Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. The final book in Maude Barlow’s Blue trilogy, Blue Future is a powerful, penetrating, and timely look at the global water crisis — and what we can do to prevent it. The global water crisis has...
Social science
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Author:Barlow, MaudeSummary: - Author:Robinson, JaneSummary:
"In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither...
- Author:Nelson, MaggieSummary:
Maggie Nelson presents 240 short pieces, all on the color blue, that offer surprising insights into the emotional depths that make us most human.
- Author:Grigoriadis, VanessaSummary:
What's really happening behind closed doors on America's college campuses' A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines. Women use fresh, smart methods to fight entrenched sexism and...
- Author:Bouchard, Michel, Malette, Sébastien, Marcotte, GuillaumeSummary:
We think of Métis as having Prairie roots. Quebec doesn’t recognize a historical Métis community, and the Métis National Council contests the existence of any Métis east of Ontario. Quebec residents who seek recognition as Métis under...
- Author:Jagdeo, Tina, Jensen, LaraSummary:
The move toward teaching through inquiry is evident in curriculum documents across the continent. In this book, you'll find a clear approach for incorporating inquiry into your classroom.
Based on current research and solid...
- Author:Ranchod, Sarita, Allfrey, Ellah WakatamaSummary:
Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a...
- Author:Brunet-Jailly, EmmanuelSummary:
Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC....
- Author:Viloria, HidaSummary:
Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r body was different. It wasn't until s/he was twenty-six and encountered the term intersex. In this book, Hida describes her search for authentic identity and love in a...
- Author:Conley, GarrardSummary:
A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about...
- Author:Ellison, RandySummary:
American society is in the midst of a crisis, an epidemic of violence, secrets and shame. The victims reside in every town, on every street. Finding it easier to remain in denial than to confront this reality, the public minimizes the...
- Author:Smith, RobertSummary:
Think you know a thing or two about zombies? Think again. If you’re going to keep your wits – and your brains – about you during a zombie attack, you need expert advice. Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies gathers together an...
- Author:Dion, Susan D.Summary:
This book proposes a new pedagogy for addressing Aboriginal subject material, shifting the focus from an essentializing or “othering” exploration of the attributes of Aboriginal peoples to a focus on historical experiences that inform...
- Author:Lerch, Marilyn, Ranson,, AngelaSummary:
In this compelling collection of first-person stories, adults who have made outstanding achievements in adult literacy were paired with writers to tell of their transition to reading. These are people who have had the courage to...
- Author:Mohr, Holbrook, Weiss, MitchSummary:
Broken Faith is the meticulously reported story of a singular female cult leader, a terrifying portrait of life inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, and the harrowing account of one family who escaped after two decades. It's the...
- Author:Britt, DonnaSummary:
- Author:Al-Solaylee, KamalSummary:
Brown is not white. Brown is not black. Brown is an experience, a state of mind. Historically speaking, issues of race and skin colour have been interpreted along black and white lines, leaving out millions of people whose stories of...
- Author:Postman, NeilSummary:
In Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century Neil Postman revisits the Enlightenment, that great flowering of ideas that provided a humane direction for the future - ideas that formed our nation and that we would do well to embrace...
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This collection challenges misconceptions that rural Canada is a bastion of intolerance. While examining the extent and nature of contemporary cultural and religious discrimination in rural Canadian communities, the editors and...
- Author:Prosserman, Michael 'Piecez'Summary:
Build an organization that is growth-minded, values-based, and innovative using the six steps to 'responsible impact.' At age 16, Michael 'Piecez' Prosserman, a professional b-boy (breakdancer), completed a school...
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