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1981.
Series: La cigogne de Minerve. Philosophie, culture palliative et société Louis-André Richard 9782763740362 $40.00 Dec 15, 2018

Ce livre propose une enquête philosophique explorant le rapport à la mort dans nos sociétés. C’est une invitation à penser les liens humains à la fin de la vie. On évoque les liens intimes, mais également les liens sociaux encadrés par la loi. Dans un tel contexte, comment discerner les raisons anciennes et nouvelles convenant au bien de la cité ? L’ouvrage s’adresse aux accompagnants en soins palliatifs. Il concerne également toute personne soucieuse pour elle-même et ses proches de réfléchir à son voyage au bout de la vie. Nous sommes mo... + Read More
1982.
Series: Sur la science qui surprend, éclaire et dérange Jean-René Roy 9782763739977 $24.95 Dec 15, 2018

La science est une puissante manifestation de la curiosité humaine. Elle est une démarche qui vise à comprendre et à expliquer le monde, incluant les humains. La plupart des gens aiment la science et désirent en entendre parler ou lire sur le sujet. Si, chez certains, la science suscite curiosité et enthousiasme, chez d’autres elle provoque la crainte, l’incrédulité ou le simple déni. La science bouleverse, parfois profondément et viscéralement. Les savoirs scientifiques à la fois réconfortent et dérangent parce qu’ils abordent des questions ex... + Read More
1983.
Series: Sport et violence Repenser Norbert Elias Dominique Bodin 9782763738833 $32.99 Dec 15, 2018

Ce livre est issu d’un travail de recherche dont l’objectif n’était pas, en discutant la théorie d’Elias ou les travaux ultérieurs d’Elias et Dunning, de la réfuter. Tendanciellement, la théorie fonctionne avec ses creux et ses faits saillants. Elle a d’ailleurs été enrichie par un certain nombre d’auteurs. Il s’agissait simplement d’en discuter les angles morts et, plus simplement, ce qui est trop souvent considéré comme allant de soi : l’évidente pacification des sports ou par les sports. Deux perspectives ont conduit cette analyse&... + Read More
1984.
Series: Issues in Distance Education Assessment Strategies for Online Learning Engagement and Authenticity Electronic book text, PDF Dianne Conrad 9781771992336 $32.99 EDUCATION Jul 15, 2018

For many learners assessment conjures up visions of red pens scrawling percentages in the top right-hand corner of exams and feelings of stress, inadequacy, and failure. Although negative student reactions to evaluation have been noted, assessment has provided educational institutions with important information about learning outcomes and the quality of education for many decades. But how accurate is this data and has it informed practice or been fully incorporated into the learning cycle? Conrad and Open argue that the potential in many of the... + Read More
1985.
Series: Sociétés en mouvement, sociologie en changement Marc-Henry Soulet 9782763729770 $40.00 Dec 15, 2018

Mondialisation culturelle, planétarisation des enjeux, notamment écologiques, hégémonie d’un capitalisme financier fort éloigné du capitalisme industriel familial, fragilisation de la capacité des États-nations à peser sur les dynamiques nationales et internationales, épuisement de la modernité comme projet, développement de logiques particularistes ou localistes, virtualisation de la réalité sociale… Force est de constater que les assises, les perspectives et les objets de la sociologie ne peuvent qu’être touchés par ces mutations profondes du... + Read More
1986.
Series: Traumas et résilience Leçons du tremblement de terre de 2010 en Haïti Jude Mary Cenat 9782763738680 $30.00 Dec 15, 2018

Préface de Boris Cyrulnik et postface de Daniel Derivois .Même si, avec plus de 200 000 morts et des dizaines de milliers de blessés, le séisme du 12 janvier 2010 a déjà suscité nombre de réflexions sur l’histoire et la population haïtienne, on a rarement l’occasion de lire des témoignages aussi poignants ainsi qu’une fine analyse des traumatismes et de la résilience des survivants. Tout le monde s’en souvient : isolés, sans abri, sans nourriture, débordés par la dévastation et dans l’attente des secours, les insul... + Read More
1987.
Series: Habermas et la question de l’éducation Maurice Tardif 9782763738772 $30.00 Dec 15, 2018

La pensée du théoricien allemand Jürgen Habermas figure parmi les plus importantes théories sociales issues du xxe siècle : toutefois, à ce jour, elle n’a inspiré qu’un nombre restreint d’études portant spécifiquement sur leur articulation à l’éducation moderne et contemporaine. Cet ouvrage présente ainsi une analyse critique de la façon dont la théorie de l’agir communicationnel développée par Habermas s’arrime à une étude macro et microsociologique de l’éducation, soit une analyse de l’organisation politique, économique et idéologique de... + Read More
1988.
Series: Thumbing a Ride Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada Electronic book text, PDF Linda Mahood 9780774837354 $32.95 HISTORY Aug 01, 2018

As a national network of roads and hostels spread across Canada, so did the practice of hitchhiking. Thumbing a Ride examines its rise and fall in the 1970s, drawing on records from the time. Many equated adventure travel with freedom and independence, but a counter-narrative emerged of girls gone missing and other dangers. Town councillors, community groups, and motorists demanded a clampdown on a transient youth movement they believed was spreading anti-establishment nomadism. Linda Mahood asks new questions about hitchhiking as a rite of pas... + Read More
1989.
Series: Al Rashid Mosque Building Canadian Muslim Communities Electronic book text, PDF Earle H. Waugh 9781772123401 $27.99 RELIGION Jul 11, 2018

Al Rashid Mosque, Canada’s first and one of the earliest in North America, was erected in Edmonton in the depth of the Depression of the 1930s. Over time, the story of this first mosque, which served as a magnet for more Lebanese Muslim immigrants to Edmonton, was woven into the folklore of the local community. —Baha Abu-Laban, Foreword Edmonton’s Al Rashid Mosque has played a key role in Islam’s Canadian development. Founded by Muslims from Lebanon, it has grown into a vibrant community fully integrated into Canada’s cultural mosaic. The mosq... + Read More
1990.
Series: Anarchists in the Academy Machines and Free Readers in Experimental Poetry Electronic book text, PDF Dani Spinosa 9781772124057 $19.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 22, 2018

Dani Spinosa takes up anarchism’s power as a cultural and artistic ideology, rather than as a political philosophy, with a persistent emphasis on the common. She demonstrates how postanarchism offers a useful theoretical context for poetry that is not explicitly political—specifically for the contemporary experimental poem with its characteristic challenges to subjectivity, representation, authorial power, and conventional constructions of the reader-text relationship. Her case studies of sixteen texts make a bold move toward politicizing reade... + Read More
1991.
Series: The Evolving Feminine Ballet Body Electronic book text, PDF Pirkko Markula 9781772123548 $19.99 PERFORMING ARTS Jan 12, 2018

Dance has become increasingly visible within contemporary culture: just think of reality TV shows featuring this art form. This shift brings the ballet body into renewed focus. Historically both celebrated and critiqued for its thin, flexible, and highly feminized aesthetic, the ballet body now takes on new and complex meanings at the intersections of performance art, popular culture, and fitness. The Evolving Feminine Ballet Body provides a local perspective to enrich the broader cultural narratives of ballet through historical, socio-cultural... + Read More
1992.
Series: Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters Electronic book text, PDF Kim Anderson 9781772123906 $23.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 04, 2018

In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous perspective. They acknowledge the destruction wrought by colonial violence, and also look at controversial topics such as lateral violence, challenges in working with “tradition,” and problematic notions involved in “helping.” Through stories of re... + Read More
1993.
Series: Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters Electronic book text, PDF Laura K. Davis 9781772123937 $31.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 18, 2018

Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland—one of Canada’s most beloved writers and one of Canada’s most significant publishers—enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals a professional relationship that evolved into deep friendship over a period of enormous cultural change. Both were committed to the idea of Canadian writing; in a very real sense, their mutual and separate work helped bring “Canadian Literature” into being... + Read More
1994.
Series: Metis Pioneers Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed Electronic book text, PDF Doris Jeanne MacKinnon 9781772123630 $35.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 15, 2018

In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson’s Bay Company tradition—who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned to a sedentary agricultural and industrial economy. MacKinnon provides rare insight into their lives, demonstrating the contributions Metis women made to the building of the Prairie West. This is a compelling tale of two women’s acts of quiet resist... + Read More
1995.
Series: Robert Kroetsch Series Rain Shadow Electronic book text, PDF Nicholas Bradley 9781772123890 $15.99 POETRY Mar 14, 2018

Rain Shadow is a collection of poetry that explores the fraught relationship between the natural world and humans yearning to connect with something greater than themselves. The poems range through destabilized lives and landscapes, fathoming presence and absence, transformation and oblivion. They outline the major questions of our time as the poet crisscrosses western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Witty, playful, serious, and heartsore, Rain Shadow seeks to understand the space in which people and nature are inextricably entwined. I walk... + Read More
1996.
Series: Robert Kroetsch Series Songs for Dead Children Electronic book text, PDF E.D. Blodgett 9781772123869 $15.99 POETRY Mar 22, 2018

In a series of poems inspired by Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, E.D. Blodgett searches for meaning amidst grief. In the contemplative gentleness of his words, he finds the special light children possess in their state of unknowing as they encounter the world. These sparse poems move through acceptance and resignation to the solace that exists in the word. Blodgett's poetry will speak to readers who have experienced loss, are exploring grief, or want to find a way to connect with stillness. as bells that ring through the winter air the cl... + Read More
1997.
Series: Robert Kroetsch Series Welcome to the Anthropocene Electronic book text, PDF Alice Major 9781772123968 $15.99 POETRY Mar 21, 2018

Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major’s most persistent question—“Where do we fit in the universe?”—is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties, and consciousness, and challenges us to find some humility in our overblown sense of our cosmic significance. Now, welcome to the Anthropocene you battered, tilting globe. Still you gleam, a blue pearl on the necklace of the planets. This home. Cloud... + Read More
1998.
Series: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series Wisdom in Nonsense Invaluable Lessons from My Father Electronic book text, PDF Heather O'Neill 9781772123999 $8.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 01, 2018

I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with those of the geniuses. —Heather O’Neill With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep a diary, and that it is good to beware of clowns, among other things. Her father and his eccentric friends—ex-bank robbers and homeless men—taught her that everyt... + Read More
1999.
Series: Small Cities, Big Issues Reconceiving Community in a Neoliberal Era Electronic book text, PDF Christopher Walmsley 9781771991643 $37.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 20, 2018

Small Canadian cities confront serious social issues as a result of the neoliberal economic restructuring practiced by both federal and provincial governments since the 1980s. Drastic spending reductions and ongoing restraint in social assistance, income supports, and the provision of affordable housing, combined with the offloading of social responsibilities onto municipalities, has contributed to the generalization of social issues once chiefly associated with Canada’s largest urban centres. As the investigations in this volume illustrate, wh... + Read More
2000.
Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance Accountability and Responsiveness at the Municipal Level Views from Canada Electronic book text, PDF Sandra Breux 9780773553743 $40.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 02, 2018

In Canada, the quality of municipal democracy has been questioned due to three crucial factors. First, voter turnout tends to be significantly lower for municipal elections than it is for other levels of government. Second, the re-election rate of incumbent candidates is higher compared to provincial, territorial, and federal elections. Third, corruption and other scandals have tarnished the image of local democracy. Are cities sufficiently capable of responding to crises and representing the interests of their residents? Accountability and Res... + Read More
2001.
Series: Building Resistance Children, Tuberculosis, and the Toronto Sanatorium Electronic book text, PDF Stacie Burke 9780773553811 $45.95 MEDICAL Jun 01, 2018

In 1882, Robert Koch identified tuberculosis as an infectious bacterial disease. In the sixty years between this revelation and the discovery of an antibiotic treatment, streptomycin, the disease was widespread in Canada, often infecting children within their family homes. Soon, public concerns led to the establishment of hospitals that specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis, including the Toronto sanatorium, which opened in 1904 on the outskirts of the city. Situated in the era before streptomycin, Building Resistance explores children’s... + Read More
2002.
Series: Citizenship as a Regime Canadian and International Perspectives Electronic book text, PDF Mireille Paquet 9780773553835 $43.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 02, 2018

State building is an ongoing process that first defines legitimate citizenship and then generates citizens. Political analysts and social scientists now use the concept of citizenship as a lens for considering both the evolution of states and the development of their societies. In Citizenship as a Regime leading political scientists from Canada, Europe, and Latin America use insights from comparative politics, institutionalism, and political economy to understand and analyze the dynamics of contemporary policies and politics. This book celebrat... + Read More
2003.
Series: Cold Rush The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North Electronic book text, PDF Martin Breum 9780773554412 $28.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 12, 2018

The heating Arctic has become a key issue in global politics. While Canada, China, Russia, and the United States increasingly send icebreakers, submarines, and other vessels to the Arctic, the ice itself continues to recede. Trade routes that kings and explorers have sought after for centuries are opening for the first time in human history, offering greater opportunities for human traffic, cultural exchange, science, the extraction of resources, and the transfer of goods from Asia to North America and Europe. With more Arctic land mass than an... + Read More
2004.
Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History I'm Not Myself at All Women, Art, and Subjectivity in Canada Electronic book text, PDF Kristina Huneault 9780773554030 $75.00 ART Jul 16, 2018

Notions of identity have long structured women’s art. Dynamics of race, class, and gender have shaped the production of artworks and oriented their subsequent reassessments. Arguably, this is especially true of art by women, and of the socially engaged criticism that addresses it. If identity has been a problem in women’s art, however, is more identity the solution? In this study of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art in Canada, Kristina Huneault offers a meditation on the strictures of identity and an exploration of forces that unsettl... + Read More
2005.
Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History A Land of Dreams Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Irish in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Maine, 1880–1923 Electronic book text, PDF Patrick Mannion 9780773554054 $45.95 HISTORY Jul 24, 2018

Wherever they settled, immigrants from Ireland and their descendants shaped and reshaped their understanding of being Irish in response to circumstances in both the old and new worlds. In A Land of Dreams, Patrick Mannion analyzes and compares the evolution of Irish identity in three communities on the prow of northeastern North America: St John’s, Newfoundland, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Portland, Maine, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These three port cities, home to diverse Irish populations in different stages of develo... + Read More
2006.
Series: The Portrayal of Jews in Modern Biełarusian Literature Electronic book text, PDF Zina J. Gimpelevich 9780773554153 $50.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Jul 02, 2018

In Cold Rush Martin Breum travels through and describes the new quest for the Arctic and the tortuous ongoing diplomatic endeavours to maintain peace, while the governments involved all develop still stronger security presences.
2007.
Series: The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity Perspectives from Canada’s Provinces and Territories Electronic book text, PDF Bryan M. Evans 9780773554184 $40.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 23, 2018

Following the 2008 global financial crisis, Canada appeared to escape the austerity implemented elsewhere, but this was spin hiding the reality. A closer look reveals that the provinces – responsible for delivering essential public and social services such as education and healthcare – shouldered the burden. The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity examines public-sector austerity in the provinces and territories, specifically addressing how austerity was implemented, what forms austerity agendas took (from regressive taxes and new user fees to... + Read More
2008.
Series: Reflections on Canada's Past, Present and Future in International Law/Réflexions sur le passé, le présent et l'avenir du Canada en droit international Electronic book text, PDF Oonagh E. Fitzgerald 9781928096696 $100.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 30, 2018

Marking 150 years since Confederation provides an opportunity for Canadian international law practitioners and scholars to reflect on Canada’s rich history in international law and governance, where we find ourselves today in the community of nations, and how we might help shape a future in which Canada’s rules-based and progressive approach to international law gains ascendancy. This collection of essays, each written in the official language chosen by the authors, provides a thoughtful perspective on Canada’s past and present in international... + Read More
2009.
Series: Carleton Library Series Report on Social Security for Canada New Edition Electronic book text, PDF Leonard Marsh 9780773552524 $40.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 21, 2018

Report on Social Security for Canada, written in wartime, presented to Canadians a picture of a better life in the postwar world. It outlined what governments could do to ensure that all citizens could afford the food, clothing, and shelter necessary to participate fully in their community. Authored by Leonard Marsh for the wartime Federal Advisory Committee on Reconstruction, the report was the subject of enormous attention when it was presented to the House of Commons in March 1943. Drawing on the work of his mentor, William Beveridge, and of... + Read More
2010.
Series: Graphic Culture Illustration and Artistic Enterprise in Paris, 1830-1848 Electronic book text, PDF Jillian Lerner 9780773555143 $55.00 ART Jul 30, 2018

Nineteenth-century Paris is often celebrated as the capital of modernity. However, this story is about cultural producers who were among the first to popularize and profit from that idea. Graphic Culture investigates the graphic artists and publishers who positioned themselves as connoisseurs of Parisian modernity in order to market new print publications that would amplify their cultural authority while distributing their impressions to a broad public. Jillian Lerner's exploration of print culture illuminates the changing conditions of vision ... + Read More
2011.
Series: Mercury Series Mike Starr of Oshawa A Political Biography Electronic book text, PDF Myron Momryk 9780776625928 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 23, 2018

Mike Starr had a remarkable career in Canadian politics. In June 1957, he was appointed Minister of Labour in John Diefenbaker’s cabinet and created a sensation, especially among Canadian ethnocultural groups. He made political history as the ?rst Ukrainian Canadian appointed to federal cabinet. As Minister of Labour, Starr was faced with numerous national problems, including seasonal unemployment, regional disparities, union negotiations and emerging militant nationalism in Quebec. When the Diefenbaker government was defeated in the 1963 f... + Read More
2012.
Series: Health and Society Drugs and Crime A Complex Relationship. Third revised and expanded edition Third revised and expanded edition Electronic book text, PDF Serge Brochu Ph.D. Psychology 9780776626338 $29.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 13, 2018

Concevoir la question des drogues illicites en dehors de leur contexte criminel est difficile. Certaines questions reviennent immanquablement : prendre de la drogue pousse-t-il vraiment à la délinquance ? Existe-t-il des drogues aux propriétés criminogènes ? Pourquoi un toxicomane se tourne-t-il vers la criminalité ? Quelles sont les meilleures façons d’intervenir auprès des personnes qui ont de graves problèmes de consommation ? Cette troisième édition présente la relation complexe entre drogue et criminalité, évitant les énoncés sommaires ... + Read More
2013.
Series: Études régionales Le Quartier du Musée Histoire et architecture Ontario Electronic book text, PDF Michelle Guitard 9782760326750 $29.99 ARCHITECTURE Mar 14, 2018

Le Quartier du Musée, situé en face du Musée canadien de l’histoire dans le secteur Hull de la Ville de Gatineau, est le lieu d’origine identitaire des francophones de l’Outaouais. Première paroisse catholique française de Hull avec ses bâtiments institutionnels, résidentiels et commerciaux, le Quartier du Musée regroupe un ensemble de références socioéconomiques et historiques, plus particulièrement pour la société catholique et canadienne-française de la région. Un des rares témoins de la Ville de Hull d’avant 1900, son patrimoine bâti anci... + Read More
2014.
Series: Mercury Series Hockey Challenging Canada’s Game – Au-delà du sport national Electronic book text, PDF Jenny Ellison 9780776626000 $39.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Apr 25, 2018

Le hockey est le sport des Canadiens Les expériences et les souvenirs que nous partageons – lacer ses patins pour la toute première fois, jouer une partie de hockey de rue, le but historique marqué par Sidney Crosby, ou celui de Maurice Richard – font du hockey bien plus qu’un sport. Bien que le lien entre hockey et identité nationale ait été étudié, il faut s’interroger sur la place qu’occupe ce sport dans notre compréhension des identités canadiennes diverses et multiples d’aujourd’hui. Cet ouvrage interdisciplinaire explore le hockey tant co... + Read More
2015.
Series: Amérique française Thomas Chapais, historien Electronic book text, PDF Damien-Claude Bélanger 9782760326576 $29.99 HISTORY Jun 13, 2018

Thomas Chapais is one of the great French-Canadian political and intellectual figures of the beginning of the 20th century. Appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec in 1892, then to the Senate of Canada in 1919, he played a leading role in the debates on educational reform in Quebec as well as in the Manitoba and Ontario school crises. Notwithstanding, he is mainly remembered today as a historian and not as a politician. Biographer of Jean Talon and of the Marquis de Montcalm, and author of a remarkable overview of the history of Canad... + Read More
2016.
Series: Amérique française Les fables canadiennes de Jules Verne Discorde et concorde dans une autre Amérique Electronic book text, PDF Gérard Fabre 9782760326798 $23.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 20, 2018

En trois décennies, du début des années 1870 au tournant du XXe siècle, Jules Verne écrit trois romans couvrant plus d’un demi-siècle d’histoire canadienne. Si ce triptyque peut être saisi dans le processus global de la création vernienne, il forme en même temps une entité à part entière, un formidable révélateur de la place du Canada et du Québec en France. Cette place est relative : elle dépend beaucoup de ses interactions avec l’Angleterre et les États-Unis. Plusieurs oeuvres de Verne, depuis Les Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras, publiée... + Read More
2017.
Series: Études canadiennes Nta’tugwaqanminen - Notre histoire L'évolution des Mi'gmaqs de Gespe'gewa'gi Electronic book text, PDF Le Mawiomi Mi'gmawei de Gesp'gewa'gi 9782760325807 $27.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 27, 2018

Nta’tugwaqanminen-Notre histoire présente la vision, la relation à la terre, l’occupation historique et actuelle du territoire, de même que les noms de lieux et ce que révèlent ceux-ci sur l’occupation ancestrale du territoire. Il porte sur les traités conclus avec la Couronne britannique, sur le respect de ces traités par la nation mi'gmaque et le non-respect de ceux-ci par les divers paliers de gouvernement. Il explore la dépossession des Mi’gmaqs du Gespe’gewa’gi (Nord du Nouveau-Brunswick et péninsule gaspésienne) dans la foulée de la col... + Read More
2018.
Series: China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada Electronic book text, PDF P. Whitney Lackenbauer 9781552389034 $34.99 LAW Jan 23, 2018

China’s Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada is one of the first in-depth studies of China’s increasing interest in the Arctic. It offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese motivations and the potential impacts of greater Chinese presence in the circumpolar region, exploring resource development, shipping, scientific research, governance, and security.Drawing on extensive research in Chinese government documentation, business and media reports, and current academic literature, this timely volume eschews the traditional assum... + Read More
2019.
Series: The Comedian Electronic book text, PDF Clem Martini 9781552389782 $24.99 HUMOR Feb 21, 2018

In the Roman Republic, comedy is a serious business. Nobody knows this better than Titus Maccius Plautus, the principal comic playwright of his time. Licking his wounds after a series of artistic flops and financial disasters, Plautus returns from his refuge in the country to Rome, desperate to produce a new play. With limited financial backing provided by tough and striking bar owner Casina, Plautus recruits a company of actors from the amateurs and cast-offs he can afford. Led by a disreputable drunk who just happens to have a pedigree w... + Read More
2020.
Series: Flowers in the Wall Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia Electronic book text, PDF David Webster 9781552389560 $34.95 LAW Jan 11, 2018

What is the experience of truth and reconciliation? What is the purpose of a truth commission? What lessons can be learned from established truth and reconciliation processes? Flowers in the Wall explores the experience of truth and reconciliation Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific, with and without a formal truth commission. Although much has been written about the operational phases of truth commissions, the efforts to establish these commissions and the struggle to put their recommendations into effect are often overlooked. ... + Read More
2021.
Series: No Straight Lines Local Leadership and the Path from Government to Governance in Small Cities Electronic book text, PDF 9781552389461 $39.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 03, 2018

Small cities face intricate challenges. No Straight Lines provides the basis for a refined model of community-engaged leadership and research designed to realize equality of quality of life.With particular attention to the small city of Kamloops, BC, this book explores the impact of extended, short-term, and unique leadership collaborations and local responses to homelessness, sustainability and food security, aging populations, and the recovery of local history. It offers exciting insights into the role of the university in the small city, fro... + Read More
2022.
Series: The Paraguayan War Causes and Early Conduct, 2nd Edition Electronic book text, PDF Thomas Whigham 9781552389959 $39.99 HISTORY Mar 23, 2018

Reissued with a new introduction by the author, The Paraguayan War is an engrossing and comprehensive account of the origins and early campaigns of the deadliest and most extensive interstate war ever fought in Latin America. One of the first significant investigations of the Paraguayan War available in English, it investigates the complexities of South American nationalism, military development, and political intrigue.A 2003 CHOICE Academic Title of the Year, The Paraguayan War sets the stage for The Road to Armageddon, Thomas L. Whigham’s exp... + Read More
2023.
Series: Quarry Electronic book text, PDF Tanis Franco 9781552389829 $17.99 POETRY Jan 26, 2018

Spaces are not exterior to bodies. They influence and affect the way bodies exist in the world. A quarry is an unnatural place within a natural territory. At any moment, it can be abandoned. A body is not separate from the spaces it inhabits. They exist together, in a mutual state of interrelation and instability.Quarry relays a year in the life of a body in transition as it changes with other bodies; human, animal, and mineral. It examines queer social spaces and contested natural spaces, asking how they affect each other. Using evocative meta... + Read More
2024.
Series: Visible Cities Electronic book text, PDF Kathleen Wall 9781552389607 $22.99 POETRY Feb 21, 2018

Visible Cities captures moments of joy and sadness that occur each day on city streets, exploring the humble triumphs and mundane tragedies of urban life. Photographs taken in locales from Regina to Venice, from Ottawa to Paris, inspire poems that reveal the unexpected beauty of the everyday experiences shaped by the cities we inhabit. Veronica Geminder's photographs peer into back lanes, admire people absorbed in public art, and consider those ruminating on their own reflections in the glass expanses of office buildings. Kathleen Wall?s poems ... + Read More
2025.
Series: Water Rites Reimagining Water in the West Electronic book text, PDF Jim Ellis 9781552389997 $29.99 NATURE May 17, 2018

What are the challenges surrounding water in Western Canada?What are our rights to water? Does water itself have rights?Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West documents the many ways that water flows through our lives, connecting the humans, animals, and plants that all depend on this precious and endangered resource.Essays from scholars, activists, environmentalists, and human rights advocates illuminate the diverse issues surrounding water in Alberta, including the right to access clean drinking water, the competing demands of the re... + Read More
2026.
Series: Food Futures: Growing a Sustainable Food System for Newfoundland and Labrador Catherine Keske 9781894725460 $37.73 Dec 15, 2018

Over the centuries, people living in Newfoundland and Labrador have demonstrated remarkable resourcefulness in order to reap the bounty of both sea and land. However, despite renewed interest in traditional Newfoundland and Labrador meals, the reality is that many cannot attain healthy and affordable food. Food Futures contributes to the Canadian food studies literature by exploring the origins, present day complexities, and future of the Newfoundland and Labrador food system. This uniquely interdisciplinary collection draws from the ... + Read More
2027.
Series: The Music of Our Burnished Axes: Songs and Stories of the Woods Workers of Newfoundland and Labrador Meghan C. Forsyth 9781894725422 $40.53 Dec 15, 2018

This book comprises the first and only comprehensive collection of the repertoire of songs, recitations, and poems written about 20th-century woods work in Newfoundland and Labrador. It provides an analysis of their significance as both grassroots social history texts and creative and musical contributions. The book includes: a history of woods work and exploration of the place of song and story in logging camps; complete song lyrics with accompanying discussion notes; musical transcriptions and an analysis of the musical tradition; poems, reci... + Read More
2028.
Series: Mistress of the Blue Castle: The Writing Life of Phebe Florence Miller Vicki Hallett 9781894725514 $34.93 Dec 15, 2018

Phebe Florence Miller was a poet and postmistress who lived in Topsail, Newfoundland and Labrador from 1889–1979. Despite her success as a poetic voice in the 1920s and ’30s, Miller is an obscure figure for today’s readers. This book brings her life and her contributions to Newfoundland and Labrador culture back into focus through the lens of her most personal writing. Mistress of the Blue Castle: The Writing Life of Phebe Florence Miller is an evocative exploration of the ways that identity and place are created together through the ... + Read More
2029.
Series: Health and Society Touch in the Helping Professions Research, Practice and Ethics Electronic book text, PDF Martin Rovers 9780776627564 $0.00 PSYCHOLOGY Apr 10, 2018

Touch may well be one of the least understood or talked about subjects in the helping professions. A discussion on the importance and ethics of positive, caring, and appropriate touch in professions such as teaching, nursing and counselling is long overdue. Touch in the Helping Professions delivers just that, weaving together scholarly evidence, research and clinical practice from a wide range of perspectives encompassing philosophy, theology, psychology, and anthropology to challenge assumptions about the role of touch in the helping professio... + Read More
2030.
Series: Praxis Décrocher son diplôme (et l’emploi de ses rêves!) Comment maîtriser les compétences essentielles menant au succès à l’école, au travail et dans la vie Ontario Electronic book text, PDF Émilie Laramée 9782760326453 $0.00 EDUCATION Apr 25, 2018

Going to university is exciting, but it can also be stressful. What courses should I take? What program should I choose? Will I get a job after graduation? This book shows that the best preparation for success on the job, and in life, is succeeding at university. Teamwork, meeting deadlines, overcoming challenges, writing well, and dealing with people are essential in any professional job. These same skills are also vital to becoming a strong student. This practical guide shows you how to master the critical skills and strategies for succ... + Read More
2031.
Series: Birds of Nunavut Electronic book text, PDF James M. Richards 9780774860260 $125.00 NATURE Aug 10, 2018

Nunavut is a land of islands, encompassing some of the most remote places on Earth. It is also home to some of the world’s most fascinating bird species. Birds of Nunavut is the first complete survey of every species known to occur in the territory. Co-written by a team of eighteen experts, it documents 295 species of birds (of which 145 are known to breed there), presenting a wealth of information on identification, distribution, ecology, behaviour, and conservation. Lavishly illustrated with over 800 colour photographs and 155 maps, this is a... + Read More
2032.
Series: Law and Society Enforcing Exclusion Precarious Migrants and the Law in Canada Electronic book text, PDF Sarah Grayce Marsden 9780774837750 $32.95 LAW Aug 31, 2018

Migrant workers, though long welcomed in Canada for their labour, are often excluded from both workplace protections and basic social benefits such as health care, income assistance, and education. Through interviews with migrants and their advocates, Marsden shows that people with precarious migration status face barriers in law, policy, and practice, affecting their ability to address adverse working conditions and their access to institutions such as hospitals, schools, and employment standards boards. Enforcing Exclusion recasts what migrat... + Read More
2033.
Series: Communication, Strategy, and Politics Political Elites in Canada Power and Influence in Instantaneous Times Electronic book text, PDF Alex Marland 9780774837958 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2018

Political Elites in Canada offers a timely look at Canadian political power brokers and how they are adapting to a fast-paced digital media environment. Elite power structures are changing worldwide, with traditional influencers losing authority over prevailing social, economic, and political structures. This volume explores the changing landscape for power brokers, the ascent of new elites, and how they are using digital communication to connect with Canadians in unprecedented ways. Featuring studies of governmental decision makers in the publ... + Read More
2034.
Series: Sexuality Studies Red Light Labour Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance Electronic book text, PDF Elya M. Durisin 9780774838252 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2018

In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Canada v. Bedford that key prostitution laws were unconstitutional. Red Light Labour addresses the new legal regime regulating sex work by analyzing how laws and those who uphold them have constructed, controlled, and criminalized sex workers, their clients, and their workspaces. This groundbreaking collection also offers nuanced interpretations of commercial sexual labour from the perspectives of workers, activists, and researchers. The contributors highlight the struggle for civic and social inclu... + Read More
2035.
Series: Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii Life beyond Settler Colonialism Electronic book text, PDF Joseph Weiss 9780774837606 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2018

Too often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler society. This book asserts quite the opposite: Indigenous peoples are not in any sense “out of time” in our contemporary world. Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii shows how Indigenous peoples in Canada not only continue to have a future, but are at work building many different futures – for themselves and for their non-Indigenous neighbours. Through the experiences of the Haida First Nation, this book explores these... + Read More
2036.
Series: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters Amma's Daughters A Memoir Electronic book text, PDF Meenal Shrivastava 9781771991964 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 31, 2018

As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma’s unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents’ distant and fractious marriage and their separate ambitions informs her every action and emotion. Then one evening, in a moment of uncharacteristic transparency and vulnerability, Amma tells Surekha and her older sister Didi of the family tragedy that changed the course of her life. Finally, her daughters begin to understand... + Read More