Rights Canada 2020–2021: Non-Fiction

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Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard

By (author) Martyn Bond
Categories: Biography & Autobiography

The remarkable story of Austro-Japanese Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the Pan-European Union following the First World War, which offered a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, ...

The Disability Experience

By (author) Hannalora Leavitt
Illustrated by Belle Wuthrich
Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction
Series: Orca Issues

The Disability Experience examines the way people with disabilities (PWDs) have historically been ignored, reviled and marginalized. It also celebrates their triumphs and achievements and shares the powerful ...

Making Math Stick

By (author) David Costello
Categories: Education

This remarkable book shows teachers how to stop working harder and start working smarter. It describes a shift from “teach-test-move-on” to “teach-connect-apply” to optimize student learning. ...

Man at the Airport

By (author) Hassan Al Kontar
Foreword by Nuseir (Nas) Yassin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography

When revolution and war broke out in his home country in 2011, Hassan Al Kontar was a young Syrian living and working in the UAE. A conscientious objector, he refused to return to Syria for compulsory ...

Walking Away from Hate

As a troubled teen, the doctrine of white supremacy supplanted the values of Lauren Manning’s middle-class upbringing, and she traded suburbia for a life of violence and criminality on the streets of ...

Bent out of Shape

By (author) Karen Messing
Categories: Political Science

Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, serve food, run labs. What she finds is a workforce in harm’s ...

awâsis--kinky and dishevelled

By (author) Louise B. Halfe
Categories: Poetry

There are no pronouns in Cree for gender; awâsis (which means illuminated child) reveals herself through shapeshifting, adopting different genders, exploring the English language with merriment, and ...

Text and Context

By (author) Richard Greenblatt
Categories: Performing Arts

Based on original techniques developed by actor/director/playwright Richard Greenblatt and sprinkled with personal anecdotes, Text and Context: The Operative Word is an invaluable handbook that offers ...

What Ails France?

By (author) Brigitte Granville
Categories: History

A provocative but constructive critique of the French model of technocratic, elite leadership. The author brings trenchant criticism to bear in this wide-ranging survey of the political economy of contemporary ...

Indigenomics

By (author) Carol Anne Hilton
Categories: Business & Economics

Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around relationships, multigenerational stewardship, and care for all. Includes voices of leading First Nations business leaders. ...