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Holiday Sale:
Two more weeks left!
40% off all titles
Resolved to do more reading? Good thing that until December 31st you can order books from BTL and get 40% off all print titles. Kick off the new year with great books! 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). Delivery: Please note that books will be shipped out the first week of 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 Share: Delicious Dishes from Foodshare and Friends! To enter, email info@btlbooks.com by January 4th with the subject line "December newsletter" and give us the name of either of the authors of the book (hint, see below). We will draw a winner from the correct responses (Canadian mailing addresses only please).
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Chosen for Open Book's 2015 Holiday Reading Guide
Unsettling Canada
A National Wake-Up Call
by Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson
Foreword by Naomi Klein
“Pragmatic and helpful, this is a timely book for our fraught and political moment”
– Quill & Quire
“This is the back story of both grassroots and backroom struggles that created the context in which we find ourselves today, one in which a new generation of First Nations leaders is demanding sovereignty and self-determination, and more and more non-Indigenous Canadians finally understand that huge swaths of this country we call Canada is not ours—or our government’s—to sell.” – Naomi Klein, from the Foreword
Order Unsettling Canada here!
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Stocking stuffer!
International Development
Illusions and realities
By Maggie Black
Part of the No-Nonsense series!
Read an excerpt here and buy the book here!
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.
This fully updated third edition makes a major contribution to the ongoing debate about the effectiveness of aid and development. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from international studies to personal stories, Maggie Black brings objective analysis and valuable insights to all the key themes. And she presents a forceful argument for bringing the poor and marginalised into the heart of the process.
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Stocking stuffer!
The Money Crisis:
How bankers grabbed our money- and how we can get it back again
By Peter Stalker
What exactly is money and what does it do? We might understand coins, notes, and gold bars but do we understand credit default swaps and sovereign wealth funds? In responding to these questions with concise historical analysis and demystifying language, Peter Stalker exposes the flaws in the system that led to financial crisis.
He reveals that this is not just a banking crisis, it is a crisis of money. A combination of deregulation, incompetence, and greed create the conditions for boom and bust. This concise book provides an understanding of these factors and the strategies that can take them out of the equation, so that ordinary people can regain control of money.
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Chosen for Open Book's 2015 Holiday Reading Guide
Deep Diversity
Overcoming Us vs Them
by Shakil Choudhury
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.
Get this great book here! |
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Chosen for Open Book's 2015 Holiday Reading Guide
Flight and Freedom
Stories of Escape to Canada
Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner
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.
Get this timely book here! |
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Great gift for the gourmet!
share:
Delicious Dishes from FoodShare
and Friends
by Adrienne De Francesco with Marion Kane
Foreword written by Frances Moore Lappé.
Featuring local produce and seasonal selections, share showcases the joy of healthy, affordable, culturally-diverse cooking and highlights the power of good food to bring people together. Celebrate fresh food and home-cooked meals with Adrienne De Francesco and Marion Kane, as they guide you through recipes that are thoughtfully selected, thoroughly tested, and thoroughly delicious.
Get a tasty copy here! |
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BTL book reviews
rabble.ca says "Flight and Freedom is an excellent book that benefits from the years of expertise of its co-writers and contributors. The 30 stories, which span two centuries and 25 countries of origin, are compellingly told, partly because they are extraordinary stories, but also due to the compassion and clarity brought to them by its curators."
 Herizon's Magazine says, "Many workers have Messing and her research collaborators to thank for their efforts to make jobs adaptable and safer, and readers will be thankful for her readable, important insights and reflections."
 3amMagazine listed Who's Afraid of the Black Blocs as one of their top reads in 2015 (though the BTL version is from a few years ago) |
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