A Life Out of Whack

By Les Essif

A Life Out of Whack has two parts. The first part is autobiographical and sketches the atypical early life of a future academic scholar from family poverty to marriage and divorce at nineteen, from eight years in big-city and federal law enforcement to starting college at the ... Read more

Aboriginal, Northern, and Community Economic Development

By John Loxley

John Loxley has worked in community economic development as a practitioner, advisor, teacher and scholar for over 30 years. The wealth of that experience is reflected in this book, which grapples with the conceptual and political complexities of addressing northern and Aboriginal ... Read more

Crossing Borders

Edited by Samir Gandesha & Peyman Vahabzadeh

Crossing Borders: Essays in Honour of Ian H. Angus is a collection of original and cutting-edge essays by thirteen outstanding and diverse Canadian and International scholars that engage with Professor Ian Angus?s rich contributions to three distinct, albeit overlapping, fields: ... Read more

Enduring Relevance of Walter Rodney's 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa'

By Karim Hirji

Soon after its publication in 1972, Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa gained global popularity among students, scholars, activists and people concerned with African affairs. His innovative application of the method of political economy transformed the paradigm ... Read more

Insurrectionary Uprisings

Edited by Wende Marshall & Matt Meyer
Foreword by Joyce Ajlouny

Insurrectionary Uprisings is a compendium of essays that explore what it will take to win a world based on love and justice. From historical writing, including Thoreau, Gandhi and Arendt, to essays that address the multiple crises we face in the 21st century, the volume brings ... Read more

Just Causes

By Gerald Caplan

Drawn from more than 500 of the author`s newspaper columns (mostly from the Toronto Star), this collection represents the best articles of one New Democratic Party (NDP) member`s journey through the Mulroney-Reagan-Bush years. Divided into thematic groupings, the essays deal ... Read more

Lighting the Eighth Fire

Edited by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Introduction by Sumac Smokii

This remarkable collection of essays by leading Indigenous scholars focuses on the themes of freedom, liberation and Indigenous resurgence as they relate to the land. They analyze treaties, political culture, governance, environmental issues, economy, and radical social movements ... Read more

On Nostalgia

By David Berry
Read by Adam Daniel Mezei

From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it.

From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent forces of our era. On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, ... Read more