Demeter Press releases debut story collection
Professor Andrea O’Reilly’s feminist imprint publishes What We Hold in Our Hands, stories about caring and love by Kim Aubrey.
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New book by York prof explores narratives of interracial couples
The book, Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy: Crossing Racial Borders, which also looks at the couples’ encounters with racism and discrimination, their formation of new couple and family identities, and best practices of counselling and therapy, will launch Dec. 12 at Caversham Booksellers.
Read moreYork professor, writer, poet focus of journal
The newest issue of CELAAN, review of the Center for the Studies of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa, looks at the works of York Professor Hedi Bouraoui.
Read more'Fresh Hell' details disasters and delights of motherhood
Billed as a book for the smarter mommy crowd, Fresh Hell: Motherhood in Pieces seesaws from disaster to delight, horror to grim resignation, much like motherhood itself.
Read moreBook takes hard look at model-based analysis in energy policy design
A recently published book, Energy Policy Modeling in the 21st Century edited by Professor Hassan Qudrat-Ullah, is taking a hard look at the use of model-based analysis and scenarios in energy policy design and assessment, which has seen phenomenal growth during the past several decades.
Read moreNew book about battles waged over Oak Ridges Moraine launches
After more than a decade of research, reflection and writing, The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles: Development, Sprawl and Nature Conservation in the Toronto Region by York Professors L. Anders Sandberg, Gerda R. Wekerle and Liette Gilbert of the Faculty of Environmental Studies will launch Monday, Dec. 2.
Read more'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.
Read moreHow 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.
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