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The Wolves at My Shadow: The Story of Ingelore Rothschild by Ingelore Rothschild
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53Ingelore Rothschild was twelve years old when she was whisked out of her home in 1936. It was her first step on a cross-continent journey to Japan, where she and her parents sought refuge from rising... -
Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North by Kenneth Pratt
RRP: $99.45Booksplease Price: $82.37The North is changing at an unprecedented rate as industrial development and the climate crisis disrupt not only the environment but also long-standing relationships to the land and traditional means... -
How to Read Like You Mean It by Kyle Conway
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.74In this candid and concise volume, Kyle Conway, author of The Art of Communication in a Polarized World, considers how we can open ourselves to others and to ideas that scare us by reading difficult... -
A Sales Tax for Alberta: Why and How by Robert L. Ascah
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.74The days of buoyant capital investment, jobs, and wealth are passing Alberta by as the boom-and-bust cycle runs its course and the global climate crisis becomes more acute. As the province scrambles... -
Canada's Labour Market Training System by Bob Barnetson
Booksplease Price: $63.88How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and... -
A Woman of Valour: The Biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle by Claire Trepanier
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53The biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle tells of a youngCanadian woman of humble background who, at the turn of the 20thcentury, discovers love with the priest of her village, a man 33... -
American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Detente, 1945-1970 by Anthony Carew 9781771992114
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $73.28During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade unions were a substantial force in both American... -
Scaling Up: The Convergence of the Social Economy and Sustainability by Mike Gismondi 9781771990219
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.83When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of theircommunity, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives,community-based social services, local non-profit... -
Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces by Laura Peers 9781771990370
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $57.06In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by theUniversity of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought toAlberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the GaltMuseum, in... -
Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century: Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism by Andrew Parnaby 9781771994040
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $62.56The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the "long twentieth century" offers a particularly captivating window on the... -
Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees Yasmeen Abu-Laban 9781771994101
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $56.47Refugees face distinct challenges and are often subject to dehumanization by politicians, media, and the public. In this context, Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees provides urgent insights and... -
Dustship Glory by Andreas Schroeder 9781926836225
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07In this new edition of a prairie classic, Andreas Schroederfictionalizes the true story of Tom Sukanen’s wild scheme tobuild an ocean-going ship in the middle of a wheat field inSaskatchewan. Set... -
Bomb Canada: and Other Unkind Remarks in the American Media by Chantal Allan 9781897425497
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05Canada and the United States. Two nations, one border, same continent.Anti-American sentiment in Canada is well documented, but what haveAmericans had to say about their northern neighbour? Allan... -
Under Siege: The Independent Labour Party in Interwar Britain by Ian Bullock 9781771991551
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $57.95During the period between the two world wars, the Independent Labour Party was the main voice of radical socialism in Great Britain. Founded in 1893, the ILP had affiliated to the Labour Party in... -
Before and After Radical Prostate Surgery: Information and Resource Guide by Virginia Vandall-Walker 9781897425176
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $12.81Aimed at men with concerns about prostate surgery and their partners,this invaluable guide includes chapters on preparing for prostatesurgery, the surgery itself, recovery in hospital and at home, a... -
The Virtues of Disillusionment by Steven Heighton
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07Most people go through life chasing illusions of success, fame, wealth, happiness, and few things are more painful than the reality-revealing loss of an illusion. But if illusions are negative, why... -
Trail of Story, Travellers' Path: Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape by Leslie Main Johnson
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $49.41Trail of Story, Traveller's Path examines the meaning of landscape, drawn from Leslie Main Johnson's rich experience with diverse environments and peoples, including the Gitksan and Witsuwit'en of... -
What is Cognitive Psychology? by Michael R.W. Dawson
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05To answer the question of what cognitive psychology is you must first understand its theoretical foundations-foundations which have often received very little attention in modern textbooks. Author... -
Unforgetting Private Charles Smith by Jonathan Locke Hart
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $29.07Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier's small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary's first entry was... -
Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them by Mark A. McCutcheon
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07In this inventive collection of poems, McCutcheon engages in sophisticated literary play and deploys the Surrealist practices of juxtaposition. Moving from eroticism to the macabre and from... -
Bucking Conservatism: Alternative Stories of Alberta from the 60s and 70s by Leon Crane Bear 9781771992572
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.83With lively, informative contributions by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta's conservative status quo in the 60s and 70s... -
Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927 by Keith D. Smith 9781897425398
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.83Canada is regularly presented as a country where liberalism has ensuredfreedom and equality for all. Yet with the expansion of settlers intothe First Nations territories that became southern Alberta... -
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"Truth Behind Bars": Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution by Paul Kellogg 9781771992459
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $53.43Just north of the Arctic Circle is the settlement of Vorkuta, a notorious camp in the Gulag internment system that witnessed three pivotal moments in Russian history. In the 1930s, a desperate hunger... -
Political Activist Ethnography: Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle by Agnieszka Doll 9781771993982
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $53.43As activists strategize, build resistance, and foster solidarity, they also call for better dialogue between researchers and movements and for research that can aid their causes. In this volume,... -
Strategic Nonviolent Power: The Science of Satyagraha by Mark A. Mattaini 9781927356418
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.74History indicates that there are powerful routes to liberation fromoppression that do not involve violence. Mohandas Gandhi called for ascience of nonviolent action, one based on satyagraha, or... -
Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education Chelsea Temple Jones 9781771994163
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.24Online education is often heralded as a solution for accessibility to higher education; however, ableism thrives online. In this timely collection, contributors aim to trouble what online teaching... -
The Practice of Human Resource Management in Canada by Bob Barnetson 9781771994255
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $56.47This introductory human resource management (HRM) textbook provides students with an overview of the major domains of human resource management (the "how-to") with a focus on the practical... -
From Turtle Island to Gaza by David Groulx 9781771992619
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07With a sure voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabee writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared... -
The Wikimedia Movement in Canada: Communities, Institutions, and Free Culture Jean-Michel Lapointe 9781771994521
Booksplease Price: $63.18This book explores Canadian participation in Wikimedia platforms through identity dynamics, institutional collaborations and contributors' literacies. It highlights the country's cultural diversity... -
To Know Our Many Selves: From the Study of Canada to Canadian Studies by Dirk Hoerder 9781897425725
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $49.41To Know Our Many Selves profiles the history of Canadianstudies, which began as early as the 1840s with the Study of Canada. Indiscussing this comprehensive examination of culture, Hoerderhighlights... -
Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile by Farideh Goldin 9781771991377
Booksplease Price: $49.76In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in searchof her imagined America. Meanwhile, the political unrest in Iranintensified and in 1979, Farideh's family was forced to flee... -
The Metabolism of Desire: The Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti by Guido Cavalcanti 9781926836843
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53all pale beside my lady whose lovelyface cio passa la beltate e la valenza and gentle heart show theunworthiness de la mia donna e 'l su' gentil coraggio, of him who catches a glimpse of... -
Through Feminist Eyes: Essays on Canadian Women's History by Joan Sangster 9781926836188
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.87Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisiveand insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadianhistorian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has... -
Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training by Mohamed Ally
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $56.47This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobiletechnology for various distance learning applications. Readers willdiscover how to design learning materials for delivery on... -
Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda by Olaf Zawacki-Richter
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $57.06Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda offersa systematic overview of the major issues, trends, and areas ofpriority in online distance education research. In each chapter,... -
The Art of Communication in a Polarized World by Kyle Conway
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $33.62People's minds are hard to change. In North America and elsewhere, communities are fractured along ideological lines as social media and algorithms encourage individuals to seek out others who think... -
Drink in the Summer: A Memoir of Croatia by Tony Fabijančić 9781771993807
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $39.99Since childhood, Tony Fabijančić has travelled frequently to Yugoslavia and Croatia, the homeland of his father. He spent time with his peasant family in the village of Srebrnjak in the north and... -
Principles of Blended Learning: Shared Metacognition and Communities of Inquiry by Norman D. Vaughan 9781771993920
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.24The rapid migration to remote instruction during the Covid-19 pandemic has expedited the need for more research, expertise, and practical guidelines for online and blended learning. A theoretical... -
Connectionist Representations of Tonal Music: Discovering Musical Patterns by Interpreting Artifical Neural Networks by Michael R. W. Dawson 9781771992206
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $57.99Previously, artificial neural networks have been used to capture only the informal properties of music. However, cognitive scientist Michael Dawson found that by training artificial neural networks... -
The Finest Blend: Graduate Education in Canada by Gale Parchoma 9781771992770
RRP: $76.05Booksplease Price: $55.87As Canadian universities work to increase access to graduate education, many are adopting blended modes of delivery for courses and programs. Within this changing landscape of higher education, The...