PreviewsIssue 86, Spring/Summer 2025
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Heal the Beasts
A Jaunt Through the Curious History of the Veterinary Arts
Philipp Schott, DVM
This entertaining and idiosyncratic history of how people have cared for animals for both emotional and practical reasons since the earliest days of the domesticated dog includes stories of all kinds of animal-human bonds, such as work, companionship, and spiritual ones.
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Health and Health Care Inequities
A Critical Political Economy Perspective
Arnel M. Borras
Integrating document and interview data, Arnel analyzes how inequalities related to class, race, ethnicity, and gender contribute to health and health care inequities, arguing that capitalism is the fundamental driver of these inequities.
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Health Promoting Universities
Advancing Well-Being through a Systems Approach
Vicki Squires (Editor), Chad London (Editor), Matt Dolf (Editor)
Written by health promoting university leaders, practitioners, and scholars, this book presents approaches and strategies to advance health and well-being on higher education campuses and beyond, goals that are especially relevant in today’s challenges of climate change, systemic racism, and the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Hockey on the Moon
Imagination and Canada’s Game
Jamie Dopp
Dopp analyzes key texts of hockey literature – like Stompin’ Tom Connors’s “The Hockey Song,” Scott Young’s Scrubs on Skates trilogy, Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater, Bill Gaston’s The Good Body, Cara Hedley’s Twenty Miles, and Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse – to examine how they reveal the imaginative possibilities of the game.
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Home Fires Burn
Anthony Bidulka
In this conclusion to the award-winning trilogy, Merry Bell confronts her past, both by investigating the death of a community philanthropist, at the request of his son, who just happens to be Merry’s high school boyfriend, and by testing the waters of her own family relationships to see if bridges can be mended. As always, Merry’s uncommon sense and irrepressible charm draw readers in.
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I Want to Die in My Boots
A Novel
Natalie Appleton
This debut novel weaves historical fact and fiction to tell the previously untold story of Belle Jane, a woman who ran one of Canada’s largest cattle thieving rings in the 1920s, who took the names of five different husbands, and who paid no heed to any societal expectations of women.
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ICEMEN
Vern Thiessen
In the midst of the Great Depression, brothers and icemen Joe and Rennie are fighting back against the loss of their ice harvesting livelihood due to the advent of refrigeration. They are holding their boss captive, forcing him to face what he is doing to his workers, in this thriller that exposes the human cost of capitalism.
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In Search of a Mennonite Imagination
Key Texts in Mennonite Literary Criticism
Robert Zacharias (Editor)
This anthology of the most important critical essays from 150 years of writing about Mennonite literature in North America includes a detailed introduction to the book by the editor, as well as an incisive introduction and bibliography for each essay.
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In the Footsteps of the Traveller
The Astronomy of Northern Dene
Chris M. Cannon
Through collaboration with more than 65 Dene Elders and culture bearers from 34 communities in Alaska and Canada, and combining interviews, photographs, detailed illustrations, and the author’s own experiential learning, this book reveals the significance of the stars to Northern Dene life, language, and culture.
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In the Light of Dawn
The History and Legacy of a Black Canadian Community
Marie Carter
Carter, a lifelong resident of the area, challenges the prevailing story of the Dawn Settlement, arguing that rather than an example of a “failed” Black utopia at the end of the Underground Railway, it has been throughout its 200-year-history and continues to be a vibrant community of racial and economic diversity, whose people not only resisted slavery and oppression but also made successful and lasting contributions to the growth of local communities and the wider society.
