A Chronicle of Finnish Settlements in Rural Thunder Bay: Bay Street Project No 2
Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society, 1987. Reprint. Paper Back. {5 & 7/8' x 9'} 3rd printing. [151 pages]. More
Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society, 1987. Reprint. Paper Back. {5 & 7/8' x 9'} 3rd printing. [151 pages]. More
Reaktion Books, October 2023. Hardcover. From the pleasures of mending to the problems of fast fashion, an intimate look at the creativity, community, and deep meaning sewed into every stitch. Tens of millions of people sew for necessity or pleasure every day, yet the craft is surprisingly under-appreciated. The Point..... More
Reaktion Books, October 2023. Hardcover. From the pleasures of mending to the problems of fast fashion, an intimate look at the creativity, community, and deep meaning sewed into every stitch. Tens of millions of people sew for necessity or pleasure every day, yet the craft is surprisingly under-appreciated. The Point..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 2023. Hardcover. A "remarkably candid and sensitive" (The Wall Street Journal) memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher. Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2024. Hardcover. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Kirkus, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, The Millions, Electric Literature, and them. "A profoundly urgent intervention." --Naomi Klein "A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in re-imagining collective..... More
Duquesne University Press; distributed by Humanities Press [New York], January 1974. Hardcover. More
Simon & Schuster, August 2013. Trade Paperback. An anniversary edition of the award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity--with a new note to readers by the..... More
Broadway, January 2013. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Experience the book that started the Quiet Movement and revolutionized how the world sees introverts--and how introverts see themselves--by offering validation, inclusion, and inspiration "Superbly researched, deeply insightful, and a fascinating read, Quiet is an indispensable resource for anyone..... More
MIT Press, October 1987. First Thus. Paper Back. Are children fundamentally different kinds of thinkers than adults? Or are the cognitive differences between young children and adults merely a matter of accumulation of knowledge? In this book, Susan Carey develops an alternative to these two ways of thinking about childhood..... More
University of Texas Press, January 1991. Oversize Softcover. All over Mexico, early in November, families gather to welcome the souls of the dead on their annual visit home. The smells of burning copal incense and pungent cempasĂșchil (marigolds) mingle with the aromas of fresh bread, new clothing, sweets, and candles..... More
Oxford University Press, March 1990. Stapled Soft Cover. The Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad each founded a system of thought which in its own way has shaped the lives and thinking of countless generations across the world. This unique volume presents four self-contained studies of the founders of the world's..... More
Beacon Press, June 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. The landmark story of how interracial love and marriage changed American history--and continues to alter the landscape of American politics When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation, punished..... More
Riverhead Books, October 2023. Hardcover. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece." --Ed Yong, author of An Immense World A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our..... More
Pluto Press, November 2023. Paper Back. 'Groundbreaking ... [provides] a deep history of the invention of the "normal" mind as one of the most damaging and oppressive tools of capitalism. To read it is to see the world more clearly' Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes 'Argues that a radical politics..... More
Doubleday, January 2024. Hardcover. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself. "[Filterworld] is about how algorithms changed culture...[Chayka asks]..... More
Wipf and Stock, October 2007. Trade Paperback. Beyond Loneliness and Institutions is about experimental villages for extraordinary people--these villages are communal, operate on a shared economy, reconstruct ancient social and cultural forms, and provide room for people with a rich variety of eccentric behaviors. Many people whom the sate classificatory..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2023. Paper Back. Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University..... More
North Atlantic Books, January 2024. Paper Back. For readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Robin Wall Kimmerer A body-based healing model that interrogates what we've been wrongly taught about hierarchies of nature and the body--and pushes back against the white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in..... More
Knopf, February 2024. Hardcover. A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought "Electric with insight, and suffused with a strange, stubborn tenderness--a deep regard for what intimacy, hope, and resistance might look like in a world..... More
For Beginners, October 2012. Trade Paperback. Do you appreciate your forty-hour, five-day workweek? Appreciate having a safe working environment? Unions made this all possible in one way or another. Unions bring value to all sectors of a society. As the champion of people power versus corporate power, unions help to..... More
Gibbs Smith Publishers, March 2004. Hardcover. The intense pressure of daily life gets to everyone eventually-we are all just too stressed out. The demands of modern lives-job, relationships, children, housework, exercise, meals, even spiritual fulfillment-combine to overwhelm and weigh us down. We seem to get through this struggle day by..... More
Duke University Press Books, August 2023. Paper Back. Speechifying collects the most important speeches of Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole-noted Black feminist anthropologist, the first Black female president of Spelman College, former director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art, and former chair and president of the National Council..... More
Little, Brown, January 1967. First Edition. Paper Back. First Delta paperback. [401 pages]. More
Harper Wave, February 2024. Hardcover. A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women's bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women's health. For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects..... More
University of Chicago Press, February 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback. The Law of the Other is an account of the English doctrine of the "mixed jury". Constable's excavation of the historical, rhetorical, and theoretical foundations of modern law recasts our legal and sociological understandings of the American jury and our..... More