A student at McGill in the mid-1950s, Marian Engel wrote her M.A. thesis under the direction of Hugh MacLennan. Their work together became the basis of a correspondence, the MacLennan half of which survives and is detailed here. Both personal and professional in nature, MacLennan's letters to Engel provide fascinating insights into his life's pursu …

Poet Margaret Christakos, throughout her eight previous poetry collections, has created ruptures and splices inside of and against the limits of the confessional lyric, often using recombinatory procedures, cyclical and serial structure, and enmeshing intimate vernacular with highly aestheticized language in writing that explores maternality, sexua …

Africa’s Deadliest Conflict deals with the complex intersection of the legacy of post-colonial history—a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions—and changing norms of international intervention associated with the idea of human security and the responsibility to protect (R2P). It attempts to explain why, despite a softening of norms related t …

En tant que parent, vous recherchez de l'information pratique, précise et facile à appliquer pour vous aider à élever votre adolescente ou votre adolescent. Vous voulez savoir quels comportements sont considérés comme normaux à l'adolescence, comment déterminer si votre enfant est sur la bonne voie, comment encourager son développement sai …

Les personnes gaies, lesbiennes, bisexuelles, transgenres, transsexuelles, bispirituelles, intersexuelles et queers (LGBTTBIQ) présentent des facteurs de vie spécifiques, liés à des problèmes de toxicomanie ou de santé mentale. Ces facteurs comprennent le processus d’affirmation de leur identité, la transition sexuelle, l’oppression soci …

As a parent, you want practical, accurate and user friendly information to help raise your teen. You want to know what’s considered normal adolescent behaviour, how to determine whether your child is on a good path, how to encourage your teen’s healthy development, and how to get help when problems arise. What Parents Need to Know about Teens i …

After Light spans four generations of the Garrison family, over the course of the twentieth century. Irish Deirdre, forced into marriage at sixteen, never stops trying to regain her freedom, though her ruthless escape attempts threaten to destroy her family. Her son, Frank, raised in Brooklyn, is a talented young artist, until he's blinded in WW2. …

Secret societies are becoming increasingly controversial—thrust into public awareness by popular books, films, the Internet, and a host of recent documentaries. In academia, this exposure finds a parallel in the proliferation of research, institutes, and conferences. Yet the media depictions tend to be caricatures, a playing to pervasive stereoty …

Finalist, Giller Prize

Winner of 2 Saskatchewan Book Awards (Best First Book; City of Saskatoon Book Award)

Finalist, Saskatchewan Book Award (Book of the Year)

Winner, Canadian Authors’ Association-BookTV Emerging Writer Award

Finalist, Amazon/ Books in Canada First Novel Award

Rowan Friesen has made a career of drug-dealing and small-time thievery …

L’Atlas de neuroanatomie fonctionnelle constitue le manuel incontournable pour les étudiants en médecine et les neurosciences de même que pour les médecins résidents qui débutent le programme de spécialisation en neurologie, neurochirurgie ou autres domaines connexes. L’Atlas présente toute l’information essentielle sur l’organisat …

Finalist for the 2014 Silver Birch Express Award

Danny finds himself stranded at the bottom of a giant construction hole, armed with nothing but his school backpack, his wits — and the company of a poetry-spouting mole…

Danny’s parents have always been a bit flaky, but this time they have gone too far. Now his mother wants to bake cheesecakes i …