Bøger udgivet af University of British Columbia Press

Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada brings together experts from across the country to share their perspectives on how energy systems can respond to climate change, enhance social justice, respect local cultures and traditions - and still make financial sense.

Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals offers a behind-the-scenes account of the difficulties facing Indigenous people in human rights tribunals, and the struggles of experts to keep their own testimony from being undermined.

Born with a Copper Spoon tells the fascinating and far-reaching story of one of the world's most important metals.

This intimate story of one settler's journey toward reconciliation reveals the rich potential that comes from learning to listen and change - decolonization not as to-do list, but as a lived experience of taking one awkward step at a time.

This riveting insider¿s account of how the COVID-19 pandemic unfurled in one of Canadäs hardest-hit provinces draws on the lessons learned to provide a hopeful vision for building a healthier future.

The Notorious Georges is an engaging exploration of the alchemy of community identity and reputation set in Prince George, BC, once branded Canada's most dangerous city.

People, Politics, and Purpose investigates the roles and reputations of a wide array of political actors, offering insight into Canada's place in the world and stimulating fresh thinking about political biography.

King and Chaos is the first close study of the issues, personalities, and significance of the 1935 federal election, a turning point that fractured the two-party system and permanently changed Canada's political landscape.

Power Played represents a distinctly critical criminology of sport, blowing the whistle on the harm, violence, and exploitation embedded in contemporary sport and sporting cultures.

Dispatches from Disabled Country is a nuanced and unmistakably poetic introduction to the rich landscape of disability activism and culture from one of Canada's most recognized voices, Dr. Catherine Frazee.

The Fire Still Burns is a tale of survival and redemption through which Squamish Elder Sam George recounts his residential school experience and how it led to a life of addiction, violence, and imprisonment until he found the courage to face his past and begin healing.

Agree to disagree? A Cooperative Disagreement demonstrates how Canada and the United States ¿ neighbours by geography and close allies by design ¿ successfully kept their differences over revolutionary Cuba from permanently damaging their relationship.

Series Editors: Janice Dickin and Cathy CavanaughOur Lives aims at both student and general readership.Today's students, living in a world of blogs, understand thatthere is much to be learned from the everyday lives of everyday people.Our Lives seeks to make available previously unheard voicesfrom the past and present. Social history in general contests theconstruction of history as the story of elites and the act of makingavailable the lives of everyday people, as seen by themselves, subvertseven further the contentions of social historiography. At the sametime, Our Lives aims to make available books that are goodreads. General readers are guaranteed quality, provided withintroductions that they can use to contextualize material and are givena glimpse of other works they might want to look at. It is not usualfor university presses to provide this type of primary material.Athabasca considers provision of this sort of material as important toits role as Canada's Open University.