This fourth collection of essays by Paul Ruffin highlights his idiosyncratic wit and practiced storytelling skills in memorable autobiographic pieces ranging from the comic to the confessional. The first section, "Things Literary, More...
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Troubling Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Education offers a series of critical perspectives concerning reconciliation and reconciliatory efforts between Canadian and Indigenous peoples. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars...
- Author:Good, MichelleSummary:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. FINALIST for the Writers' Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. With authority and insight,...
- Author:Lavery, David, Abbott, StaceySummary:
As a natural heir to the long-running television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural has risen to prominence with a strong cult following, and this collection of essays from contributors around the globe investigates the genre...
- Author:Acho, EmmanuelSummary:
This program is read by the author, and includes a bonus conversation. An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series " Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" "You cannot fix a...
- Author:Twigg, AlanSummary:
For over a quarter century, many readers have agreed with legendary publisher Jack McClelland, who said, “I have never before encountered a book journal as engaging as BC BookWorld.” But over several decades, the populist style of BC...
- Author:Murray, Scott W.Summary:
Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how...
- Author:Boudreau, GenevièveSummary:
Avec 12 dessins de l'autrice. Quelle importance accordons-nous aux êtres que nous ne savons pas nommer? Et si la banlieue devenait le lieu de préservation d'une biodiversité près de la disparition ? Il suffit peut-être d'habiter...
- Author:Kingwell, MarkSummary:
Meet the 'fast zombie' citizen of the current world. He is a rapid, brainless carrier of preference-driven consumption. His Facebook-style 'likes' replace complex notions of personhood. Legacy college admissions and status-seekers...
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"An anthology of writing addressing the most urgent issues facing the Black community in Canada. The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, which quickly spread outside the...
- Author:Wilcox, Alana, McBride, JasonSummary:
Since the election of Mayor David Miller in November 2003, Toronto has experienced a wave of civic pride and enthusiasm not felt in decades. At long last, Torontonians see their city as a place of possibility and potential. Visions of a...
- Author:Chambers, Ruth, Gogarty, AmySummary:
Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice brings together ten essays and twenty artist projects to explore ceramics as a socially responsible practice. By framing particular ceramics practices as 'utopic impulses,' this anthology...
- Author:Macdonald, HelenSummary:
Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a...
- Author:Kalisa, ChantalSummary:
African and Caribbean peoples share a history dominated by the violent disruptions of slavery and colonialism. While much has been said about these “geographies of pain,” violence in the private sphere, particularly gendered violence,...
- Author:Crocker, Diane, Minaker, Joanne, Neland, AmandaSummary:
We live in a moment of renewed and highly visible action on the issue of sexual violence. Rape culture is a real and salient force that dominates campus climates and student experiences. Canada has drafted a national framework,...
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Much of the discussion of social transformation and resistance in socio-legal studies centres around the question of whether and how the law can be used to achieve practical change. However, the editors of this volume argue that it will...
- Author:Osmundson, JosephSummary:
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub A leading microbiologist tackles the scientific and sociopolitical impact of viruses in twelve striking essays. Invisible in the food we eat, the people we kiss, and inside our own...
- Author:Northup, SolomonSummary:
Four of the most important and enduring American slave narratives together in one volume. Until slavery was abolished in 1865, millions of men, women, and children toiled under a system that stripped them of their freedom and their...
- Author:Diaz, Harry, Warren, Jim, Hurlbert, Margot, Boninsegna, Jose Armando, Bonsal, Barrie, Corkal, Darrell, Fletcher, Amber, Hadarits, Monica, Harrison, Tom, Hurlbert, Margot, Kerr, Samantha, Knuttila, Erin, Kulshreshta, Suren, Marchildon, Gregory, Montana, Elma, Morito, Bruce, Pittman, Jeremy, Rojas, Alejandro, Sauchyn, David, Santibanez, Paula, Unvoas, A., Wandel, Johanna, Warren, James, Whittrock, Virginia, Wheaton, ElaineSummary:
Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The...
- Author:Altrows, Rona, Sedivy, Julie, Albert, Samantha, Butala, Sharon, Cawthorne, Jane, Chan, Weyman, Danos, Rebecca, Edgar, Patti, Greentree, Leslie, Graham-Pole, John, Anstey Hanen, Edythe Anstey, Hansen, Vivian, Harris, Jane, Harrison, Richard, Kvern, Lee, Haynes, Elizabeth, Lévesque, Anne, Macpherson, Margaret, Major, Alice, McGrath, Wendy, Ian McKay, Stuart Ian, Neilsen Glenn, Lorri, Olding, Susan, Rees, Roberta, Seifert, Kathy, Siré, Cora, Ross Smith, Steven Ross, Sorbie, Anne, Sorestad, Glen, S. Thompson, Kelly S., van Eck, Robin van, van Herk, ArithaSummary:
The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.—“The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon”, Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting—for birth,...
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