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Series: The Art of EctoplasmEncounters with Winnipeg's Ghost PhotographsPaperback
Serena Keshavjee9781772840377
$34.95ART
Nov 01, 2023
The legacy of the Hamiltons’ psychic archive In the wake of the First World War and the 1918–19 pandemic, the world was left grappling with a profound sense of loss. It was against this backdrop that a Winnipeg couple, physician T.G. Hamilton and nurse Lillian Hamilton, began their research, documenting and photographing séances they held in their home laboratory. Their extensive study of the survival of human consciousness after death resulted in a stunning collection of hundreds of photographs, including images of tables flying through the ai... + Read More
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Series: Letters with SmokieBlindness and More-than-Human RelationsPaperback
Rod Michalko9781772840339
$24.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 22, 2023
Leave it to a dog to put the “human” back in “humanities” In September 2020, Rod Michalko wrote to friend and colleague Dan Goodley, congratulating him on the release of his latest book, Disability and Other Human Questions. Joking that his late guide dog, Smokie, had taken offense to the suggestion that disability was purely a human question, Michalko shared a few thoughts on behalf of his dog. When Goodley wrote back—to Smokie—so began an epistolic exchange that would continue for the next seven months. As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across t... + Read More
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Series: Meeting My Treaty KinA Journey toward ReconciliationPaperback
Heather Menzies9780774890663
$29.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 15, 2023
Can Indigenous and non-Indigenous people live in a treaty relationship despite over 200 years of social, cultural, and political alienation? This is the challenge of reconciliation – and its beautiful promise. Twenty-five years after the Ipperwash crisis, writer and social activist Heather Menzies showed up in Nishnaabe territory in Southwestern Ontario, near where her forebears settled, hoping to meet her would-be treaty kin. She was invited to help document the broken-treaty story behind the crisis, as remembered by Nishnaabe Elders and other... + Read More
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Series: Climate-Wise LandscapingPractical Actions for a Sustainable Future, Second Edition2nd editionPaperback
Sue Reed9780813080314
$40.95GARDENING
Sep 05, 2023
What can we do, right now, in our own landscapes, to help solve climate change? Gold Winner, Foreword INDIES Book Awards: Ecology & Environment “Read this book carefully. Everything you need to know to help heal our relationship with planet Earth and empower you to make a much-needed difference is within these pages.”—From the foreword by Doug Tallamy Predictions about future effects of climate change range from mild to dire—but we’re already seeing warmer winters, hotter summers, and more extreme storms. Proposed solutions often se... + Read More
Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life‑threatening impact, especially for older adults – generally speaking, people 65 or older. Older adults often face mobility, cognitive, and resource challenges, which contribute to a disproportionate number of deaths in the face of major disasters. But some challenges are less visible. Consider the grandparent who no longer can stand and wait at the bus stop because of the heat, or the retiree who lives in a home with black mold due to chronic flooding that she can’t afford t... + Read More
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Series: At the TableThe Chef's Guide to AdvocacyPaperback
Katherine Miller9781642832372
$39.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 28, 2023
When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous. This was a group known for short tempers and tattoos, not for saving the world. But she quickly learned that chefs and other leaders in the restaurant industry are some of the most powerful forces for change in our troubled food system. Chefs are leading hunger relief efforts, supporting local farmers, fighting food waste, confronting racism and sexism in the industry, and much more.In At the Table, Miller shares the essenti... + Read More
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Series: Music MattersWhy Mariah Carey MattersHardcover
Andrew Chan9781477325070
$28.95MUSIC
Sep 12, 2023
The first book to critically examine the legacy of pop superstar Mariah Carey,
A Black, queer “biography in essays” about the creator of “Hound Dog,” “Ball and Chain,” and other songs that changed the course of American music
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Series: American Made Music SeriesWhat a Difference a Day MakesWomen Who Conquered 1950s MusicPaperbackPaperback
Steve Bergsman9781496848956
$37.95MUSIC
Nov 15, 2023
A fun-filled survey of the women who topped the charts in jazz, blues, R&B, and rock ’n’ roll
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Series: Surviving TransphobiaPaperback
Laura A. Jacobs9781787759657
$26.95SELF-HELP
Sep 01, 2023
The transgender and gender nonbinary community is forever under siege. Institutional transphobia is enacted by those who would return us to the shadows, the closets, or worse. Surviving Transphobia is an anthology by transgender and gender nonbinary celebrities and experts on endurance during times of severe hostility. We share the moments when we were vulnerable, were bullied, had needs dismissed, or were discriminated against, revealing our determination and how we have (sometimes) managed to thrive.We offer loving support as you b... + Read More
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Series: Live, Laugh, LesbianHow to Navigate Life as a Lesbian in the 21st CenturyPaperback
Helen Scott9781839978142
$25.95SELF-HELP
Oct 19, 2023
"Sometimes, it's easy to feel like the only lesbian in the world - let alone in the village. But wherever you are with your sexuality, you've just picked up a book with the word 'lesbian' in the title and I know baby you would be so proud."From strap-ons and Lesbian Bed Death to dealing with homophobic microaggressions in the workplace and finding your second family, Helen Scott, lesbian big sister and lipstick femme in chief is here to hold your hand as you travel your own unique path to Gay Town.Half memoir, half guide, and 100% big le... + Read More
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Series: Raising Kids with Big, Baffling BehaviorsBrain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really WorkPaperback
Robyn Gobbel9781839974281
$26.95FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Sep 21, 2023
"All behavior makes sense" "It most certainly does not!", is probably your first reaction. Parenting coach Robyn Gobbel is here to reveal how all behaviour, no matter how baffling, can be explained and remedied. You just need to look past the behavior and understand what's going on inside. Robyn decodes the latest brain science into easy-to-understand principles and metaphors which will help you to become an expert in your child's behaviour. She reveals simple ways to help you regulate and connect with your child, with brain-, body- and sensor... + Read More
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Series: No Labels HerePaperback
Eve Bent9781839973765
$28.95FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Nov 21, 2023
Eve Bent has been where you are now. She knows how it feels to work your way through the seemingly endless pre-diagnosis period, while trying to access the right financial, medical and educational support for your child. This is a journey that can feel long and immensely challenging, but Eve's here to tell you that you're not alone.Whether you are at the beginning, middle or end of your pre-diagnosis journey, this book will provide advice around how to deal with the practical challenges that come from parenting kids who are developing different... + Read More
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Series: Where Do I Start?How to navigate the emotional journey of autism parentingPaperback
Kate Laine-Toner9781839975523
$28.95FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Sep 21, 2023
Recognising that your child is autistic is a pivotal moment for parents and carers. While it can lead to positives in terms of understanding behaviour and accessing support, the diagnostic process itself can be a huge source of anxiety, stress, guilt and worry. But it's going to be ok - because right here you have the ultimate guidebook to navigating the emotions and challenges that these early stages present. From weathering the initial impact of a potential diagnosis, to self-care strategies and finding new parameters for success, reading thi... + Read More
The 25th anniversary of a historically significant collection, presented in Cree and English.kôhkominawak otâcimowiniwâwa / Our Grandmothers’ Lives is a collection of reminiscences and personal stories from the daily lives of seven Cree women over the past century, presented here in Cree and English. Recorded in their own language, these women share their memories of their lives and the history of their peoples, describing activities such as household chores, snaring rabbits and picking berries, going to school, marriage, bearing and raising c... + Read More
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Series: The Regina CollectionTowards a Prairie AtonementPaperback
Trevor Herriot9780889779648
$22.95NATURE
Jul 15, 2023
When the government recently tried to abandon its responsibility to protect what little remains of the natural prairie, Trevor Herriot pushed back, only to discover an injustice haunting the lands he was trying to defend. In 1938, when the Métis of Ste. Madeleine returned from working away, they found their homes burnt to the ground and their animals shot. The land they held in common was no longer theirs, but was now controlled by the federal government. Facing his own responsibility as a descendent of settlers, he connects today's ecological ... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in CanadaA War Guest in CanadaPaperback
W.A.B. Douglas9781771123686
$24.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 12, 2023
During the Second World War, hundreds of children were sent from the UK to stay with family and friends in Canada as “war guests.” This book collects the letters of one such war guest, young W.A.B (Alec) Douglas, who wrote from his wartime home in Toronto to his mother back home in London. Alec wrote home every week, although sometimes he forgot to post his letters, and they were delayed, and some letters did not get through. Occasionally his godmother and host, Mavis Fry, would add comments and write her own more detailed letters. Also includ... + Read More
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Series: Laurier PoetryA Possible TrustThe Poetry of Ronna BloomPaperback
Ronna Bloom9781771125956
$21.99POETRY
Sep 12, 2023
A Possible Trust is a selection of Ronna Bloom's poetry by poet and editor Phil Hall. The book includes an introduction by Hall, and an afterword by Bloom that traces the relevance of photography, psychotherapy, and meditation in her work.
The powerful debut from author and poet M.W. Jaeggle.The morning after you and your mother leftI washed your dishes for the last time,keeping my grief at bay by thinking of impossibilities –where it is that the snow likes to summer,what sort of blessing might be found in tree litter,what it’d be like to sand down my shoulders with leaves,what it would mean to be a white oak tree in March,my leafless frame scenting the cold air,and what form my weeping would take if my son,now a black capped warbler, branched upon me.Like the coastal zone where ... + Read More
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Series: 101 CollectionThe Top Ten Diseases of All TimePaperback
Professor Stacey Smith? Professor9780776640600
$10.95MEDICAL
Oct 24, 2023
Infectious diseases have been with us for millennia and continue to pose a threat, from the irritation of flu season to the potential extinction of our species.We instinctively fear them and alter our behaviour as a result. The reason we bury bodies six feet deep is because that was the depth that stopped plague transmission from the dead in the Middle Ages. Many religious practices, such as avoiding certain meats, were established because of foodborne disease transmission.In The Top Ten Diseases of All Time, Stacey Smith? presents the top ten ... + Read More
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Series: Biography and memoirsShe Dared to SucceedA Biography of the Honourable Marie-P. Charette-PoulinPaperback
Fred Langan9780776637976
$31.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 27, 2023
She Dared to Succeed (in French, Elle a osé réussir), delves into the life of a woman who, for more than 30 years, broke multiple glass ceilings in the Canadian media and political worlds. Well-known in the broadcasting industry, she was propelled to the political forefront following her appointment to the Senate of Canada (1995) and her election as President of the Liberal Party of Canada (2006). She had to overcome many challenges throughout her career: sexism, prejudice against single mothers and career women, wage disparities, and harassme... + Read More
The Symons Medal, one of Canada’s most prestigious honours, recognizes an individual who has made an exceptional contribution to Canadian life.The award evening affords the distinguished recipient the opportunity to discuss the current state and the future of the Canadian Confederation. The Honourable Bob Rae is the 2020 awardee, in recognition of his many years of work on humanitarian issues, most recently the Rohingya refugee crisis, as well as his commitment to Indigenous issues and his decades of public service and teaching. He has always b... + Read More
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Series: Doing HarmHow the World's Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on TerrorHardcover
Roy J. Eidelson9780228018612
$37.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 05, 2023
Doing Harm pries open the black box on a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field’s enmeshment in the so-called war on terror and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics during times of threat. Focusing on developments within the American Psychological Association (APA) over two tumultuous decades, Roy Eidelson exposes the challenges that professional organizations face whenever powerful government agencies turn to them for contributions to ethically fraught endeavours. In the months after 9/11 it became clear that t... + Read More
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Series: Paths of PollenHardcover
Stephen Humphrey9780228018971
$39.95NATURE
Oct 15, 2023
A tiny organism called pollen pulls off one of nature’s key tasks: plant reproduction. Pollination involves a complex network of different species interacting with one another and mutually adapting to their ecosystems, which are constantly changing. Some pollen grains require just a puff of wind to set them in motion, but most plants depend on creatures gifted with mobility. These might be birds, bats, reptiles, or insects including butterflies, beetles, flies, wasps, and over twenty thousand species of bee. In Paths of Pollen Stephen Humphrey ... + Read More
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Series: Advancing Studies in ReligionProphets of LoveThe Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle PaulHardcover
Matthew R. Anderson9780228018643
$29.95MUSIC
Sep 15, 2023
Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul might be imagined as brothers with wildly different characters but a strong family resemblance. Paul, the elder sibling, was awkward, abrasive, and zealous. Leonard, the successful younger brother, was a smooth-talking romantic, prone to addiction and depression. Paul died a martyr, not knowing his words would have any effect on the world. Leonard could see his canonization within his lifetime. Yet each became a prophet in his own time, and a poet for the ages. In Prophets of Love Matthew Anderson traces surpr... + Read More
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Series: Carleton Library SeriesStatesman of the PianoJazz, Race, and History in the Life of Lou HooperHardcover
Sean Mills9780228018803
$37.95MUSIC
Oct 15, 2023
Ontario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894–1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem, performing alongside Paul Robeson and recording extensively in and around Tin Pan Alley, before moving to Montreal in the 1930s. Prolific and influential, Hooper was an early teacher of Oscar Peterson and deeply involved in the jazz community in Montreal. When the Second World War broke out he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and entertained the troop... + Read More
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Series: Picturing the GameAn Illustrated Story of HockeyHardcover
Don Weekes9780228018735
$49.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Oct 03, 2023
Hockey has a curious connection to editorial cartooning and sports illustration, one as old and storied as the game itself. Many writers and photographers have told the story of game play, but never from such an original, unvarnished perspective as the cartoonist’s. Picturing the Game transports fans into the mischievous world of caricature through the rough drafts of hockey history by Bruce MacKinnon, Aislin, Serge Chapleau, Susan Dewar, Brian Gable, and many other talented artists. They make us laugh by telling the truth and – perhaps – make ... + Read More
and it was in these bare sands / that you fell, / beloved. When John Baglow's partner Marianne MacKinnon died in 2006, he decided to assemble a new collection of poems in her memory. No one else knew of what proved to be a slow-moving ambition, but a member of the family mentioned one evening that Marianne had appeared in a dream, saying, “Tell John to finish my book.” After that, what choice did he have? In a famous photograph by James Crombie, a murmuration of starlings takes, for a magical moment, the shape of a giant bird. This is the metap... + Read More
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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Seriesact normalPaperback
nancy viva davis halifax9780228018711
$19.95POETRY
Oct 01, 2023
i might never be no-one that shiny / the beauty of a sequin’d self / what was stitched into heaven’s drop The poems in act normal use illegibility and wilful uncertainty to evade the grasp of the normative, as endured by those institutionalized by, and through, the concept of normalcy. act normal starts in an institution where children categorized and constructed as intellectually inferior are placed into custodial care. These poems are inquisitive, articulating the entanglements of lives across categories of difference – particularly the lives... + Read More
take the harp, take / the Fitbit and the Band-Aid box. Fold the whole / grey sheet of sky, lumpy and unalluring / into your rucksack. A strong theme of journeys is threaded through Take the Compass. In a sense, every poem is itself a journey – into the past or the present, or toward what we hope and fear for the future. Poems can be journeys of repair and recovery, adventure and discovery. However, even in pandemic times when our journeying is curtailed, or at least confined, when we are abiding in one physical location with chafing and restive... + Read More
Impulse said preserve the mess of construction, the unbiblical / carnage. This is my excuse for everything. Intensive and extensive, aboutness convenes across geographies and temporalities, in conversation with interlocutors living and dead, real and imagined. Set against a break-up with God, insomniac nights, and smoke-filled skies, this virgule-infused song of negation is by turns wry, performative, and sober. Threads of self-making are juxtaposed with an ever-unfolding present exposing the limits and possibilities of convergence. Marked by d... + Read More
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Series: Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?Critical Essays on Michael OndaatjePaperback
Robert Lecker9780228019039
$39.95LITERARY CRITICISM
Sep 01, 2023
Michael Ondaatje has achieved international prominence and recognition in a way that few other writers have, let alone Canadian writers. This popularity is most pronounced for works of historical fiction such as The English Patient, winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize, and In the Skin of a Lion, set in 1930s Toronto, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and winner of the Canada Reads competition in 2002. But Ondaatje has been writing for over fifty years, and his innovative works include some of the most accomplished poetry in the Eng... + Read More
John Alexander MacNeil is back with another astonishing adventure. The ninety-year-old still lives alone on the blessed isle of Cape Breton. He still sometimes makes tea for his wife, who died decades ago. He accepts his lonely life, ignoring the world changing around him. But one night, he feels his heart stop. After willing himself back to life with sheer stubbornness, John Alex finds Death himself sitting at his kitchen table, perplexed and intrigued by his victim’s recovery. What follows is a tale on the edge of reality, full of love, d... + Read More
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Series: EnoughPaperback
Kimia Eslah9781773636351
$24.00FICTION
Oct 12, 2023
You can’t win a race you’re kept from running. Set amid the cubicles and courtyards of Toronto City Hall, Kimia Eslah’s third novel centres on three women of colour navigating labyrinths at work, in love and in life. Faiza Hosseini is a cutthroat executive with a proven record — she knows she’s enough, but can she circumvent the old boys’ club? Sameera Jahani is passionate about equity but her girlfriend isn’t — can she bridge this gap, or has she had enough? Goldie Sheer has triumphantly landed her first job, but unexpected work drama makes... + Read More
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Series: Resisting EvictionDomicide and the Financialization of Rental HousingPaperback
Andrew Crosby9781773636375
$32.00SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 09, 2023
Resisting Eviction centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property relations and settler colonialism inform contemporary urban (re)development efforts and impacts affordable housing loss. How can the City of Ottawa aspire to become “North America’s most liveable mid-sized city” while large-scale, demolition-driven evictions displace hundreds of people and destroy a community? Troubling discourses of urban l... + Read More
Decolonizing Sport tells the stories of sport colonizing Indigenous Peoples and of Indigenous Peoples using sport to decolonize. Spanning several lands — Turtle Island, the US, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Kenya — the authors demonstrate the two sharp edges of sport in the history of colonialism. Colonizers used sport, their own and Indigenous recreational activities they appropriated, as part of the process of dispossession of land and culture. Indigenous mascots and team names, hockey at residential schools, lacrosse and many oth... + Read More
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Series: Women in BlackAgainst Violence, For Peace With JusticePaperback
Cynthia Cockburn9781773636412
$28.00SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 09, 2023
“Rape, femicide and the social exploitation of women are endemic. Feminist activism to end gendered oppression and violence is urgent and will be strengthened by fostering a greater understanding of the masculinist and patriarchal nature of militarism and war and making the scope and extent of current movements for change better known.” — Cynthia Cockburn Women in Black is a worldwide network of women “committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence.” The late feminist solida... + Read More
These twelve new short stories from Astrid Blodgett explore the consequences of grief and denial and single moments that change perceptions, lives, and attachments forever. Crisp prose and unexpected plot twists move relatable characters through vivid outdoor settings and interior depths. A child negotiates adult behaviour when an injured dog is put down. An older sister bribes a younger one to go on her first date. A family canoe trip launches from Disaster Point. A woman wants to hurl her granddaughter’s birthday cake out the window. This Is ... + Read More
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Series: The Cancer PlotTerminal Immortality in Marvel’s Moral UniversePaperback
Reginald Wiebe9781772127119
$39.99LITERARY CRITICISM
Nov 16, 2023
The Cancer Plot examines the prevalence of cancer in Marvel comics. Reginald Wiebe and Dorothy Woodman engage literature in comics studies, the medical humanities, and graphic medicine to explore representations of this disease in Marvel, focusing on four character case studies: Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Thor, and Deadpool. Cancer, the authors argue, thematically destabilizes moral binaries and symbolizes that which cannot be overcome within a genre replete with magic, mutants, and multiverses. Further, Wiebe and Woodman draw from gender theo... + Read More
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Series: Rise Up!Indigenous Music in North AmericaPaperback
Craig Harris9781496236159
$40.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 01, 2023
Music historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. More than powwow drums and wooden flutes, Indigenous music intersects with rock, blues, jazz, folk music, reggae, hip-hop, classical music, and more. Combining deep research with personal stories by nearly four dozen award-winning Indigenous musicians, Harris offers an eye-opening look at the growth of Indigenous music. Among a host of North America’s most vital Indigenous musi... + Read More
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Series: High BiasThe Distorted History of the Cassette TapePaperback
Marc Masters9781469675985
$27.95MUSIC
Oct 03, 2023
The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities. This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers. Scorned by the record industry for "kill... + Read More
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Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies SeriesA Pipe for FebruaryA NovelPaperback
Charles H. Red Corn9780806137261
$33.95FICTION
Nov 15, 2005
“A Pipe for February is an extraordinary novel: evocative, riveting, moving. Charles Red Corn illuminates what the Osage people went through during the 1920s, when oil profits had made them fabulously wealthy and when they began to die under mysterious circumstances—systematically targeted for their money. This novel, exquisitely written and filled with revelations, will hold you in its grip and never let you go.”—David Grann, author of New York Times Best Seller Killers of the Flower Moon At the turn of the twentieth century, the Osage India... + Read More
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Series: Some Unfinished ChaosThe Lives of F. Scott FitzgeraldHardcover
Arthur Krystal9780813950617
$33.50BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Age (years) from 18 - 99
Sep 12, 2023
A concise and elegant biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, his American era, and the contradictions in eachWhile so many literary artists of earlier eras fall away, F. Scott Fitzgerald retains a hold on us, both through his work and through his life, even through his enigmatic gaze in portraits, hinting at tensions and longings. There is something inscrutable in Fitzgerald, a fact he recognized himself and which New Yorker writer Arthur Krystal takes head-on in this concise, elegant biography. Krystal gives us the life--from a Minnesota upbringing... + Read More
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Series: A Word or Two Before I GoEssays Then and NowHardcover
Arthur Krystal9780813950624
$33.50LITERARY CRITICISM Age (years) from 18 - 99
Sep 12, 2023
Praise for Arthur Krystal:“Arthur Krystal’s essays shine like a searchlight through the fog of contemporary culture. Vivid, sharp, and enlightening, they keep a steady keel through roiling waters.”—Edward Mendelson, Lionel Trilling Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University“Arthur Krystal’s mind and style manage to flourish in a postmodern culture where literature has—in his fine phrasing—‘become the center that is somehow beside the point.’”—Thomas Mallon“Krystal celebrates the author compelled to write by a sense of mortality and the cr... + Read More
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Series: It's All about the LandCollected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous ResurgencePaperback
Taiaiake Alfred9781487552831
$29.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 12, 2023
Rooted in ancestral spirit, knowledge, and law, It’s All about the Land presents a passionate argument for Indigenous Resurgence as the pathway toward justice for Indigenous peoples.Illuminating the First Nations struggles against the Canadian state, It’s All about the Land exposes how racism underpins and shapes Indigenous-settler relationships. Renowned Kahnawà:ke Mohawk activist and scholar Taiaiake Alfred explains how the Canadian government’s reconciliation agenda is a new form of colonization that is also guaranteed to fail. Bringing toge... + Read More
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Series: IndictmentThe Criminal Justice System on TrialHardcover
Benjamin Perrin9781487506278
$32.95LAW
Oct 02, 2023
Based on first-hand interviews with victims, offenders, and others on the frontlines, Indictment puts the Canadian criminal justice system on trial and proposes a bold new vision of transformative justice.#MeToo. Black Lives Matter. Defund the Police. Decriminalize Drugs. Land Back. These aren’t just slogans, protests, and movements. Growing discontent about the criminal justice system is backed up by statistics, reports, public inquiries, and academic research that is shaking its foundations. Indictment brings the heartrending and captivating ... + Read More
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Series: Pathway to the StarsOne Hundred Years of the Royal Canadian Air ForceHardcover
Michael Hood9781487547431
$39.95HISTORY
Oct 24, 2023
Pathway to the Stars takes readers on a remarkable journey spanning one hundred years of the Royal Canadian Air Force.This beautifully illustrated book shares the rich history of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) on its one hundredth anniversary. Pathway to the Stars tells the story of the people, the technologies, and the events that shaped the RCAF from 1924 to 2024. Presenting one hundred stories to align with the one hundred years of the RCAF, the book explores the many ways in which the RCAF contributed to advances in aviation over the p... + Read More
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Series: Skating on Thin IceProfessional Hockey, Rape Culture, and Violence against WomenHardcover
Walter DeKeseredy9781487547103
$32.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Oct 30, 2023
Skating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.Why is it that professional sports, and notably hockey, remain a bastion for rape culture and violence against women? What are the conditions that allow a culture of toxic masculinity to persist despite awakenings elsewhere in society? What is the path forward, and how do we make officials, coaches, and athletes accountable? Drawing on decades of award-winning sociological... + Read More
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Series: None Is Too ManyCanada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948Paperback
Irving Abella9781487554385
$37.95HISTORY
Sep 26, 2023
One of the most important books in Canadian history, None Is Too Many conclusively lays to rest the comfortable notion that Canada has always been an accepting and welcoming society.Today, we think of Canada as a compassionate, open country to which refugees from other countries have always been welcome. However, between the years 1933 and 1948, when the Jews of Europe were looking for a place of refuge from Nazi persecution, Canada refused to offer aid, let alone sanctuary, to those in fear for their lives. Rigorously documented and brilliantl... + Read More
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Series: ethnoGRAPHICToxicA Tour of the Ecuadorian AmazonPaperback
Amelia Fiske9781487509521
$29.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 15, 2024
This graphic novel ethnography takes the reader on a “toxic tour” of the Ecuadorian Amazon and reveals the struggles for environmental justice in everyday life.Over the past decade, people have learned about oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon through "Toxic Tours" in which a guide brings participants – students, lawyers, environmental activists, journalists, or foreign tourists – to visit contaminated sites. These toxic tours combine personal experience and local knowledge to convince visitors of the immediacy of environmental issues. D... + Read More
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Series: The Long Winter of 1945TivariPaperback
Anna Di Lellio9781487543297
$26.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Oct 17, 2023
This gorgeously illustrated graphic novel draws on archival sources and survivor testimonies to shed light on the 1945 massacre in Tivari.In March 1945, at the end of the Second World War, hundreds of unarmed Albanian recruits were massacred by Yugoslav partisans. For too long, the memory of this massacre in Tivari – a coastal town in Montenegro – has been suppressed by the Yugoslav state and kept alive in Kosovo only in informal versions, nurtured and retold in a spirit of ethnic mistrust and hatred. Depicted in graphic format, The Long Winter... + Read More
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Series: Honoré JaxonPrairie VisionaryPaperback
Donald Smith9781487550141
$29.95HISTORY
Oct 20, 2023
Honoré Jaxon presents the life story of a complex political figure who invented an Indigenous ancestry he did not, in fact, possess.Born in 1861 to a Methodist family, William Henry Jackson grew up in Ontario before moving to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where he sympathized with the Métis and their struggle for land rights. Jackson became personal secretary to Louis Riel. After the Métis defeat, a Regina court committed the young English Canadian idealist, who had become a Catholic in the Métis camp, and who had later accepted Louis Riel as th... + Read More
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Series: Business the NHL WayLessons from the Fastest Game on IcePaperback
Norm O'Reilly9781487555184
$25.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Sep 30, 2023
Taking you from the ice to the office and back, this ultimate business playbook provides valuable leadership insight and career-enhancing tactics inspired by stories from the National Hockey League.Business the NHL Way draws on hockey-inspired stories to show how brands, institutions, and individuals associated with the NHL have consistently survived a variety of challenges and thrived as a result of its decisions. This revised and expanded edition explores business-related scenarios from the sport of hockey and links each lesson back to busine... + Read More
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Series: Music Matters Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters Hardcover 9781477321188 $30.95 MUSIC Sep 12, 2023
Series: Our Own Words kôkominawak otâcimowiniwâwa / Our Grandmothers' Lives Paperback 9780889779495 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 25, 2023
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada A War Guest in Canada Paperback 9781771123686 $24.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 12, 2023
Some Unfinished Chaos The Lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald Hardcover 9780813950617 $33.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Age (years) from 18 - 99 Sep 12, 2023
A Word or Two Before I Go Essays Then and Now Hardcover 9780813950624 $33.50 LITERARY CRITICISM Age (years) from 18 - 99 Sep 12, 2023