Bestselling, Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings fresh eyes and new insights to today's urgent conversation on race and racism in startling, illuminating essays that grow out of his own experience as a Black man...
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The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America's leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks...
- Author:Jaarsma, Ada S., Dobson, Kit, Cawsey, Kathy, Jones, Rachel, Kinaschuk, Kyle, Mitra, Namrata, Obrecht, Guy, Pettinen, Katja K., Rothberger, Kaitlin, Shipley, Ely, Shuster, MartinSummary:
Dissonant Methods is an innovative collection that probes how, by approaching teaching creatively, postsecondary instructors can resist the constrictions of neoliberalism. Based on the foundations of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning...
- Author:Gibson, WilliamSummary:
Though William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, he is also a widely sought out magazine journalist and critic. Here, his collected essays and articles are presented together for the first time.
- Author:Orenstein, PeggySummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays-funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing,...
- Author:Henrie, MauriceSummary:
Ici, écrire rime avec réfléchir, et avec exister. Brefs, compacts et chargés, ces vingt-cinq essais philosophiques, qui entremêlent contemplation, opinion, souvenir, et sont magnifiquement couronnés d'exergues tirés de la grande...
- Author:Stern, Fritz RichardSummary:
In this collection of ten essays, Fritz Stern - widely regarded as America's foremost authority on modern Germany - illustrates the 'German drama,' the story of a country whose history has comprised the promise of twentieth-century...
- Author:Pickering, SamSummary:
Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted life. Sam Pickering — the inspiration...
- Author:Hyland, VeroniqueSummary:
Veronique Hyland takes aim at the institutions within the fashion industry while reminding us of the importance of dress and what it means for self-presentation. Everything from societal changes to the progress (or lack thereof) of...
- Author:Sedaris, DavidSummary:
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a...
- Author:McMichael Canadian Art CollectionSummary:
A landmark publication bringing together more than seventy voices illuminating the rich array of Indigenous art held by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Under the editorial direction of Anishinaabe artist and scholar Bonnie Devine...
- Author:Momaday, N. ScottSummary:
Poet N. Scott Momaday reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people. He recalls stories of his childhood passed down through generations that reveal a profound, sacred connection to the American landscape and a reverence...
- Author:Campbell, JonahSummary:
In this series of thoughtful essays and stink-eyed observations, Jonah Campbell explores food and drink in the modern world, from pig heads and whisky to fine wine and French gastronomy, Nigella Lawson to David Cronenberg, with a trail...
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Twelve essays are presented by outstanding authorities in Nordic medieval studies and range from treatment of broad aspects of the Edda, to consideration of single poems, to analysis of parts of specific works. An attactive and...
- Author:Pickering, SamSummary:
Part travelogue, part psychological self-study, Sam Pickering's Edinburgh Days, or Doing What I Want to Do is an open invitation to be led on a walking tour of Scotland's capital, as well as through the labyrinth of the guide's swerving...
- Author:Plaut, W. Gunther, Plaut, Jonathan V.Summary:
W. Gunther Plaut is one of Reform Judaism’s most acclaimed twentieth century rabbis and scholars. He is a gifted writer and intellectual whose ideas garner devotees throughout the world. Eight Decades: The Selected Writings of W....
- Author:Dixon, Joan, Howard, BarbSummary:
Home front. It’s hard to separate that word from war. In the First and Second World Wars, the home front was a clear entity and location: if you weren’t on the frontlines, you were on the home front. But during current times of...
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Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is a classic of science fiction. Though it began its life as a short story, it was later expanded into a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel, served as a springboard for a much larger universe...
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To understand why prisons are frequently overcrowded and expanding, we need to recognize the processes that populate them. How do societies decide whom to criminalize? What does it mean to accuse someone of being an offender? Entryways...
- Author:Clapperton, JonathanSummary:
Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. It illuminates the questions that...
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