‘Chasing Rainbows’, a book celebrating gender fluid parenting
Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices looks at the unique challenges created by feminist parenting. It will launch Nov. 22 at Playful Grounds in Toronto.
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How race and class shaped post-colonial Trinidad and Tobago
A new book, Trinidad and Tobago: Visioning a Nation of Great Hope, focuses on the question of how race and class have fundamentally shaped the post-colonial social formation of Trinidad and Tobago. The book, by Derek Abdul Salick, will launch Thursday, Nov. 14, from 3:30 to 6pm, at the York University Bookstore.
Read moreA missing woman, mystical qualities and the French Revolution combine in new book
Milk Fever, published by Demeter Press, is a tale set in 1789 on the eve of the French Revolution when a wet nurse, known for the mystical qualities of her breast milk, goes missing from her mountain village.
Read moreBook looks at significance of Irish immigrants in Buffalo and Toronto
In Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916, York Professor William Jenkins distinguishes what it meant to be Irish in a loyal dominion within Britain’s empire and in a republic whose self-confidence knew no bounds.
Read moreNew book explores shifts and predictions of retirement in Canada
A century ago, the average Canadian lifespan was 60, but today, people can expect to live 20 years longer than that. Thomas Klassen’s book, Retirement in Canada, launching Tuesday, Nov. 5, brings together the shifts in retirement already taking place and predictions for the future.
Read moreBook challenges Freud’s view of conscience as part of superego
In his new book, The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience, York University Emeritus Professor Donald L. Carveth breaks with Freud on his theory of conscience as a function of the superego, arguing instead that they are two distinct mental functions. The book will launch Wednesday, Oct. 30, at Caversham’s Booksellers.
Read moreProf’s new book asks provocative question – is US a house divided?
A new digital book, A House Divided: Watching America’ Descent into Civil Conflict by award-winning author and York political science Professor James Laxer, analyzes the descent of the United States into civil conflict.
Read morePoetry book conjures weird worlds, overheard conversations and failed love
In his first book of poetry, Laws of Rest, York English Professor David Goldstein has invented a new form — the prose sonnet, an intricate chamber of text enclosed within four quatrains of right-justified prose — where anything can happen.
Read moreBook captures oral histories of lives in Caribbean and Latin America
Changing times and Changing Lives in the Caribbean and Latin America: Ten Oral Histories, edited by York political science Professor Judith Adler Hellmlan, presents a collection of stories about the lives of 10 remarkable people in the region and will launch Monday, Oct. 28.
Read moreNew book takes hard look at democracy in Iran
In Democracy in Iran author Ramin Jahanbegloo asks: how can the Iranian people break the cycle of violent and oppressive regimes and start looking towards a non-violent and democratic future? The book will launch Oct. 28.
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