Between The Lines

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
“Too Asian”? Racism and Post-Secondary Education	The now notorious Maclean’s article “Too Asian?” from the magazine’s 2010 campus issue has sparked a national furor about race in Canadian higher education. Since the …	Davina Bhandar; Jeet Heer; Michael C.K. Ma; RJ Gilmour	224	2012	View
A Beauty that Hurts Life and Death in Guatemala	When A Beauty That Hurts was published in 1995, Guatemala was still one of the world’s most flagrant violators of human rights. Now that a measure of “peace” has come to the …	W. George Lovell	288	2019	View
NEW! Being and Swine The End of Nature (As We Knew It)	Forget everything you think you know about nature. Fahim Amir’s award-winning book takes pure delight in posing unexpected questions: Are animals victims of human domination, or heroes of …	Corvin Russell; Fahim Amir; Geoffrey C. Howes	228	2020	View
NEW! Bent out of Shape Shame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work	Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she …	Karen Messing	276	2021	View
NEW! Beyond the Periphery of the Skin Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism	More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements–all look at the body in its manifold …	Silvia Federici	161	2020	View
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place	Black Geographies and the Politics of Place is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in black geographic theory. Fourteen authors address specific geographic sites and develop their …	Katherine McKittrick	272	2007	View
NEW! Brotherhood to Nationhood George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement	Charged with fresh material and new perspectives, this updated edition of the groundbreaking biography Brotherhood to Nationhood brings George Manuel and his fighting tradition into the present. …	Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane	342	2020	View
Degrees of Failure University Education in Decline	In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show …	Randle W. Nelsen	152	2017	View
Disarming Conflict Why Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield	Wars fought over the past quarter century have been a spectacular failure. The overwhelming majority end in military stalemate and are settled at the negotiating table, with the grievances that …	Ernie Regehr	232	2015	View
NEW! Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk	Public transportation is in crisis. Through an assessment of the history of automobility in North America, the “three revolutions” in automotive transportation, as well as the current …	James Wilt	306	2020	View
NEW! Exile Rejecting America and Finding the World	Che Guevara left Argentina at 22. At 21, Belén Fernández left the U.S. and didn’t look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikistan, she reflects on …	Belen Fernandez	160	2020	View
Feminist City A Field Guide	Leslie Kern wants your city to be feminist. An intrepid feminist geographer, Kern combines memoir, theory, pop culture, and geography in this collection of essays that invites the reader to think …	Leslie Kern	216	2019	View
From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You A Primer on Radiation and Health	The bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, brought radiation to international attention but the exact nature of what had been unleashed was still unclear to most. The 1986 meltdown at the …	Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck	216	2014	View
NEW! Going Public A Survivor's Journey From Grief to Action	It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud—the words that finally broke the calm and traveled farther than she could have imagined. In this clear-eyed account, she …	Julie Macfarlane	228	2020	View
Home and Native Land Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada	Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light—shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain. The …	Anna Stanley; Lisa Helps; May Chazan; Sonali Thakkar	256	2011	View
In Defiance	On February 7, 2012, as students in Quebec prepared to vote to go on strike, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois gave a rousing speech: “What you do today will be remembered. The decision you make will …	Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler	186	2015	View