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We are pleased to officially announce our Fall/Winter 2024 catalogue!
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Yogalands
In Search of Practice on the Mat and in the World
By Paul Bramadat
Promoted as a way of healing people from wounds inflicted by the world, modern yoga offers an “anti-world” to which practitioners can escape. Yet yoga can never free itself entirely from the compromises and contradictions of the real world. Yogalands encourages practitioners and critics to be curious about the many meanings and impacts of yoga.
In the Land of the Lacandón
A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism
By Richard Ivan Jobs and Steven Van Wolputte, With Manuel Bolon Pale
In the mid-1930s Bernard de Colmont ventured into the borderlands of Mexico to study the Lacandón people, considered to be the closest living relatives of the Maya. In the Land of the Lacandón transforms de Colmont’s narratives and images into a 1930s adventure comic, accompanied by a historical essay and a poem by Tsotsil writer Manuel Bolom Pale.
Our Subversive Voice
The History and Politics of English Protest Songs, 1600–2020
By John Street, Oskar Cox Jensen, Alan Finlayson, Angela McShane and Matthew Worley
Our Subversive Voice establishes the protest song as a mode of political communication. Covering five centuries in England’s history, from street ballads and art song to grime, hymns, music hall, and punk, this book explores the causes that protest songs adopt, the conditions that give rise to them, and the institutions that have suppressed them.
Future-Generation Government
How to Legislate for the Long Term
By Nicholas Chesterley
Our impact on future generations has never been greater, and the challenges we face are increasingly long-term. Future-Generation Government proposes ways that we can reward our governments for making durable policy decisions that anticipate future crises.
Contesting Zion
The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine
By Adrian Ciani
Consulting a range of sources, including formerly classified papers in the Vatican archive, Contesting Zion examines relationships among the Vatican, Zionism, and American Catholics from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 through the creation of Israel in 1948 and the years that followed.
Apparition Fever
Observing the Virgin Mary in Belgium
By Tine Van Osselaer
Apparition Fever examines a series of Marian apparitions that swept over Belgium in the 1930s and ’40s, tracing how knowledge of the apparitions was formed among bystanders, medical experts, and church authorities as they decided if the visionaries were worthy of belief.
States Without People
Revolt and Defeat in the Middle East
By Billie Jeanne Brownlee and Maziyar Ghiabi
States without People argues that the major consequence of the failed revolts and civil wars in the Middle East has been the emergence of a culture of the right.
Montreal After Dark
Nighttime Regulation and the Pursuit of a Global City
By Matthieu Caron
Montreal After Dark elucidates how nighttime regulation became a central issue in Montreal during the second half of the twentieth century. Labour, dissent, sex, noise, and art, as well as sites of leisure and consumption, were reorganized to suit the desires of politicians who envisioned Montreal within a global network of cities.
Unravelling MAiD in Canada
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care
Edited by Ramona Coelho, K. Sonu Gaind and Trudo Lemmens
Since its legalization in 2016, health care professionals in Canada have provided more state-facilitated euthanasia and assisted suicide, or MAID, than in any other country. MAiD has quickly become one of the leading causes of death in Canada. Unravelling MAiD in Canada provides critical reflections on ethical, medical, legal, and disability justice concerns as more jurisdictions consider their own assisted dying laws and policies.
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