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Mosh Pit

Juliet meets her Juliets in this raw look at punk, young love and the sometimes cloudy road to adulthood. Mosh Pit, a compelling story of rebel girls in the modern city, stars Simone – torn between ...

Free Will

Harold Rhenisch’s first artistic love was the theatre. Twenty-eight years after first playing Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he brings Shakespeare alive for us in this sparkling and inventive ...

America

By (author) Denis Vaugeois
Translated by Jane Brierley
Categories: History of the Americas

“We the people of the United States”—so began the American Constitution of 1787. Within a few years, this young country, made up mainly of eastern seaboard states, suddenly became part of a continent. ...

The Truth About Stories

By (author) Thomas King
Categories: Ethnic studies
Series: The CBC Massey Lectures

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award

"Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous. "

Beginning with a ...

Shifting Boundaries

By (author) Tim Schouls
Categories: Ethnic studies

Canada is often called a pluralist state, but few commentators view Aboriginal self-government from the perspective of political pluralism. Instead, Aboriginal identity is framed in terms of cultural ...

Great Chiefs

By (author) Tony Hollihan
Categories: Ethnic studies
Series: Legends

This classic volume is a tribute to the legendary chiefs and warriors who guided their people through the most turbulent chapter in their history. Tony Hollihan reveals how these visionary leaders grappled ...

Pink Snow

Drawing on recent developments in gay studies and queer theory, Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction offers new interpretations that focus on homoerotic resonances in literature. Goldie ...

At Home with the Bella Coola Indians

Between 1922 and 1924, the young Canadian anthropologist T. F. McIlwraith spent eleven months in the isolated community of Bella Coola, British Columbia, living among the people of the Nuxalk First Nation. ...

Of Silk Saris & Mini-Skirts

By (author) Amita Handa
Categories: Ethnic studies

Dr. Handa explores issues surrounding the way identity is imagined and constructed by South Asian girls, women and South Asian community workers in Toronto. The author also examines ways in which young ...