1.
Series:
Feminist City
A Field Guide
Paperback
Leslie Kern
9781771134576
$22.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 24, 2019
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 differently about city spaces and city life. From the geography of rape culture to the politics of snow removal, the city is an ongoing site of gendered struggle. Yet the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping new social relations based around care and justice. Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils of be...
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2.
Series:
Going Public
A Survivor’s Journey from Grief to Action
Paperback
Julie Macfarlane
9781771134750
$27.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 14, 2020
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 confronts her own silence and deeply rooted trauma to chart a remarkable course from sexual abuse victim to agent of change. Going Public merges the worlds of personal and professional, activism and scholarship. Drawing upon decades of legal training, Macfarlane decodes the well-worn methods used by church, school, and state to silence survivors, from first re...
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3.
Series:
Climate Chaos
Ecofeminism and the Land Question
Paperback
Ana Isla
9781771335935
$34.95
NATURE
Jan 30, 2019
Climate change is already under way with unpredictable consequences. Evidence of changes to the earth's physical, chemical and biological processes is obvious everywhere. Greenhouse gas emissions have increased the carbon cycle concentration in the atmosphere. In the past, half of this carbon was stored in forests, while the other half was removed by oceans, but with deforestation and warming oceans, oxygen is at its lowest breathable point. Ecological degradation is global and the earth is becoming increasingly inhospitable with unprecedented ...
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4.
Series:
The Complete Guide for Family Caregivers
Paperback
Tapp-McDougall Caroline
9781989517321
$28.95
MEDICAL
Nov 04, 2020
Providing eldercare while working and managing a busy home life is a recipe for burnout and is the worst situation in which to make thoughtful, informed decisions that have significant impact on the quality of life of an aging parent. The Complete Guide for Family Caregivers, written by one of Canada's foremost experts on eldercare, provides the advice people need to make smart decisions, both with and for their loved ones, including housing, finances, legal and estate planning, medical needs, and independence and mobility. This book provides n...
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5.
Series: Mental Health Recovery
PTSD Guide
Paperback
Leblanc Lise
9781989517291
$21.95
SELF-HELP
Sep 01, 2020
If you are suffering from PTSD, you may be at a loss on what to do and how to cope. Therapist Lise Leblanc has constructed this step-by-step, practical guide to help you understand your illness, manage your symptoms, and learn effective strategies to cope with the daily challenges and realities of PTSD. Through relatable and real-life stories, useful exercises, and reflective questions, the Mental Health Recovery: PTSD Guide will answer many of your questions while guiding you to achieve an optimum state of wellness./
8.
Series:
Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty
Affirmations for the Real World
Paperback
Hana Shafi
9781771666091
$25.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 22, 2020
Let's get one thing straight: Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World is not a book of advice. You're not going to find a step-by-step guide to meditation here, or even reminders to drink lots of water and get enough sleep. Those things are all good for you, but that's not what Hana Shafi wants to talk about. Instead, Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty—built around art from Shafi's popular online affirmation series—focuses on our common and never-ending journey of self-discovery. It explores the ways in which the world can...
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9.
Series:
My Conversations With Canadians
Paperback
Lee Maracle
9781771663588
$20.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 01, 2017
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn’t possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions, which touch upon subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labour, law, predjudice and reconcilliation (to name a few), are the heart of My Conversations with Canadians.In prose essays that are both conversatio...
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10.
Series: GWE Creative Non-Fiction
Tenacity
How Two Mums Fought a War Against Drugs
Paperback
Julie Rose
9781771834032
$20.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 01, 2019
The two true life stories contained in Tenacity span decades -- and two worlds, Australia and Britain. Told through the painful words of mothers Julie Rose and Marilyn Cowell (as recorded by her daughters, Michelle and Sarah), this compelling read has no sugar coating as it takes you through Julie?s and Marilyn?s struggle to get their sons off drugs -- and the tragedies that ensue. These stories highlight the harrowing fact that addiction can happen to anyone and can strike even the best of families. Powerful and hard hitting, this must read se...
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11.
Series:
Choosing Hope
One Woman, Three Cancers
Paperback
Munira Premji
9781774150054
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 15, 2020
Choosing Hope: One Woman. Three Cancers. is the story of how Munira Premji battled three advanced cancers: Stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Stage 3 multiple myeloma, and Stage 3 breast cancer, within a period of five years. Written as a series of anecdotes based on entries from a blog the author started shortly after her first diagnosis--when her focus was simply on surviving--it tells an inspirational story about resilience, courage, and hope in the face of overwhelming odds. It explores and shares the author's experiences at home, in the communi...
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