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1.
Hunter with Harpoon Paperback Markoosie Patsauq 9780228004028 $22.95 FICTION Nov 18, 2020

Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation and vigilance.In collaboration with the author, Valerie Henitiuk and Marc-Antoine Mah... + Read More
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Spirit of the Grassroots People Seeking Justice for Indigenous Survivors of Canada's Colonial Education System Hardcover Raymond Mason 9780228003519 $28.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 22, 2020

Raymond Mason is an Ojibway activist who campaigns for the rights of residential school survivors and a founder of Spirit Wind, an organization that played a key role in the development of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. This memoir offers a firsthand account of the personal and political challenges Mason confronted on this journey. A riveting and at times harrowing read, Spirit of the Grassroots People describes the author's experiences in Indian day and residential schools in Manitoba and his struggles to find meaning in l... + Read More
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Who Was Doris Hedges? The Search for Canada's First Literary Agent Hardcover Robert Lecker 9780228003694 $43.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 18, 2020

Despite her trailblazing efforts to represent the work of Canadian writers to publishers in North America and abroad, Doris Hedges (1896-1972), the Montreal author who started Canada's first literary agency in 1946, is routinely excluded from Canadian literary histories. In Who Was Doris Hedges? Robert Lecker provides a detailed account of her remarkable career. Hedges published several novels, short stories, and books of poetry, moved in Montreal literary circles, did a stint as a radio broadcaster, and provided reports to the Wartime Informat... + Read More
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Watermelon Snow Science, Art, and a Lone Polar Bear Hardcover Lynne Quarmby 9780228003595 $28.95 NATURE Oct 22, 2020

Concern about the climate crisis is widespread as humans struggle to navigate life in uncertain times. From the vantage of a schooner full of artists on an adventure in the high Arctic, biologist Lynne Quarmby explains the science that convinced her of an urgent need to act on climate change and recounts how this knowledge - and the fear and panic it elicited - plunged her into unsustainable action, ending in arrests, lawsuits, and a failed electoral campaign on behalf of the Green Party of Canada.Watermelon Snow weaves memoir, microbiology, an... + Read More
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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series Side Effects May Include Strangers Paperback Dominik Parisien 9780228003571 $19.95 POETRY Oct 22, 2020

Ask, Can we for a moment make of beauty / the measure of our pain? and I will answer. To be ill is to be a body bursting with strangers. A curiosity. A narrative to interpret. Dominik Parisien's debut collection is a poignant celebration of the complicated lived experience of disability, a challenge to the societal gaze, and a bold reconfiguration of the language of pain. A powerful contribution to the field of disability poetics, Side Effects May Include Strangers is an affecting look at the multitude of ways a body is both boundary and bound... + Read More
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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series The Milk of Amnesia Paperback Danielle Janess 9780228003458 $19.95 POETRY Mar 24, 2021

fire / and water surging on the screen - / since children, metros, planets, beds, and lovers are / so lightly swept away - I must not even breathe. Danielle Janess's debut poetry collection resists the erasing effects of war, nationalism, and forced migration. Following the speaker's arduous relocation to a twenty-first-century Europe still etched with the wounds of the past, the poems take on daring forms and language, becoming theatre, film clips, photographs, and dance, all embodied by a cast of characters marked by the violence of the last... + Read More
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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series Check Paperback Sarah Tolmie 9780228003632 $19.95 POETRY Dec 17, 2020

Hairless apes, while they're alive / Need a community to thrive. / Bald fact. Hard-won freedoms of choice and association lead us to flock together in groups of the like-minded. Check is a book of contemporary poetic satire about the groups that we inevitably form and their consequences: in-groups and out-groups and mutual suspicion. When we look around at others, and talk about them amongst ourselves, we agree. Sarah Tolmie writes about parents and teenagers, social media users, different kinds of writers, university professors, feminists, ce... + Read More
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Series: Carleton Library Series Recognition and Revelation Short Nonfiction Writings Paperback Margaret Laurence 9780228003472 $45.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 23, 2020

Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation's most respected authors. She was also an accomplished essayist, yet today her nonfiction writing is largely unavailable and therefore little known. In Recognition and Revelation Nora Foster Stovel brings together Laurence's short nonfiction works, including many that have not previously been collected and some that have never before been published. These works, including over fifty essays and addresses that span Laurence's writing career fr... + Read More
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An Echo in the Mountains Al Purdy after a Century Paperback Nicholas Bradley 9780228003373 $40.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 23, 2020

From the 1960s until his death in 2000, Al Purdy was one of the most prominent writers in Canada, famous for his frank language and his boisterous personality. He travelled the country and wrote about its people and places from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island. A central figure in the CanLit explosion of the sixties and seventies, Purdy has been called the best, the most, and the last Canadian poet. But Purdy's Canada no longer exists. A changing country and shifting attitudes toward Canadian literature demand new perspectives on Purdy's impact... + Read More
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Series: Rethinking Canada in the World Canada's Other Red Scare Indigenous Protest and Colonial Encounters during the Global Sixties Paperback Scott Rutherford 9780228004066 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 17, 2020

Indigenous activism put small-town northern Ontario on the map in the 1960s and early 1970s. Kenora, Ontario, was home to a four-hundred-person march, popularly called "Canada's First Civil Rights March," and a two-month-long armed occupation of a small lakefront park. Canada's Other Red Scare shows how important it is to link the local and the global to broaden narratives of resistance in the 1960s; it is a history not of isolated events closed off from the present but of decolonization as a continuing process. Scott Rutherford explores with r... + Read More
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Series: Carleton Library Series Anxious Days and Tearful Nights Canadian War Wives During the Great War Paperback Martha Hanna 9780228003670 $40.95 HISTORY Oct 22, 2020

What was it like to be a soldier's wife in Canada during the First World War? More than 80,000 Canadian women were married to men who left home to fight in the war, and its effects on their lives were transformative and often traumatic. Yet the everyday struggles of Canadian war wives, lived far from the battlefields of France, have remained in the shadows of historical memory. Anxious Days and Tearful Nights highlights how Canadian women's experiences of wartime marital separation resembled and differed from those of their European counterpart... + Read More
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Series: Robert Kroetsch Series To float, to drown, to close up, to open Paperback E. Alex Pierce 9781772124538 $19.99 POETRY Feb 19, 2020

In this collection, E. Alex Pierce enters the territory of memory embedded in landscape where “language tied to the land” evokes the cadence of tidal rivers and creates a fluid world. She traces the fragmented childhood beginnings that lead to the formation of a young artist who moves from music, through theatre, to poetry. The passionate relationships and complex juxtapositions of art and performance that form an artist’s life find voice here in the symphonic structure of the long poem, the provocative individual prose poems, and the final str... + Read More
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Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih Stories from the People of the Land Hardcover Leslie McCartney 9781772124828 $99.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 09, 2020

Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih is an invaluable compilation of historical and cultural information based on a project originally conceived by the Gwich’in Social and Cultural Institute to document the biographies of the oldest Gwich’in Elders in the Gwich’in Settlement Region. Through their own stories, twenty-three Gwich’in Elders from the Northwest Territories communities of Fort McPherson, Tsiigehtshik, Inuvik, and Aklavik share their joy of living and travelling on the land. Thei... + Read More
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Captain Cook Rediscovered Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes Hardcover David L. Nicandri 9780774862226 $45.00 HISTORY Nov 01, 2020

Captain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to frame Captain James Cook’s career from a North American vantage. Although Cook is inextricably linked to the South Pacific in the popular imagination, his crowning navigational and scientific achievements took place in the polar regions. David L. Nicandri acknowledges the cartographic accomplishments of the Australasian first voyage but focuses on the second- and third-voyage discovery missions in the extreme latitudes, where Cook pioneered the science of iceberg and icepack formation. A tr... + Read More
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Series: Communication, Strategy, and Politics Whipped Party Discipline in Canada Hardcover Alex Marland 9780774864961 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 15, 2020

Canadians often see politicians as little more than trained seals who vote on command and repeat robotic talking points. Politicians are torn by dilemmas of loyalty to party versus loyalty to voters. Whipped examines the hidden ways that political parties exert control over elected members of legislatures. Drawing on extensive interviews with politicians and staffers across Canada, award-winning author Alex Marland explains why Members of Parliament and provincial legislators toe the party line, and shows how party discipline has expanded into ... + Read More
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Getting Wise about Getting Old Debunking Myths about Aging Paperback Véronique Billette 9780774880626 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2020

A grey tsunami is sweeping the land, wreaking social and financial havoc in its wake. Sound familiar? This myth about aging, along with twenty-eight others, is the focus of Getting Wise about Getting Old, which paints a far more accurate and nuanced portrait of old age. In it, experts debunk myths and persistent stereotypes about aging on a broad array of social issues – from retirement (seniors are low-performance workers) to housing (most older adults live in long-term care accommodation), and violence (senior women are not victims of sexual ... + Read More
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Series: Women’s Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces Hardcover Sarah Carter 9780774861878 $27.95 HISTORY Nov 01, 2020

Many of Canada’s most famous suffragists lived and campaigned in the Prairie provinces, which led the way in granting women the right to vote and hold office. In Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice, Sarah Carter challenges the myth that grateful male legislators simply handed women the vote when it was asked for. Settler suffragists worked long and hard to overcome obstacles and persuade doubters. But even as they petitioned for the vote for their sisters, they often approved of that same right being denied to “foreigners” and Indigenous peo... + Read More
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Series: Women’s Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy To Be Equals in Our Own Country Women and the Vote in Quebec Paperback Denyse Baillargeon 9780774838498 $19.95 HISTORY Feb 01, 2020

“When the history of suffrage is written, the role played by our politicians will cut a sad figure beside that of the women they insulted.” Speaking in 1935, feminist Idola Saint-Jean captured the bitter nature of Quebec women’s prolonged fight for the right to vote. To Be Equals in Our Own Country is a passionate yet even-handed account of the road to suffrage in Quebec, examining women’s political participation since winning the vote in 1940 and comparing their struggle to movements in other countries. This astute exploration of enfranchiseme... + Read More
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Our Hearts Are as One Fire An Ojibway-Anishinabe Vision for the Future Paperback Jerry Fontaine 9780774862882 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2020

A vision shared. A manifesto. This remarkable work argues that Anishinabeg need to reconnect with non-colonized modes of thinking, social organization, and decision making in order to achieve genuine sovereignty. In Our Hearts Are as One Fire, Jerry Fontaine recounts the stories of three Ota’wa, Shawnee, and Ojibway-Anishinabe leaders who challenged aggressive colonial expansion – Obwandiac, Tecumtha, and Shingwauk. He weaves Ojibwaymowin language and knowledge with conversations with elders and descendants of the three leaders. The result is a... + Read More
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Caring for Eeyou Istchee Protected Area Creation on Wemindji Cree Territory Paperback Monica E. Mulrennan 9780774838597 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2020

How do Indigenous communities in Canada balance the development needs of a growing population with cultural commitments and responsibilities as stewards of their lands and waters? Caring for Eeyou Istchee recounts the extraordinary experience of the James Bay Cree community of Wemindji, Quebec, who partnered with a multi-disciplinary research team to protect a territory of great cultural significance in ways that respect community values and circumstances. By addressing fundamental questions such as what should be protected and how, Indigenous ... + Read More
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Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest Paperback Rachelle Hope Saltzman 9781496831576 $43.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 16, 2020

The 2016 US presidential campaign and its aftermath provoked an array of protests notable for their use of humour, puns, memes, and graphic language. During the 2016 campaign, a video surfaced of then-candidate Donald Trump’s lewd use of the word “pussy”; in response, many women have made the issue and the term central to the public debate about women’s bodies and their political, social, and economic rights. Focusing on the women-centered aspects of the protests that started with the 2017 Women’s March, Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest... + Read More
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Finding Refuge in Canada Narratives of Dislocation Paperback George Melnyk 9781771993012 $27.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 28, 2021

Millions of people are displaced each year by war, persecution, and famine and the global refugee population continues to grow. Canada has often been regarded as a benevolent country, welcoming refugees from around the globe. However, refugees have encountered varying kinds of reception in Canada. Finding Refuge in Canada: Narratives of Dislocation is a collection of personal narratives about the refugee experience in Canada. It includes critical perspectives from authors from diverse backgrounds, including refugees, advocates, front-line worke... + Read More
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Fixation How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet Hardcover Sandra Goldmark 9781642830453 $33.95 HOUSE & HOME Sep 22, 2020

Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And this strain of consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet. It’s time to move past “peak stuff” and to a new system where design, reuse, and repair are the norm. This is the ambitious undertaking of Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet. Sandra Goldmark, who started humbly by founding a pop-up repair shop, is now a leader in the movement to demand better “stuff.” Af... + Read More
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Naturalist A Graphic Adaptation Hardcover Edward O. Wilson 9781610919586 $34.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 01, 2020

Regarded as one of the world’s preeminent biologists, Edward O. Wilson spent his boyhood exploring the forests and swamps of south Alabama and the Florida panhandle, collecting snakes, butterflies, and ants—the latter to become his lifelong specialty. His memoir Naturalist, called “one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written,” was written as an invitation—a reminder that curiosity is vital and scientific exploration is open to all of us. This graphic edition brings Wilson’s childhood and celebrated career to life through dynamic full-colo... + Read More
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Crooked Snake The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard Paperback Lovejoy Boteler 9781496830722 $22.95 TRUE CRIME Sep 15, 2020

In 1968, during Albert Lepard’s fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler, then eighteen years old, from his family’s farm in Grenada, Mississippi. Three decades later, still beset by half-buried memories of that time, Boteler began researching his kidnapper’s nefarious, sordid life to discover how and why this terrifying abduction occurred.Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard is the true story of Lepard, sentenced to life in Parchman for the murder of seventy-four-year-old Mary Youn... + Read More
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Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography In Faulkner's Shadow A Memoir Hardcover Lawrence Wells 9781496829917 $30.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2020

What happens when you marry into a family that includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest American writer of the twentieth century?Lawrence Wells, author of In Faulkner’s Shadow: A Memoir, fills this lively tale with stories that answer just that. In 1972, Wells married Dean Faulkner, the only niece of William Faulkner, and slowly found himself lost in the Faulkner mystique. While attempting to rebel against the overwhelming influence of his in-laws, Wells had a front-row seat to the various rivalries that sprouted between his wif... + Read More
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Never Leaving Laramie Travels in a Restless World Paperback John W. Haines 9780870710315 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2020

Never Leaving Laramie takes readers from a small university town in Wyoming into the human and natural landscapes of remote and dangerous areas in the world. John Haines bicycles across Tibet and kayaks the length of West Africa's Niger River. He rides the Trans-Siberian train across the former Soviet Union and survives a traumatic train accident in the Czech Republic. For two decades, the author lived a restless life exploring pockets of the world in transition, always finding a route back to Laramie, the home that shaped him--a place he loved... + Read More
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rough house a memoir Paperback tina ontiveros 9780870710339 $23.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 30, 2020

Tina Ontiveros was born into a family with logging on both sides: a mother who spent summers driving logging trucks for her family's operation, and a father born to an itinerant logger and raised in a variety of lumber towns, as Tina herself would be. rough house is a story of growing up in turmoil, of a childhood split between a charming, mercurial, abusive father in the forests of the Pacific Northwest and a mother struggling with poverty in The Dalles. It is also a story of generational turmoil, especially for the women of her family, of vio... + Read More
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Series: Camino del Sol A Good Map of All Things A Picaresque Novel Paperback Alberto Álvaro Ríos 9780816541034 $24.95 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

In Alberto Ríos’s new picaresque novel, momentous adventure and quiet connection brings twenty people to life in a small town in northern Mexico. A Good Map of All Things is home to characters whose lives are interwoven but whose stories are their own, adding warmth and humor to this continually surprising communal narrative. The stories take place in the mid twentieth century, in the land of high desert near the border—a stretch of land generally referred to as the Pimería Alta—an ancient passage through the desert that connected the territory... + Read More
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Series: Latin American Literature in Translation The Wind Traveler A Novel Paperback Alonso Cueto 9781477317747 $24.95 FICTION Oct 13, 2020

The Wind Traveler showcases the mesmerizing storytelling of Alonso Cueto at the top of his career. At the heart of his latest work is a seemingly ordinary man named Ángel, who sells kitchenware at a store in Lima. In the early1990s, he had served as an army soldier, engaging in brutal acts whose aftermath still reverberates. He is forced to reckon with his past when a woman he was instructed to kill enters the store and buys a few items. How can she still be alive? What's more, how can she not recognize Ángel? Remarkably, she as... + Read More
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Series: Sun Tracks Horsefly Dress Poems Paperback Heather Cahoon 9780816540938 $20.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2020

Horsefly Dress is a meditation on the experience and beauty of suffering. Rich in the imagery of autumnal foliage, migrating birds, and frozen landscapes, Heather Cahoon’s collection calls forth the sensory experience of grief and metamorphosis. The transformative powers associated with the human experience of loss belong to the past, present, and future, as do the traditional Salish-Pend d’Oreille stories that create the backbone of these intricate poems.
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The Amazing A-Z of Resilience Paperback David Gumbrell 9781787753662 $28.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Oct 21, 2020

This fun illustrated alphabet book creates discussion on mental health with children aged 8-12 in an innovative, interactive way. Each letter provides an activity for the child which links to wellbeing, and the section for adults explains how to use these to start conversations on resilience, feelings and mental health.
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All Cats Are on the Autism Spectrum Hardcover Kathy Hoopmann 9781787754713 $21.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 99 Nov 21, 2020

Brand new update to the bestselling All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome, with all-new images of cats and updated language and terminology throughout. It provides a gentle, engaging introduction to the world of autism, demonstrating the individuality and potential of autistic people. Ideal for adults and children alike.
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Series: Critical Studies in Native History Dammed The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory Paperback Brittany Luby 9780887558740 $27.95 HISTORY Oct 09, 2020

"Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory" explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. "Dammed" makes clear that hydroelectric generating stations were designed to serve settler populations. Governments and developers excluded the Anishinabeg from planning and operations and failed to consider how power production might influence the healt... + Read More
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Series: Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Paperback Katherine Graham 9780887558689 $31.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 11, 2021

"Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future" looks to both the past and the future as it examines the foundational work of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) and the legacy of its 1996 report. It assesses the Commission’s influence on subsequent milestones in Indigenous-Canada relations and considers our prospects for a constructive future. RCAP’s five-year examination of the relationships of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples to Canada and to non-Indigenous Canadians resulted in a new vision for Canada and provided 440 specific re... + Read More
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Series: Contemporary Studies on the North Words of the Inuit A Semantic Stroll through a Northern Culture Paperback Louis-Jacques Dorais 9780887558627 $31.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 18, 2020

Words of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author’s decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear on what he fashions as an amiable, leisurely stroll through words and meanings. Inuit words are often more complex than English words and frequently contain small units of meaning that add up to convey a larger sensibility. Dorais’ lexical and semantic analyses and reconstructions are not overly technical, yet they reliably evince connections ... + Read More
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Series: Collection 101 Canada's Fluid Borders Trade, Investment, Travel, Migration Paperback Geoffrey Hale 9780776629360 $9.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 05, 2021

Trade and investment policies face a changing geopolitical environment. They also face challengesfrom the interactions and limits of Canada’s multiple trade agreements with other countries.These challenges take on varied forms in different sectors that involve the bordering of energy trade, food safety, and related environmental and public health issues. Similarly, bordering dynamics differ significantly for cross border flows of tourism, skilled labour, and irregular migration.This book uncovers and analyzes factors that govern economic activi... + Read More
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Concrete From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future Paperback Mary Soderstrom 9780889777804 $28.95 NATURE Oct 10, 2020

A fascinating history of the carbon footprint of our concrete world—from ancient Roman architecture to urban cityscapes—and the trouble it spells for sustainability amidst rapid climate change. For readers of The Sixth Extinction and The Uninhabitable Earth, Concrete explores the history of a material that has been central to architecture and design for thousands of years—and what its future looks like in a world experiencing rapid climate change. Imagine a world without concrete: there’d be no skyscrapers, no grand irrigation projects, no... + Read More
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Cold Case North The Search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett Paperback Michael Nest 9780889777491 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 07, 2020

For fans of true crime, an unsolved mystery of missing persons, police conspiracies, and private investigations in an Indigenous community in northern Canada. Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada. A communist, strategist, and bibliophile, he led Métis and First Nations to rebel against government and church oppression. Brady’s success made politicians and clergy fear him, and he had enemies everywhere. In 1967, while prospecting in Saskatchewan with Cree Band Councillor and fellow activist Absol... + Read More
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Genocidal Love A Life after Residential School Paperback Bevann Fox 9780889777415 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 12, 2020

“Fox tears beauty from the jaws of genocide, daring to claim love beyond settler imaginings—love that nurtures decolonial futures and makes possible a more just world.”—Sam McKegney, author of Magic Weapons and Masculindians How can we heal in the face of trauma? How can we transform intergenerational pain into a passion for community and healing? Presenting herself as “Myrtle,” residential school survivor and Indigenous television personality Bevann Fox explores essential questions by recounting her life through fiction. She shares memories... + Read More
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Series: Oskana Poetry & Poetics Burden Paperback Douglas Burnet Smith 9780889777729 $19.95 POETRY Oct 24, 2020

Burden is a poetry collection that tells the story of a seventeen-year-old British soldier, Private Herbert Burden, who was shot for desertion during World War I. He was one of hundreds so executed. It is now understood that many had committed no crime, but were suffering from PTSD. Burden’s story is told in the voice of Lance Corporal Reginald Smith, the author’s uncle. The author discovered years later in a box of papers that his uncle, Lance Corporal Smith, had befriended Private Burden but then was ultimately commanded to join in the firing... + Read More
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Maci-Anihšinapemowin / Beginning Saulteaux Spiral bound Margaret Cote 9780889777514 $34.95 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Jan 29, 2021

Mācī-Anihšināpēmowin / Beginning Saulteaux is an introductory look at one of the most widely spoken of all North American Indigenous languages, regionally known as Saulteaux, Ojibway, Ottawa (Odawa), Chippewa, and Algonquian. In an easy-to-use and easy-to-read series of lessons, both designed for self-study or for use in the classroom, Beginning Saulteaux will guide beginners through the language’s grammatical structures and spelling systems, as well as everyday terms and phrases. The book grounds the language in both traditional and contempora... + Read More
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Series: The Regina Collection In My Own Moccasins A Memoir of Resilience Paperback Helen Knott 9780889777316 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 21, 2020

An unflinching memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds of sexual assault from a resilient, emerging Indigenous voice. Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption. With gripping moments of withdrawa... + Read More
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Solved How the World's Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis Hardcover David Miller 9781487506827 $34.95 NATURE Oct 01, 2020

If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly. Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint. We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees. In Solved, David Miller argues that cities are taking action on clim... + Read More
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Lead for the Planet Five Practices for Confronting Climate Change Hardcover Rae Andre 9781487508333 $34.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 01, 2020

With melting ice caps in the Arctic causing catastrophic environmental issues, it’s hard to believe that we’ve had to spend so much time convincing each other that climate change is real. Lead for the Planet shifts the focus to how we, the members of Team Humanity, are going to organize to solve the twin issues of climate change and energy evolution. The book channels a broad range of social science perspectives, from anthropology to psychology to economics, to help decision-makers explore how Team Humanity can get this thing done. Lead for th... + Read More
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Accidental Wilderness The Origins and Ecology of Toronto's Tommy Thompson Park Hardcover Walter H. Kehm 9781487508340 $49.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 10, 2020

Once referred to as Toronto’s “accidental wilderness,” Tommy Thompson Park is now recognized as a fortuitous urban miracle. Initially created as a landfill site on the city’s rapidly developing waterfront, the park’s physical and ecological footprint have grown dramatically. Forests, grasslands, and wildlife now thrive – all within a stone’s throw of some of the most densely populated areas of North America’s fourth-largest city. Accidental Wilderness is a rich and lyrical collection of essays curated by internationally recognized landscape ar... + Read More
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The Rapids Ways of Looking at Mania Hardcover Sam Twyford-Moore 9781487507824 $34.95 PSYCHOLOGY Sep 15, 2020

The Rapids is an exploration of manic depression (also known as bipolar disorder). With reflections on artists such as Carrie Fisher, Kanye West, Saul Bellow, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Spalding Gray, Sam Twyford-Moore takes readers on a literary and cultural tour of mania and what it means to live with a diagnosis of "bipolarity" in contemporary society. He also looks at the condition in our digital world, where someone’s manic episode can unfold live in real time, watched by millions. His own story, told unflinchingly, is shocking and sometime... + Read More
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In Sight My Life in Science and Biotech Hardcover Julia Levy 9781487508319 $40.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 23, 2020

In Sight is a memoir about how a love of science and discovery drove Julia Levy, a celebrated scholar and biotech CEO, to work her way through gender bias in order to achieve academic and professional recognition. Her story traces the unconventional invention of a breakthrough drug treatment from its development from laboratory research to its application as a medical treatment for vision loss. Told from a female perspective, In Sight is a unique and personal story covering Levy’s early years as a refugee, her university training in the UK, and... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture The Typewriter Century A Cultural History of Writing Practices Paperback Martyn Lyons 9781487525736 $35.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Feb 02, 2021

This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. Drawing on examples from the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia, The Typewriter Century focuses on "celebrity writers," including Henry James, Jack Kerouac, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, and Erle Stanley Gardner, who wrote prolifically and mechanically, developing routines in which typing, handwriting, and dictation were each allotte... + Read More
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Seen but Not Seen Influential Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to Today Paperback Donald B. Smith 9781442627703 $38.95 HISTORY Dec 11, 2020

Throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, the majority of Canadians argued that European "civilization" must replace Indigenous culture. The ultimate objective was assimilation into the dominant society. Seen but Not Seen explores the history of Indigenous marginalization and why non-Indigenous Canadians failed to recognize Indigenous societies and cultures as worthy of respect. Approaching the issue biographically, Donald B. Smith presents the commentaries of sixteen influential Canadians – including John A. Macdonald, Georg... + Read More
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Canada at War Conscription, Diplomacy, and Politics Paperback J.L. Granatstein 9781487524760 $38.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2020

Canada at War explores the impact of the two world wars on Canada and Canadians by examining conscription, foreign policy, and politics, with William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, acting as the book’s central figure. In this collection of essays, J.L. Granatstein brings together research from archives in Canada and abroad, illuminating Canada's political transition from the British to American sphere of influence in the first half of the twentieth century. Granatstein reflects on the most significant issues affec... + Read More
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Partisan Odysseys Canada's Political Parties Paperback Nelson Wiseman 9781487525392 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 23, 2020

In Partisan Odysseys, Nelson Wiseman sets out to survey the history of Canada’s political parties. Uncovering distinctive motifs and events in Canadian party politics from pre-Confederation to the present, Wiseman shows how parties have adjusted, adapted, and reinvented themselves in response to significant social and economic changes as well as how parties have, in turn, shaped or reinforced these social forces. The book begins by tracing the rise of four different types of parties in the nineteenth century. By the end of the century, the Cons... + Read More
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Series: ethnoGRAPHIC Light in Dark Times The Human Search for Meaning Paperback Alisse Waterston 9781487526405 $23.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 17, 2020

What will become of us in these trying times? How will we pass the time that we have on earth? In gorgeously rendered graphic form, Light in Dark Times invites readers to consider these questions by exploring the political catastrophes and moral disasters of the past and present, revealing issues that beg to be studied, understood, confronted, and resisted. A profound work of anthropology and art, this book is for anyone yearning to understand the darkness and hoping to hold onto the light. It is a powerful story of encounters with writers, phi... + Read More
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The New Spice Box Contemporary Jewish Writing Paperback Ruth Panofsky 9781487526009 $28.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 17, 2020

The New Spice Box includes short fiction, personal essays, and poetry by Jewish writers from a broad range of cultural backgrounds. Fresh and relevant, profound and lasting, this anthology features works by acclaimed short story writers David Bezmozgis, Mireille Silcoff, and Ayelet Tsabari; groundbreaking memoirists Bernice Eisenstein and Alison Pick; and award-winning poets Isa Milman, Jacob Scheier, and Adam Sol. The driving force behind The New Spice Box is the desire to uncover the twin touchstones of original expression and writerly craft,... + Read More
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'Membering Austin Clarke Paperback Paul Barrett 9781771124775 $39.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 24, 2020

'Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like. Despite being one of Canada's most widely published, and most richly awarded writers, Austin Clarke (1934–2016) is not a household name. This collection addresses Clarke's marginalization in Canadian literature by demonstrating that his writing on Black diasporic life and the immigrant experience is a foundational, if untold, part of the story of CanLit. Noveli... + Read More
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Series: Laurier Poetry mahikan ka onot The Poetry of Duncan Mercredi Paperback Duncan Mercredi 9781771124744 $19.99 POETRY Nov 18, 2020

mahikan ka onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems. These are poems of life on the land as well as life in the city, vibrant with the rhythms of traditional Cree and Métis storytelling but also with the clamour and the music of the streets. This book brings the work of Duncan Mercredi (Cree/Métis) back into the public eye, providing a new generation of readers with the opportunity to experience his unique artistry. Mercredi brings to these poems the ... + Read More
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Series: Laurier Poetry (Re)Generation The Poetry of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm Paperback Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm 9781771124713 $19.99 POETRY Aug 31, 2021

(Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm exploring a range of issues: from violence against Indigenous women and lands to Indigenous erotica and the joyous intimate encounters between bodies. From her earliest work in my heart is a stray bullet and Bloodriver Woman, through her spoken word works standing ground and A Constellation of Bones, Akiwenzie-Damm’s poetry demonstrates how to represent Indigenous peoples in their full complexity, especially as it pertains to bodily pleasure, love, and loss. Aki... + Read More
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The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee Stories of Diabetes and the James Bay Cree: Second Edition 2nd edition Paperback Ruth DyckFehderau 9780973054248 $29.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 01, 2021

The second edition of the groundbreaking collection The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee includes an epilogue with an update on each storyteller. Ruth DyckFehderau and twenty-seven storytellers offer a rich and timely accounting of contemporary life in Eeyou Istchee, the territory of the James Bay Cree of Northern Quebec. The stories are connected by diabetes, but they are not records of illness as much as they are deeply personal accounts of life in the North: the fine, swaying balances of living both in town and on the land, of family and work ... + Read More
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The Anti-Cancer Cookbook Recipes to reduce your cancer risk Hardcover Aoife Ryan 9781782054252 $39.95 COOKING Nov 27, 2020

Cancer causes one in six deaths worldwide and has overtaken cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in many parts of the world. One in three of the world?s most common cancers could be preventable through maintaining a healthy body weight, eating a healthy diet, reducing alcohol and keeping active. There are thousands of websites, books and blogs written about how to prevent cancer. Many of these are not evidence-based. This book is written by two academic registered dietitians who have taken the most recent evidence-based recommen... + Read More
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Hamilton and the Law Reading Today's Most Contentious Legal Issues through the Hit Musical Paperback Lisa A. Tucker 9781501753381 $26.95 LAW Grade (US) from 17 Oct 15, 2020

Since its Broadway debut, Hamilton: An American Musical has infused itself into the American experience: who shapes it, who owns it, who can rap it best. Lawyers and legal scholars, recognizing the way the musical speaks to some of our most complicated constitutional issues, have embraced Alexander Hamilton as the trendiest historical face in American civics. Hamilton and the Law offers a revealing look into the legal community's response to the musical, which continues to resonate in a country still deeply divided about the reach of the law. A... + Read More