Between The Lines: 71 books
Thinking Union
Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1995
Over the past seventeen years, trade union educator D’Arcy Martin has conducted hundreds of courses for Canadian workers. He has learned that there are people-”conscious romantics”-who dream of a more egalitarian world while confronting the obstacles that stand in the way of building it. This book provides a refreshing personal account of union culture and its dynamics.
Canadian Copyright
A Citizen's Guide, Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
In the age of easily downloadable culture, messages about copyright are ubiquitous. If you’re an artist, consumer, or teacher, copyright is likely a part of your everyday life. Completely updated, this revised edition of Canadian Copyright parses the Copyright Act and explains current Canadian copyright...
Out Our Way
Gay and Lesbian Life in Rural Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1996
Michael Riordon celebrates the survival of ordinary, extraordinary people whose experiences are rarely reflected in the media. These stories of courage and humour were gathered in the course of two years and 27,000 kilometres of travel, and some three hundred in-person conversations.
Degrees of Failure
University Education in Decline
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show how continuing inequities, grounded in large part upon social class differences, are maintained and reproduced...
McLuhan’s Children
The Greenpeace Message and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1996
McLuhan’s Children is an inside look at Greenpeace’s rise to global prominence through its savvy use of mass media imagery. From the flamboyant, guerilla-theatre approach to the emergence of environmentalism as a dominant international issue.
Canadian Copyright
A Citizen's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
In the age of easily downloadable culture, messages about copyright are ubiquitous. If you�re an artist, consumer, or teacher, copyright is likely a part of your everyday life. Yet no resource exists to explain Canadian copyright law to ordinary Canadians. In accessible language, using examples...
by Tom Slee
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
We live in a culture of choice. But, in an age of corporate dominance, our freedom to choose has taken on new meaning. Upset with your local big box store? Object to unfair hiring practices at your neighbourhood fast food restaurant? Want to protest the opening of that new multinational coffeeshop?...
May Day
A Graphic History of Protest
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
May Day: A Graphic History of Protest traces the development of International Workers’ Day, May 1st, against the ever-changing economic and political backdrop in Canada. Recognizing the importance of work and the historical struggles of workers to improve their lives, with a particular focus on...
Committing Theatre
Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Committing Theatre offers the first full-length historical study of political intervention theatre and theatrical spectatorship in English Canada. Building on twenty years of research and engagement in the field, this book’s historical narrative frames close-up examples of how theatre artists have...
We Lived A Life And Then Some
The Life, Death, and Life of A Mining Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1996
Based on in-depth oral interviews with local residents, and rich archival sources, We Lived A Life and Then Some relates the common person’s struggle to overcome harsh working conditions and government neglect. The unique culture of the hardrock mining town of Cobalt is exposed through the eyes...
The Vimy Trap
or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story...
A Future Without Hate or Need
The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Driven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who came to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals. A Future Without Hate or Need brings to life the rich and multi-layered lives of a dissident political community,...
Unlikely Radicals
The Story of the Adams Mine Dump War
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
For twenty-two years politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontarios garbage disposal crisis. This plan to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the fractured pits of the Adams Mine prompted five separate civil resistance campaigns by a rural region of 35,000...
Serial Girls
From Barbie to Pussy Riot
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Everywhere you look patriarchal society reduces women to a series of repeating symbols: serial girls.
On TV and in film, on the internet and in magazines, pop culture and ancient architecture, serial girls are all around us, moving in perfect sync—as dolls, as dancers, as statues. From Tiller...