University Of Regina Press: 38 books

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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...
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Sons and Mothers

Stories from Mennonite Men

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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.
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After the War

Surviving PTSD and Changing Mental Health Culture

by Stéphane Grenier
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...
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Rogues and Rebels

Unforgettable Characters from Canada's West

by Brian Brennan
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...
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Inside The Mental

Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD

by Kay Parley
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,...
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Finding McLuhan

The Mind / The Man / The Message

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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.
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Dead Ends

B.C. Crime Stories

by Paul Willcocks
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...
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Forty-One Pages

On Poetry, Language, and Wilderness

by John Steffler
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...
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Organized Violence

Capitalist Warfare in Latin America

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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...
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Where Once They Stood

Newfoundland's Rocky Road towards Confederation

by Raymond B. Blake, Melvin Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019

Coming on the 70th anniversary of Newfoundland joining Confederation, as well as the 150th anniversary of its first rejection of Canada, Where Once They Stood challenges popular notions that those who voted against Confederation in 1869 and for union with Canada in 1948 were uninformed, incompetent,...
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Finding Father

Stories from Mennonite Daughters

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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...
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Clearing the Plains

Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

by James Daschuk
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...
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Time Will Say Nothing

A Philosopher Survives an Iranian Prison

by Ramin Jahanbegloo
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...
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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,...
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