The Little Red Yellow Black Book is an accessible and highly illustrated pocket-sized guide. It?s an invaluable introduction to Australia?s rich Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture. It takes a non-chronological...
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- Author:Pascoe, BruceSummary:
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Cet ouvrage, avec ses contributions tantôt essayistes, tantôt savantes, cherche à approfondir la réflexion sur le Québec contemporain afin de mieux comprendre la nature des mutations qui le transforment profondément aujourd'hui. Après l...
- Author:Trépanier, AnneSummary:
Les expressions politiques du Québec et du Canada donnent l’impression d’une quête identitaire perpétuelle. L’obsession du moi est passée du « je » au « nous ». Ce collectif pluridisciplinaire donne une portée philosophique et...
- Author:Gilbert, Anne, Veronis, Luisa, Brosseau, Marc, Ray, BrianSummary:
La région d’Ottawa-Gatineau a quelque chose d’unique. Traversée par la frontière provinciale qui a la plus forte charge symbolique au pays, elle se caractérise par une dynamique particulière. De part et d’autre de la frontière, les...
- Author:Harris, MalcolmSummary:
A millennial investigates why his generation is worse off economically than their parents in this devastating portrait of what it means to be young in America. Pushing aside stereotypes, what actually unites this generation? The short...
- Author:Buckley, Susan WashburnSummary:
Feel what it is like to participate in history as you follow in the footsteps of the young men and women who lived it. You will survive a harsh James Towne winter and battle the Redcoats in a Long Island cornfield; you will carry...
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In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly. This important collective volume both witnesses the significance of the travelling...
- Author:Ebadi, ShirinSummary:
- Author:Tharoor, ShashiSummary:
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from...
- Author:Palmater, Pamela D.Summary:
Indigenous Nationhood is a selection of blog posts by well-known lawyer, activist and academic Pamela Palmater. Palmater offers critical legal and political commentary and analysis on legislation, Aboriginal rights, Canadian politics,...
- Author:Ross, RupertSummary:
Imagine a world in which people see themselves as embedded in the natural order, with ethical responsibilities not only toward each other, but also toward rocks, trees, water and all nature. Imagine seeing yourself not as a master of...
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- Author:Settis, Salvatore, Naffis-Sahely, AndréSummary:
What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? This eloquent book by the internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about the Pearl of the Adriatic and...
- Author:Alifirenka, Caitlin, Ganda, Martin, Welch, LizSummary:
It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown foreign student. In Zimbabwe Martin received a letter than started a six year friendship. In this compelling memoir, Caitlin and Martin recount how they became...
- Author:Bryant, John Hope, Young, AndrewSummary:
John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we...
- Author:Rhodes-Pitts, SharifaSummary:
As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy. Drawing on Harlem's history and her own observations, Rhodes-Pitts introduces a variety of observers who...
- Author:Rajakumar, MohanalakshmiSummary:
- Author:Carneson, RuthSummary:
Ruth was four years old when her father was arrested for high treason and her world was turned upside-down. She grew up in constant fear of Special Branch policemen knocking on the door to arrest her mother or father, prominent South...
- Author:Poelzer, Greg, Coates, KennethSummary:
"Canada is a country founded on relationships and treaties between Indigenous people and newcomers. Although recent court cases have strengthened Aboriginal rights, the cooperative spirit of the treaties is being lost as Canadians...