The Dominion of Shoppers is a vivid survey of Canadian consumption over the last four centuries, stretching from the early fur trade to recent online shopping. It examines the business, social, and cultural dynamics of the long history of Canadian consumer practices.
They Fought Back tells stories of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, in ghettos, in the forests, even in the death camps. It describes the often unrecognized dignity and courage with which Europe’s Jewish people faced the Nazi war of extinction.
A Kinder World argues that in an age of global division, kindness must be the foundation of how we live. Challenging egocentric narratives, it shows how collaboration, compassion, and a culture of care are crucial in building a more sustainable world.
"Clearly analyzing the narratives, myths, and controversies at play in modern science, The Art of Science is an engaging exercise in the social study of human creativity." - Mark Kingwell, University of Toronto
Updates previous works with current scholarship in the fields of linguistics and social and legal history to present new editions and translations of these three Kentish pre-Alfredian laws, each situated within its historical, literary, and legal context.
A history of vocal pedagogy from the beginning of the bel canto tradition of solo singing in the late 16th century and dealing extensively with such topics as the emergence of virtuoso singing, national singing styles, and the 'secrets' of bel canto.
This comprehensive dictionary has remained unsurpassed for almost 50 years.
John M. Hill discerns a distinctive 'narrative pulse' arising out of the poem's many scenes of arrival and departure. He argues that such scenes, far from being fixed or 'type' scenes, are socially dramatic and a key to understanding the structural density of the poem.
This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy.
Judith Abwunza provides in this ethnography both the fruit of her research into the lives of Logoli women of Western Kenya and substantial transcripts giving the women's own description and analysis of their situation.
Bridging anthropology, sport studies, and childhood studies, Fields of Play offers a rich understanding of an area that has, to date, garnered relatively little attention by social scientists.
This book introduces a new model for analysing how people negotiate social relations through the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It focuses on SFL’s conception of social context, and the interpersonal component of context known as tenor.