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Series: Engagement Organizing The Old Art and New Science of Winning Campaigns Paperback Matt Price 9780774890168 $22.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 15, 2017

What separates campaigns that win from those that don’t? At any given moment, there are hundreds of campaigns under way that seek to persuade citizens or decision makers to think, act, or vote in a certain way. Engagement Organizing shows how to combine old-school people power with new digital tools and data to win campaigns today. Over a dozen case studies from NGOs, unions, and electoral campaigns highlight this work in practice. At a time of growing concern about what the future holds, this book is an indispensable guide for seasoned campaig... + Read More
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Series: Am I Safe Here? LGBTQ Teens and Bullying in Schools Paperback Donn Short 9780774890212 $22.95 EDUCATION Oct 15, 2017

“Am I safe here?” LGBTQ students ask this question every day within the school system. In this book, Donn Short treats students as the experts, asking them to shine a light on the marginalization and bullying faced by LGBTQ youth. They insightfully identify that safety comes from a culture that values equity and social justice, not just security cameras, and they envision a future in which LGBTQ youth are an expected, respected, and celebrated part of school life. Am I Safe Here? offers a path to creating equitable and inclusive schools, drawin... + Read More
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Series: Hunting the Northern Character Hardcover Tony Penikett 9780774880008 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 15, 2017

Canadian politicians, like many of their circumpolar counterparts, brag about their country’s “Arctic identity” or “northern character,” but what do they mean, exactly? Stereotypes abound, from Dudley Do-Right to Northern Exposure, but these southern perspectives fail to capture northern realities. During decades of service as a legislator, mediator, and negotiator, Tony Penikett witnessed a new northern consciousness grow out of the challenges of the Cold War, climate change, land rights struggles, and the boom and bust of resource megaproject... + Read More
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Series: Give and Take The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy Hardcover Shirley Tillotson 9780774836722 $39.95 HISTORY Nov 15, 2017

A book about tax history that’s a real page-turner? Give and Take is full of surprises. A Canadian millionaire who embraced the new federal income tax in 1917. A socialist hero who deplored the burden of big government. Most surprising, twentieth-century taxes have made us richer, in political engagement and more. Taxes make the power of the state obvious, and Canadians often resisted that power. But this is not simply a tale of tax rebels. Tillotson argues that Canadians also made real contributions to democracy when they taxed wisely and paid... + Read More
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Series: Law and Society Claire L’Heureux-Dubé A Life Hardcover Constance Backhouse 9780774836326 $49.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2017

Both lionized and vilified, Claire L’Heureux-Dubé has shaped the Canadian legal landscape – and in particular its highest court. Only the second woman on the Supreme Court of Canada, L’Heureux-Dubé anchored her approach to cases in their social, economic, and political context. This compelling biography takes a similar tack, tracing the experience of a francophone woman within the male-dominated Quebec legal profession – and within the primarily anglophone world of the Supreme Court. In the process, Constance Backhouse enhances our understandin... + Read More
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Series: Resilient Gods Being Pro-Religious, Low Religious, or No Religious in Canada Paperback Reginald W. Bibby 9780774890069 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2017

Are Canadians becoming less religious? After playing a central role in our lives for nearly a century, religion did seem to be losing its salience. But there is more to the story. Resilient Gods takes an in-depth look at the religious landscape today. The picture that emerges is not one of religious decline but rather of polarization, with the numbers of “pro-” “no,” and “low” religious in flux. Using the most current information available, Bibby explores the implications of religious choices for personal and social well-being, spirituality, an... + Read More
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Series: Reflections of Canada Illuminating Our Opportunities and Challenges at 150+ Years Hardcover Peter Wall Institute 9780888652676 $32.95 HISTORY Jun 21, 2017

Reflections of Canada—intelligent, passionate, provocative—is a book with opinions as diverse as Canada. Leading thinkers take a stand on some of the most pressing issues facing Canada as it turns 150. Reflections of Canada inspires the reader to form her own opinions on subjects as big and thorny as health and aging, technological change, arts and culture, climate change and resource use, Aboriginal reconciliation, and multiculturalism.
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Series: High Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users Hardcover Ingrid Walker 9780295742311 $142.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 Oct 20, 2017

Whether drinking Red Bull, relieving chronic pain with oxycodone, or experimenting with Ecstasy, Americans participate in a culture of self-medication, using psychoactive substances to enhance or manage our moods. A ?drug-free America? seems to be a fantasyland that most people don?t want to inhabit.High: Drugs, Desire, and a Nation of Users asks fundamental questions about US drug policies and social norms. Why do we endorse the use of some drugs and criminalize others? Why do we accept the necessity of a doctor-prescribed opiate but not the s... + Read More
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Series: Grass Roots A History of Cannabis in the American West Paperback Nick Johnson 9780870719080 $22.95 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Age (years) from 0 - 99 Oct 15, 2017

Marijuana legalization is unfolding across the American West, but cultivation of the cannabis plant is anything but green. Unregulated outdoor grows are polluting ecosystems, high-powered indoor grows are churning out an excessive carbon footprint, and the controversial crop is becoming an agricultural boon just as the region faces an unprecedented water crisis. To understand how we got here and how the legal cannabis industry might become more environmentally sustainable, Grass Roots looks at the history of marijuana growing in the American We... + Read More
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Series: Whitewash The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science Hardcover Carey Gillam 9781610918329 $32.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2017

It's the pesticide on our dinner plates, a chemical so pervasive it’s in the air we breathe, our water, our soil, and even found increasingly in our own bodies. Known as Monsanto's Roundup by consumers, and as glyphosate by scientists, the world's most popular weed killer is used everywhere from backyard gardens to golf courses to millions of acres of farmland. For decades it's been touted as safe enough to drink, but a growing body of evidence indicates just the opposite, with research tying the chemical to cancers and a host of other health t... + Read More
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Series: Public Deliberation on Climate Change Lessons from Alberta Climate Dialogue Paperback Lorelei L. Hanson 9781771992152 $34.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 16, 2018

When the community-university research project Alberta Climate Dialogue was first convened in 2010, it drew together scholars, practitioners, citizens, civil society members, and government officials. Over the next five years, the project engaged in public deliberation of the issue of climate change in the Alberta context. The result was a wealth of opportunity to investigate deliberative civic engagement and its application to wicked problems. In its description of the project and the insights gained, this volume is essential reading for those... + Read More
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Series: Firestorm How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future Hardcover Edward Struzik 9781610918183 $33.95 NATURE Nov 01, 2017

For two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire “the Beast.” It seemed to be alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it’s not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. In Firestorm, Edward Struzik confronts this new reality, offering a deftly woven tale of science, economics, politics, and human determination. It’s possible for us to flourish in the coming ag... + Read More
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Series: Replenish The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity Hardcover Sandra Postel 9781610917902 $32.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2017

We spend billions of dollars on irrigation, dams, sanitation plants, and other feats of engineering to control water for our own prosperity. What if the answer was not control, but replenishment? Sandra Postel takes readers around the world to explore water projects that work with, rather than against, nature’s rhythms. Forest rehabilitation is safeguarding drinking water, farmers are planting cover crops to reduce runoff, and “sponge cities” are capturing rainwater to curb urban flooding. Postel argues that efforts like these will be essential... + Read More
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Series: Sustainable Design Solutions from the Pacific Northwest Building Reuse Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design Hardcover Kathryn Rogers Merlino 9780295742342 $74.90 ARCHITECTURE Grade (US) from 17 Jun 01, 2018

The construction and operation of buildings is responsible for 41 percent of all primary energy use and 48 percent of all carbon emissions, and the impact of the demolition and removal of an older building can greatly diminish the advantages of adding green technologies to new construction. In Building Reuse, Kathryn Rogers Merlino makes an impassioned case that truly sustainable design requires reusing and reimagining existing buildings. Additionally, Merlino calls for a more expansive view of preservation that goes beyond keeping only the mos... + Read More
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Series: Razor Clams Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest Hardcover David Berger 9780295741420 $40.40 NATURE Grade (US) from 17 Sep 12, 2017

In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig, clean, and cook them using his favorite recipes. In the course of his investigation, Berger brings to light the long history of razor clamming as a subsistence, commercial, and recreational activity, and shows the ways it has helped shape both the identity and the psyche of the Pacific Northwest.Towing his wife along to the Long Beach razor clam f... + Read More
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Series: Wild and Scenic Rivers An American Legacy Hardcover Tim Palmer 9780870718977 $50.00 NATURE Sep 15, 2017

The rivers of America flow from mountains, forests, and grasslands with astonishing beauty, essential to all life. Many of the best of these streams have been safeguarded under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968—America's premier program for the protection of our finest natural waterways. Wild and Scenic Rivers celebrates this creative conservation initiative with 160 stunning photographs and a lively history involving citizen activists, scientists, dedicated public officials, and enlightened political leaders. In commemoration of... + Read More
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Series: Cuba, Hot and Cold Paperback Tom Miller 9780816535866 $19.95 HISTORY Oct 10, 2017

Cuba—mysterious, intoxicating, captivating. Whether you’re planning to go or have just returned, Cuba, Hot and Cold is essential for your bookshelf. With a keen eye and dry wit, author Tom Miller takes readers on an intimate journey from Havana to the places you seldom find in guidebooks. A brilliant raconteur and expert on Cuba, Miller is full of enthralling behind-the-scenes stories. His subjects include one of the world’s most resourceful master instrument makers, the famous photo of Che Guevara, and the explosion of the USS Maine. A veteran... + Read More
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Series: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters Series Amma’s Daughters A Memoir Paperback Meenal Shrivastava 9781771991957 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 15, 2018

As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma’s unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents’ distant and fractious marriage and their separate ambitions informs her every action and emotion. Then one evening, in a moment of uncharacteristic transparency and vulnerability, Amma tells Surekha and her older sister Didi of the family tragedy that changed the course of her life. Finally, the daughters begin to understand... + Read More
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Series: Legends of the Northern Paiute As told by Wilson Wewa Paperback James Gardner 9780870719004 $22.95 FICTION Age (years) from 0 - 99 Oct 15, 2017

Legends of the Northern Paiute shares and preserves twenty-one original and previously unpublished Northern Paiute legends, as told by Wilson Wewa, a spiritual leader and oral historian of the Warm Springs Paiute. These legends were originally told around the fires of Paiute camps and villages during the “story-telling season” of winter in the Great Basin of the American West. They were shared with Paiute communities as a way to pass on tribal visions of the “animal people” and the “human people,” their origins and values, their spiritual and n... + Read More
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Series: Cooking for the Senses Vegan Neurogastronomy Hardcover Jennifer Peace Rhind 9781848193000 $47.95 COOKING Feb 21, 2018

How do we perceive flavour? How can understanding the senses help us to make better tasting meals?Wake up to creamy avocado with fragrant orange pepper seasoning and green Tabasco dressing, snack on sweet and citrusy carrot and lime leaf kebabs and curl up with a warming bowl of butternut squash and spinach curry. An alternative way of looking at food, Cooking for the Senses introduces neurogastronomy and explains how understanding smell, taste and our other senses can be the key to making tasty, healthy food in your own kitchen. The authors ex... + Read More
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Series: Practical Zen Paperback Julian Daizan Skinner 9781848193635 $26.95 PHILOSOPHY Jul 21, 2017

Using a system established by the ancestors of the Rinzai tradition of Zen, this book presents specific meditation practices in a practical and engaging way that will enable readers to live a grounded, strong, energetic life.
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Series: How to Understand Your Gender A Practical Guide to Exploring Who You Are Paperback Alex Iantaffi 9781785927461 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 21, 2017

This helpful guide presents ways to help us all better understand gender, how people can change, and how people express their gender identity. Considering biological and cultural understandings of gender, gender expression, and relationships and sexuality, this is an excellent starting point for anybody thinking about what gender means to them.
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Series: To My Trans Sisters Paperback Charlie Craggs 9781785923432 $25.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 21, 2017

This is a wholely unique collection of letters from successful trans women to trans women and girls who are currently in transition. In the letters, the authors offer advice from their own experience transitioning on everything from make-up and dating as a trans woman, to deeper subjects like battling dysphoria and dealing with transphobia.
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Series: First Year Out A Transition Story Paperback Sabrina Symington 9781785922589 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jan 18, 2018

From laser hair removal and coming out to her parents, through to dating, voice training and gender reassignment surgery, this intimate and witty graphic novel follows the character of Lily as she transitions to living as her true, female self. Providing support and guidance on a range of issues such as hormones, medical procedures and relationships, the story traces the everyday thoughts, emotions and struggles many trans and non-binary people face and seeks to empower those who are starting to question their gender as well as promoting wider ... + Read More
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Series: He’s Always Been My Son A Mother’s Story about Raising Her Transgender Son Paperback Janna Barkin 9781785927478 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 21, 2017

This true story by a mother about raising her transgender son is both a captivating read and an invaluable support for parents facing similar experiences. A warm, insightful portrait of a family that includes tips on helping young transgender people navigate their transition, it will support, educate, and inspire.
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Series: The Recovery Letters Addressed to People Experiencing Depression Paperback Tom Couser 9781785921834 $24.95 SELF-HELP Aug 21, 2017

This anthology of inspirational, heartfelt letters, written by people who have recovered or are recovering from depression, is addressed to those who are currently affected by it. The letters are arranged by themes along with quotes about depression and additional resources for recovery.
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Series: I’ll Write Your Name on Every Beach A Mother’s Quest for Comfort, Courage and Clarity After Suicide Loss Paperback Susan Auerbach 9781785927584 $24.95 SELF-HELP Aug 21, 2017

In reflecting on the loss of her son to suicide, a mother explores her grieving process and offers therapeutic techniques to help readers process their own bereavement. Written in real time and organised thematically, this book authentically chronicles the experiences of grief, making this book a lifeline for anyone suffering a loss from suicide.
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Series: What Does Consent Really Mean? Hardcover Pete Wallis 9781848193307 $29.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18 Dec 21, 2017

"Consent is not the absence of 'NO', it is an enthusiastic YES!!" While seemingly straightforward, Tia and Bryony hadn't considered this subject too seriously until it comes up in conversation with their friends and they realise just how important it is. Following the sexual assault of a classmate, a group of teenage girls find themselves discussing the term consent, what it actually means for them in their current relationships, and how they act and make decisions with peer influence. Joined by their male friends who offer another perspective,... + Read More
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Series: The Illustrated Guide to Dyslexia and Its Amazing People Paperback Kate Power 9781785923302 $26.95 EDUCATION Age (years) from 7 - 15 Sep 21, 2017

This is an engaging visual explanation of dyslexia, what it means, and how it can be embraced. Vibrant images and simple text depict what dyslexia is, and helpful tools for learning and examples of skills and professions best-suited for people with dyslexia are included. This book also includes tips for success, additional games, and learning resources.
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Series: Simple Guides The Simple Guide to Sensitive Boys How to Nurture Children and Avoid Trauma Paperback Betsy de Thierry 9781785923258 $20.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Jan 18, 2018

What is a sensitive boy? Which challenges are sensitive boys faced with? How can adults help? Providing straightforward answers to these complex questions, The Simple Guide to Sensitive Boys is the perfect starting point for any adult caring for or working with a boy who is struggling with society’s expectations of masculinity.
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Series: Therapeutic Parenting Books Callum Kindly and the Very Weird Child A Story About Sharing Your Home with a Different Child Paperback Sarah Naish 9781785923005 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 10 Aug 21, 2017

Callum Kindly likes living with his mum. When Katie Careful, a very weird child, comes to live with them, Callum struggles to understand why she acts so differently. This story explores difficulties children can experience when a new child comes to live in their home.
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Series: Therapeutic Parenting Books William Wobbly and the Mysterious Holey Jumper A Story About Fear and Coping Paperback Sarah Naish 9781785922817 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 10 Oct 21, 2017

Sometimes William Wobbly gets very anxious. When he is anxious he’ll often turn to chewing his sweater or hiding under his school desk. But luckily his mum knows how to help cope with those wobbly feelings. This is the perfect story for any child who uses problematic coping mechanisms to deal with fear or anxiety.
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Series: Therapeutic Parenting Books Rosie Rudey and the Enormous Chocolate Mountain A Story About Hunger, Overeating, and Using Food for Comfort Paperback Sarah Naish 9781785923029 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 10 Sep 21, 2017

Whenever Rosie Rudey gets a fuzzy feeling in her tummy, she’ll try to fix it by eating sugary food, especially chocolate. But one day Rosie eats far more than she means to, and throws up all over the garden! This is the perfect story for children with compulsive behaviours caused by attachment issues.
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Series: Therapeutic Parenting Books Charley Chatty and the Disappearing Pennies A Story About Lying and Stealing Paperback Sarah Naish 9781785923036 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 10 Sep 21, 2017

In this story, Charley spots some pennies lying around. She likes the shiny pennies and knows they will buy her nice things. The problem is they do not belong to her and now they are in her piggy bank! Charley gets all hot and bothered when Dad starts looking for the lost pennies. Luckily, Charley’s new Dad is good at working out what might have happened and helps Charley to put it all right again. Written by Charley’s mum and big sister Rosie, (who is a grown up now), this story will help everyone feel a bit better.
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Series: Therapeutic Parenting Books Katie Careful and the Very Sad Smile A Story About Anxious and Clingy Behaviour Paperback Sarah Naish 9781785923043 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 10 Sep 21, 2017

Katie Careful smiles about everything. Whether she feels happy or sad, she is always smiling. Scared that her new mum and dad might not like her, she doesn’t like when they are out of her sight. This is the perfect story for any child aged three to ten with attachment issues.
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Series: The Asperger Teen’s Toolkit Paperback Francis Musgrave 9781785921612 $26.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Age (years) from 13 - 18 Sep 01, 2017

With minimal text and fun, comic-book style graphics, this is a treasure trove of information for young people with Asperger Syndrome and their carers. Exploring the science of how the human mind works, it gives handy tips on how to cope with all elements of the adult world, including responsibilities, health, sex, and relationships.
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Series: The ASD Feel Better Book A Visual Guide to Help for Brain and Body When You Feel Bad for Children on the Autism Spectrum Hardcover Joel Shaul 9781785927621 $33.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Nov 21, 2017

Learn to build individual strengths and work through problems with this picture-based guide for children aged eight to thirteen with ASD. The use of images and photocopiable worksheets creates a simple and fun resource for identifying what you are good at and how to use those skills to deal with personal challenges.
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Series: Self-Control to the Rescue! Super Powers to Help Kids through the Tough Stuff in Everyday Life Hardcover Lauren Brukner 9781785927591 $24.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 7 - 12 Jun 21, 2017

This illustrated resource is packed with strategies and exercises for children aged four through seven to help them regulate their emotions and overcome the challenges of the most difficult times in a typical day. Simple solutions and guidance can be adapted into any child’s daily routine with tips and extra resources for parents and educators.
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Series: The King of Lighting Fixtures Stories Paperback Daniel A. Olivas 9780816535620 $18.95 FICTION Sep 19, 2017

Wanderers and writers, gangbangers and lawyers, dreamers and devils. The King of Lighting Fixtures paints an idiosyncratic but honest portrait of Los Angeles, depicting how the city both entrances and confounds. Each story serves as a reflection of Daniel A. Olivas’s grand City of Angels, a “magical metropolis where dreams come true.” The characters here represent all walks of L.A. life—from Satan’s reluctant Craigslist roommate to a young girl coping with trauma at her brother’s wake—and their tales ebb and flow among various styles, including... + Read More
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Series: Trudeau’s World Insiders Reflect on Foreign Policy, Trade, and Defence, 1968-84 Hardcover Robert Bothwell 9780774836371 $45.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2017

Pierre Trudeau and most of his contemporaries at home and abroad are now dead. This book offers reflections on Canadian foreign, trade, and defence policies from interviews with many of the key policy makers, diplomats, and military officers in the Trudeau government. Conducted more than three decades ago, the interviews are informative and revealingly frank. They also offer personal insights into Trudeau himself – a man of great “esprit,” who often embodied contradiction. A unique resource, this book adds immeasurably to our understanding of t... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Canadian Military History Reluctant Warriors Canadian Conscripts and the Great War Hardcover Patrick M. Dennis 9780774835978 $39.95 HISTORY Sep 15, 2017

During the “Hundred Days” campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were often considered slackers for not having volunteered. Reluctant Warriors is the first examination of the pivotal role played by Canadian conscripts in the final campaign of the Great War on the Western Front. Challenging long-standing myths, Patrick Dennis examines whether conscripts made any significant difference to the success of the Canadian Corps in 1918. Reluctant Warriors provides fre... + Read More
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Series: An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land Unfinished Conversations Paperback Jennifer S.H. Brown 9781771991711 $44.99 HISTORY Aug 27, 2017

For four decades, Jennifer S. H. Brown has examined the complex relationships that developed among the newcomers to Rupert's Land and the existing Algonquian communities – who hosted and tolerated the fur traders – and later, the missionaries, anthropologists, and others who found their way into Indigenous lives and territories. The eighteen essays gathered in this book explore Brown’s investigations into the surprising range of interactions among Indigenous people and newcomers as they met or observed one another from a distance, and as they c... + Read More
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Series: The Hope of Another Spring Takuichi Fujii, Artist and Wartime Witness Hardcover Barbara Johns 9780295999999 $59.90 ART Grade (US) from 17 May 23, 2017

Takuichi Fujii (1891?1964) left Japan in 1906 to make his home in Seattle, where he established a business, started a family, and began his artistic practice. When war broke out between the United States and Japan, he and his family were incarcerated along with the more than 100,000 ethnic Japanese located on the West Coast. Sent to detention camps at Puyallup, Washington, and then Minidoka in Idaho, Fujii documented his daily experiences in words and art. The Hope of Another Spring reveals the rare find of a large and heretofore unknown collec... + Read More
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Series: Posada José Guadalupe Posada and the Early Mexican Penny Press Paperback Diane Miliotes 9780986126314 $45.95 ART Grade (US) from 17 Mar 01, 2017

José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was one of Mexico’s most influential political printmakers and illustrators. He produced an extensive body of imagery, from illustrations for children’s games to sensationalistic news stories. Posada is best known, however, for his popular and satirical representations of calaveras (skeletons) in lively guises, which have become associated with the Día de los Muertos celebrations. This study contextualizes Posada’s work in late nineteenth- and early twentiety-century Mexico City, which was domoniated by the dra... + Read More
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Series: North Finding Place in Alaska Paperback Julie Decker 9780295741840 $59.90 TRAVEL Grade (US) from 17 Nov 01, 2017

Alaska is part of an international circumpolar North, which makes the United States an Arctic nation. Alaska is a place of Indigenous ingenuity and adaptation, a place where environmental extremes challenge the ways of living. In its more recent history, Alaska has been a place of resources and influx?a land known best for what it provides. This frontier persona, with its sourdoughs and prospectors, has not been easily shed, but Alaska today is pivotal because it represents America?s North and a complex and changing Arctic.North: Finding Place ... + Read More
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Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Native Seattle Histories from the Crossing-Over Place 2nd edition Paperback Coll Thrush 9780295741345 $37.40 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Mar 01, 2017

This updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the experiences of local indigenous communities on whose land Seattle grew, accounts of Native migrants to the city and the development of a multi-tribal urban community, as well as the role Native Americans have played in the narrative of Seattle.
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Series: The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions Paperback Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez 9780816535156 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 15, 2017

The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region presents advanced anthropological theorizing of culture in an important regional setting. Not a static entity, the transborder region is peopled by ever-changing groups who face the challenges of social inequality: political enforcement of privilege, economic subordination of indigenous communities, and organized resistance to domination.The book, influenced by the work of Eric Wolf and senior editor Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, centers on the greater Mexican North/U.S. Southwest, although the geographic range exte... + Read More
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Series: Upstream Medicine Doctors for a Healthy Society Paperback Andrew Bresnahan 9781895830873 $29.95 MEDICAL Apr 01, 2017

When patients visit a clinic or hospital, they bring stories of the everyday life conditions that made them sick in the first place – stories about where they work, live, and play; stories about income, food security, and housing. Doctors today are listening. Personal stories and patient encounters illuminate the social determinants of health, that is, the upstream source of what too often become complex, painful, and expensive downstream problems. Upstream Medicine features interviews by medical students and residents with leading physicians w... + Read More
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Series: On the Ragged Edge of Medicine Doctoring Among the Dispossessed Paperback Patricia Kullberg 9780870718854 $21.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 15, 2017

On the Ragged Edge of Medicine offers a unique and personal glimpse into a medical practice for the homeless and urban poor in Portland, Oregon. Told through fifteen patient vignettes and drawn from the author’s decades of experience on the front lines, this revealing memoir illuminates the impact of poverty on the delivery of health services and the ways in which people adapt and survive (or don’t survive) in conditions of abuse and deprivation. Kullberg’s stories show the direct and sometimes devastating effects of poverty on personal health,... + Read More
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Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics Making Climate Change History Documents from Global Warming's Past Paperback Joshua P. Howe 9780295741390 $36.00 NATURE Grade (US) from 17 Apr 03, 2017

This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers, newspaper editorials, court cases, and international declarations. Far more than just a compendium of source materials, the book uses these documents as a way to think about history, while at the same time using history as a way to approach the politics of climate change from a new perspective. Making Climate Change History provides the necessary background to give readers the opportunit... + Read More
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Series: Bike Boom The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling Paperback Carlton Reid 9781610918169 $34.95 TRANSPORTATION Jul 15, 2017

Bicycling advocates envision a future in which bikes are a widespread daily form of transportation. While many global cities are seeing the number of bike commuters increase, this future is still far away; at times, urban cycling seems to be fighting for its very survival. Will we ever witness a true “bike boom” in cities? In Bike Boom, journalist Carlton Reid demonstrates how bicycling has the potential to grow, if the right measures are put in place by the politicians and planners of today and tomorrow. Given that today’s global bicycling “bo... + Read More
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Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Smell Detectives An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America Hardcover Melanie A. Kiechle 9780295741932 $52.40 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Jul 18, 2017

What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie Kiechle examines nuisance complaints, medical writings, domestic advice, and myriad discussions of what constituted fresh air, and argues that nineteenth-century city dwellers, anxious about the air they breathed, attempted to create healthier cit... + Read More
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Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies The Jewish Bible A Material History Hardcover David Stern 9780295741482 $142.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 Sep 25, 2017

In The Jewish Bible: A Material History, David Stern explores the Jewish Bible as a material object?the Bibles that Jews have actually held in their hands?from its beginnings in the Ancient Near Eastern world through to the Middle Ages to the present moment. Drawing on the most recent scholarship on the history of the book, Stern shows how the Bible has been not only a medium for transmitting its text?the word of God?but a physical object with a meaning of its own. That meaning has changed, as the material shape of the Bible has changed, from s... + Read More
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Series: The Moral Heart of Public Service Hardcover Stephen Lamport 9781785922558 $34.95 RELIGION Jul 21, 2017

This collection of essays and lectures, cultivated by the Westminster Abbey Institute, explores why core ethical values such as peace, community and virtue are important in contemporary public life, and how public servants can use them to re-inject the essential goodness into their work.