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 In Memoriam

Berit Kraus
1942–2003

Vesla Hailey
1943-2007

Nancy Waxler-Morrison


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New Releases: Environmental Studies

The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada

Sensing Changes

The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada


Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews

A comprehensive and balanced examination of the debates that surround one of the most promising but controversial new industries in Canada. read more

Sensing Changes
Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003

Joy Parr

A social and sensory history of life with megaprojects that reveals how humans make sense of their world when they no longer recognize the environment around them. read more


What Is Water?

Managed Annihilation

What Is Water?
The History of a Modern Abstraction

Jamie Linton


A history of the modern concept of water that traces how a scientific abstraction has helped to produce a global crisis. read more

Managed Annihilation
An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse

Dean Bavington

By examining one of the largest natural resource management failures of the twentieth century – the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fishery – this book seeks to understand the history of, and possible alternatives to, managerial responses to environmental issues. read more

Books previously featured on our homepage can be found in our homepage archive.
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New in Paperback
Lost Kids
Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal
Nuclear Waste Management in Canada
Lost Kids

Mona Gleason, Tamara Myers, Leslie Paris, and Veronica Strong-Boag, eds.
Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal

Janice R. Foley and Patricia L. Baker, eds.
Nuclear Waste Management in Canada

Darrin Durant and Genevieve Fuji Johnson, eds.
Writing British Columbia History, 1784-1958
The Hero and the Historians
Urbanizing Frontiers
Urbanizing Frontiers


Penelope Edmonds

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Feature Review

Art in Turmoil
The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76

Richard King, ed.

Art in Turmoil

"In this national convulsion the arts played a strikingly large role, a process described with great care in Art in Turmoil."
- Robert Fulford,
“A new level of art criticism,” National Post, June 15, 2010

Click here to read the full review.

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NEW Fall 2010 Catalogues

Fall 2010 SCHOLARLY Catalogue

UBC Press Spring 2010 Scholarly Catalogue

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From Our
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Earthscan Publishers

Sustainable Event Management

Sustainable Event Management

A Practical Manual

by Meegan Jones


"The most authoritative, meticulous and informed book on sustainability in the events sector. Meegan Jones has more experience in this field than perhaps anyone else in the world and this is evidenced on every page."
- Alison Tickell, Director Julie's Bicycle,
(UK Music Industry Climate Change Working Group).


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