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The Professor and the Plumber
Conversations About Equality and Inequality
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Two cousins meet for dinner. Who are they? Why is a plumber arguing with a professor? They begin to discuss one of the great problems of our time - inequality. Can they find solutions? Can they agree on the meaning of equality? Follow their...
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Women Unsilenced
Our Refusal to Let Torturer-Traffickers Win
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Women Unsilenced explores the impact of unthinkable violence committed against women and girls through multiple perspectives—women’s recall of life-threatening ordeals of torture, human trafficking, and organized crime, society’s failure to...
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Canadian Colonialism
Past and Present
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For anyone interested in Canadian history and past and present racism in Canada, this is a thoroughly researched exploration of Canada’s history of internal colonialism, starting in the mid-1800s. The author gives thirty examples of Canadian...
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Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible
Memoirs of Engagement with a Global Development Network
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Covering more than forty years, this engaging memoir chronicles Dr. Azim Jiwani’s journey from his early years of acquiring a wide-ranging medical education; his varied medical experiences in developed and developing societies; and his impetus...
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In The Grand Scheme Of Things
The making of inspiration through dog behaviour
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There is something much more fundamental to our social interactions today than just simple hello’s and goodbye’s. What if I said that levels of mental illness, obesity, mistrust, inequality, and rates of imprisonment in the human populous have a...
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Beautiful Brilliant and Brave
An homage to girls and women around the world who choose to think for themselves; to be trailblazers and to celebrate their greatness, with no apology.
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“THE BUILDING OF MOUNTAINS and wondrous structures becomes a whole lot easier, and extensively more sustainable, when we commit to celebrating each other’s successes, rather than expending time and energy tearing them down.”
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Wedding Wisdom
A Practical Guide to Personalizing Your Wedding
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From “Red Shag Carpet” to “Love During COVID-19", 26 surprising, tense, tear jerking or quirky anecdotes are found throughout this informative practical guide on personalizing, planning and performing weddings. Doreen Wuckert offers thorough step...
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You're Probably Not Crazy
A Book For Emotional Women, Written By an Emotional Woman
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If you have ever felt like your emotions have no place in either your professional life or your personal one, you’re not alone. Janine Jeanson has been there, and she’s determined to educate readers so we can break the cycle of unhealthy...
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The Life Of An Enigma
A Biographical Account of the Life and the Times of John Okogun Omovuon of Ewohimi (Ebhokimi), Nigeria
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The Life of an Enigma is an engaging read about an interesting and memorable life lived under uniquely challenging surroundings and times. The book is also an anthropological, sociological, and religious inquiry into the cultures and traditions...
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In Harm's Way: Professional Heath Care Workers at Risk
A critical argument for organizational change
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In 2014 CBC television and radio investigated the treatment of staff at a high-risk adolescent treatment/corrections centre in British Columbia, Canada. This is a government run facility that put their staff in "Harms Way". WorkSafeBC (The...
