1.
Series:
Through a Changing Landscape
Photographing Place and Community in Waterloo Region
Hardcover
Philippe Elsworthy
9781771125659
$38.99
PHOTOGRAPHY
May 17, 2022
What makes Waterloo Region unique? What defines a sense of place? Seventy-five carefully chosen photographs depict the elements that collectively make Waterloo Region's urban landscape different from any other Ontario city, for example, the predominance of industrial architecture in the heart of the city, the Pennsylvania-German influences, and the Mid-Century Modernist buildings, which University of Waterloo Architecture Professor Rick Haldenby calls “the vernacular architecture of Waterloo Region.” Sense of place has been defined as our rela...
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Series:
Something Cold and Hard Like Winter
Paperback
Shelley Niro
9780994036148
$19.99
ART
Apr 26, 2022
Something Cold and Hard like Winter showcases the movement of time through large scale photographs and video. The works speak to the narratives that surround the earth and the longevity of its existence, the influence of capital gain on the environment and time immemorial. Niro thoughtfully reflects on the historical and explores how post-colonial mediums have had an impact on Indigenous people and the land. By looking at the surface of the earth we understand our interconnection and the importance of not taking what is there for granted. We ar...
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3.
Series: Indigenous Studies
Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition
Cree and Métis âcimisowina
Paperback
Deanna Reder
9781771125543
$34.99
LITERARY CRITICISM
May 03, 2022
Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing. Since the 1970s non-Indigenous scholars have perpetrated the notion that Indigenous people were disinclined to talk about their lives and underscored the assumption that autobiography is a European invention. Deanna Reder challenges such long held assumptions by calling attention...
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4.
Series:
Unpacking the Personal Library
The Public and Private Life of Books
Hardcover
Jason Camlot
9781771125680
$89.99
LITERARY CRITICISM
Jul 01, 2022
Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Contributors explore libraries at particular moments in their history across a wide range of cases, and includes Alberto Manguel’s account of the Library of Alexandria as well as chapters on library collecting in the middle ages, the libraries of prime ministers and foreign embassies, protest libraries and the slow transformation of...
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5.
Series:
The Contemporary Leonard Cohen
Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery
Hardcover
Kait Pinder
9781771125611
$89.99
LITERARY CRITICISM
Jun 27, 2023
The Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting new study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohen’s staying power and his various positions in music, literature, and art. The death of Leonard Cohen received media attention across the globe, and this international star remains dear to the hearts of many fans. This book examines the diversity of Cohen’s art in the wake of his death, positioning him as a contemporary, multi-media artist whose career was framed by the twentieth-century and neoliberal contexts of its production. The auth...
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Series:
Music-Making in U.S. Prisons
Listening to Incarcerated Voices
Paperback
Mary L. Cohen
9781771125710
$34.99
MUSIC
Aug 30, 2022
The U.S. incarceration machine imprisons more people than in any other country. Music-Making in U.S. Prisons looks at the role music-making can play in achieving goals of accountability and healing that challenge the widespread assumption that prisons and punishment keep societies safe.The book’s synthesis of historical research, contemporary practices, and pedagogies of music-making inside prisons reveals that, prior to the 1970s tough-on-crime era, choirs, instrumental ensembles, and radio shows bridged lives inside and outside pris...
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7.
Series: Life Writing
What the Oceans Remember
Searching for Belonging and Home
Paperback
Sonja Boon
9781771125536
$22.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 01, 2022
Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shaped her identity, as she sought to answer two questions that have dogged her over the years: Where does she belong? And who does she belong to? Boon’s archival research—in Suriname, the Netherlands, the UK, and Canada—brings her opportunities to reflect on the possibilities and lim...
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8.
Series:
Land|Slide
Possible Futures
Paperback
Janine Marchessault
9780921344544
$45.00
ART
Jun 04, 2015
A limited-edition exhibition catalogue of the Land|Slide: Possible Futures exhibition, which took place at the Markham Museum and Heritage Village in Markham, Ontario in 2013. The catalogue includes a curatorial statement by Janine Marchessault, essays, and documentation of the over 30+ artist projects, including artist statements. This title is published by PUBLIC Books and distributed by Wilfrid Laurier University Press