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  • New Release

    Merry Hell: The Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919
    By Captain Robert N Clements, MC Edited by Brian Douglas Tennyson

    Merry Hell is a captivating tale for those who enjoy stories of war and battle, and one that will entertain readers with Clements’s richly colourful anecdotes and witty poems, none of which have been published before.

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    Shaping the New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888
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    Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World.

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    Child to Soldier: Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army
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  • SHORTLISTED: J.W. Dafoe Book Prize

    Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America
    By Reg Whitaker, Gregory S. Kealey, and Andrew Parnaby

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  • New Release

    Across the Aisle: Opposition in Canadian Politics
    By David E. Smith

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    Governance and Public Policy in Canada: A View from the Provinces
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    Rotman on Design: The Best on Design Thinking from Rotman Magazine
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  • New Release

    The Vikings and Their Age
    By Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald

    The Vikings and Their Age offers a quick overview of the chronology and major themes of the Viking period.

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    A Short History of the Italian Renaissance
    By Kenneth R. Bartlett

    Award-winning historian Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this new and beautifully illustrated overview.

  • New Release

    Erasmus of Rotterdam: Advocate of a New Christianity
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    Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations
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  • New Release

    Subversive Itinerary: The Thought of Gad Horowitz
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    Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain
    Edited by Mary E. Barnard and Frederick A. de Armas

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    Anthropology Matters, Second Edition
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    Wooden Os: Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees
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    Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy
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    Spanning academic and public debates, Empire’s Ally opens a new line of argument on why the mission has entered a stage of crisis.

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    By Stephen Brooks, Douglas Koopman, and J. Matthew Wilson

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    John Florio: A Worlde of Wordes
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    Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada
    By R. Blake Brown

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    Feminisms Matter: Debates, Theories, Activism
    By Victoria L. Bromley

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    By Irit Ruth Kleiman

    This study significantly deepens our understanding of how historical narrative and diplomatic activities are intertwined in the work of this iconic, iconoclastic figure.

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    By Robert James Merrett

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    By Robert Craig Brown

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  • New Release

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    Accounting for Social Value
    Edited by Laurie Mook

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    Partnering with Parents: Family-Centred Practice in Children's Services
    By Barry Trute and Diane Hiebert-Murphy

    Providing examples of the application of family-centred practice in a wide range of service settings, Partnering with Parents will be useful for the social workers, nurses, psychologists, and allied health professionals who work together in complex service situations.

  • New Release

    Community-Based Prevention:: Reducing the Risk of Cancer and Chronic Disease
    By David McLean, Dan Williams, Sonia Lamont, and Hans Krueger

    This book presents a promising new approach to educating, engaging, empowering, and generating action within communities as part of broader prevention agenda.

  • New Release

    Keepers of the Code: English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation
    By Robert Lecker

    Robert Lecker explores the ways in which these anthologies contributed to the formation of a Canadian literary canon, the extent to which this canon was tied to an ideal of English-Canadian nationalism, and the material conditions accounting for the anthologies’ production.

  • New Release

    Education in the Best Interests of the Child: A Children's Rights Perspective on Closing the Achievement Gap
    By R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell

    Building on the children’s rights work accomplished in their previous book, Empowering Children, Brian Howe and Katherine Covell identify three types of reform that can significantly close the educational achievement gap.

  • New Release

    Linguistically Appropriate Practice: A Guide for Working with Young Immigrant Children
    By Roma Chumak-Horbatsch

    This path-breaking book provides a convincing argument for the importance of children's home languages and the benefits of dual- and multi-language learning.

  • New Release

    Manufacturing Mennonites: Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba
    By Janis Thiessen

    Complemented with interviews with workers, managers, and business owners, Manufacturing Mennonites pioneers two important new trajectories for scholarship - how religion can affect business history, and how class relations have influenced religious history.

  • New Release

    To Forget It All and Begin Anew: Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954
    By Steven M. Schroeder

    Drawing on underutilized archival materials, To Forget It All and Begin Anew reveals a nuanced mosaic of like-minded people who worked against considerable odds to make right the wrongs of the Nazi era.

  • New Release

    Healing Home: Health and Homelessness in the Narratives of Young Women
    By Vanessa Oliver

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    The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy
    By Sean Carney

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    Wrestling with Democracy: Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West
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  • New Release

    Early Works on Theological Method 3:
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    Continuing where Volume 23 left off, Volume 24 of the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan traces the background to Lonergan’s notion of functional specialization as it emerges in his Latin courses and seminars on method.

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    To Walk with the Devil: Slovene Collaboration and Axis Occupation, 1941-1945
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    Examining archival material and post-war scholarly and popular literature, Kranjc describes the often sharp divide between Communist-era interpretations of collaboration and those of their émigré anti-Communist opponents.

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    Reconstructing Value: Leadership Skills for a Sustainable World
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  • New Release

    Transnationalism, Activism, Art
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  • New Release

    A History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition
    By Paul A. Erickson and Liam D. Murphy

    This bestselling overview of the history of anthropological thought offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of the discipline.

  • New Release

    Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition
    Edited by Paul A. Erickson and Liam D. Murphy

    The fourth edition of this popular theory reader maintains a strong focus on the history of the discipline while ensuring greater coverage of contemporary movements towards postcolonial theory and public anthropology.

  • New Release

    Activism and Social Change: Lessons for Community Organizing, Second Edition
    By Eric Shragge

    Drawing on over 30 years of experience in community development practice, Shragge offers a historical look at community organizing and local activism from its development in the 1960s to the contemporary practices of today's youth activists.

  • New Release

    Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity
    By Lorraine York

    This informative study calls overdue attention to the ways in which literary celebrity is the result not only of a writer’s creativity and hard work, but also of an ongoing collaborative effort among professionals to help maintain the writer’s place in the public eye.

  • WINNER: BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Award

    Industrial Ruination, Community and Place: Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline
    By Alice Mah

    This rich comparative study makes an essential contribution to far-reaching debates about the decline of manufacturing, regeneration, and identity, and will have important implications for urban theory and policy.

 
 
 
 

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