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Series: Communication, Strategy, and Politics Inside the Campaign Managing Elections in Canada Paperback Alex Marland 9780774864671 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 15, 2020

Inside the Campaign is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the people involved in an election campaign and the work they do. Each chapter's set of co-authors - one a political scientist and the other a practitioner - draw on recent campaign experiences to explore the duties and obstacles faced by those working together during the heat of a campaign. The chapters demystify over a dozen different roles that people play in making an election happen, and in propelling a candidate to victory, including election overseers, campaign chairs, platf... + Read More
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Series: Women’s Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy A Great Revolutionary Wave Women and the Vote in British Columbia Hardcover Lara Campbell 9780774863223 $27.95 HISTORY Jun 15, 2020

British Columbia is often overlooked in the national story of women’s struggle for political equality. This book rights that wrong. A Great Revolutionary Wave follows the propaganda campaigns undertaken by suffrage organizations and traces the role of working-class women in the fight for political equality. It demonstrates the connections between provincial and British suffragists, and examines how racial exclusion and Indigenous dispossession shaped arguments and tactics for enfranchisement. Lara Campbell rethinks the complex legacy of suffrag... + Read More
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Series: The Shoe Boy A Trapline Memoir Paperback Duncan McCue 9780774880572 $14.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2020

At the age of seventeen, an Anishinabe boy who was raised in the south joined a James Bay Cree family in a one-room hunting cabin in the isolated wilderness of northern Quebec. Reflecting on his search for his own personal identity, that kid – Duncan McCue – takes us on an evocative exploration of the teenage years and the culture shock he experienced moving to the unfamiliar North. The result is a contemplative, honest, and unexpected coming-of-age memoir set in the context of the Cree struggle to protect their way of life, after massive hydro... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: Men, Masculinity, and the Indian Act Paperback Martin J. Cannon 9780774860963 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 15, 2020

Canada’s Indian Act is infamously sexist. Many iterations of the legislation conferred a woman’s status rights through marriage, and even once it was amended First Nations women could not necessarily pass their status on to their descendants. What has that injustice meant for First Nations men? Martin J. Cannon challenges a decades-long assumption that the act has affected Indigenous people as either “women” or “Indians” – but not both. He argues that sexism and racialization within the law must instead be understood as interlocking forms of di... + Read More
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Series: Knowing the Past, Facing the Future Indigenous Education in Canada Paperback Sheila Carr-Stewart 9780774880350 $32.95 EDUCATION Jul 01, 2020

In 1867, Canada’s federal government became responsible for the education of Indigenous peoples: Status Indians and some Métis would attend schools on reserves; non-Status Indians and some Métis would attend provincial schools. The chapters in this collection – some reflective, some piercing, all of them insightful – show that this system set the stage for decades of broken promises and misguided experiments that are only now being rectified in the spirit of truth and reconciliation. The contributors individually explore what must change in ord... + Read More
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Series: Transforming the Canadian History Classroom Imagining a New "We" Paperback Samantha Cutrara 9780774862837 $29.95 EDUCATION Oct 01, 2020

We are all our history. Yet in Canadian classrooms, students are often left questioning how they can study a past that does not reflect their present. Discourses of nationhood often separate “us” from “them,” and despite curricular revisions, the mainstream narrative that shapes the way we teach students about the Canadian nation can be divisive. Responding to the evolving demographics of an ethnically and culturally diverse population, Transforming the Canadian History Classroom advocates for a radically innovative practice that places student... + Read More
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Series: Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times Paperback Deborah R. Brock 9780774860918 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 01, 2020

Neoliberalism is most commonly associated with free trade, the minimal state, and competitive individualism. But it is not simply national economies that are being neoliberalized – it is us. Inspired by Michel Foucault and other governmentality theorists, this volume’s contributors reveal how neoliberalism’s power to redefine “normal” is refashioning every facet of our lives, from consumer choices and how we approach the environment, to questions of national security and border control. By challenging neoliberal ideas and practices, this though... + Read More
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Series: Moments of Crisis Religion and National Identity in Québec Paperback Ian A. Morrison 9780774861779 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 15, 2020

In the past two decades, Québec has been racked by a series of controversies in which the religiosity of migrants and minorities has been represented as a threat to the province’s once staunchly Catholic, and now resolutely secular, identity. In Moments of Crises, Ian Morrison locates these debates within a longer history of crises within – and transformations of – Québécois identity, from the Conquest of New France in 1760 to contemporary times. He argues that rather than seeking to overcome these crises by reconsolidating national identity, Q... + Read More
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Series: Landmark Cases in Canadian Law The Tenth Justice Judicial Appointments, Marc Nadon, and the Supreme Court Act Reference Paperback Carissima Mathen 9780774864282 $27.95 LAW Jun 01, 2020

The process by which Supreme Court judges are appointed is traditionally a quiet affair, but this certainly wasn’t the case when Prime Minister Stephen Harper selected Justice Marc Nadon – a federal court judge – for appointment to Canada’s highest court. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of “the Nadon Reference” – one of the strangest sagas in Canadian legal history. The Tenth Justice offers a detailed analysis of the background, issues surrounding, and legacy of the Reference re Supreme Court Act, ss 5 and 6.
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Series: Landmark Cases in Canadian Law From Wardship to Rights The Guerin Case and Aboriginal Law Paperback Jim Reynolds 9780774864572 $27.95 LAW May 01, 2020

This book tells the story of a First Nation’s single-minded quest for justice. In 1958, the federal government leased part of the small Musqueam Reserve in Vancouver to an exclusive golf club at below market value. When the band members discovered this in 1970, they initiated legal action. Their tenacity led to the 1984 decision in Guerin v. The Queen, whereby the Supreme Court of Canada held that the government has a fiduciary duty towards Indigenous peoples. Jim Reynolds, who served as one of the legal counsel for the Musqueam, provides an in... + Read More
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Series: Law and Society Crossing Law’s Border Canada’s Refugee Resettlement Program Paperback Shauna Labman 9780774862189 $32.95 LAW May 01, 2020

Resettlement – the selection and transfer of refugees from the state where they seek asylum to another state – is considered a tool of refugee protection. In this nuanced account of Canada’s resettlement program from the Indochinese crisis of the 1970s to the Syrian crisis of the 2010s, Shauna Labman examines the role that law plays in resettlement and the impact of resettlement on asylum policies. She concludes that resettlement programs can either complement or complicate in-country asylum claims at a time when fear of outsiders is causing co... + Read More
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Series: Law and Society By the Court Anonymous Judgments at the Supreme Court of Canada Paperback Peter McCormick 9780774861724 $32.95 LAW Mar 01, 2020

Any court watcher knows that the Supreme Court of Canada delivers some of its major constitutional judgments in a “By the Court” format. This transformative approach abandons the common law tradition of attributing decisions to individual judges. By the Court is the first major study of these unanimous and anonymous decisions and features a complete inventory, chronology, and typology of these cases. Peter McCormick and Marc Zanoni explore the origins, purposes, and potential future of “By the Court,” framing this practice as uniquely Canadian,... + Read More
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Series: Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization A Human Rights Based Approach to Development in India Paperback Moshe Hirsch 9780774860314 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 15, 2020

Over the last twenty years, India has enacted legislation to turn development goals such as food security, primary education, and employment into legal rights for its citizens. But enacting laws is different from implementing them. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development in India examines a diverse range of human development issues over a period of rapid economic growth in India. Demonstrating why institutional and economic development are synonymous, this volume details the many obstacles hindering development. The contributors ultimately... + Read More
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Series: The Motivation to Vote Explaining Electoral Participation Hardcover André Blais 9780774862677 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 01, 2020

Elections are at the heart of our democracy. Understanding citizens’ decisions to vote or to abstain in elections is crucial, especially when turnout is declining. In this book, André Blais and Jean-François Daoust provide an original and elegant model that explains why people vote, based on four factors: political interest, sense of civic duty, perceived importance of the election, and ease of voting. Their findings are strongly supported by empirical evidence from elections in five countries. The analysis is compelling and demonstrates the po... + Read More
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Series: Identities and Interests Race, Ethnicity, and Affinity Voting Paperback Randy Besco 9780774838931 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2020

Identities and Interests offers an entirely new perspective on the role of racial and ethnic identities in Canadian elections. Using a series of experiments, as well as candidate and census data, Randy Besco demonstrates that self-identification matters far more than self-interest, ideology, or policy. The largest minority groups – Chinese and South Asian Canadians – tend to support candidates of their own ethnicity. Yet inter-minority affinity voting also reveals the potential for “rainbow coalitions” and how minorities themselves think in ter... + Read More
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Series: Communication, Strategy, and Politics The New NDP Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing Paperback David McGrane 9780774860468 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2019

The New NDP is the definitive account of the evolution of the New Democratic Party’s political marketing strategy in the early twenty-first century. In 2011, the federal NDP achieved its greatest electoral success – becoming the official opposition. The moderation of its ideology and modernization of its campaign structures brought the party closer than ever to governing. But by 2015, it had fallen back to the third-party spot. Were moderation and modernization the right choices after all? This incisive book provides lessons for progressive par... + Read More
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Series: Communication, Strategy, and Politics What’s Trending in Canadian Politics? Understanding Transformations in Power, Media, and the Public Sphere Paperback Mireille Lalancette 9780774861168 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 15, 2020

What trends are shaping contemporary political communication and behaviour in Canada, and where are they heading? What’s Trending in Canadian Politics? examines political communication and democratic governance in a digital age. Exploring the effects of conventional and emerging political communication practices in Canada, contributors investigate the uses of digital media for political communication, grassroots-driven protest, public behaviour prediction, and relationships between members of civil society and the political establishment. Origi... + Read More
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Series: Canada on the United Nations Security Council A Small Power on a Large Stage Paperback Adam Chapnick 9780774861625 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 01, 2020

As the twentieth century ended, Canada was completing its sixth term on the UN Security Council. A decade later, Ottawa’s attempt to return to the council was dramatically rejected by its global peers, leaving Canadians – and international observers – shocked and disappointed. Canada on the United Nations Security Council tells the story of that defeat and what it means for future campaigns, describing and analyzing Canada’s attempts since 1946, both successful and unsuccessful, to gain a seat as a non-permanent member. Impeccably researched an... + Read More
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Series: Rethinking the Spectacle Guy Debord, Radical Democracy, and the Digital Age Paperback Devin Penner 9780774860512 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 01, 2020

Spectacle is usually considered a superficial form of politics, which tries to distract and deceive a passive audience. It is difficult to see how this type of politics could be reconciled with the democratic requirement of active and informed agency. Rethinking the Spectacle re-examines the tension between spectacle and political agency using the ideas and practices of Guy Debord and the Situationist International as a point of departure. Drawing on radical democratic theory and examining case studies such as the 2011 Occupy movement, Devin Pe... + Read More
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Series: Political Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society Interdisciplinary Insights Paperback David Laycock 9780774861328 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2020

Ideology is a ubiquitous, continuously innovating dimension of human experience, but its character and impact are notoriously difficult to pinpoint within political and social life. Political Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society demonstrates that the reach and significance of political ideology can be most effectively understood by employing a multidisciplinary approach. Offering analyses that are simultaneously empirical and interpretive – in fields as diverse as development assistance policy and game theory – the contributors to thi... + Read More
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Series: In the Spirit of ’68 Youth Culture, the New Left, and the Reimagining of Acadia Paperback Joel Belliveau 9780774862530 $32.95 HISTORY Apr 01, 2020

The 1960s were a victorious decade for francophones in New Brunswick, who witnessed the election of the first Acadian premier and the opening of a French-language university. But in 1968, students took to the streets, demanding further concessions. Belliveau debunks the idea that students were simply heirs to a long line of nationalists seeking more rights for francophones. The student movement emerged in the late 1950s as an expression of the province’s changing youth culture and then evolved as students drew inspiration from the New Left. The... + Read More
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Series: Duty to Dissent Henri Bourassa and the First World War Paperback Geoff Keelan 9780774838832 $34.95 HISTORY Apr 01, 2020

During the First World War, Henri Bourassa – fierce Canadian nationalist, politician, and journalist from Quebec – took centre stage in the national debates on Canada’s participation in the war, its imperial ties to Britain, and Canada’s place in the world. In Duty to Dissent, Geoff Keelan draws upon Bourassa’s voluminous editorials in Le Devoir, the newspaper he founded in 1910, to trace Bourassa’s evolving perspective on the war’s meaning and consequences. What emerges is not a simplistic sketch of a local journalist engaged in national debat... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Canadian Military History For Home and Empire Voluntary Mobilization in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the First World War Paperback Steve Marti 9780774861212 $29.95 HISTORY Mar 01, 2020

For Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization on the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand home fronts. Steve Marti shows that collective acts of patriotism strengthened communal bonds, while reinforcing class, race, and gender boundaries. Which jurisdiction should provide for a soldier’s wife if she moved from Hobart to northern Tasmania? Should Welsh women in Vancouver purchase comforts for hometown soldiers or Welsh ones? Should Maori enlist with a local or an Indigenous battalion? Such questions highlighted... + Read More
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Series: Culture and the Soldier Identities, Values, and Norms in Military Engagements Paperback H. Christian Breede 9780774860864 $34.95 HISTORY Apr 15, 2020

Countries have instituted policies to make their armed forces more inclusive, and soldiers now undergo cultural awareness training before seeing active duty. Policy makers and military organizations agree that culture is important. But what does “culture” mean in practice, and how is it important? Culture and the Soldier answers these questions by examining how culture both shapes the military and can be wielded by it, to good or ill effect. Through case studies from Europe and North America, this volume offers provocative insights into how cul... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Canadian Military History Contact!Unload Military Veterans, Trauma, and Research-Based Theatre Paperback George Belliveau 9780774862639 $34.95 PSYCHOLOGY May 15, 2020

This book is a call to action to address the transition many soldiers face when returning to civilian life. It presents an arts-based therapeutic approach to dealing with trauma, exploring the development, performance, and reception of Contact!Unload, a play based on the lives of military veterans overcoming stress injuries encountered during military service. The book, which includes the full script of the play, offers academic, artistic, personal, and theoretical perspectives from people directly involved in the performances as well as those ... + Read More
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Series: Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS Contributions from Critical Social Science Paperback Eric Mykhalovskiy 9780774860710 $34.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Apr 01, 2020

Almost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, the world continues to grapple with this public health challenge. Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS explores the limits of mainstream approaches to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and challenges readers to develop alternate solutions, emphasizing the value of critical social science perspectives. The contributors investigate traditions of inquiry – governmentality studies, institutional ethnography, and Indigenous knowledges, among others – to determine what these perspectives can bring to HIV/AIDS r... + Read More
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Series: The Impossible Clinic A Critical Sociology of Evidence-Based Medicine Paperback Ariane Hanemaayer 9780774862080 $29.95 MEDICAL Apr 01, 2020

The Impossible Clinic explores the conundrum of evidence-based medicine’s (EBM) attempt to translate evidence from medical research into recommendations for practice. Ironically, when medical institutions combine disciplinary regulations with EBM to produce clinical practice guidelines, the outcomes are antithetical to the aim. Such guidelines fail to increase individual physicians’ capacity to judge – as EBM promises – because they externalize judgment while imposing disciplinary control. The Impossible Clinic is the first book to interrogate ... + Read More
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Series: Unmooring the Komagata Maru Charting Colonial Trajectories Paperback Rita Dhamoon 9780774860666 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 15, 2020

In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional Canadian historical accounts by drawing from multiple disciplines and fields to consider the international and colonial dimensions of the voyage. By situating South Asian Canadian history within a global-imperial context, the contributors offer a critical reading of Canadian multiculturalism through past events and their commemoration. A h... + Read More
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Series: King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae Paperback Jason Wilson 9780774862288 $34.95 MUSIC Feb 14, 2020

When Jackie Mittoo and Leroy Sibbles migrated from Jamaica to Toronto in the early 1970s, the musicians brought reggae with them, sparking the flames of one of Canada’s most vibrant music scenes. Professional reggae musician and scholar Jason Wilson tells the story of how reggae brought black and white youth together, opening up a cultural dialogue between Jamaican migrants and Canadians along the city’s ethnic frontlines. This underground subculture rebelled against the status quo, broke through the bonds of race, eased the acculturation proce... + Read More
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Series: Geography of British Columbia, Fourth Edition People and Landscapes in Transition 4th edition Paperback Brett McGillivray 9780774864329 $55.00 SCIENCE Apr 15, 2020

From the beginning of time, physical and human processes have altered British Columbia’s landscape. Geographers seek to understand these processes, and this text provides students with the basic tools and techniques of their craft. Completely revised and expanded for the 2020s, the four edition of Geography of British Columbia contains extensive urban content to reflect BC's transition from a resource-dependent economy to a more service-oriented one presents ideas and concepts in a clear and concise way includes a comprehensive glossary of key... + Read More
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Series: From Where I Stand Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada Paperback Jody Wilson-Raybould 9780774880534 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 20, 2019

An Indigenous leader who has dedicated her life to Indigenous Rights, Jody Wilson-Raybould has represented both First Nations and the Crown at the highest levels. And she is not afraid to give Canadians what they need most – straight talk on what has to be done to move beyond our colonial legacy and achieve true reconciliation in Canada. In this powerful book, drawn from speeches and other writings, she urges all Canadians – both Indigenous and non-Indigenous – to build upon the momentum already gained or risk hard-won progress being lost. The ... + Read More
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Series: Assessing Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Government 353 Promises and a Mandate for Change Paperback Lisa Birch 9782763744438 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 26, 2019

During the 2015 election, the Liberal Party of Justin Trudeau promised to make real change in the lives of all Canadians. On the eve of the next election, Assessing Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Government provides a rigorous and impartial assessment of how the government has delivered on its campaign promises. Under the direction of Lisa Birch and François Pétry, twenty renowned academics investigate the fate of the 353 liberal campaign promises in fields as varied as international relations, energy and sustainable development, the economy, Indigen... + Read More
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Series: Mingling Voices Series Grieving for Pigeons Twelve Stories of Lahore Paperback Zubair Ahmad 9781771992817 $22.99 FICTION Mar 31, 2021

In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of the Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. In an intimate narrative style, Ahmad writes a world that hovers between memory and imagination, home and abroad. The narrator follows the pull of his subconscious, shifting between past and present, recalling different eras of Lahore’s neighbourhoods and the communities that define them. These stories evoke the complex realities of post-colonial Pakistani Punjab. ... + Read More
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Series: Unnatural Companions Rethinking Our Love of Pets in an Age of Wildlife Extinction Hardcover Peter Christie 9781610919708 $34.95 NATURE May 21, 2020

We love our pets. Dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and other species have become an essential part of more families than ever before—in North America today, pets outnumber people. Pet owners are drawn to their animal companions through an innate desire to connect with other species. But there is a dark side to our domestic connection with animal life: the pet industry is contributing to a global conservation crisis for wildlife—often without the knowledge of pet owners. In Unnatural Companions, journalist Peter Christie issues a call to action for ... + Read More
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Series: Valuing Nature A Handbook for Impact Investing Hardcover William J. Ginn 9781642830910 $37.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 21, 2020

As the world faces unprecedented challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss, the resources needed far outstrip the capabilities of nonprofits and even governments. Yet there are seeds of hope—and much of that hope comes from the efforts of the private sector. Impact investing is rapidly becoming an essential tool, alongside philanthropy and government funding, in tackling major problems like these. Valuing Nature presents a new set of nature based investment areas to help conservationists and investors work together. NatureVest fo... + Read More
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Series: Remote Finding Home in the Bitterroots Paperback D J Lee 9780870710001 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2020

When DJ Lee’s friend and mentor disappears in the vast Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of Idaho and Montana, she travels there to seek answers. The disappearance unexpectedly brings to an end Lee’s fifteen-year quest to uncover the buried history of her grandparents in this remote wilderness. Lee doesn’t find all the answers but comes away with a penetrating memoir that weaves the present-day narrative with past trips, family secrets, and wilderness history. Through wild animal encounters, near-fatal river crossings, bush plane flights in dense fo... + Read More
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Series: Global Perspectives on Aging Gray Matters Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life Paperback Ellyn Lem 9781978806313 $33.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2020

Aging is one of the most compelling issues today, with record numbers of seniors over sixty-five worldwide. Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life examines a diverse array of cultural works including films, literature, and even art that represent this time of life, often made by people who are seniors themselves. These works, focusing on important topics such as housing, memory loss, and intimacy, are analyzed in dialogue with recent research to explore how "stories" illuminate the dynamics of growing old by blending fact wi... + Read More
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Series: Losing Culture Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times Paperback David Berliner 9781978815353 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 2019

We're losing our culture... our heritage... our traditions... everything is being swept away. Such sentiments get echoed around the world, from aging Trump supporters in West Virginia to young villagers in West Africa. But what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, and to what ends does this rhetoric get deployed? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Berliner travels around the world, from Guinea-Conakry, where globalization affects the traditional patriarchal structure of cultural transmission, to Laos, where foreign UNESCO exp... + Read More
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Series: Cinema '62 The Greatest Year at the Movies Hardcover Stephen Farber 9781978808829 $43.95 PERFORMING ARTS Apr 01, 2020

Most conventional film histories dismiss the early 1960s as a pallid era, a downtime between the heights of the classic studio system and the rise of New Hollywood directors like Scorsese and Altman in the 1970s. It seemed to be a moment when the movie industry was floundering as the popularity of television caused a downturn in cinema attendance. Cinema ’62 challenges these assumptions by making the bold claim that 1962 was a peak year for film, with a high standard of quality that has not been equaled since. Stephen Farber and Michael McClell... + Read More
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Series: Global Film Directors The Films of Denys Arcand Paperback Jim Leach 9780813598864 $36.95 PERFORMING ARTS Aug 01, 2020

Denys Arcand is best known outside Canada for three films that were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film: The Decline of the American Empire (1986), Jesus of Montreal (1989), and The Barbarian Invasions (2003), the last of which won the Award. Yet Arcand has been making films since the early 1960s. When he started making films, Quebec was rapidly transforming from a relatively homogeneous community, united by its Catholic faith and French language and culture, into a more fragmented modern society. The Films of Denys Arca... + Read More
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Series: Sun Tracks Our Bearings Poems Paperback Molly McGlennen 9780816540174 $20.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

Forward is not a direction. Or an order. Forward is not falling in line. . . . Forward is an invitation. Our Bearings is a collection of narrative poetry that examines and celebrates Anishinaabe life in modern Minneapolis. Crafted around the four elements—earth, air, water, and fire— the poems are a beautifully layered discourse between landscapes, stories, and the people who inhabit them. Throughout the collection, McGlennen weaves the natural elements of Minnesota with rich historical commentary and current images of urban Native life. Reve... + Read More
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Series: Camino del Sol Sown in Earth Essays of Memory and Belonging Paperback Fred Arroyo 9780816539512 $28.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2020

Sown in Earth is a collection of personal memories that speak to the larger experiences of hardworking migratory men. Often forgotten or silenced, these men are honored and remembered in Sown in Earth through the lens of Arroyo’s memories of his father. Arroyo recollects his father’s anger and alcohol abuse as a reflection of his place in society, in which his dreams and disappointments are patterned by work and poverty, loss and displacement, memory and belonging. In Sown in Earth, Arroyo often roots his thoughts and feelings in place, express... + Read More
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Series: Manu, the Boy Who Loved Birds Paperback Caren Loebel-Fried 9780824882723 $20.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Jun 30, 2020

Manu‘o‘o, a young Hawaiian boy, is on a quest. He must know- Why was he named after an extinct native forest bird? As Manu discovers more about the ‘O‘o Bird, he starts dreaming about the disappearing forests and native birds in Hawai‘i. Will he ever see a native Hawaiian bird? Are the ‘O‘o birds really gone? After a surprise family visit to Hawai‘i Island, Manu finally understands the meaning of his name and how he can help the native birds of Hawai‘i. The story is followed by an afterword with in depth information about forest birds of Hawai‘... + Read More
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Series: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath Hardcover Carl Rollyson 9781496821225 $30.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2020

In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently available court records, archives, and interviews, and reevaluating the memoirs of the formidable Hughes contingent who treated Plath as a female hysteric, Carl Rollyson rehabilitates the image of a woman too often viewed solely within the confines of what Hughes and his collaborators wanted to... + Read More
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Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography Stone Motel Memoirs of a Cajun Boy Hardcover Morris Ardoin 9781496827722 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2020

Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun Boy is the story of a gay preteen, his seven siblings, their violent father, overwhelmed mother, unstoppable grandmother, and the sordid array of customers they encounter at their family’s roadside motel, situated in the hot, prairie town of Eunice, Louisiana. When half of the motel burns in a Christmastime fire, the family scrambles to get back on their feet and get things moving again. The fire rekindles the father’s long-repressed violent nature, and while he attacks several of his children, he reserves his mo... + Read More
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Series: A Sojourn in Paradise Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans Hardcover Howard Philips Smith 9781496827524 $62.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Jul 01, 2020

Jack Robinson made his name as a much-sought-after fashion and celebrity photographer during the 1960s and early 1970s, and his work is well documented in hundreds of pages of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Life, as well as other publications. However, his personal life remains virtually unknown. In this study of Robinson and his photography, Howard Philips Smith takes an in-depth look at Robinson’s early life in New Orleans, where he discovered his passion for painting, photography, and the Dixie Bohemian life of the French Quarter. A Sojourn in ... + Read More
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Series: Hillbilly Hustle Paperback Wesley Browne 9781949199284 $24.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2020

Knox Thompson thinks he’s working a hustle, but it’s a hustle that’s working him. Trying to keep his pizza shop and parents afloat, he cleans out a backroom Kentucky poker game only to be roped into dealing marijuana by the proprietor—an arrangement Knox only halfheartedly resists. Knox’s shop makes the perfect front for a marijuana operation, but his supplier turns out to be violent and calculating, and Knox ends up under his thumb. It’s not long before more than just the pizza shop is at risk.
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Series: St.Christopher on Pluto Paperback Nancy McKinley 9781949199260 $23.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2020

MK and Colleen get reacquainted while working at different stores in a bankrupt mall. Way back, the women went to Catholic school together and collaborated on racy letters to a soldier in Vietnam who thought they were much older than seventh graders—a ruse that typifies later shenanigans, usually brought on by red-headed Colleen, a self-proclaimed “Celtic warrior.” After ditching Colleen’s car to collect the insurance, they drive from one unexpectedevent to the next in Big Blue, MK’s Buick clunker with a St. Christopher statue glued to the dash... + Read More
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Series: Regime of Obstruction How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy Paperback William K. Carroll 9781771992893 $39.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 31, 2021

Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada's fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. The urgency of the situation demands not only scholarly understanding, but effective action. Regime of Obstruction aims to make visible the complex connections between corporate power and the extraction and use of carbon energy. Edited by William Carroll, this rigorous collection presents research findings from the first three years of the seven-year, SSHRC-funded... + Read More
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Series: The Art of Communication in a Polarized World Paperback Kyle Conway 9781771992930 $24.99 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Mar 31, 2020

People’s minds are hard to change. In North America and elsewhere, communities are fractured along ideological lines as social media and algorithms encourage individuals to seek out others who think like they do and to condemn those that don’t. This social and political polarization has resulted in systemic discrimination and weaponized communication trends such as gaslighting and fake news. In this compelling new book, Kyle Conway confronts the communication challenges of our modern world by navigating the space between opposing perspectives. ... + Read More
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Series: Issues in Distance Education The Finest Blend Graduate Education in Canada Paperback Gale Parchoma 9781771992770 $39.99 EDUCATION Oct 31, 2020

As Canadian universities work to increase access to graduate education, many are adopting blended modes of delivery for courses and programs. Within this changing landscape of higher education, The Finest Blend answers the call for rigorous research into these methods to ensure quality learning and teaching experience and presents case studies of French and English universities across Canada that are experimenting with blended learning models in graduate programs. Drawing on various research methods, the contributors to the volume investig... + Read More
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Series: Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond Paperback Frank W. Stahnisch 9781771992657 $37.99 HISTORY Jul 30, 2020

From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada’s lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. Sterilization programs – particularly involuntary sterilization programs – were responding both nationally and internationally to social anxieties produced by the perceived connection between mental degeneration and heredity. Psychiatry and the Legacy of Eugenics illustrates how the emerging field of psychiatry and its concerns about inheritable conditions was heavily influenced by eugenic t... + Read More
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Series: Issues in Distance Education 25 Years of Ed Tech Paperback Martin Weller 9781771993050 $21.99 EDUCATION Feb 14, 2020

In this lively and approachable volume based on his popular blog series, Martin Weller demonstrates a rich history of innovation and effective implementation of ed tech across higher education. From Bulletin Board Systems to blockchain, Weller follows the trajectory of education by focusing each chapter on a technology, theory, or concept that has influenced each year since 1994. Calling for both caution and enthusiasm, Weller advocates for a critical and research-based approach to new technologies, particularly in light of disinformation, the ... + Read More
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Series: Everything is Relevant Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018 Paperback Ken Lum 9781988111001 $54.95 ART Jan 31, 2020

Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018 brings together texts by Canadian artist Ken Lum. They include a letter to an editor, diary entries, articles, catalogue essays, curatorial statements, and more. Along the way, the reader learns about late modern, postmodern, and contemporary art practices, as well as debates around issues like race, class, and monumentality. Penetrating, insightful, and often moving, Lum’s writings are essential for understanding his varied practice, which has often been prescient of developments with... + Read More
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Series: Replenish The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity Paperback Sandra Postel 9781642830101 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 10, 2020

"Nothing is more important to life than water, and no one knows water better than Sandra Postel. Replenish is a wise, sobering, but ultimately hopeful book." —Elizabeth Kolbert"Remarkable." —New York Times Book Review "Clear-eyed treatise...Postel makes her case eloquently." —Booklist, starred review"An informative, purposeful argument." —Kirkus We have disrupted the natural water cycle for centuries in an effort to control water for our own prosperity. Yet every year, recovery from droughts and floods costs billions of dollars, and we spend bi... + Read More
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Series: The Cougar Conundrum Sharing the World with a Successful Predator Hardcover Mark Elbroch 9781610919982 $34.95 NATURE Aug 13, 2020

The relationship between humans and mountain lions has always been uneasy. A century ago, mountain lions were vilified as a threat to livestock and hunted to the verge of extinction. In recent years, this keystone predator has made a remarkable comeback with the help of enlightened wildlife management policies and protection under the Endangered Species Act. But its recovery has led to an unexpected conundrum: Do more mountain lions mean they’re a threat to humans and domestic animals? Or, are mountain lions still in need of our help and protec... + Read More
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Series: Planetary Health Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves Paperback Samuel Myers 9781610919661 $44.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 13, 2020

Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate—are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ourselves and the rest of the biosphere.Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves provides a readable introduction to this new paradigm. ... + Read More
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Series: Primer of Ecological Restoration Paperback Dr. Karen Holl PhD 9781610919722 $43.95 SCIENCE Mar 03, 2020

The pace, intensity, and scale at which humans have altered our planet in recent decades is unprecedented. We have dramatically transformed landscapes and waterways through agriculture, logging, mining, and fire suppression, with drastic impacts on public health and human well-being. What can we do to counteract and even reverse the worst of these effects? Restore damaged ecosystems. The Primer of Ecological Restoration is a succinct introduction to the theory and practice of ecological restoration as a strategy to conserve biodiversity and ec... + Read More
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Series: DIY City The Collective Power of Small Actions Paperback Hank Dittmar 9781642830521 $37.95 ARCHITECTURE Jun 02, 2020

Some utopian plans have shaped our cities —from England’s New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L’Enfant plan for Washington, DC. But these grand plans are the exception, and seldom turn out as envisioned by the utopian planner. Inviting city neighborhoods are more often works of improvisation on a small scale. This type of bottom-up development gives cities both their character and the ability to respond to sudden change. Hank Dittmar, urban planner, friend of artists and creatives, sometime rancher, “high priest ... + Read More