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  • The Lost Coyote

    by JOHN P. PORTELLI ...
    John P. Portelli's The Lost Coyote is a profound meditation on dislocation as a metaphysical state, an unflinching document of the human spirit's endurance amid catastrophic temporal and geographic rupture. This collection transcends mere memoir or political commentary, operating instead as a rigorous philosophical inquiry into the dialectic of belonging and exile, where the concept of "home" is ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unsilenced: Poems for Palestine

    Edited by John Portelli ...
    UNSILENCED: POEMS FOR PALESTINE is a collection of poems that convey profound emotions and serious reflections on the ongoing situation in Gaza and Palestine since the Nakba. The anthology seeks to express the moral outrage felt by poets from around the world, highlighting the perceived double standards of the West regarding international law and the suffering of the Palestinian people. The poems ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Education

    Introductory Readings

    by William Hare, John P. Portelli ...
    Revised and updated with 25 new essays, the fourth edition of this bestselling collection brings together more than 30 leaders in the field of educational theory. An engaging exploration of the ideas and trends shaping education in today’s classrooms, Philosophy of Education includes topics on high-stakes testing, consumerism in education, and social justice issues in the classroom. How can we ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Stephanie Chitpin, John P Portelli ...
    Series series Educational Leadership and Policy Decision-Making in Neoliberal Times
    This volume explores how educational policy is changing as a result of neoliberal restructuring and how these issues affect educators’ practice. Evidence-based chapters present a sharp analysis of neoliberal education policy while also offering suggestions and recommendations for future action to bring about change consistent with more robust understandings of democracy. Covering issues relating ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Student Engagement in Urban Schools

    Beyond Neoliberal Discourses

    Edited by Brenda J. McMahon, John P. Portelli ...
    Series series Issues in the Research, Theory, Policy, and Practice of Urban Education
    The focus of this book extends the discourse on student engagement beyond prescriptive definitions and includes substantive ethical and political issues relating to this concept. As such, this collection includes voices of educational theorists, practitioners, and students. It provides a counter discourse to the current dialogue on student engagement in educational theory and practice which equate ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

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    Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart

    by Coleman Barks ...
    Originally released in 2007, "Year of Rumi," to coincide with the poet's 800th birthday, by the pre-eminent Rumi poet Coleman Barks.In Rumi: Bridge to the Soul,Coleman Barks—who holds an honorary doctorate in Persian language and literature by the University of Tehran for his decades-long translations of Rumi—has collected and translated ninety new poems, most of them never published before in any ... Read more

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  • Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

    Poems from Gaza

    by Mosab Abu Toha ...
    Winner of the American Book Award, the Palestine Book Award and Arrowsmith Press's 2023 Derek Walcott Poetry PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Finalist“Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha’s accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with natural beauty."—The New York TimesIn this poetry debut Mosab Abu Toha writes about his life under siege in Gaza, first as a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rifqa

    by Mohammed El-Kurd ...
    Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd’s grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa—she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience.With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa’s exile from Haifa to his family’s current ... Read more

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  • Hold Everything Dear

    Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

    by John Berger ...
    Series series The Essential John Berger
    A powerful meditation on political resistance and the global search for justiceFrom the ‘War on Terror’ to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despair. Looking at ... Read more

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  • Sitt Marie Rose

    by Etel Adnan ...
    Fiction. Translated from the French by Georgina Kleege, SITT MARIE ROSE is an extraordinary novel on the Civil War in Lebanon. A small press bestseller, now in its ninth edition, it is the story of a woman abducted by militiamen during the civil war in Lebanon. Already a classic of war literature, it won the France-Pays Arabes award in Paris and has been translated into ten languages. It has been ... Read more

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  • The Corpse Washer

    by Sinan Antoon ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad’s Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, in defiance of his father’s wishes and determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate ... Read more

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  • Letters from Gaza

    Post October 2023, the first collection of in-the-moment reflections from the people of Gaza; written from the vortex of turmoil.

    by Mahmoud Alshaer, Mohammed Al-Zaqzooq ...
    LETTERS FROM GAZA is more than a book - it's a voice from the silence, a heartbeat in the wreckage. Through poetry, letters, and monologues, 30 Gazans lay bare their fears, grief, and relentless hope amid devastation. Since October 2023 the world has been witnessing the unfolding of the largest humanitarian crisis of this century. And the men, women and children spoken of around the world, fight ... Read more

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