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• Wars of Position? Marxism Today, Cultural Politics and the Remaking of the Left Press, 1979-1990

  An exploration of the connections between political practice and cultural form through the transformation of Marxism Today from a Communist Party theoretical journey into a 'glossy' left magazine. Marxism Today's success and failures during the 1980s are analysed through its political and cultural critiques of Thatcherism and the left, innovative publicity and marketplace distribution, relationships with the national UK press, cultural coverage, design & format, and writing style. Wars of position offers insights for contemporary media activists and challenges the neglect of the left press by media scholars.
• Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük Reveals Fundamental Transitions in Health, Mobility and Lifestyle in Early Farmers

  Bioarchaeological investigation of human remains from Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey, contributes to a growing body of data documenting population dynamics, health, and lifestyle of early farmers in Holocene settings in the Near East and globally. The extensive archaeological context represents nearly 1,200 continuous years of community life. This record presents biological outcomes and comprehensive understanding of the challenges associated with dependence on domesticated plants and animals, the labor involved in acquiring food and other resources, impacts of settled community life on health and well-being, and evolving lifeways to the present day. This paper was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, United States of America, June 116(26): 12615-12623, 2019 and won the Cozzarelli Prize, Class V Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2020 from the National Academy of Sciences.
• The Medusa Deep

  In this electrifying follow-up to his award-winning young adult novel The Midnight Games, David Neil Lee takes Nate Silva to the rain-swept Pacific coast. There, with old and new friends, he once more confronts an ancient evil, all while the Resurrection Church threatens to return to power at home. The Medusa Deep was listed on to the CBC’s list of Best Books of 2021, in the “Middle Grade and YA” category. David Neil Lee is a writer based in Hamilton, Ontario.
• The Power of Polls? A Cross-National Experimental Analysis of the Effects of Campaign Polls

  Public opinion polls have become increasingly prominent during elections, but how they affect voting behaviour remains uncertain. In this work, we estimate the effects of poll exposure using an experimental design in which we randomly assign the availability of polls to participants in simulated election campaigns. We draw upon results from ten independent experiments conducted across six countries on four continents (Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States) to examine how polls affect the amount of information individuals seek and the votes that they cast. We further assess how poll effects differ according to individual-level factors, such as partisanship and political sophistication, and the content included in polls and how it is presented.
• The Cambridge Handbook of Language Learning

  Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting-edge work on second language learning, this Handbook, written by a team of leading experts, surveys the nature of second language learning and its implications for teaching. Prominent theories and methods from linguistics, psycholinguistics, processing-based, and cognitive approaches are covered and organized thematically across sections dealing with skill development, individual differences, pedagogical interventions and approaches, and context and environment.
• The Changing Face of Iceland

  The Changing Face of Iceland, Mark Terry’s third film in a trilogy of documentaries examining the impacts of climate change on the polar regions, premiered at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland on November 4, 2021, presented by The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Writer, Producer, and Director Dr. Mark Terry presented it to the world leaders, delegates, and press followed by a brief question period.
• The Cultural Life of Drones: music and installation

  What does it mean to think of drones as culture? If culture is the range of social practices through which we come to understand and engage in our shared world, then drone cultures might be the myriad ways in which drones are embedded into our everyday lives as well as our fantasies about what kinds of lives that drones make.
• Career Crossroads

  Getting to where you want to be in your career is not always as linear as we might think. Not everyone picks one career path and sticks to it for the rest of their lives, and lots of people are confused about what they want out of their career. On Career Crossroads, host Jonathan Collaton explores the stories of everyday people who have made pivots along their career journey. Starting with the question "what did you want to be when you grew up?", they discuss all the jobs they have had, the people that influenced them, and both the expected and unexpected decisions that led them to their present career.
• Hard Road to Victory: The Chatham All-Stars Story

  This historical nonfiction children's book tells the story of the 1934 Chatham All-Stars. This team of all-Black athletes competed for and won the Ontario baseball championships 13 years before Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier.
• Shadow Boxing and Other Bizarre Adventures of a Blind Girl

  When I was thirteen years old, I found out that I was slowly going blind. In 1999, I was diagnosed with a degenerative, genetic eye condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa. This condition will leave me mostly, if not completely, blind. As a teenager who felt I could see fine, going blind felt far away. Now, at age thirty-two, I have lost the majority of my peripheral vision and going blind feels anything but far away. If you are going blind and wonder how in the hell you are supposed to cope with this, my story is for you. If you love someone who is going blind and wish that you knew how to help in some way, my story is for you.
• Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related

  Winner of the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her first family and returned to Seoul where she spent four months getting to know other adoptees, as well as her Korean mother, father, siblings, and extended family. Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. describes in visceral, lyrical prose the painful ripple effects that follow a child's removal from a family, and the rewards that can flow from both struggle and forgiveness.
• Le Prix Maupassant 2020

  Dr. Larissa Sloutsky won a Prix Maupassant 2020 for her doctoral thesis on the famous short story by Guy de Maupassant, "Boule de suif", and its cinematographic adaptations. Dr. Sloutsky received her PhD in French Literature, entitled 'Consécration d'Élisabeth Rousset: de l'encre à l'écran 'Boule de Suif' de Guy de Maupassant par l'iconographie filmique,' from Western University. The Awards Ceremony took place virtually on August 5, 2020. Les Prix Maupassant is an exclusive annual event organised by the Maupassant museum to celebrate and commemorate the life, great achievements and contributions of the French and international author, Guy de Maupassant.
• Ripper’s Whitechapel: The Digital Humanities and Perceptions of Space in late-Victorian England

  Victorian Whitechapel is synonymous with Jack the Ripper and not much else. And yet this was a vibrant, complex, and multifaceted community. This pilot project looks at newspaper representations of Whitechapel before, during, and after the 1888 murders. The heart of the project is an interactive map that tracks stories about Whitechapel associated with a specific location, and charts whether they were positive, negative, or neutral. In this way, users can get a fuller picture the place of this fascinating neighborhood in popular culture.
• The Libellus de Patientia Project

  This digital humanities resource provides several open access sources for the Libellus de patientia, a treatise composed in 1524 by the Dutch humanist Cornelius Aurelius (d.1531) while he was in prison suspected of Lutheran sympathies.
• Keynote Address at The 7th International Conference on Cognitive Research on Translation and Interpreting
• Maple Leaf Route Webinar Series

  The Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada (formerly the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies), in partnership with the Canadian Battlefields Foundation and the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society and the Juno Beach Centre Association, presented the Maple Leaf Route Webinar Series. Airing every two weeks, from May to September, the series followed Canadian and British Commonwealth soldiers as they landed on D-Day in June 1944 and fought their way inland at the Battle of Normandy.
• The Great Battles in History Podcast

  Great Battles in History explores some of the most famous battles in world history. Each three- to four-hour episode dives deeply into a single battle, investigating its origins, the course of combat, and the outcomes.
• Sharing Like We Mean It Working Co-operatively in the Cultural and Tech Sectors

  A hybrid co-op primer and research report, Sharing Like We Mean It: Working Co-operatively in the Cultural and Tech Sectors is based on a survey of more than 100 co-operatives in Canada, the UK, and the US. It offers a snapshot of the co-op landscape in creative industries, explores what co-operative work can look like in practice, and features profiles of several worker co-ops.
• From the Ground Up: Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits

  From the Ground Up: Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits is a practical primer on the ways of understanding, building, designing and innovating an effective digital fundraising program. With a strong foundation, there’s no limit to what you will be able to build.
• Design to Engage: How to Create and Facilitate a Great Learning Experience For Any Group

  Design to Engage is a “how to” book that will help you become an effective designer and facilitator of learning events.
• Introducing Linguistics: Theoretical and Applied Approaches

  Everything we do involves language. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book offers students a contemporary introduction to the study of language. Each thought-provoking chapter is accessible to readers from a variety of fields, and is helpfully organized across six parts: sound; structure and meaning; language typologies and change; language and social aspects; language acquisition; and language, cognition, and the brain.
• Looking at Pauline Johnson: Gender, Race, and Delsartism's Legible Body

  This essay closely examines the extant visual archive surrounding nineteenth-century Mohawk poet-performer E. Pauline Johnson to argue that her gestural and sartorial aesthetics situate her within a transnational genealogy of American Delsartism, a turn-of-the-century literary, cultural, and kinesthetic movement closely tied to a bodily discourse of white bourgeois femininity. This bodily discourse offers new strategies for reading and understanding Johnson's cultural labour within transnational histories of modernist dance.The article won the 2021 Award for Outstanding Article from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
• COVID-19 Essays: A Rapid Response Collection of Essays on the Pandemic

  This rapid response collection of essays, co-edited by Greg Bird and Penelope Ironstone, was published in 10 days following the initial pandemic "lockdown" in March, 2020. It includes 10 essays, including essays by Laurier Faculty Neil Balan, Greg Bird, and Penelope Ironstone. The essays provide an early snapshot of the pandemic from a biopolitical standpoint, looking to the social, cultural, economic, and political fault-lines of response to the pandemic that were already becoming apparent so early in its experience.
• Philosophy and the Climate Crisis: How the Past Can Save the Present

  This book explores how the history of philosophy can orient us to the new reality brought on by the climate crisis. If we understand the climate crisis as a deeply existential one, it can help to examine the way past philosophers responded to similar crises in their times. This book explores five past crises. These events—war, occupation, exile, scientific revolution and political revolution—inspired the philosophers to remake the whole world in thought: • That political power must be constrained by knowledge of the climate system (Plato) • That ethical and political reasoning must be informed by care or love of the ecological whole (Augustine) • That we must enhance the design of the technosphere (Descartes) • That we must conceive the Earth as an internally complex system (Spinoza) • And that we must grant rights to anyone or anything—ultimately the Earth system itself—whose vital interests are threatened by the effects of climate change (Hegel).
• The Ethics of Climate Change: An Introduction

  The Ethics of Climate Change: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the greatest threat now facing humanity. Williston addresses questions such as: Has humanity entered the Anthropocene? Is climate change primarily an ethical issue? Does climate change represent a moral wrong? What are the impacts of climate change? What are the main causes of political inaction? What is the argument for climate change denial? What are intragenerational justice and intergenerational justice? To what extent is climate change an economic problem? Is geoengineering an ethically appropriate response to climate change?