Do both the zoo and the mental hospital induce psychosis, as humans are treated as animals and animals are treated as humans? How have we looked at animals in the past, and how do we look at them today? How have zoos presented...
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Auteur:McDonald, Tracy, Vandersommers, DanielSommaire: - Auteur:Eggers, DaveSommaire:
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun--a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four--chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the eerie days after the storm, he...
- Auteur:Peddie, Francis, Loewen, RoydenSommaire:
Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt...
- Auteur:Cotugno, KatieSommaire:
Two teens from different worlds fall for each other after a voter registration call turns into a long-distance romance.
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Auteur:Shane, JanelleSommaire:AI is everywhere. It powers the autocorrect function of your iPhone, helps Google Translate understand the complexity of language, and decides which of your friends' Facebook posts you most want to see. In the coming years, it...
- Auteur:Thanhauser, SofiSommaire:
In this ambitious, panoramic social history, Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five stories-Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool-about the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways. She takes...
- Auteur:Dorais, Louis-JacquesSommaire:
Words of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author's decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear on what he fashions as an amiable,...
- Auteur:Fallada, HansSommaire:
Wolf Among Wolves is a sprawling saga of the collapse of a culture - its economy and government - and the common man's struggle to survive it all. Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germany's catastrophic loss of World War I,...
- Auteur:Cacioppo, StephanieSommaire:
From the world's foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes a personal story of connection and heartbreak that brings new understanding to an old truth: better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. At thirty-...
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Auteur:Van Camp, RichardSommaire:Two honest and memorable middle-grade novellas on residential schools and reconciliation. The novellas will be bound together in a "flip-book" format, which offers the intended audiences two important perspectives in one package.
- Auteur:Gordon, AubreySommaire:
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice. Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don't Talk...
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Auteur:Linton, JamieSommaire:We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. Because it seems so natural, we seldom question how we see water. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with...
- Auteur:O'Neil, CathySommaire:
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabricWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives-where we...
- Auteur:Wagg, LenSommaire:
It's been more than a year since COVID-19 arrived in Nova Scotia. In the spring of 2020, then-premier of Nova Scotia Stephen McNeil implored citizens to "stay the blazes home"--and they did. But the full-scale lockdown is...
- Auteur:Hargreaves, AllisonSommaire:
Indigenous communities have been organizing against violence since newcomers first arrived, but the cases of missing and murdered women have only recently garnered broad public attention. Violence Against Indigenous Women joins the...
- Auteur:Kaler, AmySommaire:
In Until Further Notice, Amy Kaler records a personal account of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. She documents a series of jolts to her thoughts, perceptions, emotions, and habits-an internal seismograph of living...
- Auteur:Dhamoon, Rita, Bhandar, Davina, Mawani, Renisa, Bains, Satwinder KaurSommaire:
In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional Canadian historical...
- Auteur:Gottlieb, ScottSommaire:
Dr. Scott Gottlieb reveals how COVID-19 was able to trounce America's pandemic preparations. As the pandemic unfolded, he was in regular contact with all the key players in Congress, the Trump administration, and the drug and...
- Auteur:Lindemann, Danielle J.Sommaire:
Sociologist and TV lover Danielle J. Lindemanna presents a sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium, and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexuality...
- Auteur:Manning, ChandraSommaire:
By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines in what became known as "contraband camps." This book probes what the camps were like and how former slaves and soldiers warily united there--...
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