Book — At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of...
Blog — Most publishers will tell you that the book cover is the most important marketing tool you have. The old adage “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is showing its...
Blog — ...today. Combining a woman’s wisdom with an impressive technical bravura, the lays, presented in sprightly English verse by poet and translator David R. Slavitt, are a treasure of European culture....
Blog — ...6). As Brian Ronaghan says, the volume is “an effort to draw some of this information together, to take stock of the current state of our knowledge, to offer some...
Blog — Feature photo by Owen Byrne from Mountain View, USA (Encounter) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons The following excerpt is from Michael R. W. Dawson’s latest book, Connectionist Representations...
Blog — ...World’s Indigenous Peoples. A theme is chosen each year to draw attention to the problems faced by indigenous people around the world. This year the theme is “Ensuring Indigenous peoples’...
Contributor — Tony Howard is professor of English at Warwick University. He has translated works by numerous Polish authors—Ewa Lipska, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Hanna Krall, and many others—into English....
Book — Long a topic of intricate political and social debate, Canadian identity has come to be understood as fragmented, amorphous, and unstable, a multifaceted and contested space only tenuously linked to...
Blog — ...and learners—not to mention publish leading research in the field of open and distributed learning. Cookson, Peter. 2000. “Editorial.” International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning 1(1): 1–5....
Book — La biographie de Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle raconte la vie d’une jeune Canadienne d’humble origine qui tombe en amour avec le curé de son village, et qui en subit les terribles...