An illuminating read, Toronto Sprawls makes a convincing case that urban sprawl in Toronto was caused not by market forces, but rather by policies and programs designed to disperse Toronto's urban population.
Over three years of ongoing conversations, award-winning graphic novelist Gilad Seliktar collaborated with Klaus Zwilsky to share Zwilsky’s story of surviving the Holocaust as a young German Jewish boy at the Jewish Hospital in Berlin – in plain sight of the Nazis.
In an age of growing right-wing populism and resulting threats to human rights and social justice, Joel Bakan urges Canadian courts to actively apply the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to protect these values while respecting clear limits on their power.
Disappearing in the City presents ethnographic research highlighting the voices of Indigenous women across Canada.... Læs mere
Music Reborn investigates how antisemitism impacted the music of a generation – a first-hand account of the discovery, assessment, and revival of works that were marginalized by the twentieth century’s repressive regimes.
Unfinished Journey is an inspiring memoir tracing the journey of a Korean immigrant who went from working as a dishwasher to becoming a cabinet minister in Ontario. Along the way,... Læs mere
Tokyo 1968 follows two young women studying at the predominantly male University of Tokyo during a tumultuous year of transformative politics. Drawn to the... Læs mere
Exceptional reveals the twelve mental shifts that set apart the exceptional minority of successful professionals from the conventional majority, demonstrating how they build remarkable careers and deeply fulfilling lives, without trading one for the other.
Being in the Mess invites you to embrace the overwhelming messiness of life with greater curiosity and openness. In a time rife with... Læs mere
Her Body, Her Cure explores the extensive history of women rejecting mainstream medicine to seek alternative health treatments as a means of gaining bodily autonomy and professional power in a misogynistic society.
Driven by a mission to unravel the mystery of why food has become so expensive and why food systems everywhere feel increasingly fragile, Feeding Power questions how food interacts with global power, conflict, security, and sovereignty in the twenty-first century.
Renowned AIDS pioneer and microbiologist Max Essex reflects on five decades of virus research combating six transformative epidemics. Through the intersection... Læs mere