From the moment of its release on December 11, 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada's decision on aboriginal title in the case of Delgamuukw v. British Columbia was immediately recognized as a landmark judgment. The Court ruled, unanimously and more forcefully than ever before, that Native people have a unique claim to their traditional lands, that provinces don't have the power to arbitrarily extinguish aboriginal title, and that Native oral history is a valid proof of such claims.Triumphantly welcomed by Native leaders and fiercely derided by its critics, the decision has unleashed a storm of controversy among Native and non-Native groups. This book presents the entire text of the Delgamuukw decision. The commentary by Stan Persky provides background information on the Gitxsan-Wet'sewet'en people of British Columbia, who brought the case to court, and analyzes the meaning of the decision.

Delgamuukw: The Supreme Court of Canada Decision on Aboriginal Title (David Suzuki Foundation Series,)

Persky, Stan

Univ of Washington Pr

Then We Take Berlin: Stories from the Other Side of Europe

Travel

Europe

Vintage Canada

<p>In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both the triumphs and tensions of reading and writing today. Evaluating works by established authors Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, J.M. Coetzee, and José Saramago, as well as emerging writers like Naomi Klein, Javier Cercas, and Chimamanda Adichie, Persky also showcases a remarkable group of reporters - Steve Coll, Dexter Filkins, and Rajiv Chandrasekaran - who have written essential books about global issues. An illuminating and accessible work about the present age, Reading the 21st Century introduces new ways of thinking about the world's most significant cultural, political, and moral problems.</p>

Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

McGill-Queen's University Press

The first decade of the twenty-first century was noteworthy for war, terror, religious revival, economic collapse, and a technological revolution that prompted countless critical responses and gave rise to a paradox: writing flourished, but reading declined. Reading the 21st Century investigates the urgent themes, major works, and crisis of reading in an era of instant communication. In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both the triumphs and tensions of reading and writing today. Evaluating works by established authors Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, J.M. Coetzee, and José Saramago, as well as emerging writers like Naomi Klein, Javier Cercas, and Chimamanda Adichie, Persky also showcases a remarkable group of reporters - Steve Coll, Dexter Filkins, and Rajiv Chandrasekaran - who have written essential books about global issues. An illuminating and accessible work about the present age, Reading the 21st Century introduces new ways of thinking about the world's most significant cultural, political, and moral problems.

<p>Cruising the chaotic world of the mind and body that emerged in post-Communist Eastern Europe, Stan Persky, author of the gay underground bestseller Buddy's: Meditations on Desire, witnessed first-hand the sexual and political demi-monde that flourished during this period of upheaval. In these provocative pieces about his odyssey, Persky fascinatingly and intelligently lays bare the underbelly of Berlin - its "boyopolis" - a world of gay bars, houses of pleasure and cabarets. As a gay writer, a teacher of philosophy and a journalist who grew up in Chicago in a Jewish/Italian neighborhood during the Cold War, Persky has a fascinating take on the reanimation of Berlin, whose underground thrived earlier in the century as chronicled by Isherwood, Spender and others.</p>

Boyopolis: Sex and Politics in Gay Eastern Europe

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Overlook Books

Buddy's is a gay bar in Vancouver's West End that opened in the spring of 1982 and closed in the summer of 1988. It was the starting point for this unusually frank and engaging portrait of gay life and gay culture in the late eighties. Shifting effortlessly between autobiography, fiction, and criticism, Buddy's is in turn shocking, erotic, witty, and moving, a study of life in a time of plague.

Buddy's: Meditations on Desire

LGBTQ+ Books

New Star Books

Fantasy Government: The Fall of Bill Vander Zalm and the Future of Social Credit

History

Americas

At the Lenin Shipyard: Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Son of Socred: Has Bill Bennett's government gotten B.C. moving again?

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