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
Navigating the Politics and Geopolitics of Oil
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
Law, Institutions, and Canadian Climate Policy
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
A Scholar’s Engagements with the Policy-Making Process
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
Exploring Our Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
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
Privatization and Public Education in Canada
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
Putting Citizens First
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
Reforming Canada’s Universities
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
The Sustainable Development Goals and Beyond
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
The Biography of a Claim
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
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
Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation
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
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
A Map for the Distracted University
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
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
From Peacekeepers to Peacewarriors in Canada
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
Exploring Debate & Dissent on Campus
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

Profits and Power
Navigating the Politics and Geopolitics of Oil
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
Law, Institutions, and Canadian Climate Policy
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
A Scholar’s Engagements with the Policy-Making Process
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
Exploring Our Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
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
Privatization and Public Education in Canada
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
Putting Citizens First
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
Reforming Canada’s Universities
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
The Sustainable Development Goals and Beyond
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
The Biography of a Claim
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
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
Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation
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
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
A Map for the Distracted University
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
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
From Peacekeepers to Peacewarriors in Canada
Price: $30.95
ISBN: 9781487522636
Pub Date: October 2018
University Commons Divided
Exploring Debate & Dissent on Campus
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