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Memory and Landscape

A rich and beautiful book that tackles issues of great importance for many Northern communities: land and dispossession, tradition and change, memory and loss. With an impressive array of eminent scholars who seek to foreground Indigenous voices, this volume addresses the interplay of colonial pressure and Indigenous peoples’ resilience through topics ranging from berry picking and house forms to ecological knowledge and place naming. A book for everyone who wants to understand the cultural pillars of changing social and natural environments in the North.”

—Peter Schweitzer, Professor of Anthropology, University of Vienna

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Metaphors of Ed Tech

From the author of 25 Years of Ed Tech comes a refreshing and thought-provoking book that provides new ways of thinking about educational technology through a wide range of metaphors.

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Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence

Edward Taylor Fletcher was born in England in 1817 and arrived in Canada as a young boy. An important figure in Canadian literature, Fletcher’s writing was almost entirely forgotten by history. In this volume, James Gifford has gathered and annotated Fletcher’s essays and poems, writings that describe a nineteenth-century Canadian cultural life far more cosmopolitan than what we might have imagined.

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