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In the Spirit of Homebirth: Modern Women, An Ancient Choice
This edited volume of modern BC birthing stories will be a compelling read for anyone with a personal or professional interest in the rich drama of childbirth. Not intended as a scholarly text, the sixty...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 187-88
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Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq’ey’s-kucw
Marianne and Ron Ignace are members of the Secwépemc First Nation in south-central British Columbia. Ron was raised by his great-grandparents, grew up speaking Secwepemctsín, and is a former Chief. Both Ron and Marianne have...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 183-4
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Everything Shuswap
In 1969, Jim Cooperman arrived in British Columbia from the United States, one of many Vietnam ‘war resisters’ who remade our province in ways that few people yet fully appreciate. One was in building a...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 184-5
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Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada edited by Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Sethna represents a collective effort to create a historiography of nonhuman animals and human subjects in Canada since...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 188-9
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Never Rest on Your Ores: Building a Mining Company, One Stone at a Time
How do you turn a relatively modest copper mining play on Lake Temagami in the 1950s into Canada’s largest diversified mining company, with a market capitalization in 2017 of nearly $14 billion? In telling the...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 190-1
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The Language of Family: Stories of Bonds and Belonging
“What does a book about family look like when everyone’s idea of family is different?” So opens Michelle van der Merwe’s thoughtfully edited volume The Language of Family: Stories of Bond and Belongings. This anthology...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 197-8
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Great Fortune Dream: The Struggles and Triumphs of Chinese Settlers in Canada, 1858-1966
David Chuenyan Lai and Ding Guo’s Great Fortune Dream is a comprehensive history of the Chinese in Canada, from early settlement to the 1960s. While much has been written on the subject, there have been...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 207-208
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Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities
The essays in Solitudes of the Workplace examine the university as a workplace. The authors use the concept of solitude to examine women’s various experiences as workers in universities. A key premise of the book...