If it’s Controversial, it’s on the Second Floor at Toronto Reference Library
The four upper floors of the Toronto Reference Library are divided into subject areas. There's Arts on 5, Language & Literature on 4, Business, Science & Technology on 3. All pretty self-explanatory.
But what's Humanities & Social Sciences on 2?
Remember it this way. You know those topics you're supposed to avoid on first meetings and at polite dinner parties? Politics, religion, and sex? In a nutshell, that's what you'll find in the Humanities & Social Sciences Department. Oh, there's a few other somewhat less volatile subjects like psychology, history, law and sports:) Overall, if it's something people can fight over, complain about or ponder endlessly, it's probably on the second floor. All the crazy, obsessive, self-serving things people do, as well as all the noble, uplifting, unselfish acts that humans and the societies they build are capable of.
That said, here are some of the newest spring titles in the Humanities & Social Sciences Department. Politics, religion, or sex anyone?
Tragedy in the Commons: former Members of Parliament speak out about Canada's failing democracy.
Alison Loat and C. Michael MacMillan
Also in eBook
How Jesus became God: the exaltation of a Jewish preacher from Galilee
Bart D. Ehrman
Also in eBook
and eAudiobook
Holy misogyny: why the sex and gender conflicts in the early Church still matter
April D. De Conick
Everything I ever needed to know about economics I learned from online dating
Paul E. Oyer
Imagine there's no heaven: how atheism helped create the modern world
Mitchell Stephens
Behind the shock machine: the untold story of the notorious Milgram psychology experiments
Gina Perry
Also in eBook
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