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In our society, cultural activity - or “the arts” - usually refers to the high culture of the elites and popular mass culture.

In June 2010 activists opposing the G20 meeting held in Toronto were greeted with arbitrary state violence on a scale never before seen in Canada. Whose Streets?

Unsettling Canada is built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders, Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson.Both men have served as chiefs of their bands in the B.C.

When her fiance is killed, Cat Calder retreats to the homestead to mourn. One reckless night leads to a chance encounter with a grey-eyed stranger.

A provocative discussion of the role of technology and its accompanying rhetoric of limitless progress in the concomitant rise of joblessness and unemployment.

Based on in-depth oral interviews with local residents, and rich archival sources, We Lived A Life and Then Some relates the common person’s struggle to overcome harsh working conditions

Many people like to take a break by exploring somewhere new, whether it’s with just a backpack or with a fleet of luggage.

Faces masked, dressed in black, and forcefully attacking the symbols of capitalism, Black Blocs have been transformed into an anti-globalization media spectacle.

In this searingly honest autobiography, Rolf Harris charts his rise to fame, chronicling the triumphs, disasters and revelations along the way.

What if our interactions with those different from us are strongly influenced by things happening below the radar of awareness, hidden even from ourselves?

Fun & Games & Higher Education ranges from Wayne’s World to hot-rodding, from automobility to the popular phenomenon know as the tailgate party, from German sociologist Ge

In this updated edition of the No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy, Richard Swift explores how democracy has been constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class fr

The history of the Moonta Mines in South Australia, and the life story of the man who was Moonta for 34 years, Captain Henry Richard Hancock.

Driven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who came to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals.

In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant.