To be gay in Iran means to live in the shadow of death. The country's harsh Islamic code of Lavat is used to execute gay men, and LGBT individuals who avoid execution are often subjected to severe lashings, torture and imprisonment. It...
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Author:Antane Kapesh, AnSummary:"The book contains two works in English translation (the original Innu appears en face throughout), and these deal with topics such as loss of hunting territory, the residential school system, and police brutality."--
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Author:Porter, RoySummary:In this portrait of eighteenth-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.
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Author:René ForgetSummary:Cette palpitante fresque historique se déroulant aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles nous plonge dans l'univers passionnant des premiers Canadiens français, éprouvés par les épidémies et menacés par les militaires anglais....
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Author:Davis, MikeSummary:In a gripping reconnaissance into the urban future, Mike Davis, a provocative interpreter of the American metropolis unravels the secret history of disaster, real and imaginary, in Southern California and shows how these tragedies could...
- Author:Mazigh, MoniaSummary:
1984 : les émeutes du pain — 2010 : la Révolution du jasmin. Deux périodes tumultueuses vécues à près de trente ans de distance par une mère et sa fille. Nadia quitte sa Tunisie natale pendant les émeutes qui secouent le pays en 1984....
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"Canadian labour history and working-class struggles are brought to life in this anthology of nine short comics, each one accompanied by an informative preface. Each comic showcases the inspiring efforts and determination of...
- Author:Neil, DanialSummary:
It is 1917, and a rather ruthless world of war and men. Women find themselves overwhelmed by the despotic nature of men. And in Edinburgh, it is no different. The war rages in Europe and the poverty at home fouls the cobbled streets....
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Bestselling, Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings fresh eyes and new insights to today's urgent conversation on race and racism in startling, illuminating essays that grow out of his own experience as a Black man...
- Author:Wong, AliceSummary:
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent-but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the...
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Author:Mole, RichSummary:In October 1935, three prairie farm boys embarked on a deadly trail of robbery and murder that stretched across three western Canadian provinces and made newspaper headlines from coast to coast and as far away as Los Angeles. By the end...
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Shutt delivers a thought-provoking exploration of the worlds of two of the greatest authors of the 19th century: Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. Although these literary giants lived on opposite sides of the Atlantic, fascinating...
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Author:Goodman, AmySummary:A celebration of the revolutionary change Amy and David Goodman have witnessed during the two decades of their acclaimed television and radio news program Democracy Now!-and how small individual acts from progressive heroes have...
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Author:Addams, JaneSummary:Democracy and Social Ethics is a classic political science text by Jane Addams. It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that "Ethics" is but another word for "righteousness," that for which many men and women of every...
- Author:Brown, Yvonne ShorterSummary:
Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up...
- Author:Deveraux, JudeSummary:
In 1766 Scotland, Angus McTern leads a life of humble respectability--until Edilean Talbot arrives, pleading for his help. Angus can't deny the ache in his heart for the beautiful heiress, so when she tells him how her fortune was...
- Author:Lambert, TaylorSummary:
Darwin's Moving introduces readers to the colourful characters who populate the furniture moving trade, a male-dominated world of labour with relatively high pay and no need for education of any sort. Movers have a unique window...
- Author:Akinyi Princess of K'Orinda YimboSummary:
In an incisive view of the relationship between Africa and the West, the author, who holds diplomas from the London School of Economics and the London School of Journalism, suggests that the aid machinery hurts Africa more than it...
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Author:Ferguson, RobSummary:When Rob Ferguson went off to the five former Soviet ’Stans of Central Asia to work on a project to save the rapidly disappearing Aral Sea, he expected to have challenges and adventures, but he didn’t anticipate ending up a suspect in a...
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