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...
Social science
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Author:Drake, AnnaSummary: - Author:Mayers, AdamSummary:
Small things can often mean a great deal. For the past five years readers of the Toronto Star’s website have been telling each other that, as they shared their stories in a feature called "Acts of Kindness." The common thread...
- Author:Armitage, Derek, Berkes, Fikret, Doubleday, NancySummary:
In Canada and around the world, new concerns with adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships are reshaping environmental governance. Meanwhile, ideas about collaboration and learning are converging around the idea...
- Author:Conyers, BeverlySummary:
For families of addicts, feelings of fear, shame, and confusion over a loved one's addiction can cause deep anxiety, sleepless nights, and even physical illness. And the emotional distress family members suffer is often compounded...
- Author:Carlisle, Katrina, Barr, TracySummary:
You hear all sorts of things said or implied about adoption. Some information comes from people who know a lot about it, while some comes from people who don’t know anything about it but make assumptions anyway. Some comes from people...
- Author:White, James M.Summary:
Explores two contemporary theories of the family-rational choice theory & transition theory that illuminate what differing theories reveal about families. The book also discusses how meta-theories can assist in refining theory,...
- Author:Scherf, Kathleen DorothySummary:
Adventures in Small Tourism presents academic studies and personal stories about small tourism. While small tourism is not new, it has become increasingly important as the widespread negative effects of overtourism have become...
- Author:Pitts, JohnySummary:
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Afropean written and read by Johny Pitts. In the face of growing racial discrimination, anti-immigrant sentiment and the spectre of terrorism looming large over an economically stricken...
- Author:Goudeau, JessicaSummary:
"Simply brilliant, both in its granular storytelling and its enormous compassion" —The New York Times Book Review The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America...
- Author:Matas, DavidSummary:
Verbal attacks against Israel for human rights violations have turned into physical attacks against the Jewish community worldwide. How has that happened? This book attempts to explain the phenomenon. Anti-Zionists, whose primary goal...
- Author:Zakaria, RafiaSummary:
A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women's rights. Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as "experts" on feminism. They have presided over multinational feminist...
- Author:Goldin, IanSummary:
The present is a contest between the bright and dark sides of discovery. To avoid being torn apart by its stresses, we need to recognize the fact―and gain courage and wisdom from the past. Age of Discovery shows how. Now is the best...
- Author:Bissonnette, Nadine, Lavallée, SylvieSummary:
Chaque été pendant les vacances, Marianne, Arnaud et Théo rendent visite à leurs grands-parents… C'est la tradition. Cette année, quelque chose a changé. Ils ont remarqué que Papi commençait à oublier, à se répéter et à être confus...
- Author:Desclos, JeanSummary:
Une invitation à dépasser un regard uniquement négatif sur la mort et à accueillir son ultime appel. L'aide médicale à mourir est désormais une pratique admise dans les législations canadienne et québécoise. Pour plusieurs, le...
- Author:hooks, bellSummary:
Examining the impact of sexism on Black women during slavery, the devaluation of Back womanhood, Black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the Black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and...
- Author:Pfaus, BrendaSummary:
Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, is undoubtedly among Canada’s greatest living writers. In this unique, intriguing collection, Brenda Pfaus gives fresh insights into some of Munro’s most enduring works:...
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Learn why a family in Borneo shares their garden with a black spitting cobra and about an eleven-year-old schoolgirl who names our newly discovered ninth planet, along with other stories about world cultures and world history.
- Author:Talaga, TanyaSummary:
In this vital and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia,...
- Author:Campbell, HayleySummary:
"Journalist Hayley Campbell explores the often hidden world of those who work closely with death, finding compassion in unexpected settings. Campbell's British accent and matter-of-fact delivery take the listener on a tour of...
- Author:Rose, ArdenSummary:
By the end of this book, you will have learned not only how to dress yourself, how to travel alone, how to talk to strangers online, and how to date strangers in person, but how to pass as a real, functioning, appropriately socialized...
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