	Lloyd Alter	194	2024	View
NEW! The Trudeau Record Promise and Performance 25 experts weigh in James Lorimer and Company	In this book, independent experts analyze the performance of Justin Trudeau’s years in power in six key policy areas: Indigenous rights, governance and housing; the environment and energy; …	Katherine Scott; Laura Macdonald; Stuart Trew	336	2024	View
From NEW! Author’s Note and Foreward From: The Story is in Our Bones View New Society Publishers	In the author’s note and foreward, Lake and Camp-Horinek discuss the ecological impact of human systems and ways our collective worldview must change in order to address the issue.	Casey Camp-Horinek; Osprey Orielle Lake	5	2024	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Chapter 1: The Lens of Upfront Carbon From: The Story of Upfront Carbon View New Society Publishers	What is upfront carbon, and why is it so important? For decades we have been preoccupied with energy consumption, but since the Paris Accord of 2015 we have had to pivot to concern about carbon …	Lloyd Alter	46	2024	$4.60 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: Canada Vs California View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter introduces the concept of this book and why a book covering the political showdown of Bill C-11 is relevant and important. This chapter lays the ground work of the Bill’s …	Howard Law	8	2024	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Introduction Promise and performance From: The Trudeau Record View James Lorimer and Company	The Introduction to The Trudeau Record provides an overview of the Justin Trudeau’s record in six key policy areas (Indigenous rights, governance and housing; the environment and energy; …	Katherine Scott; Laura Macdonald; Stuart Trew	23	2024	$2.30 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada View James Lorimer and Company	In the Introduction, the author explains the background for writing this book on the growth of inequality in Canada, and the effect of the Covid pandemic and the climate crisis in recent years on …	Lars Osberg	22	2024	$2.20 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge View James Lorimer and Company	In the Introduction, the author explains the impetus for writing this book and how it became clear that the ideology of neoliberalism lay at the root of the persistent inability to address the …	Alex Himelfarb	7	2024	$0.70 Add