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  • Closing Sysco

    Industrial Decline in Atlantic Canada’s Steel City

    Series series Studies in Atlantic Canada History
    Closing Sysco presents a history of deindustrialization and working-class resistance in the Cape Breton steel industry between 1945 and 2001. The Sydney Steel Works is at the heart of this story, having existed in tandem with Cape Breton’s larger coal operations since the early twentieth century. The book explores the multifaceted nature of deindustrialization; the internal politics of the ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • The Missing Months

    Many of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying with possible futures, enthused by utopian dreams or fearing cultural and bodily entropy. They celebrate and mourn the lives of friends and relatives, captivated by carefully tended images from the past. Lockdown's 'missing months' in the world of a four-year-old ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Doves

    Doves is Lachlan Mackinnon's most candid and affecting volume of poems to date, and follows on from Small Hours, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry in 2010. Formally dexterous and inventive, these inclusive, approachable poems welcome all-comers in their broad-minded address: refugees, reality television, detective shows, number-theory, Shakespeare's brothers, ecology, a marriage ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • Small Hours

    Lachlan MacKinnon's fourth collection opens with a gathering of lyrics and descriptive poems: observing rites of passage (elegies, wedding poems), offering nuanced accounts of places and their patchwork afterlives (the Midlands, a Suffolk sketchbook), or meditations on historical figures introspectively at odds with their time (King Canute, Edward Thomas). This preoccupation with contingency - ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Friuli Food and Wine

    Frasca Cooking from Northern Italy's Mountains, Vineyards, and Seaside

    An eye-opening exploration of a unique region of Italy that bridges the Alps and the Adriatic Sea, featuring 80 recipes and wine pairings from a master sommelier and James Beard Award-winning chef.“An exhilarating journey, no passport required.”—Thomas Keller, chef/proprietor, The French LaundryBordered by Austria, Slovenia, and the Adriatic Sea, the northeastern Italian region of Friuli Venezia ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Canadian Mountain Assessment

    Walking Together to Enhance Understanding of Mountains in Canada

    The Canadian Mountain Assessment provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about mountain systems in Canada. The assessment is based on insights from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledges of mountains, as well as findings from an extensive assessment of pertinent academic literature. Its inclusive knowledge co-creation approach brings these multiple ... Read more

    $49.69 USD

  • Shakespeare Closely Read

    Written and Performance Texts

    Shakespeare Closely Read is a collection of essays by Shakespearean scholars, all of which were originally papers presented at the 2008 International Shakespeare Conference at Stratford-upon-Avon. Each contains a close reading of Shakespearean or other Elizabethan dramatic texts in an effort to open up new meanings and interpretations. The volume contains an introduction by the editor on the ... Read more

    $80.19 USD

  • The Deindustrialized World

    Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places

    Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has marked a rupture in working-class lives. The Deindustrialized World interrogates the process of industrial ruination, from the first impact of layoffs in metropolitan cities, suburban areas, and single-industry towns to the shock waves that rippled outward, affecting entire regions, countries, and beyond.Scholars from France, Canada, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century

    Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism

    Series series Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
    The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the “long twentieth century” offers a particularly captivating window on the lasting and varied effects of deindustrialization. Now, at the tail end of the industrial moment in North American history, the story of Cape Breton Island presents an opportunity to reflect on how ... Read more

    $32.39 USD