This book employs a unique approach to introducing and examining sociological principles by posing and answering in each chapter a question such as What does it mean to be human?; Are human beings free?; and Why is there misery in the...
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Auteur:Nikiforuk, AndrewSommaire:Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world’...
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Auteur:Augustine, Ellen, Stoddard, SuzanneSommaire:Corporate structures, products, and processes permeate our society -but what do they really mean to us in our daily lives? The bottom-line mentality that drives corporate America, say Ellen Augustine (formerly Schwartz) and Suzanne...
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Social movements across North America have suffered from the rise of neoliberalism. Feminism in particular has not been able to call itself a structured movement since the 1990s with the end of National Action Committee on the Status of...
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Auteur:Paquet, GillesSommaire:Ce tableau d'avancement examine le Canada français de la dernière moitié du XXe siècle et propose quelques repères utiles, souligne certains enlisements, avancées et retards, et cherche à comprendre son évolution malaisée à travers...
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Auteur:Proust, MarcelSommaire:The taste of a madeleine dipped in tea transports a man into a reverie about his old family friend Charles Swann and launches the world’s the most introspective literary masterpiece. The first of the seven-volume Remembrance of Things...
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Auteur:Whitzman, CarolynSommaire: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...
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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:Scott, BryanSommaire:
Desired and reviled, adulated and condemned, Winnipeg inspires intense and contradictory emotions from residents, visitors and people who have never even ventured within wading distance of the Manitoba capital. The city at the centre of...
- Auteur:Scott, BryanSommaire:
Somewhere between North Dakota and Nunavut sits a curious land with a coastline patrolled by polar bears, highways lined with monuments to household produce and dinner plates drenched in a gluey condiment known as honey dill sauce. This...
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Auteur:Grossman, Ibolya Szalai, Réti, AndySommaire:In the fall of 1941, as the situation for Jews worsens across Europe, Ibolya (Ibi) Grossman learns she is pregnant. She is scared and confused – a baby during wartime? But her husband, Zolti, assures her, “We need this baby, you will...
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In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans.
- Auteur:Barlow, MaudeSommaire:
"... required reading for Canadians who want to understand the social disasters of the last decade". -- Sun (Vancouver) "... will have many Canadians gnashing their teeth in anger and humiliation -- make sure you have a good dental plan...
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- 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:McIvor, BruceSommaire:
Faced with a constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, Canada's "reconciliation project" has obviously gone off the rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor...
- 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:Álvarez, NoéSommaire:
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do...
- Auteur:Goodwin, DanielSommaire:
Sons and Fathers is a novel about men. It tells the story of how three men use their talent to help and hurt each other - and compete with the accomplishments of their fathers.Three friends, three sons, each with a talent for words he...
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