PUB DATE SEPTEMBER 2024 Albert Einstein said his “life is divided between equations and politics.” Yet his views on Israel and Zionism were concealed and distorted for decades. Einstein on Israel and Zionism corrects the widely accepted story that Einstein was a major supporter and “champion” of the State of Israel––a fabrication told and retold… Read more »
PUB DATE 1 Nov. 2024 – Pre-order now. Free shipping in North America. Autoworkers unionized the General Motors plant in Oshawa in 1937 after a bitterly fought strike that pitted them against a rabidly anti-union government, hostile press and GM corporation. It was a major turning point in Canadian labour history. Crucial factors contributing to… Read more »
PUB DATE 1 Oct. 2024 – Pre-order now. Free shipping in North America Cate, 43, is a university professor in an unfulfilling marriage. When Nuna, the young Inuk woman she mentors, disappears, Cate and her new friend, Isabel, 28, set out on a journey to find her. On the road, their friendship is tested, Nuna… Read more »
PUB DATE 1 Nov. 2024 – Pre-order now. Free shipping in North America This wide-ranging collection of essays explores various milestones and landmarks of American music, theatre, dance–and life in general. From Elvis Presley to Kabuki, from dance to destruction, Blank dissects how culture, society and politics have intersected–sometimes for the better, often not. The… Read more »
PUB DATE 1 Oct. 2024 – Pre-order now. Free shipping in North America Products of popular culture, romance novels have been largely devalued and scorned by cultural gatekeepers. Yet they lend themselves to a historical analysis of how societies attribute a precise place to the impulses of love and codify its manifestations. This book is… Read more »
PUB DATE June 2024 Connected via the fictional town of St Anne’s, a community along Nova Scotia’s western shore, each story takes its title from the children’s rhyme Counting Crows. One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a message, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never… Read more »
PUB DATE June 2024 Born in China and raised in Montreal, Liz is about to land in Germany for a summer physics internship at the end of her freshman year. Eager for a new beginning, she hopes to break free of her unrealized childhood dream of becoming a pianist, a dead-end romantic relationship, and the… Read more »
PUB DATE June 2024 The Thickness of Ice is a tender and tragic tale set in the remote subarctic town of Churchill, Manitoba, on Hudson Bay. The barren icy landscape pervades the characters’ lives and relationships. As the novel opens Wade confesses that he was responsible for the death of his best friend Jack three years after meeting him. They had been arguing about Tess, a… Read more »
PUB DATE May 2024 Canada’s Long Fight against Democracy is a sweeping overview of Canadian-backed coups since 1950. It documents Canada’s contribution to the ouster of over 20 elected governments from Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran to Patrice Lumumba in Congo, Salvador Allende in Chile and Jean Bertrand Aristide in Haiti. As part of subverting democracy, Ottawa has cut… Read more »
In the fiery political debates in and about Italy, silence reigns about the country’s colonial legacy. By reducing European colonial history to Britain and France, Italy has effectively concealed an enduring phenomenon in its history that lasted close to 80 years (1882 to 1960). It also blots out the history of the countries it colonized… Read more »
