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Gridiron underground
Gridiron Underground traces the Canadian lifeline that brought talented African-American football players who were overlooked, ignored, or prevented from playing football in their home country from the 1940s right through to the present day.
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Dancing with robots
Five human superpowers give us a unique advantage in a world being taken over by robots and other advanced technology. Learn to harness your superpowers to survive, compete, and thrive in today's advanced world.
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Real quanta
It sounds alien and esoteric, but quantum mechanics is very real, and a crucial part of what makes the modern world possible. In Real Quanta, Martijn van Calmthout makes quantum “magic” clearer, and shows how it fits into our world, and how its discoverers would be amazed by all that it has accom...
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Persephone's children
Using inventive forms, Persephone’s Children chronicles Rowan McCandless’s odyssey as a Black, biracial woman after escaping the stranglehold of domestic abuse.
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Let's tell this story properly
Provocative, moving, and rich in craft, the stories gathered here represent some of the most original emerging writers in the world. The selected, groundbreaking stories carry on the almost thirty-year tradition of the Commonwealth Writers' Prizes, past winners of which include Jhumpa Lahiri. Zad...
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A rush to judgment
The trial and conviction of Louis Riel has been the subject of historical comment and criticism for over one hundred years. A Rush to Judgment challenges the view held by some historians that Riel received a fair trial.
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The canadian guide to creative writing and publishing
The essential reference for writers in Canada describes standards for publishable writing, shows writers how to get there, and reveals how publishing in Canada works. Filled with Canadian references and examples, it supplies Canadian writers with the practical, insider information they need to re...
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Forbidden knowledge
In Forbidden Knowledge, drug safety advocate Terence Young reveals how Big Pharma came to hold all the power in the pharmaceutical industry, and empowers patients to partner with their doctor to talk openly and plainly about prescription drugs to avoid adverse drug reactions. This is your surviva...
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A resilient crown
The historic constitutional monarchy in Canada has shown considerable resilience and durability during the unprecedented seventy-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022, A Resilient Crown examines a broad range of topics related to the role of the Crown in C...
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La constitution canadienne
La Constitution canadienne est un livre introductif visant à aider les Canadiens à mieux comprendre leur Constitution par un langage simple, des anecdotes fascinantes et un peu d’humour.
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The burden of exile
A memoir of danger, oppression, and international politics by a survivor of the Eritrean dictatorship. A view into a secretive country and the uneasy alliances of Africa, and a story of family resilience.
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The sadness of geography
A riveting story of a boy whose courage, perseverance, wit, and occasional burst of good luck guided him to the safety of his adopted home, Canada.
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Antarctic pioneer
Jackie was an ordinary American woman whose life changed forever after marrying rugged Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne. She participated in the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition 1946–1948. Jackie Ronne dedicated her life to Antarctica and helped shape the narrative of twentieth-century Antarctic ...
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Embedded
In 1870, Colonel Garnet Wolseley set off for Red River with 1,100 soldiers to end the rebellion started by Louis Riel. Two reporters accompanied the military expedition, the Daily Telegraph’s Robert Cunningham and the Globe’s Molyneux St. John, as well as St. John’s wife, international burlesque ...
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The sport and prey of capitalists
Why are we selling off the impressive public enterprises we often battled as a nation to create?In the early 1900s, thousands of Canadians battled wealthy interests, winning control of Niagara Falls and creating a public power company. Another popular movement succeeded in creating Canada’s publi...
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Di-bayn-di-zi-win (to own ourselves)
Explores an Ojibway-Anishinabe world view and way of life through the cultural, political, social, and academic events in Canada over the past fifty years.
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The underground railroad
This richly illustrated book examines Toronto’s connection to slavery and to the system of secret routes, safe houses, and “conductors.”
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The millennial mosaic
The Millennial Mosaic provides an unmatched examination of Canada’s youngest adults, unveiling the news that they are an upgrade on older Canadians, and what it means for the future of Canada.
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Rebuilding liberalism
An examination of liberal philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that demonstrates how to construct a responsible liberalism based on freedom and social justice.
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Canada, a working history
A history of work in Canada in its different forms over time and how it was shaped by an important range of influences.
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The age of fentanyl
Dr. Brodie Ramin brings the story of the opioid epidemic into the era of fentanyl, which is the leading cause of overdose death in North America. From his perspective as an addiction doctor working on the front lines of the epidemic, Dr. Ramin discusses the disease and the cure.
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Breakdown
An examination of Canada’s struggle to rationalize hydrocarbon development that culminated in the 2018 impasse over the Trans Mountain Pipeline extension.
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The court of better fiction
In The Court of Better Fiction, forensic science reveals that to establish sovereignty over the Arctic people, Canada hanged the only Inuit ever executed. The men were innocent, but the nation’s guilt lives on.
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Battle royal
A nuanced and thorough investigation of the cases for preserving or abolishing the monarchy in Canada. Subjecting both sides to searching critiques, political scientist David Johnson examines the republican challenge to the Crown and the monarchist defence of it, while giving a tantalizing view o...
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Cardiovascular health
Even though cardiovascular disease is still the number one cause of mortality in the world, it too often goes overlooked. This guide, written in an easy-to-understand style, explains what can go wrong in our cardiovascular system, what medicine can do to help, and how simple lifestyle changes can...
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Ontario and quebec’s irish pioneers
Taking on the myth that Irish settlers in Canada were a wave of famine victims, Lucille Campey reveals the pioneering achievements of the Irish who began populating — and thriving in — Ontario and Quebec a century before the famine of 1840. The second volume of the Irish in Canada series brings a...
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Throw your stuff off the plane
We all want to be accountable, to be responsible, to reveal genuine commitment. We all want to keep on track with our word and stay away from blame. But organizational systems meant to institutionalize accountability often don’t help us accomplish those necessary goals. Throw Your Stuff Off the P...
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Heavy flow
A modern guide to understanding your menstrual cycle, breaking through shame and stigma, and reclaiming your fifth vital sign through holistic nutrition, lifestyle, and self-advocacy.
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’membering
Giller Prize winner Austin Clarke’s memoirs provide insightful cultural observations by one of today’s most influential black writers.
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Australia and canada in afghanistan
Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Australia and Canada joined the U.S. and other Western allies in attacking al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan. In the book, a stellar group of academic and political experts explore the Canadian and Australian experiences in Afghanistan.
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Miss confederation
Amidst the grand and heady spectacle of the balls, banquets, and events of the Confederation Conferences of October 1864, Mercy Coles was seeking adventure and love. She wasn’t concerned with writing for posterity, or with propriety. Miss Confederation shows history being made, without the stiffn...
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The polar adventures of a rich american dame
Louise Arner Boyd inherited the family millions in her thirties. Expected to lead a respectable life, she instead fell under the captivating spell of the north. Over the next thirty years, she organized and led seven hazardous expeditions around Greenland and was showered with international awards.
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Riding into battle
Riding into Battle tells the untold story of how Canadian Cyclist troops came into their own during the Hundred Days campaign of the Great War.
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Red wolf
This novel tells the story of Red Wolf, a young First Nations boy forced to move into a residential school and assume a new identity. Paralleling his story is that of Crooked Ear, an orphaned wolf pup he has befriended. Both must learn to survive in the white man's world.
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Foreign voices in the house
World leaders addressing the House of Commons show us Canada through foreign eyes, in light of Canada’s maturing role in world affairs. Foreign Voices in the House gathers, for the first time, sixty landmark speeches by world leaders and luminaries, with photos and background written by parliamen...
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The unbroken machine
Everybody thinks that it’s the system that’s broken in politics; but what if it’s not the system that’s broken but rather our understanding of it? The Unbroken Machine seeks to explore our lack of civic literacy and show how our system of democracy should work.
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Contested land, contested memory
The Holocaust and the Nakba ("Catastrophe," Palestinian Israelis' name for the War of Independence) both marked Israel's founding, and these two world-changing events continue to form the generations who have followed. This book shows how these complex histories play out in the lives of Jewish an...
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What kind of parent am i?
Research has shown that strong, adaptive, and supportive parents are the best at insulating their children from all but the biggest catastrophes and preventing stress. What Kind of Parent Am I? uses a specially created survey to empower parents to deal directly with their unique challenges and be...
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Atlantic canada's irish immigrants
Challenging the commonplace view that the Irish immigration saga was primarily driven by dire events in Ireland, Lucille Campey’s groundbreaking work redraws the picture of early Irish settlement in Atlantic Canada. Extensively documented, and drawing on all known passenger lists of the period, t...
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The st. petersburg connection
The book traces the friendly Russian-American friendship from 1775 to 1919 in the context of prevailing international developments and of the individuals who contributed to the story.
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Raising emotionally healthy boys
As society redefines our ideas of masculinity, the lessons we teach our children are lagging behind. It's become commonplace to think of men as "closed off," while women are often expected to show a broader range of emotional expression. Parents need to have a serious conversation about this, for...
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Fields of exile
Judith was a peace activist in Israel, yet in graduate school she discovers that vilifying Israel is the expected norm. When Judith protests the hypocrisy she finds on campus, her life begins to unravel.
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Australia, canada, and iraq
The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq was intensely controversial. Australia joined in the war, while Canada refused to. Australia, Canada, and Iraq is a collection of essays by world leaders and esteemed academics that offers a fresh review of the war and the critical Australian and Canadian decision...
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Beyond incarceration
Paula Mallea sets out suggestions for a complete overhaul of Canada’s incarceration model of criminal justice. In its current state, incarceration promotes recidivism and jeopardizes public safety, is highly discriminatory, and is ruinously expensive.
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Charlie foxtrot
Defence procurement in Canada is a mess, with hundreds of millions of dollars being routinely wasted, despite which the Canadian Armed Forces is woefully underequipped and lacking crucial capacity. Charlie Foxtrot shows why past governments failed so spectacularly to efficiently equip and manage ...
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Among the walking wounded
This is a Canadian veteran’s experience of PTSD delivered in an intimate personal account that is as visceral as it is blunt — a courageous story of dark descent and painful triumph that stands as a testament for many Canadian soldiers who still fight and suffer in the shadows.
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Canadian women in the sky
Canadian Women in the Skytraces a century of Canadian women’s progress in aviation and space flight. From the first woman to climb on aboard a flying machine as a passenger to a female astronaut’s second visit to the International Space Station, these women cracked the sky-blue glass ceiling to a...
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Epidemic orientalism
For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a series of little-known regulations that have aimed to protect the global north from epidemic threats for the last two centuries, starting with Inte...
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No neutrals there
The definitive history of the US labor movement’s complicity in Zionist settler colonialism, and a call for today’s labor militants to organize in solidarity with Palestinians. US trade unionists are often told to keep quiet and remain neutral on Palestine because “Palestine has nothing to do wi...
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Teorías sobre la infancia, segunda edición: una introducción a dewey, montessori, erikson, piaget y vygotsky
Este recurso exitoso provee introducciones claras y directas a las teorías fundamentales de John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget y Lev Vygotsky.
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