The stories of immigration will never, ever be complete. The shared sagas of people coming here is sure to continue for as long as more are needed to populate this intriguing, gargantuan geographic space, that has become the final home...
Essays
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Author:Mulcahy, Don, D'Alfonso, AntonioSummary: - Author:Schellenberg, Susan, Barnes, RosemarySummary:
In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning...
- Author:Kingsnorth, PaulSummary:
Paul Kingsnorth was once an ardent environmentalist. But over time, he gave up on the hope that humans will ever make the sacrifices needed to avert the consequences of climate change. Instead, he argues for UnCivilization, a renewed...
- Author:Ross, StuartSummary:
Best Books of 2005, Ottawa Xpress Writer's Trust of Canada's "Warm Weather Reads Recommended by Writers" list (recommended by Robert Hough).
Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is equal parts literary memoir, advice for the...
- Author:Rosenfarb, ChavaSummary:
Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011) was one of the most prominent Yiddish novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Poland in 1923, she survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, immigrating to Canada in 1950...
- Author:Thomas, R. EricSummary:
National bestseller - The beloved author of Here for It returns with a collection of "funny and compulsively readable" (Vogue), "hilarious and incisive" (Time) essays about what happens after happily ever after. "How is it possible that...
- Author:Dussart, FrançoiseSummary:
In this timely collection, the authors examine Indigenous peoples' negotiations with different cosmologies in a globalized world. Dussart and Poirier outline a sophisticated theory of change that accounts for the complexity of...
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This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays illuminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the traditionally close colonialist connections...
- Author:Lewis, David, High, StevenSummary:
Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process; it is also a social and cultural phenomenon. The rusting detritus of our industrial past-the wrecked halls of factories, abandoned machinery too large to remove, and now-useless...
- Author:Berman, RachelSummary:
Corridor Talk contains contributions from feminist scholars from across Canada from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. When the anthropologist Paul Rainbow coined the term, ‘corridor talk,’ he used it to refer to...
- Author:Gustafson, PaulaSummary:
The series of Craft Perception and Practice volumes gives recognition to the exciting new developments in contemporary craft practice and scholarship. This second volume brings together 22 essays and critical commentaries by 19...
- Author:Gustafson, PaulaSummary:
Canada's ceramists, tapestry weavers, and other craft artists are recognized amongst the world's finest artisans. Craft Perception and Practice celebrates the excellence of Canadian crafts by bringing together twenty-four essays and...
- Author:Gustafson, Paula, Gustafson, NisseSummary:
This third and final volume in the Craft Perception and Practice series features 21 essays and critical commentaries by acclaimed Canadian practitioners, educators and curators, demonstrating the range of critical thought about craft as...
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Recent efforts to solve the problems of education-created by neoliberalism in and out of higher education-have centred on the use of technology that promises efficiency, progress tracking, and automation. The editors of this volume...
- Author:Maviglia, JosephSummary:
Critics Who Know Jack: Urban Myths, Media and Rock & Roll is a collection of essays, memoirs and critiques on subjects ranging from TV programming, film and literature to rock journalism, with commentary on the interpretation of...
- Author:Lopez, BarrySummary:
Crossing Open Ground is a collection of essays by nature writer Barry Lopez. It's food for the spirit from perhaps the finest nature writer of our time.
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As the US and Cuba move toward the normalization of diplomatic relations after an epic fifty-six-year standoff, we find ourselves face-to-face with one of the few places in the world that has been off limits to most Americans. Standing...
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Translators connect languages and landscapes, sparking conversations that enlarge our imagination. In Canada, where translation has had an especially important role to play, the nature of the connections has changed. These wide-ranging...
- Author:Manguel, AlbertoSummary:
Tracing twenty-five centuries of human history, from the fourth century BC to the present day, Manguel dedicates each of his chapters to a single character- ranging from our best-known thinkers, scientists, and artists to seemingly...
- Author:Brundage, David, Lindberg, TraceySummary:
This collection is a compelling examination and discussion of the work of Indigenous writer Daniel David Moses. Including pieces by Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, storytellers, playwrights, academics and artists, participating...
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