Kicking ass and taking notes-what it's like to be a woman in the ring. Alison Dean teaches English literature. She also punches people. Hard. But despite several amateur fights under her belt, she knows she will never be taken as...
SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Author:Dean, AlisonSummary:
- Author:Halavais, AlexanderSummary:
Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet there is growing concern with how algorithms, which run just beneath the surface of our interactions online, are affecting society. This timely new edition of Search...
- Author:Aladejebi, FunkéSummary:
In post-World War II Canada, black women's positions within the teaching profession served as sites of struggle and conflict as the nation worked to address the needs of its diversifying population. From their entry into teachers...
- Author:Nappaaluk, MitiarjukSummary:
Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of...
- Author:Solovkine, AïkoSummary:
Au départ c'est un jeu. Une manière de tuer le temps. Trouver une proie, en l'occurrence une conductrice esseulée sur une route de campagne, puis la prendre en chasse. Faire crisser les pneus sur l'asphalte, serrer de...
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Rising Uptraces the history and international context of living wage movements across Canada. This compassionate and astute collection of essays shines a light on alternatives to a neoliberalized labour market, examining union- and...
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Writers across the globe speak out against sexual assault and abuse in this powerful new poetry anthology, edited by Sue Goyette.These collected poems from writers across the globe declare one common theme: resistance. By exploring...
- Author:Jean-François, Ouellet, Taillefer, AlexandreSummary:
Au volant de son taxi, le chauffeur se confie à son client: son métier n'est plus du tout ce qu'il était. Alors qu'il y a à peine dix ans, son taxi avait à son bord un passager payant le tiers du temps, les clients se...
- Author:King, PerrySummary:
From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion. 'The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when...
- Author:Little, J.I.Summary:
The personal journals examined in Reading the Diaries of Henry Trentare not the witty, erudite, and gracefully written exercises that have drawn the attention of most biographers and literary scholars. Prosaic, ungrammatical, and poorly...
- Author:Hartt, MaxwellSummary:
At 5 percent, Canada's population growth was the highest of all G7 countries when the most recent census was taken. But only a handful of large cities drove that growth, attracting human and monetary capital from across the country...
- Author:Bienvenue, Louise, Niget, David, Verbauwhede, Cory, Petitclerc, MartinSummary:
Les régimes de citoyenneté sont traversés par une tension constitutive entre, d'une part, les promesses de liberté et d'égalité et, de l'autre, l'expérience des multiples formes de dépendances et d'inégalités...
- Author:Altman, DennisSummary:
The claim that 'LGBT rights are human rights' encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to 'LGBT rights' to cast themselves as defenders of...
- Author:Landry, Pierre-Luc, Poirier Girard, Guillaume, Boisclair, IsabelleSummary:
En plus d'offrir un portrait des productions culturelles queer au Québec tant francophones qu'anglophones, dont certaines autochtones, cet ouvrage s'attarde à révéler le caractère queer de celles qui ne le sont pas de...
- Author:RQIIACSummary:
Riche de son histoire, la pratique d'organisation communautaire dans le réseau de la santé et des services sociaux public québécois existe depuis maintenant près de 50 ans. En intervenant en amont des problèmes de santé, les...
- Author:Ghodsee, KristenSummary:
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- Author:Davidson, Robert, Davidson, Sara FlorenceSummary:
In 1884, the Canadian government enacted a ban on the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people. The tradition, which determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and redistributed wealth, was seen as a...
- Author:Van Vugt, William E.Summary:
Portrait of an English Migrationrecounts the history of those who left North Yorkshire for North America between the eighteenth century and the early twentieth century. Focusing on individual stories of migrants and their families, this...
- Author:Lacroix, Isabelle, Morissette, Isabelle, Greissler, ElisabethSummary:
LE PRÉSENT OUVRAGE A POUR OBJET L'ENGAGEMENT DES JEUNES DITS « EN DIFFICULTÉ » : jeunes de la rue, en « sortie de rue », en parcours de réinsertion, placés en centres jeunesse, en quête identitaire ou fréquentant des organismes...
- Author:Bacci, Massimo LiviSummary:
In the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers as the fact that growth will be highly uneven. Whereas rich countries will see...