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Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia by David Webster 9781552389546
Booksplease Price: £34.78What is the experience of truth and reconciliation? What is the purpose of a truth commission? What lessons can be learned from established truth and reconciliation processes? Flowers in the Wall... -
The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900 by Heather Devine 9781552386606
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04NOW AVAILABLE IN SOFTCOVER The search for a MA (c)tis identity and what constitutes that identity is a key issue facing many Aboriginals of mixed ancestry today. The People Who Own Themselves :... -
A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011: 1911-2011 by Claire Campbell 9781552385265
Booksplease Price: £40.25When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now... -
The Clever Body by Gabor Csepregi 9781552382080
Booksplease Price: £28.42In Western civilization, we have come to regard the body as an instrument or a machine that responds to external challenges but does not have a life or creativity of its own. Thanks to some of its... -
Transforming Social Work Field Education: New Insights from Practice Research and Scholarship by Julie L. Drolet 9781773854380
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £62.07Social work field education in Canada is in crisis. New understanding and approaches are urgently needed. Innovative and sustainable models need to be explored and adopted. As professionals, social... -
Adventures in Small Tourism: Studies and Stories by Kathleen Scherf 9781773854762
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Adventures in Small Tourism presents academic studies and personal stories about small tourism. While small tourism is not new, it has become increasingly important as the widespread negative effects... -
Transforming Social Work Field Education: New Insights from Practice Research and Scholarship by Julie L. Drolet 9781773854397
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74Social work field education in Canada is in crisis. New understanding and approaches are urgently needed. Innovative and sustainable models need to be explored and adopted. As professionals, social... -
Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada by Cornelius J. Jaenen 9781552382585
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.10Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada is a comprehensive study of Belgian settlement in western Canada, Cornelius Jaenen shows that Belgian... -
Social Work in Africa: Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana by Dr Linda Kreitzer 9781552385104
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Social Work in Africa offers professors, students, and practitioners insight concerning social work in the African context. Its purpose is to encourage examination of the social work curriculum and... -
Intertwined Histories: Plants in Their Social Contexts by Jim Ellis 9781773850900
Booksplease Price: £21.56How do we understand the boundaries of individual creatures? What are the systems of interdependency that bind all living creatures together? Plants were among the the first to colonize the planet... -
Grey Matters: A Guide for Collaborative Research with Seniors by Nancy Marlett 9781552382516
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.57This study marks a major step in making collaboration between seniors, academic researchers, and community researchers a reality. Many aging adults are motivated to undertake research projects in... -
Throwing the Diamond Hitch by Emily Ursuliak 9781552389225
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.56In 1951 two intrepid women, Phyllis and her best friend, Anne, set off on a journey from Victoria, British Columbia, to Red Deer, Alberta, and back again. Travelling first by 1927 MG Roadster to... -
The Free People - Li Gens Libres: A History of the Métis Community of Batoche, Saskatchewan by Diane P. Payment 9781773854335
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £37.89Revised and expanded to include fresh research, a discussion of recent interpretive trends, and a review of new literature, The Free People—Li Gens Libres is a comprehensive history of the Métis... -
Whose Man in Havana?: Adventures from the Far Side of Diplomacy by John W. Graham 9781552388242
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.22In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans,... -
Flicker by Lori Hahnel 9781773854670
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £33.09Cass Reisender doesn’t enjoy her psychic abilities. They appeared after her parents were killed in a tragic accident and led her to Madame Freyja, a travelling fortune teller and all-round terrible... -
In Singing, He Composed a Song by Jeremy Stewart 9781773852201
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773852201Author Jeremy StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint -
We Need to Do This: A History of the Women's Shelter Movement in Alberta by Alexandra Zabjek 9781773854922
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.76In Canada, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six days. Alberta has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the country. Starting in the 1970s, Alberta women's shelters have... -
Flight Risk by Meg Braem 9781773854717
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.00World War II veteran Hank Dunfield is about to turn one hundred years old. The staff at Ponderosa Pine Lodge have recruited Sarah, a young nursing student, to keep Hank safe, comfortable, and in the... -
The Material Mind Max Kistler 9781773856063
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.33The idea that persons or animals possess properties of two types, physical and mental, or psychological and cognitive, inevitably raises the question of how such cognitive properties can be causally... -
The American Western in Canadian Literature by Joel Deshaye 9781773852676
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also... -
Secession and Separatist Conflicts in Postcolonial Africa by Charles G. Thomas 9781773851266
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Wars fought for political separation have become omnipresent in post-colonial Africa. From the division of Sudan, to the continued fragmentation of Somalia, and the protracted struggles of Cabinda... -
Politics and Literature at the Turn of the Millennium by Michael Keren 9781552387993
Booksplease Price: £33.97Politics and Literature shows how important insights about genocide, poverty, state violence, world terrorism, the clash of civilizations, and other phenomena haunting the world at the turn of the... -
Missionaries among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Vantighem Brothers Diaries, Alberta 1875-1917 by Leonard Van Tighem 9781552381892
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.72Using valuable primary source material, most of which is previously unpublished, and some of which has been translated from the Flemish-Dutch and French, editors Mary Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul... -
Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories by Alex Bakker 9781773851525
Booksplease Price: £84.72A 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Title From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundly shaped the history... -
Working for Canada: A Pilgrimage in Foreign Affairs from the New World Order to the Rise of Populism by Geoff White 9781773854434
Booksplease Price: £79.20An officer of Global Affairs Canada from 1990–2018, Geoff White is a career expert in Canadian foreign policy. In Working for Canada he shares that expertise, illuminating the often invisible work of... -
Surviving in the Hour of Darkness: The Health and Wellness of Women of Colour and Indigenous Women by G. Sophie Harding 9781773854304
Booksplease Price: £74.98Surviving in the Hour of Darkness addresses the health issues—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—of black women, First Nations women, and other women of colour. The book is a collection of... -
Journalism in a Small Place: Making Caribbean News Relevant, Comprehensive and Independent by Juliette Storr 9781552388495
Booksplease Price: £34.13Journalism in a Small Place explores the changes and challenges in journalism and communication in the Caribbean in the twenty-first century. Tracing the history of media in the English speaking... -
Looking Back: Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity by S. Leigh Matthews 9781552380963
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40When we think about women settlers on the Prairies, our notions tend to veer between the nostalgic image of the ""cheerful helpmate"" and the grim deprivation of the ""reluctant immigrant"". In this... -
Suitable for the Wilds: Letters from Northern Alberta, 1929-1931 by Mary Percy Jackson 9781552381694
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78The plea was advertised in the British Medical Journal in February 1929: seeking ""strong energetic Medical Women with post-graduate experience in Midwifery"" for ""country work"" in western Canada... -
Policing the Wild North-West: A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-32 by Zhiqiu Lin 9781552381717
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32In Policing the Wild North-West, the first comprehensive social history of provincial police in western Canada between 1905 and 1932, Zhiqiu Lin investigates the complex relationship between the role... -
The First Dutch Settlement in Alberta: Letters from the Pioneer Years, 1903-14 by Donald Sinnema 9781552381731
Booksplease Price: £39.03Translated from Dutch to English, this collection of letters offers a unique perspective on the early pioneer years of the Dutch community in southeastern Alberta. The letters provide first-hand... -
The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977 by Wendy Dathan 9781552385869
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.10The Reindeer Botanist is the first biography of one of Canada's most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977) grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator... -
Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada by Darrell Varga 9781552382486
Booksplease Price: £40.37This is an exciting new collection sure to create ripples throughout Canadian film studies - an important new addition to the literature on Canadian screen culture. Zoe Druick, School of... -
The French Play: Exploring Theatre 'Re-creatively' with Foreign Language Students by Les Essif 9781552382134
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21The French Play is a step-by-step guide to the challenging process of producing and directing a foreign-language play with English-speaking student actors. Using his own student productions of... -
Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy and History by Amelia Kiddle 9781552389393
Booksplease Price: £40.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552389393Author Amelia KiddleFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures by Christian Leuprecht 9781773854373
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02Geopolitics and climate change now have immediate consequences for national and international security interests across the Arctic and Antarctic. The world's polar regions are contested and... -
Historical GIS Research in Canada by Jennifer Bonnell 9781552387085
Booksplease Price: £47.98Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct... -
Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will: The Political Philosophy of Kai Nielsen by David Rondel 9781552385302
Booksplease Price: £41.77Kai Nielsen is one of Canada's most distinguished political philosophers. In a career spanning over 40 years, he has published more than 400 papers in political philosophy, ethics, meta-philosophy,... -
The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World by Barry Scott Zellen 9781552386460
Booksplease Price: £40.75In this timely new book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments... -
Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre by Donna Coates 9781552387894
Booksplease Price: £34.13As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues...