2008/2009
Anthropology
Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations Of Political Possibility Author: Alex Khasnabish, University of Toronto Press, 9780802096333, $49.95, paperback Providing readers with anthropological perspectives that drew on a year of fieldwork with activists, Alex Khasnabish shows how the spread of Zapatismo as produced new imaginations and practices of radical political action through North America. Zapatismo Beyond Borders is an engaging study of a radical political philosophy that has been both a model for grassroots organizations and a rallying call for members of the antiglobalization movement.
For The Record: The First Women In Canadian Architecture
Architecture
Author: Joan Grierson, Dundurn Press, 9781550028201, $28.99, hardcover Profiles the women who graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto between 1920 and 1960. Includes illustrations with photographs of their work and archival material that has never before been published. Also showcased are contributions by leading Canadian women architects, current information on schools of architecture, and a list of other resources for those thinking of pursuing careers in architecture.
Art
The Cultivated Landscape: An Exploration of Art and Agriculture Authors: Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 9780773532465, $45.00, cloth An intriguing discussion of how we think about agriculture, its use of the land and impact on landscape, and how landscape has been portrayed historically in art. The authors also offer a wider discussion on the role that science and economics have played in agricultural development and the parallels to changes in art form. Includes 98 colour illustrations.
Captivated: J.M. Barrie, The Du Mauriers & The Dark Side Of Neverland Author: Piers Dudgeon, Chatto and Windus, 9780701182168, $37.00, hardcover
Biography
Captivated expolores the inspiration for three of the most intriguing characters of fiction: Svengali, Peter Pan and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. The link is J.M. Barrie who was connected, in some way, to each, telling how Barrie brought his victims to nervous breakdown, early death and suicide. A story of genius and possession at a crossroads in time when the late 19th century world of the occult gave way to the new science of psychology.
Biography
Love’s Civil War: Letters And Diaries Author: Elizabeth Bowen And Charles Ritchie, Edited By Victoria Glendinning, McClelland & Stewart, 9780771035661, $35.00, paperback The passionate, life-long love affair between two magicians of the written word. The married Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie met in London in 1941; shortly afterward they embarked on a love affair that lasted until her death in 1973. They wrote constantly to each other, letters in which she poured out her heart to him about their affair, friends, politics, and literature; Ritchie wrote candidly about her in his diary.
Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift Of Wings
Biography
Author: Mary Henley Rubio, Doubleday Canada, 9780385659833, $39.99, hardcover Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery’s life, and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture. Includes extensive interviews with people who knew Montgomery – her son, maids, friends, relatives, all now deceased. From her apparently idyllic childhood in Prince Edward Island to her passion-filled adolescence to her legal fights as world-famous author, to her shattering experiences with motherhood and marriage this is the definitive biography of a Canadian icon.
Authors: William Fong, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 9780773532700, $39.95, cloth
Biography
J.W. McConnell: Financier, Philanthropist, Patriot
The first biography of J.W. McConnell, a Rockefellerian figure in both big business and high society, who quietly became one of the greatest philanthropists of his time. His life story is a study of raising, spending, and giving away money on the grandest scale.
The Way Of The World: A Story Of Truth And Hope In An Age Of Extremism Author: Ron Suskind, Doubleday Canada, 9780385664929, $32.95, hardcover
Current Affairs
Suskind examines the closing Bush years with a startling glimpse at what America actually faces across the roiling world. In the intelligence and military communities, the overwhelming concern is the uncontrolled spread of nuclear weapons and the ingredients from which weapons can be composed across a globe exploding with conflict and antiAmerican fervour. The failure of the government has left overwhelming security issues, both domestic and international.
Education
Assessing The Online Learner: Resources And Strategies For Faculty
Author: Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt, John Wiley and Sons, 9780470283868, $30.00, paperback This hands-on resource helps higher education professionals understand the fundamentals of effective online assessment. It offers guidance for designing and implementing creative assessment practices tied directly to course activities to measure student learning. The book is filled with illustrative case studies, authentic assessments based in real-life application of concepts, and collaborative activities that assess the quality of studentlearning rather than relying on the traditional methods of measuring the amount of information retained.
New Directions In African Education: Challenges And Possibilities
Education
Author: S. Nombuso Dlamini, 9781552382127, $39.95, paperback In New Directions in African Education, editor Nombuso Dlamini has gathered essays from continental African scholars who, before pursuing graduate studies in North America, had first-hand experience with the education system in postcolonial Africa. Their cross-cultural perspective has provided a unique opportunity to critically examine education in the African context and to present possible courses of action to reinvent its future.
Authors: John Taylor Gatto, 9780865716315, $22.95, harcdover
Education
Weapons Of Mass Instruction
We have been taught to think of success as synonymous with schooling, and yet some of the most creative minds didn’t go to high school – witness Carnegie, Rockefeller, Margaret Mead, or they dropped out – Bill Gates or Steven Spielberg. This book explores how compulsory schooling has stripped youth of their best qualities to produce a nation of employees and specialists. John Taylor Gatto is a tireless advocate for school reform, has won numerous awards and is the author of a number of books, including Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling.
Whose University Is It, Anyway? Power And Privilege On Gendered Terrain
Author: Anne Wagner, Sandra Acker & Kimine Mayuzumi, Doubleday Canada, 9781894549752, $28.95, paperback
Education
The fourteen essays in this collection convey the tensions, contradictions and possibilities involved in working and learning within Canadian universities and how equity and gender shape these experiences. The contributors explore the realities they face as professors, teaching assistants, students, contingent faculty, tenured faculty or administrative staff, often from the university’s margins. While gender is as a central organizing theme, contributors integrate various other aspects of identity into their discussions.
Environment
Global Environmental Challenges: Perspectives From The South
Edited By Jordi Diez And O.P. Dwivedi, University of Toronto Press, 9781442600263, $42.95, paperback As the process of globalization continues to unfold, several questions arise: What new environmental challenges has globalization brought to countries in the Global South? Has the international environmental agenda had an effect on the politics and policy of these countries? And finally, to what extent have international civil society actors influenced environmental management? Contributors address these questions in eleven studies, examining the complex relationship between environmental management, development, and globalization.
The Lens Of Time: A Repeat Photography Of Landscape Change In The Canadian Rockies
Environment
Author: Cliff White And E.J. Hart, 9781552382370, $69.95, paperback Look through The Lens of Time with two expert observers who have been examining landscape change in the Canadian Rockies for over twenty-five years. Comparing historical and contemporary imagesside-by-side – a technique known as “repeat photography” – White and Hart show the dramatic changes to the Rockies landscape that have occurred in the past 125 years. Illustrated with over100 sets of striking “then and now” images.
Authors: Geoff Andrews, 9780773534780, $22.95, McGillQueen’s University Press, paperback In the first in-depth study of the fascinating politics of Slow Food, Geoff Andrews shows that the alternative future it offers can be extended to all aspects of modern life. The Slow Food Story is an extensive critique of the fast-moving, workobsessed contemporary capitalist culture.
Environment
The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure
Transboundary Policy Challenges In The Pacific Border Regions Of North America Author: James Loucky, Donald K. Alper, And J.C. Day, 9781552382233, $34.95, paperback
Environment
Transboundary Policy Challenges responds to a growing interest in borderlands environmental policy by highlighting significant transboundary research and practices being undertaken within and across the Pacific border regions of North America. The issues explored here reveal how intricate and interrelated social, economic, and environmental concerns have become, particularly along borders, as Canada, Mexico, and the United States collectively search for sustainable solutions.
Fiction
Black Rabbit & Other Stories
Author: Salvatore Difalco, 9781895636789, $18.00, paperback “Full of harsh subject matter and narrated in a terse narrative voice, the stories have their clearest antecedents in the works of Raymond Chandler and Hubert Selby, Jr. Through his characters’ foibles, Difalco reflects upon themes of alienation and hope. …” –Quill & Quire”… I was alternately shocked, disgusted, and astounded. All of this is a good thing. Difalco is a talented writer, whose unrelenting prose is tough, gritty, literate, and, most significantly, authentic. …” –New Review (UK)
The Other Sister
Fiction
Author: Lola Lemire Tostevin, Inanna Publications 9780980882216, $22.95, paperback Despite her advanced age and failing health, Julia Brannon is a stubbornly independent woman. She refuses her daughter’s offer to move in with them and insists on living in a retirement home where she records memories of her identical twin sister Jane and their disparate personalities, yet intertwined lives. Circumstances force Julia to face up to her privileged circumstances including certain prejudices, especially antiSemitic ones. Shuttling between past and present, over the span of almost a century, The Other Sister weaves personal, local and global histories into an intricate narrative tapestry to form the heart of this story.
Authors: Leila Sebbar, 9780253220233, $17.95 paperback
Fiction
The Seine Was Red: Paris, October 1961
“This English edition of an acclaimed French novel allows readers an opportunity to understand the complex relationship between past and present, metropole and colony, immigrant and citizen, that lies at the heart of this intimate look into history and violence between France and Algeria. This novel raises profound and timely questions about the nature of democracy, Muslim-Western relations, memory, history, and forgetting.� -- Anne Donadey, author of Recasting Postcolonialism
The Sherpa And Other Fictions
Author: Nila Gupta, 9781894549707, $18.95, paperback Drawing on her own connections to India and her reflections as a Canadian, Gupta renders with a sure hand the layered realities of the two cultures. Delving into themes ranging from intolerance of homosexuality, to the challenges of being an immigrant or a second-generation Canadian, to the effects of endemic military corruption, Gupta skilfully uses powerful imagery and brilliant metaphor to distill global issues into the nine stories of this anthology.
Fiction
Fiction
Silent Girl
Author: Tricia Dower, 9780980882209, $22.95, Inanna Publications, paperback SILENT GIRL takes us into the remarkable and poignant lives of fictional daughters, sisters, friends, lovers, wives, and mothers through eight stories inspired by the plays of Shakespeare. Set in Canada, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, and the United States and informed by the female charactersof Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, The Tempest, and Coriolanus, SILENT GIRL’s insightful and unflinching stories portray girls and women dealing with a range of contemporary issues such as violence against women, trafficking, kidnapping, family dynamics, social isolation and the fluid boundaries of gender.
Sugar Bush & Other Stories
Author: Jenn Farrell, 9781895636765, $18.00, paperback
Fiction
“It’s exciting to discover a fresh new talent ... Once you’ve got it, you’ll love it.” –Prairie Fire … Farrell’s stories surprise with sophisticated twists and unexpected turns. … Farrell’s writing style throughout is both whimsical and unpretentious, making Sugar Bush enjoyable and highly readable. –Quill and Quire These stories deal with gender relations, love, and sex in a frank way. Although intended for an adult audience, they employ some conventions of the young adult genre.
Film
DAMP: Vancouver Media Arts Authors: Oliver Hockenhull And Alex MacKenzie, 9781895636895, $40.00 Cloth DAMP is a singular effort, a visually exuberant work that is also on the vanguard of theoreticalengagement, a symbiosis of form and content, full-colour throughout, inclusive of extensive imagery, graphic intrigues and typographical accent—a rare and desirable art-infused statement of the city’s media art scene—now. DAMP includes contributions from artists as Laiwan, Fiona Bowie, Ann Marie Fleming, and David Rimmer, and critical essays by Vancouver theorists includingClint Burnham, and Jayce Salloum.
Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film And Television In Atlantic Canada Author: Darrell Varga, 9781552382486, $34.95, paperback
Rain/Drizzle/Fog is the first scholarly study of film and television in Atlantic Canada. With contributors from across Canada, the book provides a broad historical overview of film and television in the region, as well as essays on specific topics such as contemporary popular television (The Trailer Park Boys), early television (The Don Messer Show) and the work of filmmakers such as Bill MacGillivray, Andrea Dorfman, Thom Fitzgerald, and others.
Film
Film
The Young, the Restless, and the Dead: Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers Editor: George Melnyk, 9781554580361, $18.95, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, paperback
The Young, the Restless, and the Dead features interviews with the accomplished and dynamic of yesterday’s, today’s, and tomorrow’s Canadian filmmakers: the late director (JeanClaude Lauzon)whose work is recognized in the canon as outstanding; accomplished filmmakers who have to their credit a sizeable body of work (Blake Corbet, Andrew Currie, Brent Carlson, Guy Maddin, Lynne Stopkewich, Anne Wheeler, Gary Burns, and Mina Shum); and a young director new to the field (Michael Dowse).
Women Between
Gender Studies
Author: Verna Reid, 9781552382424, $39.95, paperback In Women Between, author Verna Reid explores the evolving perceptions of “self” in the work of four Canadian women – visual artists Aganetha Dyck and Mary Pratt, and writers Sharon Butala and Mary Meigs. Applying feminist and autobiographical theory, Reid considers their work in light of the influences that have shaped their senses of identity.
Authors: Andrew Read And Dian Donnai, 9781904842316, $54.95, paperback Aimed at medical students, genetic counsellors and clinical geneticists, this book provides the reader with a concise summary of post-genomic human genetics and guidance as to how our current understanding can be utilized in clinical practice. The book links genetics and clinical practice throughout using realistic case scenarios which are discussed throughout the book.
Health Sciences
New Clinical Genetics
Staying Human During Residency Training Author: Allan D. Peterkin, MD, 9780802096272, $24.95, University of Toronto Press, paperback
Health Sciences
This classic medical reference, now in its fourth edition, contains vital information on coping with the stresses of residency training and on finding ways to keep healthy, balanced, fulfilled and resilient as a young physician. Informative, compassionate, and professional, Staying Human during Residency Training, is a veritable bible for medical students and new physicians pursuing postgraduate training.
History
Champlain’s Dream
Author: David Hackett Fischer, 9780307397669, $37.00, Knopf Canada, hardcover The enthralling story – told by a Pulitzer Prize winning author - of an adventurer who was also an able leader with a rare vision for a new world founded on harmony and respect – where Europeans and Aboriginals would cooperate for mutual benefit. A complex, elusive man among many colourful characters, Samuel de Champlain participated in palace intrigues, endured raging storms at sea and fought with his Indian allies in ferocious wars.
Fire And Fury: The Allied Bombing Of Germany 1942-1945
History
Author: Randall Hansen, 9780385664035, $34.95, Doubleday Canada, hardcover Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, Hansen tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved. He shows that the Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, was wedded to an outdated strategy whose success had never been proven; how area bombing probably prolonged the war; and how the US campaign, driven by American optimism and morality, played a largely unrecognized role in delivering Allied victory.
Authors: Helene Berr, Translated By David Bellos, 9780771013133, $29.95, McClelland & Stewart, hardcover
History
Journal Of Helene Berr
On April 7, 1942, Hélène Berr, a 21-year-old Jewish student of English literature at the Sorbonne, started to keep a journal, writing with verve and style about her everyday life in Paris — her studies, her friends, her growing affection for the “boy with the grey eyes,” and about the effect of the growing restrictions imposed by France’s Nazi occupiers. Now published for the first time, 63 years after her death at Bergen-Belsen. Joyful and heartbreaking.
Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Life Of Louis Riel’s Grandmother Author: Maggie Siggins, 9780771080296, $32.99, McClelland & Stewart, hardcover
History
In 1807, Marie-Anne accompanied her fur trapper husband to the uncharted wilderness of western Canada; no European woman had yet ventured west of the Great Lakes region. For the next thirty years, she would live among the native people or at fur-trading forts, leading a difficult life but one with freedoms unknown to western women. She died at the age of ninety-six; her story paints a vivid historical portrait of life in the West.
History
Road To Rescue: The Untold Story Of Schindler’s List Author: Mietek Pemper, Translated By David Dollenmayer, 9781590512869, $27.95, hardcover
Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film Schindler’s List popularized the true story of a German businessman who manipulated his Nazi connections to save some 1,200 Jewish prisoners from certain death during the Holocaust. But few know that those lists were made possible by a secret strategy designed by a young Polish Jew at the Plaszów concentration camp. Mietek Pemper’s compelling and moving memoir tells the less-known story of how Schindler’s list really came to pass.
The Vertigo Years: Change And Culture In The West 1900-1914
History
Author: Philipp Blom, 9780771016301, $36.99, McClelland & Stewart, hardcover
Early 20th century Europe: a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The closer one looks, the more this world seems like ours: feminism, democratization, mass communication, commercial branding, consumerism, statesponsored genocide, and psychoanalysis were all concepts birthed in this period. Blom brings to life the immediacy of the lives and issues of this fascinating, flawed pre-war period through a series of historical vignettes, each chapter focusing on one particularly telling event for every year.
History
What Is America?: A Short History Of The New World Order Authors: Ronald Wright, 9780676979824, $29.95, Knopf Canada, hardcover For better and worse, America has Americanized the world. How did a marginal frontier society, in a mere two centuries, become the de facto ruler of the world? Why do America’s great achievements in democracy, prosperity and civil rights now seem threatened by forces within itself? A fresh, passionate look at the past and future of the world’s most powerful nation, this book will reframe the debate about our neighbour and ourselves.
Fortune’s A River: The Collision Of Empires In Northwest America Author: Barry Gough, 9781550174281, $36.95, Cloth
History
With Fortune’s a River, historian and author Barry Gough, takes an in-depth look into the imperial struggle between Britain and the US for possession of the future British Columbia. Gough studies the players in this territorial drama, vividly recounting their hardships and struggles. This is a wild west adventure of men driven by profit to shape the history of the West Coast. Gough was the founding director of Canadian Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
History
The History Of Egypt: From Earliest Times To The Present Author: Jason Thompson, 9789774160912, $34.50, cloth
No country’s past can match Egypt’s in antiquity, richness, & variety, but here, Jason Thompson has written a cohesive account of Egypt’s millennia-long past. Readers are offered a sure guide through the sometime-labyrinthine corridors of Egypt’s past, from the mysterious pre-dynastic kingdoms to the post-modern nation-state of the twenty-first century. This is a remarkable work of synthesis and concision, offering an engaging one-volume narrative of the extraordinarily long course of human history by the Nile.
North America: An Introduction
History
Author: Michael Brescia And John C. Super, 9780802096753, $29.95, University of Toronto Press, paperback Historians have traditionally approached North America through the lens of the nation-state rather than from a continental perspective. While acknowledging that the geographic vastness and historical complexity of North America make it difficult to study as a whole, the authors build on the premise that the experiences of each country can be better understood when evaluated as a whole rather than as unique and discrete units. Topics include Native-European relations, religion, trade, and immigration.
Edited By Colonel Bernd Horn, 9781550028164, $35.00, tradepaper
History
Show No Fear: Daring Actions In Canadian Military History
This collection of essays showcases the country’s rich and distinct national military experienceand captures the indomitable spirit of the Canadian soldier. Actions studied include military bravery in the Seven Years’ War, the British attacks in the War of 1812, the Lake Erie expeditions during the American Civil War, courage displayed in the Boer War, trench raiding in the First World War, bold valour in the illfated Dieppe Raid, toe-to-toe fighting in the Korean War, and present-day heroics in Afghanistan.
Someone To Teach Them: York And The Great University Explosion, 1960-1973 Author: John T. Saywell, 9780802098276, $45.00, University of Toronto Press, Cloth
History
Someone to Teach Them is an insider’s account of the Ontario university enrolment explosion of the 1960s and 1970s, as told by the Dean of Arts at York University during these decades. Featuring many of the elements of personal memoir, this is also a thoroughly researched accountof a critical decade for the history of education in Canada.
Linguistics
One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, And Lost Author: Peter K Austin, 9780520255609, $29.95, University of California Press, cloth
There are more than six thousand languages used around the world today, although linguists now estimate that by the year 2050 as many as half of those will be extinct. This beautifully designed, engagingly written reference takes us on a panoramic tour of the globe to explore this unique and endangered human gift. Generously illustrated throughout with color photographs,informative sidebars, and clear maps and graphics, One Thousand Languages illuminates the sources, characteristics, and interrelationships of the world\’s spoken tongues.
Liberal Imagination
Literary Criticism
Author: Lionel Trilling, 9781590172834, $17.95, NYRB Classics, trade original One of the most influential works of criticism of the last century, now back in print from NYRB! Writing perceptively about classics like Huckleberry Finn and the novels of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also on such varied matters as the Kinsey Report and money in the American imagination, Trilling presents a model of the critic as both part of and apart from hissociety, and as defender of the reflective life.
Author: Ruth Panofsky, 9780980882247, $25.95, Inanna Publications, paperback
This book probes the articulation of Jewishness and femaleness through the lens of literature. Showing how female Jewish identity is constructed in Canadian prose works that span the years 1956 to 2004, collectively the essays speak to the writers’ preoccupation with cultural identity and unearth a literary portrait of how it feels to be Jewish, Canadian, and female in a world, both new and old, that often is hostile and unaccommodating.
Literary Criticism
At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers
Beyond The Box: Television And The Internet Author: Sharon Ross, 9781405161244, $29.95, John Wiley & Sons, paperback
Media
Beyond the Box charts the revolution in television viewing that is currently underway in living rooms across the country. From voting practices on American Idol and text-messaging on Degrassi, to online forums and “Save-the-Show” write-in campaigns aimed at television execs, the power of the Internet has fundamentally altered television viewing. Viewers no longer just watch TV; they participate in, lobby for, respond and relate to favorite shows and characters in an entirely new way.
Media
Blogging
Author: Jill Walker Rettberg, 9780745641348, $21.95, John Wiley & Sons, cloth Blogging has profoundly influenced not only the nature of the internet today, but also the nature of modern communication, despite being a genre invented less than a decade ago. This book-length study of a now everyday phenomenon provides a close look at blogging while placing it in a historical, theoretical and contemporary context.
Convergence Culture: Where Old And New Media Collide
Literary Criticism
Author: Henry Jenkins, 9780814742952, $18.95, New York University Press, paperback
Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award. Thoroughly updated with new material on the promise and perils of Web 2.0 and the rise of YouTube. A riveting introduction to the world where every story gets told and every brand gets sold across multiple media platforms and consumers fight for control across disparate channels, changing the way we do business, elect our leaders, and educate our children.
Author: Susan Moeller, 9781405173650, $21.95, John Wiley & Sons, paperback
Media
Packaging Terrorism
Packaging Terrorism investigates how western media have identified and covered international terrorism and violence since September 11, 2001. Comparing US coverage with that of British and of Arab media, Packaging Terrorism not only explores media coverage of terrorism around the world, but also explains the priorities, assumptions, political debates, deadline pressures and bottom-line considerations that will continue to influence this coverage in the future.
Branding Miss G: Third Wave Feminists And The Media Author: Michelle Miller, 9781894549721, $28.95, paperback
Media
The Miss G Project founded by two first-year students in 2004 and with chapters in eleven Ontario universities, has lobbied effectively for Women’s Studies in high schools, getting the media’s attention with a public image that relies heavily on conventional heterosexual femininity. But what are the next steps? Branding Miss G is an exciting and insightful discussion that takes a fresh look at how third wave feminists are engaging with the media to foster social change.
Media
Critical Digital Studies: A Reader
Author: Edited By Arthur Kroker And Marilouise Kroker, 9780802095466, $39.95, University of Toronto Press, paper In Critical Digital Studies, internationally renowned theorists Arthur and Marilouise Kroker lead the search for a new method of understanding digitally mediated culture. An indispensableresource for instructors and students in digital studies programs, this is a comprehensive, creative, and fascinating look at digital culture.
Programming Reality: Perspectives on EnglishCanadian Television
Literary Criticism
Editors: ZoĂŤ Druick and Aspa Kotsopoulos, 9781554580101, $34.95, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, paperback The first anthology dedicated to analyses of Canadian television content, this collection of original, interdisciplinary articles explores the television that has thrived in the Canadian regulatory and cultural context: namely, programs that straddle the border between reality and fiction or even blur it. The conceptual basis of the book is the hybrid nature of television and each of the contributions is a reminder of the significant relationship of television to nation building in Canada.
Media
Terms Of Use: Negotiating The Jungle Of The Intellectual Commons
Author: Eva Hemmungs Wirten, 9780802093783, $27.95, University of Toronto Press, paperback As a result of the digital revolution and the ever-increasing use of the internet, discussions around the conflict between copyright and the public domain are more prevalent than ever before. Terms of Use provides a frank theoretical discussion of how nature and culture have been transformed into intellectual property and on the origins of the concept of the ‘public domain’ itself.
Encounters On The Passage: Inuit Meet The Explorers Author: Dorothy Harley Eber, 9780802092755, $45.00, University of Toronto Press, cloth
Native Studies
In Encounters of the Passage, modern day Inuit tell the stories they learned by rote of their ‘ancestors’ encounters with the nineteenth- and early-twentieth century explorers who came to their lands in search of the Northwest passage. Collected over twelve years on visits to communities in Nunavut, these remarkable stories shed new light on the search for the NorthwestPassage, the Franklin tragedy, and the traditions of oral history.
Native Studies
White Lies About The Inuit
Author: John Steckley, 9781551118758, $18.95, University of Toronto Press, paper This lovely book unpacks three of the “white lies” about the Inuit: the myth that they are fifty-two words for snow, the belief that they are blond, blue-eyed Inuit descended from the Vikings, and the notion that the Inuit send off their elders to die on ice floats. Debunking these popular myths illustrates how knowledge is produced and perpetuated by Western social science and highlights the difference between popular and scholarly research.
The Ethics Of The Lie
Philosophy
Jean-Michel Rabaté, Translated By Suzanne Verderber, 9781590512692, $38.95, hardcover Lying is a common social manifestation that is fraught with contradictions: we lie quite frequently but we hate liars, and we detest above all being lied to. Rabaté examines this ancient problem in a new light, examining the web of lies spun by the media, the U.S. presidency, the dynamics of family lies, and Hollywood’s role in reenacting these dilemmas, deconstructing the pathology of the lie and its logical mechanisms.
Author: Terry Eagleton, 9781405185721, $32.95, John Wiley & Sons, paperback In this major new book, Terry Eagleton, one of the world’s greatest cultural theorists, writes with wit, eloquence and clarity on the question of ethics. Providing rare insights into tragedy, politics, literature, morality and religion, Eagleton examines key ethical theories through the framework of Jacques Lacan’s categories of the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real, measuring them against the ‘richer’ ethical resources of socialism and the Judaeo-Christian tradition.
Philosophy
Trouble With Strangers: A Study Of Ethics
Clothes Author: John Harvey, 9781844651504, $19.95, McGill-Queen’s University Press, paperback
Philosophy
Choosing our clothes is a sensitive matter and far from superficial. John Harvey considers the overlapping values that clothes have for us; they both cover and advertise the bodies within them, helping to define us as the men and women we are.
Philosophy
Cynics
Author: William Desmond, 978020258617, $18.95, University of California Press, paper Far from being pessimistic or nihilistic, as modern uses of the term “cynic” suggest, the ancient Cynics were astonishingly optimistic regarding human nature. They believed that if one simplified one’s life—giving up all unnecessary possessions, desires, and ideas—and lived in the moment as much as possible, one could regain one’s natural goodness and happiness. It was a life exemplified most famously by the eccentric Diogenes, nicknamed “the Dog,” and his followers, called dog-philosophers, kunikoi, or Cynics.
Deception
Author: Ziyard Marar, 9781844651511, $19.95, paperback McGill Queen’s Press
Philosophy
Drawing on insights from philosophy, psychology, and literature, Marar explores the implications of Kant’s humbling thought that “out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
Author: Ericia Fudge, 9781844651566, $19.95, McGill Queen’s Press, paperback Why do we live with pets? Erica Fudge looks at the answers offered by modern thinkers. Moving from an analysis of the philosophical importance of the Lassie myth to philosophers’ surprisingly similar musings about their cats, she challenges many of our easy assumptions about who, what and why pets are. Meditating on our obsession with domestic animals reveals many of the paradoxes, contradictions, and ambiguities of life and shows that pets are a vital resource for contemporary philosophy.
Philosophy
Pets
Illness Author: Havi Carel, 9781844651528, $19.95, McGill-Queen’s University Press, paperback
Philosophy
What is illness? Is it a physiological malfunction or a social label? Is it simply the absence of health? How do our physical, social, and emotional worlds change when we become ill? Havi Carel addresses these questions by interweaving a personal account of her own serious illness with a more abstract, philosophical account of illness in general.
Philosophy
Wellbeing
Author: Mark Venon, 9781844651535, $19.95, McGill Queen’s Press Mark Vernon argues that wellbeing is a question of meaning and responding to the great challenge of our day: the search for transcendence. At root, the life that is going well is based on love: it is love that draws us out of ourselves toward friends, hopes, and, ultimately, the contemplation of mystery.
Hunger
Philosophy
Author: Raymond Tallis, 9781844651559, $19.95, paperback McGill Queen’s Press Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While our hungers seem the most obvious things about us, they are also deeply mysterious, arising out of, and casting light on, the unique character of human consciousness. In humans, physiological need is transformed into a multitude of demands that are remote from organic necessity.
Author: Colin McGinn, 9781844651481, $19.95, McGill Queen’s Press, paperback Philosopher and athlete Colin McGinn describes the athletic experience from the inside, capturing what is uniquely valuable about sport as an activity. Mind-body unity, practical knowledge, peak experiences, success and failure, the ethics of competition, fitness and death - all these are woven into the story of an athletic life. McGinn is able to put our passion for sport into conceptual perspective, showing that sport is a complex and revealing human activity.
Philosophy
Sport
Fame Author: Mark Rowlands, 9781844651573, $19.95, McGillQueen’s University Press, paperback
Philosophy
To understand the modern form of fame (famous for being famous) and simultaneously fascinating and worthless, Rowlands shows that we have to understand a dispute that began in ancient Greece between Plato and Protagoras and was continued in a remarkable philosophical experiment in eighteenth-century France. Somewhat like contestants on a reality TV show, we find ourselves, unwittingly, playing out the consequences of this experiment.
Philosophy
Work
Author: Lara Svendsen, 9781844651542, $19.95, McGill Queen’s Press Our attitudes toward work have changed significantly in the last decades and increased recognition of it as a crucial source of meaning and social identity has led to increased demands to find meaning and self-realization in the workplace. Lars Svendsen argues that we need to complete this reorientation of our feelings about work and collapse the differences between leisure and work. We must think of work not only as productive but as recreative - in other words, much more like leisure.
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Philosophy
Author: Raymond Tallis, 9781844651559, $19.95, paperback McGill Queen’s Press Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While our hungers seem the most obvious things about us, they are also deeply mysterious, arising out of, and casting light on, the unique character of human consciousness. In humans, physiological need is transformed into a multitude of demands that are remote from organic necessity.
Author: Stephen Clarkson, 978082096531, $29.95, University of Toronto Press, paperback In the wake of NAFTA and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Clarkson asks whether North America ‘exists’ in the sense that the European Union has made Europe exist. Does North America Exist? is an ambitious and path-breaking study that will be essential reading for those wanting to understand whether the continent containing the world’s most powerful nation is holding its own as a global region.
Political Science
Does North America Exist? Governing the Continent after NAFTA and 9/11
Foreign Policy of Arab States: the Challenge of Globalisation Author: Bahgat Korany & Ali Hillal Dessouki, 978774161971, $34.95, American University in Cairo Press, paperback
Political Science
This third edition of the classic standard textbook in Middle East Studies curricula examines foreign policies of nine Arab states in the context of globalization. Korany & Dessoiki establish an analytical framework for assessing foreign policy, which they apply to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, and Iraq. They draw upon the nine cases to demonstrate how these Arab
Political Science
Rhetoric For Radicals: A Handbook For Twenty First Century Activists
Author: Jason Del Gandio, 9780865716285, $17.95, New Society Publishers Rhetoric for Radicals helps activists change the world by improving their communication skills. Many “how-to” books exist, but none address communication and rhetoric. This book provides practical guidelines for public speaking, writing, persuasion, political correctness, propaganda analysis, and street theatrics. Jason Del Gandio is a lecturer at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has designed and taught college courses such as The Rhetoric of Globalization and Public Advocacy.
What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq
Political Science
Author: Nadje Al-Ali & Nicola Pratt, 9780520257290, $24.95, paperback University of California Press In the run-up to war in Iraq, the Bush administration assured the world that America’s interest was in liberation—especially for women. The first book to examine how Iraqi women have fared since the invasion, What Kind of Liberation? reports from the heart of the war zone with dire news of scarce resources, growing unemployment, violence, and seclusion.
Author: Gwynne Dyer, 978307355836, $34.95, Random House Canada, paperback Prescient, unflinching, and based on exhaustive research, this book provides a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future when climate change will force the world’s powers into a desperate struggle for advantage and survival. Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Spreading epidemics. Drought. Rising sea levels. Plummeting agricultural yields. Crashing economies. Political extremism. These are some of the expected consequences of runaway climate change, and any of them could tip the world towards conflict.
Political Science
Climate Wars
Peaceful Revolution: 250 Years of Democracy in Nova Scotia Author: John Boileau, 9781551096803, $24.95, Nimbus Publishing, paperback
Political Science
The envy of many other countries, Canada’s political system has its roots in tiny Nova Scotia. From the early Mi’kmaq political systems to the beginnings of responsible government, The Peaceful Revolution chronicles the brawls, battles, petitions, and protests on the long road to the parliamentary democrac. With impeccable research and a strong sense of narrative, Boileau brings to life the vital struggle that created the foundation for our society.
Political Science
Defiant Publics: The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
Author: Daniel Drache, 9780745631790, $21.95, John Wiley & Sons Social activism and dissent have become global phenomena for our times. Ordinary people across the world are fighting back. This newly potent political force has defeated governments in India and Spain, and has brought down the EU draft constitution. Disaffected by the triumph of markets, public goods, public interest and public spaces are regaining political ground.
Political Science
America and its Critics: Virtues and Vices of the Democratic Hyperpower Author: Sergio Fabbrini, 9780745642512, $24.95, paperback John Wiley & Sons Clearing away the misunderstandings and prejudices that cloud contemporary debates about America, this book brings out with exceptional clarity the strengths as well as the weaknesses of the American democratic experience. In a century when no country can hope to escape from the influence of American power, it is vital to understand both. Winner of the European Amalfi Prize for the Social Sciences in 2006.
Author: Donna Palladino Schultheiss, 9781433803369, $31.50, American Psychological Association, paperback Author Donna Schultheiss provides a comprehensive strategy aimed at helping undergraduates use self-exploration tools to decide if psychology is the right major for them. She offers a detailed, reader-friendly explanation of psychology and its subfields and an examination of the importance of diversity and multiculturalism in present-day practice. Throughout, Schultheiss draws heavily on the vocational psychology literature, giving readers intellectual and practical exposure to the tools of the field.
Psychology
Psychology as a Major: Is It Right for Me and What Can I do With My Degree?
Undergraduate Writing in Psychology: Learning to Tell the Scientific Story Author: Eric Landrum, 9781433803321, $31.50,American Psychological Association, paperback
Psychology
This book takes the reader step-by-step through crafting research questions or theses, executing library database searches, analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing literature, drafting specific parts of a paper, and more. Writing samples, including two full-length student papers in draft, marked-up, and final form, illustrate key concepts such as how to synthesize literature, how revision differs from editing, and how to recognize and avoid plagiarism.
Psychology
Applying To Graduate School in Psychology: Advice From Successful Successful Students and Prominent Psychologists Author: Amanda Kracen & Ian Wallace, 9781433803451, $36.95, American Psychological Association This book provides prospective graduate students with the insider knowledge needed to bolster their confidence and gain a competitive edge. This comprehensive resource shares personal accounts from both peer and expert perspectives to fully illustrate the ins and outs of applying and preparing for the graduate school experience.
Studying Psychology in the United States: Expert Guidance for International Students
Psychology
Author: Nadia Hassan et al, 9781433803413, $31.50, paperback, American Psychological Association This book offers superb expert guidance on graduate study in psychology, specifically tailored for international students. It weighs the pros and cons of studying psychology in the United States and provides direction on how to find university resources geared toward international students, finance one’s education, handle visa and work permit matters, cultural considerations, mentoring relationships, academic development, obtain internships and training, and many other critical professional development issues.
Author: Tara Kuther, 9781433803468, $36.95, American Psychological Association, paperback
Psychology
Surviving Graduate School in Psychology: A Pocket Mentor
In this book, the author offers her considerable knowledge and skills to help you master the complexities of graduate school and realize your goals. This “pocket mentor� will oversee your journey and provide authoritative encouragement as you change from a new student to a confident professional ready to contribute to the world through basic or applied research, academic appointments, or clinical work.
Internships in Psychology: The APAGS Workbook for Writing Success Author: Carol Williams-Nickelson, 9781433803550, $26.50, American Psychological Association, paperback
Psychology
Internships in Psychology provides you with all the resources you will need to successfully navigate the internship application process. Designed specifically for doctoral-level psychology students, this volume will act as your personal mentor with step-by-step instructions to help you land an internship placement that is the best fit for you. Thoroughly updated, this edition contains a variety of new information.
Psychology
Why Aren’t More Women In Science? Top Researchers Debate the Evidence
Author: Stephen Ceci & Wendy Williams, 9781591474852, $62.95, American Psychological Association The most reliable and current knowledge about women’s participation in science is presented in this collection of fifteen essays written by top researchers on gender differences in ability. The essays reflect the complexity of views on the topic, about which knowledge has been accumulating and evolving for decades. The editors provide an introduction that defines the key issues and embeds them in historical context and a conclusion that synthesizes and integrates the disparate views.
Rumour Psychology: Social and Organisational Approaches
Psychology
Author: Nicholas DiFonzo & Prashant Bordia, 9781591474265, $62.95, hardcover, American Psychological Association This book comes at any interesting time given the sociopolitical Zeitgeist, making the study of rumor accuracy, transmission, and propagation a high priority for the international intelligence community. It will also be of interest to social psychologists, organizational psychologists, and researchers in organizational communication, organizational behavior, management, human resource administration, and public relations, as well as managers and human relations and public relations personnel who regularly encounter rumors.
Author: Fathali Moghaddam, 978143380379, $62.95, American Psychological Association, paperback
Psychology
Multiculturalism & Intergroup Relations: Psychological Implications for Democracy in Global Context
In this book, the author applies current psychological theories on intergroup relations to a variety of cultures and conflicts across the globe. While focusing primarily on the effect of globalization and how it facilitates cultural homogenization, Moghaddam examines what psychological research and theory can teach us about democracy and policies for managing diversity.
Women Street Hustlers: Who They Are and How They Survive Author: Barbara Rockell, 9781433803338, $73.50, American Psychological Association, hardcover
Psychology
While the number of women in U.S. jails remains low in comparison with the number of men, over the past 10 years their admission rate has soared and now surpasses the rate of increase for men. While demographic information is available on these women, it tells us little about who they are as people, how they become repeat offenders, or how they survive on the street. Barbara A. Rockell sheds light on these issues.
Psychology
The Glass Ceiling In The 21st Century: Understanding Barriers to Gender Equality
Author: Manuela Barreto et al, 9781433804090, $73.50, American Psychological Association In this volume, leading psychologists from the United States, Canada, and the European Union go beyond social commentary, anecdotal evidence and raw statistics to explain and offer remedies for this continued inequality, based on empirical evidence. Subtle barriers to women’s advancement to and success in leadership positions are a major focus.
Realizing Social Justice: The Challenge of Preventative Interventions
Psychology
Author: Maureen Kenny et al, 9781433804113, $73.50, hardcover, American Psychological Association This volume seeks to advance interest and knowledge in prevention by presenting a renewed vision suited to the needs of the U.S. population. The book emphasizes the potential of prevention to promote positive development across the lifespan and to foster social justice. This key text defines the field while offering scientists, practitioners, and graduate students a state-ofthe-art resource to guide further directions in the science and practice of prevention.
Author: Richard Phelps, 9781433803925, $73.50, American Psychological Association, paperback
Psychology
Correcting Fallacies About Education and Psychological Testing
In this book, the author applies current psychological theories on intergroup relations to a variety of cultures and conflicts across the globe. While focusing primarily on the effect of globalization and how it facilitates cultural homogenization, Moghaddam examines what psychological research and theory can teach us about democracy and policies for managing diversity.
Case Formulation Approach to Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Author: Jacqueline Persons, 9781593858759, $35.00, Guilford Press, hardcover
Psychology
This eagerly awaited book shows how skillful case formulation addresses a critical challenge in psychotherapy today: how to use empirically supported therapies (ESTs) in real-world clinical contexts. The author explains the basic theories of cognition, learning, and emotion that underlie available ESTs and shows how the theories guide systematic case formulation. By crafting a sound formulation and continually refining it, the therapist can blend elements of different ESTs to meet the needs of individual patients.
Psychology
Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapies in Practice
Author: Lizabeth Roemer & Susan Orsillo, 9781593859978, $35.00, Guilford Press Accessible and practical, this book provides a unified framework for integrating acceptance and mindfulness into cognitive-behavioral practice. The authors interweave elements of acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, mindfulness-based relapse prevention and dialectical behavior therapy. They demonstrate how to conduct an assessment, develop a case formulation, and derive a flexible treatment plan for each patient. Vivid case examples illustrate the entire process of therapy, showing how treatment can be tailored for different problems.
Becoming A Behavioral Science Researcher: A Guide to Producing Research That Matters
Psychology
Author: Rex Kline, 9781593858377, $35.00, paperback, Guilford Press This indispensable book bridges the gap between coursework and conducting independent research. With clarity and wit, the author helps the reader build skills to formulate a precise, meaningful research question; understand the pros and cons of widely used research designs and analysis options; correctly interpret the outcomes of statistical tests; make informed measurement choices for a particular study; manage the practical aspects of data screening and preparation; and craft effective journal articles and oral presentations.
Author: Adrian Wells, 9781593859947, $38.00, Guilford Press, hardcover
This groundbreaking book explains metacognitive therapy (MCT), a cutting-edge form of cognitive-behavioral therapy with a growing empirical evidence base. MCT developer Adrian Wells shows that much psychological distress results from how a person responds to negative thoughts—-for example, by worrying—-rather than the content of those thoughts. He presents innovative, practical techniques and specific protocols for addressing metacognitive processes to effectively treat generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and major depression.
Psychology
Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression
Women At The Top: Powerful Leaders Tell Us How To Combine Work and Family Author: Diane Halpern & Fanny Cheung, 9781405171052, $32.95, John Wiley & Sons, hardcover
Psychology
Very few women make it to the top of their profession and among those that do, almost half have no children or other caregiving responsibilities. The message for working women everywhere has been clear—to make it to the top you have to pick one—your family or your career. Using the best psychological research and personal interviews with 60 women with families and prominent leadership positions in the U.S., China, and Hong Kong, Women at the Top examines the most pressing question of our time—can women have it all?
Science
Accounting Finance Lessons of Enron
Author: Harold Bierman, 9789812790309, $65.00, World Scientific, paperback “The both frightening and lovely thing about ‘leaving fundamentalism’ … is that the leaving is an awakening … that comes as though one has finally been given permission to be fully human. This collection draws us into the beautiful complexities of individual journeys united in their liberating encounter with the mystery, ambiguity and poetry of life itself and is to be commended for the courage of its authors.” — Eileen Scully, The Anglican Church of Canada
Imagining The Elephant
Author: Christopher Vaughan, 9781860949883, $48.00, hardcover, World Scientific
Science
Imagining The Elephant is a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack, a physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 for his pioneering contributions to the development of the computer assisted tomography (CAT) scanner, an honor he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield. A modest genius who was also a dedicated family man, the book is a celebration of Cormack’s life and work.
Author: Mel Greaves, 9789812790408, $47.00, World Scientific, paperback There are countless academic books on the subject of childhood leukemia. The idea behind this book, however, is very different. Here, we look at the extraordinary story of childhood leukemia from very distinct and unique perspectives: a distinguished physician who has lived through the transition of the disease from despair to success (and who played a key role in the latter); a distinguished laboratory scientist who has helped breach the barrenness of biological ignorance of the disease to reveal its nature; a patient who has been confronted with the tough realities of the illness and has been cured; and parents who have been given the worst possible news, that their child is diagnosed with leukemia.
Science
White Blood
Playing With Planets
Author: Gerard Hooft, 9789812790200, $22.00, World Scientific, paperback we don’t have a blurb for this book?
Science
Science
Origamics: Mathematical Explorations Through Paper Folding Author: Haga Kazuo, 97809812834904, $28.00, World Scientific, paperback
In this unique and original book, origami is an object of mathematical exploration. The activities in this book differ from ordinary origami in that no figures of objects result. Rather, they lead the reader to study the effects of the folding and seek patterns. The experimental approach that characterizes much of science activity can be recognized throughout the book, as the manipulative nature of origami allows much experimenting, comparing, visualizing, discovering and conjecturing.
Molecules With Silly or Unusual Names
Science
Author: Paul May, 9781848162075, $32.00, paperback, World Scientific This popular science book shows that chemists do have a sense of humor, and this book is a celebration of the quirky side of scientific nomenclature. Here, some molecules are shown that have unusual, rude, ridiculous or downright silly names. Written in an easy-to-read style, anyones, not just scientists can appreciate the content. Each molecule is illustrated with a photograph and or image that relates directly or indirectly to it’s name and molecular structure. Thus, the book is not only entertaining, but also educational.
Author: Fritzsch Harald, 9789812793065, $19.00, World Scientific, paperback In the 1960s, Leipzig was the center of resistance in East Germany. Harald Fritzsch, then a physics student, contemplated escape. But before he left, he wanted to demonstrate to the government that they had gone too far when they destroyed St. Paul’s Church in May 1968. He accomplished that by unrolling a protest transparency in spectacular fashion. Despite the great efforts of the secret police, the STASI, the government was unable to find out who was responsible for this act. Soon after, together with a friend, Fritzsch began his journey to Bulgaria in order to escape into Turkey by traversing the Black Sea in a folding canoe.
Science
Escape From Leipzig
Entropy Demystified: The Second law Reduced To Plain Common Sense
Science
Author: Arieh Ben-Naim, 9789812832252, $29.00, World Scientific, paperback IN this unique book, the reader is invited to experience the joy of appreciating something which has eluded understanding for many years? entropy and the second law of thermodynamics. The book has a two-pronged message: first, that the second law is not infinitely incomprehensible as commonly stated in most textbooks on thermodynamics, but can, in fact, be comprehended through sheer common sense; and second, that entropy is not a mysterious quantity that has resisted understanding but a simple, familiar and easily comprehensible concept.
Science
A Day’s Adventure In Math Wonderland Author: Jin Aklyama, 9789812814760, $49.00, World Scientific, paperback
Math Wonderland is a museum of interactive mathematical models in Hokkaido, Japan, founded by one of the authors, Jin Akiyama, in 2003. The models in Wonderland , many of which have been exhibited all over japan and in cities around the world, are meant to help children and young adults discover and experience the wonders of mathematics. This book is centered around the experiences of three fictional middle-school students during a visit to Wonderland.
Charts For Prediction And Chance: Dazzling Diagrams On Your PC
Science
Author: Mario Marcus, 9781860948350, $89.00, hardcover, World Scientific This innovative book brings together two disciplines, science and art, and enables readers to produce their own computergenerated displays. 44 color plates and 200 black and white pictures showcase the diagrams that can easily be reproduced using the accompanying CD-ROM. It is possible to create diagrams that indicate predictability or unpredictability of physical, chemical, ecological, mathematical or economic systems.
Author: John Emsley, 9780654049653, $24.95, Springer, hardcover Molecules of Murder is about infamous muderers and famous victims. Few books on poisons analyse these crimes from the viewpoint of the poison itself, ‌throws a new light on how the murders or attempted murders were carried out and ultimately on how the perpetrators were uncovered and brought to justice. Molecules of Murder will explain how forensic chemists have developed cunning ways to detect minute traces of dangerous substances, and explain why some of these poisons, which appear so life-threatening, are now being researched as possible life savers.
Science
Molecules of Murder: Criminal Molecules and Classic Murders
Evolution
Science
Author: Nicholas Barton et al, 978079696849, $100.00, Cold Springer Harbour,hardcover Evolution is a new book on evolutionary biology that integrates molecular biology, genomics, and human genetics with traditional studies of evolutionary processes. Recommended as a primary textbook for undergraduate courses in evolution Required reading for biologists seeking a clear, current, and comprehensive account of evolutionary theory and mechanisms. Written by experts in population genetics, bacterial genomics, paleontology, human genetics, and developmental biology, The Evolution Web site (www. evolution-textbook.org) is an invaluable supplement to the textbook.
Science
Lab Math: A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and Other Quantifiable Skills For Use At The Bench Author: Dany Spencer Adams, 9780879696344, $59.00, Cold Springer Harbor, hardcover
Work at the biology bench requires an ever-increasing knowledge of mathematical methods and formulae. In Lab Math, Dany Spencer Adams has compiled the most common mathematical concepts and methods in molecular biology, and provided clear, straightforward guidance on their application to research investigations.
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Author: Mario Marcus, 9781860948350, $89.00, hardcover, World Scientific This innovative book brings together two disciplines, science and art, and enables readers to produce their own computergenerated displays. 44 color plates and 200 black and white pictures showcase the diagrams that can easily be reproduced using the accompanying CD-ROM. It is possible to create diagrams that indicate predictability or unpredictability of physical, chemical, ecological, mathematical or economic systems.
Author: Herbert Northcott and Donna Wilson, 9781551118734, $28.95, University of Toronto Press, paperback Molecules of Murder is about infamous muderers and famous Set within the Canadian context, this book explores the historical, demographic, religious, economic, and cultural terrain that shapes contemporary notions of dying and death presenting death not simply as a biological event, but as a social and cultural phenomenon. The book is designed for students who wish to learn about dying and death, for practitioners who work with the dying and the bereaved, for the dying and the bereaved themselves, and for the general public.
Sociology
Dying and Death in Canada: 2nd Edition
Evolution’s Edge
Sociology
Author: Graeme Taylor, 9780865716087, $24.95, New Society Publishers, paperback Our global crisis is a critical but inevitable part of the social evolution of our species. This practical guide maps a path to a more sustainable future by understanding some of the solutions – to conserve and preserve, not consume and destroy. Graeme Taylor is a social activist committed to constructive global transformation and the coordinator of BEST Futures, a societal evolution research project designed to help communities develop sustainable solutions.
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Girls, Style, And School Identities
Author: Shauna Pomerantz, 9781403982063, $77.50, Palgrave Macmillan, hardcover Writing against the grain of popular perception and moral panic, Shauna Pomerantz offers a facinating look at the importance of style for girls in school. Fighting assumptions that girls today are dupes of media and capitalism, Pomerantz skillfully argues that style is a significant cultural practice that demands to be taken seriously in the lives of girls. By exploring style as “social skin”, or nexessary condition of subjectiviity, Pomerantz is able to get to the heart of the way girls negotiate a recognizable identity for themselves.
Children’s Rights: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Participation and Protection
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Author: Tom O’Neill and Dawn Zinga, 9780802095404, $35.00, paperback, University of Toronto Press
Consisting of thirteen essays by prominent scholars, it is an in-depth and interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of children’’s rights, and a tremendous resource for those working with children and youth in institutional and educational settings. This book features 17 contributors from Brock University.
Author: David Hutchinson, 9781591584926, $36.00, Teacher Ideas Press, hardcover
One of the first practical resources that helps teachers integrate the study of videogames into the classroom. The book features more than 100 video game activity ideas in virtually every subject including; language, math, science, social studies, history etc.
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Playing To Learn: Video Games in the Classroom
Youth and Subculture as Creative Force: Creating New Spaces for Radical Youth Work Author: Hans Arthur Skott-Myhre,9780802091642, $45.00, University of Toronto Press, hardcover
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Radical youth work is gaining popularity as a means of teaching adults how, in collaboration with youth, they can challenge dominant ways of knowing. This study uses two particular subcultures, skinheads and punks, to explore how constructions of subcultures in time, language, space, body practice, and identity offer alternative ways of understanding youth-adult relationships. In doing so, it investigates youth work as a radical political process and suggests a new approach to current subculture theory.
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The Great White North? Exploring Whiteness, Privilege and Identity in Education Author: Darren Lund, 9789087901424, $51.95, Sense Publishers, paperback
This landmark book represents the first text to pay critical and sustained attention to Whiteness in Canada from an impressive line-up of leading scholars and activists. The burgeoning scholarship on Whiteness will benefit richly from this book’s timely inclusion of the insights of Canadian scholars, educators, activists and others working for social justice within and through the educational system, with implications far beyond national borders.
Nahanni Journals R.M. Patterson’s 1927-1929 Journals Featured at Calgary
Editor: Richard Davis, 9780888644770, $29.95, paperback, University of Alberta Press When you cross an Oxford graduate with a young man seeking gold and adventure in the remote wilderness, the result is Nahanni Journals. In this fascinating account of Raymond Patterson, a Londoner who finds his destiny in the Nahanni and Flat Rivers region of the Northwest Territories, Richard C. Davis reveals to us an extraordinary life. Patterson’s adventures are as swift and unpredictable as the river he canoes. Outdoor enthusiasts, historians, lovers of travel, and anyone interested in captivating stories will enjoy accompanying Patterson for the ride.
Author: Charlotte Gill, 0887621775, $21.95, Thomas Allen Publishers, paperback “Ladykiller” is the astonishing debut collection of seven smart stories from an exciting new voice in Canadian literature. Charlotte Gill is a brilliant young writer who is not afraid to stare down the truth and shame the devil. She conjures compelling stories about escape, self-sabotage, and the power of unconscious desire. A couple plots against a crying baby in the apartment below as their dysfunctional relationship begins to veer off course. A hot-shot scuba-diving instructor falls for a teenaged girl in a perilous Lolita-like romance.
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Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason and Religion Author: Stuart A Kauffman,9780465003006, $28.95, Basic Books, hardcover
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Kauffman, a complexity theorist at the University of Calgary, sets a huge task for himself in this provocative but difficult book: to find common ground between religion and science by redefining God as not a supernatural Creator but as the natural creativity in the universe. That creativity, says Kauffman, defies scientific assumptions that the biosphere’s evolution and human activity can be reduced to physics and are fully governed by natural laws.
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Boccaccio’s Naked Muse: Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoecic Imagination Author: Tobias Foster Cittes, 9780802092045, $65.00, University of Toronto Press, hardcover
Uncovering the similarities in Giovanni Boccaccio’s (1313– 1375) varied subjects and genres, Gittes’ comprehensive examination reveals a coherent mythology designed to reflect and address fourteenth century Italian cultural experience. Gittes argues that rather than simply reproduce Golden Age schemes, Boccaccio’s seemingly passive posture and subtly altered myth-making serve to model a new humanistic faith in cultural advancement. This book offers fresh insights on this hugely significant literary figure.
Depicting Canada’s Children
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Author: Loren Lerner, 9781554580507, $95.00, hardcover, Wilfrid Laurier University Press A critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children and the notion of childhood from the seventeenth century to the present and across a wide range of media and contexts. By taking into account images and image-making in everyday life, the contributors (including 6 Concordia faculty) provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on the defining role children have played in the history of Canada.
Author: Engin F. Isin and Greg M. Nielsen, 9781842779521, $34.95, Zed Books, paperback Drawing on politics, sociology, geography, and anthropology as well as psychoanalysis, philosophy, and history, this interdisciplinary study of citizenship provides insights about the relationship between individuals, groups, and polities. The essays show how the “acts” or events through which subjects constitute themselves as citizens involve both responsibility and answerability, but are not ultimately reducible to either. “…an exuberant, startling [book] about the acts that create and transform our bonds as citizens.” Stephen Turner, University of Southern Florida.
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Acts of Citizenship
The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity Author:Catherine Russell,9780822343127, $29.95, Duke University Press, paperback
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A ground-breaking and in-depth study of prolific and highly respected Japanese director Naruse Mikio (1905–69). Mikio’s 89 films, made between 1930 and 1967, foreground and challenge the rigid gender norms of Japanese society. Drawing on the cultural theories of Harootunian, Hansen, and Benjamin, Russell shows how Naruse’s movies are key texts of Japanese modernity, depicting the changing public roles of Japanese women within an urban, industrialized, and mass-media-saturated society. Russell brings deserved critical attention to this under-appreciated director.
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How The Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism Author: Tina Fetner, 9780816649181, $23.50, University of Minnesota Press, paperback
Tina Fetner uncovers a remarkably complex relationship between the religious right and the gay activist movements – one that transcends political rivalry. Fetner shows how gay activists and the religious right have established a symbiotic relationship in which each side significantly affects the development of its counterpart and reveals how this connection has both influenced and made more successful the evolution of gay activism in the United States.
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Surviving The Early Years: Childhood Diseases in Hamilton at The Beginning of The Twentieth Century Editor: Ann Herring, 9780978241711, $18.95, paperback, Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University
This book focuses on the children of Hamilton during the early 1900’s and the afflictions from which they suffered and died. Told by a class of fourth year Anthropology students at McMaster University, this story of childhood diseases in Hamilton, sheds light on the lives and deaths of children, and the obstacles they faced in order to survive their early years.
Editor:Donna Baines, 9781552662236, $24.95, Fernwood Publishing, paperback Ten authors with extensive backgrounds in social justice and front line practice come together to explore how to translate anti-oppressive theory into everyday social work practice and how to ‘do’ politicized, transformative social work. The authors focus on social work practice in a variety of settings, including child welfare, mental health, addictions, clinical therapy, women’s service, community, settlement and health.
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Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice
The Book of Negroes
Author: Lawrence Hill,9781554681563, $18.71, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, paperback
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Hero of The Play
Author: Richard Harrison, 9780919897953, TBA, Wolsak and Wyn Publishers Ltd., paperback His latest release, the 10th Anniversary Edition of his bestselling book of hockey poems, Hero of the Play, includes the introductory essay, “Ten Years With the Hero� as well as new hockey poems written over the last decade.
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Author: Patrick Henry Carmichael, 9781552128336, $46.39, paperback,Trafford Publishing A tale of courage and intrigue, ruthless ambition, and devotion betrayed. With Qori we travel through deserts, mountains, and jungles, face armies and assassins, experience the pomp and rituals of a vanished world. We follow her through tangled loves and loyalties, share emotions and personal tragedies, see her rise to become an Inca healer and, covertly, a special agent to the emperor. On this journey we meet great lords and ladies, heroes and scoundrels.
Author: Ken McGoogan, 9780006394723, $16.75, HarperCollins Canada, paperback Not long after he began reading the handwritten, 820-page diary of Scottish explorer John Rae, Ken McGoogan realized that here was an astonishing story, hidden from the world for almost 150 years. McGoogan, who was originally conducting research for a novel, recognized the injustice committed against Rae. He was determined to restore the adventurer’s rightful place in history as the man who discovered not only the grisly truth about the lost Franklin expedition, but also the final link in the elusive Northwest Passage
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Lady Franklin’s Revenge
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It’s no secret that the nutrient content of our fresh food intake has changed from that of many years ago. In this book, Askew and Paquette look at our dietary intake and nutrition in combination with natural food supplements as the path to healthy diet and lifestyle.
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Hero of The Play
Author: Richard Harrison, 9780919897953, TBA, Wolsak and Wyn Publishers Ltd., paperback His latest release, the 10th Anniversary Edition of his bestselling book of hockey poems, Hero of the Play, includes the introductory essay, “Ten Years With the Hero” as well as new hockey poems written over the last decade.
Inca Moon
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Author: Patrick Henry Carmichael, 9781552128336, $46.39, paperback,Trafford Publishing A tale of courage and intrigue, ruthless ambition, and devotion betrayed. With Qori we travel through deserts, mountains, and jungles, face armies and assassins, experience the pomp and rituals of a vanished world. We follow her through tangled loves and loyalties, share emotions and personal tragedies, see her rise to become an Inca healer and, covertly, a special agent to the emperor. On this journey we meet great lords and ladies, heroes and scoundrels.
Author: Ken McGoogan, 9780006394723, $16.75, HarperCollins Canada, paperback Not long after he began reading the handwritten, 820-page diary of Scottish explorer John Rae, Ken McGoogan realized that here was an astonishing story, hidden from the world for almost 150 years. McGoogan, who was originally conducting research for a novel, recognized the injustice committed against Rae. He was determined to restore the adventurer’s rightful place in history as the man who discovered not only the grisly truth about the lost Franklin expedition, but also the final link in the elusive Northwest Passage
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Lady Franklin’s Revenge
Secrets of Supplements: The Good, the Bad and the Totally Terrific Author: Gloria Askew RRN and Jerre Paquette PH.D, 9780978429003, $24.95, PhyteMedia Inc., paperback
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It’s no secret that the nutrient content of our fresh food intake has changed from that of many years ago. In this book, Askew and Paquette look at our dietary intake and nutrition in combination with natural food supplements as the path to healthy diet and lifestyle.
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