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  • Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens

    Down and Out on the Silver Screen

    by Stephen Pimpare ...
    Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down & Out on the Silver Screen explores how American movies have portrayed poor and homeless people from the silent era to today. It provides a novel kind of guide to social policy, exploring how ideas about poor and homeless people have been reflected in popular culture and evaluating those images against the historical and contemporary reality. Richly ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • A People's History of Poverty in America

    by Stephen Pimpare ...
    In this compulsively readable social history, political scientist Stephen Pimpare vividly describes poverty from the perspective of poor and welfare-reliant Americans from the big city to the rural countryside. He focuses on how the poor have created community, secured shelter, and found food and illuminates their battles for dignity and respect.Through prodigious archival research and lucid ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A People's History of Poverty in America

    by Stephen Pimpare ...
    Series series New Press People's History
    In this award-winning history, "the voices of the poor give valuable insights into the experience of poverty" ( Choice ).Winner of the American Political Science Association's Michael Harrington AwardIn this compulsively readable social history, political scientist Stephen Pimpare vividly describes poverty from the perspective of poor and welfare-reliant Americans from the big city to the rural ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics for Social Workers

    A Practical Guide to Effecting Change

    by Stephen Pimpare ...
    The social work profession calls on its members to strive for social justice. It asks aspiring and practicing social workers to advocate for political change and take part in political action on behalf of marginalized people and groups. Yet this macro goal is often left on the back burner as the day-to-day struggles of working directly with clients take precedence. And while most social workers ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Politics for Social Workers

    A Practical Guide to Effecting Change

    by Stephen Pimpare ...
    The social work profession calls on its members to strive for social justice. It asks aspiring and practicing social workers to advocate for political change and take part in political action on behalf of marginalized people and groups. Yet this macro goal is often left on the back burner as the day-to-day struggles of working directly with clients take precedence. And while most social workers ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Seven Social Movements That Changed America

    by Linda Gordon ...
    A brilliantly conceived and provocative work from an award-winning historian that examines how seven twentieth-century social movements transformed America.How do social movements arise, wield power, and bring about meaningful change? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these and other salient questions in this “visionary, cautionary, timely, and utterly necessary book” (Nicole Eustace), ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • Freedom Ship

    The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea

    by Marcus Rediker ...
    **Winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award · Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award · A Library Journal Best History Book of the YearA definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroad’s long-overlooked maritime origins, from a pre-eminent scholar of Atlantic history and the award-winning author of The Slave Ship**As many as 100,000 enslaved people ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • A Measure of Intelligence

    One Mother's Reckoning with the IQ Test

    by Pepper Stetler ...
    In a quest to advocate for her daughter, Pepper Stetler uncovers the dark history of the IQ test, leading her to question what exactly we are measuring when we measure intelligence.When Pepper Stetler learned that her daughter, Louisa, who has Down Syndrome, would be required to take periodic IQ tests to secure support in school, she asked a simple question: Why? The hunt for an answer set Stetler ... Read more

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  • Lone Wolf

    Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness

    by Adam Weymouth ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION • A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2025 • One of The Telegraph’s Best Nature Books of 2025An intimate account of an epic walking journey through a tense and shifting Europe in the footsteps of one extraordinary wolf.**In the winter of 2011, a young wolf, named Slavc by the scientists who collared him, left his natal pack's territory in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Fight Oligarchy

    by Senator Bernie Sanders ...
    “Oligarchy is a system in which a small number of extremely wealthy individuals control the economic, political, and media life of a nation. It is a system in which ordinary people have very little power to determine the future of their country. If you’re an American, it is the system in which you’re living. That must change. In the wealthiest nation on earth we must build a political movement ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • How to Feed the World

    The History and Future of Food

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    An indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food—and a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planetWe have never had to feed as many people as we do today. And yet, we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary requirements shape us, and why this impacts our planet in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • An Outline of Philosophy. Illustrated

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    In An Outline of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell presents a clear and engaging exploration of fundamental philosophical questions, offering readers a comprehensive introduction to key areas of human thought. Originally published in 1927, this work examines the nature of knowledge, the relationship between mind and matter, the foundations of science, and the role of philosophy in everyday life. ... Read more

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