Coach House Books
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() 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 |
![]() Any Other WayHow Toronto Got Queer |
Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how … | Jane Farrow; John Lorinc; Stephanie Chambers; Tatum Taylor | 369 | 2017 | View |
![]() CloserNotes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality |
We think of the modern woman as sexually liberated –- if anything, we’re told we’re oversexed. Yet a striking number of women are dissatisfied with their sex lives. Over … | Sarah Barmak | 169 | 2016 | View |
![]() CurryEating, Reading, and Race |
Curry is a dish that doesn’t quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn’t properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By … | Naben Ruthnum | 120 | 2017 | View |
![]() Five Good IdeasPractical Strategies for Non-Profit Success |
Non-profits are big business. According to a recent Johns Hopkins report, third-sector institutions in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Japan, the U. S. and Canada have been growing at an average … | Alan Broadbent; Ratna Omidvar | 265 | 2011 | View |
![]() Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract |
A cultural planner's immodest proposal: change how we think about children and we just might change the world. We live in an 'adultitarian' state, where the rules are based on … | Darren O'Donnell | 218 | 2018 | View |
![]() Hard to DoThe Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up |
From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, Hard to Do breaks down the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution. Whatever the underlying motives – love, money, or mere masochism … | Kelli Maria Korducki | 146 | 2018 | View |
![]() No Place To GoHow Public Toilets Fail our Private Needs |
This book is Number One in addressing the politics of where we’re allowed to "go" in public. Adults don’t talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one … | Lezlie Lowe | 209 | 2018 | View |
![]() SubdividedCity-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity |
How do we build cities where we aren’t just living within the same urban space, but living together? Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any … | Jay Pitter; John Lorinc | 281 | 2016 | View |
![]() The SeedInfertility Is a Feminist Issue |
Notes on desire, reproduction, and grief, and how feminism doesn’t support women struggling to have children. In pop culture as much as in policy advocacy, the feminist movement has … | Alexandra Kimball | 145 | 2019 | View |
![]() You Only Live TwiceSex, Death and Transition |
YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive. The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become … | Mike and Joynt Hoolboom | 153 | 2016 | View |
From ![]() ContentsFrom: Five Good Ideas |
Table of Contents | Alan Broadbent; Ratna Omidvar | 2 | 2011 | $0.20 Add |
From ![]() Fear of PleasureIn a sex-obsessed culture, not all of us feel at home. From: Closer |
The author begins by visiting a workshop of women who have never had an orgasm. Then she expands the view to the recent discussions and interest in female sexuality, particularly the evidence … | Sarah Barmak | 15 | 2016 | $1.50 Add |
From ![]() ForewordFrom: Any Other Way |
In the foreword, Kristyn Wong-Tam recounds her arrival in Toronto from Hong Kong and describes the diversity of the city’s queer community, which is often overshadowed by the predominantly … | Kristyn Wong-Tam | 2 | 2017 | $0.20 Add |
From ![]() ForewordFrom: You Only Live Twice |
Chase Joynt explains the reasons for the book, how he met the co-author, and the form and structure of the book. | Chase Joynt | 2 | 2016 | $0.20 Add |
From ![]() Game of ThronesFrom: No Place To Go |
This first chapter makes the case for public washrooms through personal and anecdotal stories of the paradox they present: everyone needs them and thinks about them often, and yet they are … | Lezlie Lowe | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |