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Series: A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators: Ontario and Great Lakes Edition Paperback Lorraine Johnson 9781771623230 $29.95 NATURE Jun 11, 2022

An inspiring and practical guide to creating beautiful habitat gardens full of life A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee provides all the information gardeners need to take action to support and protect pollinators, by creating habitat in yards and community spaces, on balconies and boulevards, everywhere! With more than 300 native plants of Ontario and the Great Lakes region profiled in detail, along with sample garden designs, ideas for beautiful plant pairings and numerous tips for success, this fully-illustrated guide helps gardeners di... + Read More
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Series: A Life Spent Listening Paperback Dr. Hassan Khalili Ph.D 9781550819373 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 17, 2022

A unique and engaging perspective of humanity – a journey to wisdom shared through stories of self-awareness, acceptance, and discovery, by acclaimed psychotherapist Dr. Hassan Khalili. In A Life Spent Listening, Dr. Hassan Khalili reflects on four decades of being a frontline community psychotherapist and shares the wisdom he has learned over the years. By inviting the reader into his own life and the lives of his patients, Dr. Khalili explores the human condition and explains his concept of the grid as a guiding principle in his psychological... + Read More
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Series: Advocating for Palestine in Canada Histories, Movements, Action Paperback Emily Regan Wills 9781773634760 $26.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 31, 2022

Why is it so difficult to advocate for Palestine in Canada and what can we learn from the movement’s successes? This account of Palestine solidarity activism in Canada grapples with these questions through a wide-ranging exploration of the movement’s different actors, approaches and fields of engagement, along with its connections to different national and transnational struggles against racism, imperialism and colonialism. Led by a coalition of students, labour unions, church groups, left wing activists, progressive presses, human rights o... + Read More
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Series: Behaviorally Informed Organizations Behavioral Science in the Wild Hardcover Nina Mažar 9781487527518 $35.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS May 15, 2022

Behavioral Science in the Wild helps managers understand how to use insights from the behavioral sciences to create change in the real world. Written to provide a grounding in behavioral insights research, Behavioral Science in the Wild assists managers to implement research findings on behavioral change in their own workplace operations. In particular, this book shares prescriptive advice on how a practitioner who reads a specific research finding from a paper can incorporate that finding into their business or policy problem. Created as ... + Read More
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Series: Black Boys Paperback Stephen Jackman-Torkoff 9780369100474 $18.95 DRAMA Jul 19, 2022

Black Boys by Saga Collectif (Virgilia Griffith, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Jonathan Seinen) uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black experience. Text, movement, and design portray the rhythm and vulnerability of three very different Black individuals who seek a deeper understanding of themselves, each other, and of how they encounter the world. As they explore their unique identities, their performances rigorously interrogate and playfully subvert the ways in which gender, sexuality, and race a... + Read More
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Series: Blow Wind Paperback Daniel Macdonald 9780369103635 $18.95 DRAMA Jun 21, 2022

After years of running from her dysfunctional past, Sarah returns home to the family farm in Saskatchewan to find her mom Kathleen yelling into the wind, setting off a turbulent new chapter in her life. Instead of finding comfort in “home,” Sarah learns nothing is how she remembers it, and with Kathleen’s growing dementia, nothing will ever be the same again. Two of Sarah’s older siblings, Jolene and Steven, are more focused on the future ownership of the farm and are planning a supper that could help influence that decision. But Sarah turns he... + Read More
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Series: Caesar Country Cocktails, Clams & Canada Hardcover Aaron Harowitz 9780525611370 $40.00 COOKING Jun 07, 2022

Caesar Country is a love letter to Canada by way of one cocktail—our cocktail—the Caesar.In this stunning book, Aaron Harowitz and Zack Silverman—co-founders of Walter Craft Caesar—take you on a deep and detailed dive through the art and science of Caesar making. They share a compelling collection of cocktail and food recipes, including contributions from some of Canada’s top bartenders and chefs, showcasing the countless ways to reinterpret the classic Caesar. Caesar Country is inspired by travels across Canada—the people met, places seen, dri... + Read More
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Series: Cafe Conversations Democracy and Dialogue in Public Spaces Paperback Michael Picard 9781772141689 $20.00 PHILOSOPHY Jul 07, 2022

This collection of essays is the first to look closely at the phenomena of philosophy in a cafe. Since the tradition of philosophical dialogue in coffee-houses was revived in Paris in the 1990s, public venues for participatory philosophy have sprung up in numerous countries, taking many forms, all seeking to stimulate intellectual interest as well as meaningful democratic community engagement. Some of the earliest discussion series continue to this day. The simple activity of reasoning together in a cafe is of interest to democratic theory, epi... + Read More
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Series: Canada's Past and Future in Latin America Paperback Pablo Heidrich 9781487540432 $37.95 HISTORY Jun 09, 2022

Canada’s Past and Future in Latin America examines the evolution of political, economic, and social ties between Canada and Latin America.Many historians and political scientists argue that ties between Canada and Latin America have been weak and intermittent because of lack of mutual interest and common objectives. Has this record of diverging paths changed as Canada has attempted to expand its economic and diplomatic ties with the region? Has Canada become an imperialist power? Canada’s Past and Future in Latin America investigates the histor... + Read More
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Series: Colonization Through Design Paperback Gavin Renwick 9780929112787 $39.95 ARCHITECTURE Jun 30, 2022

Colonization Through Design explores the extent to which housing, and ideas of home and domesticity, were fundamental to the colonization of Indigenous people in Canada, tracing the historic conflict between agricultural Christian society and Indigenous ways of knowing, and the ongoing assimilative practices of the contemporary settler state. The design profiles within the book explore a new design plurality that links innovative technical solutions with Indigenous knowledge, and present various design solutions that generate cultural continuit... + Read More
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Series: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History Converging Empires Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867-1945 Hardcover Andrea Geiger 9781469659275 $128.95 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

Making a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through its examination of the northernmost stretches of the U.S.-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the international border from 1867, when the United States acquired Russia's interests in Alaska, through the end of World War II. Imperial, national, provincial, territorial, reserve, and municipal borders worked together to create a dynamic le... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Studies in Leadership, Public Policy, and Governance Cyber-Threats to Canadian Democracy Paperback Holly Ann Garnett 9780228011477 $37.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 15, 2022

From the Cambridge Analytica scandal to overloaded internet voting servers to faulty voting machines, the growing relationship between democracy and technology has brought to light the challenges associated with integrating new digital tools into the electoral system. Canadian politics has also felt the impact of this migration online.This timely book presents the first comprehensive study of the various cyber-threats to election integrity across Canadian jurisdictions. Scrutinizing the events of the 2019 federal election, Cyber-Threats to Cana... + Read More
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Series: Dad Bod Portraits of Pop Culture Papas Paperback Cian Cruise 9781459749474 $22.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 07, 2022

A brisk, humorous collection of essays that redefines the mythos of fatherhood depicted in film, television, and video games.What do dads tell us about the world? Not your real dad, but dads in general. Dads are everywhere. Lurking in our movies, television shows, and video games. Spouting homespun wisdom and atrocious jokes, wallowing in might-have-beens and back-in-my-days, or rigidly defending the status quo. These fictional dads fuel a myth of fatherhood. What is that myth trying to tell us? And what is it trying to sell us? Dad Bod is a cl... + Read More
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Series: Everybody Just [email protected] the F#ck Down Paperback Robert Chafe 9780369103475 $18.95 DRAMA Jun 07, 2022

Emergency rooms, scans, tests, blood work, and more blood work . . . Robert’s had a wide range of concerning symptoms checked. Multiple times. And yet he still has no answers as to why everything hurts. So he wonders, is he Tennessee Williams or Dorothy Zbornak? Could all of it be in his head? Everybody Just [email protected] the F#ck Down is a multi-layered story of anxiety in which Robert explores the shifting planes of middle age, mortality, grief, and creativity while learning how to embrace a lack of control.
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Series: Expo 67 and Its World Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization Paperback Craig Moyes 9780228011002 $55.00 ART Jun 23, 2022

In 1967, Montreal hosted Man and His World/Terre des hommes. By far the most successful cultural event ever produced in Canada, it was embraced by the public at the same time as intellectuals from Marshall McLuhan to Umberto Eco hailed it as a new type of exhibition for a new global age.Because it was held where and when it was – on a man-made archipelago in the St Lawrence River seven years into Quebec’s Quiet Revolution – Expo 67 also provided a prism through which the idea of the nation could be refracted and recast in original ways. Misunde... + Read More
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Series: Teaching Archaeology: Case Studies in Research and the Culture of Fieldwork Forgotten Things The Story of the Seymour Valley Archaeology Project Paperback Robert J. Muckle 9781487588526 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 11, 2022

The first book in a new series, Forgotten Things demonstrates the process of archaeological research and explores the culture of archaeological fieldwork.Based on a long-term archaeology project, Forgotten Things provides an account of working with archaeology field school students to uncover early-twentieth-century Japanese logging camps in the Seymour Valley of British Columbia. The first book in the new Teaching Archaeology series, Forgotten Things aims to provide students with a real-world example of archaeological research in practice. It ... + Read More
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Series: Funny Gyal My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica Hardcover Angeline Jackson 9781459750586 $24.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18 Jun 07, 2022

“Instead of remaining silent, she chose to speak out … That’s the power of one person.” — Barack ObamaThe inspiring story of Angeline Jackson, who stood up to Jamaica’s oppression of queer youth to demand recognition and justice.When Angeline Jackson was a child, she wondered if there was something wrong with her for wanting to kiss the other girls. But as her sexuality blossomed in her teens, she knew she wouldn’t “grow out of it” and that her attraction to girls wasn’t against God. In fact, she discovered that same-sex relationships were depi... + Read More
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Series: Funny Gyal My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica Paperback Angeline Jackson 9781459749191 $15.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18 Jun 07, 2022

“Instead of remaining silent, she chose to speak out … That’s the power of one person.” — Barack ObamaThe inspiring story of Angeline Jackson, who stood up to Jamaica’s oppression of queer youth to demand recognition and justice.When Angeline Jackson was a child, she wondered if there was something wrong with her for wanting to kiss the other girls. But as her sexuality blossomed in her teens, she knew she wouldn’t “grow out of it” and that her attraction to girls wasn’t against God. In fact, she discovered that same-sex relationships were depi... + Read More
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Series: Gold, Grit, Guns Miners on BC's Fraser River in 1858 Paperback Alexander Globe 9781553805847 $24.95 HISTORY Nov 15, 2022

Gold, Grit, Guns is the first book based on the only four surviving diaries written by miners who sought their golden fortunes on British Columbia?s Fraser River in 1858. What was life like for those adventurers? How did their actions impact the creation of British Columbia? George Beam, an Illinois-born settler on Whidbey Island in Washington State, brought hopes of American annexation and distrust of First Nations. He left with a thousand dollars. Otis Parsons of Connecticut made money as a California merchant, then volunteered to build new r... + Read More
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Series: Hardy Apples Growing Apples in Cold Climates Hardcover Bob Osborne 9780228103189 $39.95 GARDENING May 10, 2022

An essential guide to growing apples at high latitudes and altitudes. Hardy Apples is both a practical guide and a loving tribute to the wonderful abundance and diversity of apple cultivars available to the northern gardener and orchardist. Full of tips, facts, beautiful photographs and fascinating stories about apples both popular and obscure, this book is sure to inform and entertain in equal measure. Drawing on over 40 years of experience propagating and selling apple cultivars from his nursery in Corn Hill, New Brunswick, author Bob... + Read More
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Series: Hemingway's Widow The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway Hardcover Timothy Christian 9781459750548 $42.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 14, 2022

A stunning portrait of the complicated woman who was Ernest Hemingway’s fourth wife, exploring the tumultuous years of their marriage, and evoking her merry widowhood as she shapes Hemingway’s literary legacy.Mary Welsh, a celebrated wartime journalist during the London Blitz and the liberation of Paris, meets Ernest Hemingway in May 1944. He becomes so infatuated with Mary that he asks her to marry him the third time they meet, even though they are married to other people. Eventually, she succumbs to Ernest’s campaign and, in the last days of ... + Read More
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Series: Inside the Montreal Mafia The Confessions of Andrew Scoppa Paperback Félix Séguin 9781770416673 $24.95 TRUE CRIME Jun 07, 2022

A groundbreaking, exclusive inside look at the North American Mafia and the Rizzuto family For the first time in Canadian history, a high-ranking Mafioso agreed to break the code of omertà by talking to journalists. From October 2014 to October 2019, Félix Séguin and Eric Thibault held multiple secret meetings with Andrew Scoppa, getting an exclusive inside look at the inner workings of the North American Mafia. This book is the culmination of their perilous investigation. It sheds light on the life — and death — of one of the most influe... + Read More
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Series: Inuunira: My Story of Survival Hardcover Brian Koonoo 9781772274301 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12 Jun 14, 2022

In this harrowing survival story, Brian Koonoo takes off on a hunting trip in Canada’s Arctic. After his snowmobile breaks down, his GPS loses signal, and his camping fuel runs low, he is left alone to survive for seven days. Inuunira is an Inuktitut term that means "how I'm alive," and this account shows exactly how Brian managed to stay alive. He experiences close encounters with planes, blizzards, and hunger, all while much of his gear is lost. Walking 60 kilometres in search of safety, he uses the knowledge his father and Elders taught him—... + Read More
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Series: Leading for Equity and Social Justice Systemic Transformation in Canadian Education Paperback Andréanne Gélinas-Proulx 9781487542511 $38.95 EDUCATION May 11, 2022

This book identifies various inequities in Canadian education systems – including race, gender, sexuality, religion, Indigenous, and linguistic issues, – and suggests ways to overcome systemic barriers.Educational institutions, and in particular educational leaders, play critical roles in identifying and rectifying the many inequities that oppress, marginalize, and exclude individual students, educational actors, and some minoritized groups in Canadian education. Leading for Equity and Social Justice provides a deep look at some of these inequi... + Read More
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Series: Making a Chaputs The Teachings and Responsibilities of a Canoe Maker Paperback Joe Martin 9780772680273 $24.95 ART Jun 18, 2022

A rich visual testament to the practical and cultural power of the dugout canoe, balanced in its description of meaning and method.Tla-o-qui-aht master canoe maker Joe Martin, in collaboration with former museum curator Alan Hoover, describes the meaning and method behind one of the most vivid and memorable symbols of the Northwest Coast: the dugout canoe. Both artform and technological marvel, the chaputs carries Indigenous cultural knowledge passed down through generations, not only of the practical forestry and woodworking that shape every c... + Read More
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Series: Mercury Series Marius Barbeau’s Vitalist Ethnology New edition Paperback Frances M. Slaney 9780776637129 $49.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Age (years) from 16 Jun 07, 2022

The first assessment and review of Marius Barbeau’s ethnographic fieldwork and publications to be written by a professional anthropologist, this book examines his career at Canada’s National Museum (now the Canadian Museum of History) in light of his education at Oxford University and in Paris (1907–1911). Based on archival research performed in Canada, England, and France, Marius Barbeau’s Vitalist Ethnology presents a timeline of his anthropological training through his course notes at the Archives nationales du Québec, as well as his corres... + Read More
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Series: Multiplication & Division Book with Flash Cards Paperback Katie Moore 9781773881928 $19.95 EDUCATION Age (years) from 8 Jun 01, 2022

This book teaches and reviews important multiplication and division skills for 3rd and 4th graders. With over 150 practice exercises that will teach important steps in solving equations, multiplying and dividing multiple-digit number and solving problems
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Series: Leonardo Northern Sparks Innovation, Technology Policy, and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Intern et Age Paperback Michael Century 9780262045001 $47.00 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Jun 28, 2022

An “episode of light” in Canada sparked by Expo 67 when new art forms, innovative technologies, and novel institutional and policy frameworks emerged together.Understanding how experimental art catalyzes technological innovation is often prized yet typically reduced to the magic formula of “creativity.” In Northern Sparks, Michael Century emphasizes the role of policy and institutions by showing how novel art forms and media technologies in Canada emerged during a period of political and social reinvention, starting in the 1960s with the energi... + Read More
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Series: Pathways to Ruin High-Risk Offending over the Life Course Paperback Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot 9781487527129 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 30, 2022

Pathways to Ruin presents an in-depth examination o individuals deemed as high-risk by the Canadian criminal justice system, elucidating their pathways to crime.Individuals who have committed a number of crimes over their lifetimes have had complex, multi-faceted, and often life experiences characterized by extreme disadvantage and victimization. Those who are formally designated as "high-risk" by the Canadian criminal justice system often have a history of multiple offenses, including a record of violent or sexual crime. As a result, they are ... + Read More
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Series: Plant Science for Gardeners Essentials for Growing Better Plants Paperback Robert Pavlis 9780865719736 $22.99 GARDENING Jun 07, 2022

Plant Science for Gardeners empowers growers to analyze common problems, find solutions, and make better decisions in the garden for optimal plant health and productivity. Most gardeners learn by accumulating rules – water once a week, never dry out snowdrop bulbs, prune lilacs after flowering, plant garlic in October—the list is endless. Rules take years to learn and yet leave you floundering when the unexpected strikes and plants look unhealthy, produce poorly, or die. There is a better way. By understanding the basic biology of how plants gr... + Read More
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Series: Qummut Qukiria! Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North Hardcover Anna Hudson 9781773102245 $45.00 ART Jun 28, 2022

Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic — from the continuance of longstanding practices such as storytelling and skin sewing to the development of innovative new art forms such as throatboxing (a hybrid of traditional Inuit throat singing and beatboxing). In this illuminating book, curators, scholars, artists, and activists from Inuit Nunangat, Kalaallit Nunaat, Sápmi, Canada, and Scandinavia address topics as diverse as Sámi rematriation and the revival of the... + Read More
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Series: Rare Merit Women in Photography in Canada, 1840–1940 Paperback Colleen Skidmore 9780774867054 $39.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Jun 01, 2022

Rare Merit is a beautifully illustrated and astute examination of women photographers in Canada as it took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Throughout, the camera was both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, captured people and places that were entirely new to the lens. This book shows how they did so, and the meaning their work carries.
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Series: Ravage of Life Paperback Evelyne de la Chenelière 9780369102720 $22.95 DRAMA Jul 19, 2022

For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, and writing. The culmination of this is Ravage of Life, a bold departure from prevailing norms where the playwright breaks with written and performative conventions in her dramatization of an endless and multi-faceted instant between life and death. In this experimental text, bits and pieces of a family’s realities unfold in a non-linear simultanei... + Read More
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Series: Rehearsals for Living Hardcover Robyn Maynard 9781039000650 $32.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 14, 2022

A revolutionary collaboration about the world we’re living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists.When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, renowned artist, musician, and author of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, began writing each other letters—a gesture sparked by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police ki... + Read More
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Series: Rig Wives Paperback Kelly Earle 9781774570777 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 03, 2022

We live our lives one hitch at a time. Along with that come tears from the anxiety and stress when trying to hold it all together. But then there is the laughter and comfort when surrounded by the right people, the ones we have grown close to, who have become our family and friends, our rocks some days: our fellow rig wives. The offshore is not for the faint of heart. The ocean can be a dark and lonely place. Our husbands risk their lives every time they go to work. While some people's relationships dissolve, others stand tall. Only the stro... + Read More
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Series: Sad Love Romance and the Search for Meaning Paperback Carrie Jenkins 9781509539598 $23.95 PHILOSOPHY Jun 06, 2022

As a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated. Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction and pleasure. But it has a darker side we ignore at our peril. Love is often an uncomfortable and difficult feeling. The people we love can badly let us down. And the ways we love are often quite different to the romantic ideals society foists upon us. Since we are inevitably disappointed by love, would we be better off without it? No, says Carrie Jenkins. Instead, ... + Read More
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Series: Student Solutions Manual for Mathematics for Economics, fourth edition Paperback Michael Hoy 9780262543729 $54.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jul 26, 2022

This student solutions manual contains solutions to odd-numbered exercises in the fourth edition of Mathematics for Economics.
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Series: ISSN The American Western in Canadian Literature Paperback Joel Deshaye 9781773852676 $34.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 15, 2022

The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary pheno... + Read More
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Series: The Fur Trader From Oslo to Oxford House Paperback Einar Odd Mortensen Sr. 9781772125986 $34.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 14, 2022

The Fur Trader is a critical edition of Einar Odd Mortensen Sr.’s personal narrative detailing the years (1925–28) he spent as a free trader at posts in Pine Bluff and Oxford Lake in Manitoba during the waning days of the fur trade. Mortensen’s original narrative has been translated from Norwegian to English, and supplemented with a scholarly introduction, thorough annotations, a bibliography, and a reading guide. This additional material presents the author as a product of Norwegian culture at the time, and is intended to guide the reader thro... + Read More
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Series: The Future is Degrowth A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism Paperback Matthias Schmelzer 9781839765841 $35.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 28, 2022

We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with capitalism, and points to desirable alternatives to it.Not only in society at large, but also on the left, w... + Read More
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Series: The Intimate Herbal A Beginner's Guide to Herbal Medicine for Sexual Health, Pleasure, and Hormonal Balance Paperback Marie White 9781623176631 $24.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Jun 14, 2022

All-natural reproductive wellness remedies for the modern herbalist: an inclusive guide to making herbal infusions, tinctures, oils, and powders to enhance pleasure and sexual health.In an empowering, accessible, and inclusive guide, herbalist Marie White shows readers of all genders how to enhance sexual and reproductive health through plant medicine. A must-have for those looking to revitalize intimacy with the special touch of medicinal herbs—and a few selected seaweed and fungi—The Intimate Herbal includes tried-and-tested protocols rooted ... + Read More
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Series: Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures The Medieval Devil A Reader Paperback Richard Raiswell 9781442634169 $42.95 HISTORY Aug 28, 2022

The Medieval Devil highlights the many ways in which the Devil has been imagined and reimagined over the centuries.From his first appearances in scripture preventing Balaam from disobeying God’s will to his supposed role presiding over cannibalistic orgies in the middle of the fifteenth century, the devil has been a dynamic force underlying European society. The personification of shifting fears and anxieties over the ages, he has served to both critique and police societal boundaries. Perceptions of the devil have unwittingly fostered social c... + Read More
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Series: Historical Materialism The WorkersaEU Movement and the National Question in Ukraine 1897-1918 Paperback Marko Bojcun 9781642597653 $39.50 HISTORY Jun 27, 2022

In this important book, influential historian Mark Bojcun explores the social democratic workers' movement in the Ukrainian provinces of the Russian Empire and its impact on the course of the 1917 Revolution. By focusing on the sections of the labour movement built by the Ukrainian, Jewish and Russian parties, Bojcun sheds new light on the way they each confronted national inequality, antisemitic pogroms, and other forms of oppression. The study traces these struggles, and the political solutions to them proposed by revolutionaries, from the in... + Read More
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Series: Tigers and the Internet Story, Shamans, History Hardcover Kira Van Deusen 9780228011149 $37.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 15, 2022

The Udege, a small Indigenous group in the Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai regions of Russia, have a rich oral storytelling tradition. They speak the Udege language, and their religious beliefs include animism and shamanism. Over two decades, Kira Van Deusen travelled across Russia interviewing Udege storytellers in order to record their folktales.Tigers and the Internet recounts individual storytellers’ lives and the stories that they related to Van Deusen. Combining the translated stories with detailed commentary, background information on... + Read More
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Series: Tree Thieves Crime and Survival in North America's Woods Hardcover Lyndsie Bourgon 9781771647199 $34.95 NATURE Jun 21, 2022

“An absorbing true-crime story and a fascinating examination of the deep and troubled relationship between people and forests.”—Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved BeastsA fast-paced investigation into timber poaching that reveals why stealing trees has become a billion-dollar industry.Deep in the thickets of North America’s most ancient woodland, timber poachers are felling some of the last remaining old-growth on our continent. Redwoods, cedar, and Douglas fir trees are all victims of poaching. Sold on the black market, they end up in our hom... + Read More
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Series: The L.M. Montgomery Library Twice upon a Time Selected Stories, 1898-1939 Paperback L.M. Montgomery 9781487544126 $29.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 23, 2022

This collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery reveals the early workings of parts of Anne of Green Gables, its sequels, and her other ever-popular novels.Although L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942) is best remembered for the twenty-two book-length works of fiction that she published in her lifetime, from Anne of Green Gables (1908) to Anne of Ingleside (1939), she also contributed some five hundred short stories and serials to a wide range of North American and British periodicals from 1895 to 1940. While most of these stories demonstrate her ab... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Unsettling Canadian Art History Paperback Erin Morton 9780228010982 $55.00 ART Jun 15, 2022

Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada.This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian colonialisms from Black, Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, trans, and Two-Spirit perspectives. Writing across many positionalities, contributors offer chapters that disrupt colon... + Read More
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Series: Water Views Rivers Lakes Oceans Hardcover David Ondaatje 9781580936002 $60.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Jun 14, 2022

Journey high above the world’s most unforgettable waterscapes via this stunning collection of aerial photographs by David Ondaatje. Water Views is a breathtaking overview (literally) of the most striking bodies of water from around the world. Photographed with state-of-the-art drone technology by author and filmmaker David Ondaatje, these stunning aerial images range from the picturesque beaches of Carmel-by-the-Sea and Gaviota Beach to the wild coasts of Oregon, placid lakes from Tahoe to Como, the emerald waters of the Bahamas and Belize, an... + Read More
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Series: What You Won't Do For Love A Conversation Paperback David Suzuki 9781552454541 $19.95 NATURE Jun 07, 2022

What if we could love the planet as much as we love one another?"Warm, wise, and overflowing with generosity, this is a love story so epic it embraces all of creation. Yet another reminder of how blessed we are to be in the struggle with elders like David and Tara.” – Naomi Klein and Avi LewisWhat You Won’t Do for Love is an inspiring conversation about love and the environment. When artist Miriam Fernandes approaches the legendary eco-pioneer David Suzuki to create a theatre piece about climate change, she expects to write about David’s perspe... + Read More
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Series: Business Series Work From Home Zone Helping Entrepreneurs and Employees Integrate Work and Life 1st Edition Paperback Angela Crocker 9781770403376 $26.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 01, 2022

From author Angela Crocker, thought leader on online communities, digital decluttering, education technology, and content planning, comes the definitive guide to working from home for employees and entrepreneurs. Most books about working from home are written for the businesses and employers managing others. This book is for the employees and the self-employed -- the workers and the entrepreneurs -- who are often overlooked when it comes to how to handle working from home. Including how-to's and case studies, Crocker discusses how to carve ou... + Read More
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Series: Yawd Modern Afro-Caribbean Recipes Hardcover Adrian Forte 9780525611561 $35.00 COOKING Jun 07, 2022

Yawd = comfort food that sticks to your ribs! Dive into this bold, flavor-filled cookbook packed with fresh Afro-Caribbean recipes to bring some island vibes to your home.In his first cookbook, Top Chef Canada star Adrian Forte shares more than 100 inspiring and delicious recipes to get you fired up in the kitchen. Try new riffs on Caribbean classics like Coconut Fried Chicken, Spiced Steamed Fish, Rasta Pasta, and Pepper Shrimp Paella. Incorporate more African ancestral ingredients into your repertoire with Ackee & Saltfish Fritters or Okra ... + Read More