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Series: The Beekeeper's Handbook 5th edition Paperback Diana Sammataro 9781501752612 $40.95 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Interest age, years from 18 Apr 15, 2021

Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile have created the best single-volume guide to the hobby and profession of beekeeping. The Beekeeper's Handbook provides step-by-step instructions for setting up an apiary, handling bees, and working throughout the season to maintain a healthy colony and a generous supply of honey. Various colony care options and techniques are explained so that beekeepers can make the best choices for their hives.The Beekeeper's Handbook is an invaluable resource for both beginner and veteran beekeepers. This fully updated ... + Read More
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Series: Our Changing Menu Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need Paperback Michael P. Hoffmann 9781501754623 $29.95 SCIENCE Interest age, years from 18 Apr 15, 2021

Our Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you're a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it's time to come to terms with how climate change is affecting our diverse and interwoven food system. Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman offer an eye-opening journey through a complete menu of before-dinner drinks and salads; main courses and sides; and coffee and dessert. Along the way they examine the escal... + Read More
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Series: Bird Talk An Exploration of Avian Communication Hardcover Barbara Ballentine 9781501753428 $40.95 SCIENCE Interest age, years from 18 May 15, 2021

Bird Talk delves into new scientific developments to reveal the complexities of how birds make, learn, and use sound in a bewildering array of songs and calls. The beauty of birdsong is one of the joys of nature, and this book reveals how songs are learnt and performed, why the quality of a male's repertoire can affect his mating success, and how birds use song-matching and countersinging in territorial disputes. Bird Talk illustrates how birds communicate through visual signals too, from the dazzling feathers of a Peacock to the jumping displa... + Read More
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Series: All Societies Die How to Keep Hope Alive Hardcover Samuel Cohn 9781501755903 $36.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Interest age, years from 18 Apr 15, 2021

In All Societies Die, Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But he also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope. In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion Cohn considers what makes societies (throughout history) collapse. All Societies Die points us to the historical examples of the Byzantine empire, the collapse of Somalia, the rise of Middle Eastern terrorism, the rise of drug cartels in Latin America and the French Revolution to explain how societal dec... + Read More
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Series: Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser. Southbound Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change Paperback Anjali Enjeti 9780820360065 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 15, 2021

A move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she learns how to get her bearings as a mixed-race brown girl in the Deep South and begins to understand how identity can inspire, inform, and shape a commitment to activism. Her own evolution is a bumpy one, and along the way Enjeti, racially targeted as a child, must wrestle with her own complicity in white supremacy and bigotry as an adult. The twent... + Read More
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Series: Georgia Review Books Ser. Hong Kong without Us A People's Poetry Paperback The Bauhinia Project 9780820360041 $30.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

Hong Kong without Us is a decentralized book of revolutionary poetry. Drawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during its anti-extradition protests, the poems consist of submitted testimonies and found materials—and are all anonymous from end to end, from first speech to translated curation. This collected poetic documentation of protest is thus an authorless work that brings together many voices. The editors themselves are anonymous poets acting through the Bauhinia Project, an organization created to bring Hong Kong’s struggles to the stag... + Read More
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Series: Georgia Review Books Ser. Divine Fire Poems Paperback David Woo 9780820358840 $26.95 POETRY Mar 01, 2021

How to find wisdom and spiritual sustenance in a time of crisis and uncertainty? In Divine Fire, David Woo answers with poems that move from private life into a wider world of catastrophe and renewal. The collection opens in the most personal space, a bedroom, where the chaotic intrusions of adulthood revive the bafflements of childhood. The perspective soon widens from the intimacies of love to issues of national and global import, such as race and class inequality, and then to an unspoken cataclysm that is, by turns, a spiritual apocalypse an... + Read More
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Series: Black Snake Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice Paperback Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys 9781496222664 $33.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 2021

The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made headlines around the world in 2016. Supporters called the pipeline key to safely transporting American oil from the Bakken oil fields of the northern plains to markets nationwide, essential to both national security and prosperity. Native activists named it the “black snake,” referring to an ancient prophecy about a terrible snake that would one day devour the earth. Activists rallied near the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota for months in opposition to DAPL, winning an unprecedented... + Read More
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Series: Ours to Explore Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism Paperback Pippa Biddle 9781640124417 $33.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 01, 2021

In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism—the pairing of short-term, unskilled volunteer work with tourism. In the years since, Biddle has devoted herself to understanding the origins, intentions, and outcomes of a multibillion-dollar industry built on the premise of doing good, and she tracks that investigation in Ours to Explore. The flaws of voluntourism have included xenophobia, racism, paternalism, and a “West knows best” mentality. From exploitative orphanages that keep c... + Read More
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Series: Asphalt A History Hardcover Kenneth O'Reilly 9781496222077 $40.95 NATURE Jul 01, 2021

La Brea Tar Pits once trapped prehistoric mammals. Today that killer has a chemical cousin in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta, Canada—immense deposits of natural asphalt destined for upgrading to synthetic crude oil. If the harvesting of this natural asphalt continues unabated, we might find ourselves stuck in a muck of a different kind. Humanity has used asphalt for thousands of years. This humble hydrocarbon may have glued the first arrowhead to the first shaft, but the changes wrought by this material are most dramatic since its emergence... + Read More
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Series: African Poetry Book Your Crib, My Qibla Paperback Saddiq Dzukogi 9781496225771 $24.95 POETRY Mar 01, 2021

Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of memory functions as a space of mourning, connecting the dead with the world of the living. Culminating in an imagined dialogue between the father and his deceased daughter in the intricate space of the family, Your Crib, My Qibla explores grief, the fleeting nature of healing, and the constant obsession of memory as a language to reach the dead.
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Series: African Poetry Book The Rinehart Frames Paperback Cheswayo Mphanza 9781496225764 $26.95 POETRY Mar 01, 2021

The poems in The Rinehart Frames seek to exhaust the labyrinths of ekphrasis. By juxtaposing the character of Rinehart from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man with the film 24 Frames by Abbas Kiarostami, the poems leap into secondary histories, spaces, and languages that encompass a collective yet varied consciousness of being. Cheswayo Mphanza’s collection questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative through a tethering of voices and forms that infringe on monolithic categorizations of Blackness and what can be intersected with it. The poems ... + Read More
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Series: Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's Paperback Tiffany Midge 9781496224934 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2021

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, standalone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice. She explains why she doesn’t like pussy hats, mercilessly dismantles pretendians, and confesses her own struggles with white-bread privilege. Midge ponders Standing Rock... + Read More
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Series: Justice, Power, and Politics Race for Profit How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership Paperback Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 9781469663883 $27.95 HISTORY Apr 01, 2021

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclu... + Read More
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Series: Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition The Making of the Black Radical Tradition 3rd edition Paperback Cedric J. Robinson 9781469663722 $40.95 HISTORY Feb 01, 2021

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of Black people and Black communities as agents of change and resistance. Black radicalism, Robinson argues, must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on Western continents, and any analy... + Read More
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Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book No Common Ground Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice Hardcover Karen L. Cox 9781469662671 $32.95 HISTORY Apr 12, 2021

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and ... + Read More
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Series: Savor the South Cookbooks Rice a Savor the South cookbook Hardcover Michael W. Twitty 9781469660240 $27.95 COOKING Mar 01, 2021

Among the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables—and on tables around the world—rice is without question the most versatile. As Michael W. Twitty observes, depending on regional tastes, rice may be enjoyed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner; as main dish, side dish, and snack; in dishes savory and sweet. Filling and delicious, rice comes in numerous botanical varieties and offers a vast range of scents, tastes, and textures depending on how it is cooked. In some dishes, it is crunchingly crispy; in others, soothingly smooth; in still others... + Read More
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Series: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Defending the Arctic Refuge A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice Hardcover Finis Dunaway 9781469661100 $44.95 SCIENCE May 17, 2021

Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada and treasured by environmentalists, the refuge provides life-sustaining habitat for caribou, polar bears, migratory birds, and other species. For decades, though, the fossil fuel industry and powerful politicians have sought to turn this unique ecosystem into an oil field. Defending the Arctic Refuge tells the improbable story of how th... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Social Medicine Sick and Tired An Intimate History of Fatigue Paperback Emily K. Abel 9781469663340 $26.95 HISTORY Apr 12, 2021

Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a result, we know little about what it means to live with this condition, especially given its diverse symptoms and causes. Emily K. Abel offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by her own experiences as a cancer survivor. Abel reveals how the limits of... + Read More
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Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series Padoskoks A Jacob Neptune Murder Mystery Paperback Joseph Bruchac 9780806168425 $29.95 FICTION Jan 07, 2021

With a bang—or rather, a barrage—Jacob Neptune finds his remote cabin in the Adirondacks besieged by a gun-toting gang of murderous bikers. With the help of his supersized sidekick Dennis, the hard-headed, wise-cracking Abenaki private detective traces the source of his troubles to a former adversary who is now running an Indian casino. In short order, the friends are drawn into a dangerous mystery that will call upon all of Jake’s skills as a martial arts expert, former special forces soldier, and—in the Abenaki tradition—a metoulin, one who c... + Read More
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Series: Middle East Literature In Translation Packaged Lives Ten Stories and a Novella Paperback Haifa Zangana 9780815611370 $20.95 FICTION Dec 22, 2021

The carefully crafted, subtle, and humorous stories in Packaged Lives show Zangana at her best as a fiction writer. She portrays her subjects keenly, sensitively, and lovingly but without compromise. Iraqis living in exile come to life in her narratives as men and women who are caught between two worlds. They cannot return to their homeland and are forced to wait for news of Iraq from afar. At the same time, they are unable to fully adjust to life in Britain and make a new home for themselves. The question ?What is home?? is at the heart of eac... + Read More
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Series: Jaguars' Tomb Paperback Angélica Gorodischer 9780826501400 $26.95 FICTION Feb 15, 2021

Jaguars' Tomb is a novel in three parts, written by three interconnected characters. Part one, "Hidden Variables" by María Celina Igarzábal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer in turn is the author of the second part, "Recounting from Zero" ("Contar desde zero"), in which Evelynne Harrington, author of the third, is a central character. Harrington, finally, is the author of "Uncertainty" ("La incertidumbre"), whose protagonist is the dying Igarzábal. Each of the three parts revolves around the octagonal room that is alternately the jaguars' to... + Read More
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Series: Saul Steinberg's Literary Journeys Nabokov, Joyce, and Others Hardcover Jessica R. Feldman 9780813945118 $53.95 ART US school grade range from 17 Feb 16, 2021

Saul Steinberg’s inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than half a century. Although the literary qualities of Steinberg’s work have often been noted in passing, critics and art historians have yet to fathom the specific ways in which Steinberg meant drawing not merely to resemble writing but to be itself a type of literary writing. Jessica R. Feldman's Saul Steinberg’s Literary Journeys, the first book-length critical study of Steinberg’s art and its relati... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies Daughters of Aataentsic Life Stories from Seven Generations Hardcover Kathryn Magee Labelle 9780228005292 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 10, 2021

Daughters of Aataentsic highlights and connects the unique lives of seven Wendat/Wandat women whose legacies are still felt today. Spanning the continent and the colonial borders of New France, British North America, Canada, and the United States, this book shows how Wendat people and place came together in Ontario, Quebec, Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and how generations of activism became intimately tied with notions of family, community, motherwork, and legacy from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. The lives of the seven ... + Read More
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Series: Flight from Grace A Cultural History of Humans and Birds Hardcover Richard Pope 9780228005308 $44.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 15, 2021

Human animals are despoiling nature and causing a sixth extinction on Earth. Our natural environment is being compromised, and birds and other animals are disappearing at an alarming rate. Flight from Grace does not so much reveal the extent of the damage as ask and answer the perplexing question: why?This book traces human reverence for birds from the Stone Age and the New Stone Age, through the cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Peru, and Greece and through biblical traditions, up to its vestiges in the present. Richard Pope takes a hard look at... + Read More
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Series: Carleton Library Series Mrs Dalgairns's Kitchen Rediscovering "The Practice of Cookery" Hardcover Mary F. Williamson 9780228005339 $39.95 COOKING Mar 15, 2021

When The Practice of Cookery first appeared in Edinburgh and London editions in 1829, reviewers hailed it as one of the best cookbooks available. The book was unique not only in being wholly original, but also for its broad culinary influences, incorporating recipes from British North America, the United States, England, Scotland, France, and India.Catherine Emily Callbeck Dalgairns was born in 1788. Though her contemporaries understood her to be a Scottish author, she lived her first twenty-two years in Prince Edward Island. Charlottetown was ... + Read More
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Series: Outspoken Ecoliberation Reimagining Resistance and the Green Scare Paperback Jennifer D. Grubbs 9780228006824 $32.95 NATURE Jun 15, 2021

Disenchanted by indirect forms of protest designed to work within existing systems of corporate and state power, animal and earth liberation activists have turned instead to direct action. In this detailed ethnographic account Jennifer Grubbs takes the reader inside the complicated, intricate world of these powerful and controversial interventions, nuancing the harrowing realities of political repression with the inspiring, clever ways that activists resist.Grubbs draws on her personal experiences within the movement to offer a thoughtful and i... + Read More
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Series: Canada's Waste Flows Hardcover Myra J. Hird 9780228005285 $34.95 SCIENCE Feb 15, 2021

From shipments of Canadian waste rotting in developing countries to overflowing landfills and ineffective recycling programs, Canada is facing a waste crisis. Canadians are becoming increasingly aware that waste is an acute environmental and human health issue – and a complex one, the solutions to which are often contradictory.Canada's Waste Flows is an honest look at the production and movement of Canadian waste, from region to region and across the globe, and its consequences. Through a series of timely empirical case studies, the book reveal... + Read More
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Series: Trump, Trudeau, Tweets, Truth A Conversation Hardcover Bill Fox 9780228001119 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 23, 2022

Media has long been considered a primary site for political discourse in Western liberal democracies, but now, with the advent of social media, giant multinational digital platforms such as Google, and online journalism, the way we do politics, talk politics, and cover politics has completely transformed.Trump, Trudeau, Tweets, Truth considers the ways that technology has led to an irreversible transition in power distribution, political journalism, and public discourse. Discussing how the military-industrial complex of the 1950s gave way to to... + Read More
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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete Paperback Eleonore Schönmaier 9780228005810 $17.95 POETRY Jun 01, 2021

Thyme clings, high / and away from the grazing and scents / the air.Island reality is interconnected with live-retrieved memories in which a nurse follows a violent patient into the northern Canadian bush, a migrant mother faces her new job as the village butcher, an Ojibway man is forced to walk a dangerous route home alone, teenagers loot the local dump to build their mother's wheelchair, and an electrician watches a woman play a grand piano on a ballfield.A (re)creation of the surreality and altered time within deep states of grieving, Field... + Read More
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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series whereabouts Paperback Edward Carson 9780228006329 $17.95 POETRY Aug 02, 2021

in the poem / of the world / there once / was a map / of the map / composed in / the likeness / of a poemIn this riddling and seeking book of poems, Edward Carson navigates the emotional, often contradictory intelligence of the heart and mind. In three interrelated segments, whereabouts powerfully charts the tight emotional spaces between thinking and language, beauty and perception, love and the polemics of self and other.Taking on cartographic distortions and dynamics of the map metaphor, "thereabouts (or the mapmaker's dilemm... + Read More
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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series The Tantramar Re-Vision Paperback Kevin Irie 9780228006374 $17.95 POETRY Aug 04, 2021

I've lived the way a field is sometimes / a shelter for mice / or sometimes a source of game / for a hawkInspired by the literary landscape of the late poet John Thompson, Kevin Irie's The Tantramar Re-Vision presents a portrait of nature where the benign and the bedevilled coexist, collude, or collide.The Tantramar Re-Vision charts routes of discovery as it follows trails, waterways, flights, and fears, be it through the woods, the wilds, the page, or the mind where "it's hard to admit / you are not to your taste." It questions an existence in... + Read More
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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series Unbound Paperback Gabrielle McIntire 9780228006176 $17.95 POETRY Jul 15, 2021

inside sadness is glory / if you see it right way round, / find the seam, reverse it to perspectivize, / unwind light, joy's unravelling spoolInspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous natural environment.Touching on human frailty, the eternal, and the ecological with a delicate and evocative brush, Unbound enacts an almost prayerful attentiveness to the earth's c... + Read More
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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series Ripping down half the trees Paperback Evan J 9780228005469 $17.95 POETRY Jun 01, 2021

Some poems can live without souls / but mine remain ghastly fools flicking / uncomfortable narratives like / cigarette butts during class change.One out of every twenty students in the adult education classes Evan J teaches in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, dies every year; the surviving students are often afflicted by severe racism, poverty, addictions, and violence. Ripping down half the trees engages with these struggles, offering a catalogue of experiences specific to the remote regions of Canada.Tearing down the façade of Canadian justice and equ... + Read More
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Series: Democracy in Canada The Disintegration of Our Institutions Paperback Donald J. Savoie 9780228006664 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 15, 2021

Canada's representative democracy is confronting important challenges. At the top of the list is the growing inability of the national government to perform its most important roles: namely mapping out collective actions that resonate in all regions as well as enforcing these measures. Others include Parliament's failure to carry out important responsibilities, an activist judiciary, incessant calls for greater transparency, the media's rapidly changing role, and a federal government bureaucracy that has lost both its way and its standing.Argui... + Read More
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Series: Carleton Library Series Blacks in Canada A History Paperback Robin W. Winks 9780228007890 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 15, 2021

Blacks in Canada journeys from the introduction of slavery in 1628 to the first wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s and 1960s. Heralded in the Literary Review of Canada as one of the one hundred most important Canadian books, this enduring work by Yale University's Robin W. Winks offers a wealth of information for fresh interpretation.Now, fifty years from its original printing, this third edition includes a foreword by George Elliott Clarke, E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. Clarke's contribution ... + Read More
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Series: Footprints Series The Making of a Museum Hardcover Judith Nasby 9780228006206 $49.95 ART Oct 13, 2021

Judith Nasby, founding director and curator of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, animates the story of the gallery from its humble beginnings in the hallways of a university campus in 1916 to its latest incarnation as the internationally recognized Art Gallery of Guelph.The book is beautifully illustrated with eighty images of artworks in the permanent collection, beginning with the gallery's first acquisition, Tom Thomson's 1917 masterpiece The Drive, the last large canvas he painted before his tragic death. As curator, Nasby oversaw the creat... + Read More
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Series: Humanizing Mental Illness Enhancing Agency through Social Interaction Paperback Abigail Gosselin 9780228006794 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2021

Mental illness stigma is rooted in a perceived lack of agency, but stigma itself undermines agency. While most philosophical accounts of the matter are concerned with the question of how much agency a person with mental illness has, this book asks how we can enhance the agency of people with mental illness.Humanizing Mental Illness explains and explores these connections, arguing that all of us can and should adjust our social practices to enhance the agency of people with mental illness. This agency is complicated and nuanced, as it is often d... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Primal Poets, Places, and the Music of Meaning Paperback Mark Dickinson 9780228005353 $34.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Feb 18, 2021

Over the past few decades, a group of writers we might call the Thinking and Singing poets have stood at the forefront of poetry in Canada. These five poets – Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Robert Bringhurst, Jan Zwicky, and Tim Lilburn – are major voices in an era of ecological devastation and spiritual unease. Their diverse, questioning work suggests new ways to confront some of the most pressing issues of our time.In vibrant prose, Mark Dickinson explores the relationship between the lives of these poets and their writing, examining their intersecti... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Studies in Leadership, Public Policy, and Governance Keeping Canada Running Infrastructure and the Future of Governance in a Pandemic World Paperback G. Bruce Doern 9780228006572 $39.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 29, 2021

The federal government's promises to "build back better" and "build back green" highlight opportunities to reimagine Canadian infrastructure. In this groundbreaking study, authors Bruce Doern, Christopher Stoney, and Robert Hilton provide the first comprehensive overview of Canadian infrastructure policy, examining the impact and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and rapid technological change as Canada looks to recover and rebuild.Covering more than fifty years across many sectors, the authors identify numerous challenges that have contrib... + Read More
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Series: First Nations Wildfire Evacuations A Guide for Communities and External Agencies Paperback Tara K. McGee 9780774880664 $25.00 REFERENCE Jul 01, 2021

Nearly one third of wildfire evacuations in Canada involve Indigenous communities. While evacuations are carried out to protect people from smoke and flames, deciding to leave brings its own challenges. This evacuation guide is based on interviews with over 200 wildfire evacuees from seven First Nations. By comparing the evacuees' experiences, both good and bad, it provides direction on how Indigenous communities and external agencies can best prepare for the different stages of an evacuation. Packed with real-life stories, checklists, and guid... + Read More
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Series: Invested Indifference How Violence Persists in Settler Colonial Society Paperback Kara Granzow 9780774837446 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 15, 2021

In 2004, Amnesty International characterized Canadian society as “indifferent” to high rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls. When the Canadian government took another twelve years to launch a national inquiry, that indictment seemed true. Invested Indifference makes a startling counter-argument: that what we see as societal unresponsiveness doesn’t come from an absence of feeling but from an affective investment in framing specific lives as disposable. Kara Granzow demonstrates that mechanisms such as the law, medicine, and cont... + Read More
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Series: Demanding Equality One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism Hardcover Joan Sangster 9780774866064 $45.00 HISTORY Jun 15, 2021

One hundred years of feminist activism, from the 1880s to the 1980s, presented multiple paths for women’s search for equality, autonomy, and dignity. Women fashioned different dreams of freedom and social transformation, yet what is Canadian feminism? Demanding Equality illustrates feminist thought and organizing from mid-nineteenth-century, Enlightenment-inspired writing to the multi-issue movement of the 1980s, with its focus on feminism as a collective project of resistance. Instead of equating feminism solely with women’... + Read More
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Series: Communication, Strategy, and Politics Whipped Party Discipline in Canada Paperback Alex Marland 9780774864978 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 15, 2020

Canadians often see politicians as little more than trained seals who vote on command and repeat robotic talking points. Politicians are torn by dilemmas of loyalty to party versus loyalty to voters. Whipped examines the hidden ways that political parties exert control over elected members of legislatures. Drawing on extensive interviews with politicians and staffers across Canada, award-winning author Alex Marland explains why Members of Parliament and provincial legislators toe the party line, and shows how party discipline has expanded into ... + Read More
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Series: Bootstraps Need Boots One Tory’s Lonely Fight to End Poverty in Canada Paperback Hugh Segal 9780774890465 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 01, 2020

For more than four decades, Hugh Segal has been one of the leading voices of progressive conservatism in Canada. A self-described Red Tory warrior who disdains “bootstrap” approaches to poverty, he has always promoted policies, especially a basic annual income, to help the most economically vulnerable. Why would a life-long Tory support something so radical? In this revealing memoir, Segal shares how his life and experiences brought him to this most unlikely of places, beginning with his childhood in a poor immigrant family in Montreal to his t... + Read More
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Series: The Monsanto Papers Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice Hardcover Carey Gillam 9781642830569 $45.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 17, 2021

This fast‑paced, gripping narrative follows the historic legal battle that pitted Lee Johnson and an ambitious team of attorneys against corporate giant Monsanto. Lee Johnson was a man with simple dreams. All he wanted was a steady job and a nice home for his wife and children, something better than the hard life he knew growing up. He never imagined that he would become the face of a David-and-Goliath showdown against one of the world’s most powerful corporate giants. But a workplace accident left Lee doused in a toxic chemical and facin... + Read More
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Series: Touching This Leviathan Paperback Peter Wayne Moe 9780870713071 $24.95 NATURE Interest age, years from 0 - 99 Apr 20, 2021

Touching This Leviathan asks how we might come to know the unknowable––in this case, whales, these animals so large yet so elusive, revealing just a sliver of back, a glimpse of a fluke, or, if you’re lucky, a split-second breach before diving away. It’s a pressing question, given how frequently whales are in the news: Japan just withdrew from the International Whaling Commission’s ban on whaling; the Makah Tribe seeks to resume hunts; in 2019 there was a rash of dead gray whales along the west coast (some 200+ of them); in 2018, an orca attrac... + Read More
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Series: The Art of Birds Grace and Motion in the Wild Hardcover Jim Miller 9780813066769 $49.95 NATURE Mar 15, 2021

Captivating views of birdlife In photographs that surprise with their eye-catching composition and amaze with their detail, The Art of Birds captures the beauty of birds as most people never see them. Jim Miller focuses his camera lens on distinctive and spectacular species found in the wetlands and along the shorelines of Florida and the southeast, portraying their behaviors in their natural habitats. Ranging from striking portraits to high speed stop-action shots, the images showcase the splendor of large birds such as the anhinga, grea... + Read More
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Series: Sun Tracks The Hatak Witches Paperback Devon A. Mihesuah 9780816541188 $20.95 FICTION Apr 20, 2021

After a security guard is found dead and another wounded at the Children’s Museum of Science and History in Norman, Oklahoma, Detective Monique Blue Hawk and her partner Chris Pierson are summoned to investigate. They find no fingerprints, no footprints, and no obvious means to enter the locked building. Monique discovers that a portion of an ancient and deformed skeleton had also been stolen from the neglected museum archives. Her uncle, the spiritual leader Leroy Bear Red Ears, concludes that the stolen remains are those of Hatak haksi, a wit... + Read More
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Series: Maverick Gardeners Dr. Dirt and Other Determined Independent Gardeners Paperback Felder Rushing 9781496832719 $24.95 GARDENING Mar 15, 2021

“Be forewarned that this book honors people like the woman in my hometown who paints the numbers of her favorite NASCAR drivers on her elephant ears, and a Tokyo gardener with over a hundred bonsai plants.” So says renowned garden journalist Felder Rushing in his new book Maverick Gardeners: Dr. Dirt and Other Determined Independent Gardeners. In this book, Felder delves deeply into the psychology of what motivates and sustains the Keepers of the Garden Flame. For thousands of years, a loosely connected web of unique, nontraditional gardeners h... + Read More
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Series: My Mexico A Culinary Odyssey with Recipes Hardcover Diana Kennedy 9781477322987 $55.95 COOKING Oct 20, 2020

By universal acclaim, Diana Kennedy is the world's authority on the authentic cuisines of Mexico. For decades, she has traveled the length and breadth of the country, seeking out the home cooks, local ingredients, and traditional recipes that make Mexican cuisines some of the most varied and flavorful in the world. Kennedy has published eight classic Mexican cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-winning Oaxaca al Gusto. But her most personal book is My Mexico, a labor of love filled with more than three hundred recipes and stories that cap... + Read More
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Series: ABC of Gender Identity Paperback Devika Dalal 9781787758087 $25.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Interest age, years from 5 - 10 Jul 21, 2021

A is for Agender, B is for Bigender and C is for Cisgender. Welcome to the ABC of Gender Identity!This bright and playful A - Z introduces young readers to 26 gender identities to help raise awareness and acceptance of different genders. Gender identity is an important part of who we are, and how we express ourselves in the world, and this book aims to help children better understand themselves and those around them.With simple explanations, a helpful guide for adults, and a diverse cast of illustrated characters, this is the perfect book for e... + Read More
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Series: Coming Out Stories Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum Paperback Emma Goswell 9781787754959 $25.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Interest age, years from 12 - 99 Jan 21, 2021

"Uplifting and triumphant, each story is a feat of bravery and courage." - Juno Dawson"A must-read for anyone grappling with coming out." - Riyadh Khalaf"He told me being gay was nothing to be ashamed of." - Bill"I put my hands over my eyes as I told her, as I couldn't bear to see her reaction." - OliviaBased on the hugely popular Coming Out Stories podcast, this empowering, humorous and deeply honest book invites you to share one of the most important moments in many LGBTQ+ people's lives. From JP coming out to his reflection in the mirror, to... + Read More
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Series: Coming Out, Again Transition Stories Paperback Sabrina Symington 9781787752405 $30.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 18, 2021

"We don't just come out once. We have to come out continually throughout our lives. And as we grow and change and reach a newfound understanding of who we are, we come out once again in a whole new way." Following the interconnected lives of a diverse queer community - including asexual, polyamorous, trans and autigender people - this empowering graphic novel explores the multitude of ways a person's identity and relationships can be expressed and can change over time. From Lily coming out as a lesbian after coming out as a trans woman, to Lean... + Read More
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Series: Fat and Queer An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives Paperback Bruce Owens Grimm 9781787755062 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 21, 2021

We're here. We're queer. We're fat.This one-of-a-kind collection of prose and poetry radically explores the intersection of fat and queer identities, showcasing new, emerging and established queer and trans writers from around the world. Celebrating fat and queer bodies and lives, this book challenges negative and damaging representations of queer and fat bodies and offers readers ways to reclaim their bodies, providing stories of support, inspiration and empowerment. In writing that is intimate, luminous and emotionally raw, this anthology is ... + Read More
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Series: The Best of Assigned Male Paperback Sophie Labelle 9781787755932 $33.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 21, 2021

Follow young trans girl, Stephie, and her group of queer friends as they navigate school, family and relationships, and experiences of being trans. Humorous and acerbic, this ground-breaking graphic narrative brilliantly explores the journey of discovering and embracing your evolving gender identity, and promotes a sense of community and empowerment through artfully illustrated stories. Based on the hugely successful and influential webcomic Assigned Male, and in print for the first time, this expanded collection contains exclusive content as ... + Read More
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Series: Trans Pride A Coloring Book Paperback Fox Fisher 9781787758223 $20.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Interest age, years from 5 - 99 May 21, 2021

Trans rights are human rights!This fun and beautifully illustrated coloring book is perfect for inspiring children aged 5+ to explore their creative expression and learn about the beauty and diversity of trans lives. With over 100 pages of positive transgender and non-binary representation, the book includes illustrations of key figures in trans history, gender flags, key terms, empowering statements, awareness days and humorous drawings of tigers, seahorses, bunnies and so much more!Designed by award-winning campaigner and artist, Fox Fisher,... + Read More
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Series: The Gatherings Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations Hardcover Shirley Hager 9781487508951 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 31, 2021

In a world that more than ever needs all of our knowledge and wisdom to address the developing crises around us, The Gatherings shows how Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can come together to create mutually beneficial relationships.Thirty years ago, in Wabanaki territory – a region encompassing the state of Maine and the Canadian Maritimes – a group of Native and non-Native individuals came together to explore some of the most pressing questions at the heart of Truth and Healing efforts in the United States and Canada. What price do we pa... + Read More
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Series: ethnoGRAPHIC The King of Bangkok Paperback Claudio Sopranzetti 9781487526412 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2021

This beautifully illustrated graphic novel tells the history of contemporary Thailand through the life of a blind man who walks on the streets of the capital for the last time.Based on a decade of interviews and archival research, the English translation of this best-selling graphic novel tells the story of Nok, an old blind man who sells lottery tickets in Bangkok, as he decides to leave the urban capital and return to his native village. The King of Bangkok follows Nok as he walks the streets of the city for the last time, trying to get rid o... + Read More
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Series: Framing Borders Principle and Practicality in the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory Paperback Ian Kalman 9781487526535 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 19, 2021

Framing Borders is the first book-length ethnography looking at interactions between border officers and Indigenous cross-border travellers in North America.Framing Borders addresses a fundamental disjuncture between scholastic portrayals of settler colonialism and what actually takes place in Akwesasne Territory, the largest Indigenous cross-border community in Canada. Whereas most existing portrayals of Indigenous nationalism emphasize border crossing as a site of conflict between officers and Indigenous nationalists, in this book Ian Kalman ... + Read More