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L'aide médicale à bien mourir

Les grands enjeux de l’aide médicale à mourir. Une réflexion positive sur la souffrance et la mort humaines. Un appel à considérer la misère incontrôlable de personnes en attente de compassion. ...

Une profonde blessure

The author documents the consequences of sexual abuse by members of the clergy and encourages the victims to walk the path of healing. He analyzes the causes, the necessary spiritual conversions and structural ...

Sex Work Activism in Canada

Serving as a history as well as a rare and valuable reference, Sex Work Activism in Canada brings together the narratives, histories, expertise, and teachings of sex work activists across the country. ...

This Is Not a Hoax

By (author) Heather Jessup
Categories: Ethnic studies

This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most respected cultural institutions: art ...

Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times

The contributors to this volume reveal how neoliberalism’s power to redefine “normal” is refashioning every facet of our lives. By providing examples and case studies of neoliberalism in action, ...

Feminist City

By (author) Leslie Kern
Categories: Human geography

Feminist City combines memoir, feminist theory, pop culture, and geography to expose what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built right into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. Focusing ...

Voice of Rebellion

Many have tried to silence her, but Mozhdah Jamalzadah remains the most powerful female voice of her generation in Afghanistan, boldly speaking out about women’s rights. Voice of Rebellion charts her ...

Un-Canadian

By (author) Graeme Truelove
Foreword by Ihsaan Gardee
Categories: Civics and citizenship

Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North is a provocative warning to Canadians that the values they cherish are being eroded through a disturbing pattern of political, legal, and social prejudice against ...

Ubuntu Relational Love

Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togetherness, and social politics of difference arise. Devi Dee ...

Lost Feast

For readers of Michael Pollan and Anthony Bourdain comes an entertaining yet scholarly book about the foods we have loved to death. From passenger pigeons to megafauna, Newman identifies certain foods ...