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  • Powering Up Canada

    A Short History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600

    by R.W. Sandwell ...
    With growing concerns about the security, cost, and ecological consequences of energy use, people around the world are becoming more conscious of the systems that meet their daily needs for food, heat, cooling, light, transportation, communication, waste disposal, medicine, and goods. Powering Up Canada is the first book to examine in detail how various sources of power, fuel, and energy have ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Canada's Rural Majority

    Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870-1940

    by R.W. Sandwell ...
    Series series Themes in Canadian History
    Before the Second World War, Canada was a rural country. Unlike most industrializing countries, Canada’s rural population grew throughout the century after 1871 – even if it declined as a proportion of the total population. Rural Canadians also differed in their lives from rural populations elsewhere. In a country dominated by a harsh northern climate, a short growing season, isolated households ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • In a New Light

    Histories of Women and Energy

    Edited by Abigail Harrison Moore, R.W. Sandwell ...
    In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of industrialized work as factories and mines. But while energy studies are beginning to acknowledge the importance of social and historical contexts and to produce more inclusive ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Historical GIS Research in Canada

    by Jennifer Bonnell, Marcel Fortin, Colleen Beard, Stephen Bocking, Jim Clifford, Joanna Dean, Francois Dufaux, Patrick A. Dunae, Jason Gilliland0, William M. Glen1, Megan Harvey2, Matthew G. Hatvany3, Sally Hermansen4, Andrew Hinson5, Don Lafreniere6, John S. Lutz7, Joshua D. MacFadyen8, Daniel Macfarlane9, Jennifer Marvin0, Cameron Metcalf1, Byron Moldofsky2, Sherry Olson3, Jon Pasher4, Daniel Rueck5, R. W. Sandwell6, Henry Yu7, Barbara Znamirowski8 ...
    Series Book 2 - Canadian History and Environment
    Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in Canada are few and publications that discuss these projects directly even fewer. This book brings ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Empire of Things

    How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

    by Frank Trentmann ...
    The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 yearsWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers, and even public services are presented to us as products in a supermarket. In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Crimes Against Nature

    capitalism and global heating

    by Jeff Sparrow ...
    A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis, which argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action.Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issue of our times. It takes the familiar narrative about global warming — the one in which we are ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Luck of the Karluk

    Shipwrecked in the Arctic

    by L.D. Cross ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    When the members of Canada’s First Arctic Expedition set out from Victoria aboard HMCS Karluk in the summer of 1913, it was a moment of great optimism. The three-year mission would chart unexplored landmasses of the Western Arctic and secure Canada’s place in the international geographic community. Little did the team of distinguished scholars and scientists realize, however, how their hopes would ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • War of 1812: The Niagara Frontier, Illustrated

    by B J Lossing ...
    The story of the war along the Niagara River between Lakes Ontario and Erie. ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • Environmental Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Elizabeth Fisher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques. In theory, environmental protection is a no brainer. Few people would actively argue for pollution or environmental destruction. Ensuring a clean environment is ethically desirable, and also sensible ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • How to Think Seriously About the Planet

    The Case for an Environmental Conservatism

    by Roger Scruton ...
    The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the over-exploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet, and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution. In How to Think Seriously About the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects this view and offers a fresh approach to tackling the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Nova Scotia Shaped by the Sea: A Living History

    by Lesley Choyce ...
    The history of Nova Scotia is an amazing story of a land and people shaped by the waves, the tides, the wind and the wonder of the North Atlantic. Lesley Choyce weaves the legacy of this unique coastal province, piecing together the stories written in the rocks, the wrecks and the record books of human glory and error. In this true-life adventure, he provides a down-to-earth journey through the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Environmental Politics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Dobson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Environmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesale business decisions, and fluctuates between a politics of protest and one of accommodation. In this Very Short Introduction Andrew Dobson offers a lively and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD