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Chasing We-ness Cultivating Empathy and Leadership in a Polarized World Hardcover William Marsiglio 9781487544775 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 22, 2023

In an increasingly polarized world, Chasing We-ness champions ideas for cultivating the ability to work with others in a way that celebrates our shared humanity.As humans, we embrace our individuality, yet we chase the comfort and sense of purpose that comes from being part of a group. Especially timely given our polarized world, Chasing We-ness examines how social media, AI, new leadership styles, and other modern developments affect our state of we-ness. It illuminates how our contemporary identities find expression in both progressive and co... + Read More
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Intentional Leadership The Big 8 Capabilities Setting Leaders Apart Hardcover Rose M. Patten 9781487508876 $32.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jan 17, 2023

Revealing how leaders can enhance their abilities in our current uncertain and fast-paced times, Intentional Leadership speaks to the importance of being intentional and offers eight key capabilities for success.We live in a time of unprecedented speed, connection, and uncertainty. While many organizations are adapting to this new reality by reinventing business models, significantly fewer are examining the implications of these changes for developing effective leadership. In Intentional Leadership, Rose M. Patten draws on her expertise as one ... + Read More
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What's in Your Genome? 90% of Your Genome Is Junk Hardcover Laurence A. Moran 9781487508593 $39.95 SCIENCE May 16, 2023

What’s in Your Genome? describes the functional regions of the human genome, the evidence that 90% of it is junk DNA, and the reasons this evidence has not been widely accepted by the popular press and much of the scientific community.The human genome contains about 25,000 protein-coding and noncoding genes and many other functional elements, such as origins of replication, regulatory elements, and centromeres. Functional elements occupy only about 10%25 of the more than three billion base pairs in the human genome. Much of the re... + Read More
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Damaged Childhood Trauma, Adult Illness, and the Need for a Health Care Revolution Paperback Robert Maunder 9781487528355 $22.95 MEDICAL Nov 05, 2022

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.Childhood adversity that is severe enough to be harmful throughout life is one of the biggest public health issues of our time, yet health care systems struggle to even acknowledge the problem. In Damaged, Dr. Robert Maunder and Dr. Jonathan Hunter call for a radical change, arguing that the medical system needs to be not only more compassionate but more eff... + Read More
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Paradoxical Leadership How to Make Complexity an Advantage Hardcover Ivo Brughmans 9781487507633 $36.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 25, 2023

Paradoxical Leadership reveals how to use tensions between seemingly contradictory perspectives as a driver for sustainable success and innovation.On a daily basis, leaders, managers, and professionals alike have to deal with tensions caused by differing and even opposite approaches. We often feel the need to make a fundamental choice between either one or the other for the sake of clarity. Using practical methodology and an extensive toolkit, Paradoxical Leadership reveals how to transform divisive dilemmas into creative solutions and paralyzi... + Read More
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The Legal Singularity How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better Hardcover Abdirashid Aidid 9781487529413 $44.95 LAW Jul 04, 2023

Adopting a cautious and yet optimistic view of an uncertain legal future, The Legal Singularity presents a coherent account of the radically positive impact artificial intelligence may have in the coming decades on law and legal institutions.Law today is incomplete, inaccessible, unclear, underdeveloped, and often perplexing to those whom it affects. In The Legal Singularity, Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie argue that the proliferation of artificial intelligence-enabled technology – and specifically the advent of legal prediction – is on the ver... + Read More
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Series: German and European Studies Queer Lives across the Wall Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970 Paperback Andrea Rottmann 9781487547806 $36.95 HISTORY Aug 15, 2023

Queer Lives across the Wall draws on personal letters, photo albums, and state records in order to tell the history of East and West Berlin in the early Cold War through an LGBTQ perspective.Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s. Andrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces – including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons – facilitated and restricted qu... + Read More
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Charm Offensive Commodifying Femininity in Postwar France Paperback Kelly Ricciardi Colvin 9781487525828 $39.95 HISTORY Jun 15, 2023

This book examines the many forces that shaped postwar French femininity as a desirable commodity, both within France and around the world.In the aftermath of the Second World War, the French government cultivated images of sensual and sophisticated white French women in an attempt to reestablish its global image as a great nation. French publicists, journalists, and government officials working in the tourism industry began a concerted effort to improve France’s international image and win valuable tourist money by promoting the beauty, sexual... + Read More
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A Night at the Gardens Class, Gender, and Respectability in 1930s Toronto Paperback Russell Field 9781487547080 $24.95 HISTORY Apr 25, 2023

A Night at the Gardens examines the history of hockey through the experiences of spectators at the famed Maple Leaf Gardens.When Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens opened in 1931, manager Conn Smythe envisioned an arena that would project an aura of middle-class respectability. In A Night at the Gardens, Russell Field shares how this new arena anticipated spectators by examining varying spectator behaviours, who the spectators were, and what the experience of spectating was like. Drawing on archival records, the book explores the neighbourhood in whi... + Read More
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When the Spirit Calls The Killings at Hannah Bay Paperback Edward J. Hedican 9781487546687 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 15, 2023

Drawing on archival records and Indigenous oral traditions, When the Spirit Calls reveals the tragic history of the Hannah Bay Massacre.In January 1832, in the most southern part of Ontario’s James Bay, an elderly Cree man by the name of Quapakay was told by the spirits of the shaking tent that in order to survive the winter, he was required to "spoil" the post at Hannah Bay, a Hudson's Bay Company goose hunting station. Following the directions of the spirits, Quapakay and his sons carried out this ill-fated task, resulting in the deaths of si... + Read More
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There Was a Time for Everything A Memoir Paperback Judith Friedland 9781487546953 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 28, 2022

This beautiful memoir sheds light on the expectations for women in the mid-twentieth century – as wives, mothers, and workers – through an exploration of one woman’s upbringing, aspirations, and attempts to make her voice heard.After the death of her mother when she turned ten, Judith Friedland learned to be resilient. She met the expectations for upper-middle-class women in Toronto in the 1940s and 1950s, which included post-secondary education, marriage, and motherhood. While raising a family and supporting her husband’s academic career, she ... + Read More
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Series: ethnoGRAPHIC Messages from Ukraine Paperback Gregg Bucken-Knapp 9781487559830 $9.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 03, 2022

This powerful graphic novel illustrates the personal text messages and lived experiences of Ukrainians during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine that dominated headlines around the world. Millions of Ukrainians would flee the country, and a third of the population would be displaced. In the days following the invasion, Swedish migration expert Gregg Bucken-Knapp sent text messages to his Ukrainian colleagues, offering support and assistance. These were their responses.In a... + Read More
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“We Are in Charge Here” Inuit Self-Government and the Nunatsiavut Assembly Hardcover Graham White 9781487551582 $75.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 09, 2023

This book provides a detailed analysis of the Nunatsiavut Assembly, the legislature of Canada’s only Inuit self-government.Powerful, innovative Indigenous self-governance regimes are increasingly important players in Canadian politics, but little academic work has been done on their structure, operation, and effectiveness. "We Are in Charge Here" examines the central institution of the most populous Indigenous self-governance regime in Canada, the elected Assembly of the Nunatsiavut Government. Nunatsiavut – "our beautiful land" in Inuktitut – ... + Read More
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Legislating under the Charter Parliament, Executive Power, and Rights Paperback Emmett Macfarlane 9781487554538 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 04, 2023

Covering a range of criminal justice and social policy issues, this book explores how governments and Parliament justify their legislative choices under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.Legislating under the Charter explores how governments and Parliament justify limitations on rights when advancing laws that raise rights concerns or when responding to judicial decisions under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Through an analysis of legislation concerning criminal justice policy, the approval of new safe consumption sites, sex work... + Read More
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Series: Political Development: Comparative Perspectives Faith, Rights, and Choice The Politics of Religious Schools in Canada Paperback James Farney 9781487548285 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 08, 2023

Faith, Rights, and Choice traces the history of religious accommodations in the schooling systems of Canada’s provinces.The Canadian provinces have evolved quite different ways of responding to the policy problems posed by religious schools. Seeking to understand this peculiar reality, Faith, Rights, and Choice articulates the ways in which the provincial governance regimes developed for religious schools have changed over time. Covering nearly three centuries, the book begins with the founding of schooling systems in New France and continues i... + Read More
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Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds Vulnerability and Care of the Earth Paperback Didier Zúñiga 9781487548391 $35.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 19, 2023

This book aims to overcome the disconnect between human and ecological concerns in political theory and political philosophy.In Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds, Didier Zúñiga examines the possibility for dialogue and mutual understanding in human and more-than-human worlds. The book responds to the need to find more democratic ways of listening to, giving voice to, and caring for the variety of beings that inhabit the earth. Drawing on ecology and sustainability in democratic theory, Zúñiga demonstrates the transformative potential of a r... + Read More
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Envisioning Democracy New Essays after Sheldon Wolin's Political Thought Hardcover Terry Maley 9781487565602 $89.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 02, 2023

Drawing on the thought of Sheldon Wolin, a major American political theorist, this collection presents fresh understandings of contemporary democracy.Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "democracy." Leaders of large states use "democracy" to designate their nations’ public character even as critics and rivals use the term to validate their own political perspectives. In Envisioning Democracy, the editors and contributors address the following questions: what does democracy mean today? What could it... + Read More
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The Role of Canadian City Managers In Their Own Words Paperback Michael Fenn 9781487552329 $44.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 18, 2023

This collection sheds light on local government and public administration by providing insights from city managers across Canada.Local government has rapidly become both more important and more complex and the quality of municipal management is becoming more significant every day as local governments deal with a vast array of organizational and community challenges. The Role of Canadian City Managers brings together experienced city managers and municipal chief administrative officers (CAOs) across Canada to analyse the daily issues that they f... + Read More
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Neoliberal Contentions Diagnosing the Present Hardcover Lois Harder 9781487560881 $75.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 26, 2023

This collection of essays analyses the ongoing effects of neoliberalism and assesses its impacts on society, culture, and the political environment in the present day.Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has had a major impact on social life and, in turn, research in the social sciences. Emerging from the crisis of the Keynesian welfare state, neoliberalism describes a social transformation that has impacted relationships between citizens and the state, consumers and the market, and individuals and groups. Neoliberal Contentions offers original essay... + Read More
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Why Rivals Intervene International Security and Civil Conflict Hardcover John Mitton 9781487508272 $75.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 26, 2023

Drawing on historical case studies, this book explains why international rivals intervene in civil conflicts.Rivals – states with acrimonious, militarized histories – often intervene on opposing sides of civil conflicts. These interventions are known to exacerbate and prolong civil wars, but scholars have yet to fully understand why states engage in them, given significant costs and countervailing strategic interests. Why Rivals Intervene argues that rivals are driven by security considerations at the international level – specifically, the pro... + Read More
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Canada and the United States Differences That Count, Fifth Edition 5th edition Paperback David Thomas 9781487544225 $70.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 07, 2023

This book investigates why and how Canada and the United States – while so close and seemingly so similar – remain different in many significant ways.Canada and the United States explains, across fifteen diverse areas, why and how Canada and the United States are still so different. The book discusses whether or not these differences are growing, the key results of such differences, and the major challenges to be faced in each system. Focusing on institutions, political cultures, and social values, the book shows how both federal systems are ex... + Read More
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Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights Insights from Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia Hardcover Javier Garcia Oliva 9781487505486 $90.00 LAW May 30, 2023

In the context of real-world dilemmas, Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights explores fundamental questions about the purpose and nature of constitutions, states, and nations.In Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights, Javier García Oliva and Helen Hall coin the term "constitutional culture" to encapsulate the collective rules and expectations which govern the collective life within a jurisdiction. Significantly, these shared norms have both legal and social elements, including matters as diverse as standards of parenting, t... + Read More
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Lectures on the Philosophy of Right, 1819-1820 Hardcover G.W.F. Hegel 9781487506216 $125.00 PHILOSOPHY May 08, 2023

This new English translation of Hegel’s 1819/20 lectures on the philosophy of Right presents an accessible and engaging version of Hegel’s mature legal and political thought.Published in 1821, Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is considered the definitive articulation of the legal, moral, social, and political philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel. However, shortly before its publication, Hegel delivered a series of lectures on the subject matter of the work at the University of Berlin. These lectures are unlike any others Hegel gave on the philosophy o... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Atlantic Canada History Muiwlanej kikamaqki "Honouring Our Ancestors" Mi'kmaq Who Left a Mark on the History of the Northeast, 1680 to 1980 Hardcover Janet E. Chute 9781487546137 $150.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 22, 2023

This important book offers new insights into Indigenous lives and actions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, an era of major change along the Atlantic seaboard.Drawing upon oral and documentary evidence, this volume explores the lives of noteworthy Mi’kmaw individuals whose thoughts, actions, and aspirations impacted the history of the Northeast but whose activities were too often relegated to the shadows of history. The book highlights Mi’kmaw leaders who played major roles in guiding the history of the region between 1680 and 198... + Read More
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Residential Schools and Reconciliation Canada Confronts Its History Paperback J.R. Miller 9781487521844 $32.95 HISTORY May 31, 2022

Residential Schools and Reconciliation sheds light on one of the darkest periods in Canadian history.Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions and federal governments as well as Christian churches have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling through official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, award-winning author J.R. Miller tackles and exp... + Read More
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Thirsty Land into Springs of Water Negotiating a Place in Canada as Latter-day Saints Hardcover Brooke Kathleen Brassard 9781487506339 $70.00 RELIGION Apr 15, 2024

Thirsty Land into Springs of Water explores how Latter-day Saints in southern Alberta merged into Canadian society while maintaining their identity.Looking at the example of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thirsty Land into Springs of Water answers questions about Canadian and religious identities, immigration, and integration. Brooke Kathleen Brassard sheds light on the Latter-day Saint experience in southern Alberta between 1887 and 1947, revealing how the Latter-day Saints integrated into Canadian society while maintaining t... + Read More
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Expressive Acts Celebrations and Demonstrations in the Streets of Victorian Toronto Paperback Ian Radforth 9781487545772 $34.95 HISTORY Mar 03, 2023

This book reveals the fascinating history of how and why people gathered in the streets of Victorian Toronto – both in jubilation and in anger.In nineteenth-century Toronto, people took to the streets to express their jubilation on special occasions, such as the 1860 visit of the Prince of Wales and the return in 1885 of the local Volunteers who helped to suppress the Riel resistance in the North-West. In a contrasting mood, people also took to the streets in anger to object to government measures, such as the Rebellion Losses bill, to heckle r... + Read More
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The Ever-Dying People? Canada's Jews in Comparative Perspective Paperback Robert Brym 9781487528775 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 27, 2023

This book compares Canada’s Jews with other Canadian ethnic and religious groups and with Jewish communities in other diaspora countries, offering insights into the ethnic identity, values, behaviour, and likely future of Jews in Canada.Demise by assimilation or antisemitism is often held to be the inevitable future of Jews in Canada and other diaspora countries. The Ever-Dying People? shows that the Jewish diaspora, while often held to be in decline, is influenced by a range of identifiable sociological and historical forces, some of which bre... + Read More
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Learning behind Bars How IRA Prisoners Shaped the Peace Process in Ireland Hardcover Dieter Reinisch 9781487545826 $70.00 HISTORY Oct 27, 2022

This book sheds light on Irish republican prisoners during the Northern Irish Troubles and the ways in which they shaped the peace process from within the internment camps and prisons.Learning behind Bars is an oral history of former Irish republican prisoners in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland between 1971, the year internment was introduced, and 2000, when the high-security Long Kesh Detention Centre/HM Prison Maze closed. Dieter Reinisch outlines the role of politically motivated prisoners in ending armed conflicts as well as th... + Read More
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Series: Culinaria Food Mobilities Making World Cuisines Paperback Daniel E. Bender 9781487526498 $24.95 COOKING Dec 20, 2023

Food Mobilities tells the fascinating story of how we cook, shop, and eat in today’s global food system.Food moves. Today, shoppers can load their shopping basket with spices from India, fruit from Honduras, and canned goods from Italy. Diners can decide between restaurants offering the cuisines of the world. Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food cultures of the world, historically and in contemporary times. This collection of essays addr... + Read More
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Jews, Judaism, and Success How Religion Paved the Way to Modern Jewish Achievement Paperback Robert Eisen 9781487548230 $49.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 18, 2023

Robert Eisen attributes the surprising success of Jews in the modern world to a religious culture that, over the centuries, prepared them to flourish.In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful minority in the modern western world? Eisen argues that Jews achieved such success because they were unusually well-prepared for it by their religion – in particular, Rabbinic Judaism, or the Judaism of the rabbis. Rooted in the Talmud, th... + Read More
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The Crimean War and Cultural Memory The War France Won and Forgot Hardcover Sima Godfrey 9781487547776 $70.00 HISTORY Sep 15, 2023

Exploring the Crimean War through literature, theatre, spectacle, and visual arts, this book reveals how and why a major war was forgotten.The Crimean War (1854–56) is widely considered the first modern war with its tactical use of railways, telegraphs, and battleships, its long-range rifles, and its notorious trenches – precursors of the Great War. It is also the first media war: the first to know the impact of a correspondent on the field of battle and the first war to be documented in photographs. No one, however, including the French themse... + Read More
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Series: German and European Studies A Stage for Debate The Political Significance of Vienna's Burgtheater, 1814-1867 Hardcover Martin Wagner 9781487509552 $70.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 07, 2023

This book examines Vienna’s Burgtheater, the most prestigious German-language stage in the nineteenth century.A Stage for Debate presents a detailed analysis of the repertoire of the leading German-language stage of the nineteenth century, Vienna’s Burgtheater. The book explores the extent to which the Burgtheater repertoire contributed to important political and cultural debates on individual liberty, the role of women in society, and the understanding of national and regional identity. The relevance of the Burgtheater as a forum for political... + Read More
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Series: German and European Studies Writing and Rewriting the Reich Women Journalists in the Nazi and Post-War Press Hardcover Deborah Barton 9781487547219 $85.00 HISTORY Feb 15, 2023

Writing and Rewriting the Reich offers a comprehensive history of German women journalists throughout the Nazi era.Writing and Rewriting the Reich tells the complex story of women journalists as both outsiders and insiders in the German press of the National Socialist and post-war years. From 1933 onward, Nazi press authorities valued female journalists as a means to influence the public through charm and subtlety rather than intimidation or militant language. Deborah Barton reveals that despite the deep sexism inherent in the Nazi press, some ... + Read More
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Stalin's Gamble The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930-1936 Hardcover Michael Jabara Carley 9781487544416 $95.00 HISTORY Aug 03, 2023

Drawing from Soviet archives, Stalin’s Gamble traces the role played by the Soviet Union in the origins of the Second World War.Shedding light on the origins of the Second World War in Europe, Stalin’s Gamble aims to create a historical narrative of the relations of the USSR with Britain, France, the United States, Poland, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Romania during the 1930s. The book explores the Soviet Union’s efforts to organize a defensive alliance against Nazi Germany, in effect rebuilding the anti-German Entente of the First World... + Read More
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Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin Refugee Scientists in the USSR Hardcover David Zimmerman 9781487543655 $85.00 SCIENCE Jan 31, 2023

Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin examines the lives of the scientists and scholars who sought refuge in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.In the 1930s, hundreds of scientists and scholars fled Hitler’s Germany. Many found safety, but some made the disastrous decision to seek refuge in Stalin’s Soviet Union. The vast majority of these refugee scholars were arrested, murdered, or forced to flee the Soviet Union during the Great Terror. Many of the survivors then found themselves embroiled in the Holocaust. Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin explore... + Read More
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Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library The Republic of Venice De magistratibus et republica Venetorum Paperback Gasparo Contarini 9781487546021 $27.95 HISTORY Jun 01, 2022

This book provides an alternative understanding of Machiavelli’s Renaissance Italy.At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposite issue, asking instead why institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini’s sixteenth-century description of the Republic of Venice to help modern readers understand what made Venice the longest-lived self-constituted republic. In its long history, Venice was the only city that succeeded in constructing... + Read More
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Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red The Ukrainian Marxist Critique of Russian Communist Rule in Ukraine, 1918-1925 Paperback Stephen Velychenko 9781487548056 $36.95 HISTORY May 23, 2022

Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red presents an account of Russian communist rule in Ukraine with a focus on the Ukrainian Communists.In Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red, Stephen Velychenko traces the first expressions of national, anti-colonial Marxism to 1918 and the Russian Bolshevik occupation of Ukraine. Velychenko reviews the work of early twentieth-century Ukrainians who regarded Russian rule over their country as colonialism. He then discusses the rise of "national communism" in Russia and Ukraine and the Ukrainian Marxist ... + Read More
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Breaking the Tongue Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923-1934 Paperback Matthew D. Pauly 9781487548063 $44.95 EDUCATION May 23, 2022

The first detailed archival study of the local implications of Soviet nationalities policy, Breaking the Tongue examines the implementation of the Ukrainization of schools and children’s organizations.In the 1920s and early 1930s, the Communist Party embraced a policy to promote national consciousness among the Soviet Union’s many national minorities as a means of Sovietizing them. In Ukraine, Ukrainian-language schooling, coupled with pedagogical innovation, was expected to serve as the lynchpin of this social transformation for the republic’s... + Read More
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An Intense Calling How Ethics Is Essential to Education Paperback Jesse Bazzul 9781487550585 $39.95 EDUCATION Mar 02, 2023

This book re-centres the practice and discipline of ethics as the core aspect of education.Positing that education is a movement from one way of being to another more desirable one, An Intense Calling argues that ethics should be the prime focus for the field of education. The book locates ethics, education, and justice in human subjectivity and describes education as a necessary practice for ethical reflexivity, change, and becoming (ethically) different. It also situates ethics as something that exceeds subjectivity thereby engaging ethics as... + Read More
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Supervising Conflict A Guide for Faculty Paperback Heather Peggs 9781487551865 $34.95 EDUCATION Apr 20, 2023

This book provides practical advice for faculty who supervise PhD and master’s students about how to proactively manage the most common conflicts that arise in graduate studies.Cultivating respectful and productive academic relationships is a priority within higher education. What can faculty do when conflict disrupts research progress and strains the supervisor/student relationship? Supervising Conflict offers practical advice and tools to help faculty identify and actively respond to the most common grad school concerns – the ‘everyday’ confl... + Read More
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Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning Paperback Lisa Dickson 9781487570514 $29.95 DRAMA Dec 19, 2022

Taking cues from the energy of the stage, this book harnesses lessons from some of Shakespeare’s most popular plays to help cultivate critical hope and empathy."What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms?" Using this question as a starting point, Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning presents a conversation between four of Shakespeare’s most popular plays and our modern experience, and between teachers and learners. The book analyzes King Lear, As You Like It, Henry V, and Hamlet, revealing how they he... + Read More
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New Generation Korean Advanced Level Paperback Mihyon Jeon 9781487546168 $59.00 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Aug 28, 2023

Expanding on lessons taught in the intermediate-level textbook, New Generation Korean 3 covers the essential content for advanced-level Korean language learning.Attractive and easy to navigate, New Generation Korean 3 is a full-colour and engaging textbook designed for Korean language learners at the secondary and post-secondary education levels, as well as for independent self-study learners. Building on the content in the intermediate textbook, the advanced volume presents learning goals and best practice lessons developed by professors with ... + Read More
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New Generation Korean Workbook Advanced Level Paperback Mihyon Jeon 9781487546533 $32.95 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Aug 28, 2023

Designed by instructors with long-standing experience in teaching Korean, this workbook helps advanced-level students practice their Korean language skills.New Generation Korean Workbook 3 is a student-friendly resource for acquiring advanced Korean language skills, including reading, writing, and comprehension. It is designed to accompany the textbook, New Generation Korean 3 Each chapter in the workbook includes extensive practice questions with cues that prompt students to either choose, match, or fill in the blanks. Throughout the book, QR ... + Read More
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Series: Global Suburbanisms Politics of the Periphery Governing Global Suburbia Hardcover Pierre Hamel 9781487545512 $85.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 13, 2024

Politics of the Periphery discusses empirical studies of post-metropolitanregions around the world.New urban forms characterizing contemporary metropolises reflect a certain continuity with the patterns of the past. They also include unexpected forms of settlement and design that have emerged in response to social and economic needs and as a way of leveraging new technologies. Politics of the Periphery sets out to explore sub/urban governance in diverse contexts in order to better understand how materiality and space are shaped by the possibili... + Read More
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Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North Paperback Julia Christensen 9781487552893 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 29, 2024

This book explores the myriad ways in which northern urban places foster new forms of community-building and social inclusion for people experiencing homelessness.Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North brings together leading scholars on northern urban housing across Alaska, the Canadian north, and Greenland. Through various case studies, contributors examine the ways in which housing insecurity and homelessness provide a critical lens on the social dimensions of northern urbanization. They also present key considerations i... + Read More
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So Close, Yet So Far Fathering in Canada and the United States Paperback Kevin Shafer 9781487524432 $36.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 16, 2023

This cross-national study compares fatherhood in Canada and the United States to address our lack of understanding about the sociocultural, economic, and political factors that impact fathering.Fathers matter. They matter in numerous domains of life. In families, fathers benefit children and co-parents alike. Communities, politics, and social institutions are all influenced by fathers. Because of these wide-ranging influences, there is considerable interest in developing social policies that increase paternal engagement at home. Yet our knowled... + Read More
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Performing Postracialism Reflections on Antiblackness, Nation, and Education through Contemporary Blackface in Canada Paperback Philip S.S. Howard 9781487525293 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 08, 2023

Performing Postracialism provides an in-depth investigation of contemporary blackface incidents in Canada and its educational institutions. Blackface – instances in which non-Black persons temporarily darken their skin with make-up to impersonate Black people, usually for fun, and frequently in educational contexts – constitutes a postracialist pedagogy that propagates antiblack logics. In Performing Postracialism, Philip S.S. Howard examines instances of contemporary blackface in Canada and argues that it is more than a simple matter of racial... + Read More
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Rescuing Humanity Transcending the Limits of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Paperback Willem H. Vanderburg 9781487552473 $48.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 18, 2023

Rescuing Humanity examines the possible roots of most planetary crises and reveals how we might instead create a livable and sustainable future.In Rescuing Humanity, Willem H. Vanderburg reminds us that we have relied on discipline-based approaches for human knowing, doing, and organizing for less than a century. During this brief period, these approaches have become responsible for both our spectacular successes and most of our social and environmental crises. At their roots is a cultural mutation that includes secular religious attitudes that... + Read More
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Where Am I in the Picture? Researcher Positionality in Rural Studies Paperback Claudia Mitchell 9781487547820 $36.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 22, 2024

Drawing on unique visual methods, Where Am I in the Picture? explores researcher positionality in transnational studies of rurality.Positionality and researcher reflexivity – how to account for one’s subject position – remain as challenges for new researchers. But they also remain as challenges for experienced researchers, who are often involved in multiple research projects simultaneously. Where Am I in the Picture? sheds light on the idea of researcher positionality through visual methodologies, particularly in the context of studying ruralit... + Read More
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Cases in Clinical Forensic Psychology Paperback Margo C. Watt 9781487542788 $44.95 PSYCHOLOGY Nov 17, 2023

This collection of case studies illustrates how the science of clinical forensic psychology informs all aspects of criminal cases and the criminal justice process in Canada.Clinical forensic psychology is defined by the application of clinical psychology – assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and consultation – in legal contexts. The term captures the integration of clinical psychology as an applied professional discipline and forensic psychology as an experimental discipline. Cases in Clinical Forensic Psychology offers a series of case studies t... + Read More
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Series: Anthropological Horizons Truly Human Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa Paperback Scott E. Simon 9781487545864 $38.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 20, 2023

The Sediq and Truku Indigenous peoples on the mountainous island of Formosa – today called Taiwan – say that their ancestors emerged in the beginning of time from Pusu Qhuni, a tree-covered boulder in the highlands. Living in the mountain forests, they observed the sacred law of Gaya, seeking equilibrium with other humans, the spirits, animals, and plants. They developed a politics in which each community preserved its autonomy and sharing was valued more highly than personal accumulation of goods or power. These lifeworlds were shattered by co... + Read More
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Series: Anthropological Horizons Moral Figures Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu Paperback Alexandra Widmer 9781487543211 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 31, 2023

Moral Figures examines entanglements of quantified population indicators, medical birthing practices, and Indigenous relationalities to understand gendered consequences of making reproduction public.In the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in the early twenty-first century, they experienced rapid population growth. From colonial governance to postcolonial sovereignty, Moral Figures shows that despite attempts to govern population size and birth, reproduction... + Read More
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Series: Anthropological Horizons Without the State Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine Paperback Emily Channell-Justice 9781487509743 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 02, 2022

Without the State traces the transformation of the citizen-state relationship during and after the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine.Without the State explores the 2013–14 Euromaidan protests – a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine – through in-depth ethnographic research with leftist, feminist, and student activists in Kyiv. The book discusses the concept of "self-organization" and the notion that if something needs to be done and a person has the competence to do it, then they should simply do it. Emily Channell-Justice reveals ho... + Read More
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Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom Under Pressure Diamond Mining and Everyday Life in Northern Canada Paperback Lindsay A. Bell 9781487548216 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 20, 2023

Told from the vantage point of the “Hub of the North,” this student-friendly ethnography examines the boom and bust of Canada’s diamond industry.In 2007, Canada became the third largest producer of diamonds in the world. Primarily mined on the edge of the Arctic, these diamonds are said to bring economic development and opportunity to nearby Indigenous communities. In Under Pressure, anthropologist Lindsay A. Bell examines the effects of diamond mining on an increasingly diverse northern population. Through an ethnographic focus on everyday lif... + Read More
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Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean Paperback Melanie A. Medeiros 9781487551506 $64.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 17, 2023

This comprehensive collection examines how communities across Latin America and the Caribbean are responding in dynamic ways to pressing contemporary challenges.Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean offers a compelling introduction to the region by providing a series of ethnographic case studies that examine the most pressing issues communities are facing today. These case studies address key topics such as inequities during COVID-19 and Zika, anti-Black racism, resistance against extractive industries, migration and transnat... + Read More
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Sex Work in Popular Culture Paperback Lauren Kirshner 9781487548636 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 15, 2023

This book examines movies, TV shows, and documentaries to reveal how sex work connects to women’s experiences of gender, power, and labour.Sex Work in Popular Culture delves into provocative movies, TV shows, and documentaries about sex work produced in the last decade – a period of debate and change around the meaning of sex work in North American society. From Oscar-winning films to viral YouTube videos, and from indie documentaries to hit series – many of which are made by women – the book reveals how sex work is being recognized as real wor... + Read More
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The Near-Death of the Author Creativity in the Internet Age Paperback John Potts 9781487546120 $32.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 18, 2022

The Near-Death of the Author describes the plight of contemporary authors in the internet age.In the modern world of networked digital media, authors must navigate many challenges. Most pressingly, the illegal downloading and streaming of copyright material on the internet deprives authors of royalties, and in some cases it has discouraged creativity or terminated careers. Exploring technology’s impact on the status and idea of authorship in today’s world, The Near-Death of the Author reveals the many obstacles facing contemporary authors. John... + Read More
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The Discerning Narrator Conrad, Aristotle, and Modernity Hardcover Alexia Hannis 9781442649071 $50.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 18, 2022

This book examines the letters, essays, and fiction of Joseph Conrad through an Aristotelian lens.The Discerning Narrator sheds new light on Joseph Conrad’s controversial critique of modernity and modernization by reading his work through an Aristotelian lens. The book proposes that we need Aristotle – a key figure in Conrad’s education – to recognize the profound significance of Conrad’s artistic vision. Offering Aristotelian analyses of Conrad’s letters, essays, and four works of fiction, Alexia Hannis illuminates the philosophical roots and ... + Read More
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Heroic Awe The Sublime and the Remaking of Renaissance Epic Hardcover Kelly Lehtonen 9781487545369 $70.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Dec 19, 2022

Heroic Awe studies the impact of the philosophy of the sublime on the genre of Renaissance epic poetry.During the Renaissance, the most renowned model of epic poetry was Virgil’s Aeneid, a poem promoting an influential concept of heroism based on the commitment to one’s nation and gods. However, Longinus’ theory of the sublime – newly recovered during the Renaissance – contradicted this absolute devotion to nation as a marker of religious piety. Heroic Awe explores how Renaissance epic poetry used the sublime to challenge the assumption that ep... + Read More