Between 1885 and 1925 the Presbyterian Church in Canada grew to become the largest church on the Prairies.Western Challenge documents that rise. Exploring the church's mission to the British settlers
Constructed in the form of a memoir, these poems take on an emotional tone as the author details the story of her life. The collection is populated by her memories
Examines the relationship between language and society in contemporary Italy, including an up-to-date account of linguistic diversity, social variation, special codes and language varieties within Ita
A research fellow at King's College, London and her colleagues reflect global village realities in the "new times" wave of cultural studies. Through a case study of developing a university ethnography
Man of Bone has a thriller's taste for blood, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: a heart-wrenching portrait of an ordinary Canadian jerked into third-world terrorism. Bill Burridge, his wife and
The allusion in the title to the dwarf on the shoulders of the giant underscores the central themes of this collection: the debt each generation owes to the intellectual achievements of those that pre
Shunned as an outsider and mistreated due to an undiagnosed learning disability, the young and imaginative Mari-Jen Delene retreats into silence. Around her, the fictional community of Ste. Noire, Cap
Still havin’ a Time. Based on the indie-film sensation that elevated a mini-bike loving, weed smoking, beer drinking underdog to the status of heroic icon, How to Be Deadly: The Official Movie Compani
In Sons and Mothers, Mennonite men write about their mothers, and speak of the often close, but sometimes troubled, relationships that exist between mothers and sons. The collection
Weller takes the reader on a tour of the Great Lakes region, tracing its natural history since the time before human habitation. This is a fascinating case study of the way in which we have altered an
In the theological landscape of the later twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, Peter Comestor?s Historia scholastica stands out as a conspicuous yet strangely overlooked landmark. Like the Sentence
A common refrain in twelfth-century thought is that God alone knows the secrets of the heart. Originating in Scripture, the principle was elaborated exegetically to imply two distinct domains: one of
