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Climate and the Courage of Leadership
Science, Policy and the Need for Heroes
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We are rapidly approaching the point of no return on climate change. Climate and the Courage of Leadership addresses this critical moment with clarity and urgency. It explores why current political systems struggle to act and presents four...
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Love for Sale
Chronicles of a Canadian Call Girl
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Sometimes hilarious and sometimes horrifying, this darkly candid memoir is guaranteed to educate and entertain. From precocious pre-pubescent to troubled trollop, Sandi takes you on a deep dive to her rock bottom that will leave you gasping for...
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Holding HIV
Poems of HOPE
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What could an HIV cure mean? Holding HIV shares the raw, poetic voices of 27 San Francisco community members living with or affected by HIV. Born from the HOPE Research Collaboratory’s Community Arts Integrated Research program, this collection...
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In the Event
Living with an Earthquake
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Dive into the frantic fight for survival in this riveting, firsthand account of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in 2011. In the Event: Living with an Earthquake takes readers onto the heaving, rolling streets as...
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Stumbling Blindly Toward Grace
A messy and miraculous memoir
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You can’t be blind and drunk. Well, you can, but it’s messy. In Stumbling Blindly Toward Grace, Yvonne Garvey shares a raw, unflinching, and darkly funny account of her descent into addiction, heartbreak, and the slow unravelling of her vision....
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Healing
Lynn's Story - Getting My-Self Back The Woman's Revolution
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In this their second book, feminist activists Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald share the story of Lynn, one of many women they supported, who was able to heal from more than four years of spousal non-state torture, human trafficking, and...
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When Love Is a Scam
Subtle Hidden Motives That Disadvantage Good People in Relationships
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When Love Is a Scam is an eye-opening exploration of the hidden dynamics shaping love in romantic relationships, family bonds, and spiritual communities. Peter Obiefuna challenges the widely held belief that love is always selfless and fair,...
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Hromada: The Changing Ukrainian Community in Saskatchewan
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The story of any immigrant community, at its core, depicts the changing meaning of home and identity - the home and identity you leave behind; those which you build on new shores, in new places, in new ways. How any change to that home and...
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From York Factory to Medicine Hat, Don't Just Read Your History, Go There
A Scottish Métis Family in Canada
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In late August of 2013 my Métis husband, Nelson and I had signed up for the Manitoba Historical Fur Trade Tour leaving out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. We had been on a quest to learn more about where his ancestors came from and walk in the places...
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Why Poor People Remain Poor
Key Elements for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development
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The empirical evidence why people remain poor and the poverty reduction strategies discussed in this book squarely address popular themes that cut across national and international development agendas, as well as the nebulous and chronic question...
