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Endgame - Economic Nationalism And Global Decline

by Jamie Merchant

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 A historical perspective on the end of globalization.
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On Community

by Casey Plett

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 Finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction • Finalist for the 2024 Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature • One of CBC Books'' Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the Fall • A Tyee Best Book of 2023 • A CBC Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 • A Hamilton Review of Books Best Book of 2023 • An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of 2023 We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it''s slipping away?We are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex as the beliefs we share, or as intentional as those we call family. In an episodic personal essay, Casey Plett draws on a range of firsthand experiences to start a conversation about the larger implications of community as a word, an idea, and a symbol. With each thread a cumulative definition of community, and what it has come to mean to Plett, emerges.Looking at phenomena from transgender literature, to Mennonite history, to hacker houses of Silicon Valley, and the rise of nationalism in North America, Plett delves into the thorny intractability of community''s boons and faults. Deeply personal, authoritative in its illuminations, On Community is an essential contribution to the larger cultural discourse that asks how, and to what socio-political ends, we form bonds with one another.
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States Of Incarceration - Rebellion, Reform, And America’S Punishment System

by Jarrod Shanahan e Zhandarka Kurti

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 Examines how race, class and punishment shape American society today.
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On Risk

by Mark Kingwell

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 With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it?
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On Writing And Failure - Or, On The Peculiar Perseverance Required To Endure The Life Of A Writer

by Stephen Marche

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 Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it. Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to prepare them. Less a guide to writing and more a guide to what you need to continue existing as a writer, On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer describes the defining role played by rejection in literary endeavors and contemplates failure as the essence of the writer’s life. Along with his own history of rejection, Marche offers stories from the history of writerly failure, from Ovid’s exile and Dostoevsky’s mock execution to James Baldwin''s advice just to endure, where living with the struggle and the pointlessness of writing is the point.
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On Browsing

by Jason Guriel

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 Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award A defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon—and gaining new appreciation—amidst the bins and shelves of bricks-and-mortar shops.Written during the pandemic, when the world was marooned at home and consigned to scrolling screens, On Browsing’s essays chronicle what we’ve lost through online shopping, streaming, and the relentless digitization of culture. The latest in the Field Notes series, On Browsing is an elegy for physical media, a polemic in defense of perusing the world in person, and a love letter to the dying practice of scanning bookshelves, combing CD bins, and losing yourself in the stacks.
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On Decline - Stagnation, Nostalgia, And Why Every Year Is The Worst One Ever

by Andrew Potter

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 COVID-19 has exposed weaknesses across all aspects of society. What can it tell us about the reality of Western civilization?
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On Class

by Deborah Dundas

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 Shortlisted for the 2024 Speaker''s Book Award • Nominated for the 2024 Heritage Toronto Book Award • A Hamilton Review of Books Best Book of 2023Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn’t make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with the poor and those who are poor about what happens when we don’t talk about poverty or class—and what will happen when we do. Growing up poor, Deborah Dundas knew what it meant to want, to be hungry, and to long for social and economic dignity; she understood the crushing weight of having nothing much expected of you. But even after overcoming many of the usual barriers faced by lower- and working-class people, she still felt anxious about her place, and even in relatively safe spaces reluctant to broach the subject of class. While new social movements have generated open conversation about gender and racism, discussions of class rarely include the voices of those most deeply affected: the working class and poor.On Class is an exploration of the ways in which we talk about class: of who tells the stories, and who doesn’t, which ones tend to be repeated most often, and why this has to change. It asks the question: What don’t we talk about when we don’t talk about class? And what might happen if, nally, we did?
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On The Origin Of The Deadliest Pandemic In 100 Years - An Investigation

by Elaine Dewar

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 In this compelling whodunnit, Elaine Dewar reads the science, follows the money, and connects the geopolitical interests to the spin.When the first TV newscast described a SARS-like flu affecting a distant Chinese metropolis, investigative journalist Elaine Dewar started asking questions: Was SARS-CoV-2 something that came from nature, as leading scientists insisted, or did it come from a lab, and what role might controversial experiments have played in its development? Why was Wuhan the pandemic''s ground zero—and why, on the other side of the Atlantic, had two researchers been marched out of a lab in Winnipeg by the RCMP? Why were governments so slow to respond to the emerging pandemic, and why, now, is the government of China refusing to cooperate with the World Health Organization? And who, or what, is DRASTIC?Locked down in Toronto with the world at a standstill, Dewar pored over newspapers and magazines, preprints and peer-reviewed journals, email chains and blacked-out responses to access to information requests; she conducted Zoom interviews and called telephone numbers until someone answered as she hunted down the truth of the virus’s origin. In this compelling whodunnit, she reads the science, follows the money, connects the geopolitical interests to the spin—and shows how leading science journals got it wrong, leaving it to interested citizens and junior scientists to pull out the truth.
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Smart Machines And Service Work - Automation In An Age Of Stagnation

by Jason E. Smith

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 A trenchant exposÃ© of workersâ€™ struggles in our age of â€˜smart machinesâ€™.
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Smart Machines And Service Work - Automation In An Age Of Stagnation

by Jason E. Smith

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 A trenchant exposÃ© of workersâ€™ struggles in our age of â€˜smart machinesâ€™.
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On Property - Policing, Prisons, And The Call For Abolition

by Rinaldo Walcott

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 Nominated for the Heritage Toronto Book Award • Longlisted for the Toronto Book Awards • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 From plantation rebellion to prison labour''s super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we’ve organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd’s death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How did we get here? And what does property have to do with it? In On Property, Rinaldo Walcott explores the long shadow cast by slavery’s afterlife and shows how present-day abolitionists continue the work of their forebears in service of an imaginative, creative philosophy that ensures freedom and equality for all. Thoughtful, wide-ranging, compassionate, and profound, On Property makes an urgent plea for a new ethics of care.
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On Decline - Stagnation, Nostalgia, And Why Every Year Is The Worst One Ever

by Andrew Potter

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 COVID-19 has exposed weaknesses across all aspects of society. What can it tell us about the reality of Western civilization?
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No Home For You Here - A Memoir Of Class And Culture

by Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

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 A timely, passionate call for class consciousness in a time of staggering inequality.
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On Risk

by Mark Kingwell

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 With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it?
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Hinterland - America''S New Landscape Of Class And Conflict

by Phil A. Neel

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 <div>Over the last forty years, the human landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. The metamorphosis is partially visible in the ascendance of glittering, coastal hubs for finance, infotech, and the so-called creative class. But this is only the tip of an economic iceberg, the bulk of which lies in the darkness of the declining heartland or on the dimly lit fringe of sprawling cities. This is America’s hinterland, populated by towering grain threshers and hunched farmworkers, where laborers drawn from every corner of the world crowd into factories and "fulfillment centers" and where cold storage trailers are filled with fentanyl-bloated corpses when the morgues cannot contain the dead. Urgent and unsparing, this book opens our eyes to America’s new heart of darkness. Driven by an ever-expanding socioeconomic crisis, America’s class structure is recomposing itself in new geographies of race, poverty, and production. The center has fallen. Riots ricochet from city to city led by no one in particular. Anarchists smash financial centers as a resurgent far right builds power in the countryside. Drawing on his direct experience of recent popular unrest, from the Occupy movement to the wave of riots and blockades that began in Ferguson, Missouri, Phil A. Neel provides a close-up view of this landscape in all its grim but captivating detail. Inaugurating the new Field Notes series, published in association with the Brooklyn Rail, Neel’s book tells the intimate story of a life lived within America’s hinterland.</div>
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The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles

by Jason Guriel

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The Kingdom Of Redonda - The Curious History Of The Kingdom Of Redonda

by Michael Hingston

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Ideas Of Reference - A Memoir Of The Uncanny

by Mike Barnes

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On Browsing

by Jason Guriel

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On The Origin Of The Worst Pandemic In 100 Years - An Investigation

by Elaine Dewar

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The Piano Teacher - A Healing Key

by Dorothy Dittrich

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Moving The Centre - Two Plays: Small Axe & Freedom Singer

by Andrew Kushnir e Khari Wendell Mcclelland

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On Property - Policing, Prisons, And The Call For Abolition

by Rinaldo Walcott

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