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Holiday Sale!
40% off all titles
How about a holiday treat that is actually good for you? Treat your family, treat your friends, treat your colleagues, treat yourself to a fantastic Between the Lines title! From now until December 31st order books from BTL and get 40% off all print titles. To get this great deal at checkout use the promo code: btlholiday. Plus, if you order $50 or more you get free Canadian shipping ($100+ for free U.S. shipping).
Christmas delivery: For delivery by December 24th, orders must be placed before 9am on Monday, December 14th. Also, please note that orders placed after Dec 18th will be shipped in early January.
So many great titles to choose from, but we have a few ideas below!
World's easiest free book contest! Win a copy of Joe Hill by Franklin Rosemont. To enter, email info@btlbooks.com by November 30th with the subject line "November newsletter contest" and give us the name of the author of the book. We will draw a winner from the correct responses (Canadian mailing addresses only please).
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Announcing
Joe Hill
The IWW & the Making of A Revolutionary Working Class
By Franklin Rosemont
Note: This book was previously published by Charles H. Kerr (2003)
We couldn't pass this one up - a reprint of an important book on an amazing person. November 19th is the 100th anniversary of the execution of Joe Hill - the best-known figure in the heroic history of the Industrial Workers of the World (a.k.a. Wobblies). US labour’s most world-renowned martyr and celebrated songwriter, he is remembered above all for his songs in the Little Red Song Book: “The Preacher and the Slave” (“Pie in the Sky”), “Mr Block,” “There Is Power in a Union,” and many more that are still popular on picket lines today.
A monumental work that explores the issues that Joe Hill raised—capitalism, white supremacy, gender, religion, wilderness, law, prison, industrial unionism—and their enduring relevance and impact in the century since his death. Collected too is all of his art, plus scores of other illustrations featuring Hill-inspired art by IWWs from Ralph Chaplin to Carlos Cortez, as well as other labour artists.
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Stocking stuffer!
Renewable Energy:
Cleaner, fairer ways to power the planet
A No-Nonsense Guide
By Danny Chivers
Few people doubt the threat of climate change and the urgent need to conquer fossil fuel addiction. But can renewable sources of energy ever be sufficient to provide modern societies with a decent quality of life? This book is clear. They can. And it outlines the strategies to break the barriers to a 100% renewable world.
Danny Chivers presents a compelling introduction to renewable technologies for non-technical readers (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and ambient heat, wave and tidal, fuel crops, and energy from waste) and a roadmap to powering the world, not just sustainably, but democratically.
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social justice self help
Deep Diversity
Overcoming Us vs Them
by Shakil Choudhury
“Deep Diversity is a breakthrough book taking a giant step towards overcoming pervasive racism in our society." - Judy Rebick, writer, journalist, activist, author of Occupy This! and Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution
What if our interactions with those different from us are strongly influenced by things happening below the radar of awareness, hidden even from ourselves? Deep Diversity explores this question and argues that “us vs. them” is an unfortunate but normal part of the human experience due to reasons of both nature and nurture.
To really work through issues of racial difference and foster greater levels of fairness and inclusion, argues Shakil Choudhury, requires an understanding of the human mind—its conscious and unconscious dimensions. Deep Diversity integrates Choudhury’s twenty years of experience with interviews with researchers in social neuroscience, implicit bias, psychology, and mindfulness. Using a compassionate but challenging approach, Choudhury helps readers identify their own bias and offers practical ways to break the “prejudice habits” we have all learned, in order to tackle systemic discrimination.
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TIMELY GIFT
Flight and Freedom
Stories of Escape to Canada
Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner
“A riveting collection of refugee experiences.” – Radio Canada International
The global number of people currently displaced from their home country—more than 50 million—is higher than at any time since World War II. Yet in recent years Canada has deported, denied, and diverted countless refugees. Is Canada a safe haven for refugees or a closed door?
In Flight and Freedom, Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner present a collection of thirty astonishing interviews with refugees, their descendants, or their loved ones to document their extraordinary, and sometimes harrowing, journeys of flight. The stories span two centuries of refugee experiences in Canada: from the War of 1812—where an escaped slave and her infant daughter flee the United States to start a new life in Halifax—to the War in Afghanistan—where asylum seekers collide with state scrutiny and face the challenges of resettlement.
The idea of reducing poverty and inequality and improving health, education, and job opportunities around the world is beyond criticism. Yet, the reality of development can often be confusion, contradiction, deceit, and corruption.
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BTL events!
Keep up to date for BTL events on this page of our website!
 Marilyn Churley, author of Shameless will be doing a talk and signing on November 21st at Westminister Books, Fredericton, 11am. Details here.
Marilyn will also be speaking November 24th at the Happinez Wine Bar, St. John, 7pm. Details here.
 Ernie Regehr will be speaking in Waterloo October 29th at the Centre for the Advancement of Peace, Waterloo, 7pm. Details here.
The Toronto launch of Disarming Conflict: is November 23rd, Beit Zatoun, 7pm. Details here.
 Fiona Jeffries in conversation with Silvia Federici and David Harvey, December 2nd, 6pm, CUNY, NYC. Details here. |
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BTL books in the news
Deep Diversity author Shakil Choudhury was on CBC's Metro Morning show discussing the backlash against Muslims after the Paris attacks. Listen in here.
Flight and Freedom co-author Ratna Omidivar was on CBC's The Current discussing the Canadian response to the refugee crisis. Listen in here.
Ratna also wrote an editorial in the Globe & Mail "Private Sponsors Build a Nation - and Leave a Legacy."
 BTL author Ian McKay presented the talk "Vimy Traps: Canadians and the Contested Memory of World War One" at Queen's University and you can watch the fascinating talk here.
 Open Book Ontario released their "Chilly Fall Reading Guide" with titles that provide "some spookier, chillier, spine-tingling reads." After that you may need to reflect on all that fear and perhaps that is why included in this list is Nothing to Lose But our Fear!
An article by Dennis Gruending in the UCobserver explores the advice that Disarming Conflict author Ernie Regehr would give to the new government. |
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BTL book reviews
 Geist magazine says that the essays in Worth Fighting For "show that resistance is not marginal to Canadian history, rather it is central to the development of Canadian democracy."
 Intotemak says of A Line in the Tar Sands "I commend this book to all who are interested in more hopeful narratives than the ones that we so often uncritically adopt, the ones that are manufactured for our consumption by those who stand to profit most from them." |
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