2008/2009
Welcome to our third annual Cutting Edge Catalogue – a distinct and rich selection of new books with an academic flavour for our campus community. This catalogue includes some of the best Humanities, Sciences, Business, and Technology books available at your bookstore. These are the book on the cutting edge of academic publishing. With book submissions from mainstream publishers and academic presses, the book buyers from campus bookstores across Canada have selected the books that matter to our academic community and hopefully to you. You will notice a significant difference between this year’s catalogue and past editions. In keeping with our commitment to “be green”, this year we have decided to create an electronic version of our catalogue. This new format has eliminated the environmental impact of over 85,000 paper catalogues. We hope you enjoy this new format and explore some of its features. Along with the benefit of “green” this new format allows us to include not only books “featured at our university” but to include books
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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 has 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, hardcover 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 explores 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 Authors: 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, hardcover
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.
Education
Assessing The Online Learner: Resources And Strategies For Faculty Authors: 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.
New Directions In African Education: Challenges And Possibilities
Education
Author: S. Nombuso Dlamini, New Society Publishers, 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.
Author: John Taylor Gatto, New Society Publishers, 9780865716315, $22.95, hardcover
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 Authors: 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 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.
The Lens Of Time: A Repeat Photography Of Landscape Change In The Canadian Rockies
Environment
Author: Cliff White And E.J. Hart, University of Calgary Press 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 images side-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 over 100 sets of striking “then and now” images.
Authors: Geoff Andrews, 9780773534780, McGill-Queen’s University Press, $22.95, 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, University of Calgary Press, 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.
Fiction
Black Rabbit & Other Stories Author: Salvatore Difalco, Anvil Press, 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 anti-Semitic ones.
Author: Leila Sebbar, Indiana University Press, 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, Sumach Press, 9781894549707, $18.95, paperback
Fiction
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
Silent Girl Author: Tricia Dower, Inanna Publications, 9780980882209, $22.95, 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 characters of Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, The Tempest, and Coriolanus.
Sugar Bush & Other Stories
Fiction
Author: Jenn Farrell, Anvil Press, 9781895636765, $18.00, paperback “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, Anvil Press, 9781895636895, $40.00, hardcover DAMP is a singular effort, a visually exuberant work that is also on the vanguard of theoretical engagement, 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 including Clint Burnham, and Jayce Salloum.
Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film And Television In Atlantic Canada Author: Darrell Varga, University of Calgary Press, 9781552382486, $34.95, paperback
Film
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
The Young, the Restless, and the Dead: Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers Editor: George Melnyk, Wilfrid Laurier University Press 9781554580361, $18.95, 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, University of Calgary Press, 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, Scion Publishing, 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, University of Toronto Press 9780802096272, $24.95, 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, Knopf Canada, 9780307397669, $37.00, 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, Doubleday Canada, 9780385664035, $34.95, 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.
Author: Helene Berr, Translated By David Bellos, McClelland & Stewart, 9780771013133, $29.95, 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, McClelland & Stewart 9780771080296, $32.99, 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, Random House, 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, McClelland & Stewart, 9780771016301, $36.99, , 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, Knopf Canada, 9780676979824, $29.95,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, Harbour Publishing, 9781550174281, $36.95, hardcover
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, American University in Cairo Press, 9789774160912, $34.50, hardcover 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, University of Toronto Press, 9780802096753, $29.95, 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.
History
Show No Fear: Daring Actions In Canadian Military History Edited By Colonel Bernd Horn, Dundurn Group, 9781550028164, $35.00, paperback This collection of essays showcases the country’s rich and distinct national military experience and 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, University of Toronto Press 9780802098276, $45.00, , hardcover
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 account of a critical decade for the history of education in Canada.
Linguistics
One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, And Lost Author: Peter K Austin, University of California Press 9780520255609, $29.95, , hardcover 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.
Liberal Imagination
Literary Criticism
Author: Lionel Trilling, NYRB Classics, 9781590172834, $17.95, , paperback 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 his society, and as defender of the reflective life.
Author: Ruth Panofsky, Inanna Publications, 9780980882247, $25.95, , 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, John Wiley & Sons, 9781405161244, $29.95, 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, John Wiley & Sons 9780745641348, $21.95, , hardcover 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, New York University Press $18.95, 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, John Wiley & Sons, 9781405173650, $21.95, 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, Sumach Press, 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 Editors: Arthur Kroker And Marilouise Kroker, University of Toronto Press, 9780802095466, $39.95, paperback In Critical Digital Studies, internationally renowned theorists Arthur and Marilouise Kroker lead the search for a new method of understanding digitally mediated culture. An indispensable resource 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, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 9781554580101, $34.95, 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, University of Toronto Press 9780802093783, $27.95, 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 Northwest Passage, the Franklin tragedy, and the traditions of oral history.
Native Studies
White Lies About The Inuit Author: John Steckley, University of Toronto Press, 9781551118758, $18.95, paperback 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
Author: Jean-Michel Rabaté, Translated By Suzanne Verderber, Other Press, 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, John Wiley & Sons, 9781405185721, $32.95, paperback
Philosophy
Trouble With Strangers: A Study Of Ethics
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.
Clothes Author: John Harvey, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 9781844651504, $19.95, 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, University of California Press, 978020258617, $18.95, paperback 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, McGill Queen’s University Press 9781844651511, $19.95, paperback
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, McGill Queen’s University Press, 9781844651566, $19.95, paperback
Philosophy
Pets
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.
Illness Author: Havi Carel, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 9781844651528, $19.95, 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, McGill Queen’s University Press 9781844651535, $19.95, paperback 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, McGill Queen’s University Press 9781844651559, $19.95, paperback 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, McGill Queen’s University Press, 9781844651481, $19.95, paperback
Philosophy
Sport
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.
Fame Author: Mark Rowlands, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 9781844651573, $19.95, 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, McGill Queen’s University Press 9781844651542, $19.95 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.
Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation
Philosophy
Author: Michael Strevens, Harvard University Press, 0674031830, $70.88, hardcover What does it mean for scientists to truly understand, rather than to merely describe, how the world works? Michael Strevens proposes a novel theory of scientific explanation and understanding that overhauls and augments the familiar causal approach to explanation. What is replaced is the test for explanatorily relevant causal information: Strevens discards the usual criterion of counterfactual dependence in favor of a criterion that turns on a process of progressive abstraction away from a fully detailed, physical causal story.
Author: Stephen Clarkson, University of Toronto Press, 978082096531, $29.95, 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, American University in Cairo Press, 978774161971, $34.95, 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 countries manage the pressure of globalization.
Political Science
Rhetoric For Radicals: A Handbook For Twenty First Century Activists Author: Jason Del Gandio, New Society Publishers 9780865716285, $17.95 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, University of California Press, 9780520257290, $24.95, paperback 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, Random House Canada, 978307355836, $34.95, 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, Nimbus Publishing, 9781551096803, $24.95, 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, John Wiley & Sons, 9780745631790, $21.95 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.
America and its Critics: Virtues and Vices of the Democratic Hyperpower
Political Science
Author: Sergio Fabbrini, John Wiley & Sons, 9780745642512, $24.95, paperback 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, American Psychological Association, 9781433803369, $31.50, paperback
Psychology
Psychology as a Major: Is It Right for Me and What Can I do With My Degree?
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.
Undergraduate Writing in Psychology: Learning to Tell the Scientific Story Author: Eric Landrum, American Psychological Association, 9781433803321, $31.50,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, markedup, 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, American Psychological Association, 9781433803451, $36.95 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, American Psychological Association, 9781433803413, $31.50, paperback 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, American Psychological Association 9781433803468, $36.95, 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, American Psychological Association, 9781433803550, $26.50, 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, American Psychological Association, 9781591474852, $62.95 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
Authors: Nicholas DiFonzo & Prashant Bordia,American Psychological Association 9781591474265, $62.95, hardcover 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.
Author: Fathali Moghaddam, American Psychological Association, 978143380379, $62.95, 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, American Psychological Association, 9781433803338, $73.50, 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, American Psychological Association 9781433804090, $73.50 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-of-the-art resource to guide further directions in the science and practice of prevention.
Author: Richard Phelps, American Psychological Association, 9781433803925, $73.50, 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 Authors: Lizabeth Roemer & Susan Orsillo, Guilford Press 9781593859978, $35.00 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.
Becoming A Behavioral Science Researcher: A Guide to Producing Research That Matters
Psychology
Author: Rex Kline, Guilford Press, 9781593858377, $35.00, paperback 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; and manage the practical aspects of data screening and preparation.
Author: Adrian Wells, Guilford Press, 9781593859947, $38.00, hardcover
Psychology
Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression
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.
Women At The Top: Powerful Leaders Tell Us How To Combine Work and Family Author: Diane Halpern & Fanny Cheung, John Wiley & Sons 9781405171052, $32.95, 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, & 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, World Scientific, 9789812790309, $65.00, 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
Science
Author: Christopher Vaughan, World Scientific 9781860949883, $48.00, hardcover 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, World Scientific, 9789812790408, $47.00, paperback
Science
White Blood
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; a distinguished laboratory scientist; 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.
Playing With Planets
Author: Gerard Hooft, World Scientific, 9789812790200, $22.00, paperback
Science
If you think the future is a mystery, think again. With a solid foothold in realism, an extraordinary insight into scientific and technological developments, and a dry sense of humor, Nobel laureate Professor Gerard T Hooft confidently dissects fact from fiction and shows us what our future might really hold. Professor T Hooft takes the reader firmly by the hand and, within the boundaries of solid physics and proven laws of nature, takes us on a ride into the world of the future, which holds remarkable suprises for us all.
Science
Origamics: Mathematical Explorations Through Paper Folding Author: Haga Kazuo, World Scientific, 97809812834904, $28.00, 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, World Scientific 9781848162075, $32.00, paperback 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, World Scientific, 9789812793065, $19.00, paperback
Science
Escape From Leipzig
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.
Entropy Demystified: The Second law Reduced To Plain Common Sense Author: Arieh Ben-Naim, World Scientific, 9789812832252, $29.00, paperback
Science
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 and familiar concept.
Science
A Day’s Adventure In Math Wonderland Author: Jin Aklyama, World Scientific, 9789812814760, $49.00, 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, World Scientific 9781860948350, $89.00, hardcover 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.
Science
Molecules of Murder: Criminal Molecules and Classic Murders Author: John Emsley, Springer, 9780654049653, $24.95, 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.
Evolution Author: Nicholas Barton et al, Cold Springer Harbour, 978079696849, $100.00, hardcover
Science
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.
Science
Lab Math: A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and Other Quantifiable Skills For Use At The Bench Author: Dany Spencer Adams, Cold Springer Harbor, 9780879696344, $59.00, 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.
Evolution and the Big Questions: Sex, Race, Religion, and Other Matters
Science
Author: David N. Stamos, Wiley-Blackwell, 1405149035, $37.99, paperback “David Stamos’s Evolution and the Big Questions delivers what its title promises -- you get to look at all of the issues like race and ethics and religion that make the study of evolution so interesting and more than just a science. The book is written in a clear and friendly manner and deserves a very wide readership.” --Michael Ruse, Florida State University
Authors: Herbert Northcott and Donna Wilson, University of Toronto Press, 9781551118734, $28.95, paperback
Sociology
Dying and Death in Canada: 2nd Edition
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.
Evolution’s Edge Author: Graeme Taylor, New Society Publishers, 9780865716087, $24.95, paperback
Sociology
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.
Girls, Style, And School Identities
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Author: Shauna Pomerantz, Palgrave Macmillan, 9781403982063, $77.50, 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 Authors: Tom O’Neill and Dawn Zinga, University of Toronto Press, 9780802095404, $35.00, paperback Consisting of thirteen essays by prominent scholars, it is an indepth 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, Teacher Ideas Press, 9781591584926, $36.00, 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.
Youth and Subculture as Creative Force: Creating New Spaces for Radical Youth Work Author: Hans Arthur Skott-Myhre, University of Toronto Press, 9780802091642, $45.00, hardcover 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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Playing To Learn: Video Games in the Classroom
The Great White North? Exploring Whiteness, Privilege and Identity in Education
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Author: Darren Lund, Sense Publishers, 9789087901424, $51.95, 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 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.
Author: Charlotte Gill, Thomas Allen Publishers, 0887621775, $21.95, 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.
Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason and Religion Author: Stuart A Kauffman, Basic Books, 9780465003006, $28.95, hardcover 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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Ladykiller
Boccaccio’s Naked Muse: Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoecic Imagination
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Author: Tobias Foster Cittes, University of Toronto Press, 9780802092045, $65.00, 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 Author: Loren Lerner, Wilfrid Laurier University Press 9781554580507, $95.00, hardcover 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, Zed Books, 9781842779521, $34.95, 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.
The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity Author: Catherine Russell, Duke University Press, 9780822343127, $29.95, paperback 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 massmedia-saturated society.
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Acts of Citizenship
How The Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism
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Author: Tina Fetner, University of Minnesota Press, 9780816649181, $23.50, 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.
Surviving The Early Years: Childhood Diseases in Hamilton at The Beginning of The Twentieth Century Editor: Ann Herring, Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University 9780978241711, $18.95, paperback 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, Fernwood Publishing, 9781552662236, $24.95, 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.
The Book of Negroes Author: Lawrence Hill, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 9781554681563, $18.71, paperback Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea, Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. One of 3,000 Black Loyalists allowed to register in the British Military ledger the “Book of Negroes”, she gains passage to Nova Scotia only to find the haven she sought is steeped in oppression all of its own.
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Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice
Hero of The Play Author: Richard Harrison, Wolsak and Wyn Publishers Ltd.,9780919897953, Price TBA, paperback
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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 Author: Patrick Henry Carmichael, ,Trafford Publishing 9781552128336, $46.39, paperback 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, HarperCollins Canada, 9780006394723, $16.75, 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
Secrets of Supplements: The Good, the Bad and the Totally Terrific Authors: Gloria Askew RRN and Jerre Paquette PH.D, PhyteMedia Inc., 9780978429003, $24.95, paperback 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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Lady Franklin’s Revenge
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Bear Trap: The Fall of Bear Stearns and The Panic of 2008 Author: Bamber and Spencer, Brick Tower Press, 9781883283636, $29.50, hardcover Bear, Stearns & Co., a storied Wall Street firm with a maverick reputation, had endured many crises in its 85-year history. Nothing, however, could have prepared the firm for the sudden death spiral that would lead to its takeover for a pittance. In a dramatic showdown with JP Morgan and the Fed, this is the tragic story of how fortunes were made and lost.
Canada’s Jews-A People’s Journey Author: Gerald Tulchinsky, University of Toronto Press 9780802093868, $45.00, paperback The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Jews emigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered little more than a British satellite state. Over the ensuing decades, as the Canadian Jewish identity was forged, Canada itself underwent the transformative experience of separating itself from Britain and distinguishing itself from the United States.
Author: Dr. Kip Pegley, Wesleyan University Press, 9780819568700, $24.95, paperback MTV Networks is the undisputed international music video gatekeeper, with stations from Australia to India, Russia to Brazil. Canada is one of the few countries to resist its global reach. Although the network has launched “MTV Canada” with an affiliate, that station limits its offerings primarily to talk shows and lifestyle programming. Many Canadians regard the Toronto-based MuchMusic as the nation’s important domestic source of music videos--substantially different from, and superior to, American-based MTV.
Why Democracy? Author: Paul Fairfield, SUNY Press, 9780791473153, $18.95, paperback While much of the world now embraces the democratic idea— that the people must rule-the philosophical case for democracy has yet to be made convincingly. Why Democracy? not only reexamines the current debates in normative democratic theory, but also challenges popular conceptions that tend toward an uncritical idealization of popular rule.
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Coming To You Wherever You Are
Grown Up Digital, How the New Generation is Changing the World
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Author: Don Tapscott, McGraw Hill, 9780071508636, $30.95, hardcover A fascinating inside look at the Net Generation, Grown Up Digital is inspired by a $4 million private research study, now made public for the first time. New York Times bestselling author Don Tapscott has interviewed more than 11,000 young people. Instead of a bunch of spoiled screenagers with short attention spans and zero social skills, he discovered a remarkably bright community which has developed revolutionary new ways of thinking, interacting, working, and socializing.
Opening Gambits, Essays on Art and Philosophy Author: Mark Kingwell, Key Porter Books Ltd 9781554700738, $29.95, hardcover In Opening Gambits, cultural critic and philosopher Mark Kingwell puts forth an argument for the similarity between art and philosophy as forms of play, working at the margins of meaning and sense. Written in Kingwell’s witty and eloquent style, Opening Gambits is a thought-provoking analysis by a social commentator at the top of his game.
Editors: Rebecca Kingston and Leonard Ferry, UBC Press, 9780774814102, $34.95, paperback Combining intellectual history and political theory, the contributors to Bringing the Passions Back In illuminate the place of emotions in modern liberal and democratic politics: Arash Abizadeh, Leah Bradshaw, Leonard Ferry, Rebecca Kingston, Sharon Krause, Ingrid Makus, Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, Marlene K. Sokolon, Robert C. Solomon, Christina Tarnopolsky, Charles Taylor.
Does North America Exist? Governing The Continent after NAFTA and 9/11 Author: Stephen Clarkson, University of Toronto Press, 9780802096531, $29.95, paperback In the wake of NAFTA and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Clarkson asks whether North America ‘exists’ in the sense that the EU has made Europe exist. An illuminating product of seven years’ political-economy, international-relations, and policy research, 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.
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Bringing The Passions Back In, The Emotions in Political Philosophy
The Privacy Advocates
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Author: Colin J. Bennett, MIT Press, 9780262026383, $28.95, hardcover Today, personal information is captured, processed and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated technologies. In The Privacy Advocates, Colin Bennett analyzes a network of self-identified privacy advocates who have emerged from civil society without official sanction, and with few resources, but who have achieved surprising influence in challenging the most intrusive surveillance practices by both governments and corporations.
Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change Editors: Dorothy E. Chunn, Susan B. Boyd and Hester Lessard, UBC Press, 9780774814126, $32.95,paperback The image of “backlash� is pervasive in contemporary debates about the impact of second-wave feminism on law and policy, but it doesn’t explain the current resistance to feminist initiatives for social change. Contributors from various disciplines analyze reaction and resistance to feminism in several areas of law and policy, and collectively create a more complicated picture of feminism, law and social change than the popular image of backlash suggests.
Editors: Lynne Van Luven and Bruce Gillespie, Touchwood Editions, 9781894898744, $19.95, paperback In a sequel to the celebrated collection of stories, Nobody’s Mother (2006), comes an honest and poignant collection of essays from childless men. Ranging in age from young manhood to late middle age, some gay, some straight, and making their homes across North America, the contributors explore the practical and emotional issues of foregoing fatherhood.
Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World Author: Andrew Weaver, Viking Canada, 9780670068005, $34.00, hardcover Monster wildfires in Australia, ruined fruit crops in California, starving polar bears in the North, devastated trees in Stanley Park: the climate change we are in store for will be larger and faster than at any time in the last 10,000 years. Keeping Our Cool is an engaging examination and explanation of global warming with a specific emphasis on Canada, and offers solutions and a path toward a sustainable future.
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Nobody’s Father: Life Without Kids
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Unlikely Soldiers Author: Jonathan Vance, HarperCollins, 9780002007351, $29.95, NOW $23.96 - until Jan 31, 09/while quantities last. hardcover Among its countless victims, two young Canadians, Ken Macalister and Frank Pickersgill, died in Buchenwald, the Nazi’s concentration camp. At 30 and 31 years of age, they had been agents of Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), an undercover unit established by Winston Churchill that used sabotage and subversion to bring down the Nazi regime from within.
A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada Author: John Ralston Saul, Viking Canada, 9780670068043 $34.00, NOW $27.20 - until Jan 31, 09/while quantities last. hardcover In this startlingly original vision of Canada, thinker John Ralston Saul argues that the famous “peace, order, and good government” that supposedly defines Canada is a distortion of the country’s true nature. To plan for our future, it is critical that we recognize our country’s challenges.
Author: Sally Armstrong, Viking Canada, 9780670068685, $32.00 - NOW $25.60 - until Jan 31, 09/while quantities last. hardcover Interviewing Afghan and Western women who are dedicated to improving health, education, culture, religion, and human rights, Sally Armstrong compares women’s lives pre- and post-Taliban and describes how much Canadians are contributing to aid efforts in Afghanistan. The Book Store at Western presents Sally Armstrong on Nov. 20 at 7 pm, Wolf Performance Hall, Central Library, 251 Dundas St.. Ticket Info 519-661-3520 x 84573 or www.bookstore.uwo.ca ‘Events’.
The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence, and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social Ritual Author: Margaret Visser, HarperCollins, 978000200787, $34.95, NOW $27.96 - until Jan 31, 09/while quantities last. hardcover Margaret Visser is an original, one of the first writers to establish the art of narrative non-fiction in Canada. Her bestselling books masterfully explore the anthropology of everyday life, opening up the interconnected world that we otherwise might not see. In The Gift of Thanks, Visser turns her keen eye and far-ranging scholarship to the act of gratitude, embodied in the deceptively simple phrase “thank you.”
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Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots: The Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan’s Women
You and the State
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Author: Jan Narveson, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc.,9780742548435, $65.00, hardcover Jan Narveson asks the provocative, philosophical question: is the state necessary? In this unusual introduction to political philosophy, Narveson draws on the history of political philosophy and discusses its main theories - classic liberal, democratic, socialist, radical - with reference to how each sees the place of the individual in the political order.
Microelectronic Circuits 5th Edition Authors: Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith, Oxford University Press, 9780195338836 $129.95, hardcover This market-leading textbook continues its standard of excellence and innovation built on the solid pedagogical foundation that instructors expect from Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith. All material is thoroughly updated to reflect changes in technology – CMOS technology in particular. These technological changes have shaped the book’s organization and topical coverage, making it the most current resource available for teaching tomorrow’s engineers how to analyze and design electronic circuits.
Author: Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld, Brazos Press, 9781587432026, $25.99, paperback Respected New Testament scholar Thomas Yoder Neufeld offers an accessible and thorough introduction to the life of Jesus. Yoder Neufeld starts with the Jesus revealed in the Gospels, covering his birth, teachings, miracles, death, and resurrection. He builds on this account by assessing recent scholarly and popular studies, including the argument that the historical Jesus is revealed in the Gnostic gospels and other noncanonical texts.
Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North Authors: Ken Coates, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Bill Morrison and Greg Poelzer, Thomas Allen & Son, Ltd, 9780887623554, $29.95, hardcover An energetic and engaging collaboration by four of Canada’s leading Northern specialists, Arctic Front is a clarion call to all Canadians about our endangered Arctic region, challenging the country to step away from the symbols and myth-making of the past and toward the urgent political, environmental and economic realities of the 21st century.
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Recovering Jesus: The Witness of the New Testament
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Who Killed Jackie Bates? Murder and Mercy During The Creat Depression Author: Bill Waiser, Fifth House Publishers, 9781897252185, $24.95, paperback Historian Bill Waiser examines an incident long held up as an example of the sheer despair and bureaucratic heartlessness of the Depression and shows that the truth is much more complex. Through meticulous research, including letters, police and trial documents, contemporary accounts, and interviews with people who knew Ted, Rose, and Jackie, the author recreates the troubled lives and desperate times of Ted and Rose Bates.
Moving Toward Justice: Legal Traditions and Aboriginal Justice Editor: John D. Whyte, Purich Publishing, 9781895830330 $38.00, paperback Based on a conference by the same name, this book aims to underscore the urgent need for Aboriginal justice reform, to suggest the outlines of the constitutional and administrative changes that will allow reform to occur, and to explore a series of specific issues that have arisen from reforms already made.
Author: Candace Savage, Greystone Books, 9781553653219, $28.00, paperback With informed and passionate prose, Candace Savage invites readers to get up close and personal with the familiar yet wondrously odd bee, whose life span barely exceeds five weeks. She considers the diversity and biology of bees, including their peculiar sociosexual arrangements, their quirky relationships with flowers, and their startling mental abilities.
The Trouble With Lions: A Glasgow Vet in Africa Author: Jerry Haigh, University of Alberta Press, 0888645031, $34.95, paperback The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion’s other end. That is one lesson that Jerry Haigh brings home in this fascinating collection of stories about working with wild animals in Africa. Conversational in tone, conservational in theme—you will be right beside Jerry, wife Jo, and a colourful cast of vets, guides, and wardens as they scour Africa’s sprawling vistas “troubleshooting” lions, rhinos, humans, and other indigenous mammals.
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Bees: Nature’s Little Wonders
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Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games Author: Christopher A. Shaw, New Society Publishers, 9780865715929, $19.95, paperback The Olympic Games, once considered the pinnacle of athleticism and fair play, have become a cesspool of greed and backroom deals. This book details the history of how Vancouver won the bid for the 2010 games, who was involved, and what the real motives were. It describes the role of corporate media, the machinations of government and business, and the opposition that has emerged. A cautionary tale for future Olympic bid cities.
Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock Author: Sherrill Grace, Talonbooks, 9780889225862 $39.95, paperback The story of Pollock’s life from her family roots in New Brunswick through her pioneering years as a Canadian playwright to the present as she continues to make theatre. The book focuses on her career as a playwright, director, actor, and artistic director, and it places her story in the context of what is the flowering of Canadian theatre.
Author: Neil Safier, University of Chicago Press, 9780226733555, $48.60, hardcover Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, a joint French and Spanish mission was sent to the Spanish American province of Quito to study the curvature of the earth at the equator – an expedition that would put South America on the map. Safier uses notebooks, maps, and specimens from the expedition to place this endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author.
No Easy Fix: Global Responses to Internal Wars and Crimes Against Humanity Author: Patricia Marchak, McGill Queen’s University Press, 9780773533684, $34.95, hardcover The UN has adopted a “responsibility to protect” mandate for humanitarian intervention in civil wars – but there is no institutional basis for carrying out that mandate. Bringing together her own field interviews and documentary material, Marchak critically assesses the recent history of international interventions, arguing that each case has to be understood in its own context and history. There is no common pattern and no easy fix that can mend broken societies.
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Measuring The New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
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Mediations of Marcus Aurelius: Selections Annotated and Explained Author: Russell McNeil, Skylight Paths Publishing, 9781594732362, $18.70, paperback “Ancient Stoic wisdom that speaks vibrantly today about life, business, government and spirit, with facing-page commentary that brings the text to life for you.”
Legends and Teachings of Xeel’s, the Creator Author: Ellen White, unknown publisher, 1895766761, $18.15, paperback “Snuneymuxw Elder and storyteller Ellen White carries on Coast Salish traditions by sharing four stories handed down to her from her grandparents and their ancestors.”
Author: Carol Matthews, unknown publisher, 978073688252, $16.95, paperback “Written over a year in which the author was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent surgery and radiation therapy, this memoir speaks of how the ordeal deepened her appreciation for friends, family and the fragile planet.”
To All Appearances A Lady Author: Marilyn Bowering, Penguin Canada, 9780143053460, $18.00, paperback “As Robert Lam sets off on his voyage up the coast of Vancouver Island, the last passenger he expects is a ghost. But when the Spirit of Lam Fam-the women that raised himsuddenly and mysteriously appears, the trip they embark on invites a quest for the truth about a past both have been avoiding for to many years.” “Audacious and very impressive. It is a struggle for selfknowledge and moral awareness that makes this a remarkable book” The Scotsman
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Reflections on the C-Word: At the Centre of the Cancer Labyrinth
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Your Sad Eyes And Unforgettable Mouth Author: Edeet Ravel, Viking Canada, 0670068675, $32.00, paperback “Ancient Stoic wisdom that speaks vibrantly today about life, business, government and spirit, with facing-page commentary that brings the text to life for you.”
Shanghai
Author: David Rotenburg, Viking Canada ,067006615X, $36.00, hardcover With his last breath, China’s First Emperor, Q’in She Huang, entrusts his followers with a sacred task. Scenes intricately carved into a narwhal tusk show the future of a city “at the Bend in the River,” and The Emperor’s chosen three--his favourite concubine, head Confucian, and personal bodyguard--must bring these prophecies to life by passing their traditions on for generations. Centuries later, the descendents of the Emperor’s chosen confidantes observe as Shanghai is invaded by opium traders and missionaries from Europe, America, and the Middle East. Of them all, two families--locked in a rivalry that will last for generations--will be central to the evolution of the city.
Author: David Suzuki and David R. Boyd, Douglas & McIntyre 1553652932 ,$19.95, paperback A practical guide to reducing your ecological footprint from the man Tim Flannery calls “the greatest environmentalist of our age.” Everyone knows that human actions affect our natural environment. With this indispensable guide, readers will learn to consume fewer resources and become part of the solution as stewards of the planet. This book recommends actions for individuals to be more green in the homes where we live, the way we travel, the food we eat, and the things we buy.
Relentless Author: Ted Rogers, Harper Collins Canada,1554680263, $32.95, hardcover As president and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., Ted Rogers is at the head of a communications and media company that operates Canada’s largest wireless carrier, its largest cable provider, 53 radio stations, 70 consumer and trade magazines, the OMNI and CityTV networks, and other properties as diverse as The Shopping Channel and the Toronto Blue Jays. Outspoken, sometimes controversial and always forward-thinking, Rogers is a legendary innovator whose brand stands among the top in Canadian business.
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David Suzuki’s Green Guide
Imagining Science: Art Science and Social Change
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Editors: Sean Caulfield and Timothy Caulfield, University of Alberta Press, 0888645082, $34.95, paperback Imagining Science brings together internationally recognized artists, scientists, and social commentators to feature a body of original artwork and essays which explores the complex legal, ethical, and social concerns about advances in biotechnology, such as stem cell research, cloning, and genetic testing. Many important questions and themes emerge from this exchange, highlighting the linkages between scientific and creative research.
Driven to Kill: Vehicles as Weapons
Author: J. Peter Rothe, University of Alberta Press, 0888644876, $34.95, paperback The charge: first-degree murder. The murder weapon: a 1987 Ford Escort. A car as a murder weapon? In Driven to Kill, J. Peter Rothe unflinchingly examines the use of vehicles in cases of assault, abduction, rape, gang warfare, terrorism, suicide, and murder. What separates an everyday driver from a motorized menace? Read and find out. Yes, Rothe offers a trove of unprecedented research for sociologists, criminologists, policy makers, police, as well as public health, injury prevention, and traffic safety professionals, but his accessible style speaks to our fascination with car culture and true crime stories.
Author: Rod Macleod, University of Alberta Press, 0888644442, $49.95, hardcover All True Things is a critical history of the genesis and evolution of the University of Alberta and a splendid way to mark the University’s centennial. Professor Emeritus of History and alumnus, Rod Macleod, relates the University’s coming of age against the parallel history of the Province of Alberta’s remarkable growth.
The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World’s Freshwaters and Estuaries Author: David W. Schindler, John R. Vallentyne, University of Alberta Press, 0888644841, $34.95, paperback The greatest threat to water quality worldwide is nutrient pollution. Cultural eutrophication by nutrients in sewage, fertilizers, and detergents is feeding massive algal blooms, choking out aquatic life and outpacing heavy metals, oil spills, and other toxins in the devastation wrought upon the world’s fresh waters.
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All True Things A History of the University of Alberta, 1908-2008
York University: The Way Must Be Tried
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Author: Michiel Horn, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 9780773534162, $49.95, hardcover In York University: The Way Must Be Tried, Michiel Horn weaves archival research and interviews into a compelling narrative, documenting the development of an institution committed to helping professors and studies reach across disciplinary boundaries. He covers the challenges York has faced through the years - from the 1963 faculty “revolt,” to the troubled search for a successor to founding president Murray Ross, to the budgetary problems that led to the resignation of President David Slater, as well as its many innovations and triumphs.
Someone To Teach Them: York And The Great University Explosion 1960-1973 Author: John T. Saywell, University of Toronto Press 0802098274, $45.00, hardcover From the early 1960s to the 1970s, the province of Ontario witnessed an explosion in university enrolment. So dramatic was the increase that there were neither the institutions nor the faculty in place to meet the demand. In response, a dozen new universities from Trent in the southeast to Lakehead in the northwest were established, and faculty had to be recruited wherever they could be found.
Author:Ilan Kapoor, Routledge, 0415773989, $54.95, paperback Kapoor forces development theory and practice to face an unlikely combination of critical traditions: European social theory, postcolonial analysis, and dependencia thinking. In relatively few words, he hits the missing notes in standard and critical scores of foreign aid, democratization, local participation, liberal modernity, basic needs, structural adjustment, good governance, and human rights. Then he serves up Homi Bhabha as antidote. Terrific --and very stylish.
Defiant Publics: The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen Author: Daniel Drache, Polity Press, 0745631797, $21.95, paperback
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.
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The Postcolonial Politics of Development
This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto
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Author: Carol B. Duncan, 978155480170, $86.25, University of Toronto Press, Hardcover
This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto represents the first detailed exploration of an African-Caribbean religion in the context of contemporary migration to Canada. Toronto is home to Canada’s largest black population, a significant portion of whom are Caribbean migrants and their descendants.
Selling the Five Rings: The International Olympic Committee and Rise of Olympic Commercialism. Author:Stephen R. Wenn, 9780874808094, $32.95, University of Utah Press, Paperback
Selling the Five Rings outlines the rise of the Olympic movement from an envisioned instrument of peace and brotherhood to a transnational commercial giant of imposing power and influence. Using primary source documents spanning the modern Olympic record, the authors track the history of a fascinating global institution.
Authors: Edna Staebler & Christl Verduyn, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 0889204810 ,$24.95, paperback Long before she became the renowned author of the bestselling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Macleans, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the age of sixteen and continued to write for over eighty years. Must Write: Edna Staebler’s Diaries draws from these diaries selections that map Staebler’s construction of herself as a writer and documents her frustrations and struggles, along with her desire to express herself, in writing.
Waterloo: An Illustrated History
Authors: Kenneth McLaughlin and Sharan Jaeger, City of Waterloo, 9780961117513, $65.00, hardcover A revised edition of Waterloo: An Illustrated History will have a whole new look to it, along with additional chapters to update the original book, published in 1990. “There is a different feeling,” said co-author Ken McLaughlin, a history professor at the University of Waterloo. “The use of illustrations has changed the style of the book and almost every photograph is new.” The revised edition, due for release in mid-October, will help mark the city’s 150th anniversary.
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