In the 1660s, Jews of Iberian ancestry, many of them fleeing Inquisitorial persecution, established an agrarian settlement in the midst of the Surinamese tropics. The heart of this community—Jodensav
Clearly, all is not well with the health of Lake Erie. Checking the Pulse of Lake Erie is an important and excellent update and a useful benchmark in the Lake Erie historical record. Dr. Munawar and t
Translation is tricky business. The translator has to transform the foreign to the familiar while moving and pleasing his or her audience. Louise Ladouceur knows theatre from a multi-dimensional persp
How did a collection of neighborhood volunteer organizations come to influence the development of a major Canadian city? Few other North American cities have embraced the community league movement wit
The eighteen studies in this book continue the exploration of the Jewish sermon that Saperstein began in his groundbreaking Jewish Preaching 1200-1800. His new research further illustrates the importa
Zucchini is one of the gardens' most prolific plants, but its bounty often leaves gardeners wondering what to do with the fruit, other than hiding them in unsuspecting neighbours' cars and mailboxes.
Woudstra’s literary essays, rooted in personal experience and travel, are long and loving looks into the mysterious heart of Africa. Her writings explore topics as diverse as volcanic eruptions and wi
A dynamic collection of Alberta's vibrant literary culture. Established names and emerging talents are brought together to demonstrate the outstanding calibre of writing in the province. Features cont
Whether the edge of the frontier or the centre of the oil boom, Edmonton has been a vibrant city for nearly a century. In Edmonton: Stories from the River City, Tony Cashman tells the tales of the peo
Hermeneutics may be described as the development and study of theories of the interpretation and understanding of texts. In this seminal study, Michael Chernick demonstrates how hermeneutical methods
Wearing men's breeches and sometimes armed with a rifle, trailblazing Canadian journalist and suffragist Miriam Green Ellis (1879-1964) was one of the few women (or even men) of the time period travel
A rich, multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry features representative works from the 1930s to the present day and includes poems by Philip Levine, Dudley Randall, John Sinclair, W. D. Snodgrass, N
As cohesive Jewish communal life began to disintegrate in the late nineteenth century, a modern Hebraic secular cultural tradition emerged. This volume presents a selection of influential essays by Ge
It’s a matter of knowing winter. Snowbird travels south, seeks warmth, and begins waiting. Robert Kroetsch’s new collection, The Snowbird Poems, is a brilliant flight of departure. Beached where he wa
Across great distances and a panorama shaped by words, poets Douglas Barbour and Sheila Murphy began writing in collaboration. Tapped to technology’s dance across paper, with thoughts like bright colo
Martin S. Garretson died in 1957. He was a naturalist of his time, which is not ours. Garretson's professional role was as the first curator of the National Museum of Heads and Horns in New York City
Eight contributions from North American scholars (plus one from Japan) examine crucial encounters between cultures in the medieval and early modern world from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. T
Solomon Bennett Freehof (1892-1990) was one of America's most distinguished Reform rabbis. Ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1915, he was of the generation of Reform rabbis from east European immig
