Forbidden Fruit: 1980 Beijing, A Memoir
(VanDam Publishing, Inc,
2016;
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What went wrong with Canada's assisted dying law
The Right to Die: The courageous Canadians who gave us the right to a dignified death
(Lorimer,
2016;
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Who has the right to die? In his new book The Right to Die: The courageous Canadians who gave us the right to a dignified death, author Gary Bauslaugh examines the stories and experiences of those individuals who want to end their life or have given this practical end-of-life assistance.
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Lauralyn Chow reflects on memory, family and identity in 'Paper Teeth'
Paper Teeth
(NeWest Press,
2016;
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Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Lauralyn Chow is the author of Paper Teeth, a book of interconnected short stories, following the lives of the Lees, a Canadian-Chinese family and their friends who reside in Edmonton.
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Are you getting any closer? A pocket-sized primer on female sexuality
Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality
(Coach House Books,
2016;
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If it weren't for Sarah Barmak's Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality I might have gone for years of my life without ever finding out what my clitoris actually looks like.
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How do we care for each other?
A Labour of Liberation
(Changing Suns Press,
2016;
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A Labour of Liberation is the first book that I've read from Changing Suns Press, a new independent publisher with anti-authoritarian politics based in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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The state vs. activists: How progressive movements are repressed for corporate profit
Constructing Ecoterrorism: Capitalism, Speciesism and Animal Rights
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2016;
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Managing dissent and controlling the threat posed by progressive movements is a central task of the capitalist state. In addition to direct violence, various techniques of "manufacturing consent" are deployed to marginalize and repress social movements.
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'Between the Cracks She Fell' explores urban landscapes and the ghosts that haunt us
Between the Cracks She Fell
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2015;
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Cities are palimpsests. Like those washed-off scrolls ready to be reused by a scribe, the words that came before leaving spectral impressions on the page, cities are built, unbuilt and rebuilt, leaving behind evidence of lives lived and left. In this way, time is made circular, existing on top of itself. It is no wonder, then, that in such spaces we should encounter the ghosts of those who came before us and those who might come after.
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'Night Moves' brings new light to the shadows of Canada's North
Night Moves
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2015;
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"Why do you place such haunting red hand prints throughout all of your paintings?" asks one character to another in 'Skull.Full.Of.Rust' one of the many short stories in Dene author Richard Van Camp's latest collection, Night Moves.
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Harper's takeover of Canada: What do we have left?
The Arrogant Autocrat: Stephen Harper's Takeover of Canada
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The 'truth' about obesity, weight loss and health?
Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight -- And What We Can Do About It
(De Capo Press,
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Reports in the media suggest that obesity is a growing danger. Too many people weigh too much and the numbers of such individuals have increased substantially over the last decades. Such excess weight is associated with a variety of diseases and other negative consequences, ranging from high blood pressure to inability to fit into an airline seat, from diabetes to coffins that are too small for obese deceased.
Yet such narratives of obesity are increasingly challenged.
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