On Community by Casey Plett
We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it’s slipping away?
Social Studies
On Class by Deborah Dundas
“Dundas peels back the ways we think about poverty, the definitions of class, the way class intersects with the other –
‘isms,'”
No Second Chances: Women and Political Power in Canada by Kate Graham
Kate Graham’s book, No Second Chances: Women and Political Power in Canada, explores the few women who managed to get into the role of first minister – prime minister and premier – and what went wrong.
Hard Is the Journey: Stories of Chinese Settlement in British Columbia’s Kootenay by Lily Chow
In Hard Is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow exposes the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay, shedding light on the stories of those who risked everything and often lost their lives in building the Canada we know today.
The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials And Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital By Jesse Donaldson & Erika Dyck
From the street, New Westminster’s Hollywood Hospital didn’t look like much – just a rambling white mansion, mostly obscured behind the holly trees from which it took its name.
Secrets of the Sprakkar by Eliza Reid
The Canadian first lady of Iceland pens a book about why this tiny nation is leading the charge in gender equality, in the vein of The Moment of Lift.
Heroines Revisited: Photographs by Lincoln Clarkes
Heroines Revisited is a large format follow-up volume to the original Heroines: Photographs by Lincoln Clarkes that was released by Anvil in 2002. This new edition features over 150 portraits accompanied by three new critical essays that contextualize the five-year photo project and the controversial body of work.
Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface by Mark Kingwell
Wish I Were Here draws on philosophical analysis of boredom and happiness to examine the pressing issues of screen addiction and the lure of online outrage.