Beauty in a Box

By Cheryl Thompson
Categories: Cultural Studies

One of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada’s black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have played in its development, Beauty in a Box widens our understanding ...

On Active Grounds

Edited by Robert Boschman and Mario Trono
Categories: Cultural Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

On Active Grounds considers the themes of agency and time through the burgeoning, interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. Fourteen essays and a photo album cover topics such as environmental ...

"Without fear and with a manly heart"

Edited by L. Iris Newbold, K. Bruce Newbold
With Evelyn A. Walters and Mark G. Walters
Categories: History

Private James Herbert (Herb) Gibson was 26 years old when he volunteered for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Born near Perth, Ontario and descended from Scottish settlers, ...

"Without fear and with a manly heart"

Edited by L. Iris Newbold, K. Bruce Newbold
With Evelyn A. Walters and Mark G. Walters
Categories: History

Private James Herbert (Herb) Gibson was 26 years old when he volunteered for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Born near Perth, Ontario and descended from Scottish settlers, ...

Appel

By Joel Adam Struthers
Foreword by Benoit Desmeulles
Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Appel: A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion is the first-hand account of the author’s six years as a professional soldier during the 1990s, and his experience in the Legion's elite Groupe des Commandos ...

The Theology of The United Church of Canada

Edited by Don Schweitzer, Robert C. Fennell and Michael Bourgeois
Categories: Religion

The United Church of Canada has a rich and complex history of theological development. This volume, written for the general reader as well as students and scholars, provides a comprehensive overview of ...

My Basilian Priesthood

By Michael Quealey
Afterword by Arthur Haberman and Jan Rehner
Categories: History
Series: Life Writing

My Basilian Priesthood is a memoir of Michael Quealey’s six years in the order in the 1960s. During his priesthood, Quealey was director of the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto and engaged ...

Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography

Edited by Aïda Hudson
Categories: Literary Criticism

Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of places, from those of Indigenous myth to the fantasy worlds ...

Avant Canada

Edited by Gregory Betts and Christian Bök
Categories: Literary Criticism

Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen ...

Feminist Praxis Revisited

Edited by Amber Dean, Jennifer L. Johnson and Susanne Luhmann
Categories: Social Science

In Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its commitment to activism and social change with community-based learning ...