“Speculative fiction with soul” — Publishers Weekly After decades of stability, climate stresses are bringing droughts, crop failures, and massive storms. The world’s end, avoided once, seems likely to succeed the second time. Scientist Sarah Nahanni has a possible solution, but the number of mathematicians willing or even able to solve the equations is very…

The word “robot” was coined a little over a century ago, but humankind has always told stories of constructed lifeforms. From the earliest myths to the latest blockbuster, stories of artificial life have always held our attention. But what do the stories we tell about the machines we make reveal about how we see ourselves?…

Deep, mysterious, beautiful . . . dangerous . . . Women and the sea have been tied together in myth and story from the beginning of time. Tales of women being drawn to the sea or being left on the shore, waiting for their men’s return, have been passed down through the ages. But what…

Kyle Conway argues that because we resist ideas we don’t understand, we must embrace confusion as a fundamental ingredient for meaning and exchange, whether between a reader and a text or between two people. Through evaluating the paradox of miscommunication, Conway posits that it’s uncertainty that results in deeper understanding and proposes strategies for reading…

Climate catastrophe throws into stark relief the extreme, life-threatening inequalities that affect millions of lives worldwide. This collection offers ideas and inspiration for climate justice through the creation of research, knowledge, and livelihood commons and community-based climate resilience. It brings together articulations of the what, why, and how of climate justice through the voices of…

A previously institutionalized mathematician, Penelope Augusta Gertrude Farquhar, who suffers from schizophrenia, sets on a quest to find the lost city of Paititi, Peru, to destroy the evil shaman, Pishtaco, who has amassed the lost Inca gold of Atahualpa, and rules there. Along the way she finds herself trapped in the Amazon rain forest with…

A diverse group of seven writers comes together to create seven tender scenes about their hopes for the future. The Many Mothers Collective came together during the pandemic, hoping to make sense of the world they found themselves in. What evolved was their need to not only focus on the present moment, but on the…

How can practitioners in education usefully understand technology, education, and their relationship to improve teaching practice? Jon Dron articulates a new theory of education, delineating how humans and technology can maximize learning for students. By focusing on the roles we play in technologies—from language and pedagogies to computers and regulations—Dron posits that individuals are not…

The flashpoint topic of energy conservation and protection is shared around the world. In Reimagining Fire, environmentally conscientious writers, poets, and artists share their perspectives about our world’s impending energy transition. To envision this transition, editor Eveline Kolijn connected these artists and writers with a network of experts from the Canadian Energy Futures Lab, along…

Muster Points is a frank discussion of desire, nostalgia, mental illness, and health from a professor with one foot kicking the ivory tower. These poems bring us on a trans boy’s trips through the shard-sharp ruins of heterosexual marriages, into weird rural masculinities and their fraught survival, into regret and recovery, durability and desire. This…

Across the Americas, Indigenous and Afro-descendent peoples have demanded, and achieved, autonomy, self-determination, and self-governance. Yet these achievements come in conflict with the the policies of national governments. Available for the first time in English, Indigenous Territorial Autonomy and Self-Government in the Diverse Americas explores current and historical struggles for autonomy within ancestral territories, experiences…

Hekmat Al-Taweel (1922–2008) was a native Palestinian Christian from Gaza City whose narrative unearths a version of history long excluded from mainstream discourse and provides an unfamiliar perspective on Muslim–Christian relationships. Her stories about life in Gaza highlight shared history, vibrant culture, and cherished traditions. Al-Taweel continued her education after marriage, sought community volunteer work,…

This diverse collection is the first book in which a broad range of Canadian health care workers from across the country recount their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some pieces reflect on the strange pertinence of today’s headlines with those of the past; others use humour, art, and the power of narrative to offer a…

Patsy Keane survived her childhood, and some days that’s all that matters. As the child of an alcoholic mother, Patsy is not prone to nostalgia. She lives in a world of her own creation, where Beverly Keane’s maternal shortcomings are just a bad memory. It would be a perfect world if Patsy wasn’t eternally haunted…

Merry Bell needed to get out of Vancouver. Fast. Returning to her home town of Livingsky, Saskatchewan was a desperate step. Living with plenty of secrets, but no money, friends, or place to live during a prairie winter, all while trying to start her own PI business proves to be more of a challenge than…

Trying to come to terms with the passing of her husband, an acclaimed and controversial Canadian artist, Aimee Westerberg is spiralling into depression instead. As Aimee tries to piece together the true character of her late husband, her fragmented memories come into contrast with what appears to be a phantom version of George. Is this…

Having survived a stint as a shapeshifter’s accomplice on a mission of vengeance and redemption, unlicensed detective Hazel LeSage returns. The aftermath of violence has left Hazel with questions, wounds and unexpected friends, whose thirst for wrongs to right leads Hazel into the wilder parts of Alberta on a deadly mission of rescue. Meanwhile in…

Educators have a special role in furthering truth and reconciliation in education, but many struggle to understand exactly what that means and how to accomplish it. Springing from an Indigenous education master’s certificate program at the University of Calgary and written from an adult education perspective on transformative learning, this book invites educators, broadly defined,…

In a climate-ravaged future where the secrets of the past have been lost and knowledge is forbidden, Mordecai Crow must solve a mysterious murder. Mordecai Crow is a drifter, stuck between two worlds and belonging to neither. While searching for his long-lost family, he becomes embroiled in a murderous conspiracy when he seeks refuge in…

Based on decades of research, advocacy, and engagement with research ethics policy at all levels, Will C. van den Hoonaard chronicles the negative influence of medical research-ethics frameworks on social science research-ethics policies. He argues that the root causes of the current ethics disorder in the social sciences are the aggressive audit culture in universities…