UBC Press

12/23/2024

We hope you have a cozy holiday and a happy new year! We can't wait to share our latest projects with you in 2025! ☃️🎄

Our office is closed for the holidays starting December 24. You can still order books, any time of day, through our website (and save 20% until the end of the year!)

12/20/2024

Congratulations to David Roberts, author of "Boosters and Barkers" and winner of the 2023 C.P. Stacey Award for scholarly work in Canadian military history. Thank you to the C.P. Stacey Award Committee and the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada for recognizing this important book.

About the award: https://studyofcanada.ca/david-roberts-named-winner-of-the-2023-c-p-stacey-award/

12/20/2024

David Roberts has won the 2023 C.P. Stacey Award for scholarly work in Canadian military history.

12/19/2024

Reminder: Through December, take 20% off all books at ubcpress.ca using code BRRR24 at checkout. ubcpress.ca/happy-holidays. ❄️📚

12/17/2024

Read an excerpt from "Under the White Gaze: Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism" by Christopher Cheung, via Canadian Geographic.

Journalist Christopher Cheung investigates the state of race in modern-day Canadian media

12/17/2024

Now available as a free, open access PDF, “Drumming Our Way Home” by Georgina Martin takes readers on an autobiographical journey to recover Indigenous identity, demonstrating how storytelling – aided by a hand drum – can open up a new world of pedagogy and culture-based learning. https://bit.ly/4iEtr7i

12/13/2024

NEW WITNESS TO YESTERDAY podcast episode!
https://bit.ly/WTYd1324

In a new episode of Witness to Yesterday, Canadian history Larry Ostola speaks with David Roberts about Boosters and Barkers: Financing Canada's Involvement in the First World War.

Boosters and Barkers by David Roberts explores Canada's efforts to finance its participation in through public contributions, particularly war bonds. The book examines how Ottawa appealed to citizens for financial support, incorporating imperial funding, taxation, and other revenue sources. Using print, images, and music, Canada’s bond campaigns generated significant public engagement, raising nearly a third of the country’s $6.6 billion war costs. The story highlights the necessity of funding, strategies, public resistance, and the lasting financial impact of the war.

Listen at: https://bit.ly/WTYd1324
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12/11/2024

12/10/2024

Looking to take advantage of our winter sale? ❄️

Check out The Tyee's annual holiday reads list to learn why "Under the White Gaze" and "Home Truths" should be on your shopping list! 📚

Gather round! It’s The Tyee’s annual holiday reads list. Please share your own picks.

12/09/2024

Congratulations to Celeste E. Orr, author of "Cripping Intersex," and all the Canada Prize winners! Thank you to the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences for supporting and amplifying such important work! 🎉

12/03/2024

Geographies of the Heart "opens up new ways of imagining and building Canadian society, enriching it by so doing from a decolonial lens. More than anything, the contributions challenge us to rethink what it means for refugees and immigrants to belong while facing larger contexts of racism, exclusion, and marginalization." - Dr. André Elias Mazawi, Professor and Department Head of UBC Educational Studies

12/02/2024

Our winter sale is back! Through December, take 20% off all books at ubcpress.ca using code BRRR24 at checkout. Need some gift ideas to get you started? Visit ubcpress.ca/happy-holidays. ❄️📚

11/25/2024

Let’s start the week on a high note with Pets of the Press, Volume 2. 🐱🐶

Share your pet photos in the comments!

1. Kelper
2. Esme
3. Calvin and Milo
4. Bismarck
5. Lily
6. Mr. Tut

11/23/2024

Reintroducing the Disability Culture and Politics series, now with new series editors Kelly Fritsch and Fady Shanouda.

This series highlights the works of emerging and established authors who challenge us to think anew about the pressing issues of disability politics and culture.

Learn more about the series: https://ow.ly/Hwmn50Uea3x

Interested in publishing in the series? Contact editor James MacNevin: https://ow.ly/1VIK50Ueawy

11/22/2024

Cats and dogs and… pagolins?

We needed a little fun on a Friday, so we asked our staff to send pictures of their pets and we got A RESPONSE! Behold Pets of the Press, Volume 1. 🐱🐶

Comment with photos of your pets!

1. Gaston
2. Mabel
3. Ify and Lawrence
4. Finn
5. Pagolin (it counts)
6. Piper and Pax
7. Poppy

11/21/2024

OTTAWA! Visit The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore this Saturday, November 23, for a book signing with Carolyn Whitzman, author of "Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis."

Hintonburg's independendent bookstore, and Ottawa's proudest indie.

11/21/2024

We're thrilled to offer a new, audio-enhanced epub edition of "Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies" by Linda M. Goulet and Keith N. Goulet.

Audio features enable readers not only to learn the pronunciations for use in their classrooms and other contexts, but also provide an introduction to, appreciation of, and respect for the Cree language and the thinking of the Cree people that is reflected in their language.

ubcpress.ca/teaching-each-other

11/19/2024

Should we resurrect the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration? The answer isn't so simple!

Read Shannon Stunden Bower's assessment via Network in Canadian History & Environment - NICHE and in the new book, "Transforming the Prairies."

In June 2024, the Canadian Senate's Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry recommended reviving the PFRA to address agricultural impacts on soil, but Shannon Stunden Bower argues in her new book that despite its contributions, the PFRA's environmental, colonial, and international development