In this touching, often humorous remembrance, Diana Daly introduces young readers to her smart, funny, and caring great aunties and uncles-six remarkable people who lived with skeletal dysplasia at a time when the condition was not well...
Social science
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Author:Daly, DianaSummary: - Author:Evans, Rachel HeldSummary:
This 2020 audiobook edition of Rachel Held Evans's New York Times bestseller features narration by Rachel Held Evans's sister, Amanda Opelt, and husband, Daniel Evans. With just the right mixture of humor and insight,...
- Author:Dunham, Cyrus GraceSummary:
For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Rather than looking back on gender transition from a settled distance, Cyrus invites us into the process as it unfolds, honoring the messiness,...
- Author:Isitt, Benjamin, Malhotra, RaviSummary:
Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life. Born in mid-nineteenth-century New York, in 1890 he was a railway brakeman in Montana. An accident left him a double amputee and politically radicalized, and his socialist activism that...
- Author:Richie, Beth, Meiners, Erica R., Davis, Angela Y.Summary:
From divesting from the police to halting new jails, abolition shapes our political moment. The authors show how abolition is our best response to endemic forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence.
- Author:Jones, ElSummary:
In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism...
- Author:Cherubini, LorenzoSummary:
Aboriginal people want an education that reflects their cultural values and linguistic heritages, an education that will foster their children’s engagement and identity and not marginalize them as learners. This book turns the spotlight...
- Author:Adese, JenniferSummary:
In Aboriginal TM, Jennifer Adese explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term "Aboriginal" and its displacement by the word "Indigenous." In the Constitution Act, 1982, the term's express purpose was to speak to specific "...
- Author:Fisher, Brian E.Summary:
Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women unwinds the cultural myth that abortion empowers women. Not only are men responsible for promoting and legalizing abortion in America, they are the key beneficiaries. Using historical facts,...
- Author:MacGuigan, Mark R.Summary:
Few issues have polarized Canadians and Americans as much as the abortion debate. In this thoughtful and thought-provoking reflection on the implications the law on abortion has on democracy, Mark MacGuigan brings a much-needed...
- Author:Silver, JimSummary:
For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and multifaceted and can profoundly damage the human...
- Author:Mitchell, PenniSummary:
This accessible and engaging book introduces readers to key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women’s equality in Canada. Four and a half decades after the report of the Royal Commission on...
- Author:Dolmage, JaySummary:
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education...
- Author:Pinard, SuzanneSummary:
Cet ouvrage est avant tout un éloge à l'humanité profonde dans la vie, bien sûr, mais aussi dans la mort. Il s'adresse aux familles, proches, amis, soignants, bénévoles qui accompagnent ou qui sont en lien avec une personne...
- Author:Andrew, Caroline, Gattinger, Monica, Jeannotte, M. Sharon, Straw, WillSummary:
Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for...
- Author:Pavlich, George, Unger, Matthew P.Summary:
Much critical scholarship has detailed the punitive effects of accusations that lead to criminalization. Less well documented is the founding role that accusation plays in creating potential criminals. In an attempt at redress, this...
- Author:Chen, AngelaSummary:
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity. What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like...
- Author:Toulouse, Pamela RoseSummary:
In Achieving Indigenous Student Success, author Pamela Toulouse provides strategies, lessons, and hands-on activities that support both Indigenous and non-Indigenous learners in the secondary classroom. While the author's primary focus...
- Author:Beagan, Brenda L., Chapman, Gwen E., Johnston, Josée, McPhail, Deborah, Power, Elaine M., Vallianatos, HelenSummary:
Magazine articles and self-improvement books tell us that our food choices serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes reveals that they say more about where we come from and who we would like to be....
- Author:Drake, AnnaSummary:
Deliberative democracy - whereby people debate competing ideas before agreeing upon political action - must surely rest on its capacity to include all points of view. But how does this inclusive framework engage with activism that...
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