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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.

An Action A Day Keeps Global Capitalism Away, according to Mike Hudema, describing his action guide for the 21st century.

Beautiful Sabina is engaged to an English Lord. On a trip to Monte Carlo, she encounters a gypsy. Duty and love in conflict.

Based on years of practical experience in small towns, Carrel argues for municipal autonomy—for turning what are now “colonies” of the federal and provincial orders of

An Unauthorized Biography of the World explores the practice of engaged oral history: the difficult, sometimes dangerous work of recovering fragments of human story that have gone missing from the

Who was the first black queen? How much do you know about China’s history? Most people’s knowledge of world history is hazy and incomplete at best.

Our world is reeling from dire economic crises and ecological disasters. Visions of the apocalypse and impending doom abound.

Xavier Herbert's famous saga of the Australian outback.

Just as the need for action on climate change becomes more urgent and overwhelming, the campaign to deny that humans are causing it has gained more traction.

Following the lives of the three Greenpeace ships with the name “Rainbow Warrior”, long-serving Greenpeace activist, Maite Mompo tells the inside stories of life on board and recounts some of the s