U Of R Press imprint: 37 books

Road Through Time

The Story of Humanity on the Move

by Mary Soderstrom
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017

Accessible and entertaining, Road Through Time begins with the story of how anatomically modern humans left Africa to populate the world. She then carries us along the Silk Road in Central Asia, and tells of roads built for war in Persia, the Andes, and the Roman Empire. She sails across the seas,...

#IdleNoMore

and the Remaking of Canada

by Ken Coates
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015

Idle No More bewildered many Canadians. Launched by four women in Saskatchewan in reaction to a federal omnibus budget bill, the protest became the most powerful demonstration of Aboriginal identity in Canadian history. Thousands of Aboriginal people and their supporters took to the streets, shopping...

The Knowledge Seeker

Embracing Indigenous Spirituality

by Blair Stonechild
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016

"An essential book." Brian Rice, author of The Rotinonshonni and Seeing the World with Aboriginal Eyes "As more people ripen to understand the new world holocaust of our First Nations, Blair Stonechild's book is timely. To bring to light the spiritual relationships, attitudes, and practices...

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An Excerpt from Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City

by Pamela Roth
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016

A hard-working real estate agent goes out to show a piece of property to her client--and never returns. This short ebook is an excerpt from a book by journalist Pamela Roth: Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City. In Deadmonton, Roth takes a look at some of the city's most notorious murders....

Biblio Files

A History of the Regina Public Library

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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017

From the efforts of its first librarian who ensured immigrants could access books in their own languages, to the present day as an active community hub, the library has been responsible for many groundbreaking Canadian firsts. The Regina Public Library implemented the country's first fully automated...

Manufacturing Urgency

The Development Industry and Violence Against Women

by Corinne L. Mason
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017

"Absorbing and smart." Elisabeth M. Prϋgl, author of Transforming Masculine Rule Manufacturing Urgency investigates anti-violence policies in international development, demonstrating that strategies intended to end violence against women are constructed to serve ends other than the needs...

The Education of Augie Merasty

A Residential School Memoir - New Edition

by Joseph Auguste Merasty
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017

A courageous and intimate memoir, The Education of Augie Merasty is the story of a child who faced the dark heart of humanity, let loose by the cruel policies of a bigoted nation. "At 86, Augie Merasty has been a lot of things: Father. Son. Outdoorsman. Homeless. But now he is a first-time author,...

Sleuth

Gail Bowen on Writing Mysteries

by Gail Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018

“Masterful.” Barbara Fradkin, two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel “Gail Bowen’s Sleuth is a marvelous guide to the art of writing mysteries, told with verve, humour and elegance, and with a rare insight into the value of creating stories that explore the darkest parts...

Psychedelic Revolutionaries

LSD and the Birth of Hallucinogenic Research

by P.W. Barber
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018

“Psychedelic Revolutionaries is not only beautifully written—it is timely. We are in the midst of a rebirth in interest in the psychedelic group of drugs with increasingly strong research evidence for their clinical benefits and a growing popular turn to daily ‘micro-dosing’ strategies. Everyone...
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