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In Mixed Company explores taverns as colonial Julia Roberts is an assistant professor in the
public space and how men and women of diverse Department of History at the University of
backgrounds – Native and newcomer, privileged Waterloo.
and labouring, white and non-white – negotiated
a place for themselves within them. The stories
that emerge unsettle comfortable certainties
about who belonged where in colonial society.
Reconstructed from tavern-keepers’ accounts,
court records, diaries, travelogues, and letters,
In Mixed Company is essential reading for
tavern aficionados and anyone interested in the
history of gender, race, and culture in Canadian
or colonial society. The records of the past tell
stories of time spent in mixed company but also
of the myriad, unequal ways that colonists found
room in taverns and a place in Upper Canadian
culture and society.
New in Paperback
July 2009, 240 pages, 6 x 9"
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History • Geography • Culture
UBC Press
History Sapphistries
A Global History of Love between Women
Leila J. Rupp
Rupp’s sweeping and highly readable synthesis the streets of London and Amsterdam, in the
of women’s same-sex love and sexuality is also a aristocratic circles of Paris, in the factories of
finely crafted work of historical analysis. Shanghai. We find women’s desire and love for
– Estelle Freedman, author of No Turning Back women meeting the light of day as Japanese
schoolgirls fall in love, and lesbian bars and clubs
Every decade or so, a brave thinker makes an spread from 1920s Berlin to 1950s Buffalo.
attempt to chart the historical maps of women And we encounter a world of difference in the
loving women. Rupp’s contribution is perhaps twenty-first century, as transnational concepts
one of the most elegant and interesting – making and lesbian identities meet local understand-
up for the lapses of the past, Sapphistries sails ings of how two women might love each other.
an international course, giving us a rich mix of Giving voice to words from the mouths and pens
historical sources and an even richer gift of asking of women, and from men’s prohibitions, reports,
questions at just the right places. literature, art, imaginings, pornography, and court
cases, Rupp also creatively employs fiction to
– Joan Nestle, co-editor of GenderQueer
imagine possibilities when there is no historical
From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in evidence. Sapphistries combines lyrical narrative
contemporary Indonesia, women throughout with meticulous historical research, providing
New in Paperback history and around the globe have desired, loved, an eminently readable and uniquely sweeping
December 2009, 320 pages and had sex with other women. In beautiful story of desire, love, and sex between women
6 x 9", 29 figures prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing around the globe from the beginning of time to
978-0-7748-1782-0 PB $34.95 the multitude of ways that diverse societies have the present.
Sexuality Studies • Women • shaped female same-sex sexuality across time
Leila J. Rupp is professor of feminist studies and
History and place. Leila J. Rupp reveals how, from the
associate dean of the division of social sciences
Sexuality Studies series time of the very earliest societies, the possibil-
at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
UBC Press (CRO) ity of love between women has been known,
She is author of many books, including A Desired
even when it is feared, ignored, or denied. We
Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Sexuality in
hear women in the sex-segregated spaces of
America.
convents and harems whispering words of love.
We see women beginning to find each other on
This book demonstrates the significance of kind of society. John Belshaw overturns the
demographic knowledge to our understanding widespread tendency to associate population
of the province’s history and its historiography. It growth with progress by examining how the
provides another lens through which to view the province’s Aboriginal population of as much as
history of the province. half a million was reduced by disease to fewer
– Ruth Sandwell, author of Beyond the City than 30,000 people in less than a century.
Limits: Rural History in British Columbia He reveals that the province has a long tradi-
tion of thinking and acting vigorously in ways
In the 240 years from contact to the present, meant to control and shape biological commu-
British Columbia’s population has experienced nities of humans, and suggests that imperial-
transformations of a kind and magnitude ism, race, class, and gender have historically
witnessed nowhere else in North America. The situated population issues at the centre of public
introduction of exotic diseases changed the consciousness in British Columbia.
human landscape almost overnight, as did gold
rushes, industrialization, two world wars, a baby JOHN DOUGLAS BELSHAW, formerly professor
boom, late twentieth-century immigration from of history at Thompson Rivers University, is now
Asia, and a grey wave. Associate Vice-President of Education at North
Island College, Vancouver Island.
New in Paperback Becoming British Columbia is the first compre-
July 2009, 288 pages, 6 x 9" hensive demographic history of this province.
978-0-7748-1546-8 PB $32.95 Investigating critical moments in the demo
978-0-7748-1545-1 HC $85.00 graphic record and linking demographic patterns
History • Geography to larger social and political questions, it shows
UBC Press how biology, politics, and history conspire with
sex, death, and migration to create a particular
Crisis of Conscience is essential reading for The First World War’s appalling death toll and
anyone who wants a greater understanding of the need for a sense of equality of sacrifice on
not only conscientious objection but of the entire the home front led to Canada’s first experience
Canadian experience during the First World War. of overseas conscription. While historians have
It is an original and balanced examination of a focused on resistance to enforced military service
contentious issue and an important contribution to in Quebec, this has obscured the important role
an often neglected area of scholarship. of those who saw military service as incompat-
– Thomas P. Socknat, co-editor of ible with their religious or ethical beliefs. Crisis of
Challenge to Mars: Essays on Pacifism Conscience is the first and only book about the
from 1918 to 1945 Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the
Great War. The experience of these conscientious
An original and fascinating study of minor- objectors offers insight into evolving attitudes
ity religious rights in Canadian society during about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship
wartime. Crisis of Conscience will be an impor- during a key period of Canadian nation building.
tant source for readers interested in pacifism, anti- This book will appeal to readers interested in
war sentiment, and peace movements, not just in Canadian military and peace history. The book is
Canada but in the wider western world. also relevant to those concerned with questions
New in Paperback – David Marshall, author of Secularizing the Faith: of voluntarism and obligation in a democratic
July 2009, 264 pages, 6 x 9" Canadian Protestant Clergy and the Crisis of society, and issues of gender history and minority
978-0-7748-1594-9 PB $32.95 Belief, 1850-1940 freedom and identity.
978-0-7748-1593-2 HC $85.00
History • War Amy J. Shaw is an assistant professor in the
Studies in Canadian military Department of History at the University of
history Series Lethbridge.
Published in Association with the
Canadian War Museum
UBC Press
Electing a Diverse Canada is a “must read” Caroline Andrew is a professor in the School of
and a potential classic in its field. Demographic Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.
profiles of individual cities and their elected
John Biles is the Director of Partnerships and
representatives are compiled and analyzed
Knowledge Transfer for Metropolis.
by scholars with intimate knowledge of local
politics. A unifying focus and methodology Myer Siemiatycki is a professor in the Depart-
(including a common survey) provide powerful ment of Politics and Public Administration at
tools for understanding the general patterns of Ryerson University.
minority representation in Canada and its unique
features in our major urban centres. Erin Tolley is the Director of International Projects
– Linda Gerber, co-author of Sociology for Metropolis and a PhD candidate in Political
(6th edition) Studies at Queen's University.
This book presents the most extensive analy- Contributors Caroline Andrew • John Biles •
sis to date of the electoral representation of Karen Bird • Jerome H. Black • Irene Bloemraad
immigrants, minorities, and women in Canada. • Michael Caverhill • Joseph Garcea • Karen
Covering eleven cities as well as Canada’s Parlia- Bridget Murray • Brenda O’Neill • Carolle Simard
ment, it breaks new ground by assessing the • Shannon Sampert • Myer Siemiatycki • Erin
New in Paperback Tolley • Jared J. Wesley.
representation of diverse identity groups across
July 2009, 304 pages, 6 x 9"
multiple levels of government.
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978-0-7748-1485-0 HC $85.00
Politics • Elections
UBC Press
From Pride to Influence sets out a trenchant but ing it in a conception of the national interest
thoughtful and solidly supported analysis of the that accepts the primacy of the United States
challenges confronting Canadian foreign policy. in guaranteeing Canadian national security and
Hart makes a compelling case for avoiding the prosperity.
false allure of the feel-gooders and for reversing
Michael Hart is Simon Reisman Professor
Canada’s slide from peripheral to relevant in world
of Trade Policy, Norman Paterson School of
affairs.
International Affairs, and Distinguished Fellow of
– Derek Burney, former Canadian ambassador
the Centre for Trade Policy and Law at Carleton
to the United States
University.
Recent Canadian foreign policy has fixated upon
Canada’s former status as a middle power within
a small club of western, democratic states. The
emergence of a US-dominated world and of an
integrated North American economy and the
decline of multilateral rules and institutions have
left Canadian foreign policy searching for new
purpose and direction. This book brings Canadian
New in Paperback
foreign policy into the 21st century by ground-
July 2009, 432 pages, 6 x 9"
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978-0-7748-1587-1 HC $85.00
Politics • International Relations
UBC Press
Canada and the United States. Two nations, one Chantal Allan is an award-winning journalist who
border, same continent. Anti-American senti- has reported for CBC Radio and NPR (National
ment in Canada is well documented, but what Public Radio). Her articles have appeared in the
have Americans had to say about their northern Toronto Star, Los Angeles Daily News, and other
neighbour? Allan examines how the American publications. She received her M.A. in journalism
media has portrayed Canada from Confederation from the University of Southern California and
to the Obama inauguration. By examining major now lives in Los Angeles.
events that have tested bilateral relations, Bomb
July 2009, 160 pages, 5.5 x 8"
Canada tracks the history of anti-Canadianism
b/w illustrations
in the U.S. Informative, thought-provoking and
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at times hilarious, this first-of-its-kind book
Current Affairs • Politics • Journalism • History
reveals another layer of the complex relationship
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between Canada and the United States.
Health Affairs
Current From Cronkite to Colbert
The Evolution of Broadcast News
Geoffrey D. Baym
At a time when increasing numbers of people are Report. From Cronkite to Colbert makes the
tuning out the nightly news and media consump- case that rather than “fake news,” those shows
tion is falling, the late-night comedians have should be understood as a new kind of journal-
become some of the most important newscast- ism, one that has the potential to save the news
ers in the country. From Cronkite to Colbert and reinvigorate the conversation of democracy
explains why. It examines an historical path that in today’s society.
begins at the height of the network age with
Geoffrey D. Baym is an Associate Professor in
Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, when
the Department of Media Studies at the Univer-
the evening news was considered the authorita-
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
tive record of the day’s events and forged our
assumptions about what “the news” is, or should September 2009, 224 pages, 6 x 9"
be. The book then winds its way through the 978-1-59451-554-5 PB $26.95
breakdown of that paradigm of “real” news to its Current Affairs • Film/TV • Politics
reinvention in the unlikely form of such popular- Paradigm
ized shows as The Daily Show and The Colbert
Bloodshed connected with Mexican drug cartels, George W. Grayson is the Class of 1938 Profes-
how they emerged, and their impact on the sor of Government at the College of William &
United States is the subject of this frightening Mary, an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy
book. Savage narcotics-related decapitations, Research Institute, Williamsburg, VA, and a senior
castrations, and other murders have destroyed associate at the Center for Strategic & Interna-
tourism in many Mexican communities and such tional Studies, Washington, DC.
savagery is now cascading across the border into
August 2009, 275 pages, 6 x 9"
the United States. Grayson explores how this
978-1-4128-1151-4 HC $41.95
spiral of violence emerged in Mexico, its impact
Current Affairs • Security • War on Drugs
on the country and its northern neighbour, and
Transaction
the prospects for managing it.
Policymakers see counterinsurgency and counter- Vanda Felbab-Brown is a fellow in Foreign Policy
narcotics policy as two sides of the same coin – at the Brookings Institution.
stop the flow of drug money, and the insurgency
November 2009, 220 pages, 6 x 9"
will wither away. This timely book vividly shows
978-0-8157-0328-0 HC $34.95
how that conventional wisdom is dangerously
SHOOTING UP
COUNTERINSURGENCY AND THE WAR ON DRUGS
wrongheaded. Vanda Felbab-Brown shows how Current Affairs • Security • War on Drugs
BrookingS Institution Press
guerrilla and terrorist organizations – such as
the Taliban, Peru’s Shining Path, and Colombia’s
FARC – have learned to exploit illicit markets.
Aggressive efforts to suppress the drug trade
typically backfire by allowing insurgents to pose
as the population’s protectors and win further
legitimacy. A combination of laissez-faire toward
cultivation and aggressive pursuit of traffickers is
VANDA FELBAB-BROWN more likely to be fruitful.
Regional
Health History Massacred for Gold
The Chinese in Hells Canyon
R. Gregory Nokes
The first authoritative account of the little- R. Gregory Nokes travelled the world as a
known massacre of as many as thirty-four reporter and editor for The Associated Press
Chinese gold miners in Oregon’s Hells Canyon in and The Oregonian. His article “A Most Daring
1887. None of the killers – likely a gang of seven Outrage, Murders at Chinese Massacre Cover,
horse thieves and schoolboys – were ever held 1887” won honorable mention for the 2007
accountable for one of the worst crimes against Joel Palmer Award from the Oregon Historical
Chinese in the American West during the latter Society, and he has researched and lectured
half of the 19th century. widely on the experience of Chinese labor-
ers in the Pacific Northwest interior and on
the Hells Canyon massacre. He earned a BA
from Willamette University and was a Nieman
Fellow at Harvard University. He lives in West
Linn, Oregon.
June 14, 1903, was a typical, hot Sunday in Calamity illustrates that even the smallest things
Heppner, a small farm town in northeastern we do have consequences – good or bad. Byrd
Oregon. People went to church, ate dinner, draws on a wealth of primary sources, including a
and relaxed with family and friends. But late moving collection of photographs, to paint a rare
that afternoon, calamity struck when a violent picture of how a small town in the West coped
thunderstorm brought heavy rain and hail to the with disaster at the turn of the twentieth century.
mountains and bare hills south of town.
Joann Byrd is a retired journalist who has
In Calamity, Joann Byrd, a native of eastern worked for a number of newspapers, including
Oregon, carefully documents the poignant story the East Oregonian in Pendleton, Oregon, and
of this small farm town in northeastern Oregon the Washington Post.
when one of every five people in the prosper-
September 2009, 192 pages, 6 x 9"
ous town of 1,300 would lose their lives, as the
45 illustrations, maps
floodwaters pulled apart and carried away nearly
978-0-295-98941-9 PB $26.95
everything in its path.
History • Regional
University of Washington Press
Health
Memoir Letters from the Lost
A Memoir of Discovery
Helen Waldstein Wilkes
On March 15, 1939, Helen Waldstein’s father stories and her own in an engrossing narrative of
snatched the last exit visa from a distracted suffering and rescue, survivor guilt, and overcom-
clerk to get his wife and child out of Prague. ing obstacles to intergenerational dialogue about
The family left behind could only send letters a traumatic past.
after the Nazis closed in. Through the war years,
Since receiving her PhD in French literature,
letters kept coming to the southern Ontario farm
Helen Waldstein Wilkes spent 30 years teach-
where Helen’s small family learned to speak
ing at every level in the US and Canada. Now
English, to be Canadian farmers, and to forget
retired and living in Vancouver, BC, she is actively
they were Jewish.
examining her own cultural inheritance and its
Helen did not notice when the letters stopped impact.
coming, but they surfaced intermittently until
November 2009, 210 pages, 5.5 x 8"
she couldn’t ignore them anymore. Reading the
b/w photos
letters changed everything. As her past refused
978-1-897425-54-3 PB $24.95
to keep silent, Helen followed the trail of letters
Biography • Memoir • Culture
back to Europe to find living witnesses of what
AU Press
the letters related. She has here interwoven their
Health
Memoir Havana and Other Missing Fathers
Mia Angela Leonin
Mia Leonin spent the first sixteen years of her Insightful, imaginative, and often poetic, Havana
life believing her father was dead. Shortly after and Other Missing Fathers is Mia Leonin’s recol-
her sixteenth birthday, Leonin learned from her lection of this journey and her longing to learn
mother that her father, a Cuban exile, was very more about her origins. In the end, she must
much alive and living in Florida. Her attempts to learn to accept the answers she discovers as well
contact him, however, were thwarted until four as the questions that remain.
years later, when she left home in search of her
Mia Angela Leonin is a creative writing instructor
roots. Her journey takes her to Miami, Colombia,
at the University of Miami. She is the author of
and Cuba, and her search for cultural identity
two books of poetry, Braid and Unraveling
leads her to create memories, friendships, and
the Bed.
romances. She finds moments of connection and
redemption, ending up in Havana not as a cultural September 2009, 192 pages, 6 x 9"
tourist but as an illegitimate daughter of Cuba 978-0-8165-2815-8 PB $19.95
looking for validation. Memoir • Latina Culture
University of Arizona Press
Beth has been able to capture, through her Perry’s weaving of narrative, comments, field
writing, the most intimate care between nurse notes, poetry, and photography creates a very
and patient. Her writing style is clear and clean. personal and unique perspective on nursing that
– Dr. Olive Yonge, University of Alberta leaves the reader with a greater understanding of
the experience, and rewards, of caring for others.
Within most disciplines, there are those who are
recognized by their colleagues as being excep- Beth Perry is an Associate Professor of Nursing
tionally competent practitioners. These people at Athabasca University. She has worked as both
do their work in such a remarkable way as to a nurse and an educator in medicine, oncology,
become a model for others. This book is based and palliative care.
on a study of the beliefs, actions, and interactions
July 2009, 224 pages (est.), 6 × 9"
of a group of extraordinary oncology nurses – the
978-1-897425-51-0 PB $29.95
nurses their peers would choose to have care for
Memoir • Nursing • Professional Development
them if they were diagnosed with cancer.
AU Press
In recent years, archaeologists and Native November 2009, 288 pages, 6 x 9"
American communities have struggled to find 9 b/w photos, 2 illustrations, 2 maps, 2 tables
common ground not realizing that more than a 978-0-8165-2655-0 HC $49.00
century ago a man of Seneca descent raised on Biography • Culture • Archaeology
New York’s Cattaraugus Reservation, Arthur C. University of Arizona Press
Parker, joined the ranks of professional archaeol-
ogy. Until now, Parker’s life and legacy as the
first Native American archaeologist have been
neither closely studied nor widely recognized. At
a time when heated debates about the control of
Native American heritage have come to dominate
archaeology, Parker’s experiences form a singular
lens to view the field’s tangled history and
current predicaments with Indigenous peoples.
Biography
Health Knut Hamsun
The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance
Monika Žagar
MON IK A Ž AGA R
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, course of his long career. In the process, Žagar
Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was a towering figure illuminates Norway’s long history of interaction
Knut Hamsun of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympa- with peoples at home and abroad.
thizer and supporter of the German occupation of
T HE DA R K SIDE OF L I T ER A RY BR IL L I A NCE
Monika Žagar is associate professor of Scandina-
Norway during the Second World War.
vian studies at the University of Minnesota.
In her incisive study of Hamsun, Monika Žagar
October 2009, 320 pages, 6 x 9"
refuses to separate his political and cultural ideas
978-0-295-98946-4 PB $36.95
from an analysis of his highly regarded writing.
Biography • Literature
Inspecting a number of his works, she reveals the
University of Washington Press
ways in which messages of racism and sexism
appear in plays, fiction, and none-too-subtle
nonfiction produced by a prolific author over the
Vibrations is the story of one boy’s adventures combining Amram’s music with Kerouac’s
growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania, working narration. Amram, honoured as the first Compos-
odd jobs, misfitting in the U.S. Army, barnstorm- er-in-Residence of the New York Philharmonic,
ing through Europe with the famous Seventh has composed more than 100 orchestral and
Army Symphony, exiling in Paris, scuffling on chamber works, written two operas, and has
the Lower East Side, day-labouring – often down collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy
but never out – and finally emerging as a major Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus,
musical force. Dustin Hoffman, Thelonious Monk, Willie Nelson,
Nancy Griffith, Johnny Depp, and more.
David Amram has played and rambled and
galloped and staggered through a remarkably With its stage-setting foreword by Douglas
broad sweep of American life, experience, Brinkley and a new afterword by Kerouac biogra-
and creative struggle. The Boston Globe has pher Audrey Sprenger, this new edition is not to
described him as “the Renaissance man of be missed.
American Music.” Amram and Jack Kerouac
October 2009, 528 pages, 5.5 x 8.5"
collaborated on the first-ever jazz poetry reading
16 photos
in New York City in 1957 as well as the subse-
978-1-59451-706-8 PB $29.95
quent legendary film Pull My Daisy in 1959,
Biography • Memoir • Music
Paradigm
Health
Art Kids Design Glass
Benjamin Cobb and Susan Linn
Foreword by Dale Chihuly
KIDS Kids Design Glass began as a temporary November 2009, 132 pages, 12 x 10"
DESIGN educational program at the Museum of Glass in 80 colour illustrations, DVD, and a 24-page
GLASS Tacoma, Washington, but has developed into a illustrated paperback booklet
delightful collection of art that includes pieces as 978-0-295-98937-2 HC $50.00
challenging for the glassblowers to create as they Art
are enjoyable to watch being created. Published with The Museum of Glass,
Tacoma
This book includes 51 pieces with full-colour University of Washington Press
photos of both the object and the drawing the
glass sculpture was based on. Also included is
the booklet, Pip! The Baby Monster and How He
Was Made at the Museum of Glass and a DVD
showing the creation of Recycled Robot.
Redback Graphix will bowl readers over with Anna Zagala is a Melbourne-based writer,
color and edgy social comment. From 1979 to researcher, and designer.
1994, design and screenprinting studio Redback
July 2009, 128 pages, 9 x 9"
Graphix produced posters that combined witty
328 colour illustrations
graphics with eye-watering colours to give voice
978-0-642-54198-7 PB $42.95
to a raft of pressing social issues – from AIDS
Art • Graphic Arts
awareness and alcohol abuse to the promotion
Distributed for the National Gallery of Australia
of local films and music gigs. Originally designed
University of Washington Press
for the street, these posters are now considered
icons of an era and are highly sought after. Anna
Zagala’s text provides an insight into why these
posters continue to excite and inspire a new
generation.
For nearly fifty years artist and naturalist Tony his hands. In all of his work, he lets the passion
Angell has used Puget Sound’s natural diversity and excitement of his discoveries drive his artistic
as his palette. In this book, he describes the expression.
living systems within the Sound and shares his
Tony Angell’s artworks are held in public and
observations and encounters with the species
private collections throughout the world. He is
that make up the complex communities of the
the author of several books including Ravens,
Sound’s rivers, tidal flats, islands, and beaches:
Crows, Magpies, and Jays and Owls, and served
the fledging flight of a young peregrine, an otter
as Washington State Director of Environmental
playfully herding a small red rockfish, the grasp
Education for thirty years. He lives in Seattle.
of a curious octopus. Angell goes on to explain
the methods he uses in his art. The shapes, October 2009, 140 pages, 8.5 x 11"
movements, patterns, and even temperatures 141 illustrations (120 in colour), 1 map
and smells that he experiences in the field are all 978-0-295-98927-3 HC $42.95
brought to bear on his work. His drawings bring Art • Nature • Birds
clarity to his visual and emotional memories, and Published with People for Puget Sound
his sculptures allow him to approach a memory University of Washington Press
from many directions and retain that memory in
Health
Culture The Origin of Cultures
How Individual Choices Make Cultures Change
W. Penn Handwerker
What makes a 17-year-old girl decide to wrap a decision to shop, will help us address critical
bomb around her body, walk into a supermarket, policy questions, from reducing the likelihood
and detonate it, killing herself and an 18-year of terrorist attacks to responding to global
old girl shopping there? In this provocative and epidemics and addressing climate change.
important book, renowned anthropologist W.
W. Penn Handwerker is professor of
Penn Handwerker shows that individual choices,
anthropology at the University of Connecticut.
from the fatal to the mundane, are fundamentally
questions of culture – what it is, where it comes August 2009, 144 pages, 6 x 9"
from, and the complex ways it changes and 978-1-59874-068-4 PB $28.95
evolves. In accessible and engaging prose, he Culture • Anthropology
walks readers through the process of how the Left Coast Press, Inc
human imagination produces new things, shaped
by culture and experience but also constantly
evolving in unpredictable ways. He shows how
understanding cultural dynamics, which explain
one girl’s decision to murder and another girl’s
We are all descended from a single woman Neanderthals, and the Bering Straits—are equal-
whose descendants left Africa 70,000 years ago ly under scrutiny. Two leading Bone Readers and
and populated the planet. Or are we? a science writer have penned a literate, authori-
tative summary of the current questions and
The Eve Hypothesis, a dogma among research- the minefield of academic politics that surround
ers in human origins for the past two decades, questioning anthropology’s most cherished
is coming under increasing challenge by a paradigms. Ideal for students in human origins
new generation of Bone Readers. This group or biological anthropology courses, and a
of scholars study the earliest human remains, delightful read.
their chemistry and DNA, their extinct floral and
faunal contemporaries, and the geologic layers in August 2009, 264 pgs, 6 x 9"
which they were found. Focusing on anomalous 20 figures, 5 tables
discoveries in Australia, the Pacific islands, and 978-59874-475-0 PB $29.95
the Americas, these scholars are challenging the Culture • Anthropology • Archaeology
reigning hypothesis of modern human origins. Left Coast Press, Inc
Other hypotheses—about “hobbits,”
A portable, field-friendly guide to the seasonal Alan Contreras has studied the birds of Lane
status and distribution of Oregon birds with County for over thirty years. He is past presi-
summary text updated from Birds of Oregon, dent of the Oregon Field Ornithologists, and
the definitive source for Oregon ornithology, and has written and edited several books on Oregon
additional new breeding and winter maps, charts, birds, including Northwest Birds in Winter and
and colour plates for ID assistance. Birds of Oregon: A General Reference. He lives in
Eugene, Oregon.
Hendrik G. Herlyn works as a freelance trans-
lator in the fields of ornithology, forestry, and September 2009, 328 pages, 5.5 x 8.5"
natural science. He is a contributor to Birds of 978-0-87071-571-6 HC $26.95
Oregon and to Oregon Birds and American Birds Nature • Regional
magazines. He is a field editor for the Audubon Oregon State University Press
Society of Corvallis. He has participated in
ornithological projects in Europe and North
America.
Health
Nature Ecology & Wonder
The Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site
Robert W. Sandford
This book makes a couple of remarkable claims. Robert W. Sandford is the author or editor of
The first is that the greatest cultural achievement some 20 books on the nature, history, and culture
in the mountain region of Western Canada may of the Canadian west. He is the Canadian Chair of
be what has been preserved, not what has been the United Nations International Decade “Water
developed. for Life,” an initiative that aims to advance
long-term water quality and availability issues
The second is that protecting the spine of the in response to climate change in Canada and
Rocky Mountains will preserve crucial eco- abroad. He lives in Canmore, Alberta.
logical functions. Because the process of
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Environment Chasing Molecules
Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry
Elizabeth Grossman
In Chasing Molecules, Elizabeth Grossman shows scientists, Grossman gives us a first look at this
how ordinary items found in most American fundamental transformation of everyday products.
homes are threatening our health and why new The resulting story offers hope for a rarity at the
innovations in chemistry could make day-to-day intersection of health, the environment, and indus-
life safer. Grossman, an acclaimed journalist try: a win-win.
who brought national attention to the contami-
Elizabeth Grossman is the author of Watershed:
nants hidden in computers and other high-tech
The Undamming of America and Adventuring
electronics, now explores the promise of materi-
Along the Lewis and Clark Trail and co-editor
als that are “benign by design.“
of Shadow Cat: Encountering the American
There’s no question chemicals can be put to Mountain Lion. Her work has appeared in The
ingenious use: making coats waterproof, pans Washington Post, Salon, The Nation, Orion, High
nonstick, and mascara glide. But these wondrous Country News and other publications.
materials can also cause cancer, interfere with
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views with leading
After nearly a decade on the defensive, the world In Don’t Be Such a Scientist, he shares the
of science is about to be restored to its rightful secrets of talking substance in an age of style.
place. But is the American public really ready for The key, he argues, is to stay true to the facts
science? And is the world of science ready for while tapping into something more primordial,
the American public? more irrational, and ultimately more human.
Enter Randy Olson. Fifteen years ago, Olson bid Randy Olson earned his Ph.D. at Harvard Univer-
farewell to the science world and shipped off sity and achieved tenure at the University of
to Hollywood ready to change the world. With New Hampshire before resigning and moving to
films like Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelli- Hollywood, obtaining an M.F.A. from the Univer-
gent Design Circus (Tribeca ‘06, Showtime) and sity of Southern California School of Cinema, and
Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy (Outfest ‘08), embarking on a second career as a filmmaker.
he has tried to bridge the cultural divide that
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in. Now, in his first book, Olson recounts the
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lessons from his own hilarious – and at times
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humiliating – evolution from science professor
to Hollywood filmmaker.
Health
Environment The Economical Environmentalist
It Doesn’t Have to Cost the Earth
Prashant Vaze
In this book, Prashant Vaze, an environmental and future technologies, tips and ideas for every
economist, distils and builds on his experience of budget for how to spend the least for the biggest
trying to live a low-carbon life in London. In doing carbon reduction gain, and insight from the experi-
so he helps navigate the choices that confront ences of people trying to live a low-carbon life.
us all when making decisions about what to eat,
Prashant Vaze is an environmental economist
how to travel, and how to keep warm in the era of
and former policy maker. He worked for 15 years
climate change and economic turmoil. The book
in the Office of Climate Change, the Prime Minis-
is an irreverent but rigorous reference guide to
ter’s Strategy Unit and the Department of the
low-cost, low-carbon living for everyone in tough
Environment, in the UK.
times. Readers are taken through the choices of
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a father with two schoolchildren holding down a Environment • Economics
hectic job, and a pensioner on a fixed income. It’s Earthscan
brimming with up-to-date information on current
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A Bigger Picture
David Boyle and Andrew Simms
Economics sometimes seems to be stacked of the emerging new economics, and it tells
against social, environmental, and individual well- the real-world stories of how new economics is
being. But it doesn’t have to be like this. A new being successfully put into practice around the
approach to economics – deriving as much from world. An essential guide to understanding new
Ruskin and Schumacher as from Keynes or Smith economics for all those who care about making
– has begun to emerge. Skeptical about money economics work for people and planet.
as a measure of success, this new economics
David Boyle is a fellow at the New Economics
turns our assumptions about wealth and poverty
Foundation (nef).
upside down. It shows us that real wealth can be
measured by increased well-being and environ- Andrew Simms, author of Tescopoly, is policy
mental sustainability rather than just having and director at nef and a commentator on issues on
consuming more things. climate change.
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The author describes the spectrum of ADHD, the Realistic and optimistic, this book is the ideal
co-occurring symptoms, and common difficul- source of information and advice for parents and
ties that parents face. The rest of the book professionals who are trying to keep up with
focuses on solutions, based around four rules. children who are living without brakes.
Rule number one is keeping it positive: punish-
Martin L. Kutscher MD is Assistant Clinical
ments can change behaviour, but only positive
Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics
approaches can improve attitude. Rule number
and Neurology of New York Medical College in
two is keeping it calm: it’s difficult thinking
Valhalla, NY, and has worked since 1987 with
clearly enough to solve problems logically if you
children who have special neurological needs.
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a practical, problem-solving guide for those reference for friends and family of individuals
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condition and the difficulties it may cause, so that experience.
they can offer support in the most beneficial way.
Carol Hagland worked as a chartered clinical
The book explains what AS is and why certain psychologist in the NHS for over thirty years.
behaviours frequently occur, such as anxiety, fear During that time she developed a particular inter-
of change, and unusual sensitivities. Once behav- est in Asperger Syndrome, providing diagnoses,
iours and reactions are understood, many of the counselling, and advice about care and support.
apparent problems become less troublesome,
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Over a period of fourteen years, Francesca and describe how their lives are now. Above
Bierens interviewed ten families of children all, Bierens’ message, and that of the families
who were on the autism spectrum. This book she interviews, is one of inspiration and hope,
records their answers: how they felt, how they showing that there is light, love, and laughter
coped, and what gave them strength and solace. along the way. Their stories should be read
Each family discusses how they reacted when by anyone who is affected by or working with
they found out their child had autism, and their autism.
feelings leading up to diagnosis. They share
Francesca Bierens is a speech-language thera-
their positive and negative experiences with
pist and primary school teacher.
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Autism and Its Medical Management explains the Bridging the communication gap between
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and professionals can use current medical knowl- offers accessible explanations of medical termi-
edge to better understand how to address the nology and treatment relevant to ASDs and is
medical aspects of autism. an important tool for parents and professionals
working with children with ASDs.
The book begins with an overview of Autism
Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) and how they are Michael G. Chez MD is Director of Pediatric
diagnosed, and goes on to identify the different Neurology at Sutter in the UK. Dr. Chez has spent
types of autism and to describe relevant medical over 16 years practicing pediatric neurology with
interventions. The author also provides an outline a special interest in clinical aspects of autism.
of recent research to enable parents and profes-
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draining, and stressful. Parenting a neurotypical action plan that’s right for you. This book offers
child alongside them is even more complicated hope and support for anyone parenting or caring
and confusing. for a child on the autism spectrum.
Coach Yourself Through the Autism Spectrum Ruth Knott Schroeder MA, ACC is a Coach
offers an opportunity to access your inner creativ- for Living certified with the International Coach
ity, resourcefulness, strengths, and abilities in Federation. She is also the parent of an 18-year-
order to create positive change in your family. old son with autism and a 14-year-old neurotypical
Short sections on common problems such as daughter.
visits to the doctor, community outings, bullying,
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emotional health, and each section features
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Children and adults on the autism spectrum may examples, and the pros and cons of medica-
often behave in ways that cause difficulties for tion are also discussed. This hands-on, practical
themselves and for those who care for them. manual will be indispensable for families, care-
This book offers effective, long-term strategies givers, and anyone involved with children and
to help resolve common challenging behaviours adults with autism who need help with behavioral
such as physical aggression and self-injury. or emotional challenges.
Managing Family Meltdown also provides Linda Woodcock is the National Lead on Parent
possible explanations for these behaviours, and and Family Training for The Studio III Group.
offers a wealth of practical tips on how families
Andrea Page is Senior Lecturer in the clinical
can tackle different kinds of challenging behav-
skills division at Birmingham City University.
iour. The authors explore the difference between
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The act of self-harming is often alarming and By challenging common misconceptions about
it can be difficult to comprehend why people self-harm and advocating a framework for inter-
choose to do this to themselves. By trying to vention that is respectful and compassionate,
understand what self-harm is and why it is Getting to the Heart of Hurt will be indispens-
chosen as a coping strategy, family members and able for anyone who cares for an individual who
caregivers can have the confidence and courage self-harms.
to be an invaluable support during what can be an
Sarah Currie delivers workshops on understand-
extremely stressful time for everyone involved.
ing self-harm and has been involved in making a
This book will demonstrate why it is so important
documentary film about her experi-ences with
for those who self-harm to be able to form a
self-harm for the Miss Dorothy Program.
reliable, trusting relationship with another person,
in order to begin a journey of self-awareness and
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This clear and concise book explains in acces- Annette Wellings is a Pilates instructor who
sible terms what scoliosis is. It includes a series suffers from major scoliosis. She began exploring
of Pilates exercises, specially designed by different ways of keeping her body flexible and
the authors to promote flexibility, posture and healthy while working as a linguist and artist in
muscle strength in scoliosis sufferers, as well as Australia.
information on what exercises to avoid. It also
Alan Herdman is the UK’s leading practitioner of
offers basic strategies and practical tips for living
Pilates. He currently teaches doctors, profes-
with the condition. Written with the full range
sional dancers, and sportsmen and women, as
of scoliosis sufferers in mind, Curves, Twists
well as people with a wide variety of physical
and Bends highlights the importance of gentle
disabilities.
exercise for keeping the body as healthy and
flexible as possible. October 2009, 128 pages, 6 x 9"
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This book will be indispensable to individuals
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with scoliosis and their families as well as to
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physical therapists, Pilates instructors, and other
professionals who advise scoliosis patients on
exercise and lifestyle options.
Body Intelligence offers a new understanding changes occur and a new posture emerges,
of how the body works and leads the reader to followed by positive mental and emotional
a greater sense of well-being and an enriched shifts. People experiencing depression, fatigue,
sense of self. emotional issues, stress and anxiety have the
potential to be relieved of their symptoms with
The anatomy of the body is explored without practice using this book as guidance.
the complexity of medical terminology. Instead,
common descriptions are used along with a multi- Ged Sumner is a practising craniosacral therapist
tude of images, allowing the reader to visualize and Chi Kung teacher. He is Director of the
and work with different levels of the body. College of Elemental Chi Kung, www.elemental-
chikung.com.
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of health and body intelligence that are natural Qigong • Internal Energy Arts • Cranial
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Research shows that Chinese medicine can Traditional Chinese Medicine Approaches to
be very effective in supporting the treatment Cancer will be an invaluable book for people with
of cancer by orthodox Western methods, and cancer and the medical professionals who work
is particularly effective in alleviating many of with them.
the side effects of treatment. Henry McGrath
Henry McGrath studied oriental medicine
draws on his many years as a practitioner of
for nine years, obtaining diplomas in shiatsu,
Traditional Chinese Medicine to explain how
acupuncture, and herbal medicine. He is currently
Chinese medicine approaches cancer in terms of
the Acupuncture Course Director and Academic
understanding and treatment. He presents the
Director for the College of Naturopathic
wide range of approaches that Chinese medicine
Medicine.
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which to explore further specific treatment.
Many people will suffer from depression at Managing Depression with Qigong provides a
some time in their lives. New research shows guide to an effective and increasingly recogn-
that Qigong, a traditional Chinese practice, can ised form of treatment that will be invaluable to
be an effective treatment for depression and people with depression and their families.
can provide a good alternative or supplement to
medication in some cases.
Frances Gaik is a licensed clinical professional
Based on the same principles as Traditional counselor in private practice in the western
Chinese Medicine, Qigong works by promoting suburbs of Chicago. She holds a doctorate in
the movement of health-giving energy along Clinical Psychology from the Adler School of
the meridians of the body. The author encour- Professional Psychology. Gaik is a long-term
ages the reader to identify their problems and meditator and Qigong practitioner who utilizes
take action. Dr. Frances Gaik gives practical alternative energy therapies as well as hypno-
advice that will help anyone with depression to sis in her therapeutic approach.
improve their mental health.
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