UBC Press: Fall 2020 Drop-Ins, including selections from new publishing partners

Are you sure you want to remove your recommendation for

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

William Holt

Thank you for your recommendation

You are recommending:

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

#/1000 characters

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

You are recommending:

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

You recommended this title on September 12 2019

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

You recommended this title on September 12 2019

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

This is a really great book that really opens your eyes to the use of hokey-pokey snakeoil based teething pain treatments that aren't Tylenol or Motrin based. Or then something else entirely that has nothing to do

0/1000 characters

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

Request a reading copy

You are requesting an advance reading copy of by

This request will be submitted to

I prefer:

Digital Print Any format

Mailing Address* required*

Requested by
Job title *required*

Please provide any additional information you would like the publisher to know that would support your request

# of 250 characters left

Reading copies are not available for all forthcoming titles, and are supplied at the sole discretion of the publisher.

* missing required field

Request a reading copy

Your request has been forwarded to the appropriate contact at

You will receive a copy of the email request. Any questions about the status of your request should be directed to the publisher contact.

Request a reading copy

You have already requested a reading copy of by

The request was made on . Any questions about the status of your request should be directed to the publisher contact:

You are exporting:

This order will be exported using the default fund codes assigned to each branch, and

Override the fund code defaults for the export

User fund code

Close this order after export

UBC Press: Fall 2020 Drop-Ins, including selections from new publishing partners

Create Template

Give your template a name Please provide a name. That name is already used, please enter a unique name.

Choose a base template

Single

List

Tile

Default PDFs
Single
List
Tile

DRAFT

1.
Series: Georgia O'Keeffe A Life Well Lived Hardcover Malcolm Varon 9780826362001 $45.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2020

Georgia O'Keeffe remains an icon, continuing to inspire generations to break barriers and embrace the natural world in both art and life. Featuring sixty-four lush, full-color photographs, this stunning new work captures O'Keeffe as she neared her ninetieth birthday, showcasing her homes and companions at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiú and the landscapes that inspired her. While O'Keeffe and her environs have been the subject of many photographers' work, only Varon was specifically chosen by O'Keeffe to photograph her work in color.This book is the fi... + Read More
2.
Series: Chile Peppers A Global History Paperback Dave DeWitt 9780826361806 $33.95 COOKING Sep 15, 2020

For more than ten thousand years, humans have been fascinated by a seemingly innocuous plant with bright-colored fruits that bite back when bitten. Ancient New World cultures from Mexico to South America combined these pungent pods with every conceivable meat and vegetable, as evident from archaeological finds, Indian artifacts, botanical observations, and studies of the cooking methods of the modern descendants of the Incas, Mayas, and Aztecs. In Chile Peppers: A Global History, Dave DeWitt, a world expert on chiles, travels from New Mexico ac... + Read More
3.
Series: Shook An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day Paperback Jennifer Hull 9780826361943 $22.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 15, 2020

Dave Hahn, a local of Taos, New Mexico, is a legendary figure in mountaineering. Elite members of the climbing community have likened him to the Michael Jordan, Cal Ripkin, or Michael Phelps of the climbing world. The 2015 expedition he would lead came just one short year after the notorious Khumbu Icefall avalanche claimed the lives of sixteen Sherpas. Dave and his team--Sherpa sirdar Chhering Dorjee, assistant guide JJ Justman, base-camp manager Mark Tucker, and the eight clients who had trained for the privilege to attempt to summit with Dav... + Read More
4.
Series: The Unmasking A Novel Paperback Lynn C. Miller 9780826361714 $22.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

Best friends Bettina, Miriam, and Fiona are shocked when their dean of liberal studies dies in a single-car accident amid accusations of mishandling university funds. They suspect murder, especially after learning that the dean's estranged wife will inherit three million dollars. Events take a surprising turn when they travel from Austin, Texas, to a Chautauqua performance in Silver City, New Mexico, where they join several others, some with questionable motives, including the dean's wife and her lover. In the close confines of the lodge, the g... + Read More
5.
Series: In the Bear's House Paperback N. Scott Momaday 9780826348401 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 15, 2020

"Let me say at the outset that this book is not about Bear (he would be spoken of in the singular and masculine, capitalized and without an article), or it is only incidentally about him. I am less interested in defining the being of Bear than in trying to understand something about the spirit of wilderness, of which Bear is a very particular expression. . . . Bear is a template of the wilderness."--from the IntroductionSince receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his novel House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday has had one of the most remarkab... + Read More
6.
Series: Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series Grief Land Poems Paperback Carrie Shipers 9780826361677 $21.95 POETRY Aug 15, 2020

In Grief Land Carrie Shipers explores the paradoxical nature of bereavement as both a universal human experience and an intensely personal one. The poems interrogate and dismiss common notions of loss and recovery through a series of letter-poems--to authors who have written about grief, to the speaker's dead husband, and to a society that believes it has the right to dictate how a widow should feel and act. The collection explores living with grief without being consumed by it and how to emerge into a new life.
7.
Series: Constructing the Outbreak Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory Paperback Katherine A. Foss 9781625345288 $30.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 Sep 25, 2020

When an epidemic strikes, media outlets are central to how an outbreak is framed and understood. While reporters construct stories intended to inform the public and convey essential information from doctors and politicians, news narratives also serve as historical records, capturing sentiments, responses, and fears throughout the course of the epidemic.Constructing the Outbreak demonstrates how news reporting on epidemics communicates more than just information about pathogens; rather, prejudices, political agendas, religious beliefs, and theor... + Read More
8.
Series: The Lexington Six Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America Paperback Josephine Donovan 9781625345448 $28.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 Oct 30, 2020

On September 23, 1970, a group of antiwar activists staged a robbery at a bank in Massachusetts, during which a police officer was killed. While the three men who participated in the robbery were soon apprehended, two women escaped and became fugitives on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, eventually landing in a lesbian collective in Lexington, Kentucky, during the summer of 1974. In pursuit, the FBI launched a massive dragnet. Five lesbian women and one gay man ended up in jail for refusing to cooperate with federal officials, whom they saw as i... + Read More
9.
Series: Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond Where Is Juliet Stuart Poyntz? Gender, Spycraft, and Anti-Stalinism in the Early Cold War? Paperback Denise M. Lynn 9781625345486 $30.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Grade (US) from 17 Jan 29, 2021

On a sweltering June evening in 1937, American Juliet Stuart Poyntz left her boardinghouse in Manhattan and walked toward Central Park, three short blocks away. She was never seen or heard from again. Seven months passed before a formal missing person's report was made, since Poyntz worked for the Soviet Secret Police and her friends (many of whom were anti-Stalinist radicals in the United States) were scared to alert authorities. Her disappearance coincided with Josef Stalin's purges of his political enemies in the Soviet Union and it was fear... + Read More
10.
Series: On the Record Music Journalists on Their Lives, Craft, and Careers Paperback Mike Hilleary 9781625345387 $25.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 Sep 25, 2020

Rolling Stone, Creem, the Village Voice, SPIN, Billboard, Stereogum, Pitchfork. How did the music journalists who write for these popular publications break into the business? How have they honed their writing and interviewing techniques? How have they managed to thrive amid major changes in the industry, as print magazines have declined and digital publications have emerged? What does it take to turn a love of music into a professional writing career?Bringing together interviews from an impressive roster of over fifty music writers, Mike Hille... + Read More
11.
Series: Star Crossed The Story of Astronaut Lisa Nowak Hardcover Kimberly C. Moore 9780813066547 $31.95 TRUE CRIME Sep 01, 2020

The astronaut crime that shocked the world Star Crossed transports readers to the moment the news broke that one of America's heroes, an astronaut who had flown aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery just months before, had been arrested for a very bizarre crime. Lisa Nowak had driven 900 miles from Houston to Orlando to intercept and confront her romantic rival in an airport parking lot, allegedly using diapers on the trip so she wouldn't have to stop. Nowak had been dating astronaut William "Billy" Oefelein when she learned that Oefelein was ... + Read More
12.
Series: Lunar Outfitters Making the Apollo Space Suit Hardcover Bill Ayrey 9780813066578 $39.95 SCIENCE Oct 06, 2020

The design processes behind a giant leap for mankind Neil Armstrong in a space suit on the moon remains an iconic representation of America's technological ingenuity. Few know that the Model A-7L pressure suit worn by the Apollo 11 astronauts, and the Model A-7LB that replaced it in 1971, originated at ILC Industries (now ILC Dover, LP), an obscure Delaware industrial firm. Longtime ILC space suit test engineer Bill Ayrey draws on original files and photographs to tell the dramatic story of the company's role in the Apollo Program. Though resp... + Read More
13.
Series: Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock Hardcover Michael Ray FitzGerald 9780813066653 $31.95 MUSIC Oct 06, 2020

The enduring achievement and legacy of a rock movement The Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd helped usher in a new kind of southern music from Jacksonville, Florida. Together, they and fellow bands like Blackfoot, 38 Special, and Molly Hatchett would reset the course of seventies rock. Yet Jacksonville seemed an unlikely hotbed for a new musical movement. Michael FitzGerald blends eyewitness detail with in-depth history to tell the story of how the River City bred this generation of legendary musicians. As he profiles essential ba... + Read More
14.
Series: Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back Dilemmas of the Modern Fan Hardcover Jessica Luther 9781477313138 $30.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 01, 2020

Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty?it?s fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hit to the head after yet another study has warned of the dangers of CTE, or when a team whose mascot was born in an era of racism and bigotry takes the field, or when a relief pitcher accused of domestic violence saves the game, how is one to cheer? Welcome to the club for sports fans who care too much.In Loving Sports When They Don?t Love You Back, acclaimed sports writers Jessica Luther and Ka... + Read More
15.
Series: American Music Series Fangirls Scenes from Modern Music Culture Paperback Hannah Ewens 9781477322093 $20.95 MUSIC Aug 18, 2020

"To be a fan is to scream alone together." This is the discovery Hannah Ewens makes in Fangirls: how music fandom is at once a journey of self-definition and a conduit for connection and camaraderie; how it is both complicated and empowering; and how now, more than ever, fandoms composed of girls and young queer people create cultures that shape and change an entire industry.This book is about what it means to be a fangirl.Speaking to hundreds of fans from the UK, US, Europe, and Japan, Ewens tells the story of music fandom using its own voices... + Read More
16.
Series: Communication, Strategy, and Politics Whipped Party Discipline in Canada Paperback Alex Marland 9780774864978 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 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