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Series:
Building Justice
Frank Iacobucci and the Life Cycles of Law
Hardcover
Shauna Van Praagh
9781487566289
$36.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 28, 2022
Building Justice draws on the inspiring life of former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci to offer insight into the meaning of engaged citizenship through law.Ignoring early advice that he had the wrong kind of name to go to law school, Frank Iacobucci, the son of Italian immigrants, made a name for himself as an outstanding Canadian jurist. Serving as justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1991 to 2004, Iacobucci was also professor and dean of law at the University of Toronto and deputy minister of justice for Canada. In Build...
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Series:
Tuzo
The Unlikely Revolutionary of Plate Tectonics
Paperback
Nick Eyles
9781487524579
$48.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 10, 2022
Tuzo is the never-before-told story of one of Canada’s most influential scientists and the discovery of plate tectonics, a pivotal development that forever altered how we think of our planet. Your home is not where it was last night, and it will be in a different place tomorrow. This is the result of plate tectonics, a process most of us accept without hesitation today, but whose discovery was a true revolution that forever changed how we think of planet Earth. In 1961, a Canadian geologist named John "Jock" Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) jettiso...
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Series:
Behind the Glass
The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family
Hardcover
Michael Lambek
9781487542191
$44.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 20, 2022
Part family history, part memoir, Behind the Glass tells the story behind the famous Villa Tugendhat.The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism. Behind the Glass tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing. The book traces the transformations in the life of the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the wealthy bourgeoisie in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to adaptation in interwar independent Czechos...
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Series: ethnoGRAPHIC
Forecasts
A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
Paperback
Caroline Schuster
9781487542238
$26.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 15, 2023
This collaborative graphic novel explores issues of capitalism and climate change in Paraguay, raising questions about the limits of survival for humans, their food crops, and rural ways of life.Based in the agrarian world of commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, Forecasts tells a story about what happens when global insurance companies promise financial safety nets to local farmers struggling with the effects of climate change. This striking graphic novel brings together original ethnographic research and Paraguayan gothic art to con...
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