The Alphonso Lingis Reader showcases the philosophical thought and beautiful writing of Alphonso Lingis across his career. Much of his writing is a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy.

Thurtle demonstrates how 20th century visualization practices changed how biologists thought that organisms were constructed, comparing the aesthetic and formal properties of organisms in the 19th versus the late 20th century. As one of the most visual sciences, biology has an aesthetic dimension that lends force and persuasion to scientific arguments. Thus, how things are arranged on a page, how texts are interspersed with images, and how images are composed, reflect deep-seated beliefs about how life exists on Earth.

A book about books, short essays by famous authors about the love of books.

Race, Ethnicity and the Participation Gap begins with the argument that political institutions in settler and culturally diverse societies such as Australia, the United States, and Canada should mirror their culturally diverse populations. Compared to the United States and Canada, however, Australia has very low rates of immigrant and ethnic minority political representation in the Commonwealth Parliament, particularly in the House of Representatives. The overall existence of racial hierarchies within formal political institutions represents an inconsistency with the democratic ideals of representation and accountability in pluralist societies.

This is a short, entertaining and illuminating introduction to the history and culture of coffee, from the humble origins of the bean in northeast Africa over a millennium ago, to what it is today, a global phenomenon that is enjoyed around the world.

A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota.

From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS, a paramilitary group under the Nazi party, sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy. They utilized the science of eugenics to convince SS men to marry suitable wives and have many children. Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS, by Amy Carney, is the first work to significantly assess the role of SS men as husbands and fathers during the Third Reich.

Focusing on the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Policy Learning from Canada is a systematic study of the international relevance of the Canadian immigration and integration policy model.

The biography of the most dazzling artistic and fashion muse of the twentieth century—in a fully revised and spectacularly illustrated edition.

Artists from Man Ray to Augustus John painted, sculpted, and photographed her; writers, including Jean Cocteau, Ezra Pound, and Jack Kerouac, praised her strange beauty; celebrities and royalty were awed by her lavish parties and spectacles at her homes in Italy and France. Fully authorized, completely updated, and richly illustrated, this is the fantastic story of the Marchesa Luisa Casati.

From race-based pharmaceutical prescriptions and marketing, to race-targeted medical “hot spotting” and the Affordable Care Act, to stem-cell trial recruitment discourse, Subprime Health is a timely examination of race-based medicine as it intersects with the concept of debt. Utilizing an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume moves the discussion beyond debates over racial genomics and suggests fruitful new directions for future research.

The British Library's London series of books are short, accessible, cultural histories of London neighbourhoods written by academic historians but designed to appeal to tourists, locals and general readers with an interest in the history, personal anecdotes, architecture and environment of the city.

The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century. Inspired by the unique vision of their founder Sergei Diaghilev, the company gained a large international following. In the mid-twentieth century – during the tumultuous years of World War II and the Cold War – the Ballets Russes companies kept the spirit and traditions of Russian ballet alive in the West, touring extensively in America, Europe and Australia. This important new book uncovers previously-unseen interviews and provides insights into the lives of the great figures of the age.

Canada’s big six banks weathered the 2008 financial crisis very well. Their adherence to tried and tested twentieth-century products and services made them a safe harbour in the financial storm. However, as the modern global information economy continues to develop, the banks must confront their innovation crisis, or they will fail.

In Paramedics On and Off the Streets, Michael K. Corman embarks on an institutional ethnography of the complex, mundane, intricate, and exhilarating work of paramedics in Calgary, Alberta.

A bold challenge to rethink the ways we view sex work and documentary film. The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an eruption of nonfiction films on sex work. The first book to examine a cross-section of this diverse and transnational body of work, Sexography confronts the ethical questions raised by ethnographic documentary and interviews with sexually marginalized subjects. Nicholas de Villiers offers a reading of cinema as a technology of truth and argues that carnal and cultural knowledge are inextricably entangled in ethnographic sex work documentaries.

Tea: A User’s Guide is the most up-to-date and factual guide to specialty tea. This volume presents an extensively peer-reviewed framework for navigating the world of tea whether you are just embarking on your tea journey or whether you have been drinking tea your entire life.

Designs for the catalogue cover for the University of Minnesota Press' fall 2016 titles.

Designs for the catalogue cover for the University of Minnesota Press' fall 2016 titles.

Less concerned with the ethics or legality of drone strikes, this book examines how Predator and Reaper drones fit into a broader shift toward bureaucratic management of life and death. A drone strike is the endgame of a process of controlling “lifeworlds”—detecting suspicious patterns of life for eradication. Drones signal not only a material shift in how war and security play out but an existential shift—changing how we relate to society, to our homelands, to our governments.

In Mixed Realism Welsh argues that the study of virtuality requires a theory of fiction and realism that emphasizes interaction rather than representation. He rethinks the relationship between users and media by challenging the long-assumed opposition between the virtual and the real, arguing that a user's interactions with non-actual, media-generated virtualities of print novels and console videogames enact and participate in branching networks of very "real" social, political, and ethical contexts.

This book brings together two distinct strands in diaspora studies; namely, those approaches that distinguish diaspora as purely a feature of multi-lateral dispersal caused by migration and those that describe diaspora as a claim, stance, or a way of belonging in the world with a difference. It does so by making important advances, both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically, the book argues that the proliferation of diaspora as a term is a symptom of modern subjectivity where the double meaning of dispersion and difference embedded in the word serves as an appropriate metaphor for belonging in our times. In an age of rootlessness, diaspora as a concept captures an aspiration to belong globally while holding on to the specifics of local registers of belonging. Central to modern formulations of diaspora, therefore, is an inherent appeal to globality. It is not global in the sense that diasporas span the entire globe, rather they are global precisely because they are not bounded by arbitrary geopolitical units. Diasporic globality is an exercise or expression of a synecdoche or metaphor. The book also makes significant advances in migration theory and its relationship to diaspora as an analytical framework by arguing against the age-old hydraulic metaphor of push-pull mechanisms.

Blood Sugar examines the racial and social dimensions of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and stroke. Hatch argues that the past half-century of biomedical science has created metabolism as a site for the reproduction of race and racism in American society. Scientists and researchers draw on and circulate racial meanings that construct race as immutable, fixed, and genetic. Race is then used to explain inequalities in metabolic health without accounting for social and economic inequalities. Specifically within African American communities, potential drug treatments and public health interventions are framed in racial terms, and racially-inflected biological science around metabolism intersecting with cultural views of African Americans’ food consumption.

Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world – mechanistic materialism and vitalism – in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot. Focusing on embodied experience and the materialization of thought in poetry, novels, art, and religion, the literary scholars in this collection offer new and intriguing readings of these canonical authors. Informed by contemporary currents such as new materialism, cognitive studies, media theory, and post-secularism, their essays demonstrate the volatility of the core ideas opened up by materialism and the possibilities of an aesthetic vitalism of form.

When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations and impressions that blossomed into his powerful memoir, Wait Time. Sherman's deeply moving cancer story, is interwoven with engaging ruminations on the meaning of illness in our society. A widely published poet, Sherman helps the reader understand the profound connection between disease and creativity — how we write out of our suffering. Without being stridently political or blame-laden, he honestly articulates what is good and bad in our health-care system and wonders if it can be made more efficient and more humane.

Rise and Fall documents artist Nicholas Pye's most recent photographic work. The photographs in Pye's book use found light in selected interiors to examine the vulnerability of the artist engaging in the practice of self-portraiture. The book design echoes the artists intentions in its simplicity and choice of materials and type. We selected matte white and grey stocks to create a counterpoint between image and text pages and elegant, yet warm, typefaces to compliment the texts.

Pye has exhibited his photographs internationally in Canada, the US, UK, Germany, and Spain. His films have been screened in numerous international film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival, The Locarno International Film Festival and Les Rencontres Internationales in Paris, Berlin, and Madrid.

This collection brings together scholars with an interest in the global experience of the Irish and their religious connections. It contributes to the turn in British imperial studies towards religion and religious diasporas as factors in empire building and globalization. In pursuing the Irish to their many destinations, Religion in Greater Ireland has sought to point to the interconnections, influences, and commonalities of the Irish migrant experience.

Making Public Cultures provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism's third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications—including BUST, Bitch, HUES, Venus Zine, and Rockrgrl—that began as zines in the 1990s. By tracking their successes and failures, Making Public Cultures gives readers insight into the politics of feminism's recent past.

Debates about gender in the British Romantic period, which often took place in novels and poems, tended to turn on the issue of sexual enjoyment. The concept of sexual enjoyment was a scientific innovation at the time, emerging from research in botany. As the gender debates intensified, the Romantic-era anxiety about sexual enjoyment had two consequences. On the one hand, it necessitated the modern psychological concept of the unconscious. Desire was seen as an uncontrollable force; the unconscious became the repository of disavowed enjoyment and the reason for sexual difference. In this way, the Romantics can be said to have invented psychoanalysis – as soon as discussions of “the sexes” came to revolve around the problem of sexual enjoyment, psychoanalysis had come into existence as an ideological system and literary device, if not yet as a science. On the other hand, tighter regulation of sexual enjoyment made backhandedly possible a vast expansion of the limits of imaginable sexuality. Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism shows how the era’s most influential literary thinkers of gender, in particular Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Robinson, Joanna Southcott, Charlotte Dacre, Jane Austen, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, imagined unregulated enjoyments and sexual identities, many of which resisted categorization by gender. Joining close readings of texts with archival research and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, this book reveals the fictive structure of modern sexuality, makes visible a wider diversity of sexual identities in the period, and offers a new way to understand gender in British Romanticism.

At one time, the use of corporal punishment by parents in child-rearing was considered normal, even universally accepted. Only in the second half of the nineteenth century did this begin to change, in Quebec as well as the rest of the Western world. Then the extent of ill-treatment inflicted on children—treatment once excused as good child-rearing practice—was discovered. Abuse or Punishment? deeply considers not only the history of violence towards children in Quebec, but the history of public perception of this violence and what it means for the rest of Canada.

Unified Fields: Science and Literary Form argues that literary form is an important opportunity for understanding the relationship between literature and science. Through a series of close readings of poetry and prose texts, the book demonstrates that formal structures in literature can connect to scientific concepts (for example, mathematical equations, particle physics, the DNA strand) and that these forms share essential interpretive functions with their scientific counterparts.

This book is a general survey of women’s history in Quebec, Canada from New-France to the present. Based on the most recent research in the field, it looks at the historical experience of women of different social classes, and origins (be it geographic, ethnic and racial), from the period of contact between Europeans and Aboriginals, to the 21st Century, to give a nuanced and complex account of the main transformations their lives underwent.

Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the breathtaking world of women map makers. From the early map ateliers where women flourished through marital partnerships to the woman who produced a revolution in the way we think about continents, Map Worlds is among the first works that reveals the far-sighted contributions of women to the world of maps.

Over the past forty years, Canadian literature has found its way to the silver screen with increasing regularity. This volume of essays discusses and debates several double-edged issues:  the extent to which the literary artefact extends its artfulness to film, the degree to which literary communities stand to gain in contact with film communities and the measure by which a viable relation between fiction and film can be said to exist in Canada, and where that double-life precisely manifests itself, if at all.

Widely regarded as the foremost poet writing today in the Gaelic lan­guage, Aonghas MacNeacail casts his eye on love, ageing, memory, language, politics and landscape in this superb bilingual collection. Demonstrating his tight mastery of form and beautifully controlled rhythm, this selection of MacNeacail’s new and published work marks the poet’s seventieth birthday and celebrates the best of contemporary Scottish poetry.

Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies gathers together an irreverent group of scholars and writers to take a serious look at how zombies threaten almost every aspect of our lives. Spawned from the viral publication “When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection,” this multidisciplinary book draws on a variety of fields including biology, history, law, gender studies, archaeology, library science and landscape architecture. Part homage to zombie films and fiction, part cultural study, this collection humorously explores our deep-seated fear of the undead.

The Children’s Guide to Islamic Art is a beautifully illustrated book which explains the fundamental principals of Islamic art in a fun and engaging way. Each chapter is accompanied by many photographs and activities which help guide young readers to an appreciation of the  richness of Islamic arts — from ceramic tiles to calligraphy.

Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada explores the ways in which several of Canada’s women journalists, broadcasters and other media workers reached beyond the glory of their bylines to advocate for the most controversial women’s rights of their eras. The book consists of a series of case studies of the women in question as they grappled with concerns close to their hearts: higher education for women, healthy dress reforms, the vote, equal opportunities at work, abortion, lesbianism and Aboriginal women’s rights. 

The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys’ mother, Margaret Sharp, that reveal a portrait of what was then Canada’s second-largest city during wartime.

Mirabilia is both a record and investigation of artist Jakub Dolejš’ work “Tribune” produced during a Canada Council for the Arts residency in Paris. We designed the book as a collaboration between artist and designer. Mirabilia means “wonders” or “miracles” and our book is a treasure trove of Jakub’s exquisite photographs and paintings created as part of his research in the mansions, chateaus and galleries of Paris and its environs. A limited edition of Mirabilia was sold as part of his exhibition at Angell Gallery in Toronto, Canada. It was also sold at the National Gallery of Canada coinciding with Jakub’s participation in a major survey of staged photography.

Winner of a Creative Summit Award

This catalogue was published to coincide with Jakub’s second solo show at Art Mûr gallery in Montreal, Canada. The works in the exhibition were characterised as “thoughtful deconstructions of the manipulation behind image construction, and the historical legacy of their consumption.” The page design employs traditional elements of typographic design with deconstructed, asymmetrical blocks of text and image.