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Geopolitics
Geopolitics shapes daily life and key human geography processes, and this book introduces its historical and theoretical development to support critical thinking. Using contemporary case studies, it challenges assumptions about global power while providing accessible yet academically rigorous fra...
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Ai halftime
As AI evolves in increasingly autonomous and difficult-to-govern ways, it has become clear that we are no longer at an early moment of experimentation. AI halftime presents a suspended moment within an unfolding transformation. Challenging the divide between technology and nature, the book argues...
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Dynamische kombinationen
Das Werk Eugène Delacroix' weist zahlreiche Selbstwiederholungen auf, in denen der Künstler auf frühere Kompositionen, Themen und Motive zurückgriff oder sie in andere Techniken übersetzte. Diese Rückbezüge stellen eine Form der malerischen Selbstreflexion über die eigene künstlerische Produktion...
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Critical lessons in interculturality
Critical Lessons in Interculturality: Failing Better argues that our obsession with intercultural success is limiting. This book proposes a paradigm shift, urging us to see failure not as an endpoint, but as a rich, essential site for critical learning and a more realistic understanding of human ...
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Homiletik
Die Homiletik beschäftigt sich mit der Kunst, so von Gott zu reden, dass andere in ihrem Glauben angeregt und bereichert werden; Rhetorik ist die Kunst, zu anderen so zu sprechen, dass ihre Freiheit befördert wird; Pädagogik ist die Theorie des Handelns, das die Verstehensweisen und Handlungsmögl...
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Mathematics of variations and artificial intelligence
This book has been written primarily as a graduate textbook for the foundational materials in three topics. While the traditional Advanced Engineering Mathematics (AEM) pedagogy is to bundle all the eight or so major topics into textbooks that often contain over a thousand pages, it has recently ...
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Angewandte linguistik für sprachberufe
Der Band führt ein in Angewandte Linguistik für Sprachberufe. Er fördert wissenschaftlich fundiertes Denken und Handeln in einem Berufsalltag, der immer stärker mitgestaltet wird von künstlicher Intelligenz. Diese 4. Auflage enthält neue und aktualisierte Übungsmaterialien zur erweiterten Illustr...
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The little book of oil painting secrets
Whether you’re exploring realism, abstraction, or impressionism, this book provides the concise, insightful knowledge that will enhance your oil painting practice and inspire your artistic journey.
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The little book of watercolor secrets
Whether you’re exploring realism, abstraction, or impressionism, this book provides the concise, insightful knowledge that will enhance your watercolor painting practice and inspire your artistic journey.
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Components of language proficiency
Filling a significant gap in SLA research in highly instructed settings, this book explores language proficiency in learners of French and Spanish in English schools. This detailed study investigates aspects of linguistic knowledge and proficiency, and the relationships between them, to offer ins...
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Hiroshige poster set
Curate your home: Print Set Hiroshige This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, examples of Hiros...
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Lessons on the english verb
While the work of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960) has had an important influence on French linguistics, his theory is not well known in the English-speaking world. Lessons on the English Verb provides a comprehensive treatment of the English verbal system within a Guillaumean theoretical framework ...
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The movers
The Movers investigates the deeper historical roots and wider social contexts of key Israeli artworks and their public reception.
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L'homme blessé
Robert Payne guides readers through the powerfully erotic underworld of L’Homme blessé, giving the cinematic milestone the critical attention it deserves. Combining formal analysis, historical research, and original interviews, this book cements L’Homme blessé in its rightful place within queer c...
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From the theater to the plaza
This innovative study sketches the physical and imaginary contours of Lavapiés, one of Madrid’s most iconic neighbourhoods. By linking its role as a site and subject of Madrid’s theatre tradition with its contemporary struggles over gentrification, Feinberg offers new approaches for understanding...
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Poetics of the paranormal
Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost both shapes, and is shaped by, media.
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Doing community-based research
Guidance on the community-researcher relationship, to support further scholarship and positive community change.
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Orlando
A film that transcends time, Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992) follows its titular character through nearly four hundred years of British history. Orlando starts life as a young man in the 1600s and then, mid-film, becomes a woman in the 1800s. Russell Sheaffer meticulously charts the distinct shift ...
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Feelings of structure
How places, objects, fantasies, histories, and memories get under our skin and how we understand their affective connections.
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Midnight cowboy
An iconic and controversial film, Midnight Cowboy is given its due as a classic of queer cinema. By shifting the perspective away from interpretations of Midnight Cowboy as homophobic, Jon Towlson argues for a new interpretation of the film as a proto-queer buddy movie and portrait of a friendship.
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Hamlet-911
A new edition of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Hamlet-911, an incisive and satirical play in which a famous actor about to perform Hamlet at the Stratford Festival suddenly finds himself in the Underworld.
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The practice of her profession
Florence Carlyle (1864-1923), born in Galt, Ontario, emerged as one of the most successful Canadian artists of her time. Trained in Paris, she lived and worked in New York City and in Canada, cultivating a career as a popular portrait and genre painter. Known for her masterful use of colour, Carl...
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The devout hand
Exploring the role of women artists in creating visual imagery during the Renaissance.
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Boys don't cry
The Oscar-winning film Boys Don’t Cry (1999) offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America. This book relocates the film within historical and conceptual contexts that influenced its ambivalent reception while emphasizing the importance of trans visibilities an...
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Emergence and empire
A ground-breaking look at the writings and philosophy of pioneering Canadian thinker Harold Adams Innis.
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The adventures of priscilla, queen of the desert
Renée Middlemost provides valuable insight into the production, reception, and continued relevance of the iconic film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
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Untimely bodies, untimely aesthetics
Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics examines the fluidity of time in eight contemporary films by focusing on characters who struggle for connection in an environment shaped by heteronormative temporality and intimacies. The book proposes a model for viewing non-normative relationality through th...
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An american by degrees
A personal and cultural portrait of Ambassador Jules Jusserand who provided a vital link between France and the United States before, during, and after the First World War.
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Challenge for change
An examination of the radical politics and cinema of the legendary documentary film program devoted to social change.
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Outside looking in
Widely sold abroad, Beachcombers and North of 60 are what many international audiences know about Canada. In Outside Looking In Mary Jane Miller traces the evolution of representations of First Nations people in fifty years of Canadian television broadcasts.
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Journalism and political exclusion
A critical analysis of how and why journalism can frustrate audiences and inhibit their capacity to be informed citizens.
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William blake in the desolate market
The life of a brilliant poet, exquisite painter, and rotten salesman.
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When ballet became french
A comprehensive picture of early twentieth-century French culture through the lens of ballet discourse.
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Objectively engaged journalism
A timely call for a new ethic of journalism engagement for today's troubled media sphere, Objectively Engaged Journalism argues that media should be neither neutral nor partisan but engaged in protecting egalitarian democracy. It shows how journalists, professional or citizen, can be both objecti...
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Atiqput
Atiqput is the first book-length study of Project Naming, the photo-based history research initiative established by the Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut in collaboration with Library and Archives Canada. Through oral testimony and photography, Atiqput rewrites settler societies’ historical reco...
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Cold comfort, second edition
An engaging reminiscence of the end of an era in arctic exploration.
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Radical gestures
Performance art was finally recognized as an art form in its own right in the 1970s. In Radical Gestures Jayne Wark situates feminist performance art in Canada and the United States in the social context of the feminist movement and avant-garde art from the 1970s to 2000. She shows that artists d...
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The invention of journalism ethics, second edition
An innovative theory of pragmatic objectivity to guide journalism today.
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Language in the mind
The work of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960) has had an important influence on French linguistics. But his theory of psychomechanics, which views language as systematic and semiotic, is not well known in the English-speaking world. Language in the Mind is the first detailed study of Guillaumian ling...
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Patriarchy's remains
Analysing a series of Iberian cinematic dark comedies from the 1950s to the present day, Patriarchy’s Remains argues that the cinematic trope of patriarchal death symbolises the lingering remains of a regime of patriarchy and neoliberalism that has outlived the Francisco Franco dictatorship in Sp...
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The art of collectivity
What tensions and what potential emerge when a community art program seeks to promote collectivity in the present era?
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The poetics of translation
The Poetics of Translation challenges our pragmatic understanding of translation through the discipline’s use in contemporary innovative writing practices, highlighting translation’s ability to create meaning, celebrate uncertainty, and interpret rather than reiterate.
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The translating subject
The Translating Subject explores how queer women writers use multilingual strategies to create intimacy with the unknown and enable ethical engagement across social, cultural, and linguistic differences.
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Mass capture
Mass Capture argues the CI 9 documents implemented by the Canadian government to acquire information on Chinese migrants acted as a process of mass capture that produced non-citizens. Cho reveals CI 9s as more than documents of racist repression: they offer possibilities for beauty and dignity in...
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Yiddish lives on
While widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity, and as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond. Yiddish Lives On explores diverse stories and strategies of resistance to language decline.
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Appropriate behavior
Maria San Filippo explores Desiree Akhavan’s debut feature, Appropriate Behavior (2014), as an instant classic of 2010’s US indie filmmaking, a radical reappropriation of straight and gay film genres, a model for feminist-queer creative collaboration, and an unparalleled portrayal of bisexuality.
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Curatorial dreams
Scholars are challenged to create their own exhibitions.
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Pressing interests
The first extended history of colonial Kenya's press, 1899-1960s.
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The interactive documentary in canada
In the 2010s Canada was a world leader in creating interactive documentaries. By the 2020s many of these celebrated i-docs were rendered inaccessible by obsolete technology. This collection examines the short-lived past and the imagined future of the i-doc and emphasizes its impact on the contemp...
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Staging strangers
How theatre can help create ethical relationships among strangers in a divisive age.
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A truffaut notebook
An unconventional and deeply engaging introduction to a major figure in modern film.
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Negotiations in a vacant lot
Opening discussions about the possible futures of Canadian art history in a time of global analyses.
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Pictorial illusionism
Steele MacKaye (1842-1894) was a major North American theatre artist - a director, actor, inventor, painter, theorist, and writer - best known for advancing a unified vision of pictorial illusionism, the central aesthetic of late nineteenth-century drama, by transforming grand theatres into jewel...
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Global journalism ethics
An argument for a new system of ethics in journalism that will take into account its global reach and impact.
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Dawn of a new feeling
Dawn of a New Feeling acknowledges that computers have become a formidable tool for creating art but contends that virtual reality is not conducive to meditations on the aesthetic object. Virtual or augmented reality, Raffaele Milani argues, is illusory and prevents the viewer from feeling a genu...
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Moving cultures
The interruption of personal interaction, even the most intimate, by a ringing cell phone has profoundly affected social behaviour. New communication technologies transform culture - but the reverse is also true. Moving Cultures explores the ways in which teenagers have creatively adopted cell ph...
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A people’s reformation
A People’s Reformation offers a reinterpretation of the English Reformation and the roots of the Church of England. Drawing on archival research, Lucy Kaufman argues that England became a Protestant nation not in spite of its people, but because of them – through their active social, political, a...
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A russian paints america
Pavel Petrovich Svin'in (1787/88-1839) was a painter, diplomat, and journalist who spent two years as part of the first Russian diplomatic mission to the United States. Soon after returning to Russia, Svin'in published a travel narrative of his experiences.
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The word and its ways in english
An exploration of how the mind creates words and, in turn, how words represent intended meanings.
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Making sense out of meaning
Exploring the universe of meaning and how it enables us to put thoughts and experiences into words.
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Double lives
A compelling and intimate exploration of the unique juggling act of mother/writer.
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Pasting up protest
Pasting Up Protest examines the sociopolitical engagement of contemporary artists in Mexico, analyzing street art produced over the past decade by ASARO, URT-Arte, ARMARTE, and MuGRe.
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Seeing politics
Pushing the boundaries of how we do research, how we communicate research, and what counts as scholarship in world politics.
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Early modern naval health care in england, 1650–1750
*Early Modern Naval Health Care in England *follows the transformation of organized health care for Royal Navy seamen from 1650 to 1750. Matthew Neufeld finds that these changes relied on the relationship between naval officials and the ordinary people of coastal areas, especially the women who t...
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Crash to paywall
In 2014, when Postmedia acquired Quebecor's Sun Media newspaper and online assets, there was a sense that the recent history of newspapers was repeating itself not as comedy or tragedy, but as eulogy. Crash to Paywall shows that while the newspaper business was weakened by decreases in advertisin...
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Singular creatures
In Singular Creatures Mark Kingwell plumbs the depths of cultural and political meaning in the apparent transition to posthuman life. Can humans and their own creations co-exist in a cyberflesh world, or is a struggle for superiority inevitable? Singular Creatures is an attempt at sketching the f...
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Translation effects
A revealing look at the place of translation in modern Canadian culture.
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Prime-time bishop
By examining intersections of the sacred and the secular in the autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979), his television series, and his cultural afterlife, Prime-Time Bishop argues that aspects of modern sanctity cannot be understood without also considering aspects of celebrity.
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Spaces and places for art
A pioneering study of art museums in western Canada and their relationship to federal cultural institutions.
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Precarious visualities
The transformation of our relation to images in contemporary visual culture.
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Isuma
Since director Zacharias Kunuk was awarded the Camera d'Or Award at Cannes in 2001, Igloolik Isuma Productions has been among the most well-known and influential indigenous film companies in the world. Isuma's premier movie, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) - the first-ever feature film produced by t...
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Inside the historical film
An exploration of the power of cinema to enrich our understanding of the past.
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Winter kept us warm
Winter Kept Us Warm explores a romance between two young men at the University of Toronto in the early 1960s, when being gay was still a crime in Canada. The film achieved international success when first released but has largely disappeared form the contemporary queer film canon. Chris Dupuis ex...
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Real-ish
Real-ish investigates how realness in performance is perceived, produced, and felt by contemporary audiences. Focusing on documentary, participatory, historical, and immersive theatre pieces, the book considers how audience experiences exist both as products of the performances’ real source mater...
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Fred taylor
John Virtue uncovers the dynamics of a prominent Ottawa family and reveals the divergent paths of brothers E.P. and Fred Taylor. E.P. became mid-century Canada's leading industrialist, while Fred became an artist and a Communist.
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City symphonies
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 ci...
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Northern getaway
Northern Getaway investigates the connections between film and tourism of the 1890s through the 1950s. Using evidence from archival sources and current scholarship in film history and tourism studies, Dominique Brégent-Heald demonstrates that Canada was an innovator in employing film to project a...
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Needle work
Complemented by over 150 rarely seen illustrations, Needle Work moves from coast to coast and across more than one hundred years to provide a key chapter in the history of the international emergence and development of commercial tattooing.
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Randia’s quiet theatre
Randia’s Quiet Theatre draws on autofiction, interviews, and performance ethnography to unravel the politics of aging in Poland, while revealing how theatre and ethnography can become springboards for creating worlds in which the elderly can live with dignity.
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Lived moments
Lived Moments offers illustrative readings of canonical films by Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, and Eric Rohmer to deepen our understanding of the history of cinematic modernism, standing as a model of how film philosophy and film analysis can enric...
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Images of justice
In a display case at the entrance to the Yellowknife courthouse are a collection of fourteen Inuit carvings that represent landmark cases in the legal history of the Northwest Territories. These cases, which came to trial between 1955 and 1970, and the carvings that represent them illuminate a pi...
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The children's hour
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 pol...
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Illustrating el cid, 1498 to today
The first critical examination of a literary hero and complex historical figure through book illustration.
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Shakespeare and the world of “slings & arrows”
Shakespeare and the World of “Slings & Arrows” explains how the critically acclaimed Canadian television series participates in a broader recuperation of Romantic and humanist approaches to Shakespeare in contemporary scholarship. The result is a powerful explanation of why the poet remains a...
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Language, citizenship, and sámi education in the nordic north, 1900-1940
Timely in its focus on educational policies in multiethnic societies, Otso Kortekangas examines how educational policies affected the Sámi people residing in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The book provides essential information on the relationship between large-scale governme...
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The spiritual significance of overload boredom
The spiritual crisis of the digital age is overload boredom. This book attends to sensation and emotion to show how our interior lives are radically reconfigured by information, stimulation, and choice overload. Sharday Mosurinjohn argues that the antidote is not withdrawal or resistance, but ked...
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Performance studies in canada
Tracing performance studies paths in Canada.
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Call and response-ability
A richly collaborative assemblage of artist statements, scholarly essays, critical analyses, and reflections from writers and artists centring on artistic practises, audiences, and pedagogy in relation to Black Canadian literature, music, performance, and visual art.
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Staging strife
A candid look at anthropological research methods, political theatre, and advocacy.
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The perils of pedagogy
The first book to examine the works of controversial film and video-maker, queer activist, and agent provocateur, John Greyson.
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Property, liberty, and self-ownership in seventeenth-century england
The concept of self-ownership was first articulated in anglophone political thought in the decades between the outbreak of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. This book traces the emergence and evolution of self-ownership over the course of this period, culminating in a reinterpret...
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Ink and light
A bridge between the recognized and accepted truths of Claude Lorrain's art and his lesser known, yet equally masterful, graphic works.
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Configurations of a cultural scene
In the 1920s, a remarkable number of young writers and artists lived and worked in Madrid, resulting in a tightly-woven network of both personal and artistic relationships. Configurations of a Cultural Scene explores this growing community of artists with a focus on how sites of face-to-face inte...
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Seeing ghosts
An evocative look at images of 9/11 and how they contribute to our cultural memory.
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From drawing to visual culture
A vivid picture of the evolution of art education in Canada from the nineteenth century to the present.
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The cultivated landscape
By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to ...
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The science of culture and the phenomenology of styles
How science and art have influenced each other throughout the ages.
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Gaelic cape breton step-dancing
Placing the phenomenon of Gaelic Cape Breton step-dancing into an historical perspective.
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Diversity counts
An impressive and sobering analysis of gender and diversity in contemporary art, and a compelling call for more inclusive curating.
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What television remembers
What Television Remembers explores the relationship between the medium of TV and the city of Toronto. In a close reading of CBC dramas from the 1960s to 2010, VanderBurgh explains how the city has functioned as a strategic location in CBC programming, reflecting changing ideas about Canadian iden...
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