Fashioning Acadians

By (author) Hilary Doda
Categories: Social and cultural history
Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada

What people wore in the distant past is often challenging to determine, owing to the disintegration of natural textiles and materials over time. Yet when new findings from archaeological excavations are ...

The Uncaged Voice

Edited by Keith Leckie
Contributions by Aaron Berhane, Gezahegn M. Demissie, Alexander Duarte, Ava Homa, Abdulrahman Matar, Ilamaran Nagarasa, Dishaly Ilamaran, Luis Horacio Nájera, Kiran Nazish, Pedro A. Restrepo, Maria Saba, Kaziwa Salih, Mahdi Saremifar, Bilal Sarwary, Savithri & Arzu Yildiz
Foreword by Mary Jo Leddy
Categories: Literary essays

Freedom, truth, and justice are taken for granted in some countries. In others, they are aspirational. And yet in others, they are deemed justification for persecution, punishment, and silence.

Through ...

Crisis and Contagion

Edited by Ian McKay
Categories: Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

Crisis and Contagion is a selection of fourteen interviews conducted by Ian McKay of the Wilson Institute at McMaster University. Interviews with Nancy Fraser, Mike Davis, Mack Penner, Andreas Malm, and ...

Yara

By (author) Tamara Faith Berger
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

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Letters with Smokie

By (author) Rod Michalko & Dan Goodley
Categories: Disability: social aspects

Leave it to a dog to put the “human” back in “humanities”

In September 2020, Rod Michalko wrote to friend and colleague Dan Goodley, congratulating him on the release of his latest book, Disability ...

New Generation Korean

By (author) Mihyon Jeon, Kyoungrok Ko, Daehee Kim, Yujeong Choi & Ahrong Lee
Categories: Ethnic studies

New Generation Korean is an immersive and visually appealing resource specifically designed for secondary and post-secondary Korean language learners, as well as independent self-study enthusiasts. Meticulously ...

Anecdotes

By (author) Kathryn Mockler
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Shortlisted for the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award

With dreamlike stories and dark humour, Anecdotes is a hybrid collection in four parts examining the pressing ...

Prophets of Love

By (author) Matthew R. Anderson
Categories: Popular culture
Series: Advancing Studies in Religion

Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul might be imagined as brothers with wildly different characters but a strong family resemblance. Paul, the elder sibling, was awkward, abrasive, and zealous. Leonard, ...

Laughing Back at Empire

By (author) Angie Wong
Categories: Media studies
Series: Human Rights and Social Justice Series

Asian Canadian activism, resistance, and art of the 1970s and 80s

Laughing Back at Empire is a ground-breaking examination of The Asianadian, one of Canada’s first anti-racist, anti- sexist, and ...

The Compassionate Imagination

By (author) Max Wyman
Categories: Central / national / federal government policies

“The book is worth reading because it does something rather special: it celebrates Canadian arts and offers ideas to promote their continued cultivation. Wyman’s … enthusiasm for the variety and ...