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Business the NHL Way Lessons from the Fastest Game on Ice Hardcover Norm O'Reilly 9781487508760 $32.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 04, 2022

Taking you from the ice to the office and back, this ultimate business playbook provides valuable leadership insight and career-enhancing tactics inspired by stories from the National Hockey League.The National Hockey League is at its apex in terms of its business success. Even a global pandemic could not slow it down. The league generates more than $5 billion annually, its revenues and media deals continue to grow, and its properties are increasing in value, innovation, and quantity. More clubs are profitable than are not, and the game of hock... + Read More
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Displacement City Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic Paperback Greg Cook 9781487546496 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 22, 2022

What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating effects on the homeless population in Toronto? Displacement City shares the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during this unprecedented crisis. Canada's major cities have faced the humanitarian disaster of homelessness for decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare a massive deficit in social programs and widespread inattention to human rights. Are municipal public services designed to essentially produce displacement? Or can we do somethin... + Read More
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Cancer Confidential Backstage Dramas in the Radiation Clinic Hardcover Charles Hayter, MD 9781487528157 $32.95 MEDICAL Oct 18, 2022

Weaving the personal story of an oncologist dealing with his father’s terminal cancer with stories inspired by encounters in his practice, Cancer Confidential uncovers the emotional responses of people living with cancer and those who care for them. Each year, almost twenty million people worldwide receive the grim diagnosis of cancer, yet few are prepared for the difficult emotional journey ahead. Shortly after Dr. Charles Hayter graduated as a cancer specialist, his father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. As with many doctors, he foun... + Read More
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Building Justice Frank Iacobucci and the Life Cycles of Law Hardcover Shauna Van Praagh 9781487566289 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 20, 2022

Building Justice draws on the inspiring life of former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci to offer insight into the meaning of engaged citizenship through law.Ignoring early advice that he had the wrong kind of name to go to law school, Frank Iacobucci, the son of Italian immigrants, made a name for himself as an outstanding Canadian jurist. Serving as justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1991 to 2004, Iacobucci was also professor and dean of law at the University of Toronto and deputy minister of justice for Canada. In Build... + Read More
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Tuzo The Unlikely Revolutionary of Plate Tectonics Paperback Nick Eyles 9781487524579 $48.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 13, 2022

Tuzo is the never-before-told story of one of Canada’s most influential scientists and the discovery of plate tectonics, a pivotal development that forever altered how we think of our planet. Your home is not where it was last night, and it will be in a different place tomorrow. This is the result of plate tectonics, a process most of us accept without hesitation today, but whose discovery was a true revolution that forever changed how we think of planet Earth. In 1961, a Canadian geologist named John "Jock" Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) jettiso... + Read More
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The Gatherings Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations Paperback Shirley N. Hager 9781487545888 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 10, 2022

In a world that requires knowledge and wisdom to address developing crises around us, The Gatherings shows how Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can come together to create meaningful and lasting relationships. Thirty years ago, in Wabanaki territory – a region encompassing the state of Maine and the Canadian Maritimes – a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals came together to explore some of the most pressing questions at the heart of Truth and Healing efforts in the United States and Canada. Meeting over several years in long... + Read More
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Flow How the Best Supply Chains Thrive Hardcover Rob Handfield, Phd 9781487508326 $36.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jul 22, 2022

With supply chain disruptions due to ports, pandemics, and labor shortages at the forefront of news media, Flow offers an important framework and solutions for remedying the rampant delays and bottlenecks that exist in global supply chains.This book describes the concept of flow, which evokes physical properties that exist in nature, such as the flow of electricity, the flow of time, and the flow of materials. In terms of process optimization, flow encompasses the integration of end-to-end supply chains and the movement towards relocation of th... + Read More
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The Bartering Mindset A Mostly Forgotten Framework for Mastering Your Next Negotiation Paperback Brian Gunia 9781487548469 $29.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS May 04, 2022

This book reveals how negotiation begins before anyone sits down at the bargaining table.We use money to solve our everyday problems, and it generally works well. Despite its economic benefits, however, money has a psychological downside: it trains us to think about negotiations narrow-mindedly, leading us to negotiate badly. Suggesting that we need a non-monetary mindset to negotiate better, The Bartering Mindset shows us how to look outside the monetary economy – to the bartering economies of the past, where people traded what they had for wh... + Read More
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Voicing Identity Cultural Appropriation and Indigenous Issues Paperback John Borrows 9781487544683 $36.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 15, 2022

In this unique collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors relate their own experiences with teaching and conducting research involving Indigenous peoples and their rights.Written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, Voicing Identity examines the issue of cultural appropriation in the contexts of researching, writing, and teaching about Indigenous peoples. This book grapples with the question: who is qualified to engage in these activities and how can this be done appropriately and respectfully? The authors address these que... + Read More
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Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation Paperback Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark 9781487544607 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 27, 2023

This book explores how Indigenous communities are enacting Indigenous resurgence in this era of reconciliation. What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation? Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous nations in their resurgence efforts, while also mapping the gaps and limitations of both reconciliation and resurgence frameworks. The essays in this collection centre the work ... + Read More
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Series: UTP Insights Profits and Power Navigating the Politics and Geopolitics of Oil Paperback David A. Detomasi 9781487520106 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 14, 2022

Untangling the web of global oil production, Profits and Power explains the politics, geopolitics, and economics of this commodity for a lay audience, with an eye toward understanding the future of the industry.Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system. Yet, its production and use continue to draw negative criticism, and an increasing number of people want to reduce or eliminate its use altogether. Profits and Power sheds light on how the oil system works, its key players, and the political and geopolitical issues r... + Read More
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On Target Gun Culture, Storytelling, and the NRA Paperback Noah S. Schwartz 9781487548445 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 04, 2022

On Target explores how the National Rifle Association (NRA) became such a powerful and recognizable force in American politics.The National Rifle Association (NRA) is an important actor in the American gun debate. While popular explanations for the group’s influence often focus on the NRA’s lobbying and campaign donations, it receives lesser attention for the mass mobilization efforts that make these political endeavours possible. On Target explores why the NRA is so influential and how we can understand the group’s impact on firearms policy in... + Read More
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Series: UTP Insights Picking Up the Slack Law, Institutions, and Canadian Climate Policy Paperback Andrew Green 9781487550110 $34.95 LAW Jul 22, 2022

Picking Up the Slack examines how Canadian law has failed to address climate change and offers an accessible basis for a new approach. Canada has over-promised and under-delivered on climate change, setting weak goals and allowing carveouts, exceptions, and exemptions to undermine its climate policies. Why, in an era when climate change is front of mind for so many people, have we failed to make progress? The question has been the source of heated debate across the political spectrum. In Picking Up the Slack, Andrew Green draws together di... + Read More
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Justice in Lyon Klaus Barbie and France's First Trial for Crimes against Humanity Paperback Richard J. Golsan 9781487545598 $39.95 HISTORY Jul 12, 2022

Justice in Lyon is a comprehensive history of the trial for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie. The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France’s first trial for crimes against humanity. Known as the "Butcher of Lyon" during the Nazi occupation of that city from 1942 to 1944, Barbie tortured, deported, and murdered thousands of Jews and Resistance fighters. Following a lengthy investigation and the overcoming of numerous legal and other obstacles, the 1987 trial attracted global attention. Justice ... + Read More
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Series: UTP Insights Unequal Benefits Privatization and Public Education in Canada Paperback Sue Winton 9781487525965 $27.95 EDUCATION Oct 27, 2022

Unequal Benefits shows how policies that create education “markets” and encourage greater private sector involvement in Canada’s public education systems undermine the democratic possibilities of the country’s public schools.Drawing on research from across Canada and beyond, education policy expert Sue Winton critically analyzes policies encouraging the privatization of public education in Canada. These policies, including school choice, fundraising, fees, and international education, encourage parents and others in the private sector to take o... + Read More
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Behind the Glass The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family Hardcover Michael Lambek 9781487542191 $44.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 06, 2022

Part family history, part memoir, Behind the Glass tells the story behind the famous Villa Tugendhat.The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism. Behind the Glass tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing. The book traces the transformations in the life of the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the wealthy bourgeoisie in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to adaptation in interwar independent Czechos... + Read More
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Series: ethnoGRAPHIC Forecasts A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster Paperback Caroline Schuster 9781487542238 $28.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 30, 2023

This collaborative graphic novel explores issues of capitalism and climate change in Paraguay, raising questions about the limits of survival for humans, their food crops, and rural ways of life.Based in the agrarian world of commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, Forecasts tells a story about what happens when global insurance companies promise financial safety nets to local farmers struggling with the effects of climate change. This striking graphic novel brings together original ethnographic research and Paraguayan gothic art to con... + Read More
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Cooperation and Social Justice Paperback Joseph Heath 9781487525958 $34.95 PHILOSOPHY Aug 25, 2022

This book analyses tensions that arise between the principles of social justice and the need for cooperation to advance collective goals. It is a common approach in contemporary political philosophy to view society as a system of mutually beneficial cooperation. This cooperation is difficult to achieve, often requiring a great deal of bargaining and compromise. Agreement is facilitated by principles of social justice, which determine the terms of reasonable compromise. And yet the application of these principles is also constrained by the ... + Read More
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Series: UTP Insights Public Inquiries A Scholar's Engagements with the Policy-Making Process Hardcover Michael J. Trebilcock 9781487551155 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 12, 2022

Public Inquiries provides first-hand insights and expert perspectives on Canada’s policy-making process.An internationally renowned scholar of law and economics, Michael J. Trebilcock has spent over fifty years teaching and researching at the intersection between ideas, interests, and institutions. In Public Inquiries, Trebilcock reflects on his extensive experiences and sheds light on the role of scholars in engaging with the Canadian public policy-making process. Drawing on a number of case studies, Public Inquiries gives an informed overview... + Read More
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Canadian Club Birthright Citizenship and National Belonging Paperback Lois Harder 9781487548605 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 15, 2022

This book sheds light on the fraught relationship between birth and citizenship, particularly in the Canadian context.Birth-based citizenship is widely considered to be the most secure claim to political belonging. Despite the general belief that liberal democracies are formed through consent, in fact, most people are members of a political community by virtue of the circumstances of their birth. In Canadian Club, Lois Harder tracks the development of Canada’s Citizenship Act from its first iteration in 1947 to the provisions governing the citi... + Read More
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Toronto the Good? Negotiating Race in the Diverse City Paperback Shana Almeida 9781487560539 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 02, 2022

Toronto the Good? uniquely explores what diversity does to remake the City of Toronto as a beacon of democracy, racial inclusion, and progress. Armed with the motto "Diversity Our Strength," the City of Toronto has garnered a world-class reputation for challenging racism, largely because of how it is seen to value and include racialized groups through its diversity policies and practices. Toronto the Good? unsettles popular depictions of both diversity and the City of Toronto by attending to what diversity does in and for the City in the c... + Read More
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1950s Canada Politics and Public Affairs Paperback Nelson Wiseman 9781487555450 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 09, 2022

1950s Canada chronicles the social, economic, and cultural developments of Canadian politics and public affairs in the 1950s.While the 1950s in Canada were years of social conformity, it was also a time of political, economic, and technological change. Against a background of growing prosperity, federal and provincial politics became increasingly competitive, intergovernmental relations became more contentious, and Canada’s presence in the world expanded. The life expectancy of Canadians increased as the social pathologies of poverty, crime, an... + Read More
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Towards Sustainable Well-Being Moving beyond GDP in Canada and the World Paperback Anders Hayden 9781487525415 $42.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 20, 2022

This book sheds light on both international and Canadian experiences of moving beyond GDP and bringing new ways to measure what matters into decisions about policy and societal priorities.Towards Sustainable Well-Being examines existing efforts and emerging possibilities to improve upon gross domestic product as the dominant indicator of economic and social performance. Contributions from leading international and Canadian researchers in the field of beyond-GDP measurement offer a rich range of perspectives on alternative ways to measure well-b... + Read More
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The Exclusion of Immigrants from Welfare Programs Cross-National Analysis and Contemporary Developments Hardcover Edward A. Koning 9781487546342 $110.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 09, 2022

Analysing over twenty countries from 1990 to 2015, this book systematically investigates the extent to which immigrants are excluded from social programs.In light of the increase in cross-border mobility and the recent political sensitivity surrounding immigration-related issues, understanding the politics and policies of immigrants’ access to welfare programs is more relevant than ever. Systematic analysis of this subject has been held back, however, by the lack of a cross-national index of immigrant exclusion from social benefits over time. T... + Read More
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The Legitimacy Clash Challenges to Democracy in Multinational States Paperback Alain-G Gagnon 9781487547554 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 23, 2022

This book explores the structural political imbalances that exist within complex democratic federations.In the coming decade, we may see the advent of multinational federalism on an international scale. As great powers and international organizations become increasingly uncomfortable with the creation of new states, multinational federalism is now an important avenue to explore, and in recent decades the experiences of Canada and Quebec have had a key influence on the approaches taken to manage national and community diversity around the world.... + Read More
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Delivery by Design Intermunicipal Contracting, Shared Services, and Canadian Local Government Hardcover Zachary Spicer 9781487505240 $50.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 25, 2022

Delivery by Design explores shifts in local governance service delivery practices and the complex intergovernmental network that ensures Canadians receive quality local services.Municipalities in Canada have an array of servicing options available to them when producing or delivering local services, such as water, public transit, and waste collection, including in-house provision or privatization. However, services may also be contracted or jointly-delivered with neighbouring municipalities – a practice some local governments are increasingly g... + Read More
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Research across Borders An Introduction to Interdisciplinary, Cross-Cultural Methodology Paperback Christina Clark-Kazak 9781487524371 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 30, 2023

This book introduces students to methodological, ethical, and epistemological foundations of research.In order to understand positionality as it relates to research, it is important to learn how to identify and reflect on how knowledge is produced and reproduced. Research across Borders introduces key concepts and methods to understand and critically analyze research in academic books and journals, as well as in media, government reports, and anywhere else information is found. This book addresses the opportunities and challenges of undertaking... + Read More
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Organizing Nature Turning Canada's Ecosystems into Resources Paperback Alice Cohen 9781487594848 $36.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 07, 2023

Drawing from concrete examples in the contemporary Canadian context, this book gives readers the tools to think critically about Canadian environmental issues, ranging from theory to practice.Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in Canada’s resource-dependent economy. The book examines how particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life in Canada. In tracing transitions from "ecosystem component" to "resource," this book weaves together t... + Read More
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Selling Social Procurement, Purchasing, and Social Enterprises Paperback Jennifer Sumner 9781487524500 $34.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 08, 2023

Drawing on Canadian case studies, Selling Social offers insight into the successes and challenges regarding social procurement and social purchasing from the perspective of social enterprises.Since the 2010s, all levels of governments in Canada have gradually initiated social procurement as a policy tool to further their social values and political agendas. Social enterprises of various shapes and sizes across the country have served as partners in the execution of those agendas. Selling Social examines the experiences of these enterprises in s... + Read More
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Containing Diversity Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century Paperback Yasmeen Abu-Laban 9781442609044 $68.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 06, 2022

Containing Diversity presents a novel approach to understanding the politics of immigration in Canada in the twenty-first century.Although Canada is known internationally as a leader among industrialized countries for inclusive practices towards immigrants and refugees, the twenty-first century has witnessed a rise in the number of refugees and temporary migrant workers who are often denied citizenship and may also experience detention and deportation. Containing Diversity examines to what extent Canada’s long-standing support for immigration, ... + Read More
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Thinking Government Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fifth Edition 5th edition Paperback David Johnson 9781487524166 $94.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 06, 2022

The fifth edition of Thinking Government offers students critical insights into the nature and workings of the Canadian federal government and public service.Thinking Government examines the key roles and duties of the Canadian federal government and its public service, and the policy and program debates that revolve around these roles and duties. The fifth edition of this textbook provides students with a core awareness of major issues shaping federal policies and programs – socio-economic policy options, French-English relations, regionalism ... + Read More
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Comparing Political Regimes A Thematic Introduction to Comparative Politics, Fourth Edition 4th edition Paperback Alan Siaroff 9781487525361 $62.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 27, 2022

This book offers a comprehensive outline of the world’s political systems and regimes, classifying all 195 sovereign countries.Comparing Political Regimes provides a current and comprehensive empirical assessment of the world’s 195 sovereign states. Alan Siaroff analyses and classifies countries in terms of economic development, political evolution, and state strength, ultimately outlining and contrasting the aspects of four regime types: liberal democracies, electoral democracies, semi-open autocracies, and closed autocracies. The fourth editi... + Read More
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Constructing the Family Marriage and Work in Nineteenth-Century English Law Hardcover Luke Taylor 9781487546526 $90.00 LAW Nov 09, 2022

This book traces the dissolution of the household and the construction of the family in English law and legal thought in the long nineteenth century.In nineteenth-century England, legal conceptions of work and family changed in fundamental ways. Notably, significant legal moves came into play that changed the legal understanding of the family. Constructing the Family examines the evolution of the legal-discursive framework governing work and family relations. Luke Taylor considers the intersecting intellectual and institutional forces that cont... + Read More
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The Domestication of Human Trafficking Law, Policing, and Prosecution in Canada Paperback Katrin Roots 9781487524715 $39.95 LAW Dec 19, 2022

This book explores how Canadian courts adapt international human trafficking laws, while also examining how trafficking cases are policed and prosecuted, defended, and judged.Human trafficking has emerged as one of the top international and domestic policy concerns, and is well covered and often sensationalized by the media. The nature of the topic combined with various international pressures has resulted in an array of government-led mandates to combat the issue. The Domestication of Human Trafficking examines Canada’s criminal justice approa... + Read More
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Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History A History of Law in Canada, Volume Two Law for a New Dominion, 1867-1914 Hardcover Jim Phillips 9781487545673 $95.00 LAW Nov 14, 2022

This book recounts the many and varied transformations in the history of law in Canada in the half century after Confederation.This is the second of three volumes in an important collection that recounts the sweeping history of law in Canada. The period covered in this volume witnessed both continuity and change in the relationships among law, society, Indigenous peoples, and white settlers. The authors explore how law was as important to the building of a new urban industrial nation as it had been to the establishment of colonies of agricultur... + Read More
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Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Canadian State Trials, Volume V World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939-1990 Hardcover Barry Wright 9781487546038 $90.00 LAW Nov 09, 2022

The final volume of the Osgoode Society’s Canadian State Trials series sheds light on the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats in Canada in the twentieth century.The fifth and final volume of the Canadian State Trials series examines political trials and national security measures during the period 1939 to 1990. Essays by historians and legal scholars shed light on experiences during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath, including uses of the War Measures Act and the Official Secrets Act, as the Cold War unfolded, on ... + Read More
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Montreal's Square Mile The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole Paperback Dimitry Anastakis 9781487525699 $39.95 HISTORY Oct 28, 2023

This book sheds light on the history of the Square Mile, a powerful symbol of wealth in Montreal’s urban landscape.In nineteenth-century Canada, the Square Mile was an elite residential district in Montreal that represented a dramatic new concentration of wealth. Montreal’s Square Mile chronicles the history of the Square Mile, including the diverse and far-reaching sources of its making and its twentieth-century transformations. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from a wide range of historical investigation fields, this collection... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Gender and History Before Official Multiculturalism Women's Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s Paperback Franca Iacovetta 9781487545642 $39.95 HISTORY Nov 14, 2022

Renowned author Franca Iacovetta provides a new perspective on multiculturalism by examining the hopes and challenges of women activists associated with the Toronto International Institute.For almost two decades before Canada officially adopted multiculturalism in 1971, a large network of women and their allies in Toronto were promoting pluralism as a city- and nation-building project. Before Official Multiculturalism assesses women as liberal pluralist advocates and activists, critically examining the key roles they played as community organiz... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Gender and History Sex and the Married Girl Heterosexual Marriage and the Body in Postwar Canada Paperback Heather Stanley 9781487521141 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 01, 2023

This book examines how embodied, heterosexual, married sexual experiences were constructed for, and by, Canadian women in the postwar era.Sex – who was having it, who shouldn’t have it, and who was supposed to be having it but wasn’t – was a major concern to social authorities in the immediate postwar era. Though they are often remembered with nostalgia as a sexually simpler time, the 1950s and early 1960s were incredibly sexually productive years.Sex and the Married Girl examines how two interrelated and dominant groups in Canada – medica... + Read More
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Monty and the Canadian Army Paperback John A. English 9781487545819 $29.95 HISTORY Aug 20, 2023

Monty and the Canadian Army details the lasting influence of General B.L. Montgomery, whose military competence shaped the Canadian Army in the Second World War.General Bernard Law Montgomery, affectionately known as "Monty," exerted an influence on the Canadian Army more lasting than that of any other Second World War commander. In 1942 he assumed responsibility for the exercise and training of Canadian formations in England, and by the end of the war Canada’s field army was second to none in the practical exercise of combined arms. In Monty a... + Read More
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Residential Schools and Reconciliation Canada Confronts Its History Paperback J.R. Miller 9781487521844 $32.95 HISTORY May 31, 2022

Residential Schools and Reconciliation sheds light on one of the darkest periods in Canadian history.Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions and federal governments as well as Christian churches have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling through official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, award-winning author J.R. Miller tackles and exp... + Read More
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Transforming Dentistry The Rise and Near Demise of Dentistry at Western University Hardcover David J. Kenny 9781487529895 $49.95 EDUCATION Jul 22, 2022

Transforming Dentistry traces the rise and near demise of the dentistry program at Western University.The history of the dental program at Western University is a spirited and gritty story of grand visions, strong personalities, and contentious leadership. Focusing on the years from 1965 to 2015, Transforming Dentistry highlights Western University’s ambitious plans to create and situate a dental program within a health sciences complex; the practical challenges involved in implementing a curriculum and populating a new school; the influence of... + Read More
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The Flawed Genius of William Playfair The Story of the Father of Statistical Graphics Hardcover David R. Bellhouse 9781487545031 $65.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 21, 2023

This book shares the life story of William Playfair, the father of statistical graphics, who experienced extreme ups and downs in his various careers, including as a statistician, economist, and fraudster.A product of the Scottish Enlightenment, William Playfair (1759–1823) worked as a statistician, economist, engineer, banker, land speculator, scam artist, and political propagandist. It has been claimed – erroneously – that Playfair was a spy for the British government and ran a forging operation to print the paper money of the French Revoluti... + Read More
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Series: Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union Through Much Tribulation Paperback Leonard G. Friesen 9781487524654 $42.95 HISTORY Oct 13, 2022

This book offers a history of Mennonites from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire to the collapse of the USSR.Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Leonard G. Friesen sheds light on religious, economic, social, and political changes within Mennonite communities as they confronted th... + Read More
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Series: German and European Studies Colonial Geography Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884-1905 Hardcover Matthew Unangst 9781487543402 $85.00 HISTORY Jul 22, 2022

Colonial Geography explores how spatial thinking shaped the creation and government of the German imperial colony of East Africa.Colonial Geography charts changes in conceptions of the relationship between people and landscapes in mainland Tanzania during the German colonial period. In German minds, colonial development would depend on the relationship between East Africans and the landscape. Colonial Geography argues that the most important element in German imperialism was not its violence but its attempts to apply racial thinking to the mast... + Read More
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Series: Toronto Italian Studies Generations of Empire Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean Hardcover Andreas Guidi 9781487541279 $75.00 HISTORY Nov 20, 2022

Generations of Empire rethinks modern Mediterranean history through changing generational dynamics and representations of youth.In 1912, Italy occupied Rhodes, an Ottoman town inhabited by Greek Orthodox, Muslims, Jews, and Catholics. Rhodes became a territory of Italy’s empire in 1923 following the Treaty of Lausanne, only one year after Mussolini seized power in Rome. The Ottoman demise corresponded to the expansion of fascist imperialism in the Mediterranean. Both the Ottoman Young Turks and Italian colonial governors invoked the role of a "... + Read More
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Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World Paperback Anna Procyk 9781487545734 $35.95 HISTORY Apr 29, 2022

This book explores the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830–1.Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830–1. Focusing on the political ideas brought to the Slavic world from the West by Polish émigré conspirators, Anna Procyk explores the core message that the Polish revolutionaries carried, a message based on the de... + Read More
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Series: Technoscience and Society An Anthropogenic Table of Elements Experiments in the Fundamental Paperback Timothy Neale 9781487563578 $39.95 SCIENCE Oct 13, 2022

With stories of life in the Anthropocene, this book places Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements and his groundbreaking theory of elementality into modern context.An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements, bringing together "elemental" stories to reflect on everyday life in the Anthropocene. Concise and engaging, this book provides stories of scale, toxicity, and temporality that extrapolate on ideas surrounding ethics, politics, and materiality that are fundam... + Read More
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Series: Technoscience and Society Digital (In)justice in the Smart City Paperback Debra Mackinnon 9781487527167 $49.95 SCIENCE Feb 08, 2023

This book explores relations between smartness and social justice, and questions whether working toward more just and sustainable cities requires that we look beyond the limitations of “smartness” altogether.In the contemporary moment, smart cities have become the dominant paradigm for urban planning and administration, weaving the urban fabric with digital technologies. Recently, however, the promises of smart cities have been gradually supplanted by recognition of their inherent inequalities, and scholars are increasingly working to envision ... + Read More
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Taoism, Teaching, and Learning A Nature-Based Approach to Education Paperback John P. Miller 9781487540951 $29.95 EDUCATION Jul 12, 2022

This book explores the holistic and harmonious principles of Taoism in relation to teaching and learning.The ancient Chinese philosophy of Taoism contains profound wisdom about the cosmos, nature, human life, and education. Taoism seeks to be in harmony with nature and using it as a guide can help us live in a way that is healing to both ourselves and the planet. Taoism, Teaching, and Learning identifies key aspects of Taoist thought and highlights how these principles can promote a holistic approach to teaching and learning. In particular, thi... + Read More
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The New Spirit of Creativity Work, Compromise, and the Art and Design University Hardcover Saara Liinamaa 9781487502805 $44.95 EDUCATION Jul 14, 2022

This book traces the many alignments between contemporary artistic creativity and its formal organization within higher education.The New Spirit of Creativity examines creativity as an embedded institutional value and priority within public art institutions and higher education. The book unpacks the everyday work, organization, and administration of artistic creativity and its clashes with a "new spirit" of creativity that has widely taken hold. Based on fieldwork conducted at three art and design universities in Canada, Saara Liinamaa tackles ... + Read More
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Leading for Equity and Social Justice Systemic Transformation in Canadian Education Paperback Andréanne Gélinas-Proulx 9781487542511 $38.95 EDUCATION May 11, 2022

This book identifies various inequities in Canadian education systems – including race, gender, sexuality, religion, Indigenous, and linguistic issues, – and suggests ways to overcome systemic barriers.Educational institutions, and in particular educational leaders, play critical roles in identifying and rectifying the many inequities that oppress, marginalize, and exclude individual students, educational actors, and some minoritized groups in Canadian education. Leading for Equity and Social Justice provides a deep look at some of these inequi... + Read More
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Cultivating Kindness An Educator's Guide Paperback John-Tyler Binfet 9781487525026 $34.95 EDUCATION Sep 09, 2022

A practical guide to understanding and fostering kindness, this book aims to transform the thinking and practice of educators as they seek to cultivate kind classrooms.Cultivating Kindness sheds light on just how children and adolescents are kind, especially in school. Grounded in psychological and educational research on kindness and supported with illustrations capturing the voices of public school students, this book enhances our understanding of kindness. Written with educators in mind, Cultivating Kindness draws from surveys and interviews... + Read More
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Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later Situating Deschooling Society in His Intellectual and Personal Journey Hardcover Rosa Bruno-Jofré 9781487545062 $60.00 EDUCATION Oct 06, 2022

Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later introduces the reader to the process that led to the writing of one of the most controversial and well-known books that indicted schooling, not only as an institution but as an ethos.In 1971, priest, theologian, and philosopher Ivan Illich wrote Deschooling Society, a plea to liberate education from schooling and to separate schooling from the state. On occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later looks at the theological roots of Illich’s thought and the intellectual and i... + Read More
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Tensions in Diversity Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles Hardcover Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan 9781487545123 $65.00 ARCHITECTURE Nov 09, 2022

This book presents a visually rich narrative of how coexistence is negotiated in Los Angeles, a city vibrant with sociocultural diversity.Urban landscapes are complex spaces of sociocultural diversity, characterized by narratives of both conviviality and conflict. As people with multiple ethnicities and nationalities find their common destinies in thriving globalizing cities, social cohesiveness becomes more precarious as different beliefs, practices, ambitions, values, and affiliations intersect in close proximity, producing social tensions. T... + Read More
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Series: Global Suburbanisms Creativity from Suburban Nowheres Rethinking Cultural and Creative Practices Paperback Ilja Van Damme 9781487525798 $36.95 ARCHITECTURE Sep 03, 2023

This book interrogates and questions the meaning and implications of suburban creativity.Looking at suburbs as places of creativity gives rise to novel and thought-provoking narratives that typically run counter to the idea that suburbs are sites of "ordinary," "mundane," and "everyday" practices. Far from being geographies of "nowhere" – dull, materialistic, and monotone – suburbs are unpacked as being heterogeneous and historically layered places of living, work, and creation. Situating creativity in place and time, Creativity from Suburban N... + Read More
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Queer Professionals and Settler Colonialism Engaging Decolonial Thought within Organizations Paperback Cameron Greensmith 9781487525347 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 22, 2022

This book analyses queer organizations in Canada and explores the ways health care, counselling, and social services address the intersecting oppressions facing Indigenous people, families, and communities.Queer Professionals and Settler Colonialism works to dismantle the perception of an inclusive queer community by considering the ways white lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ+) people participate in larger processes of white settler colonialism in Canada. Cameron Greensmith analyses Toronto-based queer service organizations, incl... + Read More
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Trauma, Spirituality, and Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Social Work Practice Paperback Heather M. Boynton 9781487543952 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 2022

Written by Canadian social workers, this book addresses the impact of trauma-related events and emphasizes the importance of spirituality and post-traumatic growth.Trauma and the exposure to traumatic events is part of life, making the need for current and informed social work research and training essential. Trauma, Spirituality, and Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Social Work Practice highlights unique and diverse circumstances throughout a client’s lifecycle where trauma is experienced, how one’s spirituality is awakened or activated, and h... + Read More
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From Consent to Coercion The Continuing Assault on Labour, Fourth Edition 4th edition Paperback Bryan Evans 9781487524364 $42.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 15, 2023

The new edition of this influential text addresses key issues about the past, present, and future of workers and unions in Canada.From Consent to Coercion examines the increasing assault against trade union rights and freedoms in Canada by federal and provincial governments. Centring the struggles of Canadian unionized workers, this book explores the diminution of the welfare state and the impacts that this erosion has had on broader working-class rights and standards of living. The fourth edition witnesses the passing of an era of free collect... + Read More
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Sightlines Beyond the Beyond in Ireland Paperback Eileen Kane 9781487544997 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 06, 2022

This lively anthropological memoir captures a pivotal moment in the history of Ireland and the revitalization of the Irish language.It is the 1960s, and Ireland is hoping to join what will later become the European Union. The government has devised a plan to protect Ireland’s cultural identity and strengthen the Irish language by supporting small factories in the Gaeltacht, traditional Irish-speaking villages in remote western areas. But is the plan working? Will farmers go into the factories? Will their children see factory work as an alternat... + Read More