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With these 61 readable essays, Cape Breton's Tom Urbaniak brings a courageous, critical and constructive eye to problems of our time.

Better Together explores how people gather in groups of all kinds to fulfill the basic human need for companionship.

The World Around Us series introduces children to complex cultural, social and environmental issues in a straightforward and accessible way.

What you choose to wear becomes part of your identity, but it doesn't affect just you. Your clothing sends a message to the world, whether you want it to or not!

Being a feminist can mean different things to different people, but one thing it always includes is the belief in equality and human rights.

In 2013, a violent crime left Jane Harris seriously injured and tumbling down the social ladder toward homelessness -- for the second time in her life -- leading her to question the underlying cond

The transfer of knowledge is a key issue in the North as Indigenous peoples meet the ongoing need to adapt to cultural and environmental change.

What’s the right way to be a feminist? Reconsidering Radical Feminism is not only a clear, precise summary of late-twentieth-century feminist debates about the politics of heterosexuality.

What has it meant to be a man in Canada?

Too often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler society.

As a national network of roads and hostels spread across Canada, so did the practice of hitchhiking. Thumbing a Ride examines its rise and fall in the 1970s, drawing on records from the time.

In this first-ever international history of the influential feminist movement Wages for Housework, Louise Toupin draws on extensive archival research and interviews with the movement’s founders and

Drawing on the insights of Indigenous feminist legal theory, Emily Snyder examines representations of Cree law and gender in books, videos, graphic novels, educational websites, online lectures, an

There is increasing pressure on university scholars to reach beyond the “ivory tower” and engage in collaborative research with communities.

Media for diasporic communities have emerged in major cities and reflect a multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual reality.