Crisis and Contagion

Edited by Ian McKay
Categories: Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

Crisis and Contagion is a selection of fourteen interviews conducted by Ian McKay of the Wilson Institute at McMaster University. Interviews with Nancy Fraser, Mike Davis, Mack Penner, Andreas Malm, and ...

There Is No Blue

By (author) Martha Baillie
Categories: Abnormal psychology

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Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, ...

Echo Loba, Loba Echo

By (author) Sonja Swift
Foreword by Winona LaDuke
Categories: Social and cultural anthropology

A unique look at the cultural, environmental, historical, literary, metaphorical, and political role of the wolf.

Echo Loba, Loba Echo is a story about the metaphor of the wolf and how this is echoed ...

Letters with Smokie

By (author) Rod Michalko & Dan Goodley
Categories: Disability: social aspects

Leave it to a dog to put the “human” back in “humanities”

In September 2020, Rod Michalko wrote to friend and colleague Dan Goodley, congratulating him on the release of his latest book, Disability ...

Prophets of Love

By (author) Matthew R. Anderson
Categories: Popular culture
Series: Advancing Studies in Religion

Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul might be imagined as brothers with wildly different characters but a strong family resemblance. Paul, the elder sibling, was awkward, abrasive, and zealous. Leonard, ...

It's All about the Land

By (author) Taiaiake Alfred
Edited by Ann Rogers
Foreword by Pamela Palmater
Categories: Biography: general

Illuminating the First Nations struggles against the Canadian state, It’s All about the Land exposes how racism underpins and shapes Indigenous-settler relationships. Renowned Kahnawà:ke Mohawk activist ...

Doing Harm

By (author) Roy J. Eidelson
Categories: Psychology

Doing Harm pries open the black box on a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field’s enmeshment in the so-called war on terror and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics during ...

The Age of Insecurity

By (author) Astra Taylor
Categories: Social and cultural anthropology
Series: The CBC Massey Lectures

Finalist, 2024 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working ...

The Bund

By (author) Sharon Rudahl & Paul Buhle
Illustrated by Michael Kluckner
Foreword by David Rosenberg
Categories: Graphic novel / Comic book: memoirs, true stories and non-fiction

Told in an engaging graphic novel format, The Bund explains the oppressive origins of Jewish resistance in Ukraine, Poland, and the "Pale of Settlement" in Tsarist Russia. Jewish people adapted to industrialization ...

Canada's Parliament

By (author) Steven Chaplin
Edited by Gregory Tardi
Categories: Government powers
Series: Understanding Canada

Parliament is at the centre of the Canadian system of democratic government and law-making. This primer traces the roots of Canada’s Parliament in the United Kingdom and shows how it has developed a ...