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Series: The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History A Cooperative Disagreement Canada-United States Relations and Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–93 Hardcover John M. Dirks 9780774865807 $89.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2022

A Cooperative Disagreement demonstrates how Canada and the United States successfully kept divergent policies on revolutionary Cuba from damaging their bilateral relationship. Covering the period from 1959 to the end of the Cold War, John Dirks investigates the efforts of Canadian and US diplomats and bureaucrats to cooperate despite their respective approaches toward Cuba. This book draws on archival documents from both countries to reveal how these two North American powers continued to adhere to the hard policy boundaries set by their own go... + Read More
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Series: A Liberal-Labour Lady The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith Paperback Veronica Strong-Boag 9780774867252 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2022

A Liberal-Labour Lady restores British Columbia’s first female MLA and the British Empire’s first female cabinet minister to history. An imperial settler, liberal-labour activist, and mainstream suffragist, Mary Ellen Smith (1863–1933) demanded a fair deal for “deserving” British women and men in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She strove to shift Liberal parties leftward to benefit women and workers, while still embracing global assumptions of British racial superiority and bourgeois feminism’s privileging of white women. In... + Read More
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Series: A Resilient Crown Canada's Monarchy at the Platinum Jubilee Paperback D. Michael Jackson 9781459749702 $26.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 30, 2022

As the Queen marks seventy years on the throne, this engaging work examines Canada’s constitutional monarchy. As Queen Elizabeth II marks her Platinum Jubilee in 2022 and nears the conclusion of her reign, much discussion and debate has taken place about the monarchy in Canada.This engaging work examines a broad range of topics related to Canada’s constitutional monarchy, its present state, and its future. Topics include Crown-Indigenous relations; the foundational place of the Crown in Canada’s system of government; the viceregal offices and t... + Read More
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Series: Nature | History | Society Against the Tides Reshaping Landscape and Community in Canada’s Maritime Marshlands Paperback Ronald Rudin 9780774866767 $32.95 HISTORY Aug 15, 2022

For four centuries, dykes turned salt marsh into arable land in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. But by the 1940s, the aging dykes were in poor repair. Against the Tides is the never-before-told story of the Maritime Marshland Rehabilitation Administration, a federal agency created in 1948 to reshape the landscape. Agency engineers sometimes borrowed from long-standing dykeland practices, but they also disregarded local conditions in building tidal dams that compromised some of the region’s rivers. This vivid account of... + Read More
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Series: Agrarian Spirit Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land Hardcover Norman Wirzba 9780268203092 $39.95 RELIGION Aug 01, 2022

This refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address today’s most pressing social and ecological concerns.For thousands of years most human beings drew their daily living from, and made sense of their lives in reference to, the land. Growing and finding food, along with the multiple practices of home maintenance and the cultivations of communities, were the abiding concerns that shaped what people understood about and expected from life. In Agrarian Spirit, Norman Wirzba demonstrates how agrarianism is o... + Read More
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Series: Angela Etapp Waaskaa'iganishing Gaa-onjiid Odibaajimowin The Story of Angela Etapp of Waskaganish Paperback Ruth DyckFehderau 9781989796085 $4.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 30, 2022

From The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee, the story of Angela Etapp of Waskaganish. In Ojibwe and English.
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Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies Atiqput Inuit Oral History and Project Naming Hardcover Carol Payne 9780228011057 $45.95 HISTORY Aug 19, 2022

"Our names – Atiqput – are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what’s in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes, every name is alive. Every name has a meaning. Much of our names have been misspelled and many of them have lost their meanings forever. Our Project Naming has been about identifying Inuit, who became nameless over the years, just "unidentified eskimos ..." With Project Naming, we have put Inu... + Read More
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Series: Babble On A Drug Memoir Paperback Andrew Brobyn 9781459749221 $23.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 16, 2022

A mid-level drug trafficker and self-proclaimed low-life with a big vocabulary comes to terms with his actions and his mental health. Andrew Brobyn’s relationship was in shambles before he took the terrible acid that sent him on an almost decade-long journey seeking redemption. His immediate plans following university were to liquidate his illicit assets, sell his client list, pack up shop, and retire to his parents’ home in Toronto while he figured out what to do with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a quarter million in cash. As his dru... + Read More
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Series: Beyond Rights The Nisg_a’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships Paperback Carole Blackburn 9780774866460 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2022

In 2000, the Nisg_a’a treaty marked the culmination of over one hundred years of Nisg_a’a people protesting, petitioning, litigating, and negotiating for recognition of their rights. Beyond Rights explores this groundbreaking achievement and its impact. The Nisg_a’a were trailblazers in gaining Supreme Court recognition of unextinguished Aboriginal title, and the treaty marked a turning point in the relationship between First Nations and provincial and federal governments. Using this treaty as a pivotal case study, Carole Blackburn analyzes tre... + Read More
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Series: Junior Field Guides Birds of Nunavut English Edition English Edition Paperback Carolyn Mallory 9781774505625 $12.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 10 Aug 23, 2022

There are a lot of different types of birds living in Nunavut. From snowy owls to rock ptarmigans, learn all about what each bird looks like, how they live, what they eat, their migration patterns, and more. This science book combines colourful illustrations and photographs in a handy field guide filled with interesting facts about birds.
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Series: Black Boys Paperback Stephen Jackman-Torkoff 9780369100474 $18.95 DRAMA Aug 30, 2022

Black Boys by Saga Collectif (Virgilia Griffith, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Jonathan Seinen) uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black experience. Text, movement, and design portray the rhythm and vulnerability of three very different Black individuals who seek a deeper understanding of themselves, each other, and of how they encounter the world. As they explore their unique identities, their performances rigorously interrogate and playfully subvert the ways in which gender, sexuality, and race a... + Read More
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Series: Boobies Hardcover Nancy Vo 9781773066929 $19.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Aug 30, 2022

A cheeky celebration of boobies! “You have just opened a book about boobies.” Meet the Blue-footed Booby, who does not have any boobies at all, since only mammals have boobies. We learn that mammals have boobies to feed babies — even though milk can also come from plants. And did you know that boobies, or breasts, vary from person to person, that boobies change over time, and that different animals have different numbers of boobies? Witty and wide-ranging, this eye-opening picture book goes on to explore connections between boobies and mountain... + Read More
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Series: Building Justice Frank Iacobucci and the Life Cycles of Law Hardcover Shauna Van Praagh 9781487566289 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 28, 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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Series: Studies in Canadian Military History Building the Army’s Backbone Canadian Non-Commissioned Officers in the Second World War Paperback Andrew L. Brown 9780774866972 $34.95 HISTORY Aug 15, 2022

In September 1939, Canada’s tiny army began its remarkable expansion into a wartime force of almost half a million soldiers. Building the Army’s Backbone tells the story of how senior leadership created a corps of non-commissioned officers (NCOs) that helped the burgeoning force train, fight, and win. This innovative book uncovers the army’s two-track NCO production system: locally organized training programs were run by units and formations, while centralized training and talent-distribution programs were overseen by the army. Ultimately, this... + Read More
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Series: CBD What Does the Science Say? Paperback Linda A. Parker 9780262544054 $40.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Aug 02, 2022

A comprehensive review of the scientific literature on the possible benefits of CBD, describing findings from both preclinical and human clinical studies.CBD (cannabidiol), a nonintoxicating compound derived from the cannabis plant, can be found in products ranging from lotion and smoothies to chewable gummies and pet treats. It’s been promoted—but not always scientifically validated—as a treatment for medical conditions including psychosis, anxiety, pain, and even cancer. This book by three leading cannabis researchers looks at the science of ... + Read More
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Series: Cafe Conversations Democracy and Dialogue in Public Spaces Paperback Michael Picard 9781772141689 $20.00 PHILOSOPHY Aug 07, 2022

This collection of essays is the first to look closely at the phenomena of philosophy in a cafe. Since the tradition of philosophical dialogue in coffee-houses was revived in Paris in the 1990s, public venues for participatory philosophy have sprung up in numerous countries, taking many forms, all seeking to stimulate intellectual interest as well as meaningful democratic community engagement. Some of the earliest discussion series continue to this day. The simple activity of reasoning together in a cafe is of interest to democratic theory, epi... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Performance Documents and Debates A Sourcebook Paperback Anthony J. Vickery 9781772126044 $89.99 DRAMA Aug 09, 2022

Canadian Performance Documents and Debates provides insight into performance activities from the seventeenth century to the early 1970s, and probes important yet vexing questions about Canada as a country and a concept. The volume collects playscripts and archival material to explore what these documents tell us about the values, debates, and priorities of artists and their audiences from the past 400 years. Analyses throughout rethink the significance of theatre, dance, opera, circus, and other performance genres and events. This landmark coll... + Read More
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Series: Civilization From Enlightenment Philosophy to Canadian History Paperback E.A. Heaman 9780228011675 $44.95 HISTORY Aug 15, 2022

Colonial Canada changed enormously between the 1760s and the 1860s, the Conquest and Confederation, but the idea of civilization seen to guide those transformations changed still more. A cosmopolitan and optimistic theory of history was written into the founding Canadian constitution as a check on state violence, only to be reversed and undone over the next century. Civilization was hegemony, a contradictory theory of unrestrained power and restraints on that power. Occupying a middle ground between British and American hegemonies, all the diff... + Read More
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Series: Dark Days at Noon The Future of Fire Hardcover Edward Struzik 9780228012092 $39.95 NATURE Aug 26, 2022

The catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once human activity began to warm the climate in the 1820s, leading to an aggressive firefighting strategy that has left many of the continent’s forests too old and vulnerable to the fires that many tree species need to regenerate.Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from before European contact to the present, in the hopes that we may learn from how we managed fire in the ... + Read More
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Series: Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and the Golden Age of Hollywood Hardcover Melanie Gall 9781493064335 $38.95 PERFORMING ARTS Aug 01, 2022

The 1930s was a magical age in Hollywood, with Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, Bette Davis and Clark Gable lighting up the silver screen. But Deanna Durbin's fame surpassed them all. Born in Canada, Deanna was “discovered” by starmaker Eddie Cantor, producer Joe Pasternak and director Henry Koster, and she quickly became the world’s most celebrated star. She saved Universal Studios from ruin, she was a favourite of Winston Churchill and Anne Frank, and she became the highest-paid woman in America. From the start, Deanna’s life was irrevocab... + Read More
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Series: Deep Diversity A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice Paperback Shakil Choudhury 9781778400339 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 30, 2022

“Shakil is a rare jewel in the work of what it means to heal, repair, and take responsibility...This book is required reading for anyone interested in building a loving, just and diverse world.”—Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Zen teacher & author of Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake UpRacial justice without shame or blame.Road-tested tools to start making a difference today.In Deep Diversity, award-winning racial justice educator Shakil Choudhury explores the emotionally loaded topic of racism using a compassionate, scientific approach that... + Read More
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Series: Dinosaur Philosophy Hardcover James Stewart 9780008530846 $18.99 HUMOR Aug 18, 2022

a comic about dinosaurs finding meaning, togetherfrom the international bestselling team behind dinosaur therapy, @dinosandcomicsincluding exclusive, never-before-seen bonus comicsposing questions such as ‘do I exist?’, ‘how should I live?’, ‘what is beauty?’ in each comic, dinosaur characters explore how to exist in the modern world and meditate on what it means to ‘live well’.suitable for grown-ups.
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Series: Dream States Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias Paperback John Lorinc 9781552454282 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 23, 2022

Is the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart city software and hardware is now worth hundreds of billions a year. But the ideas and approaches underpinning smart city tech raise tough and important questions about the future of urban communities, surveillance, automation, and public participation. The smart city era, moreover, belongs firmly in a longer historical narrativ... + Read More
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Series: Dreams and Journeys Paperback Frederick McDonald 9781990776045 $22.95 POETRY Aug 27, 2022

From poet and visual artist Frederick McDonald, an illuminating collection that explores the intricacies of existing within two worlds. Daydreams turn into night dreams that carry the author on a journey of self-awareness and personal discovery while living and travelling in two worlds: that of his reality as a member of the Fort McKay First Nation and existing as part of Canadian culture within its mainstream paradigm of savage stereotypes and ancient archetypes. Wondering at the intricacies of these worlds and what was, what could have been a... + Read More
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Series: Escape from Manus Prison One Man's Daring Quest for Freedom Paperback Jaivet Ealom 9780735245198 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 02, 2022

The awe-inspiring story of the only person to successfully escape from Australia’s notorious offshore detention centre and his long journey to find home.In 2013 Jaivet Ealom fled Myanmar’s brutal regime, where Rohingya like him were being persecuted and killed, and boarded a boat of asylum seekers bound for Australia. Instead of finding refuge, he was transported to Australia’s infamous Manus Regional Processing Centre.Blistering hot days spent in shipping containers on the island melted into weeks, then years until, finally, facing eit... + Read More
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Series: Faces in the Crowd The Jews of Canada Paperback Franklin Bialystok 9781442604414 $62.95 HISTORY Jul 28, 2022

Faces in the Crowd is an exploration of the lives and contributions of Jews to Canada.The Jews were the first ethno-cultural minority to arrive in Canada, settling in Quebec in 1759. Their story is analogous to the experiences of subsequent immigrants as they arrived and settled into their new homes. Faces in the Crowd sheds light on the unique immigrant experience of the Jews in Canada by focusing on three processes: settlement, adaptation, and diversity. Drawing on case studies from the eighteenth century to the present day, Franklin Bialysto... + Read More
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Series: Flow How the Best Supply Chains Thrive Hardcover Rob Handfield, Phd 9781487508326 $36.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Aug 11, 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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Series: Forget Me Not Paperback Ronnie Burkett 9780369101570 $19.95 DRAMA Aug 09, 2022

Welcome to “The New Now,” a time in which written language has been forbidden and forgotten. Those who desire to have their love letters written and read must make a dangerous journey to the secret and illegal camp of She, the Keeper of the Lost Hand. Aided by the mysterious showman Me, She recounts how her past led her to be one of the last people able to read and write in cursive. The tandem tale of Zako Budaydos and His Dancing Bear illuminates the time of “The Before,” when the carnival performer had to rely on wit, love, and a secret coded... + Read More
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Series: Teaching Archaeology: Case Studies in Research and the Culture of Fieldwork Forgotten Things The Story of the Seymour Valley Archaeology Project Paperback Robert J. Muckle 9781487588526 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 11, 2022

The first book in a new series, Forgotten Things demonstrates the process of archaeological research and explores the culture of archaeological fieldwork.Based on a long-term archaeology project, Forgotten Things provides an account of working with archaeology field school students to uncover early-twentieth-century Japanese logging camps in the Seymour Valley of British Columbia. The first book in the new Teaching Archaeology series, Forgotten Things aims to provide students with a real-world example of archaeological research in practice. It ... + Read More
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Series: From the Heart Family. Community. Service. Paperback Mary Anne Chambers 9781459749832 $25.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 02, 2022

A refreshing memoir that challenges readers to make the most of life’s opportunities.After moving to Canada from Jamaica in 1976, a colleague at Scotiabank told Mary Anne Chambers not to be surprised if she didn’t get very far. The overlapping characteristics of her identity — Caribbean immigrant, Black businesswoman, Catholic, wife, and mother—were expected to hinder her both personally and professionally. Yet, against all odds, she went on to attain senior roles in both business and politics.In her inspiring memoir, Chambers shares lessons fr... + Read More
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Series: Hollywood in the Klondike Dawson City’s Great Film Find Hardcover Michael Gates 9781550179965 $34.95 HISTORY Aug 27, 2022

In this exciting first-hand account of an unexpected cinematic discovery, Michael Gates delves into the history behind a hoard of silent films found buried beneath the permafrost of an Arctic gold rush town. In 1978, hundreds of reels of silent films were unearthed from beneath the demolished site of an old hockey arena in Dawson City, Yukon. Author Michael Gates witnessed the cinematic discovery of these once-lost films—and in this book excavates and illuminates the history of a gold rush town like no other. An event in the most unlikely of p... + Read More
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Series: I Never Met a Rattlesnake I Didn't Like A Memoir Paperback David Carpenter 9781771872270 $24.95 NATURE Aug 31, 2022

David Carpenter’s collection of essays explores a city boy’s love of the wild, a passion that has enriched his life from boyhood. At 80, this irrepressible Saskatchewan raconteur examines his intense fascination with predators large and small, and his awe in the face of the variety of creatures that may be out to get us—or who are out to get one another. How does this combination of fear and wonder affect our relationship with the natural world? And why has Carpenter personally been both drawn to, and repelled by, so many wild animals, includin... + Read More
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Series: Kid Legends Kid Trailblazers True Tales of Childhood from Changemakers and Leaders Hardcover Robin Stevenson 9781683693017 $16.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Aug 23, 2022

Inspiring, relatable, and totally true biographies tell the childhood stories of a diverse group of trailblazers including Kamala Harris, Greta Thunberg, Ai Weiwei, Benazir Bhutto, Elliot Page, and John Lewis, along with 10 other powerful figures.Featuring kid-friendly text and full-color illustrations, Kid Trailblazers highlights contemporary figures who have led the way in government, social activism, environmental justice, and the arts. Middle-grade readers will learn how these figures got their start as kids just like them, with impactful s... + Read More
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Series: Kiki Man Ray Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris Hardcover Mark Braude 9781324006015 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 09, 2022

A dazzling portrait of Paris’s forgotten artist and cabaret star, whose incandescent life asks us to see the history of modern art in new ways.In freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp. Her best-selling memoir—featuring an introduction by Ernest Hemingway—made front-page news in France and was immediately banned in America. All before she turned thirty... + Read More
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Series: Kimberly Coon Mistisiniing Gaa-onjiid Odibaajimowin The Story of Kimberly Coon of Mistissini Paperback Ruth DyckFehderau 9781989796115 $4.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 30, 2022

From The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee, the story of Kimberly Coon of Mistissini. In Ojibwe and English.
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Series: Savoir - Autour du monde La musique Hardcover Québec Amérique 9782764446225 $16.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Aug 30, 2022

LA MUSIQUE rythme la vie des humains, où qu’ils soient sur la planète, depuis la préhistoire. Si chaque culture possède ses traditions musicales, la musique évolue aussi au gré des époques, des progrès technologiques et du mélange des cultures, se déployant en un vaste éventail de genres. Mais quelles sont ces cultures ? Quels sont ces genres ?
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Series: Lola Flies Alone Hardcover Bill Richardson 9781927917831 $22.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 04 - 08 Aug 16, 2022

Awarding-winning author Bill Richardson and illustrator Bill Pechet team up again with Lola Flies Alone, a delightful story about a young airline passenger who has even more imagination than she has style – and she has plenty of that. Lola's first unaccompanied flight is beset by problems; whether it be mermaids in a wading pool blocking the runway or a ballerina doing plies in the aisle, Lola has the solution for every setback. A delightful tale about being "good and kind and generous and brave", Lola Flies Alone is a reminder that brave and s... + Read More
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Series: Lunchbox 75+ Easy and Delicious Recipes for Lunches on the Go Hardcover Aviva Wittenberg 9780525611523 $30.00 COOKING Aug 16, 2022

A must-have cookbook of lunches you can look forward to all morning long! 75+ fail-safe recipes (and oodles of strategies and tips) for delicious lunchboxes and bowls your whole family can enjoy.Say goodbye to the same boring, limited lunch rotation, and hello to everyone’s new favorite meal of the day! Lunchbox has literally months’ worth of recipes for flavorful, filling, nutritious, and delicious meals—guaranteed to stay fresh until lunch. With chapters on Soups, Sandwiches, Salads, Warm Bowls, Cold Bowls, Handpies, and Brunch for Lunch—as w... + Read More
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Series: Maggie Happyjack gaye Simon Etapp Waswaanibiing Gaa-onjiiwaad Odibaajimowiniwaa The Story of Maggie Happyjack and Simon Etapp of Waswanipi Paperback Ruth DyckFehderau 9781989796061 $4.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 30, 2022

From The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee, the story of Maggie Happyjack and Simon Etapp of Waswanipi. In Ojibwe and English.
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Series: Making Love with the Land Hardcover Joshua Whitehead 9780735278868 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

Much-anticipated non-fiction from the author of the Giller-longlisted, GG-shortlisted and Canada Reads-winning novel Jonny Appleseed.In the last few years, following the publication of his debut novel Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead has emerged as one of the most exciting and important new voices on Turtle Island. Now, in this first non-fiction work, Whitehead brilliantly explores Indigeneity, queerness, and the relationships between body, language and land through a variety of genres (essay, memoir, notes, confession). Making Love with the L... + Read More
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Series: Mary Niquanicappo Whaapmagoostoo'ing Gaa-onjiid Odibaajimowin The Story of Mary Niquanicappo of Whapmagoostui Paperback Ruth DyckFehderau 9781989796078 $4.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 30, 2022

From The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee, the story of Mary Niquanicappo of Whapmagoostui. In Ojibwe and English.
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Series: Moving the Museum Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO Hardcover Wanda Nanibush 9781773102023 $45.00 ART Oct 04, 2022

Moving the Museum documents the reopening of the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art with a renewed focus on the AGO’s Indigenous art collection. The volume reflects the nation-to-nation treaty relationship that is the foundation of Canada, asking questions, discovering truths, and leading conversations that address the weight of history and colonialism.Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 reproductions, Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO features the work of First Nations artists — including Carl Beam, Rebe... + Read More
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Series: Musical Bodies, Musical Minds Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality Paperback Dylan van der Schyff 9780262045223 $54.00 MUSIC Aug 30, 2022

An enactive account of musicality that proposes new ways of thinking about musical experience, musical development in infancy, music and evolution, and more.Musical Bodies, Musical Minds offers an innovative account of human musicality that draws on recent developments in embodied cognitive science. The authors explore musical cognition as a form of sense-making that unfolds across the embodied, environmentally embedded, and sociomaterially extended dimensions that compose the enactment of human worlds of meaning. This perspective enables new w... + Read More
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Series: My First Wipe Clean: Games, Mazes and Drawings Hardcover Maud BrougEre 9781988142678 $15.95 EDUCATION Age (years) from 4 Aug 15, 2022

Bright, bold and full of fun activities, this book will help young children build early skills such as counting, matching, finding similarities and differences, sorting and selecting. The 14 large ereasable boards and the wipe-clean pen will allow children to start over if they make a mistake or just want to redo a fun activity over and over again.
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Series: Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems Hardcover Dionne Brand 9780771098468 $45.00 POETRY Aug 09, 2022

An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career—new and collected poetry from one of Canada’s most honoured and significant poets.Spanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand’s poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, possibly future, time and place, Brand’s ongoing labours of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and reach beyond those worlds, their enclosures, and their violences.Nomenclature: New and Collected... + Read More
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Series: Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature Paperback James Gifford 9781771993449 $34.99 POETRY Aug 31, 2022

Edward Taylor Fletcher was a nineteenth-century literary figure almost completely forgotten by history. Poet, travel writer, essayist, surveyor, philologist, and translator, Fletcher shared many characteristics with the great literary figures of the time. Yet his writing represents a significant departure from his contemporaries and a close reading of his work reshapes our understanding of the Canadian long poem and the cultural values of Canadian poetry. Fletcher spoke English, French, German, Italian, and other modern languages fluently and ... + Read More
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Series: Our Voice of Fire A Memoir of a Warrior Rising Paperback Brandi Morin 9781487010577 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 02, 2022

A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi Morin set to transform the narrative around Indigenous Peoples. Brandi Morin is known for her clear-eyed and empathetic reporting on Indigenous oppression in North America. She is also a survivor of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls crisis and uses her experience to tell the stories of those who did not survive the rampant violence. From her time as a foster kid and runaway who fell victim to predatory men and an oppressive syste... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Out of the Studio The Photographic Innovations of Charles and John Smeaton at Home and Abroad Hardcover John Osborne 9780228012054 $49.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Aug 26, 2022

Photography, one of the most influential inventions of the nineteenth century, has been shaped by Canadian innovators. Among them are two Quebec men who have flown beneath the radar in studies of the history of photography: the Smeaton brothers.Out of the Studio documents the life, oeuvre, and achievement of Charles Smeaton and his younger brother, John. Launched by the opening of their “photographic gallery” in 1861, they developed a reputation in Quebec for images of contemporaneous people, places, and events taken in challenging outdoor sett... + Read More
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Series: Passengers Paperback Michael Crummey 9781487011253 $19.99 POETRY Aug 02, 2022

The sixth and, on the surface, most innovative poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey. Eclectic, unpredictable, and strange, Passengers follows Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer on an imagined circumnavigation of Newfoundland; traces the island escapades of Lucifer from the time of his arrival as a stowaway in the Middle Ages; and wanders the pre-pandemic cities of Europe, touching down in Stockholm’s ABBA museum, the Belfast Public Library, Austria’s plague cemeteries, and the Czech Republic’s Punkva Caves. Widel... + Read More
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Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre Power Moves Dance, Culture, Politics Paperback Seika Boye 9780369103697 $34.95 PERFORMING ARTS Aug 30, 2022

This collection of essays focuses how dance and movement engage and enact political questions around agency, mobility, pedagogy, and resistance. Committed to crossing disciplinary boundaries, Power Moves looks to movement knowledge for its radical insights and critical forms of public intervention and pedagogy. The writers of this collection examine cultural and social patterns in action in the studio, on the stage, and from the street, and in doing so give voice to fresh perspectives from Canadian dance and performance studies on social, poli... + Read More
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Series: Raquel Emmeline Welsch Weminjiing Gaa-onjiid Odibaajimowin The Story of Raquel Emmeline Welsch of Wemindji Paperback Ruth DyckFehderau 9781989796108 $4.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 30, 2022

From The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee, the story of Raquel Emmeline Welsch of Wemindji. In Ojibwe and English.
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Series: Ravage of Life Paperback Evelyne de la Chenelière 9780369102720 $22.95 DRAMA Aug 30, 2022

For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, and writing. The culmination of this is Ravage of Life, a bold departure from prevailing norms where the playwright breaks with written and performative conventions in her dramatization of an endless and multi-faceted instant between life and death. In this experimental text, bits and pieces of a family’s realities unfold in a non-linear simultanei... + Read More
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Series: Recipes and Reciprocity Building Relationships in Research Paperback Hannah Tait Neufeld 9780887552915 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 19, 2022

Recipes and Reciprocity considers the ways that food and research intersect for both researchers, participants, and communities demonstrating how everyday acts around food preparation, consumption, and sharing can enable unexpected approaches to reciprocal research and fuel relationships across cultures, generations, spaces, and places. Drawing from research contexts within Canada, Cuba, India, Malawi, Nepal, Paraguay, and Japan, contributors use the sharing of food knowledge and food processes (such as drying, steaming, mixing, grinding, and... + Read More
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Series: Reclaiming Calliope Freeing the Female Voice through Undomesticated Singing Paperback Fides Krucker 9781623177065 $25.95 MUSIC Aug 02, 2022

The practice and politics of the unfettered female voice—reclaiming your power through voice, song, and opera-inspired exercises.For centuries, opera has used women’s voices to convey male stories. Within an art form dominated by men, the female voice is a means to an end: controlled, denatured, and crafted to carry words and intentions that belie the true depth and complexity of the female experience.Here, author and opera singer Fides Krucker shows readers what it means to find—and use—our authentic voice, to sing wildly and uninhibited from ... + Read More