Between The Lines Books
Encyclopedia
Between the Lines is an independent publisher in Canada.
BTL publishes Canadian-authored non-fiction, most of which offers a critical perspective on culture, economics, and society. The BTL catalogue also includes titles on politics, public policy, social issues, Canadian and world history, international development, native peoples, gender/sexuality, health, culture, adult and popular education, labour, environment, technology, and media.
Founded in 1977, BTL has published 218 titles, and maintains over 100 of these in print, including seminal works by American cultural theorists bell hooks
and Noam Chomsky
.
The press operates on the philosophy that books are more than just commodities; that they should somehow fit into political struggles. BTL function by consensus, with a division of labour, but no boss or individual owner.
BTL is represented in the college and trade markets throughout Canada by Fernwood Publishing
. In the United States, the press is represented and distributed by Southern California Book Distribution, and in the U.K., by Global Book Marketing. BTL has co-publishing arrangements with New Internationalist (UK), Pluto Press and South End.
BTL publishes Canadian-authored non-fiction, most of which offers a critical perspective on culture, economics, and society. The BTL catalogue also includes titles on politics, public policy, social issues, Canadian and world history, international development, native peoples, gender/sexuality, health, culture, adult and popular education, labour, environment, technology, and media.
Founded in 1977, BTL has published 218 titles, and maintains over 100 of these in print, including seminal works by American cultural theorists bell hooks
Bell hooks
Gloria Jean Watkins , better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist....
and Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
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The press operates on the philosophy that books are more than just commodities; that they should somehow fit into political struggles. BTL function by consensus, with a division of labour, but no boss or individual owner.
BTL is represented in the college and trade markets throughout Canada by Fernwood Publishing
Fernwood Publishing
Fernwood Publishing is an independent Canadian publisher that publishes non-fiction books dealing with social justice and issues of social, political and economic importance....
. In the United States, the press is represented and distributed by Southern California Book Distribution, and in the U.K., by Global Book Marketing. BTL has co-publishing arrangements with New Internationalist (UK), Pluto Press and South End.
Notable awards
- Franca Iacovetta, Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada – Winner of the CHA's 2007 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize (the most prestigious award for a Canadian historian)
- Tina Lopes & Barb Thomas, Dancing on Live Embers: Challenging Racism in Organizations – Winner of the 2007 Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Books Award for Advancing Human Rights
- Bev Burke, Jojo Geronimo, D'Arcy Martin, Barb Thomas & Carol Wall, Education for Changing Unions – Winner of the United Association for Labor Education Best Book in Labor Education, 2002—2007
- Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary, Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith MerrilJudith MerrilJudith Josephine Grossman , who took the pen-name Judith Merril about 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist....
– Winner of the 2003 Hugo Award