In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly. This important collective volume both witnesses the significance of the travelling...
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Author:Ashcraft, BrianSummary:Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential takes you beyond the realm of everyday girls to the world of the iconic Japanese schoolgirl craze that is sweeping the globe. For years, Japanese schoolgirls have appeared in hugely-popular anime and...
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Author:Wong, Jan.Summary:The author recounts her experiences during her six years as The Globe and Mail's Beijing correspondent. She presents a portrait of a paradoxical China, from peasant tax revolts to the new consumerism and the world of the closeted...
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Author:Altenberg, KarinSummary:Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction July, 1830. On the ten-hour sail west from the Hebrides to the islands of St. Kilda, everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie. Neil is to become the minister to the small community...
- Author:Pelley, Rhonda, O'Leary, SheilaghSummary:
Sheilagh O’Leary and Rhonda Pelley spent two summers travelling from Bonavista Bay to the Great Northern Peninsula and to the communities of the south coast. The women they interviewed shared unique life stories filled with hard work,...
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Author:Ebadi, ShirinSummary:The moving, inspiring memoir of one of the great women of our times, Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed, whose spirit has remained strong in the face of political persecution and despite...
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Author:Tharoor, ShashiSummary:In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from...
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Amber, Bev, Chantel, Jazmyne, Faith, and Jorgina are six Indigenous women previously involved in street gangs or the street lifestyle in Saskatoon, Regina, and Calgary. In collaboration with Indigenous Studies scholar Robert Henry (...
- Author:Palmater, Pamela D.Summary:
This book is a collection of the best blogs from Indigenous Nationhood produced by well-known lawyer, activist and academic Pamela Palmater. Her blogs offer critical legal and political commentary and analysis on legislation, Aboriginal...
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Author:Ross, RupertSummary:Imagine a world in which people see themselves as embedded in the natural order, with ethical responsibilities not only toward each other, but also toward rocks, trees, water and all nature. Imagine seeing yourself not as a master of...
- Author:Weil, LiseSummary:
In Search of Pure Lust documents an important chapter in lesbian history that is already being distorted and erased, a time when lesbians were reinventing everything from the ground up. Along with violence against women around the globe...
- Author:Waiser, W. A.Summary:
In May 1897, Almighty Voice, a member of the One Arrow Willow Cree, died violently when Canada's North--West Mounted Police shelled the fugitive's hiding place. Since then, his violent death has spawned a succession of conflicting...
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Author:Summary: - Author:Fossett, RenéeSummary:
Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ancient and contemporary Inuit...
- Author:Park, YeonmiSummary:
"I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea." - Yeonmi Park "One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller "Park's...
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Author:Settis, Salvatore, Naffis-Sahely, AndréSummary:What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? This eloquent book by the internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about the Pearl of the Adriatic and...
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Author:Alifirenka, Caitlin, Ganda, Martin, Welch, LizSummary:It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown foreign student. In Zimbabwe Martin received a letter than started a six year friendship. In this compelling memoir, Caitlin and Martin recount how they became...
- Author:Kostyuchenko, ElenaSummary:
* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize * "A haunting book of rare courage." - Clarissa Ward, CNN chief...
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Author:Saniee, Parinoush, Kalantari, SanamSummary:This is the story, based on fact, of a boy who couldn’t speak until the age of seven. Now twenty, he describes the events of his life.Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor believes there is no cause for...
- Author:Akunyili-Parr, ChidiogoSummary:
Inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu — the importance of community over the individual — and outraged by injustice, Dora Akunyili took on fraudulent drug manufacturers whose products killed millions, including her sister. A...
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