Highlights from the month of February.
Awards:
- Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution by Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye won the Prose award in the Cultural Anthropology/ Sociology category.
- Ronald Rudin’s Kouchibouguac: Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park earned an “Honorable Mention” from the jury of National Council on Public History Book Award.
Media Highlights:
- CBC News’s coverage of the federal government’s proposed reparations for survivors of indigenous hospitals featured an interview with Maureen Lux, author of Separate Beds.
- The influential website beforeitsnews.com reviewed Growing a Sustainable City by Christina D. Rosan and Hamil Pearsall.
- The National Post featured an op-ed by Peter MacKinnon, based on his book University Commons Divided.
- Publishers Weekly reviewed Residential Schools and Reconciliation by J.R. Miller.
- The Conversation ran an op-ed by Tyrgve Ugland based on Policy Learning From Canada.
- In her review for Blacklocks Reporter, Holly Doan writes “Treating Healthcare is frankly excellent. Prof. Deber has a crisp, engaging writing style that strips away the adjectives and political hyperbole that muddles so much of the medicare debate.”
- TVO ran an excerpt from Treating Healthcare on their website.
- Tom Spears of The Ottawa Citizen wrote a feature profile of Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada, Edited by Brian Coad and James T. Reist.
- Radio Canada / CBC broadcast a story and posted an accompanying profile of Coad and Reist’s Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada.
New Releases:
- My Final Territory: Selected Essays by Yuri Andrukhovych; Edited by Michael M. Naydan; Translated by Mark Andryczyk and Michael M. Naydan
- Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal: François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France by Faith E. Beasley
- Celebrating Canada: Commemorations, Anniversaries and National Symbols edited by Raymond B. Blake and Matthew Hayday
- Rough Work: Labourers on the Public Works of British North America and Canada, 1841–1882 by Ruth Bleasdale
- The Ash Wednesday Supper: A New Translation by Giordano Bruno; Edited and Translated by Hilary Gatti
- The ‘Wetiko’ Legal Principles: Cree and Anishinabek Responses to Violence and Victimization by Hadley Friedland
- Minority Report: Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789–1945 Edited by Leonard G. Friesen
- Perogies and Politics: Canada’s Ukrainian Left, 1891-1991 by Rhonda L. Hinther
- Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture edited by Susan Irvine and Winfried Rudolf
- American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle: Art, Protest, and Cultural Transformation by Kirsten MacLeod
- Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature by Tristan Major
- Bayanihan and Belonging: Filipinos and Religion in Canada by Alison R. Marshall
- The Internet Trap: Five Costs of Living Online by Ashesh Mukherjee
- Roots of Entanglement: Essays in the History of Native-Newcomer Relations edited by Myra Rutherdale, Kerry Abel, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer
- Why Control Immigration?: Strategic Uses of Migration Management in Russia by Caress Schenk
- The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts in the United States and Canada by Mildred A. Schwartz and Raymond Tatalovich
- Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon by Sarah Shulist
- Other Diplomacies, Other Ties: Cuba and Canada in the Shadow of the US edited by Luis René Fernández Tabío, Cynthia Wright, and Lana Wylie
- Policy Learning from Canada: Reforming Scandinavian Immigration and Integration Policies by Trygve Ugland
- Epistolary Acts: Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media by Jordan Zweck
