Books from Between the Lines
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Pain and Prejudice: What Science Can Learn about Work from the People Who Do It
By Karen Messing22 Karen Messing, Sylvie Fortin, Geneviève Rail, and Maude Randoin, “Standing Still: Why North American Workers are Not Insisting onSeats Despite Known ...
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Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril
By Judith Merril, Emily Pohl-WearyJudy Tuesday, April 22, 1952 noon Dear Kay: A transcript of period of ESP just ended: Lay down on couch in my office, face down, one arm leaning on your big red Hubbard survival book, on which I had yellow paper ready to be written on.
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Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide
By Laura J. Murray, Samuel E. TrosowBell cases, because they are discussed at length elsewhere, but we start with fair dealing nonetheless as the foundationof LAM practice. After that, we proceed through arange of library activities and issues: collection management and ...
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The Vimy Trap: or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War
By Ian McKay, Jamie SwiftNATO, established in part at the urging of Lester Pearson, would dominate Canadian defence policy for two generations. Although Pearson hoped the Atlantic alliance would turn into more than “an instrument of unimaginative militarism,” ...
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Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety
By Ian McKay, Jamie SwiftReasoned public debate. Their replacements? A warrior nation. Authoritarian leadership. Permanent political polarization. The tales cast a vivid light on a story that is crucial to Canada's future; yet they are also compelling history.
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Cuba beyond the beach: stories of life in Havana
By Karen DubinskyIf anyone has seen a sweeter, happier pianist and band leader than Roberto Carcassés, I'd like to know. Their first large public performance was on the streets of the workingclass Havana neighbourhood Pogolotti.
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The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls
By Karen DubinskyWinner of the 2000 Albert B. Corey prize from the Canadian Historical Association and the American Historical Association for the best book in Canadian-American history.
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An Action a Day: Keeps Global Capitalism Away
By Mike HudemaSick of the daily barrage of Newspeak and itching to result? Do you want to take a stand, with fellow fun-loving humans, against the forces of globalization? Then this is the book for you.
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An Unauthorized Biography of the World: Oral History on the Front Lines
By Michael RiordonOurcommon interest isto promote heritage in Ottawa.” Oneof their advisory functions was to come upwithnames for streets in thenewly amalgamated city.“We chose to promote Daniel O'Donoghue. He was an amazing guy– came here ...
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Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization
By David K. Lewis, Steven High64 Jasen, WildThings, p.11. 65 John Urry, The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies (London: SAGE Publications, 1990), p. 20. 66 Malcolm Andrews, The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in ...
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Committing Theatre: Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada
By Alan FilewodToby Gordon Ryan, interview, April 1988. 4. Odets, Waiting forLefty, p.18, in Toby Gordon Ryan Papers, University of Guelph. 5. LeftBook Club Theatre Guild, Notes on Forming 'Left' Theatre Groups, pp.1-2. 6. Chambers, Story of Unity ...
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User Error: Resisting Computer Culture
By Ellen RoseKroker, Arthur, and Michael A. Weinstein. Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class. Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1994. Kurzweil, Ray. The Age of Intelligent Machines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. — .
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The World Bank: A Critical Primer
By Eric ToussaintWidely viewed with suspicion as the international economic arm of the U.S. government,the World Bank has become overwhelmingly powerful. Eric Toussaint gives a highly readable account of how this happened.
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The Mountie from Dime Novel to Disney
By Michael DawsonIn the 1973 RCMP narrative, Crowfoot takes on the elevated stature ofan enthusiastic ally, a role that is difficult to reconcile with historian Henry Klassen's analysis of the chief 's actual dealings with the RCMP: “Crowfoofs trust ...
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Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
By Jamie Swift, Robert Clarke, Michael CzernyA friendly way to carry on a conversation ... and a good way to begin social analysis . Most of us probably don't think twice about having a cup of ... “ Yes , I'd like a cup . ” The coffee beans may come from one of those small Central ...
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Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance
By David F. NobleThese movements came to be known as Luddism. It is this subject area that David F Noble goes to immediately in order to provide a detailed analysis of the effect of automation in its mechanized and computerized forms.
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Beyond the Promised Land: The Movement and the Myth
By David F. NobleIconoclast David F. Noble traces the evolution and eclipse of the biblical mythology of the Promised Land, the foundational story of Western Culture.
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Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance
By David F. NobleNew Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance David F. Noble. H. A. NOTE. ON. THE. AUTHOR. istorian David F.Noble has beenwriting social about the development of science and technology fortwo decades.
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Dancing on Live Embers: Challenging Racism in Organizations
By Tina Lopes, Barb ThomasDiversity Watch / www.diversitywatch.ryerson.ca Managed by Ryerson University's School of Journalism, this site offer background information on different communities, a media watch section, and links to other resources.
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Leading Progress: The Professional Institute of the Public Service Canada 1920–2020
By Jason Russell... Professional Accountants Dr. Blake B. Coldwell Chemists Alfred C. Kilbank Statisticians, Economists, and Actuaries James F. Mazerall Topographical Engineers Eric F. V. Robinson National Research Council Ken J. Harwood Economics, ...