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Livres Canada Books supports Canadian-owned book publishers in their export sales activities, in developing international partnerships, and assists publishers in improving their overall results through a range of services, including financial support, collective marketing, promotion, research, training, and a collective presence at major international book fairs. We are delighted to showcase great Canadian fiction, non-fiction, scholarly books, children’s books and young adult fiction in English and French. We encourage you to consult the listings here to find the stories and relationships that speak to you most. Livres Canada Books appuie les éditeurs appartenant à des intérêts canadiens dans leurs activités de ventes à l’exportation, en établissant des partenariats internationaux et en améliorant leur rendement global au moyen d’une gamme de services, dont l’aide financière, le marketing collectif, la promotion, la recherche, la formation et une présence collective aux principales foires internationales du livre. Nous nous réjouissons de mettre en vedette des titres canadiens exceptionnels, qu’il s’agisse de romans, de livres de non fiction, de livres pour enfants, de romans jeunes adultes ainsi que des publications savantes, et ce, en français et anglais. Nous vous invitons à consulter ces titres pour y découvrir les récits et les histoires qui vous interpellent le plus.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2023Transitional justice in process
Plans and politics in Tunisia
by Mariam Salehi
After the fall of the Ben Ali regime in 2011, Tunisia swiftly began dealing with its authoritarian past and initiated a comprehensive transitional justice process, with the Truth and Dignity Commission as its central institution. However, instead of bringing about peace and justice, transitional justice soon became an arena of contention. Through a process lens, the book explores why and how the process evolved, and explains how it relates to the country's political transition. Based on extensive field research in Tunisia and the US, and interviews with a broad range of international stakeholders and decision-makers, this is the first book to comprehensively study the Tunisian transitional justice process. It provides an in-depth analysis of a crucial period, examining the role of justice professionals in different stages, as well as the alliances and frictions between different actor groups that cut across the often-assumed local-international divide.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2025Straight nation
Heteronormativity and other exigencies of postcolonial nationalism
by Pavan Mano
In Straight Nation, Pavan Mano reveals the logic of straightness that sits at the heart of postcolonial nationalism in Singapore. Mano rejects the romantic notion of the nation as a haven of belonging, showing it to be a relentless force that is allied with heteronormativity to create a host of minoritized and xenologized figures. Through meticulous exploration and close reading of a swathe of texts, Mano unveils the instrumental role of sexuality in structuring the national imaginary. The book adroitly demonstrates how queerness is rendered foreign in postcolonial Singapore and functions alongside technologies of "race", gender, and class. A provocative critique of narrow contemporary identity politics and its concomitant stymying of a more ambitious political critique, Straight Nation sets out an argument that moves beyond the negativity of traditional critique into a space of (re)thinking, (re)building and (re)imagining.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2018How to save politics in a post-truth era
by Ilan Zvi Baron
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2021Post-everything
An intellectual history of post-concepts
by Herman Paul, Adriaan van Veldhuizen
Postmodern, postcolonial and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world in post-terms emerge? And who exactly were the 'post boys' responsible for this? Post-everything examines why post-Christian, post-industrial and post-bourgeois were terms that resonated, not only among academics, but also in the popular press. It delves into the historical roots of postmodern and poststructuralist, while also subjecting more recent post-constructions (posthumanist, postfeminist) to critical scrutiny. This study is the first to offer a comprehensive history of post-concepts. In tracing how these concepts found their way into a broad range of genres and disciplines, Post-everything contributes to a rapprochement between the history of the humanities and the history of the social sciences.
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May 2024The Truth in your Lies
by Julia Pauss, Moon Notes
Mit schönem Farbschnitt in der Erstauflage – Lieferung je nach Verfügbarkeit Fake Dating vom Feinsten! Sie ist die Erbin einer der größten Hoteldynastien Amerikas, er ist ein Kleinkrimineller. Noelle will ihrem Vater ihren neuen Freund vorstellen, Memphis will die Reichen um ihren Schmuck erleichtern. In einer schicksalhaften Nacht auf einer Wohltätigkeitsveranstaltung prallen ihre Welten aufeinander. Alles, was schiefgehen kann, geht schief – und auf der Tanzfläche landet Noelle in den Armen von Memphis. Schon wenige Stunden später kursieren Fotos der beiden in der Boulevardpresse. Unter dem Druck ihres strengen Vaters behauptet Noelle, Memphis sei ihr neuer Partner. Wie soll sie ihrem Vater erklären, dass sie ihren echten Freund auf der Gala beim Fremdgehen erwischt hat, nur um kurz darauf mit einem Gangster zu tanzen? Doch ihre Notlüge schlägt höhere Wellen als gedacht: Ihr Vater besteht darauf, dass ihr vermeintlicher Freund mit auf den Familiensitz nach Colorado kommt, um ihn auf Herz und Nieren zu prüfen. Noelle bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als Memphis einen Deal vorzuschlagen … The Truth In Your Lies: Gegensätze ziehen sich an New Adult at it's best: Die aufregende Liebesgeschichte zwischen der reichen Hotelerbin Noelle und dem charmanten Gauner Memphis. Große Emotionen: Ein mitreißender Roman über Liebe, Selbstfindung und die Kraft, den eigenen Weg zu gehen – für Mädchen ab 16 Jahren. Voll im Trend: Mit den angesagten Tropes Fake Dating und Opposites attract. New Adult mit feministischem Twist: Eine starke Protagonistin auf der Reise zu sich selbst. Genial ausgestattet: Softcover mit Klappen, einem trendig illustrierten Farbschnitt in der Erstauflage und einem abtrennbaren Lesezeichen. The Truth In Your Lies entführt seine Leser*innen ab 16 Jahren in eine Welt der ganz großen Gefühle. Neben den beliebten Tropes „Fake Dating“ und „Opposites attract“ sorgt ein feministischer Twist für Tiefgang: Die Hotelerbin Noelle entwickelt sich von einer Frau, die ihre eigenen Bedürfnisse zurückstellt, zu einer selbstbewussten Persönlichkeit. Das perfekte Buch für Fans von New-Adult-Romanen!
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May 2022Truth or Dare. Triff deine Wahl
by Maja Köllinger, Moon Notes
In "Truth or Dare" von Maja Köllinger finden sich vier langjährige Freunde - Brianna, Yves, Xenia, und Kian - am Ende ihrer Schulzeit entfremdet wieder. In einem letzten Versuch, die Bande ihrer Freundschaft zu erneuern, planen sie einen gemeinsamen Ausflug, der in einer verhängnisvollen Nacht voller Alkohol und dem riskanten Spiel "Wahrheit oder Pflicht" mündet. Die folgenschwere Nacht endet mit dem Tod Kians, einem tragischen Ereignis, an das sich keiner der drei überlebenden Freunde erinnern kann. Während die Ermittlungen laufen, beginnen sie, anonyme Nachrichten zu erhalten, die andeuten, dass jemand außerhalb ihrer Gruppe die Wahrheit über die Geschehnisse jener Nacht kennt. Getrieben von dem Bedürfnis, ihre Unschuld zu beweisen und den wahren Täter zu entlarven, sehen sich Brianna, Yves, und Xenia gezwungen, ihre Differenzen beiseite zu legen und zusammenzuarbeiten. Die Situation eskaliert, als die Ermittlungen tiefer gehen und dunkle Geheimnisse der Freunde ans Licht kommen, was ihre gegenseitigen Verdächtigungen und Paranoia nur noch verstärkt. Die Frage nach dem, was in jener verhängnisvollen Nacht wirklich geschehen ist, hängt wie ein Damoklesschwert über ihnen, während sie sich durch ein Netz aus Lügen, Verrat und Schuldgefühlen kämpfen. Die Spannung steigt, als die Freunde erkennen, dass der wahre Täter möglicherweise viel näher ist, als sie es je für möglich gehalten hätten. "Truth or Dare" ist ein packender Jugendthriller, der nicht nur die Grenzen der Freundschaft auslotet, sondern auch die tiefgründige Frage stellt, wie weit jemand gehen würde, um seine Geheimnisse zu bewahren. Packender Jugendthriller, der Freundschaft, Geheimnisse und die Folgen einer verhängnisvollen Nacht erforscht. Eine Geschichte über das Auseinanderdriften von Freunden und den verzweifelten Versuch, ihre Beziehung durch ein letztes Abenteuer zu retten, das tragisch endet. Spannende Ermittlungen und anonyme Drohungen sorgen für einen hohen Spannungsbogen und fesseln die Leser*innen von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite. Tiefgründige Charakterentwicklung und komplexe Beziehungen zwischen den Protagonisten, die die Geschichte emotional und realitätsnah machen. Das geheimnisvolle Setting einer Waldhütte und die Dynamik eines "Wahrheit oder Pflicht"-Spiels, das außer Kontrolle gerät, schaffen eine düstere und fesselnde Atmosphäre. Ein Thriller, der wichtige Jugendthemen wie Identitätssuche, die Bewältigung von Schuld und die Auswirkungen von Mobbing behandelt. Der unvorhersehbare Verlauf der Geschichte mit zahlreichen Wendungen hält die Leser*innen bis zum überraschenden Ende in Atem. Ideal für Fans von Jugendthrillern, die gerne miträtseln und sich von einer Geschichte voller Geheimnisse und unerwarteter Entwicklungen mitreißen lassen möchten. Eine emotionale Erzählstimme, die sehr nah an den Leser*innen ist, macht die Erfahrungen der Charaktere intensiv nachvollziehbar. Empfohlen für Leser*innen, die nach einer Kombination aus Freundschaftsdrama und packendem Thriller suchen, der sowohl unterhält als auch zum Nachdenken anregt.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2010Committee governance in the European Union
by Thomas Christiansen, Emil Kirchner, Emil Kirchner, Thomas Christiansen
Committees are a pervasive presence in the EU policy process yet little is known about the way in which they operate. This volume, newly available in paperback, brings together an international group of experts from a number of disciplinary backgrounds to provide a comprehensive account of the role played by committees in the European Union. The book looks at committees in the context of inter-institutional relations, a focus based on the recognition that the relationships between Commission, Council, Parliament and national authorities - rather than the institutions themselves - are crucial to the understanding of European policy-making. Much of that interaction is regularised in various kinds of committees and the book provides an in-depth analysis of the nature and the effects of 'committee governance' in the EU system. A number of case studies (monetary, policy, trade, environment, spatial planning and foreign policy) examine the role of committees in specific areas. These are framed by broader perspectives which provide theoretical, statistical and normative analyses of the phenomenon of committee governance. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2022Transitional justice in process
by Mariam Salehi, Simon Mabon
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2025Beyond the antislavery haven
Slavery in early Canadian print culture, 1789–1889
by Ellie Bird
This book challenges the idealised narrative of Canada as an antislavery haven for self-liberated people to explore Canada's complicated relationship with slavery. Examining advertisements, abolitionist texts and narratives about slavery in Canadian newspapers and the texts that were printed alongside them, it shows how Canadian readers and enslavers developed an image of themselves as belonging to an antislavery community even while recognising their own complicity in slavery. The book explores narratives that depict the lives of Black settlers in Canada and how slave narratives circulated in Canada. Canada's relationship with slavery is far more complicated than seeing it as either an antislavery haven or a slaveholding space. Canada was connected to Britain, France, the Caribbean and the United States and this was central to how Canadians and Canadian readers fashioned their self-image in relation to slavery.
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Does Movement Really Make Us Smart?
by Petra Jansen, Stefanie Richter
Media reports often praise movement as a cure-all. But apart from its undisputed positive effect on health, does movement really make us smarter? Consider a national football team, for example – are these excessively sports-driven players automatically the smartest people? Should we simply replace all school subjects with sports? The authors provide a detailed summary of the latest scientific findings on the influence of movement on cognitive ability. They describe the effects of movement, on old age, embodiment, emotion, school as well as other factors that influence cognition. Target Group: teachers, lecturers, psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, psychotherapists, movement therapists.
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November 2011The Honest Man's Fortune
by Grace Ioppolo
This edition of The Honest Man's Fortune, a play co-written by John Fletcher, Nathan Field, and Philip Massinger for the Lady Elizabeth's Men in 1613 and revived for the King's Men in 1625, is the first diplomatic edition of one of the most remarkable dramatic manuscripts of the early modern period. Almost uniquely, the fair-copy manuscript records the entire process of the circular transmission of the text from authors to censor to bookkeeper to actors to playhouse, as well as the types of revision each required. In the hand of Edward Knight, the King's Men's book-keeper, this manuscript's title-page notes that it was '/Plaide In the yeare 1613/' and contains one of the few surviving complete licences by Master of the Revels Sir Henry Herbert who states, 'This Play. Being an olde One and the Originall Lost was reallowd by mee. This: 8 febru. 1624 [i.e., 1625]'. In fact, Herbert accepted as payment for the new licence a printed edition of Sir Philip Sidney's /Arcadia/. More excitingly, the many cuts, deletions, and marginal and interlinear additions and revisions as well as the names of three actors in its stage directions show us two transmissions of this text: the first in 1613, when it was composed and licensed and then adjusted by the authors, and the second in 1625, when it went through almost the same process for revival. With a full discussion of the manuscript's material properties, provenance, transcription history, and the play's composition and performance history, this new edition of /The Honest Man's Fortune/ puts the play where it belongs: at the centre of the canon of Jacobean drama. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Unfit for heroes
Reconstruction and soldier settlement in the empire between the wars
by Kent Fedorowich
Research on soldier settlement has to be set within the wider history of emigration and immigration. This book examines two parallel but complementary themes: the settlement of British soldiers in the overseas or 'white' dominions, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, between 1915 and 1930. One must place soldier settlement within the larger context of imperial migration prior to 1914 in order to elicit the changes in attitude and policy which occurred after the armistice. The book discusses the changes to Anglo-dominion relations that were consequent upon the incorporation of British ex-service personnel into several overseas soldier settlement programmes, and unravels the responses of the dominion governments to such programmes. For instance, Canadians and Australians complained about the number of ex-imperials who arrived physically unfit and unable to undertake employment of any kind. The First World War made the British government to commit itself to a free passage scheme for its ex-service personnel between 1914 and 1922. The efforts of men such as L. S. Amery who attempted to establish a landed imperial yeomanry overseas is described. Anglicisation was revived in South Africa after the second Anglo-Boer War, and politicisation of the country's soldier settlement was an integral part of the larger debate on British immigration to South Africa. The Australian experience of resettling ex-servicemen on the land after World War I came at a great social and financial cost, and New Zealand's disappointing results demonstrated the nation's vulnerability to outside economic factors.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025Arctic state identity
Geography, history, and geopolitical relations
by Ingrid A. Medby
This book sets out to answer what it means to hold a formal title as one of the eight 'Arctic states'; is there such a thing as an Arctic state identity, and if so, what does this mean for state personnel? It charts the thoughtful reflections and stories of state personnel from three Arctic states: Norway, Iceland, and Canada, alongside analysis of documents and discourses. This book shows how state identities are narrated as both geographical and temporal - understood through environments, territories, pasts and futures - and that any identity is always relational and contextual. As such, demonstrating that to understand Arctic geopolitics we need to pay attention to the people whose job it is to represent the state on a daily basis. And more broadly, it offers a 'peopled' view of geopolitics, introducing the concept and framework of 'state identity'.
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Political partiesSeptember 2008The Labour governments 1964–1970 volume 2
International policy
by John W. Young
This book is the second in the three volume set The Labour governments 1964-1970 and concentrates on Britain's international policy under the Labour governments in the 1960s and is available for the first time in paperback. The coverage ranges from defence policy and the government machine to European integration, NATO and the Vietnam war. Harold Wilson and his ministers have often been accused of betraying the sense of promise that greeted their victory in 1964. Using recently released archival evidence, John Young argues that a more balanced view of the government will recognise the real difficulties that surrounded decision-making, not only on Vietnam, but also on Aden, the Nigerian civil war and Rhodesia. Economic weakness, waning military strength, Cold War tensions and the need to placate allies all placed limits on what a once-great but now clearly declining power could achieve. Furthermore the government proved of pivotal importance in the history of Britain's international role, in that it presided over a major shift from positions East of Suez to a focus on European concerns, a focus that has remained until the present day. The book will be of vital importance to students of British history and international relations during this exciting period. Together with the other books in the series, on domestic policy and economic policy, it provides a complete picture of the development of Britain under the premiership of Harold Wilson.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Rethinking settler colonialism
History and memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa
by Annie Coombes
Rethinking settler colonialism focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. It interrogates how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologised, narrated and embodied in public culture in the twentieth century (through monuments, exhibitions and images) and charts some of the vociferous challenges to such histories that have emerged over recent years. Despite a shared familiarity with cultural and political institutions, practices and policies amongst the white settler communities, the distinctiveness which marked these constituencies as variously, 'Australian', 'South African', 'Canadian' or 'New Zealander', was fundamentally contingent upon their relationship to and with the various indigenous communities they encountered. In each of these countries these communities were displaced, marginalised and sometimes subjected to attempted genocide through the colonial process. Recently these groups have renewed their claims for greater political representation and autonomy. The essays and artwork in this book insist that an understanding of the political and cultural institutions and practices which shaped settler-colonial societies in the past can provide important insights into how this legacy of unequal rights can be contested in the present. It will be of interest to those studying the effects of colonial powers on indigenous populations, and the legacies of imperial rule in postcolonial societies.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2025Invoking Empire
Imperial citizenship and Indigenous rights across the British World, 1860–1900
by Darren Reid
Invoking Empire examines the histories of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand during the transitional decades between 1860-1900, when each gained some degree of self-government yet still remained within the sovereignty of the British Empire. It applies the conceptual framework of imperial citizenship to nine case studies of settlers and Indigenous peoples who lived through these decades to make two main arguments. It argues that colonial subjects adapted imperial citizenship to both support and challenge settler sovereignty, revealing the continuing importance of imperial authority in self-governing settler spaces. It also posits that imperial citizenship was rendered inoperable by a combination of factors in both Britian and the colonies, highlighting the contingency of settler colonialism on imperial governmental structures and challenging teleological assumptions that the rise of settler nation states was an inevitable result of settler self-government.
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The ArtsApril 2025Beautiful doom
The work of Dennis Kelly on stage and screen
by Jacqueline Bolton, Nicholas Holden
Dennis Kelly's award-winning plays have been translated into over thirty languages and produced on six continents. His endlessly inventive vision has produced a diverse body of work for a variety of audiences across a range of forms, genres, and media, from the Olivier and Tony Award-winning Matilda the Musical (2010), to the Channel Four cult-classic series Utopia. His 2008 play DNA, written for National Theatre Connections, is a set text on the AQA GCSE English Literature syllabus. This collection of essays written by leading scholars, teachers, and practitioners of theatre provides the first multi-authored study of Kelly's critically acclaimed oeuvre. Featuring an original interview with Kelly himself, this volume captures the full range and scope of his writing for stage and screen, from the quirky fringe debut Debris (2003) to the globally-distributed film adaptation of Matilda the Musical (2022).
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January 1981Truth, knowledge and reality
Inquiries into the foundations of 17. century rationalism. A symposium of the Leibniz-Gesellschaft, Reading, 27 - 30 July 1979
by Herausgegeben von Parkinson, George Henry R.
