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Indigenous Healing as Paradox
Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony
Price:
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781772125740
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Alberta Press
A social history of the ways Indigenous Peoples have engaged and navigated the welfare state to promote survival and well-being amidst Canadian settler colonialism.
Pursuing Play
Women's Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781772840773
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
In telling the story of what small-town women did for fun while navigating social hierarchies, nurturing ties of kinship and friendship, and advancing community development, Pursuing Play adds a new dimension to Canadian histories of gender, leisure, and popular culture.
Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi
Algonquin Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774868471
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: UBC Press
Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi illuminates the traditional values and cultural continuity underlying twentieth-century politics in the largest and oldest Algonquin reserve in Canada.
Cottage Radio & Other Plays
Cottage Radio, White Wedding & Post Alice
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781772016185
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Talonbooks
Cottage Radio & Other Plays is a collection of three plays by award-winning playwright and director Taylor Marie Graham. While each work is unique, they all feature the strong and hilarious rural...
Pierre Poilievre
A Political Life
Price:
CA$35.95
ISBN: 9781990823800
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Sutherland House
When Pierre Poilievre was elected leader of Canada's Conservative party in 2022, he vowed to put Canadians back in control of their own lives.He took aim at the country’s elites and “gatekeepers”...
Quiet Rebels
A History of Ontario Women Lawyers
Price:
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9781771125925
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Quiet Rebels tells the stories of 187 women who were called to the Ontario bar between 1897 and 1957, identifying gendered patterns of exclusion. It also explores women lawyers’ experiences in later decades, when many more women entered the legal profession, assessing the extent of “changes” or “continuities” for some women lawyers.
After the Flames
A Burn Victim's Battle With Celebrity
Price:
CA$25.99
ISBN: 9781459753785
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
“A fast-paced, compelling narrative that goes far beyond the headlines.” — KEVIN DONOVAN, author of The Billionaire MurdersFor Joey Philion, surviving the fire was only the beginning.On the morning...
The Suicide Magnet
Inside the Battle to Erect a Safety Barrier on Toronto's Bloor Viaduct
Price:
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459751408
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Ordinary citizens fought City Hall to have a suicide barrier erected around North America's second most “popular” suicide magnet, the Bloor Viaduct over Toronto’s Don Valley.
Sporting Justice
The Chatham Coloured All-Stars and Black Baseball in Southwestern Ontario, 1915-1958
Price:
CA$36.99
ISBN: 9781771125840
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
A history of the Chatham Coloured All-Stars, the first Black team to win an Ontario amateur baseball title in 1934. Sporting Justice situates the team in a broader history of Black baseball in Chatham and southwestern Ontario, exploring themes including racism in sport, gender, class, and social justice.
Toronto Mayors
A History of the City's Leaders
Price:
CA$39.99
ISBN: 9781459751224
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
A history of the city through the lives of its leaders. From its origins as a dusty colonial outpost of just 9,600 residents to a metropolis of three million, this is the first-ever look at all 65 Toronto mayors: the good, the bad, the colourful, the leaders, the rogues, the scoundrels, and the reformers who have made Toronto what it is today.
Making Muskoka
Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870-1920
Price:
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774867849
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: UBC Press
Making Muskoka traces the first decades of Muskoka’s transformation from Indigenous homeland to a part-time playground for tourists and cottagers and uncovers the consequences for those who lived there year-round.
Prince Edward
A Four Season County
Price:
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781999150211
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
A beautiful depiction of Ontario's iconic Prince Edward County, with four accomplished regional photographers portraying The County in all of its Four Season landscape beauty.
Algoma - Solemn Land
Price:
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781999150235
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
A remarkable creative journey taken by seven acclaimed Canadian landscape painters to the famed Group of Seven 'Solemn Land', the timeless, breathtakingly beautiful Montreal River and Lake Superior North Shore regions of Ontario. Includes stunning en plein air works and the beautiful photography of internationally renowned Gary McGuffin.
Hastings
A Four Season County
Price:
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781999150242
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
A brilliant photographic journey taken across beautiful, diverse Hastings County — a south central Ontario gem that rolls north from its scenic Bay of Quinte shores to rugged, eternal Canadian Shield water, rocks, trees and skies.
Durham
A Four Season Region
Price:
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781999150259
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Flanked by the Greater Toronto Area, the southern reaches of Muskoka, Northumberland County, and Lake Ontario, Durham Region's subtle rural beauty, sweeping landscapes, and urban developments are captured by four Durham photographers who know this place best.
Lost in Cabbagetown
A Memoir of Surviving Boyhood in 1960s Toronto
Price:
CA$23.99
ISBN: 9781459750784
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
From the tenements of Dublin to the slums of Toronto, Terry Burke paints a graphic picture of his boyhood, as part of an Irish immigrant family struggling to survive on the streets of Cabbagetown, at the beginning of the 1960s.
Indigenous Healing as Paradox
Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony
CA$29.99
ISBN: 9781772125740
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Alberta Press
Pursuing Play
Women's Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781772840773
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
In telling the story of what small-town women did for fun while navigating social hierarchies, nurturing ties of kinship and friendship, and advancing community development, Pursuing Play adds a new dimension to Canadian histories of gender, leisure, and popular culture.
Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi
Algonquin Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774868471
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: UBC Press
Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi illuminates the traditional values and cultural continuity underlying twentieth-century politics in the largest and oldest Algonquin reserve in Canada.
Cottage Radio & Other Plays
Cottage Radio, White Wedding & Post Alice
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781772016185
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Talonbooks
Pierre Poilievre
A Political Life
CA$35.95
ISBN: 9781990823800
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Sutherland House
Quiet Rebels
A History of Ontario Women Lawyers
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9781771125925
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Quiet Rebels tells the stories of 187 women who were called to the Ontario bar between 1897 and 1957, identifying gendered patterns of exclusion. It also explores women lawyers’ experiences in later decades, when many more women entered the legal profession, assessing the extent of “changes” or “continuities” for some women lawyers.
After the Flames
A Burn Victim's Battle With Celebrity
CA$25.99
ISBN: 9781459753785
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
The Suicide Magnet
Inside the Battle to Erect a Safety Barrier on Toronto's Bloor Viaduct
CA$24.99
ISBN: 9781459751408
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Sporting Justice
The Chatham Coloured All-Stars and Black Baseball in Southwestern Ontario, 1915-1958
CA$36.99
ISBN: 9781771125840
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Toronto Mayors
A History of the City's Leaders
CA$39.99
ISBN: 9781459751224
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Making Muskoka
Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870-1920
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774867849
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: UBC Press
Making Muskoka traces the first decades of Muskoka’s transformation from Indigenous homeland to a part-time playground for tourists and cottagers and uncovers the consequences for those who lived there year-round.
Prince Edward
A Four Season County
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781999150211
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Algoma - Solemn Land
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781999150235
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Hastings
A Four Season County
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781999150242
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Durham
A Four Season Region
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781999150259
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Lost in Cabbagetown
A Memoir of Surviving Boyhood in 1960s Toronto
CA$23.99
ISBN: 9781459750784
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press