This introduction to sociology explores the relationship between natural seasons and social life, offering contemporary insights into how seasonal phenomena shape consumption, leisure, work, celebrations, and beyond.
Community-Engaged Research in a Time of Crisis and Social Transformation
Edited by Stuart Poyntz, Kari Grain and Am Johal
Price:
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487550202
Pub Date: July 2025
Bringing together leading scholars, Critical Futures explores how community-engaged research can address social justice, decolonization, and transformation in response to contemporary crises.
Dangerous Creations investigates a previously unidentified genre of nineteenth-century French literature – the inventor novel – where science fiction, naturalism, and decadence intersect.
Quixotic Quests explores the publication of the special 1946 edition of Don Quixote illustrated by Salvador Dalí, analysing the artist’s didactic compositions, revealing the book’s material history, and tracing the mid-century reception of both.
Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908–1918
by Felix Cowan
Price:
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487561215
Pub Date: May 2025
This book explores the rich history of Russia’s penny press, highlighting the dynamic relationship between readers and journalists in shaping a democratic political culture leading up to the 1917 Revolution.
by Claudine Bonner, Boulou Ebanda de b'Beri and Nina Reid-Maroney
Price:
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487526702
Pub Date: April 2025
This collection uncovers the rich, yet overlooked history of Canada’s Black Press, revealing its impact on intellectual activism and social justice movements from the nineteenth century to today.
Photographing Ambiguity investigates the role of the image in the twenty-first century, advocating for photographic practices that foster more ambiguous, creative, and mindful connections to digital culture.
Drawing on contemporary debates in philosophy and cultural theory, Dreams of Presence revives the concept of culture as an existential phenomenon and explores geography’s role in making it present as an abiding force in everyday social life.
by Alan Smithson, Doug Hohulin and Harvey Castro MD, MBA
Price:
$42.95
ISBN: 9780772711632
Pub Date: January 2025
This book provides a visionary roadmap to navigate the transformative technologies reshaping our world, empowering readers to thrive in the rapidly evolving landscape of 2030 and beyond.
People, Places, and Belonging deepens our understanding of the complex and dynamic ways in which place fundamentally shapes our personal and public lives.
This book traces the transnational arc of the Neapolitan clown Pulcinella in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, exploring how this unlikely hero and his brood engaged with questions that defined the Enlightenment in Europe.
Tracing the impact of North America’s longest-running women-led theatre company, this book sheds light on the rise, impact, and redefinition of nonprofessionalizing theatre in Canada.
Analysing the works of literary naturalists writing about art, this book argues for the importance of disorder in the French art world in the nineteenth century.
An 1890 Murder in Backwoods Ontario that Gripped the World
by Ian Radforth
Price:
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487560232
Pub Date: October 2024
A fascinating journey into life and law in late nineteenth-century Canada, Deadly Swindle tells the story of one the country’s most sensational murder cases.
