Between The Lines: 71 books
Queer Progress
From Homophobia to Homonationalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
How did a social movement evolve from a small group of young radicals to the incorporation of LGBTQ communities into full citizenship on the model of Canadian multiculturalism?
Tim McCaskell contextualizes his work in gay, queer, and AIDS activism in Toronto from 1974 to 2014 within the shift...
Whose Streets?
The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
In June 2010 activists opposing the G20 meeting held in Toronto were greeted with arbitrary state violence on a scale never before seen in Canada. Whose Streets? is a combination of testimonials from the front lines and analyses of the broader context, an account that both reflects critically on what...
An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2004
An Unauthorized Biography of the World explores the practice of engaged oral history: the difficult, sometimes dangerous work of recovering fragments of human story that have gone missing from the official versions.
Michael Riordon has thirty years’ experience as a writer and broadcaster...
Unsettling Canada
A National Wake-Up Call
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Unsettling Canada is built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders, Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson.
Both men have served as chiefs of their bands in the B.C. interior and both have gone on to establish important national and international reputations. But the...
The Great Revenue Robbery
How to Stop the Tax Cut Scam and Save Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Any attempt to restore responsible environmental policies, revive and expand our social programs, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, and boost our flagging economy will be inadequate unless we also address the need to increase governments fiscal capacity. The tax system can also play a key role...
Fun and Games in Higher Education
The Lonely Crowd Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Fun & Games & Higher Education ranges from Wayne’s World to hot-rodding, from automobility to the popular phenomenon know as the tailgate party, from German sociologist George Simmel to Canadian Media Guru Marshall McLuhan—all in the interests in exploring North American obsession with play-and particularly the intersection between education, work, and leisure.
Random Acts of Culture
Reclaiming Art and Community in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
In our society, cultural activity - or the arts - usually refers to the high culture of the elites and popular mass culture. Clarke Mackey argues for a third category that is as old as human society itself but seldom discussed: vernacular culture.
Vernacular culture comprises all those...
Beyond the Promised Land
The Movement and the Myth
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Iconoclast David F. Noble traces the evolution and eclipse of the biblical mythology of the Promised Land, the foundational story of Western Culture. Part impassioned manifesto, part masterful survey of opposed philosophical and economic schools, Beyond the Promised Land brings into focus the twisted...
by Assistant Professor Tom Malleson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
There is no alternative to free-market capitalism. At least that’s what we’ve been told since the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher first declared the debate over. Politicians daily declare it, journalists parrot it, talk show hosts acquiesce to it, rich people gloat about it, and regular people simply...
by Jamie Swift
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
In this concise, critical study of civil society, Jamie Swift sketches the history of the concept from its roots in the eighteenth century, to the present. Swift looks at its practical application in specific cases, such as Canada’s Victorian Order of Nurses, and with community-based groups in South...
My Journey with Jake
A Memoir of Parenting and Disability, 4th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2000
Jake is celebrating his tenth birthday. That’s a remarkable feat, because at birth he was given only three years to live. Miriam Edelson is his mother, a dedicated fighter for Jake and families in similar situations.
Edelson poses some tough questions: How do parents cope with a child who has special...
Deep Diversity
Overcoming Us vs. Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
What if our interactions with those different from us are strongly influenced by things happening below the radar of awareness, hidden even from ourselves? Deep Diversity explores this question and argues that "us vs. them" is an unfortunate but normal part of the human experience due to...
Progress Without People
New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 1995
A provocative discussion of the role of technology and its accompanying rhetoric of limitless progress in the concomitant rise of joblessness and unemployment.
The Ursula Franklin Reader
Pacifism as a Map
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2006
Feminist, educator, Quaker, and physicist, Ursula Franklin has long been considered one of Canada’s foremost advocates and practitioners of pacifism. The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map is a comprehensive collection of her work, and demonstrates subtle, yet critical, linkages across a...