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Series: Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies The Bomb in the Wilderness Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada Paperback John O'Brian 9780774863889 $32.95 ART Oct 01, 2020

What can photographs reveal about Canada’s nuclear footprint? The Bomb in the Wilderness contends that photography is central to how we interpret and remember nuclear activities. The impact and global reach of Canada’s nuclear programs have been felt ever since the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. But do photographs alert viewers to nuclear threat, numb them to its dangers, or actually do both? John O’Brian’s wide-ranging and personal account of the nuclear era presents and discusses over a hundred photographs, ranging from military image... + Read More
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Series: Captain Cook Rediscovered Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes Hardcover David L. Nicandri 9780774862226 $45.00 HISTORY Nov 01, 2020

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

Canadians often see politicians as little more than trained seals who vote on command and repeat robotic talking points. Politicians are torn by dilemmas of loyalty to party versus loyalty to voters. Whipped examines the hidden ways that political parties exert control over elected members of legislatures. Drawing on extensive interviews with politicians and staffers across Canada, award-winning author Alex Marland explains why Members of Parliament and provincial legislators toe the party line, and shows how party discipline has expanded into ... + Read More
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Series: Big Promises, Small Government Doing Less with Less in the BC Liberal New Era Paperback George M. Abbott 9780774864879 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2020

When Gordon Campbell’s Liberal government won a massive majority in British Columbia in 2001, the premier immediately fulfilled his pledge to cut personal income taxes. Big Promises, Small Government reveals the consequences of dramatic tax policy changes on social programs. Campbell expected lower taxes to spur investment and growth. Instead, cutting taxes, while exempting health and education, left smaller ministries scrambling to absorb the cuts to maintain a balanced budget, with disastrous effects. This insider recounting of the real-world... + Read More
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Series: Getting Wise about Getting Old Debunking Myths about Aging Paperback Véronique Billette 9780774880626 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2020

A grey tsunami is sweeping the land, wreaking social and financial havoc in its wake. Sound familiar? This myth about aging, along with twenty-eight others, is the focus of Getting Wise about Getting Old, which paints a far more accurate and nuanced portrait of old age. In it, experts debunk myths and persistent stereotypes about aging on a broad array of social issues – from retirement (seniors are low-performance workers) to housing (most older adults live in long-term care accommodation), and violence (senior women are not victims of sexual ... + Read More
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Series: It’s All Good (Unless It’s Not) Mental Health Tips and Self-Care Strategies for Your Undergrad Years Paperback Nicole Malette 9780774839013 $14.95 EDUCATION Sep 01, 2020

Going to university or college is supposed to be “the best time of your life” … but what if it’s not? Research reveals that mental health issues are on the rise among undergrads, but many are not accessing help. If this is relatable, this book is for you. It addresses common sources of distress – including academic, social, parental, and financial pressures – and shows you how to meet those challenges head-on and where to turn for extra support. Packed with self-care strategies, quick tips, and eye-opening facts, this is an indispensable guide ... + Read More
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Series: Digital Lives in the Global City Contesting Infrastructures Paperback Deborah Cowen 9780774862387 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 15, 2020

Digital technologies have transformed how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, and consume. Digital Lives in the Global City examines the entanglements of urban life as digital infrastructures connect us across vast distances while also merging work with personal time and space, increasing the power of financial institutions, and enhancing state and corporate surveillance capacities. This nuanced exploration engages with a wide range of issues: the conditions of migrant work in Singapore, the question of digital debt in Toront... + Read More
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Series: Changing Neighbourhoods Social and Spatial Polarization in Canadian Cities Paperback Jill Grant 9780774862035 $39.95 ARCHITECTURE Oct 15, 2020

Canadians have a right to live in cities that meet their basic needs in a dignified way, but in recent decades increased inequality and polarization have been reshaping the social landscape of Canada’s urban areas. This book examines the dimensions and impacts of increased economic inequality and urban socio-spatial polarization since the 1980s. Based on the work of the Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership, an innovative national comparative study of seven major cities, the authors reveal the dynamics of neighbourhood change across the Can... + Read More
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Series: Planning on the Edge Vancouver and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development Paperback Penny Gurstein 9780774861670 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2020

Vancouver is heralded around the world as a model for sustainable development. In Planning on the Edge, nationally and internationally renowned planning scholars, activists, and Indigenous leaders assess whether this reputation is warranted. While recognizing the many successes of the “Vancouverism” model, the contributors acknowledge that the forces of globalization and speculative property development have increased social inequality and housing insecurity since the 1980s in the city and the region. By evaluating policies at the local, provin... + Read More
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Series: A Bounded Land Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada Hardcover Cole Harris 9780774864411 $39.95 HISTORY Nov 01, 2020

Canada is a bounded land – a nation situated between rock and cold to the north and a border to the south. Cole Harris traces how society was reorganized – for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike – when Europeans resettled this distinctive land. Through a series of vignettes that focus on people’s experiences on the ground, he exposes the underlying architecture of colonialism, from first contacts, to the immigrant experience in early Canada, to the dispossession of First Nations. In the process, he unearths fresh insights on the influen... + Read More
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Series: No Place for the State The Origins and Legacies of the 1969 Omnibus Bill Paperback Christopher Dummitt 9780774862431 $32.95 HISTORY Oct 15, 2020

“There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” Pierre Elliott Trudeau told reporters. He was making the case for the most controversial of his proposed reforms to the Criminal Code, those concerning homosexuality, birth control, and abortion. In No Place for the State, contributors offer complex and often contrasting perspectives as they assess how the 1969 Omnibus Bill helped shape sexual and moral politics in Canada. Fifty years later, the origins and legacies of the bill are equivocal and the state still seems interested in ... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Canadian Military History War Junk Munitions Disposal and Postwar Reconstruction in Canada Paperback Alex Souchen 9780774862936 $34.95 HISTORY Nov 01, 2020

During the Second World War, Canadian factories produced mountains of munitions and supplies, including some 800 ships, 16,000 aircraft, 800,000 vehicles, and over 4.6 billion rounds of ammunition and artillery shells. However, the end of hostilities in 1945 turned the leftover assets into peacetime liabilities. Alex Souchen provides a definitive account of the disposal crisis triggered by Allied victory and shows how Canadians responded to the unprecedented divestment of public property by reusing and recycling military surpluses to improve th... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Canadian Military History Canada's Mechanized Infantry The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920–2012 Paperback Peter Kasurak 9780774862738 $32.95 HISTORY Aug 01, 2020

Canada’s Mechanized Infantry explores the development of the Canadian Army’s infantry after the First World War. Modern studies of technology and war have tended to focus on tanks and armour, but soldiers discovered that military success really depends on the combination of infantry, armour, and artillery. Peter Kasurak demonstrates how the Canadian army implemented successful infantry vehicles and doctrine to further its military goals during the Second World War until organizational constraints took hold in the postwar period. This book revea... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Canadian Military History Making the Best of It Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War Paperback Sarah Glassford 9780774862783 $34.95 HISTORY Nov 01, 2020

Many women who lived through the Second World War believed it heralded new status and opportunities. But did it? Making the Best of It examines how gender and other identities intersected to shape the experiences of female Canadians and Newfoundlanders during the war. The contributors to this thoughtful collection consider mainstream and minority populations, girls and women, and different parts of Canada and Newfoundland in their essays. Ultimately, they lay a foundation for a better understanding of the ways in which the lives of Canadian wom... + Read More
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Series: Caroline's Dilemma A Colonial Inheritance Saga Paperback Bettina Bradbury 9780774865319 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2020

Caroline Kearney faced a heartbreaking dilemma. In 1865 she was newly widowed, thirty-one years old, and the mother of six children. She had hoped her husband would leave his sheep station in Victoria, Australia to her sons. Instead, his will required that the family move to Ireland and live in a house chosen by her brothers-in-law. Pieced together from archives, newspapers, genealogical sites, and legal records, Caroline’s Dilemma sheds new light on colonial family and gender relationships of the nineteenth century and tells the story of how o... + Read More
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Series: The Juggling Mother Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety Paperback Amanda D. Watson 9780774864626 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 15, 2020

Who is the juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire? The Juggling Mother explores the figure of contemporary mothering in media representations: a typically white, middle-class woman on the verge of coming undone because of her unwieldy slate of labours. More troublingly, she also serves as a model neoliberal worker who upholds white privilege and notions of mastery, capacity, and productivity. Amanda Watson makes the controversial case that mothers with the most power are compli... + Read More
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Series: Women’s Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces Hardcover Sarah Carter 9780774861878 $27.95 HISTORY Nov 01, 2020

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

“When the history of suffrage is written, the role played by our politicians will cut a sad figure beside that of the women they insulted.” Speaking in 1935, feminist Idola Saint-Jean captured the bitter nature of Quebec women’s prolonged fight for the right to vote. To Be Equals in Our Own Country is a passionate yet even-handed account of the road to suffrage in Quebec, examining women’s political participation since winning the vote in 1940 and comparing their struggle to movements in other countries. This astute exploration of enfranchiseme... + Read More
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Series: Law and Society Trustees at Work Financial Pressures, Emotional Labour, and Canadian Bankruptcy Law Paperback Anna Jane Samis Lund 9780774861427 $32.95 LAW Aug 15, 2020

Trustees at Work explores the role bankruptcy trustees play in determining who qualifies as a deserving debtor under Canadian personal bankruptcy law. The idea of a deserving debtor is woven throughout bankruptcy law, with debt relief being reserved for those debtors deemed deserving. The legislation and case law invite trustees to assess debtors based on their pre-bankruptcy choices, but in practice, trustees evaluate debtors based on how cooperative the debtors are during bankruptcy proceedings. This book uses interviews and statistical data ... + Read More
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Series: Law and Society Faith or Fraud Fortune-Telling, Spirituality, and the Law Paperback Jeremy Patrick 9780774863339 $32.95 RELIGION Sep 01, 2020

The growing presence in Western society of non-mainstream faiths and spiritual practices poses a dilemma for the law. Building on a thorough history of the legal regulation of fortune-telling laws in four countries, Faith or Fraud examines the impact of people who identify as “spiritual but not religious” (SBNR) on the future legal understanding of religious freedom. Unlike SBNR belief systems that can encompass multiple religions, philosophies, and folklore, traditional legal interpretations of “freedom of religion” are based on organized reli... + Read More
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Series: Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization Good Governance in Economic Development International Norms and Chinese Perspectives Paperback Sarah Biddulph 9780774861939 $34.95 LAW Aug 15, 2020

With isolationism and protectionism strengthening in response to the forces of globalization, the interrelationship of the national and supranational in shaping good governance norms has become increasingly relevant. Good Governance in Economic Development critically examines the transparency and accountability mechanisms underpinning international trade, finance, and investment regimes, particularly in view of the intensifying influence of China. It also explores the Chinese state’s engagement with these norms, shedding light not only on how t... + Read More
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Series: Refugee Law after 9/11 Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the United States Paperback Obiora Chinedu Okafor 9780774861472 $34.95 LAW Sep 01, 2020

Common wisdom suggests that 9/11 changed everything about refugee law in the United States and Canada. But did it? Refugee Law after 9/11 systematically examines the evidence to reveal that refugee rights were already so whittled down in both countries before 9/11 that there was relatively little room for negative change after the attacks. It also shows that the Canadian refugee law regime reacted to 9/11 in much the same way as its US counterpart, and these similar reactions raise significant questions about security relativism and national se... + Read More
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Series: Medicine and Morality Crises in the History of a Profession Paperback Helen Kang 9780774862134 $29.95 MEDICAL Aug 15, 2020

Medical professionals are expected to act in the interest of patients, the public, and the pursuit of medical knowledge. But what happens when doctors’ supposed impartiality comes under fire? Helen Kang examines three moments in the history of the medical profession in Canada, spanning more than 150 years, when doctors’ moral and scientific authority was questioned. She shows that the profession was compelled to re-examine its priorities, strategize in order to regain credibility, and redefine what it means to be a good doctor. Medicine and Mor... + Read More
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Series: Out of Milk Infant Food Insecurity in a Rich Nation Paperback Lesley Frank 9780774862486 $29.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Nov 01, 2020

“Did you ever go to bed and wonder if your child was getting enough to eat?” For food insecure mothers, the worry is constant, and babies are at risk of going hungry. Through compelling interviews, Lesley Frank answers the breastfeeding paradox: why women who can least afford to buy infant formula are less likely to breastfeed. She exposes the shocking reality of food insecurity for formula-fed babies and the constraints limiting mothers’ ability to breastfeed. Out of Milk calls out the pressing need to establish the economic and social conditi... + Read More
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Series: The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent Politics and Policies for a Modern Canada Hardcover Patrice Dutil 9780774864022 $49.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2020

Much of Canada’s modern identity emerged from the innovative social policies and ambitious foreign policy of Louis St-Laurent’s Liberal government. His extraordinarily creative administration made decisions that still resonate today: on health care, pensions, and housing; on infrastructure and intergovernmental issues; and, further afield, in developing Canada’s global middle-power role in global affairs and resolving the Suez Crisis. Yet St-Laurent remains an enigmatic figure. The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent fills a great void in Canadian poli... + Read More
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Series: Canada and Ireland A Political and Diplomatic History Paperback Philip J. Currie 9780774863285 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 15, 2020

Canadians have been involved in, intrigued by, and frustrated with Irish politics, from the Fenian Raids of the 1860s to the present day. Yet scholars have largely neglected Canadian–Irish relations since the consolidation of the Irish Free State in the 1920s. In Canada and Ireland, Philip J. Currie addresses this lacuna and examines political relations between the two countries, from partition to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. This intriguing study sheds light on Ottawa’s responses to key developments such as Ireland’s neutrality in the Se... + Read More
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Series: The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History Challenge the Strong Wind Canada and East Timor, 1975–99 Paperback David Webster 9780774862981 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2020

In 1975, Indonesian forces overran East Timor, which had just declared independence from Portugal. The occupation lasted twenty-four years. Challenge the Strong Wind recounts the evolution of Canadian government policy toward East Timor during that period. Canada initially followed key allies in endorsing Indonesian rule, but Canadian civil society groups promoted an alternative foreign policy that focused on self-determination and human rights. Ottawa eventually yielded to pressure from these NGOs and pushed like-minded countries to join it in... + Read More
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Series: Queering Representation LGBTQ People and Electoral Politics in Canada Paperback Manon Tremblay 9780774861823 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2020

Political representation requires participation: voting, joining political parties, running as candidates, acting as politicians. Yet the election of openly LGBTQ people is a relatively recent phenomenon in the West. Queering Representation explores long-ignored issues relating to LGBTQ voters and politicians in Canada. What are the LGBTQ electorate’s characteristics and voting behaviours? What part do the media play in framing straight voters’ perceptions of out LGBTQ politicians? What pathways to power do LGBTQ politicians follow? Do they rep... + Read More
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Series: Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic Paperback Gary N. Wilson 9780774863087 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2020

The Canadian federal system was never designed to recognize Indigenous governance, and it has resisted change. But Indigenous communities have successfully negotiated the creation of self-governing regions. Most of these are situated within existing units of the Canadian federation, creating forms of nested federalism. This governance model is transforming Canada as it reformulates the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state. Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic traces the journey toward self-governance in... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Empowerment through Co-management Land Claims Boards, Wildlife Management, and Environmental Regulation Paperback Graham White 9780774863032 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2020

Co-management boards, established under comprehensive land claims agreements, have become key players in land-use planning, wildlife management, and environmental regulation across Canada’s North. This book provides a detailed account of the operation and effectiveness of these boards while addressing a central question: Have they been successful in ensuring substantial Indigenous involvement in policies affecting the land and wildlife in their traditional territories? While identifying constraints on the role Northern Indigenous peoples play i... + 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: Caring for Eeyou Istchee Protected Area Creation on Wemindji Cree Territory Paperback Monica E. Mulrennan 9780774838597 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2020

How do Indigenous communities in Canada balance the development needs of a growing population with cultural commitments and responsibilities as stewards of their lands and waters? Caring for Eeyou Istchee recounts the extraordinary experience of the James Bay Cree community of Wemindji, Quebec, who partnered with a multi-disciplinary research team to protect a territory of great cultural significance in ways that respect community values and circumstances. By addressing fundamental questions such as what should be protected and how, Indigenous ... + Read More
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Series: Bois-Brûlés The Untold Story of the Métis of Western Québec Paperback Michel Bouchard 9780774862332 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 15, 2020

We think of Métis as having Prairie roots. Quebec doesn’t recognize a historical Métis community, and the Métis National Council contests the existence of any Métis east of Ontario. Quebec residents who seek recognition as Métis under the Canadian Constitution therefore face an uphill legal and political battle. Who is right? Bois-Brûlés examines archival and ethnographic evidence to challenge two powerful nationalisms – Métis and Québécois – that interpret Métis identity in the province as “race-shifting.” This controversial work, previously a... + Read More
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Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies Saving the Nation through Culture The Folklore Movement in Republican China Paperback Jie Gao 9780774838399 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2020

The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement coalesced at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of academics, inspired by Western thought, tried to revitalize the study of folklore to stave off postwar disillusionment with Chinese elite culture. By documenting this phenomenon’s origins and evolution, Jie Gao opens a new chapter in the world history of the Folklore Movement. Largely unknown in the West and underappreciated in China, the Chinese branch failed to achieve its goal of reinvigorating the nation. But it helped establish a ... + Read More
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Series: Constructing Empire The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45 Paperback Bill Sewell 9780774836531 $34.95 HISTORY Aug 15, 2020

Civilians play crucial roles in building empires. Constructing Empire shows how Japanese urban planners, architects, and other civilians contributed to constructing a modern colonial enclave in northeast China, their visions shifting over time. Japanese imperialism in Manchuria before 1932 resembled that of other imperialists elsewhere in China, but the Japanese thereafter sought to surpass their rivals by transforming the city of Changchun into a grand capital for the puppet state of Manchukuo. This book sheds light on evolving attitudes towar... + Read More
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Series: Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest Paperback Rachelle Hope Saltzman 9781496831576 $28.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 16, 2020

The 2016 US presidential campaign and its aftermath provoked an array of protests notable for their use of humour, puns, memes, and graphic language. During the 2016 campaign, a video surfaced of then-candidate Donald Trump’s lewd use of the word “pussy”; in response, many women have made the issue and the term central to the public debate about women’s bodies and their political, social, and economic rights. Focusing on the women-centered aspects of the protests that started with the 2017 Women’s March, Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest... + Read More
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Series: I AM A MAN Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970 Hardcover William R. Ferris 9781496831620 $45.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Feb 15, 2021

In the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of James Meredith as the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi; the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; and the sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis where Martin Luther King was assassinated—rank as cardinal events in black Americans’ fight for their civil rights.The photographs featured in I AM A MAN: Photographs of th... + Read More
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Series: Toxic Masculinity Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes Paperback Esther De Dauw 9781496828941 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 15, 2020

The superhero permeates popular culture from comic books to film and television to internet memes, merchandise, and street art. As of 2018, Marvel Studios and DC Films have produced over twenty male-centric films, but only two female-centric films. Despite growing popular interest in and scholarly attention to female superheroes, most superheroes in the current cultural landscape are men. Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes asks what kind of men these heroes are and if they are worthy of the unbalanced amount of attention. Co... + Read More
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Series: Finding Refuge in Canada Narratives of Dislocation Paperback George Melnyk 9781771993012 $27.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 28, 2021

Millions of people are displaced each year by war, persecution, and famine and the global refugee population continues to grow. Canada has often been regarded as a benevolent country, welcoming refugees from around the globe. However, refugees have encountered varying kinds of reception in Canada. Finding Refuge in Canada: Narratives of Dislocation is a collection of personal narratives about the refugee experience in Canada. It includes critical perspectives from authors from diverse backgrounds, including refugees, advocates, front-line worke... + Read More
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Series: Fixation How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet Hardcover Sandra Goldmark 9781642830453 $30.95 HOUSE & HOME Nov 01, 2020

Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And this strain of consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet. It’s time to move past “peak stuff” and to a new system where design, reuse, and repair are the norm. This is the ambitious undertaking of Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet. Sandra Goldmark, who started humbly by founding a pop-up repair shop, is now a leader in the movement to demand better “stuff.” Af... + Read More
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Series: Thing Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood Paperback Samuel Machado 9781642830859 $29.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 01, 2020

Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely. Like all elephants, Happy has a complex mind and a deep social, intellectual, and emotional life; she desires to make choices and has a sense of self recognition. But like all nonhuman animals, Happy is considered a thing in the eye of the law, with no fundamental rights. Due to a series of groundbreaking legal cases, however, this is beginning to change—and Happy’s liberation is at the forefront. A vibrant and persona... + Read More
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Series: Naturalist A Graphic Adaptation Hardcover Edward O. Wilson 9781610919586 $31.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 01, 2020

Regarded as one of the world’s preeminent biologists, Edward O. Wilson spent his boyhood exploring the forests and swamps of south Alabama and the Florida panhandle, collecting snakes, butterflies, and ants—the latter to become his lifelong specialty. His memoir Naturalist, called “one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written,” was written as an invitation—a reminder that curiosity is vital and scientific exploration is open to all of us. This graphic edition brings Wilson’s childhood and celebrated career to life through dynamic full-colo... + Read More
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Series: Ballad of an American A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson Paperback Sharon Rudahl 9781978802070 $22.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 01, 2020

The first-ever graphic biography of Paul Robeson, Ballad of an American, charts Robeson’s career as a singer, actor, scholar, athlete, and activist who achieved global fame. Through his films, concerts, and records, he became a potent symbol representing the promise of a multicultural, multiracial American democracy at a time when, despite his stardom, he was denied personal access to his many audiences. Robeson was a major figure in the rise of anti-colonialism in Africa and elsewhere, and a tireless campaigner for internationalism, peace, and... + Read More
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Series: American Made Music Series Damaged Musicality and Race in Early American Punk Paperback Evan Rapport 9781496831224 $34.95 MUSIC Dec 15, 2020

Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first book- length portrait of punk as a musical style, with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Drawing on musical analysis, archival research, and new interviews, Damaged provides fresh interpretations of race and American society during this period and illuminates the contemporary importance of that era.In Damaged, Evan Rapport outlines the ways in which punk developed out of dramatic changes to America’s cit... + Read More
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Series: Global Film Directors Films of Bong Joon-ho Paperback Nam Lee 9781978818903 $33.95 PERFORMING ARTS Oct 01, 2020

Bong Joon-Ho won the Oscar® for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes. These achievements mark a new career peak for the director, who first achieved wide international acclaim with2006’s monster movie The Host and whose forays into English-language film with Snowpiercer (2013) and (2017) brought him further recognition. As this timely book reveals, even as Bong Joon-ho has emerged as an int... + Read More
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Series: Crooked Snake The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard Paperback Lovejoy Boteler 9781496830722 $20.95 TRUE CRIME Sep 15, 2020

In 1968, during Albert Lepard’s fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler, then eighteen years old, from his family’s farm in Grenada, Mississippi. Three decades later, still beset by half-buried memories of that time, Boteler began researching his kidnapper’s nefarious, sordid life to discover how and why this terrifying abduction occurred.Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard is the true story of Lepard, sentenced to life in Parchman for the murder of seventy-four-year-old Mary Youn... + Read More
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Series: Like Light, Like Music Paperback Lana K. W. Austin 9781949199574 $29.99 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

Emme McLean never imagined that in 1999 she would be living out the lyrics of the ancient murder ballads she grew up singing. But now Emme is back in Red River, Kentucky, using her skills as a journalist to prove her cousin did not kill her husband and to find out what is terrifying the town after many of its women went half-mad on the same night. But to help her hometown’s haunted women, Emme must also face the things that haunt her, things she thought she had lost when she chose to move away: the majestic music of her family’s beloved hills a... + Read More
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Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography In Faulkner's Shadow A Memoir Hardcover Lawrence Wells 9781496829917 $28.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2020

What happens when you marry into a family that includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest American writer of the twentieth century?Lawrence Wells, author of In Faulkner’s Shadow: A Memoir, fills this lively tale with stories that answer just that. In 1972, Wells married Dean Faulkner, the only niece of William Faulkner, and slowly found himself lost in the Faulkner mystique. While attempting to rebel against the overwhelming influence of his in-laws, Wells had a front-row seat to the various rivalries that sprouted between his wif... + Read More
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Series: Never Leaving Laramie Travels in a Restless World Paperback John W. Haines 9780870710315 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2020

Never Leaving Laramie takes readers from a small university town in Wyoming into the human and natural landscapes of remote and dangerous areas in the world. John Haines bicycles across Tibet and kayaks the length of West Africa's Niger River. He rides the Trans-Siberian train across the former Soviet Union and survives a traumatic train accident in the Czech Republic. For two decades, the author lived a restless life exploring pockets of the world in transition, always finding a route back to Laramie, the home that shaped him--a place he loved... + Read More
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Series: rough house a memoir Paperback tina ontiveros 9780870710339 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2020

Tina Ontiveros was born into a family with logging on both sides: a mother who spent summers driving logging trucks for her family's operation, and a father born to an itinerant logger and raised in a variety of lumber towns, as Tina herself would be. rough house is a story of growing up in turmoil, of a childhood split between a charming, mercurial, abusive father in the forests of the Pacific Northwest and a mother struggling with poverty in The Dalles. It is also a story of generational turmoil, especially for the women of her family, of vio... + Read More
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Series: The World through the Dime Store Door A Memoir 1st edition Hardcover Aileen Kilgore Henderson 9780817320775 $28.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2020

In the 1930’s, the rural South was in the throes of the Great Depression. Farm life was monotonous and hard, but a timid yet curious teenager thought it worth recording. Aileen Kilgore Henderson kept a diary of her family’s daily struggles and events in the wider world as gleaned through shortwave radio and occasional newspapers. Her entries followed Howard Hughes on his round-the-world flight, dreamed of sitting on the patio of Shepheard’s Hotel to watch Lawrence of Arabia ride in from the desert, and was aghast at the rise to power in Germany... + Read More
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Series: In Place This Way Back Paperback Joanna Eleftheriou 9781949199666 $31.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2020

Going back to her ancestral homeland, a Greek American girl discovers she is a lesbian in love with God, so her questions about home and belonging will not be easily answered. This Way Back dramatizes a childhood split between Queens, New York, and Cyprus, an island nation with a long colonial history and a culture to which Joanna Eleftheriou could never quite adjust. The book avows a Greek-Cypriot-American lesbian’s existence by documenting its scenes: reenacting an 1829 mass suicide by jumping off a school stage onto gym mats at St. Nicholas,... + Read More
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Series: A Place Remote Stories Paperback Gwen Goodkin 9781949199611 $25.99 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

From farm to factory, alcoholism to war wounds, friendship to betrayal, the stories in A Place Remote take us intimately into the hearts of people from all walks of life in a rural Ohio town. Whether they stay in their town or leave for distant places, these characters come to realize no one is immune to the fictions people tell others—and themselves—to survive. In each of these ten stories, Gwen Goodkin forces her characters to face the dramatic events of life head-on—some events happen in a moment, while others are the fallout of years or dec... + Read More
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Series: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Paperback Deesha Philyaw 9781949199734 $25.99 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church’s double standards and their own needs and passions. There is fourteen-year-old Jael, who has a crush on the preacher’s wife. At forty-two, Lyra realizes that her discomfort with her own body stands between her an... + Read More
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Series: Sonata Hardcover Charles Bowden 9781477322239 $28.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Dec 15, 2020

"I believe every sunrise and I remember the smell of wet grass, the color of robins, and rustle of leaves on the big oaks that outlive nations, all this comes with each sunrise." Sonata marks the sixth and final installment of Charles Bowden’s towering “Unnatural History of America” series. While his earlier volumes were suffused with violence and war, Bowden offers here a celebration of rebirth and regrowth. Rendered in Bowden's inimitable style, more prose poetry than reportage, he evokes panoramas that contain the potential for respite and ... + Read More
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Series: Calling Memory Into Place Paperback Dora Apel 9781978807839 $33.95 ART Oct 01, 2020

How can memory be mobilized for social justice? How can images and monuments counter public forgetting? And how can inherited family and cultural traumas be channeled in productive ways? In this deeply personal work, acclaimed art historian Dora Apel examines how memorials, photographs, artworks, and autobiographical stories can be used to fuel a process of “unforgetting”—reinterpreting the past by recalling the events, people, perspectives, and feelings that get excluded from conventional histories. The ten essays in Calling Memory into Place... + Read More
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Series: Out of Nowhere Into Nothing 1st edition Paperback Caryl Pagel 9781573661867 $20.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 01, 2020

Out of Nowhere Into Nothing is a collection of sublime meditations on the supernatural, chances and coincidences, and the ghosts—literal and figurative—that drive our deepest impulses, dog our most precious memories, and haunt the passages, hour by hour, of our daily lives. Often self-conscious reflections on the act of storytelling, Caryl Pagel’s essays blend memoir, research, and lyrical reflection, driven by a desire to observe and see connections, though always anchored in real places, people, and conflicts. In the essay, “A Pickle for the ... + Read More
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Series: Latin American Literature in Translation The Wind Traveler A Novel Paperback Alonso Cueto 9781477317747 $22.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2020

The Wind Traveler showcases the mesmerizing storytelling of Alonso Cueto at the top of his career. At the heart of his latest work is a seemingly ordinary man named Ángel, who sells kitchenware at a store in Lima. In the early1990s, he had served as an army soldier, engaging in brutal acts whose aftermath still reverberates. He is forced to reckon with his past when a woman he was instructed to kill enters the store and buys a few items. How can she still be alive? What's more, how can she not recognize Ángel? Remarkably, she as... + Read More
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Series: Camino del Sol A Good Map of All Things A Picaresque Novel Paperback Alberto Álvaro Ríos 9780816541034 $22.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2020

In Alberto Ríos’s new picaresque novel, momentous adventure and quiet connection brings twenty people to life in a small town in northern Mexico. A Good Map of All Things is home to characters whose lives are interwoven but whose stories are their own, adding warmth and humor to this continually surprising communal narrative. The stories take place in the mid twentieth century, in the land of high desert near the border—a stretch of land generally referred to as the Pimería Alta—an ancient passage through the desert that connected the territory... + Read More
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Series: Sun Tracks Horsefly Dress Poems Paperback Heather Cahoon 9780816540938 $18.95 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

Horsefly Dress is a meditation on the experience and beauty of suffering. Rich in the imagery of autumnal foliage, migrating birds, and frozen landscapes, Heather Cahoon’s collection calls forth the sensory experience of grief and metamorphosis. The transformative powers associated with the human experience of loss belong to the past, present, and future, as do the traditional Salish-Pend d’Oreille stories that create the backbone of these intricate poems.