Each year, more than 400 minors arrive alone in Canada requesting refugee status. They arrive without their parents, accompanied by no adult at all. Alone relates the journey of three of them: Afshin, Alain and Patricia. Their story...
Social science
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Author:Tom, PaulSummary: - Author:Turkle, SherrySummary:
Consider Facebook-it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected...
- Author:Pompe, JeffreySummary:
The constant assault of natural forces make fragile barrier islands some of the most rapidly changing locations in the world, but human activities have had enormous impact on these islands as well. In Altered Environments, Jeffrey and...
- Author:Short, DonnSummary:
“Am I safe here?” LGBTQ students ask this question every day within the school system. In this book, Donn Short treats students as the experts, asking them to shine a light on the marginalization and bullying faced by LGBTQ youth. They...
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La pandémie de COVID-19 a secoué le monde entier, mais elle a aussi été une crise personnelle, intime pour plusieurs d'entre nous. Rupture abrupte du fil de nos vies, solitude, confrontation à nous-mêmes, conscience soudaine de...
- Author:Krull, KathleenSummary:
America is a nation of immigrants. By land, air, and sea, people have come to the United States seeking a better life and more opportunities. Though the journey for many was grueling, with obstacles at every turn, our country would not...
- Author:O'Keefe, JamesSummary:
The one real difference between the American press and the Soviet state newspaper Pravda was that the Russian people knew they were being lied to. To expose the lies our media tell us today, controversial journalist James O'Keefe...
- Author:Kidder, TracySummary:
This is a frontline report from the trenches of American education. It chronicles a fifth grade class and its remarkable teacher.
- Author:Mays, Kyle T.Summary:
The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into...
- Author:Castro, JuliánSummary:
A candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America from Julián Castro, the keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, former San Antonio mayor, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, that chronicles his journey from...
- Author:Fisher, HelenSummary:
First published in 1992, Helen Fisher's Anatomy of Love quickly became a classic. Since then, Fisher has conducted pioneering brain research on lust, romantic love, and attachment; gathered data on more than 80,000 people to explain why...
- Author:Barker, JohnSummary:
More than a century of interaction with colonial and global agencies and forces has brought many changes to the lives of the Maisin people who live on the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Yet ancestral traditions continue to...
- Author:Younge, GarySummary:
Award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It's a searing portrait of youth, family, and the way that lives can be shattered in an instant on any day...
- Author:Williams, SophieSummary:
Whether you are just finding your voice, have made a start but aren't sure what to do next, or want a fresh viewpoint, Williams introduces and explains the language of change and shows you how to challenge the system, beginning...
- Author:Lorinc, John, Farrow, Jane, Chambers, Stephanie, McCaskill, TimSummary:
Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how these individuals and community networks have...
- Author:Manjikian, MarySummary:
Mary Manjikian's Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End advances the thesis that only those who feel the most safe and whose lives are least precarious can engage in the sort of storytelling which envisions erasing...
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This collection invites us to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling, and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and capitalize on their eroticization. Drawing...
- Author:Gwynne, Margaret A.Summary:
This up-to-date, engaging, accessible applied anthropology textbook presents a thorough yet balanced introduction to the field while specifically addressing a concern of immediate and practical importance to college students-choosing a...
- Author:Hamilton, John DavidSummary:
This pathbreaking book offers some nononsense truths about northern development.
- Author:Somerset, A.J.Summary:
After a fifteen-year hiatus from the world of guns, journalist, sports shooter, and former soldier A.J. Somerset no longer fit in with other firearm enthusiasts. Theirs was a culture much different than the one he remembered: a culture...
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