Blog — ...her family’s escape from Nazi Germany, through Russia, to Japan. The following excerpt is from early in the book when the Rothschilds are still living in Berlin. It is 1932...
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Blog — We are excited to be participating once again in the University Press Week blog tour. This year’s #UPWeek theme is #LookItUp: Knowledge Matters. Today, the blog tour is focusing on...
Blog — ...and scholarship available to readers for free.) Cookson’s ambitions, and those of the journal editors that followed him, have been realized in the intervening years. Today, with more than 91...
Blog — Wheat farmers hate gophers. The little critters cut the stalks and run off with the grain—particularly when the year is dry and the crop is light. Furthermore, to the disgust...
Blog — Happy University Press Week to everyone who is celebrating alongside the members of Association of American University Presses (AAUP). Today, members of the university press community are sharing information, stories,...
Blog — ...media channels for all the updates. Facebook! Twitter! Instagram! Reviews and Media “Riveting . . . Foster is a skillful writer whose account reads like a screenplay.” Holly Doan reviews...
Blog — ...betrayal, and luck and fate. They offer acute observations about the choices that women make, startling in the late twelfth century and challenging even today. Combining a woman’s wisdom with...
Book — Myrna Kostash’s term as writer in residence at Athabasca University began shortly after the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022. In this essay, based on her writer-in-residence lecture at...
Book — The West and Beyond explores the state of Western Canadian history, showcasing the research interests of a new generation of scholars while charting new directions for the future and stimulating...
Book — Workplace injuries are common, avoidable, and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts, intervening only when necessary...