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  • Considering College 2-Book Bundle

    Dream Factories / What to Consider If You're Considering College

    This two-book bundle is an essential handbook for any student or parent considering college. Learn why a degree is no longer a passport to success in today's job market.Includes:Dream FactoriesThe “good jobs” of the past are almost gone. Today, many college graduates face unemployment while others face underemployment. Professors Ken Coates and Bill Morrison explore the death of the “good job,” ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canada's Colonies

    A History of the Yukon and Northwest Territories

    by Ken S. Coates ...
    Series series Canadian Issue
    Furs, gold, whales, oil--the reason for going north has always been to empty the treasure house. The northern territories are vast and sparsely populated, so southern Canadians have been content to consider the North a colony, not a true part of Canada.Since the first British naval expeditions to the "Frozen North," the history of the region has been romanticised. This book presents that history ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • What to Consider If You're Considering University

    New Rules for Education and Employment

    A degree is no longer a passport to success in today’s job market.Going to university used to be a passport to future success, but that’s no longer the case. For some students, it’s still a good choice that leads to a successful career after graduation, but for many their degrees are worthless pieces of paper. Choose the wrong program and graduation is more likely to lead to disillusionment and ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Modern North

    People, Politics and the Rejection of Colonialism

    Published in 1989, The Modern North examines the experience of the peoples of the Yukon and Northwest Territories from the Berger inquiry of 1975 and on-wards.Untangling the varied strands that make up the Northern tapestry--its resourceful peoples, its awesome physical landscape, its political and economic agenda in the late 1980s--they portray in vivid colours a society struggling to cast off ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Considering University 2-Book Bundle

    Dream Factories / What to Consider If You're Considering University

    This two-book bundle is an essential handbook for any student or parent considering university. Learn why a degree is no longer a passport to success in today's job market.Includes:Dream FactoriesThe “good jobs” of the past are almost gone. Today, many university graduates face unemployment while others face underemployment. Professors Ken Coates and Bill Morrison explore the death of the “good ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What To Consider if You're Considering College — The Big Picture

    Series series
    Going to college used to be a passport to future success, but that's no longer the case. For some students, it's still a good choice that leads to a successful career after graduation, but for many their degrees are worthless pieces of paper. Choose the wrong program and graduation is more likely to lead to disillusionment and debt than a steady paycheque.Yet parents, guidance counselors, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What To Consider if You're Considering College — Taking Action

    Series series
    Going to college used to be a passport to future success, but that's no longer the case. For some students, it's still a good choice that leads to a successful career after graduation, but for many their degrees are worthless pieces of paper. Choose the wrong program and graduation is more likely to lead to disillusionment and debt than a steady paycheque.Yet parents, guidance counselors, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What To Consider if You're Considering College — Knowing Your Options

    Series series
    Going to college used to be a passport to future success, but that's no longer the case. For some students, it's still a good choice that leads to a successful career after graduation, but for many their degrees are worthless pieces of paper. Choose the wrong program and graduation is more likely to lead to disillusionment and debt than a steady paycheque.Yet parents, guidance counselors, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What to Consider If You're Considering College

    New Rules for Education and Employment

    Going to college used to be a passport to future success, but that’s no longer the case. For some students, it’s still a good choice that leads to a successful career after graduation, but for many their degrees are worthless pieces of paper. Choose the wrong program and graduation is more likely to lead to disillusionment and debt than to a steady paycheck.Yet parents, guidance counsellors, and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dream Factories

    Why Universities Won't Solve the Youth Jobs Crisis

    Two professors look at the mystique around universities and the consequences of “credentialism.”For decades, we have promoted the idea that a university degree is a passport to future career success. Ken Coates and Bill Morrison argue that the over-promotion of higher education and university degrees is actually undermining the lives of young people, saddling them with enormous debts, and costing ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library

    Pike's Portage/Death Wins in the Arctic/Arctic Naturalist/Arctic Obsession/Arctic Twilight/Arctic Front/Canoeing North Into the Unknown/Arctic Revolution/In the Shadow of the Pole/Voices From the Odeyak

    Series series
    This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada’s history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this land, and the area will only become more strategically and economically important in the future. This bundle ... Read more

    $29.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What To Consider if You're Considering University — Knowing Your Options

    Series series
    Going to university used to be a passport to future success, but that’s no longer the case. For some students, it’s still a good choice that leads to a successful career after graduation, but for many their degrees are worthless pieces of paper. Choose the wrong program and graduation is more likely to lead to disillusionment and debt than a steady paycheque.Yet parents, guidance counselors, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus