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421.
Series: Godsends From Default Atheism to the Surprise of Revelation Hardcover William Desmond 9780268201579 $87.95 RELIGION Nov 15, 2021

Godsends is William Desmond’s newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology.For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical project—replete with its own terminology, idiom, grammar, dialectic, and its metaxological transformation—in an attempt to reopen certain boundaries: between metaphysics and phenomenology, between philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, between the apocalyptic and the speculative, and between religious passion and systematic reasoning. In God... + Read More
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Series: Midwest Archaeological Perspectives Ancient Pottery, Cuisine, and Society at the Northern Great Lakes Paperback Susan M. Kooiman 9780268201463 $60.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 15, 2021

This innovative archaeological study of diet and cooking technology sheds light on ancient cuisine.Ancient cuisine is one of the hot topics in today’s archaeology. This book explores changing settlement and subsistence in the Northern Great Lakes from the perspective of food-processing technology and cooking. Susan Kooiman examines precontact Indigenous pottery from the Cloudman site on Drummond Island on the far eastern end of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to investigate both how pottery technology, pottery use, diet, and cooking habits change ov... + Read More
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Series: Toward a Sacramental Poetics Hardcover Regina M. Schwartz 9780268201494 $81.95 RELIGION Dec 15, 2021

Distinguished theologians and literary scholars explore the workings of the sacred and the sacramental in language and literature.What does a sacramental poetics offer that secular cultural theory, for all of its advances, may have missed? How does a sacred understanding of the world differ from a strictly secular one? This volume develops the theory of “sacramental poetics” advanced by Regina Schwartz in her 2008 book on English Reformation writers, taking the theory in new directions while demonstrating how enduring and widespread this poetic... + Read More
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Series: Action (1893) Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice Paperback Maurice Blondel 9780268201524 $67.95 RELIGION Dec 15, 2021

This new edition of the English translation of Maurice Blondel’s Action (1893) remains a philosophical classic.Action was once a common theme in philosophical reflection. It figured prominently in Aristotelian philosophy, and the medieval Scholastics built some of their key adages around it. But by the time French philosopher Maurice Blondel came to focus on it at the end of the nineteenth century, it had all but disappeared from the philosophical vocabulary. Today, it is no longer possible or legitimate to ignore action in philosophy as it was... + Read More
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Series: Lost Tribes Found Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America Hardcover Matthew W. Dougherty 9780806168883 $53.95 HISTORY Jun 03, 2021

The belief that Native Americans might belong to the fabled “lost tribes of Israel”—Israelites driven from their homeland around 740 BCE—took hold among Anglo-Americans and Indigenous peoples in the United States during its first half century. In Lost Tribes Found, Matthew W. Dougherty explores what this idea can tell us about religious nationalism in early America. Some white Protestants, Mormons, American Jews, and Indigenous people constructed nationalist narratives around the then-popular idea of “Israelite Indians.” Although these were min... + Read More
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Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series Watermelon Nights 1st edition Paperback Greg Sarris 9780806169378 $36.95 FICTION Jul 01, 2021

In Watermelon Nights, Greg Sarris tells a powerful tale about the love and forgiveness that keep a modern Native American family together in Santa Rosa, California. Told from the points of view of a twenty-year-old Pomo man named Johnny Severe, his grandmother Elba, and his mother, Iris, this intergenerational saga uncovers the secrets—and traumatic events—that inform each of these characters’ extraordinary powers of perception. First published in 1998, Watermelon Nights remains one of the few works of fiction to illuminate the experiences of u... + Read More
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Series: Unknown No More Recovering Sanora Babb Paperback Joanne Dearcopp 9780806169361 $36.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Jul 29, 2021

Thanks in part to the Ken Burns documentary The Dust Bowl, Sanora Babb is perhaps best known today for her novel Whose Names Are Unknown (2004), which might have been published in 1939 had her publisher not thought the market too small for two Dust Bowl novels, hers and Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Into the twenty-first century, Babb wrote and published lyrical prose and poetry that revealed her prescient ideas about gender, race, and the environment. The essays collected in Unknown No More recover and analyze her previously unrecognized co... + Read More
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Series: A Life on Fire Oklahoma's Kate Barnard Paperback Connie Cronley 9780806169293 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 26, 2021

“How can women wear diamonds when babies cry for bread?” Kate Barnard demanded in one of the incendiary stump speeches for which she was well known. In A Life on Fire, Connie Cronley tells the story of Catherine Ann “Kate” Barnard (1875–1930), a fiery political reformer and the first woman elected to state office in Oklahoma, as commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907—almost fifteen years before women won the right to vote in the United States. Born to hardscrabble settlers on the Nebraska prairie, Barnard committed her energy, courag... + Read More
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Series: Tony Hillerman A Life Hardcover James McGrath Morris 9780806175980 $40.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 14, 2021

2022 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist The author of eighteen spellbinding detective novels set on the Navajo Nation, Tony Hillerman simultaneously transformed a traditional genre and unlocked the mysteries of the Navajo culture to an audience of millions. His best-selling novels added Navajo Tribal Police detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee to the pantheon of American fictional detectives. Morris offers a balanced portrait of Hillerman’s personal and professional life and provides a timely appreciation of his work. In intimate d... + Read More
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Series: Bud Wilkinson and the Rise of Oklahoma Football Hardcover John Scott 9780806175546 $40.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 14, 2021

At the end of World War II, the top ten college football teams were largely the same as they are today—with one exception: Oklahoma. In 1947, Bud Wilkinson was named OU’s head football coach and became the architect of Oklahoma’s meteoric rise from mediocrity to its present status as a perennial powerhouse. Based on interviews with Wilkinson, former OU president George L. Cross, and numerous former players, author John Scott gives us the behind-the-scenes story of Wilkinson’s years at the University of Oklahoma. Scott takes us through the teams... + Read More
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Series: Studies in American Constitutional Heritage The U.S. Supreme Court's Democratic Spaces Hardcover Jocelyn J. Evans 9780806176017 $60.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 28, 2021

Atop broad stone stairs flanked by statues of ancient lawgivers, the U.S. Supreme Court building stands as a shining temple to the American idea of justice. As solidly as the building occupies a physical space in the nation’s capital, its architecture defines a cultural, social, and political space in the public imagination. Through these spaces, this book explores the home of the most revered institution of U.S. politics—its origin, history, and meaning as an expression of democratic principles. The U.S. Supreme Court building opened its doors... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Studies History of the Jews in Quebec Paperback Pierre Anctil 9780776629483 $39.95 HISTORY Sep 07, 2021

The presence of Jews in Quebec dates back four centuries. Quebec Jewry, in Montreal in particular, has evolved over time, thanks to successive waves of migration from different regions of the world. The Jews of Quebec belong to a unique society in North America, which they have worked to fashion. The dedication with which they have defended their rights and their extensive achievements in multiple sectors of activity have helped foster diversity in Quebec.This work recounts the different contributions Jews have made over the years, along with t... + Read More
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Series: Philosophica The Elective Mind Philosophy and the Undergraduate Degree Paperback Réal Fillion 9780776629551 $24.95 EDUCATION Oct 05, 2021

The Elective Mind discusses the relevance of philosophy courses within the undergraduate curriculum as integral to the self-formation that is at the heart of a liberal education. The objective is to provide a historically layered view of what it can still mean to study for its own sake. The elective university classroom is important because the course of study is chosen out of personal interest and enthusiasm, as opposed to being primarily governed by predetermined disciplinary objectives. It engages the student’s mind directly and freely, and... + Read More
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Series: Collection 101 North America's Arctic Borders A World of Change Paperback Heather Nicol 9780776629599 $9.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 12, 2021

Although part of a broader circumpolar world, North America’s Arctic and sub-Arctic borders—and the establishment of new boundaries in the wake of significant, and regionally unique, change—are increasingly relevant in the broader, global world.Indeed, the Arctic reality has been dramatically reshaped by new territorial configurations and comprehensive land claims; increasing flows of international investment and trade focused upon resource industries and hydrocarbon extraction; the growing importance and role of sub-national entities, organiza... + Read More
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Series: Mercury Series Material Traces of War Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914—1945 Paperback Stacey Barker 9780776629209 $39.95 HISTORY Nov 02, 2021

Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914–1945 looks at Canadian women’s experiences of, and contributions to, the world wars through objects, images, and archival documents. The book tells the stories of women who served in the military, volunteered their time, worked as civilians, and grieved lost loved ones, through thematically organized vignettes. The authors place these personal narratives of individual women, and their related material, in the wider context of the world wars, while demonstrating that the experi... + Read More
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Series: Sofia Tolstaya, the Author Her Literary Works in English Translation Paperback John Woodsworth 9780776629445 $39.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 22, 2022

Dealing with the most topical questions of the time, Sofia Tolstaya’s artistic works—from parables to short stories, novellas, and memoirs—show deep insights into the social context of nineteenth-century Russia.In his lengthy review of My Life (along with other Tolstaya publications) in Canadian Slavonic Papers, the eminent Tolstoy scholar Hugh McLean (2011) laments the fact that it has taken so long (almost a century after her death) to focus academic attention on Sofia Tolstaya, and that there has been no unified publication of her works, sca... + Read More
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Series: Mercury The Far Northeast 3000 BP to Contact Paperback Kenneth R. Holyoke 9780776629650 $59.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 22, 2022

The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact is the first volume to synthesize archaeological research from across Atlantic Canada and northern New England for the period spanning from 3000 years ago to European contact. Recently, notions of the “Woodland period” in the broader Northeast have drawn scrutiny from experts due to increasing awareness that its hallmarks—such as horticulture, village formation, mortuary ceremonialism, and the advent of various technologies—appear to be less synchronous than once thought. By paying particular attention to ... + Read More
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Series: Owóknage The Story of Carry The Kettle Nakoda First Nation Paperback Carry the Kettle First Nation 9780889778146 $39.95 HISTORY Apr 16, 2022

Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current traditional land-use study led by Cega̔ K´iɳna Nakoda Oyáté (Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation), Owóknage is the first book to tell the definitive, comprehensive story of the Nakoda people (formerly known as the Assiniboine), in their own words. From pre-contact to current-day life, from thriving on the Great Plains to forced removal from their traditional, sacred lands in the Cypress Hills via a Canadian “Trail of Tears” starvation march to where they now currently reside sout... + Read More
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Series: #BlackInSchool Paperback Habiba Cooper Diallo 9780889778184 $20.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 04, 2021

A young Black woman documents the systemic racism in her high school diary and calls for justice and educational reform.The prevalence of anti-Black racism and its many faces, from racial profiling to police brutality, in North America is indisputable. How do we stop racist ideas and violence if the very foundation of our society is built upon white supremacy? How do we end systemic racism if the majority do not experience it or question its existence? Do our schools instill children with the ideals of equality and tolerance, or do they reinfor... + Read More
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Series: Digestions Bread & Water Essays Paperback dee Hobsbawn-Smith 9780889778115 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 11, 2021

Awarded Gold at the 2022 Taste Canada Award.The lyricism of Bread & Water interweaves culinary insights and literary essays to pose fundamental questions about how we live––and how we feed––the larger hungers that motivate our lives.“When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it . . .” —MFK Fisher When chef and writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith left the city for rural life on a farm in Saskatchewan, she planned to replace cooking and teaching with poetry and prose. But—... + Read More
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Series: Gehl v Canada Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act Paperback Lynn Gehl 9780889778252 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 18, 2021

A follow-up to Claiming Anishinaabe, Gehl v Canada is the story of Lynn Gehl’s lifelong journey of survival against the nation-state’s constant genocidal assault against her existence. While Canada set up its colonial powers—including the Supreme Court, House of Commons, Senate Chamber, and the Residences of the Prime Minister and Governor General—on her traditional Algonquin territory, usurping the riches and resources of the land, she was pushed to the margins, exiled to a life of poverty in Toronto’s inner-city. With only beads in her pocket... + Read More
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Series: Oskana Poetry & Poetics Pitchblende Paperback Elise Marcella Godfrey 9780889778405 $19.95 POETRY Sep 25, 2021

“We began to dig ourselves deeper than we dreamed when we began to see metal as other than medicine, our bodies, more than mineral.”From an emerging environmental voice comes an evocative, multilayered poetry collection about extraction, destruction, and the erasure of Indigenous people. At Rabbit Lake in Northern Saskatchewan lies the second largest uranium mine in the western world. For decades, uranium ore and its poisonous by-product—pitchblende, a highly radioactive rock—were removed, transported, and scattered across the land, forev... + Read More
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Series: Honouring the Declaration Church Commitments to Reconciliation and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Paperback Don Schweitzer 9780889778320 $39.95 RELIGION Oct 16, 2021

Honouring the Declaration provides academic resources to help The United Church of Canada and other Canadian denominations enact their commitment to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and offers a framework for reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. Featuring essays from scholars working from a range of disciplines, including religious studies, Indigenous legal studies, Christian theology and ethics, Biblical studies, Indigenous educational leadership within the United Church, and social ac... + Read More
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Series: First Nation Language Readers Châhkâpâs A Naskapi Legend Paperback John Peastitute 9780889778290 $24.95 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Oct 09, 2021

Châhkâpâs: A Naskapi Legend shares the story of Châhkâpâs, a heroic figure in First Nations storytelling, who performs feats of strength and skill in spite of his diminutive size. The book shares this traditional legend as originally recorded in the Naskapi community in northern Quebec in 1967 when it was narrated by John Peastitute, a Naskapi Elder and accomplished storyteller. Transcribed in the Naskapi language and syllabic orthography, the book offers a literary resource for the Naskapi language community, and the English translation enab... + Read More
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Series: Our Own Words kayās nōhcīn I Come from a Long Time Back Paperback Mary Louise Rockthunder 9780889778368 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 17, 2021

Mary Louise (née Bangs) Rockthunder, wêpanâkit, was an Elder of Cree, Saulteaux, and Nakoda descent. Born in 1913, raised and married at nēhiyawipwātināhk / Piapot First Nation, Mary Louise, a much-loved storyteller, speaks of her memories, stories, and knowledge, revealing her personal humility and her deep love and respect for her family and her nêhiyawêwin language and culture. The recordings that are transcribed, edited, and translated for this book are presented in three forms: Cree syllabics, standard roman orthography (SRO) for Cree, ... + Read More
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Series: The Regina Collection The Unravelling Incest and the Destruction of a Family Paperback Donna Besel 9780889778436 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 06, 2021

It’s the antithesis of why a wedding should be memorable. In 1992, at a sister’s nuptials, Donna Besel’s family members discovered that their father, Jock Tod, had molested their youngest sister. After this disclosure, the other five sisters admitted their father had assaulted them when they were younger and had been doing so for years. Despite there being enough evidence to charge their father, the lengthy prosecution rocked Besel's family and deeply divided their small rural community. The Unravelling is a brave, riveting telling of the dest... + Read More
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Series: All I Ever Wanted A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir Paperback Kathy Valentine 9781477324660 $23.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 01, 2021

Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction, 2021 A Go-Go's bassist Kathy Valentine's story is a roller coaster of sex, drugs, and of course, music; it's also a story of what it takes to find success and find yourself, even when it all comes crashing down. At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go's—and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go's became the first multi-platinum-selling, all-female band to play instruments themselves, write t... + Read More
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Series: American Music Series Woman Walk the Line How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives Paperback Holly Gleason 9781477322581 $23.95 MUSIC Oct 01, 2021

Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it's Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it's the humanity beneath the music that resonates.Here are deeply personal essays from... + Read More
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Series: William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll Paperback Casey Rae 9781477322598 $23.95 MUSIC Oct 01, 2021

William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented—until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformations in music history that can be traced to Burroughs. A heroin addict and a gay man, Burroughs rose to notoriety outside the conventional literary world; his masterpiece, Naked Lunch, was banned on th... + Read More
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Series: Toronto Iberic Lazarillo de Tormes A Graphic Novel Paperback Zafra 9781487529383 $22.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jan 26, 2021

Available for the first time in English and in graphic novel format, Lazarillo de Tormes is a gritty and shocking classic that is frequently compared to Don Quixote.This is the first graphic novel adaptation of Lazarillo de Tormes, an anonymous sixteenth-century work that is credited with founding the literary genre of the picaresque novel. This genre includes not only works by Spanish authors like Miguel de Cervantes but also famous novels in English and American literature featuring the “anti-hero.” This edition offers a new approach to ... + Read More
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Series: A Research Agenda for Graduate Education Hardcover Brian S. Mitchell 9781487508616 $63.00 EDUCATION Sep 13, 2021

A Research Agenda for Graduate Education is a challenge to the higher education community to conduct research on graduate education as it would any other area of educational research.Post-baccalaureate education continues to expand at an accelerated rate as new degree programs are developed, enrollments rise, online instruction matures, and the number of institutions offering advanced degrees increases. Our level of understanding of graduate and professional education has not kept pace, especially in comparison to the depth of scholarship avail... + Read More
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Series: Reading History Paperback Michael Burger 9781487523879 $23.95 HISTORY Dec 21, 2021

Short and succinct, Reading History introduces students to different kinds of historical writing, acting as a guide to help them read and understand primary and secondary sources.History students read a lot. They read primary sources. They read specialized articles and monographs. They sometimes read popular histories. And they read textbooks. Yet students are beginners, and as beginners they need to learn the differences among various kinds of readings – their natures, their challenges, and the unique expectations one needs to bring to each of... + Read More
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Series: Faces in the Crowd The Jews of Canada Paperback Franklin Bialystok 9781442604414 $62.95 HISTORY Jun 29, 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: Dying and Death in Canada, Fourth Edition Paperback Herbert Northcott 9781487509279 $48.95 MEDICAL Nov 15, 2021

The fourth edition of Dying and Death in Canada explores how the intensely personal experience of dying and death is shaped by society and culture, with new discussions of MAID and COVID-19.Dying and Death in Canada provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of dying, death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective. The fourth edition covers current issues and recent developments in the field, such the implementation of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) and the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. New topics include d... + Read More
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Series: Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century A Critical Approach Paperback A. Lynn Bolles 9781487526375 $59.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 07, 2022

This new collection of anthropological theory updates and diversifies the canon with contributions by important yet underrepresented scholars and theoretical discussions that reflect the state of the discipline today.Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century presents a critical approach to the study of anthropological theory for the next generation of aspiring anthropologists. Through a carefully curated selection of readings, this collection reflects the diversity of scholars who have long contributed to the developmen... + Read More
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Series: Through the Lens of Anthropology An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture, Third Edition 3rd edition Paperback Robert Muckle 9781487540159 $84.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 11, 2022

Now in its third edition, this four-field introduction to anthropology shows students how anthropologists think about the world, highlighting anthropological perspectives on pandemics, social movements, and more.Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise introduction to anthropology that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to illustrate the connected nature of the discipline’s many subfields. The third edition remains a highly readable text that encourages students to think about current events and issues through a... + Read More
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Series: Digital Futures Technologies of the New Real Viral Contagion and Death of the Social Paperback Arthur Kroker 9781487540227 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 08, 2021

Technologies of the New Real explores the human impact of technology in the twenty-first century.With astonishing speed and relatively little public debate, we have been projected into a new reality where interactions with drones, robotic bodies, and high-level surveillance are not uncommon to encounter. In this age of ground-breaking developments in robotic technologies, synthetic biology is merging with artificial intelligence and articulated robotic limbs, altogether forming a newly blended reality of machines, bodies, and affect. Technologi... + Read More
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Series: A History of Science in Society From Philosophy to Utility, Fourth Edition 4th edition Paperback Andrew Ede 9781487524630 $59.95 SCIENCE Mar 02, 2022

Detailed, engaging, and beautifully written, the fourth edition of A History of Science in Society explores the many ways in which science and society interact.In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. The fourth edition of this bestselling textbook brings the narrative right up to the present day by incorporating the COVID-19 pandemic. The edition also adds content on Indige... + Read More
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Series: Politics of Command Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton and the Canadian Army, 1939-1943 Paperback John Nelson Rickard 9781487541026 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 11, 2021

The Politics of Command re-examines Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton’s command and argues that the long-accepted reasons for his relief of duty warrant review.In December 1943, Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton resigned from command of the 1st Canadian Army amidst criticism of his poor generalship and of his abrasive personality. Despite McNaughton's importance to the Canadian Army during the first four years of the Second World War, little has been written about the man himself or the circumstances of his resignation. In The Politics of... + Read More
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Series: The Role of Place and Play in Young Children's Language and Literacy Paperback Shelley Stagg Peterson 9781487529222 $39.95 EDUCATION Mar 31, 2022

This book brings notions of play and place as cultural constructions into conversations about language and literacy.Dominant assumptions about place tend to be defined in relation to urban communities. To assume a singular construction of urban places misrepresents the experiences, perspectives, and identities of urban children, making their identities become invisible to researchers, educators, and curriculum developers. Sharing a wide range of perspectives, Role of Play and Place in Young Children’s Language and Literacy sheds light on langua... + Read More
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Series: For Humanity's Sake The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture Paperback Lina Steiner 9781487541828 $37.95 LITERARY CRITICISM May 07, 2021

This study links the careers of Russia’s three most famous nineteenth-century authors – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Pushkin – into a single narrative.For Humanity's Sake is the first study in English to trace the genealogy of the classic Russian novel, from Pushkin to Tolstoy to Dostoevsky. Lina Steiner demonstrates how these writers' shared concern for individual and national education played a major role in forging a Russian cultural identity. For Humanity's Sake highlights the role of the critic Apollon Grigor'ev, who was first to for... + Read More
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Series: Toronto Italian Studies Measured Words Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy Paperback Arielle Saiber 9781487541958 $37.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 01, 2021

Measured Words brings together rarely discussed Renaissance thinkers to show both the commonalities within and the variety of the conversations between computation and writing.Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating and generously illustrated work, Arielle Saiber studies the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers of the time: Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Paci... + Read More
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Series: UTP Insights Global Development and Human Rights The Sustainable Development Goals and Beyond Paperback Paul Nelson 9781487521257 $27.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 13, 2021

Global Development and Human Rights analyses global efforts to implement long-term goals that seek to promote the health, happiness, and freedoms of individuals. From 2000 to 2015 the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mobilized external aid to finance life-changing services in the global South. However, in doing so, the organization failed to meet the challenges often associated with human rights initiatives, which are to make underprivileged communities independently prosperous, equitable, and sustainable. In Global Development and Human Rig... + Read More
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Series: Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors The Duvakin Interviews, 1967-1974 Hardcover Irina Evdokimova 9781487527259 $84.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 01, 2021

Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors tells the stories of participants in the Russian avant-garde movement who lived through and continued to work under Stalin’s repressive regime.In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Soviet philologist, literary dissident, and university professor Viktor Duvakin made it his mission to interview the members of the artistic avant-garde who had survived the Russian Revolution, Stalin’s purges, and the Second World War. Based on archival materials held at the Moscow State University Library, Russian Mod... + Read More
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Series: German and European Studies The Long Century's Long Shadow Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern Hardcover Kenneth S. Calhoon 9781487526955 $74.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 25, 2021

The Long Century’s Long Shadow explores what is cinematic about the developments in literature, art, and aesthetic thinking that emerged in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century.The Long Century’s Long Shadow approaches German Romanticism and Weimar cinema as continuous developments, enlisting both in a narrative of reciprocal illumination. The author investigates different moments and media as connected phenomena, situated at alternate ends of the "long nineteenth century" but joined by their mutual rejection of the... + Read More
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Series: Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry Policy Gain or Confidence Game? Paperback Katherine Fierlbeck 9781487529048 $38.95 MEDICAL Jun 14, 2021

Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry evaluates the progress made in holding the pharmaceutical industry to account through greater transparency.There is plenty of controversy surrounding pharmaceuticals, but it cannot be denied that it is both a socially beneficial and profit-making industry. Regulators are expected to ensure that the economic success of the pharmaceutical industry does not come at the expense of public safety, yet regulators have also assumed a cooperative role by providing advice on regulation and... + Read More
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Series: Producing Islam(s) in Canada On Knowledge, Positionality, and Politics Paperback Amélie Barras 9781487527884 $42.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 10, 2022

In Producing Islam(s) in Canada, twenty-nine interdisciplinary scholars analyze how academics have thought, researched and written on Islam and Muslims in Canada since the 1970s.In the last twenty years, public interest in Islam and how Muslims express their religious identity in Western societies has grown exponentially. In parallel, the study of Islam in the Canadian academy has grown in a number of fields since the 1970s, reflecting a diverse range of scholarship, positionalities, and politics. Yet, academic research on Muslims in Canada has... + Read More
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Series: Prison Elite How Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg Survived Nazi Captivity Paperback Erika Rummel 9781487527587 $29.95 HISTORY Jun 22, 2021

Prison Elite depicts the life of a VIP prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp system, providing a first-hand account of his mental life and coping strategies.After the Anschluss (annexation) in 1938, the Nazis forced Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to resign and kept him imprisoned for seven years, until his rescue by the Allies in 1945. Schuschnigg’s privileged position within the concentration camp system allowed him to keep a diary and to write letters which were smuggled out to family members. Drawing on these records, Prison Elite pa... + Read More
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Series: Anthropological Horizons Shadow Play Information Politics in Urban Indonesia Paperback Sheri Lynn Gibbings 9781487525729 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 20, 2021

Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing significant social, political, and economic change.Focusing on a government-organized street vendor relocations in Indonesia, Shadow Play carefully exposes why conflicts over urban planning are fought through information politics. Anthropologist Sheri Lynn Gibbings shows that information politics are the principal avenues through which the municipal government seeks to implement its urban projects. Informat... + Read More
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Series: Women, Power, and Political Representation Canadian and Comparative Perspectives Paperback Roosmarijn de Geus 9781487525200 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 19, 2021

This book sheds light on why access to political power remains outside the grasp of most women in Canada and around the world.Delving into the pressing topic of gender and politics, this volume provides fresh comparative perspectives on "what works" to promote women in politics today. Inspiring and informative, Women, Power, and Political Representation offers a comprehensive overview of the role women play in contemporary politics, and pinpoints the reasons behind their underrepresentation. Discussing the challenges and opportunities women fa... + Read More
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Series: Dangerous Opportunities The Future of Financial Institutions, Housing Policy, and Governance Hardcover Stephanie Ben-Ishai 9781487506087 $37.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Aug 20, 2021

Dangerous Opportunities presents a timely contribution that provides lessons for post-pandemic economic recovery from the pre-pandemic Home Capital crisis, a watershed in Canadian Financial markets.The 2017 Home Capital saga represents the shortcomings of a financial system challenged by distinct, siloed regulatory frameworks that fail to communicate with each other. Home Capital is a publicly traded company that acts as a lender through the Home Trust Company, most often providing mortgages to clients rejected by traditional banks. Home Capita... + Read More
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Series: Toronto Iberic A Poetry of Things The Material Lyric in Habsburg Spain Hardcover Mary E. Barnard 9781487509187 $50.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Jan 10, 2022

A Poetry of Things considers how cultural objects were used by poets in the years around 1600 – a time of social and economic crisis, but also of remarkable artistic and literary production.A Poetry of Things examines the works of four poets whose use of visual and material culture contributed to the remarkable artistic and literary production during the reign of Philip III (1598–1621). Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Juan de Arguijo, and Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza cast cultural objects – ranging from books and tombstones... + Read More
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Series: A Runner's Journey Paperback Bruce Kidd 9781487541040 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 14, 2021

In this autobiography of a former Olympian and leader in sport history, Bruce Kidd details why sports are important to him, what he’s learned from them, and why he continues to fight to make them more equitable.In the 1960s, Bruce Kidd was one of Canada’s most celebrated athletes. As a teenager, Kidd won races all over the globe, participated in the Olympics, and started a revolution in distance running and a revival in Canadian track and field. He quickly became a symbol of Canadian youth and the subject of endless media coverage. Although mo... + Read More
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Series: UTP Insights Nothing Less than Great Reforming Canada's Universities Paperback Harvey P. Weingarten 9781487509446 $26.95 EDUCATION Sep 15, 2021

Nothing Less than Great addresses the current challenges faced by Canada’s university system and offers solutions to help improve the academic experience of students.Canada’s public higher education system is in trouble. The economic and social benefits of the Canadian university system are widely seen as a public good, which begs a pressing question: Why should we aspire to anything less than a great system? For that to happen, everything about the way universities currently operate, from the boardroom to the classroom, must change – but this ... + Read More
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Series: The Canadian Experience of War Montreal at War, 1914-1918 Paperback Terry Copp 9781487541552 $24.95 HISTORY Sep 15, 2021

Montreal at War chronicles the experiences of civilians, soldiers, and returned veterans in Montreal during the First World War.Montreal at War tells the story of how citizens in Canada’s largest city responded to the challenges of the First World War. Drawing from newspapers, journals, government reports, and archival records, Terry Copp – one of Canada’s leading military historians – raises important questions about how the Canadian war experience has been interpreted, and the ways in which hindsight has privileged some voices over ... + Read More
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Series: Canada's Army Waging War and Keeping the Peace, Third Edition Paperback J.L. Granatstein 9781487509484 $52.00 HISTORY Sep 13, 2021

In this revised and updated third edition, one of Canada’s leading historians covers the history of the Canadian military to the present day.Originally published in 2002, Canada's Army quickly became the definitive history of the Canadian military. In the twenty intervening years, we have seen major changes to how Canadians think about their military, and in the ways Canadians fight, train, and serve their nation in peace and in war. Written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the country's leading political and military historians, Canada's Army trac... + Read More
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Series: Kingdom of Night Witnesses to the Holocaust Paperback Mark Celinscak 9781487523923 $34.95 HISTORY Jan 28, 2022

Kingdom of Night tells the stories of Canadians – in their own voices – during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.In April 1945, when the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was surrendered and handed over to the British Army, Canadian forces arrived on scene to provide support, to bear witness, and to document the crimes. They were overwhelmed, understaffed, and left without adequate supplies, equipment, and medicine. Their encounters at the camp were haunting, transformative experiences that forever changed their lives. In Ki... + Read More
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Series: Damaged Childhood Trauma, Adult Illness, and the Need for a Health Care Revolution Hardcover Robert Maunder, MD 9781487528348 $29.95 MEDICAL Oct 05, 2021

This is the story of a psychiatrist and his career-long relationship with a difficult patient showing how medical treatment should not just be about biology, but also about psychology.We need a revolution in care. Damaged tells the painful yet inspiring story of a dedicated psychiatrist and his most challenging patient. In the authentic voices of Dr. Robert Maunder and his patient, Isaac, we hear how childhood trauma harms Isaac’s health for the rest of his life. Providing readers with a window into the private world of long-term psychotherapy,... + Read More
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Series: The Discovery of Insulin Special Centenary Edition Paperback Michael Bliss 9781487529130 $37.95 MEDICAL Sep 30, 2021

This special centenary edition of The Discovery of Insulin celebrates a path-breaking medical discovery that has changed lives around the world.The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921–22 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin was a wonder drug with the ability to bring diabetes patients back from the very brink of death. It was no surprise that in 1923 the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to its discoverers, the Canadian research team of Frederick Banting, Charles Best, ... + Read More
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Series: Anthropological Horizons Suspect Others Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname Paperback Stuart Earle Strange 9781487540265 $35.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 22, 2021

This ethnography considers how spirit mediums interactively create self-knowledge out of interpersonal suspicion in the racially and religious diverse Caribbean country of Suriname.Suspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals ritual revelation generates self-knowledge in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion. Amid competition for belonging, political power, and control over natural resources, Surinamese Ndyuka Ndyuka Maroons and Hi... + Read More