Between The Lines: 71 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Young Canadians are increasingly active and engaged in global issues. Many are eagerly poised to contribute—in smaller and even larger ways—to international development and the Canadian national politics that, for better or worse, shape the field.
Generation NGO captures some of the first...
by Mary Jo Leddy
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
Our Friendly Local Terrorist tells the story of the fourteen-year struggle of Suleyman Goven, a Kurd accused by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service of being a terrorist. Mary Jo Leddy was “accidentally” present at Suleyman’s first interview with CSIS. During that eight-hour ordeal he...
Cuba beyond the Beach
Stories of Life in Havana
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city....
Flight and Freedom
Stories of Escape to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
The global number of people currently displaced from their home country—more than 50 million—is higher than at any time since World War II. Yet in recent years Canada has deported, denied, and diverted countless refugees. Is Canada a safe haven for refugees or a closed door?
In Flight and...
AIDS Activist
Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2003
Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch's prescient articles in The Body Politic spoke to the gay communities of Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. His organizing efforts meant change...
Corporatizing Canada
Making Business out of Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
“Corporatizing Canada is an impressive collection by activist scholars focusing on the commercialization by stealth of the public sector. Its accessible style is well integrated around three dimensions of corporatization that prioritize markets over social relations. A must-read for those interested...
Wealth By Stealth
Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the Perversion of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2002
How is it that corporations are able to behave irresponsibly, criminally, and undemocratically? Wealth by Stealth is a scathing introduction to the operations of the modern corporation, written by a corporate lawyer. Many writers point to the growth of undemocratic corporate power. Glasbeek takes...
Class Privilege
How Law Shelters Shareholders and Coddles Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Capitalism’s agenda is the endless pursuit of private accumulation of socially produced wealth. In our system, the corporation—created by law—is meant to hide this agenda, to distract us so that flesh and blood capitalists can do what they like. But when the workings of the corporation are examined,...
Radical Transformation
Oligarchy, Collapse, and the Crisis of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
“Radical Transformation is a tour de force.”– Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization
Radical Transformation is a story about industrial civilization’s impending collapse, and about the possibilities of averting this...
Curing Affluenza
How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Affluenza has not just changed the world, it has also changed the way we see the world. Short of money? Borrow some. Caught in the rain? Buy an umbrella. Thirsty? Buy a bottle of water and throw the bottle away. Our embrace of “convenience” and our acceptance of our inability to plan ahead is...
Persistent Poverty
Voices From the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
It’s a very short trip from the limousine seat to the curb. Jim Mann never missed a payroll for the dozen men who worked for his flourishing landscaping business he built from the ground up. Now he lives hand-to-mouth. His pockets are empty long before his next social assistance cheque arrives.
In...
by Michael Riordon
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
As governments and corporations scramble to pull the plug on research that proves that they are poisoning our planet and rush to muzzle the scientists who dare to share their disturbing data, it seems the powerful have declared a war on science.
Michael Riordon asks deep questions of bold scientists...
Some Like It Cold
The Politics of Climate Change in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
Some Like It Cold plunges headlong into the political conundrum of Canadas climatechange debate. Focusing on the past responses of both Liberal and Conservative governmentsto the looming crisis-ranging from negligence to complicity and connivance-Paehlke illuminatesthe issues surrounding compliance...
Good Crop / Bad Crop
Seed Politics and the Future of Food in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
IN RECENT YEARS Canadians have become more and more concerned about the origins oftheir food and the environmental impacts of pesticides in agriculture. What is less well knownis that pesticide corporations such as Monsanto and Du Pont have bought their way into the seed industry and are taking control...