How Big Business Targets Children

Joel Bakan

From the writer of the hit film and international bestselling book The Corporation comes a shocking look at the widespread manipulation of children by profit-seeking corporations.

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Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers

Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D. & Gabor Maté, M.D.

Trained to consider mind and body separately, physicians are often helpless in the face of chronic diseases, such as breast cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and Crohn’s disease.

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Co-operatives in the Age of Capital

John Restakis

Humanizing the Economy shows how co-operative models for economic and social development can create a more equitable, just, and humane future.

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My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy

Jane Christmas

Since the beginning of time, mothers and daughters have had notoriously fraught relationships. “Show me a mother who says she has a good or great relationship with her daughter,” Jane Christmas writes, “and I’ll show you a daughter who is in therapy trying to understand how it all went so horribly wrong.”

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Canada in a Warming World

Andrew Weaver

The climate change we are in store for over the next few centuries will be larger and occur faster than at any time in the last 10,000 years.

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The Red Scare of 1918-1919: Canada’s First War on Terror

Daniel Francis

At the end of WWI, Canada was on the brink of revolution. At least, that is what many Canadians, inspired by the Russian Revolution, hoped and others dreaded.

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Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

Carmen Aguirre

Canada Reads 2012 Champion!

Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre and her younger sister fled Chile with their parents for Canada and a life in exile soon after the violent coup of September 11, 1973 that removed Salvador Allende—the democratically elected socialist president of Chile—from office.

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The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

Joel Bakan

As incisive as Eric Schlosser’s bestselling Fast Food Nation, as rigorous as Joseph E. Stiglitz’s Globalization and Its Discontents, and as scathing as Michael Moore’s Stupid White Men, Joel Bakan’s new book is a brilliantly argued account of the corporation’s pathological pursuit of profit and power.

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A Rebel History of Rural Life

Brian Brett

For twenty years writer Brian Brett has tended a small island farm, affectionately named Trauma Farm. Poetic and evocative, this illuminating memoir of his experiences allows readers to reconnect with the land and get closer to the source of our food.

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A Schoolteacher''s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

John Taylor Gatto

John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular....

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