Social Science, Sociology
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Self Reliance and Humanitarian Convergence
by Harry O'Connell
Have you ever speculated about what society will look like in 100 years? Will future societies be more cohesive or manifest greater conflict? What factors are essential to insure society makes the most appropriate adaptations to prosper? What are...
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Loving My Gay Child
A Mother's Journey to Acceptance by Sushma Agarwal
Like many parents, Sushma and Vijay Agarwal expected both of their sons to grow up, marry a lovely girl, and raise a family. When their younger son told them in 2004 that he was gay, Sushma was devastated. She wanted to know why this had happened...
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Clio's Bastards
Or, the Wrecking of History and the Perversion of Our Historical Consciousness by Curtis R. McManus
Clio’s Bastards uses an examination of the discipline of history in Canadian universities as the point of entry for a much larger exploration of the intellectual, spiritual, and moral crisis confronting Western civilization today. Over the past...
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Being 2.0
On Culture, Belonging, and Identity by Razique Mahroua
To which degree does said culture define oneself and one’s choices? Can one shed the layers of cultural conditioning past the thickness education creates? Being 2.0 aims to reflect on such questions and offer the reader a transpersonal experience...
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Gender Unchained
Notes from the equity frontier by Lorraine Greaves and Nancy Poole
Equity remains elusive in contemporary global society. Gendered inequities abound and persist but are typically overlooked in our responses to difficult problems such as climate change, poverty, or economic crisis. Despite this blind spot, gender...
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Bride Price
Lobola Narrative And Interpretation by Jonas Darko-Yeboah, Ph.D. and Tafadzwa Nyandoro
When Kofi and Pam, a young couple living in urban Calgary, got engaged, they decided to honour their African traditions, travelling to Ruwa, Zimbabwe to perform the Lobola (Bride Price) Ceremony prior to the Western-style wedding ceremony they...
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Global Discontent: The Mosaic of Cultural Diversity
by Manouchehr Pedram, Ph.D
There are more similarities between the 7 billion people worldwide than there are differences, and global harmony, instead of widespread conflict, is possible. The “global mosaic” of our lives: lifestyle, culture, nationality, race, religion,...
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Iconic Ideas in the History of Social Thought
by Wsevolod W. Isajiw
The book distinguishes a number of types of social thought and traces their history from “tribal” times until present day. It shows that human beings thought systematically about their societies very early in their development, even if only...
