Social science

  • Growing up trans : in our own words

    Abstract

    This illustrated nonfiction anthology is a collection of stories, essays, poetry and art by transgender youth.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [Victoria, British Columbia]

    Orca Book Publishers

    Not specified
  • Diversity, culture and counselling : a Canadian perspective

    Creator

    Hett, Geoffrey

    Rodríguez, María del Carmen

    Holder, Place

    France, M. Honorâe

    Abstract

    A uniquely Canadian approach to multicultural counselling. In a country as diverse as Canada, a multicultural counselling approach provides an essential starting point for working with people from different ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, abilities and religious backgrounds. Bringing Canadian perspectives to the field of multicultural counselling, this collection provides practical approaches to counselling in Indigenous, Asian, Black Canadian, Hispanic, South Asian and LGBTQ2+ communities, among others, along with advice for treating migrant and refugee clients.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    Brush Education

    Not specified
  • The price of inequality : how today's divided society endangers our future

    Creator

    Stiglitz, Joseph E.

    Abstract

    A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. The top 1 percent of Americans control some 40 percent of the nation's wealth. But as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in this best-selling critique of the economic status quo, this level of inequality is not inevitable. Rather, in recent years well-heeled interests have compounded their wealth by stifling true, dynamic capitalism and making America no longer the land of opportunity that it once was.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    W. W. Norton & Company

    New York

    Not specified
  • Dissenting traditions : essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and history

    Abstract

    The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America's leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks surrounding them. Palmer's work reveals a life dedicated to dissent and the difficult task of imagining alternatives by understanding the past in all of its contradictions, victories, and failures.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Edmonton, Alberta

    AU Press

    Canadian Committee on Labour History

    Not specified
  • The tensions between culture and human rights : emancipatory social work and Afrocentricity in a global world

    Abstract

    A critical interrogation of the relationship between cultural practices and human rights in Africa rooted in Afrocentricity and emancipatory social work. Cultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights critically interrogates the relationship between culture and human rights across Africa and offers strategies for pedagogy and practice that social workers and educators may use.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Calgary, Alberta

    University of Calgary Press

    Not specified
  • The heartbeat of Iran : real voices of a country and its people

    Creator

    Kangarlou, Tara

    Abstract

    In today's interconnected global village, Iran remains a mystery to much of the rest of the world especially to those living in the United States and the west. While the country is often synonymous with rogue behavior on the world stage, there is also another, rarely seen side to this nation of 80 million, including being home to the greatest number of Jews in the Middle East outside of Israel, and having the largest transsexual population in the region, among other unexpected surprises.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    LaVergne

    IG Publishing

    Not specified
  • One of them : an Eton college memoir

    Creator

    Okwonga, Musa

    Abstract

    'Moving ... stays with you long after you've finished it' Nigella Lawson
    'A superb memoir ... written with a poet's lyricism and a journalist's clarity' Nish Kumar
    'An urgent exposition on how [Eton]'s undue influence is shaping political forces' Stylist
    Musa Okwonga – a young Black man who grew up in a predominantly working-class town – was not your typical Eton College student.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Not specified
  • A long journey : residential schools in Labrador and Newfoundland

    Creator

    Procter, Andrea

    Abstract

    Left out of the national apology and reconciliation process begun in 2008, survivors of residential schools in Labrador and Newfoundland received a formal apology from the Canadian government in 2017. This recognition finally brought them into the circle of residential school survivors across Canada, and acknowledged their experiences as similarly painful and traumatic.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    ISER Books

    Not specified
  • Before the parade : a history of Halifax's gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities, 1972-1992

    Creator

    Rose, Rebecca

    Abstract

    Before the Parade traces the beginnings of Halifax's gay, lesbian, and bisexual community. Journalist and activist Rebecca Rose melds insights and perspectives from the people at the forefront with a thoroughly researched, narrative history. Rose brings her queer femme, feminist perspective to this compelling-and never before told-history of Halifax's early LGB community.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Nimbus

    Not specified
  • Unicorn in the woods : how east coast geeks and dreamers are changing the game

    Creator

    Pitts, Gordon

    Abstract

    As tech investors the world over search for elusive unicorns (start-ups valued at over $1 billion), acclaimed business journalist Gordon Pitts asks whether there can be a place for high-tech innovation and unicorn-like value creation outside of major urban centres, whether in Atlantic Canada, rust-belt New York, or Northern Ontario.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Goose Lane Editions

    Not specified