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Inventing the Thrifty Gene

The Science of Settler Colonialism

by Travis Hay, Teri Redsky Fiddler ...

Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty Gene examines the relationship between science and settler colonialism through the lens of “Aboriginal diabetes” and the thrifty gene hypothesis, which posits that ... Read more

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Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty Gene examines the relationship between science and settler colonialism through the lens of “Aboriginal diabetes” and the thrifty gene hypothesis, which posits that
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Plundering the North

A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity

by Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay ...

Short-listed JW Dafoe Book Prize, 2024Short-listed Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2024The manufacturing of a chronic food crisisFood insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay examine the disturbing mechanics behind the origins of this crisis ... Read more

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Short-listed JW Dafoe Book Prize, 2024Short-listed Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2024The manufacturing of a chronic food crisisFood insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay examine the disturbing mechanics behind the origins of this crisis
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Abortion

History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler

by Shannon Stettner, Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay ...

When Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s best-known abortion rights advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess the state of abortion in this country. In Abortion, some of the foremost researchers in Canada challenge current thinking by revealing the discrepancy between what people are experiencing on the ground and what people believe the law to be after the 1988 Morgentaler decision ... Read more

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When Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s best-known abortion rights advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess the state of abortion in this country. In Abortion, some of the foremost researchers in Canada challenge current thinking by revealing the discrepancy between what people are experiencing on the ground and what people believe the law to be after the 1988 Morgentaler decision
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Understanding Atrocities

Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide

by Amarnath Amarasingam, Andrew R. Basso, Kristin Burnett, Lori Chambers, Laura Beth Cohen, Travis Hay, Stephen Leonard Jacobs, Lorraine Markotic, Sarah Minslow, Donia Mounsef, Adam Muller, Christopher Powell, Raffi Sarkissian ...

Series Book 1 - Arts in Action
Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask, among other ... Read more

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Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask, among other
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Transcending Borders

Abortion in the Past and Present

Edited by Shannon Stettner, Katrina Ackerman, Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France, ‘German East Africa,’ Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the pre-modern era, nineteenth ... Read more

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This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France, ‘German East Africa,’ Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the pre-modern era, nineteenth
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The Adventures of Ben and Travis and the WorryCoaster

by Ben Hayes & Travis Creasy ...

Ben and Travis were little kids with big imaginations, turning plastic bats into laser swords and ordinary days into epic adventures. But when their youth group is getting ready for a big trip to an amusement park, everyone is excited to go—everyone except Ben. He is overcome with an ever growing sense of dread. Good thing his best friend, Travis, is there to help him confront his fears with a ... Read more

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Ben and Travis were little kids with big imaginations, turning plastic bats into laser swords and ordinary days into epic adventures. But when their youth group is getting ready for a big trip to an amusement park, everyone is excited to go—everyone except Ben. He is overcome with an ever growing sense of dread. Good thing his best friend, Travis, is there to help him confront his fears with a
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Operation Bounce House

by Matt Dinniman ...

Narrated by Travis Baldree, Jeff Hays ...

Unabridged

10 hours 48 min

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl.All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do was run the family ranch with his sister, maybe play a gig or two with his band, and keep ... Read more

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl.All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do was run the family ranch with his sister, maybe play a gig or two with his band, and keep
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Of Monsters and Mainframes

by Barbara Truelove ...

Narrated by Chris Devon, Emana Rachelle, Charlie Albers, Eve Passeltiner, Zura Johnson, Cary Hite, Gail Shalan ...

Unabridged

12 hours 50 min

Spaceships aren’t programmed to seek revenge—but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception.Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to ... Read more

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Spaceships aren’t programmed to seek revenge—but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception.Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to
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The Book of Fallen Leaves

by A. S. Tamaki ...

Narrated by Kenichiro Thomson ...

Unabridged

23 hours 14 min

Shogun meets Game of Thrones in the blockbuster epic fantasy event of the year. A. S. Tamaki weaves a powerful tale of ambition, vengeance and sacrifice in this masterful fantasy retelling of an ancient Samurai saga, packed with memorable characters, stunning worldbuilding and epic adventure.Sen Hoshiakari is an exiled prince of a clan that lost everything in his father's failed rebellion. ... Read more

$58.99 CAD

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Shogun meets Game of Thrones in the blockbuster epic fantasy event of the year. A. S. Tamaki weaves a powerful tale of ambition, vengeance and sacrifice in this masterful fantasy retelling of an ancient Samurai saga, packed with memorable characters, stunning worldbuilding and epic adventure.Sen Hoshiakari is an exiled prince of a clan that lost everything in his father's failed rebellion.
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Cleopatra

A Novel

by Saara El-Arifi ...

Narrated by Adjoa Andoh ...

Unabridged

12 hours 18 min

**Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife.“Enchanting, smart, and subversive—this is El-Arifi’s masterpiece”—RF Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis**YOU KNOW MY NAME, BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.Your ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

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**Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife.“Enchanting, smart, and subversive—this is El-Arifi’s masterpiece”—RF Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis**YOU KNOW MY NAME, BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.Your
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Innamorata

by Ava Reid ...

Narrated by Moniqua Plante ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The House Of Teeth Duology
Unabridged

22 hours 21 min

A visionary and atmospheric gothic fantasy about necromancy, vengeance, and soul-consuming love, the first in a duology from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady MacbethOnce there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy.A conqueror’s blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

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A visionary and atmospheric gothic fantasy about necromancy, vengeance, and soul-consuming love, the first in a duology from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady MacbethOnce there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy.A conqueror’s blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing
... Read more

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The Red Winter

by Cameron Sullivan ...

Narrated by Imogen Church, Rory Barnett ...

Unabridged

16 hours 46 min

A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption."...narrator Rory Bennet voices Sarmodel like a French Peter Lorre, and it’s *chef’s kiss*" — Book Riot“...[Narrators Rory Barnett and Imogen Church] elevate the supernatural intrigue and psychological tension, keeping listeners fully engaged. A dark, witty listen blending horror and ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

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A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption."...narrator Rory Bennet voices Sarmodel like a French Peter Lorre, and it’s *chef’s kiss*" — Book Riot“...[Narrators Rory Barnett and Imogen Church] elevate the supernatural intrigue and psychological tension, keeping listeners fully engaged. A dark, witty listen blending horror and
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