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Where It Hurts

By (author) Sarah De Leeuw
Categories: Biography: general

A 2017 finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-fiction, Where It Hurts is a highly charged collection of personal essays, haunted by loss, evoking turbulent physical and emotional ...

What the Mouth Wants

By (author) Monica Meneghetti
Categories: Biography: general

This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghetti’s unique life journey through her relationship with food, family, and love. As the youngest child of a traditional Italian-Catholic ...

Should Auld Acquaintance

By (author) Melanie Murray
Categories: Biography: general

Melanie Murray traces the footsteps of Jean Armour and Robert Burns through the village of Mauchline, where they met and married, to their final home in Dumfries, attempting to discover the woman who ...

Le Québec par ses enfants

By (author) André Turmel
Categories: Age groups: children
Series: PUM

De 1850 à 1950, le Québec transite d’une société rurale vers une société en voie d’industrialisation qui s’installe peu à peu dans la modernité urbaine. Dans cet important ouvrage, l’auteur ...

Dictionnaire des intellectuel.les au Québec

Ce dictionnaire est conçu pour combler les lacunes d’une mémoire collective quelque peu défaillante, mais aussi pour donner envie de lire ou de relire les textes de ces femmes et hommes passionnés ...

Rites et identités

Les identités sont plurielles et chacune d’elles possède un répertoire de rites par lesquels les individus peuvent jouer des rôles, se mettre en scène, s’affirmer, se présenter et se représenter. ...

Yakuglas' Legacy

By (author) Ronald W. Hawker
Categories: Biography: general

“Ronald Hawker’s endeavour to explore the material objects—the pieces in the collections—and then make relevant, illuminating connections with broader social, political, and economic events is ...

Trudeaumania

By (author) Paul Litt
Categories: Media studies

Paul Litt is a professor in the Department of History and the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. His research explores the intersection of culture, nationalism, ...

Imperial Plots

By (author) Sarah Carter
Categories: Social and cultural history

Sarah Carter, FRSC, is professor and Henry Marshall Tory chair in the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

Despite legal and cultural obstacles ...

Redemption Songs

By (author) Jon Tattrie
Categories: Ethnic studies

The extraordinary story of how one of Bob Marley’s greatest songs was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. Opening with Marley’s live performance of “Redemption Song” at the end of his life, it reveals ...