Case Studies in Medically Caused Suffering and Death
by Juanne Nancarrow Clarke
Price: CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781487525811
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Examining high profile case studies of medically caused suffering and death, When Medicine Goes Awry critiques the present functioning of the medical care system and the pharmaceutical industry.
Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780-1850
by S. Karly Kehoe
Price: CA$32.95
ISBN: 9781487541088
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Drawing upon the experiences of Scottish and Irish Catholics in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Newfoundland, and Trinidad, Empire and Emancipation sheds important new light on the complex relationship between Catholicism and the British Empire.
For Want of Wings is also the carefully researched story of the least known of Yale's four expeditions into the American West, led by eminent paleontologist O. C. Marsh; the friendship between Russell's father and abolitionist John Brown; a portrait of a mother and daughter evolving in self-understanding; and an inquiry into matters of race in American history and the author's own family. In the end, all these pieces converge, like fragments of a fossil, to form an exquisitely patterned work of historical exploration.
In a wide-ranging survey of Canadian feminism from the 1880s to the 1980s, Demanding Equality reveals a continuous, vibrant, and often contentious search for equality, autonomy, and dignity.
Beyond the Divide explores the mosques of Canada in their diversity, beauty, practicality, and versatility. Visiting ninety mosques across Canada to document the external and internal characteristics of each one, Gaber provides the first study to analyze these gendered spaces with architectural drawings, anecdotal experiences, and interviews.
The Laird of Rideau Hall and the Founding of Ottawa
by Alastair Sweeny
Price: CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780776636788
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
This is the first, long overdue biography of Thomas Mackay, a major promoter of Ottawa as the capital of Canada. Mackay built the Ottawa and Hartwell Locks of the Rideau Canal, founded New Edinburgh and the Rideau Falls mill complex, built Rideau Hall, and financed the Ottawa and Prescott Railway.
A major figure in African American social justice movements and Black theological praxis and theory, Rev. Dr. Prathia Laura Ann Hall (1940–2002) had not been the subject of a book-length critical...
Marylyn Tan’s debut volume complicates ideas of femininity, queerness, and the occult. Theoretically informed, imaginatively reckless, and politically fierce, these poems gaze back at visual arts,...
Eleven Guiding Principles on the Path from Segregation to Success
by Lee E. Rhyant, and Catherine M. Lewis
Foreword by Johnny Isakson
Preface by Kathy Schwaig
Price: CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820361543
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
A powerful underdog story, Soaring delivers practical leadership advice, business lessons, and tips for success mined from the real-life strategies of Lee E. Rhyant’s forty years as a corporate...
Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe
by Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
Price: CA$155.95
ISBN: 9780820361642
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
How have Black women fostered belonging in higher education institutions that have persisted in marginalizing them? Focusing on the career of Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first trained African American...
In late 1872, the New York Herald named James J. O’Kelly its special correspondent to Cuba, to cover what would later be known as the Ten Years’ War. O’Kelly was tasked with crossing...
Mary Dalton’s 2020 Pratt Lecture engages with the vernacular voice in Newfoundland poetry, illustrating the move from uncertainty to acceptance and welcoming of the beauty...
An unforgettable firsthand account of how the hippie movement flowered in the late 1960s, appeared spent by the Thatcher-consumed 1980s, yet became the seedbed for progressive reform we now...
