University Of Regina Press: 38 books
Otto & Daria
A Wartime Journey Through No Man's Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
A poignant memoir of lives cleaved by war, Otto and Daria is the first-hand account of Eric (or Otto) Koch. As a Jewish refugee from WWII Germany, Otto first left his country for England, and later arrived in Canada, where he was for a time imprisoned in a camp. The counterpoint to Otto's recollections...
Sleuth
Gail Bowen on Writing Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
“Masterful.” Barbara Fradkin, two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel “Gail Bowen’s Sleuth is a marvelous guide to the art of writing mysteries, told with verve, humour and elegance, and with a rare insight into the value of creating stories that explore the darkest parts...
The Education of Augie Merasty
A Residential School Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2015
"Heartbreaking and important… brings into dramatic focus why we need reconciliation." - James Daschuk, author of Clearing the Plains This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author was one of an estimated...
Psychedelic Revolutionaries
LSD and the Birth of Hallucinogenic Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
“Psychedelic Revolutionaries is not only beautifully written—it is timely. We are in the midst of a rebirth in interest in the psychedelic group of drugs with increasingly strong research evidence for their clinical benefits and a growing popular turn to daily ‘micro-dosing’ strategies. Everyone...
Road Through Time
The Story of Humanity on the Move
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Accessible and entertaining, Road Through Time begins with the story of how anatomically modern humans left Africa to populate the world. She then carries us along the Silk Road in Central Asia, and tells of roads built for war in Persia, the Andes, and the Roman Empire. She sails across the seas,...
#IdleNoMore
and the Remaking of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Idle No More bewildered many Canadians. Launched by four women in Saskatchewan in reaction to a federal omnibus budget bill, the protest became the most powerful demonstration of Aboriginal identity in Canadian history. Thousands of Aboriginal people and their supporters took to the streets, shopping...
The Knowledge Seeker
Embracing Indigenous Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
"An essential book." Brian Rice, author of The Rotinonshonni and Seeing the World with Aboriginal Eyes "As more people ripen to understand the new world holocaust of our First Nations, Blair Stonechild's book is timely. To bring to light the spiritual relationships, attitudes, and practices...
Ch 1- Maryann Plett
An Excerpt from Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
A hard-working real estate agent goes out to show a piece of property to her client--and never returns. This short ebook is an excerpt from a book by journalist Pamela Roth: Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City. In Deadmonton, Roth takes a look at some of the city's most notorious murders....
Manufacturing Urgency
The Development Industry and Violence Against Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
"Absorbing and smart." Elisabeth M. Prϋgl, author of Transforming Masculine Rule Manufacturing Urgency investigates anti-violence policies in international development, demonstrating that strategies intended to end violence against women are constructed to serve ends other than the needs...
by Sandra Rollings-Magnusson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2018
The Homesteaders covers the whole settler experience, beginning in what is now Saskatchewan during the year Canada was founded and continuing through the immigration boom preceding the First World War. Based on a remarkable collection of interviews conducted in the 1950s, settlers recount in their...