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Like an artist's retrospective, Tracing the Lines marks a milestone in the life of an important public intellectual.

The Battle of Batoche is the best-known confrontation between Metis and British soldiers in the Northwest Resistance of 1885. It remains one of Canada's most emotion-laden memories, chronicling an historic event equivalent to the 1863 battle of Gettysburg. After Batoche, everything changed for the Metis people and for Canada as well, especially in Quebec. The battle decided the future for the Metis people mixed Cree or Anishinaabe and Scottish or French ancestry who populated the Red River region known today as modern Manitoba, North Dakota, and Minnesota. The battle was the climax of the federal government's efforts to control the native and settler population of the West. It also changed attitudes in Quebec, which saw widespread outrage over the hanging of rebel leader Louis Riel following the battle; distrusting the Conservative government, French-speaking Quebecois began to feel safe only in Quebec and consequently limited theirexpansion into western Canada.Walter Hildebrandt's chronicle of the battle, first published at the centenary of the Northwest Resistance in 1985, eloquently revisited and analyzed the strategies of both sides. This redesigned new edition adds sidebars and extended captions, as well as numerous maps and photographs that offer detailed description of the fateful battle. Sidebars focus in detail on topics related to the battle, including Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont as leaders of the Metis resistance; nurse Kate Miller, Canada's Florence Nightingale; Batoche as the site of the first-ever battlefield photos, taken on horseback during the battle; the Gatling gun as evidence of the newly industrial nature of warfare; and zareba warfare and riflepit trenches as foreshadowing of the trenches of World War One, among other topics.Recent historiography, in particular, on Metis and First Nations involvement, including the role of women and children, is incorporated into the text, and notes and bibliography are updated.Foreword by Jean Teillet, great-grandniece of Louis Riel.

This much-anticipated new book of poems is the first in five years from Governor General's Award-nominated poet/filmmaker Colin Browne.

Serial poems explore North American gay male culture, including HIV fears, drug culture, porn fantasy, gay bashing, and online personals.

Governor General's Award-nominee Weyman Chan draws upon 2000 years of Chinese philosophy and modes of thought in this brilliant collection.

Perfect for those pursuing the new trend in academia: the cross over between sciences and art: McElroy incorporates string theory.

This is the first novel by legendary poet bill bissett, "a one man civilization."

Sachiko is one of Canada's most prominent young poets. Her first collection was shortlisted for the Govenor General's Award

Southern California in the late 1950s has the look and feel of a midsummer morningbright and still. For two young brothers, the wide world is full of promise. Together they set out to explore it as one, ever alert to the sound of their mothers whistle calling them home. But by late afternoon, dark clouds gather on the horizon and the storm soon breaks.That storm is the war in Vietnam, and its fury sweeps away all the noble lies of the social conservatism their parents endorsed.Then, in a bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard, the eldest son happens upon a novel by Kazantzakis that entices him to Greece. There, he learns the language, and in that ancient land that has seen it all, heard it all, and done it all, he encounters militant Cretan students and the woman who will become his life partner in exile.But for the younger brother there will be no escape. Trapped by failed marriages, smothered by parental guidance and an education system exposed as the states recruiting agent, he is dispatched to Vietnam. Fifteen years later he lies buried on a lonely hillside in New Zealand, dead of the wounds he sustained in that war.Shocked by the death of his younger brother, Fred Reed sets out on a series of journeys of discovery and understanding. By way of Iran in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution; the Anatolian highlands of the mystic Bediuzzaman Said Nursi; in pursuit of ancient and modern iconoclasts in Syria and Lebanon; he comes under the spell of Islam. In its embrace he finds a renewed brotherhood; in its discipline, liberation.Then We Were One challenges us with its conclusion that indictment, absolution and redemption, though we must seek them, are not ours to ultimately possess.

Africville's residents struggle to save their homes and their dignity. Cast of 4 men and 3 women.