U Of R Press imprint: 37 books
Sons and Mothers
Stories from Mennonite Men
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In Sons and Mothers, Mennonite men reflect on the women who raised them, showing their mothers' hopes, dreams, and fears, and who they are today. Speaking to the Mennonite community, but drawing on universal themes, this book is a must-read for anyone wishing to delve deeper into this fundamental relationship.
After the War
Surviving PTSD and Changing Mental Health Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
After serving in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide and civil war, Lieutenant Colonel Stéphane Grenier returned to Canada haunted by his experiences. Facing post-traumatic stress disorder and an archaic establishment, he spent ten years confronting--and changing--the military mental health system from...
Rogues and Rebels
Unforgettable Characters from Canada's West
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In Rogues and Rebels, Brian Brennan chronicles the mavericks, iconoclasts, and adventurers who threw away the rulebook, thumbed their noses at convention, and let their detractors howl. They never retracted, never explained, never apologized, and they got things done. Discover the unforgettable characters...
Finding McLuhan
The Mind / The Man / The Message
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
In 1965, Tom Wolfe famously asked of Marshall McLuhan: "Suppose he is the oracle of the modern times--what if he is right?" Fifty years later, McLuhan's biographer Douglas Coupland, McLuhan's sons, and sixteen scholars explore the many ways in which McLuhan's predictions have come true.
Dead Ends
B.C. Crime Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Forty crimes. Forty crimes of betrayal, greed, and desperation. Forty crimes that shed light on our shared past, and our lives today. Murderers and scam artists. Masterminds and bunglers. The infamous and the forgotten. Dead Ends looks at them all. Leo Mantha, the last man hanged in B.C. Wong Foon...
Forty-One Pages
On Poetry, Language, and Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2019
In this series of elegant and wide-ranging meditations on language, wilderness, poetry, and technocracy, John Steffler takes us on a guided tour of one poet’s mental workshop. His focus is vividly personal, shaped by his interests and experience, and at the same time universal. What is it to be...
Organized Violence
Capitalist Warfare in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2019
Official stories from media centers in New York and Mexico City say that most violence in Latin America is a product of the drug trade. Organized Violence exposes how that narrative serves corporate and state interests and de-politicizes situations that have more to do with coal, oil, or rare wood...
Finding Father
Stories from Mennonite Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2019
Finding Father is a collection of stories about Mennonite fathers by their daughters. Written by well-known and first-time writers, these stories illuminate the often close and sometimes troubling relationships found within this most precious bond. From battles over relationships and sexuality, to...
Clearing the Plains
Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National...
Time Will Say Nothing
A Philosopher Survives an Iranian Prison
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Sorbonne-educated and the author of almost 30 books, Ramin Jahanbegloo, a philosopher of non-violence in the tradition of Tolstoy and Gandhi, was arrested and detained in Iran's notorious Evin Prison in 2006. A petition against his imprisonment was initiated, with Umberto Eco, Jurgen Habermas, and...
Children of the Broken Treaty
Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Children of the Broken Treaty exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country's history. The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree girl named by George Stroumboulopoulos as one of "five teenage girls in history...
Memoirs of a Muhindi
Fleeing East Africa for the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
In Memoirs of a Muhindi, Mansoor Ladha bears witness to what happens when nations turn against entire religious and ethnic groups. When Ugandan president Idi Amin expelled Africans of Indian descent from the country in 1972, he unleashed an intolerance that set off an exodus from the entire region....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
In The Surprising Lives of Small-Town Doctors, physicians put down their stethoscopes and pick up their pens to share some of the most frightening and pivotal moments of their careers. From making igloo house calls to bandaging animal bites to performing surgeries they may have only read about in...
Inside The Mental
Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016
Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met. Part memoir, part history, and beautifully written, Inside The Mental offers an episodic journey into the stigma,...