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Welcome back to our monthly series, “Upcoming Publications in Canadian History,” where I’ve compiled information on all the upcoming releases for the following month in the field of Canadian history from every Canadian academic press, all in one place. This includes releases in both English and French. To see the releases from last month, click here.

***Please note that the cover images and book blurbs are used with permission from the publishers.***

N.B. This list only includes new releases, not rereleases in different formats.

 

April 1

Christopher Walmsley and Terry Kading, eds. Small Cities, Big Issues: Reconceiving Community in a Neoliberal Era (Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2018)

Cover of book, Small Cities Big Issues, Athabasca University PressSmall Canadian cities confront serious social issues as a result of the neoliberal economic restructuring practiced by both federal and provincial governments since the 1980s. Drastic spending reductions and ongoing restraint in social assistance, income supports, and the provision of affordable housing, combined with the offloading of social responsibilities onto municipalities, has contributed to the generalization of social issues once chiefly associated with Canada’s largest urban centres. As the investigations in this volume illustrate, while some communities responded to these issues with inclusionary and progressive actions others were more exclusionary and reactive—revealing forms of discrimination, exclusion, and “othering” in the implementation of practices and policies. Importantly, however their investigations reveal a broad range of responses to the social issues they face. No matter the process and results of the proposed solutions, what the contributors uncovered were distinctive attributes of the small city as it struggles to confront increasingly complex social issues.

If local governments accept a social agenda as part of its responsibilities, the contributors to Small Cities, Big Issues believe that small cities can succeed in reconceiving community based on the ideals of acceptance, accommodation, and inclusion.

Available Formats: Paperback, PDF, ePub

Publisher’s Link: http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120265

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Jessica Joy Cameron, Reconsidering Radical Feminism: Affect and the Politics of Heterosexuality (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018)

Cover of Book, Reconsidering Radical Feminism, UBC PressWhat’s the right way to be a feminist? Heated feminist debates dominated the political discourse of sexuality in the 1980s and ’90s.

Reconsidering Radical Feminism is a clear, precise summary of these late-twentieth-century feminist interpretations of the politics of heterosexuality. But it is more than that. Transcending the right/wrong approach of the feminist sex wars, Jessica Joy Cameron examines how we become invested in arguments that position us as particular kinds of feminists – and as gendered subjects. She maintains the poststructural position that heterosexual practices have no inherent or fixed universal meaning, while validating the radical feminist claim that they are often deployed as gendered strategies of stratification.

By using queer theory and affect theory as a lens through which to investigate the legacy of the feminist sex wars, Cameron reveals the timeliness of her subject in an era of campus debates about sexual assault, consent, and safe spaces.

Reconsidering Radical Feminism will interest students and scholars of feminist theory and sexuality studies. Sociologists, social theorists, and social psychologists whose research interests include gender and sexuality will also find this work illuminating.

Available Formats: Hardcover

Publisher’s Link: http://www.ubcpress.ca/reconsidering-radical-feminism

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Emily Snyder, Gender, Power, and Representations of Cree Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018)

Cover of Book, Gender Power and representations of Cree Law, UBC PressDrawing on the insights of Indigenous feminist legal theory, Emily Snyder examines representations of Cree law and gender in books, videos, graphic novels, educational websites, online lectures, and a video game. Although these resources promote the revitalization of Cree law and the principle of miyo-wîcêhtowin (good relations), Snyder argues that they do not capture the complexities of gendered power dynamics.

The majority of the resources either erase women’s legal authority by not mentioning them, or they diminish women’s agency by portraying them primarily as mothers and nurturers. Although these latter roles are celebrated, Snyder argues that Cree laws and gender roles are represented in inflexible, aesthetically pleasing ways that overlook power imbalances and difficult questions regarding interpretations of tradition.

What happens when good relations are represented in ways that are oppressive? Grappling with this question, Snyder makes the case that educators need to critically engage with issues of gender and power in order to create inclusive resources that meaningfully address the everyday messiness of law. As with all legal orders, gendered oppression can be perpetuated through Cree law, but Cree law is also a dynamic resource for challenging gendered oppression.

This book will appeal to students and scholars of law, Indigenous studies, gender studies, and the sociology of inequality.

Available Formats: Hardcover

Publisher’s Link: http://www.ubcpress.ca/gender-power-and-representations-of-cree-law

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Shauna MacKinnon, ed. Practising Community-Based Participatory Research: Stories of Engagement, Empowerment, and Mobilization (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018)

Cover of book, Practising Community-Based Participatory Research, UBC PressThere is increasing pressure on university scholars to reach beyond the “ivory tower” and engage in collaborative research with communities. But what does this actually mean? What is community-based participatory research (CBPR) and what does engagement look like?

This book presents stories about CBPR from past and current Manitoba Research Alliance projects in socially and economically marginalized communities. Bringing together experienced researchers with new scholars and community practitioners, the stories describe the impetus for the research projects, how they came to be implemented, and how CBPR is still being used to effect change within the community.

The projects, ranging from engagement in public policy advocacy to learning from Elders in First Nations communities, were selected to demonstrate the breadth of experiences of those involved and the many different methods used. The issues they address are applicable to urban centres and rural and Indigenous communities throughout North America and beyond. By providing space for researchers and their collaborators to share the stories behind their research, this book offers valuable lessons and rich insights into the power and practice of CBPR.

Written in an accessible style, this book is a practical resource for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in community-based research; university-level teachers of social sciences research methods courses; and social justice advocates who want to learn more about how research can be used as a policy advocacy tool.

Available Formats: Hardcover

Publisher’s Link: http://www.ubcpress.ca/practising-community-based-participatory-research

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Keith Thor Carlson, John Sutton Lutz, David M. Schaepe, & Naxaxalhts’i–Albert “Sonny” McHalsie, Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community Engaged Scholarship among the People of the River (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2018)

Cover of book, Towards a New Ethnohistory, University of Manitoba PressTowards a New Ethnohistory engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory. This new ethnohistory reflects Indigenous ways of knowing and is a direct response to critiques of scholars who have for too long foisted their own research agendas onto Indigenous communities. Community-engaged scholarship invites members of the Indigenous community themselves to identify the research questions, host the researchers while they conduct the research, and participate meaningfully in the analysis of the researchers’ findings.

The historical research topics chosen by the Stó:lō community leaders and knowledge keepers for the contributors to this collection range from the intimate and personal, to the broad and collective. But what principally distinguishes the analyses is the way settler colonialism is positioned as something that unfolds in sometimes unexpected ways within Stó:lō history, as opposed to the other way around.

This collection presents the best work to come out of the world’s only graduate-level humanities-based ethnohistory fieldschool. The blending of methodologies and approaches from the humanities and social sciences is a model of twenty-first century interdisciplinarity.

Available Formats: Paperback

Publisher’s Link: https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/towards-a-new-ethnohistory

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Peter Kulchyski, Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice: Begade Shutagot’ine and the Sahtu Treaty (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2018)

Cover of book, Report of an Inquiry into Injustice, University of Manitoba PressA Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice chronicles Peter Kulchyski’s experiences with the Begade Shutagot’ine, a small community of a few hundred people living in and around Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), on the Mackenzie River in the heart of Canada’s Northwest Territories. Despite their formal objections and boycott of the agreement, the band and their lands were included in the Sahtu treaty, a modern comprehensive land claims agreement negotiated between the Government of Canada and the Sahtu Tribal Council, representing Dene and Metis peoples of the region. While both Treaty Eleven (1921) and the Sahtu Treaty (1994) purport to extinguish Begade Shutagot’ine Aboriginal title, oral history and documented attempts to exclude themselves from treaty strongly challenge the validity of that extinguishment.

Structured as a series of briefs to an inquiry into the Begade Shutagot’ine’s claim, this manuscript documents the negotiation and implementation of the Sahtu treaty and amasses evidence of historical and continued presence and land use to make eminently clear that the Begade Shutagot’ine are the continued owners of the land by law: they have not extinguished title to their traditional territories; they continue to exercise their customs, practices, and traditions on those territories; and they have a fundamental right to be consulted on, and refuse or be compensated for, development projects on those territories. Kulchyski bears eloquent witness to the Begade Shutagot’ine people’s two-decade struggle for land rights, which have been blatantly ignored by federal and territorial authorities for too long.

Available Formats: Paperback

Publisher’s Link: https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/report-of-an-inquiry-into-an-injustice

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April 6

Frank Myron Guttman & Alexander Wright, The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital (Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2018)

Cover of book, Sir Mortimer B. David Jewish General Hospital, MQUP 2018Founded in 1934 as a small community hospital – open to all patients, regardless of race, religion, language, or ethnic background – Montreal’s Jewish General has grown to become an internationally recognized facility, and a major component of McGill University’s medical school.

This comprehensive account of an esteemed institution begins by outlining the historical connections between Judaism and medicine, and the establishment of Jewish hospitals throughout the Western world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Specifically Jewish hospitals originated in response to the prevalent anti-Semitism that made post-graduate training for Jewish physicians in hospitals nearly impossible and also due to the need for kosher facilities for patients. Doctor Frank Guttman, who trained at the Jewish General from 1959 to 1964 and joined its staff in 1965, provides a detailed account of the hospital’s history and its various directors, tracking the progress and medical breakthroughs of each department and presenting the exceptional clinicians and scientists who have made the hospital’s progress possible.

This book tells the story of Montreal’s Jewish General, from humble beginnings to a world-class university hospital, committed to service, teaching, research, and innovation.

Available Formats: Hardcover, ePub

Publisher’s Link: http://www.mqup.ca/sir-mortimer-b–davis-jewish-general-hospital–the-products-9780773553064.php?page_id=73&#!prettyPhoto

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April 10

Jane Dickson, By Law or In Justice: The Indian Specific Claims Commission and the Struggle for Indigenous Justice (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018)

Cover of book, By Law or Injustice, UBC PressThe Indian Specific Claims Commission (ICC) was formed in 1991 in response to the Oka crisis. Its purpose was to resolve and expedite specific claims arising out of promises made to Indigenous nations in treaties, the Indian Act, and the larger set of legal and ethical obligations flowing from the Crown to those nations. Had those promises been kept, these claims would not exist.

By Law or In Justice traces the history of Indigenous claims in Canada and the work of the ICC from 1991 until it was decommissioned by the Harper government in 2009. An insider’s account, it is written by long-standing ICC commissioner Jane Dickson who looks critically at the development and implementation of Canada’s specific claims policy. Drawing upon the records of the commission and a wealth of research and experience with Indigenous claims and communities, she provides an unflinching look at the inquiry process and the parties involved as they struggled to achieve just resolution of specific claims.

By Law or In Justice provides a balanced, careful analysis of Canada’s claims policy, the challenges faced by Indigenous claimants, and the legacy of the commission. By documenting the promises made and broken to Indigenous nations, this book also makes a passionate plea for greater claims justice so that true reconciliation can be achieved.

The book is intended for the wide range of readers who want or need to know more about how the claims process works and how the state met, or failed to meet, its promises to Indigenous peoples through this process. This includes scholars, particularly in law, political science, anthropology, and sociology; government policy makers; and lawyers and negotiators working in this area.More generally it will be of interest to Canadians concerned about the just resolution of land claims, reconciliation, and Indigenous rights in Canada.

Available Formats: Paperback, Hardcover

Publisher’s Link: http://www.ubcpress.ca/by-law-or-in-justice

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Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber, ed. Kisiskâciwan: Indigenous Voices from where the River Flows Swiftly (Regina: University of Regina Press, 2018)

Cover of book, Kisiskaciwan, University of Regina pressThis groundbreaking anthology from territory that is now Saskatchewan, kisiskâciwan, includes rich oral narratives from Cree, Saulteaux, Nakoda, Dakota, Dene, and Metis cultures; early writings from Cree missionaries; speeches and letters by Treaty Chiefs; stories from elders; archival discoveries; and contemporary literary works in all genres.

Historically and culturally comprehensive, voices include Big Bear, Thunderchild, Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont, Edward Ahenakew, Maria Campbell, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Rita Bouvier, Harold Johnson, Gregory Scofield, Warren Cariou, Louise Halfe, and many more.

Available Formats: Paperback

Publisher’s Link: https://uofrpress.ca/Books/K/kisiskaciwan

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April 25

Jenny Ellison & Jennifer Anderson, eds. Hockey: Challenging Canada’s Game – Au-delà du sport national (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2018)

Cover of book, Hockey: Challenging Canada's Game, University of Ottawa PressFor Canadians, hockey is the game. Shared experiences and memories—lacing up for the first time, shinny on an outdoor rink, Sidney Crosby’s historic goal, or the one scored by Maurice Richard—make hockey more than just a game.

While the relationship between hockey and national identity has been studied, where does the game fit into our understanding of multiple, diverse Canadian identities today? This interdisciplinary book considers hockey, both as professional and amateur sport, and both in historical and contemporary context, in relation to larger themes in Canadian Studies, including gender, race/ethnicity, ability, sexuality, geography, and reflects upon all aspects of hockey in Canadian life: play, fandom, sports broadcasting, and community activism.

This interdisciplinary scholarly collection is an extension of the “Hockey in Canada: More Than Just a Game” exhibition presented by the Canadian Museum of History.

Includes one chapter in French.

Available Formats: Paperback, PDF

Publisher’s Link: https://press.uottawa.ca/hockey.html

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April 26

Christine L.M. Gervais, Beyond the Altar: Women Religious, Patriarchal Power, and the Church (Waterloo: WLU Press, 2018)

Cover of book, Beyond the Altar, Wilfrid Laurier University PressBeyond the Altar illustrates how women religious overcome sexist subjugation by side-stepping the patriarchal power of the Roman Catholic Church. This book counters the stereotypical image of Catholic nuns as being loyally compliant with their church by demonstrating how a selection of Canadian current and former women religious challenge their institutional religion’s precepts and engage in transformative strategies to effect change both within and outside the Roman Catholic Church.

The sisters’ testimonials reveal never-before-shared details about their painful experiences of male domination, their courageous efforts to move beyond such sexist stifling, and the women-led and women-centered spiritual, governance, and activist practices they have engendered in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Featuring the sisters’ resourcefulness, resilience, and resistance, this book fills a void in international scholarship on what Canadian Catholic women religious have both endured and accomplished. Through interviews and in-depth accounts of the complexities and nuances present in the current and former sisters’ lives, readers will discover their incredible indomitability as they strategically, and sometimes subversively, innovate their spiritual spaces.

Available Formats: Paperback

Publisher’s Link: https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/B/Beyond-the-Altar

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April 28

John F. Conway, The Prairie Populist: George Hara Williams and the Untold Story of the CCF (Regina: University of Regina Press, 2018)

Cover of book, The Prairie Populist, University of Regina PressGeorge Hara Williams was the most successful of the early leaders of the CCF in Saskatchewan. But his role in the party was undermined by Tommy Douglas and M. J. Coldwell, and now he is almost forgotten.

The populist who mobilized farmers of the province to support a socialist platform, he was one of five MLAs elected in the 1934 election, becoming Leader of the Opposition. He firmly supported socialists participating in the struggle against fascism, including military action, a position not held by everyone in the party. While Williams was serving overseas, a campaign to replace him as leader, led by Coldwell and Douglas, was successful.

The full story of Williams’ role in building the CCF and bringing it to the threshold of power, and the party machinations leading to his defeat as leader, has until now, been never fully documented.

Available Formats: Paperback

Publisher’s Link: https://uofrpress.ca/Books/T/The-Prairie-Populist

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April 30

Gina M. Martino, Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018)

Cover of Book, Women at War, University of North Carolina pressAcross the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America. Far from serving as passive helpmates in a private, domestic sphere, women assumed wartime roles as essential public actors, wielding muskets, hatchets, and makeshift weapons while fighting for their families, communities, and nations. Revealing the fundamental importance of martial womanhood in this era, Gina M. Martino places borderlands women in a broad context of empire, cultural exchange, violence, and nation building, demonstrating how women’s war making was embedded in national and imperial strategies of expansion and resistance. As Martino shows, women’s participation in warfare was not considered transgressive; rather it was integral to traditional gender ideologies of the period, supporting rather than subverting established systems of gender difference.

In returning these forgotten women to the history of the northeastern borderlands, this study challenges scholars to reconsider the flexibility of gender roles and reveals how women’s participation in transatlantic systems of warfare shaped institutions, polities, and ideologies in the early modern period and the centuries that followed.

Available Formats: Hardcover, ePub (Kindle)

Publisher’s Link: https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469640990/women-at-war-in-the-borderlands-of-the-early-american-northeast/

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Rita Bode & Jean Mitchell, eds. L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) (Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2018)

Cover of Book, LM Montgomery and the matter of natures, MQUPL.M. Montgomery’s writings are replete with enchanting yet subtle and fluid depictions of nature that convey her intense appreciation for the natural world. At a time of ecological crises, intensifying environmental anxiety, and burgeoning eco-critical perspectives, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) repositions the Canadian author’s relationship to nature in terms of current environmental criticism across several disciplines, introducing a fresh approach to her life and work.

Drawing on a wide range of Montgomery’s novels as well as her journals, this collection suggests that socio-ecological relationships encompass ideas of reciprocity, affiliation, autonomy, and the capacity for transformation in both the human and more-than-human worlds, and that these ideas are integral to Montgomery’s vision and her literary legacy. Framed by the twin themes of materiality and interrelationships, essays by scholars of literature, law, animal studies, anthropology, and ecology examine place, embodiment, and difference in Montgomery’s works and embrace the multiplicities embedded in the concept of nature.

Through innovative critical approaches, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) opens up conversations about humans’ interactions with nature and the material environment.

Available Formats: Hardcover, Paperback

Publisher’s Link: http://www.mqup.ca/l-m–montgomery-and-the-matter-of-nature-s–products-9780773552753.php?page_id=73&#!prettyPhoto

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Helen Antoniou, Back to Beer… and Hockey: The Story of Eric Molson (Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2018)

Cover of book, Back to Beer and Hockey, MQUPTo most Canadians, the Molson name is part of the very fabric of Canada. Since 1786, when John Molson founded his first brewery in Montreal, it has become synonymous with beer, hockey, and philanthropy. Few realize, however, how close the family came in recent years to losing control of the enterprise. Back to Beer … and Hockey offers intimate details of the life and work of Eric Molson, who not only saved the company, but positioned it to thrive as a global brewery into the twenty-first century.

With unprecedented access to the Molson family, Helen Antoniou traces Eric Molson’s evolution from a young brewmaster captivated by the chemistry of beer-making to chairman of Molson. Quiet by nature, he had to confront big egos, navigate complex boardroom politics, and even battle a disruptive cousin who tried to push him out of the way. Antoniou’s carefully researched account details how the introverted Eric overcame his aversion to conflict to take the company from a failing conglomerate back to its core business of beer, eventually turning it into one of the world’s leading brewers. Today, he has passed the torch to his sons, the seventh generation, but his steadfast vision prevails.

An absorbing account of one man’s struggle at the helm of an international brewing giant, Back to Beer … and Hockey shows how Eric Molson’s guiding principles influenced the future of Molson – both the enterprise and the family.

Available Formats: Hardcover

Publisher’s Link: http://www.mqup.ca/back-to-beer—–and-hockey-products-9780773552876.php?page_id=73&#!prettyPhoto

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Better Late than Never…

Raymond B. Blake and Matthew Hayday, eds. Celebrating Canada: Commemorations, Anniversaries and National Symbols (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018)

Cover of Book, Celebrating Canada, University of Toronto PressPopular and government-funded anniversaries and commemorations, combined with national symbols, play significant roles in shaping how we view Canada, and also provide opportunities for people to challenge the pre-existing or dominant conceptions of the country. Volume 2 of Celebrating Canada continues the scholarly debate about commemoration and national identity. Raymond B. Blake and Matthew Hayday bring together emerging and established scholars to consider key moments in Canadian history when major anniversaries of Canada’s political, social, or cultural development were celebrated.

The contributors to this volume capture the multiple and multi-layered meanings of belonging in the Canadian experience, investigate various attempts at shaping and re-shaping identities, and explore episodes of groups resisting or participating in the identity-formation process. By considering the small voices and those on the margins of Canada’s many commemorative anniversaries, the contributors to Celebrating Canada reveal how important it is to think not only about anniversary moments but also about what they can tell us about our history and the shifting function of nationalism.

Available Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, ePub

Publisher’s Link: https://utorontopress.com/ca/celebrating-canada-7

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Christabelle Sethna & Steve Hewitt, Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada (Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2018)

Cover of Book, Just Watch Us, MQUPFrom the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, in the midst of the Cold War and second-wave feminism, the RCMP security service – prompted by fears of left-wing and communist subversion – monitored and infiltrated the women’s liberation movement in Canada and Quebec. Just Watch Us investigates why and how this movement was targeted, weighing carefully the presumed threat its left-wing ties presented to the Canadian government against the defiant challenge its campaign for gender equality posed to Canadian society.

Based on a close reading of thousands of pages of RCMP documents declassified under Canada’s Access to Information Act and the corresponding Privacy Act, Just Watch Us demonstrates that the security service’s longstanding anti-Communist focus distorted its threat assessment of feminist organizing. Combining gender analysis and critical approaches to state surveillance, Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt consider the machinations of the RCMP, including its bureaucratic evolution, intelligence-gathering operations, and impact, as well as the evolution of the women’s liberation movement from its broad transnational influences to its elusive quest for unity among women across lines of ideology and identity. Significantly, the authors also grapple with the historiographical, methodological, and ethical difficulties of working with declassified security documents and sensitive information.

A sharp-eyed inquiry into spy policies and tactics in Cold War Canada, Just Watch Us speaks to the serious political implications of state surveillance for social justice activism in liberal democracies.

Available Formats: Hardcover, ePub

Publisher’s Link: http://www.mqup.ca/just-watch-us-products-9780773552821.php?page_id=73&

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