Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators provide international insights grounded in educational and...
Marginality, Social
- Author:Tilleczek, Kate, Ferguson, H. BruceSummary:
- Author:Holdstock, PaulineSummary:
A feral girl roams the dense forests of nineteenth-century France. In the village of Freyzus, she is chased by suspicious townspeople to the edge of a gorge, where she jumps and disappears, vanishing into village legend. On the other...
- Author:Thompson, JudithSummary:
Theresa, who is worshipped by her boyfriend, is a mentally challenged woman who is extremely sexy, but can never lose her innocence. She does tricks at $5 each, is addicted to Tim Horton donuts, lies without thinking and overflows with...
- Author:Hannem, Stacey, Bruckert, ChrisSummary:
Stigma Revisited: Implications of the Mark is a collection of qualitative, empirical studies of populations who experience stigma. Discrimination, marginality and social injustice are recognized as indelibly tied to the phenomena of...
- Author:Fuller, Robert W.Summary:
What corporate corruption, sexual abuse by clergy, and schoolyard bullying all have in common In the on-going attempts to overcome racism and sexism in North America today, we are overlooking another kind of discrimination that is no...
- Author:Bourgois, Philippe I.Summary:
This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors...
- Author:Kalteis, DietrichSummary:
A fast, powerful read full of action, twists, and dark humour Bounty Hunter Karl Morgen goes after Miro Knotts on a skipped bond, finding the dope dealer wrapped around an underaged girl at a rave in Seattle. Dragging Miro in the hard...
- Author:Wallace, Sarah IsabelSummary:
In the early 1900s, panic over the arrival of South Asian immigrants swept up and down the west coast of North America. While racism and fear of labour competition were at the heart of this furor, Not Fit to Stay reveals that public...
- Author:Sylvestre, OlivierSummary:
Après dix années passées dans l'antre de la bête, un intervenant nous ouvre la porte de son centre de répit pour toxicomanes, avec sa sonnette stridente et sa vitre pare-balles, sa lasagne, ses larmes et ses espoirs fous, malgré tout....
- Author:Louttit, ErnieSummary:
Retired Police Sergeant Ernie Louttit takes you back to the streets of Saskatoon in his second book, a street cop's view of the realities of dealing with prostitutes, street gangs, drunk drivers, and other offenders. He gives people who...
- Author:Straight, SusanSummary:
A California epic following several native, diverse Californians grasping for air in a world that continues to marginalize them.
- Author:Schofield, AnakanaSummary:
Martin John sits beside you on the train. Can he see that look on your face? He needs to see that look in your eyes, the surprise of his touch upon your leg, and your repugnance. Despite his work's distractions, his evil flatmate's...
- Author:Blais, Marie-ClaireSummary:
Literary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the latest installment in her ongoing portrait of life in contemporary North America. In this swirling fresco, we meet...
- Author:Ajvide Lindqvist, JohnSummary:
In the aftermath of the bizarre murder of a local bully, twelve-year-old Oskar theorizes that the killing was an act of revenge and wonders about the nighttime activities of a new next-door neighbor.
- Author:Pierrot, EmmanuelleSummary:
Elle croyait qu'ici, à l'autre bout du monde, au confluent de la rivière Klondike et du fleuve Yukon, elle aurait le droit de vivre libre. De coucher avec qui elle veut, d'aimer qui elle veut, à visage découvert et sans honte. Mais...
- Author:Christensen, AndréeSummary:
Angéline, Lilith, Mélusine. Trois prénoms, un seul personnage énigmatique, assoiffé d’envol et de créativité, qui vit au cœur d’une forêt, en symbiose avec la nature. C’est en suivant une confrérie de corneilles en pleine tempête de...
- Author:Louttit, ErnieSummary:
When he began his career with the Saskatoon Police in 1987, Ernie Louttit was only the city’s third native police officer. “Indian Ernie”, as he came to be known on the streets, details an era of challenge, prejudice, and also...
- Author:Nasrallah, DimitriSummary:
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration. It’s 1986, and after four months of unemployment Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal from Beirut to escape...
- Author:hooks, bellSummary:
A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory: from margin to center argues that the contemporary feminist movement must establish a new direction for the 1980s. Continuing the...
- Author:Gavalda, AnnaSummary:
Ils sont quatre comme l'étaient les Trois Mousquetaires. Il y a d'abord Camille, anorexique qui dessine comme pas deux et travaille la nuit comme femme de ménage ; Frank, cuisinier génial abonné à Mon-Beauf-fait-de-la-...