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  • A School for Tomorrow

    The Story of Canada World Youth

    by Mark Dickinson ...
    “You cannot know if you are not introduced,” goes a Malay proverb, “and you cannot love if you do not know.” It was in this spirit that Québécois publisher and civil liberties activist Jacques Hébert launched Canada World Youth, a unique experiment in global education, in 1971.For more than forty years, Canada World Youth taught tens of thousands of young people from around the world how to live ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Canadian Primal

    Poets, Places, and the Music of Meaning

    by Mark Dickinson ...
    Over the past few decades, a group of writers we might call the Thinking and Singing poets have stood at the forefront of poetry in Canada. These five poets – Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Robert Bringhurst, Jan Zwicky, and Tim Lilburn – are major voices in an era of ecological devastation and spiritual unease. Their diverse, questioning work suggests new ways to confront some of the most pressing issues ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Listening for the Heartbeat of Being

    The Arts of Robert Bringhurst

    Edited by Brent Wood, Mark Dickinson ...
    Poet, philosopher, translator, typographer, and cultural historian Robert Bringhurst is a modern-day Renaissance man. He has forged a career from diverse but interwoven vocations, finding ways to make accessible to contemporary readers the wisdom of poets and thinkers from ancient Greece, the Middle East, Asia, and North American First Nations. This collection shows the ways in which his industry ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    "Ursula Le Guin at her best . . . This is an important collection of eloquent, elegant pieces by one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers." —Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post Book World"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind," writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that ... Read more

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  • Subdivided

    City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity

    by Jay Pitter, John Lorinc ...
    How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global metropolis. Not surprisingly, city officials rarely miss an opportunity to tout the region’s ethno-cultural neighbourhoods. Yet there’s strong evidence that the GTA is experiencing widening socio ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?

    Finding Common Ground

    by J. Edward Chamberlin ...
    “We need to understand our stories because our lives depend upon it.” *—*Ted ChamberlinThe stories we tell each other reflect and shape our deepest feelings. Stories help us live our lives*—*and are at the heart of our current conflicts. We love and hate because of them; we make homes for ourselves and drive others out on the basis of ancient tales. As Ted Chamberlin vividly reveals, we are both ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion

    by Tansy E. Hoskins ...
    *Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List*Fashion is political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fast fashion, clothes tell a story of inequality, racism and climate crisis. In The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, Tansy E. Hoskins unpicks the threads of capitalist industry to reveal the truth about our clothes.Fashion brands entice us to consume more by manipulating us to ... Read more

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  • Lines

    A Brief History

    by Tim Ingold ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations for a completely new discipline: the anthropological archaeology of the line.Ingold’s argument ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Fast Fashion

    A Cut from Clothing Poverty with Exclusive New Content

    by Andrew Brooks ...
    Fast Fashion: A cut from Clothing Poverty marks the two-year anniversary of the disastrous collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh on 24 April 2013.Featuring a new introduction along with a chapter from the previously published Clothing Poverty: The hidden world of fast fashion and second-hand clothes, Andrew Brooks stitches together the events of the Rana Plaza tragedy with the hidden ... Read more

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  • Local Knowledge

    Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology

    by Clifford Geertz ...
    From the preeminent anthropologist, a landmark exploration of how culture shapes human society“Shrewd and often illuminating."—New York TimesOver his storied career, Clifford Geertz pioneered ground-breaking approaches to anthropology, arguing that interpreting and analyzing cultural symbols was central to understanding a wide range of societies. In Local Knowledge, he revisits and expands the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Planet Canada

    How Our Expats Are Shaping the Future

    by John Stackhouse ...
    A leading thinker on Canada's place in the world contends that our country's greatest untapped resource may be the three million Canadians who don't live here.Entrepreneurs, educators, humanitarians: an entire province's worth of Canadian citizens live outside Canada. Some will return, others won't. But what they all share is the ability, and often the desire, to export Canadian values to a world ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Future Primitive Revisited

    by John Zerzan ...
    "Zerzan's writing is sharp, uncompromising, and tenacious." — Derrick Jensen"John Zerzan's importance does not only consist in his brilliant intelligence, his absolute clearness of analysis and his unequalled dialectical synthesis that clarifies even the most complicated questions, but also in the humanity that fills his thoughts of resistance. Future Primitive Revisited is one more precious gift ... Read more

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