A celebration and interrogation of the hit Canadian television series Slings & Arrows, this book offers a diverse collection of essays as well as original interviews with the actors and creators, making it an essential resource on Shakespeare adaptation.
Skills to Build the Nation explores how ideas of skill and training shape integration practices in Canada, creating conditions where skilled immigrants’ integration is contingent on performing a Canadianness that is both elusive and assimilatory.
The second volume of this definitive text expands upon Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen’s work on Systemic Functional Linguistics spanning forty years, offering a fundamental understanding of his theories.
A Continent of Colleagues uncovers how interwar European parliamentarians built cross-party and international networks behind the scenes, shaping democracy even as rising extremism pushed political debate into private backrooms.
Becoming Ecological reveals how transforming our language and everyday conversations can reshape our relationship with the planet, inspiring deeper ecological awareness and meaningful action both in our daily lives and collective future.
This book examines communist gender policies targeting Muslim communities in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria, and shows how Muslim women and men navigated them through both resistance and compliance.
This English translation of Leon Battista Alberti’s Renaissance dialogue offers timeless reflections on fortune, adversity, aging, and conversation.
Beyond Building examines architecture in nineteenth-century France through the lens of gender, making a case for the adoption of an expansive view of architecture and the inclusion of previously excluded makers and works.
Humans of AI explores the hidden culture of AI workers and reveals the people behind a technology often sold as post-human. Believed to be ushering in an era decentring individuality, this book depicts the vitality of personhood even in the creation of AI.
The Historical Imaginary examines Quebec’s French-language feature films through the lens of “national cinema,” focusing on genres that depict images of the past: the historical film, the literary adaptation, the biopic, and the period film.
A revelatory investigation of the modern policing problem through the life and career of former police chief Peter Sloly, this book offers a visionary blueprint for our collective future, one where safety, justice, and inclusivity flourish.
Democracy’s Second Act explores why frustration and polarization are on the rise - and how reclaiming the power of the public can lead to a more hopeful political future.