Lidia Turner Martî
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Game Misconduct
Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport
“At the heart of professional sports, insists Nathan Kalman-Lamb, is the sacrifice of the athletic body. Wading through a battlefield of injured players, obsessed fans, and profit-hungry owners, Game Misconduct reveals ugly secrets of the sports business. After reading this incisive analysis, none of us will ever watch a sports event in quite the same way—nor should we.” — David McNally, author of Global Slump
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There’s Something In The Water
Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities
An expose of the environmental injustice practiced by the government of Nova Scotia against it’s marginalized communities.
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Speculative Harvests
Financialization, Food, and Agriculture
The centralization of finance and the corporatization of agriculture is having a very dramatic impact on the quality and availability of the food we eat.
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Alt-Right
From 4Chan to the White House
This book is a vital guide to understanding the racist, misogynist, far-right movement that rose to prominence during Donald Trump’s successful election campaign.
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Insatiable Machine
A work of speculative fiction that explores how America’s growing economic inequalities and social unrest spiral into an empire in ruins.
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Change a Life, Change your Own
Child Sponsorship, the Discourse of Development, and the Production of Ethical Subjects
An examination of the ways that child sponsorship works not to raise children in the South out of poverty, but instead to convince people in the North that they are ethical subjects concerned about and aiding development
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From The Inside Looking Out
Competing Ideas About Growing Old. Second Edition
A unique examination of the differences between the lived experiences of older persons and those who claim to be “experts” on their lives, namely Gerontologists and other providers of care.
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Precarious Employment
Causes, Consequences and Remedies
This edited collection introduces and explores the causes and consequences of precarious employment in Canada and across the world.
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Busted
An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada
Visually engaging and approachably written, Busted is a timely examination of Canada’s history of drug control and movements against that control. Susan Boyd argues that in order to chart the future, it is worthwhile for us as Canadians to know our history of prohibition.
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Understanding Violence and Abuse
An Anti-Oppressive Practice Perspective
In Understanding Violence and Abuse, Heather Fraser and Kate Seymour examine violence and abuse from an anti-oppressive practice perspective and make connections between interpersonal violence and structural, institutional and cultural violence.