Books tagged: Cultural
Clerks of the Passage
By Abou Farman
Migration stories, says Abou Farman, are often told through the personal struggles and travails of the migrant, the great voyager figure of our most recent centuries, the harbinger of hybridity, the metaphor for risk, sacrifice, toil, abuse, inhumanity. And humanity. These are ... Read more
Coast Salish Essays
By Wayne Suttles
Wayne Suttles has devoted much of his professional life to research on the cultures of the Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest, especially the Coast Salish of the Georgia Strait-Puget Sound Basin. Born and raised in this region, he has been guided by a life-long love of ... Read more
Driven
By Marcello Di Cintio
Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021
In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland ... Read more
Euphoria & Dystopia
Edited by Sarah Cook & Sara Diamond
This publication is a compendium of some of the most visionary thinking about art and technology to have taken place in the last few decades. Based on the research of the Banff New Media Institute from 1995 to 2005, the book celebrates the belief that the creative and cultural ... Read more
How We Eat
By Leon Rappoport
An informative look at the history of eating that’s a tasty combo of fact and fun
We enjoy watching celebrity chefs on TV, but so few of us choose to cook at home. The gourmet health food industry is soaring, yet a longtime love affair with fast food endures. Food and eating ... Read more
Journey to the Heart of the First Peoples Collection
Edited by Marie-Paule Robitaille
Revealing objects of unimagined beauty and rarity, this book brings readers into the world of the Aboriginal nations of Quebec, Canada, the United States, Amazonia, and Oceania. The history of this collection spans a period stretching from New France (1600), with objects brought ... Read more
Living by Stories
By Harry Robinson
Edited by Wendy Wickwire
Following on two previous collections— Write It on Your Heart: The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller (1989) and Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller (2004)—Talonbooks is pleased to announce the release of this third volume of oral narratives by Okanagan ... Read more
