Between the Lines

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A left publishing house founded in Toronto in 1977, publishing books on labour, Canadian political economy, colonialism and social movements.

Years: 1977–present
Location: Toronto, Canada
Affiliation: Independent left
Languages: English
Authority records: Wikidata
Sources: Wikipedia — Between the Lines Books

Backlist

Titles of Between the Lines by year: 433 dated titles, 1977–2026, most in 2000 (30); 2 undated. Lines mark founded 1977.

The figures by decade

Decade	Titles
1970s	6
1980s	54
1990s	66
2000s	127
2010s	115
2020s	65

Year	Title	Author(s)	Language
1977	Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada✓ — Essays from the Marxist Institute of Toronto	Craig Heron & Marxist Institute of Toronto	English
1977	The Big Nickel✓ — Inco at Home and Abroad	Jamie Swift	English
1978	Getting Doctored✓ — Critical Reflections on Becoming a Physician	Martin Shapiro	English
1978	Reading, Writing, and Riches✓ — Education and the Socio-Economic Order in North America	Randle W. Nelsen & David A. Nock	English
1979	Perceptions of Apartheid — The Churches and Political Change in South Africa	Ernie Regehr	English
1979	The Phone Book✓ — Working at the Bell	Joan Newman Kuyek	English
1980	Acid Rain, the Silent Crisis✓	Phil Weller	English
1980	The Land of Milk and Money✓ — The National Report of the People's Food Commission	People's Food Commission	English
1981	Bitter Grounds✓ — Roots of Revolt in El Salvador Perspectives on Underdevelopment	Liisa North	English
1981	Perpetuating Poverty✓ — The Political Economy of Canadian Foreign Aid Perspectives on Underdevelopment	Robert Carty	English
1981	Power to Choose✓ — Canada's Energy Options	—	English
1982	Acid Rain✓ — The silent crisis	Phil Weller	Not recorded
1982	Banking on Poverty✓ — The Global Impact of the IMF and World Bank Perspectives on Underdevelopment	Jill Torrie	English
1982	Bitter Grounds✓ — Roots of Revolt in El Salvador Perspectives on Underdevelopment	Liisa L. North	English
1982	Chemical Nightmare✓ — The Unnecessary Legacy of Toxic Wastes	John Jackson	English
1982	Getting There — Producing Photo-Stories with Immigrant Women	Deborah Barndt	English
1982	Ties That Bind✓ — Canada and the Third World Perspectives on Underdevelopment	Richard Swift & Robert Clarke	English
1983	Banking on Poverty✓ — The Global Impact of the IMF & World Bank Perspectives on Underdevelopment	Jill Torrie	English
1983	Chemical Nightmare✓ — The Unnecesary Legacy of Toxic Wastes	John Jackson	English
1983	Cut and Run✓ — The Assault on Canada's Forests Ecology and Resources	Jamie Swift	English
1983	Electric Empire✓ — The Inside Story of Ontario Hydro	Paul McKay	English
1983	The Women's Work Book✓	—	English
1983	The Women's Workbook✓	—	English
1984	Cut and Run✓ — The Assault on Canada's Forests	Jamie Swift	English
1984	Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada✓	Michael Czerny	English
1984	Gift of the Devil✓ — A History of Guatemala Perspectives on Underdevelopment	Jim Handy	English
1984	Movements and Messages✓ — Media and Radical Politics in Quebec	Marc Raboy	English
1984	Stampede City✓ — Power and Politics in the West	Chuck Reasons	English
1985	Bitter Grounds✓ — Roots of Revolt in El Salvador Perspectives on Underdevelopment	Liisa J. North	English
1985	Canadian Multinationals✓	Jorge E. Niosi	English
1985	Jump Cut✓ — Hollywood, Politics, and Counter-cinema	—	English
1985	Mirrors of War✓ — Literature and Revolution in El Salvador	Gabriela Yanes, Manuel Sorto, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Lyn Sorto & Keith Ellis	English
1985	Prairie Lives✓ — The Changing Face of Farming	Lois L. Ross	English
1985	South African Women on the Move✓	Jane Barrett	English
1986	Children of the Volcano✓	Alison Acker	English
1986	First Contract✓ — Women and the Fight to Unionize	Carole Condé	English
1986	Images in Action. A Guide to Using Women's Film and Video✓	Ferne Cristall & Barbara Emanuel	English
1986	Old passions, new visions✓ — Social movements and political activism in Quebec	Marc Raboy	English, French
1986	Quiet Complicity✓ — Canadian Involvement in the Vietnam War	Victor Levant	English
1986	Roots of Peace✓ — The Movement Against Militarism in Canada	Eric Shragge	English
1987	Case Critical✓ — The Dilemma of Social Work in Canada	Ben Carniol	English
1987	Frontyard, backyard✓ — The Americas in the global crisis Perspectives on underdevelopment series	John Holmes	English
1987	Silver Threads✓ — Critical Reflections on Growing Old	Doris Marshall	English
1987	The Perfect Machine✓ — TV in the Nuclear Age	Joyce Nelson	English
1987	Work and New Technologies✓ — Other Perspectives Socialist Studies; 3	Christian DeBresson, Margaret Lowe Benston & Jesse Vorst	English, French
1988	Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada✓	Michael Czerny	English
1988	Honduras✓ — The Making of a Banana Republic Perspectives on Underdevelopment	Alison Acker	English
1988	Silver threads — Critical reflections on growing old	Doris Marshall	Not recorded
1988	Social movements✓ Socialist studies; 4	Frank Cunningham	Not recorded
1988	Social Movements/social Change✓ — The Politics and Practice of Organizing	—	English
1988	Talking Back✓ — Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black	bell hooks	English
1988	The Colonized Eye✓ — Rethinking the Grierson Legend	Joyce Nelson	English
1989	Coffee and Democracy in Modern Costa Rica✓	Anthony Winson	English
1989	Healing the Wounds✓ — The Promise of Ecofeminism	—	English
1989	Intifada✓ — The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation	—	English
1989	Northern Shadows✓ — Canadians and Central America	Peter McFarlane	English
1989	Race, Class, Gender✓ — Bonds and Barriers Socialist Studies = Études Socialistes -- 5	—	English
1989	Raymond Williams on Television✓ — Selected Writings	Raymond Williams	English
1989	Sultans of Sleaze✓ — Public Relations and the Media	Joyce Nelson	English
1989	Talking Back✓ — Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black	bell hooks	English
1990	Between War and Peace in Central America✓ — Choices for Canada	Liisa L. North & Canada Caribbean Central America Policy Alternatives Organization	English
1990	Case Critical✓ — Challenging Social Work in Canada	Ben Carniol	English
1990	Cracking the Canadian Formula✓ — The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union	Wayne Roberts	English
1990	Cut and Run✓ — The Assault on Canada's Forests	Jamie Swift	Not recorded
1990	Fresh Water Seas✓ — Saving the Great Lakes	Phil Weller	English
1990	Lesbians in Canada✓ — Edited by Sharon Dale Stone	Sharon Dale Stone	English
1990	Writers in Prison✓	Ioan Davies	English
1991	Breaking Bread✓ — Insurgent Black Intellectual Life	bell hooks	English
1991	Conflicts of Interest✓ — Canada and the Third World	Jamie Swift & Brian Tomlinson	English
1991	Quebec and the American Dream✓ — Robert Chodos, Eric Hamovich	Robert Chodos	English
1991	Quebec and the American Dream / Robert Chodos, Eric Hamovitch	Robert Chodos	English
1991	The Culture of Nature✓ — North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez	Alexander Wilson	English
1991	To Change This House: Popular Education Under the Sandinistas	Deborah Barndt	English
1992	Bittersweet Passage✓ — Redress and the Japanese Canadian Experience	Maryka Omatsu	English
1992	Black Looks✓ — Race and Representation	bell hooks	English
1992	Madness and Ruin✓ — Politics and the Economy in the Neoconservative Age	Mel Watkins	English
1992	Madness and Ruin: Politics and Economy in the Neoconservative Age	Mel Watkins	English
1992	Maritime Radical✓ — The Life & Times of Roscoe Fillmore	Nicholas Fillmore	English
1992	Sign Crimes/road Kill✓ — From Mediascape to Landscape	Joyce Nelson	English
1992	Struggle for the Land✓ — Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Expropriation in Contemporary North America	Ward Churchill	English
1993	Brink of Reality✓ — New Canadian Documentary Film and Video	Peter Steven	English
1993	Brotherhood to Nationhood✓ — George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement	Peter McFarlane	English
1993	Orphans of the Storm✓ — Peacebuilding for Children of War	John R. Walker	English
1993	Recolonization and Resistance — Southern Africa in the 1990s	John S. Saul	English
1993	Rituals of Failure✓ — What Schools Really Teach	Sandro Contenta	English
1993	Sisters of the Yam✓ — Black Women and Self-Recovery	bell hooks	English
1994	Capitalism Comes to the Backcountry✓ — The Goodyear Invasion of Napanee	Bryan D. Palmer	English
1994	Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada✓	Michael Czerny	English
1994	Indians Are US?✓ — Culture and Genocide in Native North America	Ward Churchill	English
1994	Shifting Time✓ — Social Policy and the Future of Work	Armine Yalnizyan	English
1994	Talking About Difference✓ — Encounters in Culture, Language, and Identity	Carl E. James & Adrienne Lynn Shadd	English
1995	A Beauty That Hurts✓ — Life and Death in Guatemala	W. George Lovell	English
1995	Case Critical✓ — Challenging Social Services in Canada	Ben Carniol	English
1995	Progress Without People✓ — New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance	David Franklin Noble	English
1995	Thinking Union✓ — Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement	D'Arcy Martin	English
1995	Wheel of Fortune✓ — Work and Life in the Age of Falling Expectations	Jamie Swift	English
1996	McLuhan's Children✓ — The Greenpeace Message and the Media	Stephen Dale	English
1996	Out Our Way✓ — Gay and Lesbian Life in the Country	Michael Riordon	English
1996	We Lived a Life and Then Some✓ — The Life, Death, and Life of a Mining Town	Charlie Angus	English
1996	Whose Brave New World?✓ — The Information Highway and the New Economy	Heather Menzies	English
1997	Biopiracy✓ — The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge	Vandana Shiva	English
1997	Development and Disorder✓ — A History of the Third World Since 1945	Michael Mason	English
1997	From the Ground Up✓ — An Italian Immigrant's Story	Frank Colantonio	English
1997	Progress Without People✓ — New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance	David F. Noble	English
1997	The New Wealth of Nations✓ — Taxing Cyberspace	Arthur J. Cordell, Ran T. Cordell & Karin Kamp	English
1997	Wild Garden✓ — Art, Education and the Culture of Resistance	Dian Marino	English
1998	Enter at Your Own Risk✓ — Canadian Youth and the Labour Market	Richard Marquardt	English
1998	Hidden Lives✓ — Voices of Children in Latin America and the Caribbean	Duncan Green	English
1998	Industrial Cathedrals of the North✓ — Les Cathédrales Industrielles du Nord	Charlie Angus	English, French
1998	Premature Bonanza✓ — Standoff at Voisey's Bay	Mick Lowe	English
1998	The a to Z of World Development✓ — A Unique Reference Book on Global Issues for the New Century	Andy Crump	English
1998	The Culture of Nature✓ — North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez	Alexander Wilson	English
1998	The Mountie from Dime Novel to Disney✓	Michael Dawson	English
1998	To Set the Captives Free✓ — Liberation Theology in Canada	Oscar L. Arnal	English
1998	Waking up in the Men's Room✓ — A Memoir	Catherine Macleod	English
1999	Basic Income✓ — Economic Security for All Canadians	Sally C. Lerner	English
1999	Celebration of Resistance✓ — Ontario's Days of Action	Vincenzo Pietropaolo	English
1999	Civil Society in Question✓	Jamie Swift	English
1999	Equal Shares✓ — Oodi Weavers and the Cooperative Experience	Dennis Lewycky	English
1999	Industrial Cathedrals of the North✓ — Les Cathédrales Industrielles du Nord	Louie Palu	English
1999	Making Our Mark✓ — Labour Arts and Heritage in Ontario	Karl Beveridge	English
1999	Real Bodies✓	Maggie Helwig	English
1999	Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet✓ — Work Time, Consumption, and Ecology	Anders Hayden	English
1999	Street-Level Democracy✓ — Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power	Jonathan Barker	English
1999	The Second Greatest Disappointment✓ — Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls	Karen Dubinsky	English
1999	Whose Brave New World?✓ — The Information Highway and the New Economy	Heather Menzies	English
2000	A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala	W. George (William George) Lovell	English
2000	AIDS Activist✓ — Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community	Ann Silversides	English
2000	An Action a Day✓ — Keeps Global Capitalism Away	Mike Hudema	English
2000	Better to Have Loved✓ — The Life of Judith Merril	Emily Pohl-Weary	English
2000	Bittersweet Passage✓ — Redress and the Japanese Canadian Experience	Maryka Omatsu	English
2000	Blood Relations✓ — Animals, Humans, and Politics	Charlotte Montgomery	English
2000	Booze✓ — A Distilled History	Craig Heron	English
2000	Case Critical✓ — Challenging Social Services in Canada	Ben Carniol	English
2000	Closing the Circle✓ — Democratization and Development in Africa	Richard Sandbrook	English
2000	Compass Points✓ — Navigating the Twentieth Century	Robert Chodos	English
2000	Development and Disorder✓ — A History of the Third World Since 1945	Mike Mason	English
2000	Enter at Your Own Risk✓ — Canadian Youth and the Labour Market	Richard Marquardt	English
2000	Feminists Under Fire✓ — Exchanges Across War Zones	Wenona Mary Giles, Malathi de Alwis & Edith S. Klein	English
2000	Getting There✓ — Producing Photostories with Immigrant Women	Deborah Barndt, Ferne Cristall & Dian Marino	English
2000	Images in Action✓ — A Guide to Using Women's Film and Video	Ferne Cristall & Barbara Emanuel	English
2000	Jump Cut✓ — Hollywood, Politics and Counter Cinema	Peter Steven	English
2000	Memoirs of a Media Maverick✓	Boyce Richardson	English
2000	My Journey with Jake✓ — A Memoir of Parenting and Disability, 4th Edition	Miriam Edelson	English
2000	Race to Equity✓ — Disrupting Educational Inequality	McCaskellTim	English
2000	Race, Space, and the Law✓ — Unmapping a White Settler Society	Sherene Razack	English
2000	Rebels, Reds, Radicals✓ — Rethinking Canada's Left History	Ian McKay	English
2000	Shifting Time✓ — Social Policy and the Future of Work	Armine Yalnizyan, T. Ran Ide & Arthur Cordell	English
2000	Skills Mania✓ — Snake Oil in Our Schools?	Bob Davis	English
2000	The Culture of Nature✓ — North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez	Alexander Wilson	English
2000	Thinking Union✓ — Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement	D'Arcy Martin	English
2000	To Set the Captives Free✓ — Liberation Theology in Canada	Oscar L. Arnal	English
2000	Walking the Union Walk✓ — Stories from the Communication, Energy, and Paperworkers Union's First Ten Years	Jamie Swift	English
2000	Whose Brave New World? The Information Highway and the New Economy✓	Heather Menzies	English
2000	Whose National Security?✓ — Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies	Gary William Kinsman, Dieter K. Buse & Mercedes Steedman	English
2000	Wild Garden✓ — Art, Education, and the Culture of Resistance	Dian Marino, Chris Cavanagh & Robert Clarke	English
2001	Citizens' hall✓ — Making local democracy work	André Carrel	French
2001	Closing the Circle✓ — Democratization and Development in Africa	Richard Sandbrook	English
2001	Direct Action✓ — Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla	Ann Hansen	English
2001	Eating Fire✓ — Family Life, on the Queer Side	Michael Riordon	English
2001	Mirrors of Stone✓ — Fragments from the Porcupine Frontier	Charlie Angus	English
2001	Poor-Bashing✓ — The Politics of Exclusion	Jean Swanson	English
2001	Talking About Identity✓ — Encounters in Race, Ethnicity, and Language	Adrienne Lynn Shadd & Carl James	English
2001	The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity✓ No-Nonsense Guides	Vanessa Baird	English
2001	Watching China Change✓	Robert C. Cosbey	English
2002	Better to Have Loved✓ — The Life of Judith Merril	Judith Merril	English
2002	Charles Simic in Conversation with Michael Hulse✓	Charles Simic & Michael Hulse	English
2002	Digital Diploma MillsFree — The Automation of Higher Education	David Franklin Noble	English
2002	Direct Action✓ — Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla	Ann Hansen	English
2002	Education for Changing Unions✓	Bev Burke, JoJo Geronimo, D'Arcy Martin, Barb Thomas & Carol Wall	English
2002	Girl Trouble✓ — Female Delinquency in English Canada	Joan Sangster	English
2002	Pirates and Emperors, Old and New✓ — International Terrorism in the Real World	Noam Chomsky	English
2002	Race, Space, and the Law✓ — Unmapping a White Settler Society	Sherene Razack	English
2002	The No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration✓	Peter Stalker	English
2002	The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade✓ No-Nonsense Guides	Gideon Burrows	English
2002	Water Wars✓ — Privatization, Pollution and Profit	Vandana Shiva	English
2002	Wealth by Stealth✓ — Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the Perversion of Democracy	H. J. Glasbeek	English
2003	A World Growing Old✓	Jeremy Seabrook	English
2003	AIDS Activist✓ — Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community	Ann Silversides	English
2003	Booze✓ — A Distilled History	Craig Heron	English
2003	Feminists Under Fire✓ — Exchanges Across War Zones	Wenona Mary Giles	English
2003	Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada✓	[name missing], Jamie Swift, Jacqueline M. Davies & Robert Clarke	English
2003	John Ashbery in Conversation with Mark Ford	John Ashbery & Mark Ford	English
2003	Memoirs of a Media Maverick✓	Boyce Richardson	English
2003	Poor-Bashing✓ — The Politics of Exclusion	Jean Swanson	English
2003	The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples✓ The No-Nonsense Guides	Lotte Hughes	English
2003	User Error✓ — Resisting Computer Culture	Ellen Rose	English
2003	Walking the Union Walk✓ — Stories from CEP's First Ten Years	Jamie Swift	English
2004	AIDS Activist✓ — Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community	Ann Silversides	English
2004	An Action a Day✓ — Keeps Global Capitalism Away	Mike Hudema & Jacob Rolfe	English
2004	An Unauthorized Biography of the World✓ — Oral History on the Front Lines	Michael Riordon	English
2004	East Timor✓ — Testimony	Elaine Brière	English
2004	Hydro✓ — The Decline and Fall of Ontario's Electric Empire	Jamie Swift	English
2004	Memoirs of a Media Maverick✓	Boyce Richardson	English
2004	The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media✓ The No-Nonsense Guides	Peter Steven	English
2004	The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam✓ The No-Nonsense Guides	Ziauddin Sardar	English
2004	The No-Nonsense Guide to Water✓ The No-Nonsense Guides	Maggie Black	English
2004	The No-Nonsense Guide to Women's Rights✓ No Nonsense Guides	Nikki van der Gaag	English
2004	User Error✓ — Resisting Computer Culture	Ellen Rose	English
2004	Walking the Union Walk✓ — Stories from CEP's First Ten Years	Jamie Swift	English