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Governor Sir Humphrey Walwyn's quarterly reports from St John's to London are an insider's account of events in Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946. Publishing Walwyn's reports in full, Out Here recalls in vivid detail public life in Newfoundland immediately before the country's 1949 union with Canada.

Dreamcraft is a book that crosses distances and straddles boundaries. Moving from whistleblower law to the mimetic properties of DNA, from "the entropic spread / of the drifting cosmos / after the big bang" to "the push of lawn grass / under foot, " Scott interrogates topics that have occupied his later life and writing.

Cultural visions of sleep circulate through such diverse forms as mattress ads, billboards, comic books, memoirs, experimental poetry, and bedtime story phone apps. Guiding us through the imaginative landscape of slumber, Restless in Sleep Country illuminates the figure of sleep as a site of inequity, struggle, and gratification.

While scholarship on refugee migration tends to center on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in the Global South. This book shifts the focus, revealing how governments in the Global South make refugee policy, including a decade-long account of how two small states responded to the Syrian refugee crisis.

When COVID-19 spread across the globe, protection measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and self-quarantine were experienced as life on hold. A cultural inquiry into the moment of pausing and its social, political, and personal manifestations, The Pause captures the experience of being inside the pandemic even as that experience continues to unfold.

This book explores the unheard sonic dimensions of the city symphony. Instead of looking at the city symphony as a narrowly defined silent film genre, it turns its ear to the city symphony as an audible phenomenon, one that encompasses a multitude of works beyond the cinema and that treats the city as a sonic medium.

Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors, displacing rural communities and disproportionately impacting women. Gender and the Global Land Grab introduces a feminist framework to analyze global land governance policy and offers tools for developing gender-sensitive resource policy.

In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday decision making - logic provides neutral ground for the healthy pursuit of common goals and interests.

The early elegiac poems in Bridestones emerge from the borderlands between life and death, loss and renewal. Drawing on dreams, opera and visual art, and employing symbolist and playfully surreal imagery, Miranda Pearson questions the ways we tend and grieve - for each other and our environment.

History Has Made Us Friends illuminates the nature and dynamics of Canada-US relations, examining their history, attributed meaning, and conceptualization. Contributors consider whether shared values and demographic similarities continue to cement the relationship, and if it still matters that presidents and prime ministers get along.

Drawing on British seafaring memoirs from the late-nineteenth century, Making Men in the Age of Sail explores how sailors became nostalgic symbols of maritime prowess and heroic masculinity. The book argues that maritime writing preserved ideas of masculinity in an era when modernization was challenging assumptions about gender, class, and society.

The Children's Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia Erhart explores how the film's conception, production, and reception reveal deep insights into the politics of sexuality and censorship in midcentury America and into social and political tensions around gender and sexuality today.

Odagahodhesfollows an Indigenous sharing circle, relaying teachings by Cayuga Elder Gae Ho Hwako Norma Jacobs and the diverse experiences and knowledge participants bring into reflective relation with the teachings. Each circle ends by inviting the reader into the sacred space of odagahodhesand calls for a transformation in how we live.

In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of a farm in Cavendish, PEI, already becoming known as inspiration for Anne of Green Gables. Myrtle kept a diary, describing life on the farm as it became a major tourist attraction. Becoming Green Gables tells the story of Myrtle and her family, and the making of the most famous house in Canada.

Judith Adamson's memoir reveals the questions Adamson asked as she researched her biographies of literary luminaries, and the personal challenges she faced along the way. Uncovering new information about her famous subjects, from Graham Greene to Max Reinhardt, Ghost Stories is a fascinating account of a twentieth-century career in literature.

Voting Online investigates the effects of cyber elections by looking at how adoption of online voting affects attitudes towards democracy, who uses and who benefits from the voting mode, the extent to which candidates support it, and what factors election administrators consider when deciding to adopt it. The authors provide important lessons for all interested in the health of democratic societies.

What Women Represent, the first large-scale analysis of the substantive representation of women in Canadian politics, adds depth to our understanding of issues of gender in parliamentary institutions. Using cutting-edge methodologies, Erica Rayment examines which members of parliament represent women and what issues they address, revealing that women MPs, regardless of party, are more likely to act for women and play a critical role when the r...

How do we model abundance - in teaching, in learning, in leading organizations, particularly non-profits - when dealing with fiscal austerity and other forms of scarcity thinking? Hope Circuits explores this question, balancing sophisticated ideas with democratizing higher education for everybody.

Fate remains central to many cultural outlooks, and in our age of conflict, climate change, and pandemic, it features conspicuously in debates about the future. A careful examination of this important idea is not only informative and intriguing but also timely. Fate and Life confronts the idea of fate head on and demonstrates that how we interpret and apply this concept can make it work for rather than against us.

Pharmacopoeias - books describing approved standards and composition of drugs - have come in many shapes and forms throughout the history of medicine. Stuart Anderson traces the 350-year development of "official" pharmacopoeias across the British Empire, from the local to national scale, and later to a single pharmacopoeia across imperial Britain.