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This book integrates a sophisticated analysis of contemporary poverty with a full historical account of capitalism.

The book provides a social history of Montreal's first Haitian street gang and the changing city in which it emerged.

This book documents Jen Powley's fight for young disabled people to live in the community rather than being institutionalized in nursing homes.

This book continues the strong tradition of 3 editions of Doing Anti-Oppressive practice but adds new issues and cutting-edge critical reflection of AOP

This book is about the massive expansion of precarious work under neoliberalism and how migrant workers are challenging the conditions of their hyper-exploitation through struggles for worker rights and justice.

Business interests have fought hard against public housing by doing their utmost to limit city democracy.

Dental care in Canada is for those who can afford it. What will it take to make oral health care free?

This research-creation project by artist Rehab Nazzal documents the politics of surveillance and mobility in contemporary Palestine through photos, hand-drawn maps and critical essays in English and Arabic.

Criminalized men tell us how they overcame trauma, racism, poverty, and abuse. Personal and institutional supports of caring are key - being cared for and caring for others.

Kaandossiwin renders Indigenous research methodologies visible and helps to guard other ways of knowing from colonial repression in academia

This illustrated, accessible book will tell the empowering stories behind the struggles for reproductive justice, celebrating past wins and revealing an abolitionist path forward.

A story for every immigrant struggling between cultures, every youth rebelling against parents, and every woman facing assault alone.

7th edition of a very successful social issues textbook.

This book provides an account of the ongoing ties between the enduring traumas caused by the residential schools and Indigenous over-incarceration

A cutting-edge critical social work textbook that unites social work theory with practice.

With humor and compassion, this book offers relatable advice and a practical entry point into conversations about race.

The only book-length Canadian history of the harm done from criminalizing heroin users and addicts, the most horrendous being overdose epidemics caused by poisoned drugs.

A bold and urgent intervention that grapples with the ethics and politics of social science research practice, focussing on ethical challenges and dilemmas faced by marginalized scholars and researchers committed to equity and social justice.

A fresh and radical approach to introducing social thought to undergraduate social science students, Making Sense of Society reflects the excitement and verve of a field in transition.

"This is an extraordinarily important book. Concise yet comprehensive, combining and drawing on the perspectives of many disciplines, accessible to all readers, professionally impeccable, and on top of all this, original in its analysis and extension into new fields, this book is a wonderful contribution to development thinking and action." -- Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

In a world without time and steeped in ceremony and magic, walks a chosen few who hold an ancient power: the Grey Eyes. True stewards of the land, the Grey Eyes use their magic to maintain harmony and keep evil at bay. With only one elderly Grey-Eye left in the village of the Nehiyawak, the birth of a new Grey-Eyed boy promises a renewed line of

Philip McMichael explores the relationships between contemporary food, energy, climate and financial crises and food regime restructuring, which includes agrofuels, land grabbing, the bioeconomy, agro-security mercantilism and the food sovereignty movement.

Many impressive studies on the changing nature of the global food system have been published, and nearly all address changes at the macro level. The far less visible changes occurring at the micro level have received relatively little attention, especially in the realm of critical rural studies. This book is a reflection of the far reaching and complex transformations of food systems that have occurred as a result of liberalization and globalization.