Press Publishing: 3010 books
Citizen Docker
Making a New Deal on the Vancouver Waterfront, 1919-1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
After the First World War, many Canadians were concerned with the possibility of national regeneration. Progressive-minded politicians, academics, church leaders, and social reformers turned increasingly to the state for solutions. Yet, as significant as the state was in articulating and instituting...
The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570)
L'arte et prudenza d'un maestro cuoco (The Art and Craft of a Master Cook)
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2011
Bartolomeo Scappi (c. 1500-1577) was arguably the most famous chef of the Italian Renaissance. He oversaw the preparation of meals for several Cardinals and was such a master of his profession that he became the personal cook for two Popes. At the culmination of his prolific career he compiled the...
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals
Marine Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The selections in this section include whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals is a beautifully illustrated, up-to-date guide to all 215 known species of mammals in Canada. It features brand-new, full-colour images of each species, as well as stunning photographs...
by lisa marie wilberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
a collection of poetry and prose, arrow. is a journey written from the heart. emotionally charged, arrow. delivers extraordinary depths of feelings such as heartache, hurt, pain, loss, grief, suffering, intimacy, and love.
the title, arrow., was intentionally used as a metaphor....
by William Tedford
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Traveling between the galaxies at sub-light velocities, entire worlds may live and die before the journey ends. When an alien threat passed through the Galaxy of Man, sowing destruction in its wake, humanity ran at any cost, reaching for the safety of the dimmest and most distant lights in the night...
by Johanne Sloan
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2010
The Far Shore (1976), made under the direction of celebrated visual artist and experimental filmmaker Joyce Wieland, is one of Canada's most innovative contributions to cinema. The film borrows elements from the life of Canadian painter Tom Thomson, who is represented by the character of Tom McLeod....
by Margaret Conrad, Kadriye Ercikan, Gerald Friesen
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
What role does history play in contemporary society? Has the frenetic pace of today’s world led people to lose contact with the past? A high-profile team of researchers from across Canada sought to answer these questions by launching an ambitious investigation into how Canadians engage with history...
The Poetry of Place
Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in Renaissance France
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2011
The sixteenth century in France was marked by religious warfare and shifting political and physical landscapes. Between 1549 and 1584, however, the Pléiade poets, including Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim Du Bellay, Rémy Belleau, and Antoine de Baïf, produced some of the most abiding and irenic depictions...
Locating August Strindberg's Prose
Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The setting of a novel is more than just an anonymous, interchangeable backdrop. In Locating August Strindberg's Prose, Anna Westerståhl Stenport argues that spatial setting is a key - though often neglected - tool for exploring the fundamentals of European literary modernism.
Stenport examines...
Hockey, PQ
Canada's Game in Quebec's Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
A wide-ranging study that examines everything from the blockbuster movie franchise Les Boys to the sovereigntist hip hop group Loco Locass, Hockey, PQ explores how Canada’s national sport has been used to signify a specific Québécois identity. Amy J. Ransom analyzes how Québécois writers, filmmakers,...
French 'Ecocritique'
Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
French Écocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment. Stephanie Posthumus’s ground-breaking work brings together thinkers such as Guattari, Latour, and Serres with recent...
by Bart Beaty
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Arguably the most famous and critically acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, David Cronenberg is celebrated equally for his early genre films, like Scanners (1981) and The Fly (1986), and his dark artistic vision in films such as Dead Ringers (1988) and Crash (1996). The 2005 film A History of Violence was...
by Victor E Graham
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
In this anthology an effort has been made to include representative selections from the most significant sixteenth-century French poets. With the exception if a few longer works (mainly those of Ronsard, Du Bartas, and D'Aubigné), poems are given complete. In addition, the original spelling and punctuation...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
The making of a reasonably comprehensive anthology which is intended to do more than reflect the personal literary tastes of the anthologists is not an easy task, but is certainly an exciting and challenging one. It is important, of course, if it is to have coherence and validity, that its audience...