Between The Lines: 71 books
by Mike Hudema
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004
“An Action A Day Keeps Global Capitalism Away,” according to Mike Hudema, describing his action guide for the 21st century. This lively, challenging, and decidedly fun book is designed for activists and concerned citizens who want to change the world. Hudema introduces readers to a variety of...
Citizens’ Hall
Making Local Democracy Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2001
Based on years of practical experience in small towns, Carrel argues for municipal autonomy—for turning what are now “colonies” of the federal and provincial orders of government into independent, mature, and fully democratic entities. For Carrel, the citizen is the sole legitimate source of...
Fear of a Black Nation
Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the...
Girl Trouble
Female Delinquency in English Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Rarely a week goes by when juvenile delinquency or the Young Offenders Act are not discussed in the dominant media. Are we witnessing a moral panic over youth crime or a spate of “child-blaming” driven by the politics of law and order? Sangster traces the history of young women and crime and in...
Home and Native Land
Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light—shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain.
The book’s articles, by some of the foremost critical thinkers and activists on issues of difference, diversity,...
Mediocracy
The Politics of the Extreme Centre
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
There was no Reichstag fire. No storming of the Bastille. No mutiny on the Aurora. Instead, the mediocre have seized power without firing a single shot. They rose to power on the tide of an economy where workers produce assembly-line meals without knowing how to cook at home, give customers instructions...
Brink of Reality
New Canadian Documentary Film and Video
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 1993
In Brink of Reality, Peter Steven examines the convergence of video-art and social-issue documentary, from the 1940s to the present. No other book has explored contemporary Canadian documentary so thoroughly, or provided as broad a view of the state of the art in the 1990s.
by Harry Glasbeek
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
A mugger to a stranger, “Give me your wallet or I will beat you to pulp!” It is a crime.
An employer says to a worker: “Adding lung-saving ventilation will reduce my profit. Give me back some of your wages and I will let you keep your lungs!” This is not a crime.
Our assumptions...
Eating Fire
Family Life on the Queer Side
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2001
Eating Fire follows in the steps of Riordon’s popular 1996 book Out our way, on gay and lesbian life in the country (BTL, 1996). This new set of tales examines the range in living patterns and relationships among queer families across Canada.
Eating Fire illuminates the rich diversity in...
Gatekeepers
Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
An in-depth study of European immigrants to Canada during the Cold War, Gatekeepers explores the interactions among these immigrants and the “gatekeepers”—mostly middle-class individuals and institutions whose definitions of citizenship significantly shaped the immigrant experience. Iacovetta’s...
Shameless
The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption.
Over twenty years...
by Dr. Karen Messing, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the...
User Error
Resisting Computer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2003
User Error explodes the myth of computer technology as juggernaut. Multimedia educator Ellen Rose shows that there is no bandwagon, no out-of-control dynamo, no titanic conspiracy to overwhelm us. Instead, there is our own desire to join the fraternity of users, a fraternity that confers legitimacy...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
You've heard about the prince who battles the mighty dragon to rescue the princess locked in the tower. The little girl with the red hooded cloak or black dogs who prowl the forest and moors. Just beyond the hedge is another world full of magic, mystery, and wonder. The talented authors found within...