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Meltdown in Tibet: China's
Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
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The Native Voice: The Story of How Maisie Hurley and Canada's First
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A Hard Man to Beat: The Story of Bill White, Labour Leader, Historian, Shipyard Worker, Raconteur
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Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users
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Our Ice is
Vanishing / Sikuvat Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change
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Stanley Park's Secret: The
Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point
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I'm Right and You're an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public
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Coding Democracy: How Hackers are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism
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Passion & Persistence: Fifty Years of the Sierra Club in British Columbia''
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Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care
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They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
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A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future
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Remembered in Bronze and Stone: Canada's Great War Memorial Statuary
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The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Toward a Greener Future
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The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-41
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The News We Deserve: The Transformation of Canada's Media Landscape
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In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver
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Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking
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Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater
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On the Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement''
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Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch, Frontier Physician''
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At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging
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Dysconnected: Humans Isolated by their Personal Technology
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Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children
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The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family
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Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis
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Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice
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The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century
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The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey
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George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature
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Just Cool It! The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do
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The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam
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241:Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver's Sex Trade
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473:The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
712:Jury: Trevor Carolan, Jane Curry, Beverley Cramp
641:Jury: Trevor Carolan, Jane Curry, George Johnson
590:Jury: George Brandak, Anne Chudyk, Beverly Cramp
344:Little Emperors: A Year with the Future of China
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143:A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming
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692:The Big Swim: Coming Ashore in a World Adrift
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630:Unmanned: Drone Warfare and Global Security
822:The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke
92:Field Day: Getting Society Out of School
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323:The Cellist of Sarajevo
214:Judge: Sharon Josephson
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419:Judge: Andrew Steeves
408:Where the Blood Mixes
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395:Elizabeth Bachinsky
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174:Leslie A. Robertson
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674:No Regrets
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507:Joel Bakan
51:Finalists
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