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Tar sands “development” comes with an enormous environmental and human cost.

In this updated edition of The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food Wayne Roberts puts under the microscope a global food system that is under strain from climate change and from economic disaster.

Any attempt to restore responsible environmental policies, revive and expand our social programs, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, and boost our flagging economy will be inadequate unless we a

Michael Riordon celebrates the survival of ordinary, extraordinary people whose experiences are rarely reflected in the media.

Crawley's misgivings about the validity of his mission to a South Pacific island prove well founded as he fights to escape with his life.

Here is a clear, wide-ranging introduction to the worldwide state of human health.

An elderly lady sleuth solves a series of murders in the West Indies.

Her Paraphernalia, the new book of creative non-fiction from noted Canadian poet Margaret Christakos, presents an intimate and original collection of midlife writings that seeks to make readers thi

Contents include an introduction to the ship, a description of its voyages and connection to the Dutch East India Company, the fate of the survivors and activities since 1971.

In the tradition of Borges, Nabakov, and Bolaño, The Red Album is a work of fiction that questions historical authenticity and authority.

The secret world of Mauritian street-gangs is not for the faint of heart.

Guadalupe Muro, recipient of the Raul Urtusan - Frances Harley Scholarship for Young Emerging Artists from Argentina, has always had her own unique way of experiencing life.

A humorous collection of the exploits of that most unflappable of butlers, Jeeves.

Translation is the extrovert, metaphor the introvert. Without translation, there is no communication.

Great Canadian Poems for the Aged Vol. 1 Illus. Ed. dares to go where no book of Canadian poetry has gone before - deep into the heart of darkness epitomized by the idea of the Great White North.