Suburb, Slum, Urban Village examines the relationship between image and reality for one city neighbourhood – Toronto’s Parkdale. Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdale’s story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent...
Social Change
- Auteur:Whitzman, CarolynSommaire:
- Auteur:Duhaime, GérardSommaire:
Willie, le garçon à l’anorak, s’est enfermé dans le mutisme, loin des adultes qui l’ont trahi. Entre les bosquets et les ruisseaux de la toundra, tandis que se joue en silence le sort de la terre meurtrie, il fera connaissance avec des...
- Auteur:Trul, JanetSommaire:
Following on the heels of her critically acclaimed first collection Hot Town and Other Stories, an examination of relationships within communities continues in this new collection of short fiction, Something's Burning. The twenty-...
- Auteur:Bennett, Robert JacksonSommaire:
As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant novel from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and the Divine Cities trilogy. A few years ago, Sancia Grado would've happily watched Tevanne burn....
- Auteur:Barker, Adam J., Battell Lowman, EmmaSommaire:
"Through an engaging, and sometimes enraging, look at the relationships between Canada and Indigenous nations, Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada explains what it means to be Settler and argues that accepting...
- Auteur:Pedwell, CarolynSommaire:
Although we tend to associate social transformation with major events, historical turning points, or revolutionary upheaval, Revolutionary Routines argues that seemingly minor everyday habits are the key to meaningful change. Through...
- Auteur:Chambers, VeronicaSommaire:
Before they were activists, they were just like you and me. From Frederick Douglass to Malala Yousafzai, Joan of Arc to John Lewis, these remarkable figures show us what it means to take a stand and say no to injustice, proving that any...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Palace intrigues and clientelism drove politics at the viceregal court of colonial Mexico. By carefully reconstructing social networks in the court of Viceroy Duke of Alburquerque (1702-1710), Christoph Rosenmüller reveals that the Duke...
- Auteur:National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Canada)Sommaire:
The National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA...
- Auteur:Ramos, Howard, Rodgers, KathleenSommaire:
The Tea Party. The Occupy Movement. Idle No More. Around the world, popular social movements are challenging the status quo. Yet most democracies are seeing a decline in voter turnout. Protest and Politics examines this shift in...
- Auteur:Kahane, AdamSommaire:
The two main ways that people try to solve their toughest group, community and societal problems are fundamentally flawed. They either push for what they want at all costs—in it’s most extreme form this means war—or try to completely...
- Auteur:Mason, PaulSommaire:
Over the past two centuries, capitalism has undergone profound changes from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big that this time...
- Auteur:Choudry, Aziz, Hanley, Jill, Shragge, EricSommaire:
How do we organize for progressive social change in an era of unprecedented economic, social, and ecological crises? How do political activists build power and critical analysis into their daily work for change? Grounded in struggles in...
- Auteur:Souvaliotis, AndreasSommaire:
An inspiring memoir by one of Canada's most unusual, successful and socially conscious businesspeople. Was he gifted or a hopeless misfit? That was the defining dilemma of Andreas Souvaliotis's childhood, adolescence and young life....
- Auteur:Souvaliotis, AndreasSommaire:
Updated and expanded: A new edition of the inspiring memoir by one of Canada's most unusual, successful and socially conscious businesspeople. "I am different. I have always been different. I grew up scared of being found out...
- Auteur:King, CharlesSommaire:
At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul, people were looking toward...
- Auteur:Wickham, ChrisSommaire:
Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne's reforms, the...
- Auteur:Bennett, Robert JacksonSommaire:
A god wages war-using all of humanity as its pawns-in the unforgettable conclusion to the Founders trilogy. Sancia, Clef, and Berenice have gone up against plenty of long odds in the past. But the war they're fighting now is one even...
- Auteur:Meunier, E.-MartinSommaire:
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....
- Auteur:Marty, RobinSommaire:
This comprehensive manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law explains how to get the healthcare you need-by any means necessary. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides listeners through...