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Thirteen ways of looking at leisure
Why leisure? What for? Why thirteen ways of looking? On what grounds and on whose authority? Blackshaw answers these questions and more by advancing an original reading of this oldest of ideas and a constructive new conception for our era.
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After screen life
A study of gender, faith and ageing among Malaysian screen workers, foregrounding Muslim women’s labour, resilience and visibility behind the screen.
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Crafting revision in fiction
Crafting Revision in Fiction: One Word Shapes the Story teaches writers how stories are built through revision, guiding students to rethink scenes, characters, and structure as intentional choices rather than fixed elements of a first draft.
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Pastoral cosmopolitanism in edith wharton’s fiction
One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.
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Climate change and the future of boston
An in-depth analysis of the climate impacts facing Boston and the city’s efforts to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate.
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Strategies and prompting in the accounting classroom
This book explores how AI is transforming accounting education. It provides educators and institutions with practical frameworks, case studies, and implementation strategies to integrate AI into teaching, learning, and curriculum design, preparing the next generation of accountants for an AI-driv...
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Crafting revision in academic writing
Crafting Revision in Academic Writing: One Word Strengthens an Argument reframes academic writing as a process of decision-making rather than rule-following, guiding students to develop clearer arguments, stronger structure, and greater ownership through revision-focused instruction designed for ...
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Losing big
Inside America’s preventable sports-gambling debacle In 2018, the United States Supreme Court opened the floodgates for states to legalize betting on sports. Eager for revenue, almost forty states have done so. The result is the explosive growth of an industry dominated by companies like FanDuel...
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Malcolm lowry's poetics of space
Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space offers a collection of exciting, new, and often controversial readings which seek to readdress not only Lowry’s master work, Under the Volcano, but also many of his other writings.
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In ballast to the white sea
This is the first edition of In Ballast to the White Sea, the autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry, known to most only through the highly romanticized story of its loss in a fire. In fact, the typescript itself has probably been read by at most a dozen people since Lowry scholars learned that ...
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The collected poems of miriam waddington
This anthology brings together, for the first time, the complete published works of Jewish Canadian poet Miriam Waddington and features a rare selection of previously unpublished poems.
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Mathematical modelling of zombies
In this terrible new COVID-19 world, the University of Ottawa is doing its part by offering a 50% discount on this very important book. We decided not to rewrite the witty book description, though we realize it is tone-deaf at the present moment, as we wanted to give readers a sense of the tone o...
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The 1940 under the volcano
Malcolm Lowry 1940 Under the Volcano has been regarded too often as little more than Lowry’s blueprint – though a tentative one at best – for his 1947 masterwork, Under the Volcano. It has never been adequately considered in terms of Lowry’s work that preceded it, or been fully critically edited ...
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On aging
This book offers an accessible yet rigorous account of recent research that has begun to unlock the biology of aging.
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Shakespeare and canada
As we commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, the most translated and performed playwright in the world continues to live on in our imagination. How might we historicize Shakespeare’s influence in Canada?
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Contemporary criminological issues
Contemporary Criminological Issues: Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion tackles some of today’s most pressing social issues, advances cutting-edge theories and methods to make sense of these issues, and proposes policy responses that promote social inclusion and security.
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Japan's aging peace
Tom Phuong Le offers a novel explanation of Japan’s reluctance to remilitarize that foregrounds the relationship between demographics and security. Japan’s Aging Peace demonstrates how changing perceptions of security across generations has culminated in a culture of antimilitarism that constrain...
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Nbic technologies as weapons of modern warfare
What are implications of new technological possibilities in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC) have for new forms of warfare.
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What makes a good mathematics lesson
American educators Douglas Corey and Blake Peterson and Japanese colleagues Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Kazuhiko Soma, and Susumu Kunimune explor What Makes a Good Mathematics Lesson, leading to the development of key considerations for planning and criteria for evaluating lesson quality.
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Under the volcano
This book tells the story of a family leaving northern Europe for a remote Atlantic island. A planned year becomes three, ending in a painful split over whether to return. Amid opera, writing, and village life, their daughter quickly adapts—while the parents grow apart in an island paradise.
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Ice manual of health and safety in construction
ICE Manual of Health and Safety in Construction: Safety Hazard Control is a valuable guide to the safety issues that can arise on construction projects, and the requirements for effective health and safety practices.
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The book of china
In the early sixteenth century, a Persian-speaking Muslim merchant traveled to China and stayed for six years. In a treatise presented to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire, he laid out his observations—here translated in full into English for the first time.
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The way out
The Way Out explores how conflict resolution and complexity science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable political differences. This updated edition includes practical plans and exercises for changing individual, social, and systemic practices.
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Genocide in canada
This book exposes deeply flawed genocide denialism surrounding residential schools, examining how Canada sought to resolve the “Indian problem” through genocide.
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Constantine, the once and future king
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Though the rule of Constantine I from 306 to 337 CE represented a sea change in the ancient world, the emperor's path to consolid...
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The self in context
The Self in Context: Pathways to Flourishing, Learning, and Well-Being explores the dynamic and multifaceted nature of self-related processes—such as self-concept, self-esteem, self-efficacy, self-control, self-identity, self-regulation, and self-determination—and their exponential growth in rese...
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What's in a name
Claude Lévi-Strauss shows that the way we name animals reveals a hidden structure of thought.
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De-colonizing journeys
Twenty-two contributors share their experiences of unsettling colonialism through engaging in circle work, an Indigenous method of de-colonizing education.
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City in a future tense
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Songdo, South Korea, is one of the earliest and most ambitious smart city projects. Mythical narratives have painted it as a prom...
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Culture war
Assessing the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, this essay explores the cultural and historical tensions shaping their relations. Key events like the Pereyaslav Agreement, Holodomor, and WWII are analyzed, highlighting their ideological significance in Ukraine’s national identity and i...
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Frivolity
Jehanne Dubrow offers a defense of the pursuits, objects, and people denigrated as frivolous, asking why we so readily scorn them and why, in particular, the label is so often tied to femininity and queerness.
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Heart work and hard choices
A hopeful and critical study of how community-based service providers navigate emotional, ethical, and structural challenges in their work supporting criminalized women.
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Professing architecture
Bryan E. Norwood tells the story of how a small group of architects built a profession amid the powerful forces of capitalism and religious faith in the antebellum United States.
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What we owe one another
Simone Weil argues that justice does not begin with claims, but with what we owe to the vulnerable core in every human being. Against entitlement and abstraction, she offers something rarer: attention, restraint, and moral seriousness.
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Vile bodies
Vile Bodies is comedy at speed, but its subject is exhaustion: a generation living as if permanence were optional, and discovering that it is not.
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Experimental junctures
Mary Kaldor introduces a new concept, “experimental junctures,” to account for what happens when political institutions are out of kilter with far-reaching economic, social, and technological change.
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Seeing ourselves
Fifth edition of a multi-perspective analysis of the meaning of ethnic diversity in Canada.
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Reimagining assessment in social work
Social work assessment is political. How we understand its power is at the heart of ethical social work practice.
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A history of timelessness
Every twenty years for over a millennium, the Ise shrines have been rebuilt from the ground up, and hundreds of shrine treasures replaced. At Ise, the aspiration to timelessness that is the essence of all monuments has been pursued through endless repetition rather than construction in durable ma...
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Unendurable freedom
Unendurable Freedom contends that postcolonial literature after 9/11 both invites and deflects global imperial interest by developing paradoxical narrative forms.
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The films of alfred hitchcock
This book presents an engaging overview of Alfred Hitchcock’s life and work along with close studies of ten films spanning nearly five decades of his remarkable career.
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Keeping workers off the ballot
Why the underrepresentation of the working class in political office is an inevitable side effect of electoral democracy itselfWhy do so few working-class people go on to hold elected office? In the average democracy, working-class jobs make up about seventy percent of occupations, but only two p...
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Sanctuary
Faulkner's novel, Sanctuary exposes a system that continues to function even as it ceases to protect.
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Afroalgorhythms
In Afroalgorithms, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro blends ancestral memory with Afrodiasporic science fiction.
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Fast culture, slow justice
Drawing on social media posts, digital stories, and book reviews collected in real time, Richard Jean So shows how BLM’s online surge was shaped and ultimately constrained by platform logics that prize entertainment and pleasure, not accountability.
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Sera khandro
This book presents the unabridged translation of the Buddhist visionary Sera Khandro Dewé Dorjé’s extraordinary autobiography—one of only a handful of life stories written by women in Tibetan literature.
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Russian influence operations
This volume analyzes Russian influence operations and intelligence tactics worldwide, including activities in the U.S. and Ukraine. It examines evolving covert strategies, especially amid the war against Ukraine, and shows how these operations aim to disrupt aid, divide NATO, and expand global im...
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From the 20th to the 21st century
Unsentimental, rigorous, and newly urgent, From the 20th to the 21st Century demands to be read not as a document of its time, but as a work that clarifies ours—and one that will shape how it is understood.
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Dreams of global science
Through the case of precision medicine, Larry Au shows how global and national forms of science cooperate, compete, and come into conflict with one another, producing what he calls hybrid science.
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