Having the Difficult Discussions about Race and Ethnicity in the Classroom
Laura Tubelle de González discusses the conversations that are now taking place in academia to support the Black Lives Matter movement.
July 23, 2020
Tag: textbook
Canadian Federalism: Performing amidst the Pandemic
Canadian Federalism is Canada’s leading text on federal institutions and processes. We asked editors Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad to look at the potential effects COVID-19 will have on Canadian federalism.
July 6, 2020
Solidarity in Protest: A New Textbook Highlighting Positive Social Change in Urban Costa Rica
Karen Stocker delves into her new book, Millennial Movements and looks at the recent protests taking place in the United States and around the world.
June 18, 2020
Isolation Reading for the Week of May 25
This week, Craig Blue, our Digital Marketing Coordinator, has chosen Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football as his staff pick.
May 25, 2020
On the Origins of A Short History of the Middle Ages
Barbara H. Rosenwein, author of the bestselling textbook A Short History of the Middle Ages provides us with a very insightful and fascinating trip back to the inception of her textbook project.
April 30, 2020
Isolation Reading for the Week of April 6
Here at UTP, we’ve decided to bring you some great books chosen by our staff for your work-from-home reading. Check in with us every Monday for some fantastic book recommendations. Kicking off our weekly staff picks is our marketing manager of humanities and trade books, Anna Maria Del Col.
April 6, 2020
Epidemics and the Modern World
Epidemics and the Modern World surveys the role of significant infectious diseases in history from the Black Death of the fourteenth century to the Zika virus in the early twenty-first century. In light of the recent coronavirus outbreak, author Mitchell L. Hammond discusses how epidemics are a distinctively modern problem as well as a topic of historical interest.
February 26, 2020
Communication and the Human Experience
Due for release this February, Introducing Communication is a new textbook featuring discussions on issues and challenges associated with mass globalization and new technologies. Author Amardo Rodriguez explains why his new textbook can be used in any introductory communication course.
February 7, 2020
Unpacking the Everyday
Authors of Power and Everyday Practices discuss their new book that provides students with the tools to think sociologically through the lens of everyday life and encourage students to explore everyday practices that are familiar and that might, at first glance, seem benign.
August 19, 2019
Canada at the Polls 2019: A New Mandate?
Authors of the forthcoming Absent Mandate discuss the upcoming Canadian federal election: what we can expect to see? Has anything really changed since elections back in 1965? And are Canadian electoral politics now following a new, or even unfamiliar, path?
July 17, 2019