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ASA has built a reputation for providing the aviation community with the most accurate and reliable FAR/AIM products available. The 2024 FAR/AIM book continues this tradition, containing complete and up-to-date information from Titles 14 and 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 and 49 CFR) pertinent to general aviation, pilots, flight instructors, and unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operators, combined with the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM), and a free email subscription service for you to receive updated information as it is releas... + Read More
ASA’s FAR-AMT is the most accurate and reliable regulatory reference on the market for aviation maintenance technicians (AMTs), maintenance operations, and repair shops. This 2024 edition of AMT-related Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) from Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations clearly marks all changes from the previous year. Also contains additional mechanic references such as some of the most often used FAA Advisory Circular publications and FAA Orders. This edition includes: Title 14 Parts 1, 3, 5, 13, 21, 23, 26, 27, 33, 34, 35, ... + Read More
ASA’s FAR-FC is the definitive reference book for Part 121 and 135 operators. This updated 2024 edition reflects changes in aviation operations for pilots and flight crews, including flight crew member certifications, fractional ownership operations, certification for air carriers, and operating requirements for domestic operations. Includes free email subscription service for you to receive updated information as it is released by the FAA. Convenient handbook-sized 6" x 9" format includes: Title 14 Parts 1, 5, 63, 65, 91 Subpart K, 110, 111,... + Read More
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Series: Working Canadians: Books from the CCLHTriumph and SolidarityBC Communists in the Early Years of the Great DepressionPaperback
Jon Bartlett9781771993951
$34.99HISTORY
Oct 31, 2023
British Columbia was the site of some of the most significant events in the history of the labour movement and had some of the best-organized and most politically conscious communist workers. In this illuminating volume, Jon Bartlett follows the activities of BC Communists from the onset of the Great Depression to the coming of the Popular Front and investigates the collisions between these Communists and the organs of the federal, provincial, and municipal governments. Reflecting on the vectors of cultural resistance, from the creation of vern... + Read More
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Series: Discover the Great PlainsGreat Plains FortsPaperback
Jay H. Buckley9781496207715
$24.95HISTORY
Dec 01, 2023
Great Plains Forts introduces readers to the fortifications that have impacted the lives of Indigenous peoples, fur trappers and traders, travelers, and military personnel on the Great Plains and prairies from precontact times to the present. Using stories to introduce patterns in fortification construction and use, Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes explore the eras of fort-building on the Great Plains from Canada to Texas. Stories about fortifications and fortified cities built by Indigenous peoples reveal the lesser-known history of precont... + Read More
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Series: Rise Up!Indigenous Music in North AmericaPaperback
Craig Harris9781496236159
$40.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 01, 2023
Music historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. More than powwow drums and wooden flutes, Indigenous music intersects with rock, blues, jazz, folk music, reggae, hip-hop, classical music, and more. Combining deep research with personal stories by nearly four dozen award-winning Indigenous musicians, Harris offers an eye-opening look at the growth of Indigenous music. Among a host of North America’s most vital Indigenous musi... + Read More
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Series: Clitso Dedman, Navajo CarverHis Art and His WorldHardcover
Rebecca M. Valette9781496235817
$53.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Dec 01, 2023
Rebecca Valette’s Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver is the first biography of artist Clitso Dedman (1876–1953), one of the most important but overlooked Diné (Navajo) artists of his generation. Dedman was born to a traditional Navajo family in Chinle, Arizona, and herded sheep as a child. He was educated in the late 1880s and early 1890s at the Fort Defiance Indian School, then at the Teller Institute in Grand Junction, Colorado. After graduation Dedman moved to Gallup, New Mexico, where he worked in the machine shop of the Atchison, Topeka, and San... + Read More
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Series: Some Magnetic ForceLionel LeMoine FitzGerald WritingsPaperback
Michael Parke-Taylor9781988111452
$64.95ART
Nov 30, 2023
Artist and educator Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890–1956) was the only member of the Group of Seven based in Western Canada. Some Magnetic Force is the first collection to gather the surviving writings by the Winnipeg artist. Spanning from 1930 to 1954, the texts gathered here begin during the mature period of his artistic development at age forty and conclude with personal reflections late in life on the nature of art and his career. Michael Parke-Taylor has uncovered and chronologically organized FitzGerald’s letters, diary, lectures, and rep... + Read More
The book analyses the relationship between crime and conflict in Northern Ireland since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921. Despite the vast research literature that focuses on Northern Ireland?s political divisions and the violence of the ?Troubles?, the relationship between these issues and crime has received much less attention. This book seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge by examining these issues across three different time periods: from the establishment of Northern Ireland until the outbreak of widespread violence... + Read More
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Series: Wise's Irish WhiskeyThe history of Cork's North Mall distilleryHardcover
Barry Crockett9781782055754
$74.95HISTORY
Sep 25, 2023
The book narrates the story of three generations of the Wise family as they became Cork-based merchant princes. It is also the story of their North Mall distillery, the then largest in Cork city , which even rivalled the great distilling houses of Dublin.
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Series: Family TherapyConversations for changePaperback
Marie Murray9781782054856
$26.95PSYCHOLOGY
Oct 25, 2023
Family Therapy: Conversations for change brings readers directly into the therapy room with some of Ireland's most eminent front-line systemic psychotherapists. It shows the relevance and diversity of the issues with which systemic family therapists work collaboratively with clients - issues such as addiction; how clients and therapist work together to understand and tackle eating problems; the importance of including family conversations when working with neurological conditions - with autism, couples therapy, the sensitive issue of harmful se... + Read More
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Series: Ireland Through a Critical LenseA miscellany of life-writing on politics, culture and filmHardcover
Desmond Bell9781782055778
$74.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 25, 2023
In this anthology of critical writing, film-maker and academic Desmond Bell draws upon his extensive experience as a sociologist, media scholar and film-maker to explore a range of issues of culture identity, politics and art in Ireland, north and south. This compendium gathers together his published work and films produced over the last forty years. This material is refashioned for a contemporary readership and supplemented with a number of original essays that enable the reader to cross-reference the critical and creative themes covered in h... + Read More
This inaugural volume in the Studies in Irish Music Education series is the first publication to bring together a unique collection of papers by leading national and international authors with wide expertise and extensive experience in the field. Under the themes of Legacies, conversations and aspirations, it provides an overview on the considerable expansion and development of music education in Ireland from the mid-1990s through to the early decades of the twenty-first century. Collectively, the book embraces a diverse range of perspectives, ... + Read More
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Series: Finnegans Wake, Ulster and PartitionThe sanguine boundary limitHardcover
Donal Manning9781782055877
$74.95LITERARY CRITICISM
Nov 25, 2023
Joyce wrote Finnegans Wake between 1923 and 1939. He was, therefore, ideally placed to interrogate the trauma of partition and the growing pains of the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. He sketches these historical moments and times satirically, and with disappointment and heartfelt regret.
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Series: Síreacht: Longings for another IrelandTrade UnionsPaperback
Adrian Kane9781782055846
$26.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Nov 25, 2023
Trade Union Renewal examines the current state of the Irish Trade Union movement, the reasons for its decline and how it must re-imagine itself as a force capable of rolling back the frontiers of capital if it is to rally a new generation of workers to the cause of labour. The book argues that trade unionism must break into the new worlds of work by radically transforming contemporary trade union structures and culture which renders the movement largely alien to younger workers employed in the gig and digital economies. The author, who has spe... + Read More
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Series: The Black WoodsPursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack FrontierHardcover
Amy Godine9781501771682
$48.95HISTORY
Nov 15, 2023
The Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness. From the late 1840s into the 1860s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build farms and to vote. On their new-worked land, they could meet the $250 property requirement New York's constitution imposed on Black voters in 1821, and claim the rights of citizenship. Three thousand Black New Yorkers were gifted with 120,000 acres of Adirondack land by Gerrit Smith, an upstate abolitionist and heir to an immense land fortune. Smith's suffrage-seeking plan was ... + Read More
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Series: Gideon's RevolutionA NovelHardcover
Brian Carso9781501771514
$37.95FICTION
Sep 15, 2023
It's 1780, days after Benedict Arnold flees to the British when his treasonous plot to surrender the American fort at West Point is discovered and Gideon's Revolution is about to begin. General George Washington orders a secret mission for two Continental Army soldiers to go behind enemy lines, abduct Arnold, and return him to his countrymen to be tried and hanged. Washington selects one of the soldiers, Gideon Wheatley, for the mission because Arnold would trust him. Wheatley fought under Arnold's command at Saratoga and tended to the gravely ... + Read More
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Series: People for Our TimeLord Acton for Our TimePaperback
Christopher Lazarski9781501771712
$26.95PHILOSOPHY
Oct 15, 2023
Lord Acton for Our Time illuminates the thought of the English historian, politician, and writer who gave us the famous maxim: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Extracting lessons for our current age, Christopher Lazarski focuses on liberty?how Acton understood it, what he thought was its foundation and necessary ingredients, and the history of its development in Western Civilization. Acton is known as a historian, or even the historian, of liberty and as an ardent liberal, but there is confusion as to how he und... + Read More
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Series: The Muriel Rukeyser EraSelected ProseHardcover
Muriel Rukeyser9781501771743
$66.95LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Nov 15, 2023
The Muriel Rukeyser Era makes available for the first time a range of Muriel Rukeyser's prose, a rich and diverse archive of political, social, and aesthetic writings. Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein assemble a selection of unpublished and out-of-print texts, demonstrating the diversity, brilliance, and possibilities of mid-twentieth-century women's intellectual life and sociopolitical engagement.Although primarily known as a poet, Rukeyser produced an expansive and influential body of nonfiction and critical writings. Reflective of a... + Read More
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Series: Tree by TreeSaving North America's Eastern ForestsPaperback
Scott J. Meiners9781501771262
$33.95SCIENCE
Sep 15, 2023
Tree by Tree is a warning and a toolkit for the future of forest recovery. Scott J. Meiners investigates the critical biological threats endangering tree species native to the forests of eastern North America, providing a needed focus on this plight. Meiners suggests that if we are to save our forests, the first step is to recognize the threats in front of us. Meiners focuses on five familiar trees?the American elm, the American chestnut, the eastern hemlock, the white ash, and the sugar maple?and shares why they matter economically, ecological... + Read More
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Series: Bees of Costa RicaPaperback
Paul Hanson9781501769061
$40.95SCIENCE
Nov 15, 2023
In this richly illustrated guide, Bees of Costa Rica, leading bee experts showcase the diversity of bees in Costa Rica and the myriad ways in which they interact with flowers and people.Costa Rica is home to 117 bee genera and approximately 700 bee species. Focusing on the five bee families present in Costa Rica, the authors describe the bees' general physical traits, foraging and mating behavior, and nest characteristics. Chapters cover the relationships between bees and other insects, profiles of plants pollinated by bees, and practical sugge... + Read More
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Series: Zona Tropical PublicationsQuetzalsIcons of the Cloud ForestPaperback
Alan F. Poole9781501772214
$36.95NATURE
Oct 15, 2023
In Quetzals, the renowned ornithologist Alan F. Poole introduces readers to one of the world's most alluring group of birds. Native to the cloud forests of Mexico, and Central and South America, quetzals have played an essential role in the cultures of those lands, where their radiant, brightly colored feathers have been worshipped as sacred objects and coveted as luxury goods for millennia. Drawing on scientific and historical facts, Poole details the natural history and cultural significance of these legendary birds. He focuses on the most ic... + Read More
Butterflies of Maine and the Canadian Maritime Provinces introduces readers to over one hundred and twenty butterfly species documented in the Acadian region. Including contributions from researchers and community scientists, this volume is indispensable for anyone interested in the study and conservation of these ecologically important insects.This user-friendly guide features:? The first annotated checklist of the species and subspecies of Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island? Species accounts covering habitat, behavior... + Read More
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Series: Bats of the West IndiesA Natural History and Field GuidePaperback
Allen Kurta9781501768934
$53.95SCIENCE
Oct 15, 2023
Bats of the West Indies is a concise guide to the sixty-one bat species found across the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles. Edited by Allen Kurta and Armando Rodríguez-Durán, this volume synthesizes the expertise of twenty-nine accomplished chiropterologists to present up-to-date information on the natural history, ecology, and behavior of these fascinating creatures.Bats represent an evolutionarily distinctive and ecologically significant part of biological diversity in the West Indies. Opening chapters introduce readers t... + Read More
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Series: Making No CompromiseMargaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the "Little Review"Hardcover
Holly A. Baggett9781501771446
$49.95LITERARY CRITICISM
Oct 15, 2023
Making No Compromise is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, the women who founded the avant-garde journal the Little Review in Chicago in 1914. Born in the nineteenth-century Midwest, Anderson and Heap grew up to be iconoclastic rebels, living openly as lesbians, and advocating causes from anarchy to feminism and free love. Their lives and work shattered cultural, social, and sexual norms. As their paths crisscrossed Chicago, New York, Paris, and Europe; two World Wars; and a para... + Read More
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Series: Invisible No MoreVoices from Native AmericaPaperback
Raymond Foxworth9781642833119
$43.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 16, 2023
For too long, Indigenous people in the United States have been stereotyped as vestiges of the past, obliged to remind others, “We are still here!” Yet today, Native leaders are at the center of social change, challenging philanthropic organizations that have historically excluded Native people, and fighting for economic and environmental justice.Edited by Raymond Foxworth of the Henry Luce Foundation and Steve Dubb of The Nonprofit Quarterly, Invisible No More is a groundbreaking collection of stories by Native American leaders, m... + Read More
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Series: Over the SeawallTsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling NatureHardcover
Stephen Miller9781642832563
$43.95SCIENCE
Oct 31, 2023
In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed—naively—that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead they perished, betrayed by the very thing built to protect them. Erratic weather, blistering drought, rising seas, and ecosystem collapse now affect every inch of the globe. Increasingly, we no longer look to stop climate change, choosing instead to adapt to it. Never have so many undertaken such a widespread, hurried atte... + Read More
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Series: PurifiedHow Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our WaterPaperback
Peter Annin9781642832815
$34.95TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Nov 09, 2023
Water shortages are plaguing communities from coast to coast, and recycled water could help close that gap. In Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water, veteran journalist Peter Annin shows that wastewater has become a surprising weapon in America’s war against water scarcity. In five water‑strapped states—California, Texas, Virginia, Nevada, and Florida—current filtration technology is transforming sewage into something akin to distilled water, free of chemicals and safe to drink. But sensationalist media coverag... + Read More
Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life‑threatening impact, especially for older adults – generally speaking, people 65 or older. Older adults often face mobility, cognitive, and resource challenges, which contribute to a disproportionate number of deaths in the face of major disasters. But some challenges are less visible. Consider the grandparent who no longer can stand and wait at the bus stop because of the heat, or the retiree who lives in a home with black mold due to chronic flooding that she can’t afford t... + Read More
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Series: People, Planet, DesignA Practical Guide to Realizing Architecture’s PotentialPaperback
Corey Squire9781642832655
$49.95ARCHITECTURE
Nov 14, 2023
In the US, design choices made by the typical architecture firm employee each year can reduce emissions by about 300 times that of an average American. What if great design were defined by its ability to cool the planet, heal communities, enhance ecological functioning, and advance justice?In People, Planet, Design, architect Corey Squire builds the case, provides the data, and lays out the practical tools for human‑centered architecture. This approach integrates beauty and delight with an awareness of every design choice’s impa... + Read More
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Series: At the TableThe Chef's Guide to AdvocacyPaperback
Katherine Miller9781642832372
$39.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 28, 2023
When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous. This was a group known for short tempers and tattoos, not for saving the world. But she quickly learned that chefs and other leaders in the restaurant industry are some of the most powerful forces for change in our troubled food system. Chefs are leading hunger relief efforts, supporting local farmers, fighting food waste, confronting racism and sexism in the industry, and much more.In At the Table, Miller shares the essenti... + Read More
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Series: 101 CollectionThe Top Ten Diseases of All TimePaperback
Professor Stacey Smith? Professor9780776640600
$10.95MEDICAL
Oct 24, 2023
Infectious diseases have been with us for millennia and continue to pose a threat, from the irritation of flu season to the potential extinction of our species.We instinctively fear them and alter our behaviour as a result. The reason we bury bodies six feet deep is because that was the depth that stopped plague transmission from the dead in the Middle Ages. Many religious practices, such as avoiding certain meats, were established because of foodborne disease transmission.In The Top Ten Diseases of All Time, Stacey Smith? presents the top ten ... + Read More
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Series: Biography and memoirsShe Dared to SucceedA Biography of the Honourable Marie-P. Charette-PoulinPaperback
Fred Langan9780776637976
$31.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 27, 2023
She Dared to Succeed (in French, Elle a osé réussir), delves into the life of a woman who, for more than 30 years, broke multiple glass ceilings in the Canadian media and political worlds. Well-known in the broadcasting industry, she was propelled to the political forefront following her appointment to the Senate of Canada (1995) and her election as President of the Liberal Party of Canada (2006). She had to overcome many challenges throughout her career: sexism, prejudice against single mothers and career women, wage disparities, and harassme... + Read More
Bilingual editionEnglish descriptionThe Governor General’s Literary Awards have served as Canada’s premier literary prize for over three-quarters of a century. They have been awarded annually in a variety of evolving categories. Fifteen Governors General have served as their patron.Between 1936 and 2018, the awards have recognized 719 books in English and French and have been presented to 580 authors, illustrators and translators.This ground-breaking anthology includes extracts from all 719 books. It gives readers a richly illustrated summary o... + Read More
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Series: EducationBringing History to LifeTeaching Fact and FictionPaperback
Professeur Marc-André Éthier9780776641447
$41.95JUVENILE NONFICTION
Feb 06, 2024
History has never been as present in our daily lives as it is today. Through any number of media outlets, tens of millions of people are in daily contact with historical discourses and practices. Between games, informational articles, social media posts and other sources, history is everyhere—in Civilization VI, “life-size” role-playing games, The Berlin Trilogy, The Iron Throne, and the works of Tolkien or Satrapi. It’s in cultural productions that evoke events or phenomena that happened or are still happening (Assassin's Creed Unity, SLĀV and... + Read More
The Symons Medal, one of Canada’s most prestigious honours, recognizes an individual who has made an exceptional contribution to Canadian life.The award evening affords the distinguished recipient the opportunity to discuss the current state and the future of the Canadian Confederation. The Honourable Bob Rae is the 2020 awardee, in recognition of his many years of work on humanitarian issues, most recently the Rohingya refugee crisis, as well as his commitment to Indigenous issues and his decades of public service and teaching. He has always b... + Read More
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Series: Health and SocietyThe AfterworldLong COVID and International RelationsPaperback
Professeur Frédéric Mérand Professor9780776641478
$34.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Mar 26, 2024
COVID-19 sparked the largest and most global crisis of the 21st century. For some, the impact has been swift and dramatic, with the pandemic pushing tens of millions into poverty and creating extreme food insecurity. For others, the transformations are still bubbling under the surface and questions remain about whether the societal changes brought about by COVID-19 will endure in the post-pandemic period. The return of geopolitics, along with the war in Ukraine and tensions in Asia, have further complexified an already complex global situation.... + Read More
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Series: From Charity to ChangeInside the World of Canadian FoundationsPaperback
Hilary M. Pearson9780228019985
$32.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jul 15, 2023
The world of philanthropy and private foundations remains mysterious to most Canadians. Memorably likened to giraffes, foundations are creatures that should not exist, but they do, surrounded by a certain mystique.In From Charity to Change Hilary Pearson demystifies the world of Canadian philanthropy, offering a portrait of today’s foundation landscape and highlighting organizations that are acting with purpose on some of the most pressing social and economic challenges of our time: climate change, the future of cities, education and the evolvi... + Read More
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Series: Doing HarmHow the World's Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on TerrorHardcover
Roy J. Eidelson9780228018612
$37.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 05, 2023
Doing Harm pries open the black box on a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field’s enmeshment in the so-called war on terror and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics during times of threat. Focusing on developments within the American Psychological Association (APA) over two tumultuous decades, Roy Eidelson exposes the challenges that professional organizations face whenever powerful government agencies turn to them for contributions to ethically fraught endeavours. In the months after 9/11 it became clear that t... + Read More
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Series: Paths of PollenHardcover
Stephen Humphrey9780228018971
$39.95NATURE
Oct 15, 2023
A tiny organism called pollen pulls off one of nature’s key tasks: plant reproduction. Pollination involves a complex network of different species interacting with one another and mutually adapting to their ecosystems, which are constantly changing. Some pollen grains require just a puff of wind to set them in motion, but most plants depend on creatures gifted with mobility. These might be birds, bats, reptiles, or insects including butterflies, beetles, flies, wasps, and over twenty thousand species of bee. In Paths of Pollen Stephen Humphrey ... + Read More
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Series: The Dillon EraDouglas Dillon in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson AdministrationsHardcover
Richard Aldous9780228018872
$37.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 02, 2023
C. Douglas Dillon – heir to a vast investment banking fortune, and one of the richest men in America during his political career – was a Republican who served in a Democratic administration and became one of the greatest modern treasury secretaries. He believed in bipartisanship and public duty, a sensibility that has all but faded from the current political climate. With exclusive access to the family’s archive, in The Dillon Era Richard Aldous sets fresh eyes on a well-documented period in recent American history, unfolding a deeply influenti... + Read More
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Series: Advancing Studies in ReligionProphets of LoveThe Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle PaulHardcover
Matthew R. Anderson9780228018643
$29.95MUSIC
Sep 15, 2023
Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul might be imagined as brothers with wildly different characters but a strong family resemblance. Paul, the elder sibling, was awkward, abrasive, and zealous. Leonard, the successful younger brother, was a smooth-talking romantic, prone to addiction and depression. Paul died a martyr, not knowing his words would have any effect on the world. Leonard could see his canonization within his lifetime. Yet each became a prophet in his own time, and a poet for the ages. In Prophets of Love Matthew Anderson traces surpr... + Read More
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Series: Carleton Library SeriesStatesman of the PianoJazz, Race, and History in the Life of Lou HooperHardcover
Sean Mills9780228018803
$37.95MUSIC
Oct 15, 2023
Ontario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894–1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem, performing alongside Paul Robeson and recording extensively in and around Tin Pan Alley, before moving to Montreal in the 1930s. Prolific and influential, Hooper was an early teacher of Oscar Peterson and deeply involved in the jazz community in Montreal. When the Second World War broke out he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and entertained the troop... + Read More
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Series: Picturing the GameAn Illustrated Story of HockeyHardcover
Don Weekes9780228018735
$49.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Oct 03, 2023
Hockey has a curious connection to editorial cartooning and sports illustration, one as old and storied as the game itself. Many writers and photographers have told the story of game play, but never from such an original, unvarnished perspective as the cartoonist’s. Picturing the Game transports fans into the mischievous world of caricature through the rough drafts of hockey history by Bruce MacKinnon, Aislin, Serge Chapleau, Susan Dewar, Brian Gable, and many other talented artists. They make us laugh by telling the truth and – perhaps – make ... + Read More
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Series: James Clarke HookPainter of the SeaHardcover
Juliet McMaster9780228014454
$49.95ART
Oct 01, 2023
Though his father had faced bankruptcy, James Clarke Hook (1819–1907) nevertheless managed to paint himself into country-gentlemanhood, becoming famous for his landscapes of British coastal scenes and his ability to evoke not just the sights but also the sounds and even the smell of the sea. James Clarke Hook, Juliet McMaster’s lively biography of the brilliant but underappreciated Victorian painter, brings the reader through Hook’s rigorous training at the Royal Academy Schools, his travelling studentship in Florence and Venice, and his work a... + Read More
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Series: The Beautiful UnwantedDown Syndrome in Myth, Memoir, and BioethicsHardcover
Chris Kaposy9780228019008
$34.95FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Oct 15, 2023
Prenatal genetic testing has changed the circumstances under which parents choose what pregnancies to carry to term. Some have predicted that as a result of parents’ choices, people with Down syndrome will disappear from our communities in the near future. Chris Kaposy, a bioethicist who has a son with Down syndrome, reflects on parenting his son in the midst of this supposed disappearance. Writing from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective, Kaposy presents some of the decades-old bioethical controversies involving children with Down sy... + Read More
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Series: Eating Like a MennoniteFood and Community across BordersPaperback
Marlene Epp9780228018940
$39.95RELIGION
Sep 08, 2023
Mennonites are often associated with food, both by outsiders and by Mennonites themselves. Eating in abundance, eating together, preserving food, and preparing so-called traditional foods are just some of the connections mentioned in cookbooks, food advertising, memoirs, and everyday food talk. Yet since Mennonites are found around the world – from Europe to Canada to Mexico, from Paraguay to India to the Democratic Republic of the Congo – what can it mean to eat like one? In Eating Like a Mennonite Marlene Epp finds that the answer depends on ... + Read More
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Series: Queer Film ClassicsMauricePaperback
David Greven9780228018780
$19.95PERFORMING ARTS
Sep 15, 2023
Maurice, James Ivory’s 1987 adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel, follows an Edwardian man’s journey from the awakening of his desire for and love of men to self-acceptance. One of the most politically resistant films of the 1980s, Maurice dared to depict a young man’s coming-out story and a happy ending for its lovers, Maurice and Alec. James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, a couple whose cinema is synonymous with period film adaptation, released Maurice during the first AIDS decade, a time of flagrant transatlantic homophobia. Criticism f... + Read More
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Series: Queer Film ClassicsAnders als die AndernPaperback
Ervin Malakaj9780228018681
$19.95PERFORMING ARTS
Aug 04, 2023
Released in 1919, Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) stunned audiences with its straightforward depiction of queer love. Supporters celebrated the film’s moving storyline, while conservative detractors succeeded in prohibiting public screenings. Banned and partially destroyed after the rise of Nazism, the film was lost until the 1970s and only about one-third of its original footage is preserved today. Directed by Richard Oswald and co-written by Oswald and the renowned sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, Anders als die Andern is a rem... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art HistoryCasa LomaMillionaires, Medievalism, and Modernity in Toronto's Gilded AgeHardcover
Matthew M. Reeve9780228014560
$49.95ARCHITECTURE
Sep 01, 2023
Leading architect E.J. Lennox designed Casa Loma for the flamboyant Sir Henry Pellatt and Mary, Lady Pellatt as an enormous castellated mansion that overlooked the booming metropolis of Toronto. The first scholarly book dedicated to this Canadian landmark, Casa Loma situates the famous “house on the hill” within Toronto’s architectural, urban, and cultural history.Casa Loma was not only an outsized home for the self-appointed “Lord Toronto” but a statement of Canada’s association with empire, an assertion of the country’s British legacy. During... + Read More
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Series: What Television RemembersArtifacts and Footprints of TV in TorontoPaperback
Jennifer VanderBurgh9780228019114
$37.95PERFORMING ARTS
Oct 15, 2023
Television in Canada has been undervalued as a cultural form. Despite being publicly funded, Canadian television programs are also notoriously difficult to access once they go off the air, which has compounded the problem. In What Television Remembers Jennifer VanderBurgh intervenes in the story of the medium in Canada by exploring the long relationship between TV and the city of Toronto. From the first demonstration of television at the Canadian National Exhibition in 1939 and the mass viewing of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation broadcast in 19... + Read More
and it was in these bare sands / that you fell, / beloved. When John Baglow's partner Marianne MacKinnon died in 2006, he decided to assemble a new collection of poems in her memory. No one else knew of what proved to be a slow-moving ambition, but a member of the family mentioned one evening that Marianne had appeared in a dream, saying, “Tell John to finish my book.” After that, what choice did he have? In a famous photograph by James Crombie, a murmuration of starlings takes, for a magical moment, the shape of a giant bird. This is the metap... + Read More
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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Seriesact normalPaperback
nancy viva davis halifax9780228018711
$19.95POETRY
Oct 01, 2023
i might never be no-one that shiny / the beauty of a sequin’d self / what was stitched into heaven’s drop The poems in act normal use illegibility and wilful uncertainty to evade the grasp of the normative, as endured by those institutionalized by, and through, the concept of normalcy. act normal starts in an institution where children categorized and constructed as intellectually inferior are placed into custodial care. These poems are inquisitive, articulating the entanglements of lives across categories of difference – particularly the lives... + Read More
take the harp, take / the Fitbit and the Band-Aid box. Fold the whole / grey sheet of sky, lumpy and unalluring / into your rucksack. A strong theme of journeys is threaded through Take the Compass. In a sense, every poem is itself a journey – into the past or the present, or toward what we hope and fear for the future. Poems can be journeys of repair and recovery, adventure and discovery. However, even in pandemic times when our journeying is curtailed, or at least confined, when we are abiding in one physical location with chafing and restive... + Read More
Impulse said preserve the mess of construction, the unbiblical / carnage. This is my excuse for everything. Intensive and extensive, aboutness convenes across geographies and temporalities, in conversation with interlocutors living and dead, real and imagined. Set against a break-up with God, insomniac nights, and smoke-filled skies, this virgule-infused song of negation is by turns wry, performative, and sober. Threads of self-making are juxtaposed with an ever-unfolding present exposing the limits and possibilities of convergence. Marked by d... + Read More
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Series: Dirty MoneyFinancial Crime in CanadaPaperback
Christian Leuprecht9780228019053
$39.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 15, 2023
Financial crime in Canada remains a mystery: omnipresent, but we know little about its operation. Transactions are cloaked with apparent legality, which makes tracking criminal activity through economic or financial statistics a complex undertaking. This distinctive volume aims to stem in-, out-, and through-flows of vast sums of dirty money by enhancing Canada’s capacity to detect, disrupt, deter, investigate, and prosecute domestic financial criminals and transnational organized criminal organizations. It brings together leading scholars and ... + Read More
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Series: Basic Income and a Just SocietyPolicy Choices for Canada's Social Safety NetPaperback
David A. Green9780886453794
$39.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Jun 01, 2023
As governments struggle to adapt half-century-old income and social support programs to new needs and realities, some are calling for the introduction of a basic income guarantee for working-age Canadians. But is a basic income really the best policy response to poverty, precarious work, and unemployment? Is it the best way to build a just and inclusive society? Basic Income and a Just Society provides a comprehensive evaluation of basic income and its application as a primary social policy tool. Drawing on extensive research and analysis produ... + Read More
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Series: Population ControlTheorizing Institutional ViolencePaperback
Jen Rinaldi9780228019305
$39.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 15, 2023
Violence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents regardless of facility type, historical period, regional location, government or staff in power, or type of population.Population Control explores the relational conditions that give rise to institutional violence – whether in residential schools, internment camps, or correctional or psychiatric facilities. This violence is not dependent on any particular space, but on underlying patterns of institutionalization that can spill over into community sett... + Read More
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Series: Conscripted to CareWomen on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 ResponsePaperback
Julia Smith9780228018759
$34.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 15, 2023
With the vast majority of healthcare and social workers identifying as women, the vanguard of the COVID-19 response was distinctly gendered. In Conscripted to Care Julia Smith introduces us to the women who faced the worst effects of the pandemic and the inequities it exposed. Through clear prose and fascinating critical analysis, she documents their largely unseen contributions and sacrifices, both professional and domestic. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with nearly two hundred women from a range of backgrounds and occupations, Smith ... + Read More
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