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UTP Insights

UTP Insights is an innovative collection of brief books offering accessible introductions to issues of contemporary importance and ideas that shape our understanding of the world. The books feature incisive analysis by prominent thinkers, offering fresh perspectives anchored in contemporary scholarship. Spanning a broad range of disciplines, UTP Insights titles will inform and inspire public discourse in a format that will appeal to a broad readership.

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Profits and Power

Profits and Power

Navigating the Politics and Geopolitics of Oil

by David A. Detomasi

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781487520106

Pub Date: July 2022

Untangling the web of global oil production, Profits and Power explains the politics, geopolitics, and economics of this commodity for a lay audience, with an eye toward understanding the future of the industry.

 

Picking Up the Slack

Picking Up the Slack

Law, Institutions, and Canadian Climate Policy

by Andrew Green

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9781487550110

Pub Date: July 2022

Picking Up the Slack examines how Canadian law has failed to address climate change and offers an accessible basis for a new approach.

Public Inquiries

Public Inquiries

A Scholar’s Engagements with the Policy-Making Process

by Michael J. Trebilcock

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781487551155

Pub Date: July 2022

Public Inquiries provides first-hand insights and expert perspectives on Canada’s policy-making process.

Canada in Question

Canada in Question

Exploring Our Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century

by Peter MacKinnon

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9781487543143

Pub Date: March 2022

Canada in Question explores the ties that bind us to Canada and to our fellow Canadians and considers contemporary challenges that impact the notion of Canadian citizenship itself.

Unequal Benefits

Unequal Benefits

Privatization and Public Education in Canada

by Sue Winton

Price: $27.95

ISBN: 9781487525965

Pub Date: August 2022

Unequal Benefits shows how policies that create education "markets" and encourage greater private sector involvement in Canada’s public education systems undermine the democratic possibilities of the country’s public schools.

Democracy and Constitutions

Democracy and Constitutions

Putting Citizens First

by Allan C. Hutchinson

Price: $26.95

ISBN: 9781487507930

Pub Date: July 2021

Bold and unconventional, this book advocates for an institutional turn-about in the relationship between democracy and constitutionalism.

Nothing Less than Great

Nothing Less than Great

Reforming Canada’s Universities

by Harvey P. Weingarten

Price: $26.95

ISBN: 9781487509446

Pub Date: June 2021

Nothing Less than Great addresses the current challenges faced by Canada’s university system and offers solutions to help improve the academic experience of students.

Global Development and Human Rights

Global Development and Human Rights

The Sustainable Development Goals and Beyond

by Paul Nelson

Price: $27.95

ISBN: 9781487521257

Pub Date: June 2021

Global Development and Human Rights analyses global efforts to implement long-term goals that seek to promote the health, happiness, and freedoms of individuals.

Sovereignty

Sovereignty

The Biography of a Claim

by Peter H. Russell

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9781487509095

Pub Date: March 2021

Peter H. Russell presents an accessible, historically-informed biography of the sovereignty claim, explores its limitations as well as ways of transcending them through the division of powers found within federal states.

Strengthening the Canadian Armed Forces through Diversity and Inclusion

Strengthening the Canadian Armed Forces through Diversity and Inclusion

Edited by Alistair Edgar, Rupinder Mangat and Bessma Momani

Price: $28.95

ISBN: 9781487522735

Pub Date: November 2019

Diversity and inclusion in the Canadian Armed Forces is often seen as a legal imperative. This volume shows that it can be a strength and a necessary strategy to building a stronger organization.

The Sleeping Giant Awakens

The Sleeping Giant Awakens

Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation

by David B. MacDonald

Price: $28.95

ISBN: 9781487522698

Pub Date: May 2019

The Sleeping Giant Awakens considers how residential school Survivors and other Indigenous peoples, settlers, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada approached the question of genocide in the Indian Residential Schools system. It assesses prospects for conciliation in the aftermath of genocide.

Truth, Morality, and Meaning in History

Truth, Morality, and Meaning in History

by Paul T. Phillips

Price: $26.95

ISBN: 9781487523381

Pub Date: February 2019

This book is a call to action for all those engaged in the study of history to direct more attention to the fundamental questions of truth, morality, and meaning.

Course Correction

Course Correction

A Map for the Distracted University

by Paul W. Gooch

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781487523565

Pub Date: March 2019

Distracted by differing demands from without and within, the twenty-first-century university needs to re-find its focus as a protected place for unfettered deliberation about knowledge and the education of its students as whole human beings.

Gentrifier

Gentrifier

by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch and Marc Lamont Hill

Foreword by Peter Marcuse

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781442628410

Pub Date: August 2018

Gentrifier demystifies the idea of gentrification by opening a conversation that links the theoretical and the grassroots, spanning the literature of urban sociology, geography, planning, policy, and more.

The Lamb and the Tiger

The Lamb and the Tiger

From Peacekeepers to Peacewarriors in Canada

by Stanley Barrett

Price: $30.95

ISBN: 9781487522636

Pub Date: October 2018

This book describes and analyzes the transformation of Canada from a peacekeeping to a war-making nation during the Conservative Party’s recent decade in power, promoting an anti-war perspective that is indispensable for humanity.
University Commons Divided

University Commons Divided

Exploring Debate & Dissent on Campus

by Peter MacKinnon

Price: $30.95

ISBN: 9781487522827

Pub Date: January 2018

Investigating issues of university governance in Canada, University Commons Divided analyzes several major cases at the university level that have come to exemplify infringements on the freedom of expression

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