What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in...
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- Auteur:Sahami, Mehran, Weinstein, Jeremy M., Reich, RobSommaire:
This book exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech's relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get....
- Auteur:Bowers, RickSommaire:
This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan.
- Auteur:Lee, Jen SookfongSommaire:
A TODAY Show Recommended Read, this beautifully intimate memoir-in-pieces uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as a revelatory lens to explore family, identity, belonging, grief, and the power of female rage....
- Auteur:McGonigal, JaneSommaire:
An innovative guide to living gamefully, based on the program that has already helped nearly half a million people achieve remarkable personal growth. In 2009, internationally renowned game designer Jane McGonigal suffered a severe...
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Using Toronto as a case study, Subdivided asks how cities would function if decision-makers genuinely accounted for race, ethnicity, and class when confronting issues such as housing, policing, labor markets, and public space. With...
- Auteur:Winman, SarahSommaire:
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick. A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man. Tuscany, 1944: As Allied...
- Auteur:Wagg, LenSommaire:
A photography book from award-winning author Len Wagg featuring 100 colour photos paired with narrative from dozens of Nova Scotians, telling their Covid-19 survival stories.
- Auteur:Williams, Kimberly A.Sommaire:
"Kimberly A. Williams wants the annual Calgary Stampede to change its ways. An intrepid feminist scholar with a wry sense of humour, Williams deftly weaves theory, history, pop culture and politics to challenge readers to make sense of...
- Auteur:Johnston, LyndaSommaire:
"This book provides a critical geography of sex and sexuality from the body to the globe. Drawing on queer, feminist, gender, social, and cultural studies, Lynda Johnston and Robyn Longhurst highlight the complex nature of sex and...
- Auteur:Goodman, SteveSommaire:
An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality―when sound helps produce a bad vibe.
Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread―to...
- Auteur:Gelman, LaurieSommaire:
This program is read by the author. From the author of Class Mom and You've Been Volunteered comes Laurie Gelman's next laugh-out-loud novel Smells Like Tween Spirit. As a new Mat Mom of the Pioneer Middle School (PMS)...
- Auteur:Taleb, Nassim NicholasSommaire:
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibilityIn his most provocative and...
- Auteur:Gillin, Kate CôtéSommaire:
In Shrill Hurrahs, Kate Côté Gillin presents a new perspective on gender roles and racial violence in South Carolina during Reconstruction and the decades after the 1876 election of Wade Hampton as governor. In the aftermath of the...
- Auteur:Houellebecq, MichelSommaire:
"Mes croyances sont limitées, mais elles sont violentes. Je crois à la possibilité du royaume restreint. Je crois à l'amour" écrivait récemment Michel Houellebecq. Le narrateur de Sérotonine approuverait sans...
- Auteur:Stassi, LauraSommaire:
Offers encouragement and hope to older adults who are ready to date again, with advice and tips from relationship experts and the author's own experiences.Romance Redux looks at finding love as an older adult who seeks connection,...
- Auteur:Dagenais, Maxime, Mauduit, JulienSommaire:
Starting in 1837, rebels in Upper and Lower Canada revolted against British rule in an attempt to reform a colonial government that they believed was unjust. While this uprising is often perceived as a small-scale, localized event,...
- Auteur:Kunzru, HariSommaire:
From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth. After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the...
- Auteur:Menzies, Charles R.Sommaire:
"Small-scale, family fishing enterprises manage to persist despite a range of difficult economic and ecological changes and disruptions. Red Flags and Lace Coiffes is an ... ethnography that explores how and why family-based...
- Auteur:MacDonald, MonicaSommaire:
Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history. Yet until now, there have been no comprehensive accounts of Canadian history on television. Monica MacDonald takes us behind...