The Alphonso Lingis Reader
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The Alphonso Lingis Reader showcases the philosophical thought and beautiful writing of Alphonso Lingis across his career. Much of his writing is a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy.
Biology in the Grid
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Thurtle demonstrates how 20th century visualization practices changed how biologists thought that organisms were constructed, comparing the aesthetic and formal properties of organisms in the 19th versus the late 20th century. As one of the most visual sciences, biology has an aesthetic dimension that lends force and persuasion to scientific arguments. Thus, how things are arranged on a page, how texts are interspersed with images, and how images are composed, reflect deep-seated beliefs about how life exists on Earth.
Shelf Life
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A book about books, short essays by famous authors about the love of books.
Race, Ethnicity and the Participation Gap
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Race, Ethnicity and the Participation Gap begins with the argument that political institutions in settler and culturally diverse societies such as Australia, the United States, and Canada should mirror their culturally diverse populations. Compared to the United States and Canada, however, Australia has very low rates of immigrant and ethnic minority political representation in the Commonwealth Parliament, particularly in the House of Representatives. The overall existence of racial hierarchies within formal political institutions represents an inconsistency with the democratic ideals of representation and accountability in pluralist societies.
The Philosophy of Coffee
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This is a short, entertaining and illuminating introduction to the history and culture of coffee, from the humble origins of the bean in northeast Africa over a millennium ago, to what it is today, a global phenomenon that is enjoyed around the world.
Power and Progress on the Prairie
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A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota.
Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS
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From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS, a paramilitary group under the Nazi party, sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy. They utilized the science of eugenics to convince SS men to marry suitable wives and have many children. Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS, by Amy Carney, is the first work to significantly assess the role of SS men as husbands and fathers during the Third Reich.
Policy Learning from Canada
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Focusing on the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Policy Learning from Canada is a systematic study of the international relevance of the Canadian immigration and integration policy model.
Infinite Variety
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The biography of the most dazzling artistic and fashion muse of the twentieth century—in a fully revised and spectacularly illustrated edition.
Artists from Man Ray to Augustus John painted, sculpted, and photographed her; writers, including Jean Cocteau, Ezra Pound, and Jack Kerouac, praised her strange beauty; celebrities and royalty were awed by her lavish parties and spectacles at her homes in Italy and France. Fully authorized, completely updated, and richly illustrated, this is the fantastic story of the Marchesa Luisa Casati.
Subprime Health
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From race-based pharmaceutical prescriptions and marketing, to race-targeted medical “hot spotting” and the Affordable Care Act, to stem-cell trial recruitment discourse, Subprime Health is a timely examination of race-based medicine as it intersects with the concept of debt. Utilizing an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume moves the discussion beyond debates over racial genomics and suggests fruitful new directions for future research.
Lacan with the Philosophers
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Lacan with the Philosophers examines the way in which Lacan uses philosophy and what the purpose of that use is.
Mischka’s War
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On a winter's day in 1943, 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight — a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. In order to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS — the authors of such atrocities — Mischka volunteered to go on a student exchange to Germany. He did not then know that he was part Jewish. Whilst in Germany, he narrowly escaped death in the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden. Surviving Hitler's Reich, he became a displaced person in occupied Germany, where in 1951 he earned a PhD at the exceptional Heidelberg Physics Institute. In the 1950s Mischka was sponsored as an immigrant to the US by a Jewish survivor whom his mother, Olga, had saved during Riga's worst period of Jewish arrests. As refugee experiences go, Mischka was among the lucky ones — but even luck leaves scars. The author Sheila Fitzpatrick, who met and married Mischka forty years after these events, turns her skills as a historian and wry eye as a memoirist to telling the remarkable story of Mischka's odyssey and survival.
London series
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The British Library's London series of books are short, accessible, cultural histories of London neighbourhoods written by academic historians but designed to appeal to tourists, locals and general readers with an interest in the history, personal anecdotes, architecture and environment of the city.
Behind the Scenes at the Ballet Russes
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The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century. Inspired by the unique vision of their founder Sergei Diaghilev, the company gained a large international following. In the mid-twentieth century – during the tumultuous years of World War II and the Cold War – the Ballets Russes companies kept the spirit and traditions of Russian ballet alive in the West, touring extensively in America, Europe and Australia. This important new book uncovers previously-unseen interviews and provides insights into the lives of the great figures of the age.
Stumbling Giants
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Canada’s big six banks weathered the 2008 financial crisis very well. Their adherence to tried and tested twentieth-century products and services made them a safe harbour in the financial storm. However, as the modern global information economy continues to develop, the banks must confront their innovation crisis, or they will fail.
Paramedics On and Off the Streets
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In Paramedics On and Off the Streets, Michael K. Corman embarks on an institutional ethnography of the complex, mundane, intricate, and exhilarating work of paramedics in Calgary, Alberta.
Spring 2017 Catalogue
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Sexography
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A bold challenge to rethink the ways we view sex work and documentary film. The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an eruption of nonfiction films on sex work. The first book to examine a cross-section of this diverse and transnational body of work, Sexography confronts the ethical questions raised by ethnographic documentary and interviews with sexually marginalized subjects. Nicholas de Villiers offers a reading of cinema as a technology of truth and argues that carnal and cultural knowledge are inextricably entangled in ethnographic sex work documentaries.
Creaturely Love
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A fascinating look at the role of animals in human love through the ages. In an eminently approachable work of wide cultural reach and meticulous scholarship, Dominic Pettman undertakes an unprecedented examination of how animals shape the understanding and expression of love between people. He argues that in our utilization of the animal in our amorous expression, we acknowledge that what we adore in our beloveds is not (only) their humanity, but their creatureliness.
The Dandy at Dusk
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Author Philip Mann dispels the myth that dandyism centers upon aestheticism through portraits of the first dandy—Regency England’s Beau Brummell—and six twentieth-century figures. He chronicles their style, identity, influence, melancholy, and often untimely demise, using a mélange of analysis, biography, and anecdote. Mann contextualizes the relationship of dandyism to decadence and to modernism, while simultaneously portraying the cultural development of a century punctuated by two World Wars and social upheaval.
Tea: A User's Guide
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Tea: A User’s Guide is the most up-to-date and factual guide to specialty tea. This volume presents an extensively peer-reviewed framework for navigating the world of tea whether you are just embarking on your tea journey or whether you have been drinking tea your entire life.
Filling the Ranks
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The first book to explore the issue of manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Filling the Ranks examines the administrative and organizational changes that fostered efficiency and sustained the army. Canada’s ability to fill the ranks with trained soldiers ultimately helped make the Corps an elite formation within the British Expeditionary Force. Based on extensive research in British and Canadian archives, Filling the Ranks provides a wealth of new information on Canada's role in the Great War.
The Stoic Origins of Erasmus’ Philosophy of Christ
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This study focuses on Erasmus’ two-dimensional grasp of Stoicism evident in his edition of De officiis (1501) and the huge implications he saw for religion. The author argues that “The Philosophy of Christ” for which Erasmus is famous is a Christian version of Stoicism.
Fall 2016 Catalogue
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Fall 2016 Catalogue
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Designs for the catalogue cover for the University of Minnesota Press' fall 2016 titles.
Under the Shadow
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Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East–caught between the West and ISIS, Syria and Russia, and governed by an increasingly forceful leader. Acclaimed writer Kaya Genç has been covering his country for the past decade. In Under the Shadow he meets activists from both sides of Turkey's political divide: Gezi park protestors who fought tear gas and batons to transform their country's future, and supporters of Erdogan's conservative vision who are no less passionate in their activism. While talking to Turkey's angry young people Genç weaves in historical stories, visions and mythologies, showing how Turkey's progressives and conservatives take their ideological roots from two political movements born in the Ottoman Empire: the Young Turks and the Young Ottomans, two groups of intellectuals who were united in their determination to make their country more democratic.
The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry
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The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a bibliographical work that seeks to provide all known information regarding both manuscript and printed sources, editions and critical studies, on Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic poems that deal in some way with saints.
Predator Empire
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Less concerned with the ethics or legality of drone strikes, this book examines how Predator and Reaper drones fit into a broader shift toward bureaucratic management of life and death. A drone strike is the endgame of a process of controlling “lifeworlds”—detecting suspicious patterns of life for eradication. Drones signal not only a material shift in how war and security play out but an existential shift—changing how we relate to society, to our homelands, to our governments.
Mixed Realism
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In Mixed Realism Welsh argues that the study of virtuality requires a theory of fiction and realism that emphasizes interaction rather than representation. He rethinks the relationship between users and media by challenging the long-assumed opposition between the virtual and the real, arguing that a user's interactions with non-actual, media-generated virtualities of print novels and console videogames enact and participate in branching networks of very "real" social, political, and ethical contexts.
Justice Back and Forth
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Justice Back and Forth considers what justice requires us to do for past and future generations, bringing together ten controversial topics from the fields of “historical redress” and “intergenerational justice”. The book argues that concern about past injustices is motivated by concern for maintaining fair opportunities for future people.
The Selected Essays of Sean O’Faolain
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Sean O’Faolain (1900-1991) was one of the most important Irish writers in the first half of the twentieth century. This book includes a generous selection of O’Faolain’s essays that span a period from 1928 to 1976. Brad Kent has added voluminous notes and an illuminating introduction that sets O’Faolain in the context, not only of Irish writers, but of public intellectuals in his time elsewhere.
Abenaki Daring
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Abenaki Daring illuminates the difficult history of Canada’s indigenous peoples through the lens of a single individual. An Abenaki born in St. Francis, in what is now Quebec, Noel Annance (1792-1869) received a higher education at Dartmouth College, the only North American institution then admitting indigenous students. Determined to be the person he had been educated to become, he was as a consequence caught between two ways of being, neither of which accepted him among their numbers. The work speaks to similar barriers that still today prevent many well-educated indigenous persons from reaching their full potential.
The Politics of Crime in Turkey
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This book focuses on urban crime and policing in Turkey since the steady economic decline of the 1990s. Concentrating on the attempts to 'modernize' the policing of Izmir, Zeynep Gönen highlights how the police force expanded their territorial control over the urban space, specifically targeting the poor and racialized segments of the city. In studying the ideological and material processes of criminalization, The Politics of Crime in Turkey makes the case for the neoliberal politics of crime that uses the notion of 'security' to legitimize violence and authoritarianism.
The Industrial Revolution
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This book is a detailed and rigorous account of the British industrial revolution in a global context that provides an important challenge to current orthodoxies. It takes a long view, from the mid 17th century through to the 19th century.
Hamilton Babylon
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In Hamilton Babylon, Stephen Broomer traces the history of the McMaster Film Board from its birth as an organization for producing and exhibiting avant-garde films, through its transformation into a commercial-industrial enterprise, and into its final decline as a show business management style suppressed many of its voices.
Between Dispersion and Belonging
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This book brings together two distinct strands in diaspora studies; namely, those approaches that distinguish diaspora as purely a feature of multi-lateral dispersal caused by migration and those that describe diaspora as a claim, stance, or a way of belonging in the world with a difference. It does so by making important advances, both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically, the book argues that the proliferation of diaspora as a term is a symptom of modern subjectivity where the double meaning of dispersion and difference embedded in the word serves as an appropriate metaphor for belonging in our times. In an age of rootlessness, diaspora as a concept captures an aspiration to belong globally while holding on to the specifics of local registers of belonging. Central to modern formulations of diaspora, therefore, is an inherent appeal to globality. It is not global in the sense that diasporas span the entire globe, rather they are global precisely because they are not bounded by arbitrary geopolitical units. Diasporic globality is an exercise or expression of a synecdoche or metaphor. The book also makes significant advances in migration theory and its relationship to diaspora as an analytical framework by arguing against the age-old hydraulic metaphor of push-pull mechanisms.
New Brunswick at the Crossroads
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What is the relationship between literature and the society in which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened literary activity? New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East considers these questions and explores the relationships between periods of creative ferment in New Brunswick and the socio-cultural conditions of those times.
Health Inequality
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This book provides all you ever wanted to know about health inequality but did not dare to ask. We know from many studies that there are large differences in life expectancy between the most privileged and the most disadvantaged social groups in industrial societies. But we need to look beyond the figures to the social and biological processes that underlie them in order to understand why this is so. This book provides a key to understanding the four most widely accepted theories of what lies behind inequality in healthcare: behavioural, psychosocial, material and life-course approaches.
Blood Sugar
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Blood Sugar examines the racial and social dimensions of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and stroke. Hatch argues that the past half-century of biomedical science has created metabolism as a site for the reproduction of race and racism in American society. Scientists and researchers draw on and circulate racial meanings that construct race as immutable, fixed, and genetic. Race is then used to explain inequalities in metabolic health without accounting for social and economic inequalities. Specifically within African American communities, potential drug treatments and public health interventions are framed in racial terms, and racially-inflected biological science around metabolism intersecting with cultural views of African Americans’ food consumption.
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world – mechanistic materialism and vitalism – in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot. Focusing on embodied experience and the materialization of thought in poetry, novels, art, and religion, the literary scholars in this collection offer new and intriguing readings of these canonical authors. Informed by contemporary currents such as new materialism, cognitive studies, media theory, and post-secularism, their essays demonstrate the volatility of the core ideas opened up by materialism and the possibilities of an aesthetic vitalism of form.
The Moral Mapping of Victorian and Edwardian London
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The Moral Mapping of Victorian and Edwardian London is an exhaustive and illuminating study of the relatively neglected Religious Influences Series in the Charles Booth “Life and Labour” archive at the London School of Economics. In combing through the fascinating and largely untapped interviews of 1,800 London churchmen and women, Tom not only brings to life a whole cast of characters – from “Jesusist” vicars to Peckham Rye preachers to women drinkers – who have received scant attention in other histories, he also discerns a citywide audit of charitable giving and philanthropic practices. And he uncovers in the startlingly frank testimony not only “social scientists,” Christians, and philanthropists deploying moralistic languages stigmatizing and excluding the despised underclasses, but also members of the working classes themselves who were addicted to moral segregation as they tried to maintain their rank in the poor-but-respectable hierarchy. In critiquing the warm idea of working-class solidarity and community-building portrayed by many leading social and labour historians, Tom argues for a much meaner, bleaker reality in London's teeming neighbourhoods.
Wait Time
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When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations and impressions that blossomed into his powerful memoir, Wait Time. Sherman's deeply moving cancer story, is interwoven with engaging ruminations on the meaning of illness in our society. A widely published poet, Sherman helps the reader understand the profound connection between disease and creativity — how we write out of our suffering. Without being stridently political or blame-laden, he honestly articulates what is good and bad in our health-care system and wonders if it can be made more efficient and more humane.
Rise and Fall
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Rise and Fall documents artist Nicholas Pye's most recent photographic work. The photographs in Pye's book use found light in selected interiors to examine the vulnerability of the artist engaging in the practice of self-portraiture. The book design echoes the artists intentions in its simplicity and choice of materials and type. We selected matte white and grey stocks to create a counterpoint between image and text pages and elegant, yet warm, typefaces to compliment the texts.
Pye has exhibited his photographs internationally in Canada, the US, UK, Germany, and Spain. His films have been screened in numerous international film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival, The Locarno International Film Festival and Les Rencontres Internationales in Paris, Berlin, and Madrid.
Religion and Greater Ireland
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This collection brings together scholars with an interest in the global experience of the Irish and their religious connections. It contributes to the turn in British imperial studies towards religion and religious diasporas as factors in empire building and globalization. In pursuing the Irish to their many destinations, Religion in Greater Ireland has sought to point to the interconnections, influences, and commonalities of the Irish migrant experience.
Making Public Cultures
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Making Public Cultures provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism's third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications—including BUST, Bitch, HUES, Venus Zine, and Rockrgrl—that began as zines in the 1990s. By tracking their successes and failures, Making Public Cultures gives readers insight into the politics of feminism's recent past.
Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism
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Debates about gender in the British Romantic period, which often took place in novels and poems, tended to turn on the issue of sexual enjoyment. The concept of sexual enjoyment was a scientific innovation at the time, emerging from research in botany. As the gender debates intensified, the Romantic-era anxiety about sexual enjoyment had two consequences. On the one hand, it necessitated the modern psychological concept of the unconscious. Desire was seen as an uncontrollable force; the unconscious became the repository of disavowed enjoyment and the reason for sexual difference. In this way, the Romantics can be said to have invented psychoanalysis – as soon as discussions of “the sexes” came to revolve around the problem of sexual enjoyment, psychoanalysis had come into existence as an ideological system and literary device, if not yet as a science. On the other hand, tighter regulation of sexual enjoyment made backhandedly possible a vast expansion of the limits of imaginable sexuality. Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism shows how the era’s most influential literary thinkers of gender, in particular Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Robinson, Joanna Southcott, Charlotte Dacre, Jane Austen, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, imagined unregulated enjoyments and sexual identities, many of which resisted categorization by gender. Joining close readings of texts with archival research and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, this book reveals the fictive structure of modern sexuality, makes visible a wider diversity of sexual identities in the period, and offers a new way to understand gender in British Romanticism.
Abuse or Punishment?
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At one time, the use of corporal punishment by parents in child-rearing was considered normal, even universally accepted. Only in the second half of the nineteenth century did this begin to change, in Quebec as well as the rest of the Western world. Then the extent of ill-treatment inflicted on children—treatment once excused as good child-rearing practice—was discovered. Abuse or Punishment? deeply considers not only the history of violence towards children in Quebec, but the history of public perception of this violence and what it means for the rest of Canada.
Unified Fields
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Unified Fields: Science and Literary Form argues that literary form is an important opportunity for understanding the relationship between literature and science. Through a series of close readings of poetry and prose texts, the book demonstrates that formal structures in literature can connect to scientific concepts (for example, mathematical equations, particle physics, the DNA strand) and that these forms share essential interpretive functions with their scientific counterparts.
Canada the Good
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Canada the Good demonstrates how moral regulation has transformed over time, how it has shaped Canadians’ lives, why certain behaviours have been targeted during specific time periods, and why certain individuals and groups have felt empowered to tackle collective social issues. This historical synthesis investigates how the debates have changed over the years, why some—such as the controversy over the prohibition of alcohol at the end of World War I—have almost disappeared, while others—such as abortion, gambling, marijuana use, and prostitution—have persisted, and continue to divide Canadians.
A Brief History of Women in Quebec
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This book is a general survey of women’s history in Quebec, Canada from New-France to the present. Based on the most recent research in the field, it looks at the historical experience of women of different social classes, and origins (be it geographic, ethnic and racial), from the period of contact between Europeans and Aboriginals, to the 21st Century, to give a nuanced and complex account of the main transformations their lives underwent.
Map Worlds
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Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the breathtaking world of women map makers. From the early map ateliers where women flourished through marital partnerships to the woman who produced a revolution in the way we think about continents, Map Worlds is among the first works that reveals the far-sighted contributions of women to the world of maps.
Double-Takes
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Over the past forty years, Canadian literature has found its way to the silver screen with increasing regularity. This volume of essays discusses and debates several double-edged issues: the extent to which the literary artefact extends its artfulness to film, the degree to which literary communities stand to gain in contact with film communities and the measure by which a viable relation between fiction and film can be said to exist in Canada, and where that double-life precisely manifests itself, if at all.
Laughing at the Clock
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Widely regarded as the foremost poet writing today in the Gaelic language, Aonghas MacNeacail casts his eye on love, ageing, memory, language, politics and landscape in this superb bilingual collection. Demonstrating his tight mastery of form and beautifully controlled rhythm, this selection of MacNeacail’s new and published work marks the poet’s seventieth birthday and celebrates the best of contemporary Scottish poetry.
BRAAAIIINNNSSS!
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Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies gathers together an irreverent group of scholars and writers to take a serious look at how zombies threaten almost every aspect of our lives. Spawned from the viral publication “When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection,” this multidisciplinary book draws on a variety of fields including biology, history, law, gender studies, archaeology, library science and landscape architecture. Part homage to zombie films and fiction, part cultural study, this collection humorously explores our deep-seated fear of the undead.
The Children’s Guide to Islamic Art
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The Children’s Guide to Islamic Art is a beautifully illustrated book which explains the fundamental principals of Islamic art in a fun and engaging way. Each chapter is accompanied by many photographs and activities which help guide young readers to an appreciation of the richness of Islamic arts — from ceramic tiles to calligraphy.
From Sugar to Revolution
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In From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, Myriam Chancy aims to show that Haiti’s exclusion from contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies is grounded in its historical role as a site of ontological defiance.
Beyond Bylines
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Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada explores the ways in which several of Canada’s women journalists, broadcasters and other media workers reached beyond the glory of their bylines to advocate for the most controversial women’s rights of their eras. The book consists of a series of case studies of the women in question as they grappled with concerns close to their hearts: higher education for women, healthy dress reforms, the vote, equal opportunities at work, abortion, lesbianism and Aboriginal women’s rights.
Strategic Management
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Today’s fast-paced business world requires strategic thinkers whose dynamic perspective on strategy allows them to connect the dots between internal resources and capabilities, rapidly changing external conditions, and the survival and profitability of their firm or industry. This text captures recent developments in strategic thought, including the growing influence and impact of ethics and sustainability issues.
Just a Larger Family
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The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys’ mother, Margaret Sharp, that reveal a portrait of what was then Canada’s second-largest city during wartime.
Re: Reading the Postmodern
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Bringing together many of Canada’s most significant critics, including several of the originators of postmodern thought in Canada, RE: Reading the Postmodern—Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism marks a first step towards a history of Canadian postmodernism, exploring the development of the idea of the postmodern, debates about its meaning and its applicability to various genres of Canadian writing, and charting its decline in recent years as a favoured critical trope.
A Common Written Greek Source for Mark and Thomas
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This book uncovers an early collection of sayings, called N, that are ascribed to Jesus and are similar to those found in the Gospel of Thomas and in Q, a document believed to be a common source, with Mark, for Matthew and Luke.
Travel and Religion in Antiquity
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Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras.
Northrop Frye
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More than fifty years after the publication of Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye remains one of Canada’s most influential intellectuals. This volume provides an in-depth examination of Frye’s work on a range of literary questions, periods and genres, as well as a consideration of his contributions to literary theory, philosophy and theology.
Bearing Witness
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Bearing Witness is a collection of stories from women who went through the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and treatment for it, only to find that the cancer recurred and any hope of recovery was gone. From their stories we learn how each woman shapes the meaning of her life. Facing a life crisis can make one bitter and angry, but it can also provide the key to a thankful and generous spirit within.
DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto
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DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance.
Histories of Kanatha
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Histories of Kanatha is the first collection written by an Aboriginal Canadian on the Aboriginal understanding of history and the colonial experience. These essays, stories, lectures, and poems, written over the last twenty years by Georges Sioui, present and explore the perspectives of the Huron-Wyandot people on the place of Aboriginal people in Canada, in the world, and in history.
Mirabilia
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Mirabilia is both a record and investigation of artist Jakub Dolejš’ work “Tribune” produced during a Canada Council for the Arts residency in Paris. We designed the book as a collaboration between artist and designer. Mirabilia means “wonders” or “miracles” and our book is a treasure trove of Jakub’s exquisite photographs and paintings created as part of his research in the mansions, chateaus and galleries of Paris and its environs. A limited edition of Mirabilia was sold as part of his exhibition at Angell Gallery in Toronto, Canada. It was also sold at the National Gallery of Canada coinciding with Jakub’s participation in a major survey of staged photography.
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Jakub Dolejš
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This catalogue was published to coincide with Jakub’s second solo show at Art Mûr gallery in Montreal, Canada. The works in the exhibition were characterised as “thoughtful deconstructions of the manipulation behind image construction, and the historical legacy of their consumption.” The page design employs traditional elements of typographic design with deconstructed, asymmetrical blocks of text and image.
Jakub Dolejs, Selected Works 1998–2004
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Jakub’s photographic tableaux are a fusion of painted backdrops, live models and props. He uses these elements to construct fictions that comment on the evolution of modernism.
This catalogue complements his work by contrasting modernist elements such as sans serif type and structural white space with scripts and traditional decorative elements.
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