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Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America: Material Culture in Motion, c.1780 - 1980 by Beverly Lemire
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.55Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and... -
Beyond Intimacy: Radical Proximity and Justice in Three Mexican Poets by Christina Karageorgou-Bastea
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £67.40The ethos of poetry and its social efficacy cannot be underestimated in the quest for a fair society. The works of three contemporary Mexican poets - Abigael Bohorquez, Myriam Moscona, and Gloria... -
Recognition and Revelation: Short Nonfiction Writings by Margaret Laurence
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £29.42Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation's most respected authors. She was also an accomplished essayist, yet today her nonfiction... -
Watermelon Snow: Science, Art, and a Lone Polar Bear by Lynne Quarmby
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42Concern about the climate crisis is widespread as humans struggle to navigate life in uncertain times. From the vantage of a schooner full of artists on an adventure in the high Arctic, biologist... -
Sacred Cyberspaces: Catholicism, New Media, and the Religious Experience by Oren Golan
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.65In recent years every major institution has had to adapt to the fast-evolving technologies of the digital age or risk being left behind. Amid a global crisis of faith and declining levels of... -
SARS in Context: Memory, History, and Policy: Volume 27 by Jacalyn Duffin
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21An analysis of the 2003 SARS outbreak by physicians involved in the crisis, historians, and policy experts.An analysis of the 2003 SARS outbreak by physicians involved in the crisis, historians, and... -
The Making of a Museum by Judith Nasby
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65Judith Nasby, founding director and curator of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, animates the story of the gallery from its humble beginnings in the hallways of a university campus in 1916 to its... -
Collected Poems of Bronwen Wallace by Bronwen Wallace
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.28Bronwen Wallace was recognized in the last decade of her short life as a major Canadian poet and a significant figure in the growth of the feminist movement. The author of five collections of poetry... -
The Cry of Vertieres: Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti: Volume 5 by Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.10This book tells the story of the Battle of Vertieres, fought in 1803 between indigenous Haitian forces under the leadership of Jean-Jacques Dessalines and a French expeditionary army commanded by... -
The Mirror of the Worlde by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £35.59The Mirror of the Worlde is an important addition to the canon of Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. Best known for her play The Tragedy of Mariam, Cary is revealed here as a sheltered but precocious child who... -
Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in Canada by Marlene Goldman
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.62Since the 1860s, long before scientists put a name to Alzheimer's disease, Canadian authors have been writing about age-related dementia. Originally, most of these stories were elegies, designed to... -
Onward, Dear Boys: A Family Memoir of the Great War by Philippe Bieler 9780773544680
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.50The Bieler family's vast collection of wartime letters and photographs tell intimate, firsthand stories of five young brothers and their parents. In Onward, Dear Boys, Philippe Bieler skilfully... -
Statesman of the Piano: Jazz, Race, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper by Sean Mills 9780228018803
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Ontario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894–1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem,... -
The Boundaries of Ethnicity: German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in Ontario by Benjamin Bryce 9780228013952
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European settlers from diverse backgrounds transformed Ontario. By 1881, German speakers made up almost ten per cent of the province's population... -
Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Imaginaries by Paul Stubbs 9780228014652
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.65After a summit in Belgrade in September 1961, socialist Yugoslavia, led by President Josip Broz Tito until his death in 1980, initiated a movement with states in the Global South. The Non-Aligned... -
From Big Bang to Big Data: A History of the Media by Johan Jarlbrink 9780228014263
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53Does media history really start with a bang? More than just newspapers, television, and social networks, media are the means by which any information is communicated, from cosmic radiation traces to... -
Filling the Ranks: Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918: Volume 239 by Richard Holt 9780773548770
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.28Manpower is the lifeblood of armies regardless of time or place. In the First World War, much of Canada's military effort went toward sustaining the Canadian Expeditionary Force, especially in France... -
Flora!: A Woman in a Man's World by Flora MacDonald 9780228018421
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66Flora Isabel MacDonald - politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women - was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by... -
Genocide: The Power and Problems of a Concept by Andrea Graziosi 9780228011712
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Since the 1980s the study of genocide has exploded, both historically and geographically, to encompass earlier epochs, other continents, and new cases. The concept of genocide has proved its worth,... -
Bringing Art to Life: A Biography of Alan Jarvis: Volume 2 by Andrew Horrall 9780773535749
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.78The extraordinary life and tragic fate of one of Canada's most iconic cultural figuresThe extraordinary life and tragic fate of one of Canada's most iconic cultural figuresAbout the AuthorAndrew... -
Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination by Penny Cousineau-Levine 9780773528260
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.51The first book-length, in-depth study of contemporary Canadian art photography.The first book-length, in-depth study of contemporary Canadian art photography.About the AuthorCAReviews'"How refreshing... -
Fictions of Gender: Women, Femininity, and the Zionist Imagination by Orian Zakai 9780228017066
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In the wake of the #MeToo movement, gender scholars and activists have asked whether a reconcilliation between Zionism and feminism is possible in the current political landscape. Fictions of Gender... -
Rethinking Professionalism: Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970: Volume 8 by Kristina Huneault 9780773539662
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £50.40The history of women and art in Canada has often been celebrated as a story of progress from amateur to professional practice. Rethinking Professionalism challenges this narrative by questioning the... -
Canadian and Mexican Security in the New North America: Challenges and Prospects by Jordi Diez 9781553391227
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £46.78Timely and insightful analyses of the security relations between Canada and Mexico in a post-9/11 North America.Timely and insightful analyses of the security relations between Canada and Mexico in a... -
Send Them Here: Religion, Politics, and Refugee Resettlement in North America by Geoffrey Cameron 9780228005513
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40The United States and Canada have historically accepted approximately three-quarters of resettled refugees, leading the world in this key aspect of global refugee protection. Between 1945 and 1980,... -
Restoring the Spirit: The Beginnings of Occupational Therapy in Canada, 1890-1930 by Judith Friedland 9780773539228
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Tracing the influence of popular political and social movements of the time, including the Mental Hygiene, Arts and Crafts, and Settlement House movements, Judith Friedland tells the stories of... -
NATO and the Bomb by Erika Simpson 9780773520882
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £47.08Using a new conceptual framework, this study documents and analyses the underlying convictions of influential Canadians, explains why there were such varied degrees of support for NATO, and shows why... -
The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World: An Essay in Comparative History: Volume 211 by Gerard Bouchard 9780773532137
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £47.08A comparative, post-colonial exploration of how the collectivities of the New World became nationsA comparative, post-colonial exploration of how the collectivities of the New World became... -
Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities: Migration to Upper Canada in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: Volume 24 by Elizabeth Jane Errington 9780773532656
Booksplease Price: £46.78A study of "leaving home" and the experiences of British and Irish migrants as they made their way to Upper Canada.A study of "leaving home" and the experiences of British and Irish migrants as they... -
Trade Barriers to the Public Good: Free Trade and Environmental Protection by Alex C. Michalos 9780773533523
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £47.08Shows why and how trade deals subvert democracy and reduce environmental protectionShows why and how trade deals subvert democracy and reduce environmental protectionAbout the AuthorAlex C. Michalos... -
Local Government and Metropolitan Regions in Federal Countries: Volume 6 by John Kincaid 9780773535626
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £47.08While local government is found in all federal countries, its place and role in the governance of these countries varies considerably. In some countries, local government is considered an essential... -
Canadian Environmental Philosophy by C. Tyler DesRoches 9780773556676
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Canadian Environmental Philosophy is the first collection of essays to take up theoretical and practical issues in environmental philosophy today, from a Canadian perspective. The essays cover... -
The Video Art of Sylvia Safdie by Eric Lewis 9780773541696
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £20.13The Video Art of Sylvia Safdie brings into focus the complete video oeuvre of a pioneering Canadian artist. Tracing the development of Safdie's work and its implications for the future of media art,... -
Discovering Confederation: A Canadian's Story: Volume 18 by Janet Ajzenstat 9780773543249
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Janet Ajzenstat is one of Canada's most respected thinkers on the moral and philosophical foundations of responsible government and Confederation. Discovering Confederation is a study of political... -
Flowers on the Rock: Global and Local Buddhisms in Canada by John S. Harding 9780773543386
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.81When Sasaki Sokei-an founded his First Zen Institute of North America in 1930 he suggested that bringing Zen Buddhism to America was like "holding a lotus against a rock and waiting for it to set... -
The Word and Its Ways in English: Essays on the Parts of Speech and Person by Walter Hirtle 9780773549654
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £89.10Words are the foundation, the building blocks of language. While an obvious and irreplaceable concept in the minds of non-linguists, the entry "word" does not figure in the indexes of some books on... -
Governing Public-Private Partnerships by Joshua Newman 9780773549999
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.18Governments around the world are clamouring to engage the private sector in order to build infrastructure and deliver public services. However, the role of the state in managing new relationships... -
The Life of Luigi Giussani by Alberto Savorana 9780773551855
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.38Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922-2005) was the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation in Italy, which has hundreds of thousands of adherents around the globe. In The Life of... -
Leading from Between: Indigenous Participation and Leadership in the Public Service: Volume 94 by Catherine Althaus 9780773559141
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Since the 1970s governments in Canada and Australia have introduced policies designed to recruit Indigenous people into public services. Today, there are thousands of Indigenous public servants in... -
Fortune Favours a Bieler: Adventures in Life, Love, and Business by Philippe Bieler 9780228018889
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Fortune Favours a Bieler is the colourful story of Philippe Bieler's life and his long journey through the eventful twentieth century and beyond. It begins with his escape from war-torn Europe in...