Social science / Regional Studies

Hizmet: Questions and Answers on the Hizmet Movement

by Muhammed Cetin

“Hizmet”—or the Gülen Movement referring to name of the renowned Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen—originated in 1970s’ Turkey as a faith-inspired initiative to improve educational opportunities for...

Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

by Edward Keenan

Can a bad mayor make a city better?

The Beautiful and the Damned

by Siddhartha Deb

A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title Siddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the United States via a fellowship at Columbia. Six years after...

The Antelope's Strategy

by Jean Hatzfeld & Linda Coverdale

A powerful report on the aftereffects of the genocide in Rwanda—and on the near impossibility of reconciliation between survivors and killers

In two acclaimed previous works, the noted French journalist Jean...

Fishing and Folk: Life and Dialect on the North Sea Coast

by Bill Griffiths

With enormous enthusiasm for the language of ordinary northerners, this scenic portrait of coastal peoples combines history, etymology, and recollections to record a folk culture that strives to survive against...