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The Canadian Horror Film: Terror Of The Soul Edited By Gina Freitag And Andre Loiselle, Jennifer Schell

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Review of Gina Freitag's and Andre Loiselle's The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul

Heidegger's Way Of Being By Richard Capobianco, Brian Mccormack

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A review of Richard Capobianco's Heidegger's Way of Being.

Animals In Irish Literature And Culture Edited By Kathryn Kirkpatrick And Borbála Faragó, Geneviève Pigeon

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Review of Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Borbála Faragó's Animals in Irish Literature and Culture.

Listening For The Heartbeat Of Being: The Arts Of Robert Bringhurst Edited By Brent Wood And Mark Dickinson, Kirsten Alm

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Review of Brent Wood and Mark Dickinson's Listening for the Heartbeat of Being: The Arts of Robert Bringhurst.

Global Ecologies And The Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches Edited By Elizabeth Deloughrey, Jill Didur, And Anthony Carrigan, Joshua Bartlett

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Review of Elizabeth Deloughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan's Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches.

Ecology Or Catastrophe: The Life Of Murray Bookchin By Janet Biehl, Benjamin C. O'Heran

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Review of Janet Biehl's Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin.

Winds Of Change: Short Stories About Our Climate Edited By Mary Woodbury, Veronika Kratz

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Review of Mary Woodbury's edited collection, Winds of Change: Short Stories about Our Climate.

A New Index For Predicting Catastrophes By Madhur Anand, Andrew Gordon Jeffrey

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A Review of Madhur Anand's A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes.

My Last Continent By Midge Raymond, Jessica George

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A review of Midge Raymond's My Last Continent.

Educating The Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, And Future Edited By Alan Bewell, Neil Ten Kortenaar, And Germaine Warkentin, David Carruthers

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Review of Alan Bewell, Neil ten Kortenaar, and Germaine Warkentin's Educating the Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, and Future.

Sleeping In Tall Grass By Richard Therrien, Gillian Frances Harding-Russell

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Review of Richard Therrien's Sleeping in Tall Grass.

An Environmental History Of Medieval Europe By Richard C. Hoffman, Geneviève Pigeon Dr

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Review of Richard C. Hoffman's An Environmental History of Medieval Europe.

Found In Alberta: Environmental Themes For The Anthropocene Edited By Robert Boschman And Mario Trono, L. Camille Van Der Marel

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Review of Robert Boschman and Mario Trono’s edited collection Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene.

Marry & Burn By Rachel Rose, Carolyn J. Creed

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Review of Rachel Rose's Marry & Burn.

The Literature Of Waste: Material Ecopoetics And Ethical Matter By Susan Signe Morrison, Matthew Zantingh

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Review of Susan Signe Morrison's The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter.

Desecrations By Matt Rader, Katie Stobbart

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Review of Matt Rader's Desecrations.

The Book Of Feral Flora By Amanda Ackerman & Skeena By Sarah De Leeuw, Emily Mcgiffin

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Review of Amanda Ackerman's The Book of Feral Flora. Review of Sarah de Leeuw's Skeena.

Hillsdale Book By Gerald Hill, Matthew Zantingh

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Review of Gerald Hill's Hillsdale Book.

Stone: An Ecology Of The Inhuman By Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Joel Weishaus

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Review of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman

The Unlit Path Behind The House By Margo Wheaton, Adam J. Kneeland

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Review of Margo Wheaton's The Unlit Path Behind the House.

Undercurrent By Rita Wong, Kelly Shepherd

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Review of Rita Wong's undercurrent.

Ecocriticism On The Edge: The Anthropocene As A Threshold Concept By Timothy Clark, Paul T. Corrigan

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Review of Timothy Clark's Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept.

The Plotline Bomber Of Innisfree By Josh Massey, Dessa Bayrock

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A review of Josh Massey's The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree.

Settler Education By Laurie D. Graham, Kelly Shepherd

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Review of Laurie D. Graham's Settler Education.

Tangled Roots, Bittersweet Exposure, Chase Clow

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Accompanied by tree portraits, this personal narrative reflects upon the intersecting histories between the indigenous peoples of Marin County (north of San Francisco, CA) and the author, who is Euro-American, while contemplating the changing relationship to their shared woodland, the effects of colonization, and possibilities for healing.

Combustion, Catriona Sandilands

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Match, wood, flame. Pyrocultures, settler colonial pyrophobia. Internal combustion. Wildfire. Petrocapitalist immolation. This short photo essay reflects on fire as simultaneously a sensuous phenomenon of everyday life and an entity that, because of both its presence and its absence in particular formations, makes worlds. To be aware, both corporeally and politically, of our involvement in pyric practices and regimes allows us to begin to imagine what it might mean to understand and change our relations to fire as part of a larger project of energetic transformation: bodily, socially, politically.

“And It’S Just When I Think I’Ve Won The Staring Contest”: Viewing The World Through Science And Poetry With Madhur Anand, Alec Follett

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In this interview, poet and ecologist Madhur Anand discusses her collection of poetry, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes, with Alec Follett. She considers the poetic potential of scientific language as well as other topics related to her poetry and her research including field guides, biodiversity, and socio-ecological relationships.

From "Brief Eulogies For Lost Species", Daniel Hudon

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Since the year 1500, almost 900 species around the world have officially become extinct. Several of these species resided in Canada and though some are well known to the public, others are not. Here, briefly, are stories of five of them.

Playing Out: The Importance Of The City As A Playground For Skateboard And Parkour, Mike Jeffries, Sebastian Messer, Jon Swords

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The authors document young skaters and freerunners’ improvisational use of public space and the development of their interpersonal relationships and learning.

Minorities' Perceptions Of Child Protective Services, Vernae Elaine Hicks

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

The study examined minority persons’ views and experiences with Child Protective Services (CPS) in the community. This study used a qualitative design with face‑to‑face interviews with 12 participants in the community. This study used the “Post‑Positivist” data analysis, which is qualitative in evaluation and explained each participant’s subjective reality.

The study found that most participants were satisfied with the results and were dissatisfied with the process in and of itself. Overall the study found that most participants felt that there was some sort of a disconnect with social workers in reference to cultural competency. Miscommunication between the social workers at …