Chenivir kilwaariyaa lupes utipaachimuwin waaswaanipiihch uhchiiu = Chenivir kalwaariyaa lwaapes utipaachimuwin, waaswaanipiiuiinuu / L'histoire de Jennifer Gloria Lowpez de Waswanipi

By Ruth DyckFehderau
With James Bay Cree Storytellers
Translated by Luci Bobbish-Salt, Louise Blacksmith, and Valérie Duro

Jennifer's life is falling apart and she escapes into booze, cocaine, and junk food. When they're not numbing enough, she slits a vein and tries to die but that doesn't work either. She has to try something ...

Catastrophe

By T. Joseph Scanlon
Edited by Roger Sarty
Subjects: Emergency Services, Geography

Catastrophe weaves together compelling stories and potent lessons learned from the calamitous Halifax explosion—the worst non-natural disaster in North America before 9/11.

On December 6, 1917, the ...

Feminist Praxis Revisited

Edited by Amber Dean, Jennifer L. Johnson, and Susanne Luhmann
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Education, Women’s Studies

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 ...

Map Worlds

By Will C. van den Hoonaard
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Geography, Gender Studies

Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil.

Author Will ...

DisPlace

By Nduka Otiono
Edited by Peter Midgley
Afterword by Chris Dunton
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada. His work straddles multiple poetic traditions and ...

Joel Adam Struthers

Joel Adam Struthers is a former Legionnaire, a helicopter pilot and a partner in a Canadian risk mitigation firm that solves difficult problems in challenging environments. The author donates his royalties ...

The Cigar Factory of Isay Rottenberg

By Hella Rottenberg & Sandra Rottenberg
Translated by Jonathan Reeder
Afterword by Robert Rotenberg
Subjects: History, Jewish Studies, Biography & Autobiography, German Studies

In 1932, Isay Rottenberg, a Jewish paper merchant, bought a cigar factory in Germany: Deutsche Zigarren-Werke. When his competitors, supported by Nazi authorities, tried to shut it down, the headstrong ...