Book It

Summer 2018

If you have published a book within the past six months or have one coming out in the near future, please e-mail the editor a high-resolution JPEG of the cover, along with a 50-word-or-less description of the book, publication date, publisher and a link (if available) at magazine@trinity.utoronto.ca

 

Ann Birch

Duelling in a New World is the story of John White, Upper Canada’s first Attorney-General, a man with a colourful private life, but an accomplished career, including drafting in 1793 the first anti-slavery bill in the British Empire and setting up The Law Society of Upper Canada. (BWL Publishing Inc.)

 

Philip Brown ’71

Many Happy Returns reveals stories from a direct mail playbook: strategy, creation, and production of direct mail that delivers outstanding results.

 

Philip Brown ’71

Roarg: A Dragon’s Quest is the story of Crick, Honour, Willow and Sage, hunters who encounter a dragon in pursuit of an evil monster, Magu. The chase turns into a matter of life and death, as Magu has exacted a hefty price for satisfaction. The tale of Roarg is an adventure for all the senses, and the action moves you on, page by page. An exciting, suspenseful story for readers 7-12 years.

 

April Bulmer ’97 (MDiv)

Out of Darkness, Light is a book of poetry written in the voices of fictional Cambridge, Ontario women who practice feminist worship by the Grand River. These poems of light are some of April Bulmer’s best work. Wind, water, moon, sun, earth and rain are all celebrated as spiritual inspirations for this new collection of poems. (Hidden Book Press)

 

Shawn DeSouza-Coelho

Whenever You’re Ready is an intimate account of the stage management career of Nora Polley ’69, who has learned from, worked with, and cared for some of the greatest directors, actors, stage managers, and productions in Canadian theatrical history. Shawn DeSouza-Coelho tells the personal stories of Polley from decades of work as a stage manager at the Stratford Festival and other theatres across Canada. (ECW Press)

 

Irina Dumitrescu ’03

The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature shows how early medieval writers used fictional representations of education to explore the emotional relationships between teachers and students. Negative sensations such curiosity, pride, forgetfulness, inattention, and despair are explored as some of the challenges of teaching and learning, and an essential part of the dynamic process of pedagogy. (Cambridge University Press)

 

Fiona Griffiths ’94

Nuns’ Priests’ Tales examines the idea of medieval monasteries as single-sex institutions. Ordained men were regularly present in female monasteries as priests, who celebrated the mass for nuns.  Nuns’ Priests’ Tales explores the ideas about women that motivated these men in their service to religious women, revealing a medieval discourse in which men’s spiritual care for women was depicted as a holy service and an act of devotion and obedience to God. (University of Pennsylvania Press)

 

Steven Langdon ’69

African Economic Development explores Sub-Saharan Africa at a turning point. The barriers to economic growth seen in the 1980-2000 era are disappearing and new optimism is spreading. However, difficult goals of eliminating poverty, achieving equity and overcoming environmental threats continue. This book has been written to help understand this combination of emerging improvements and significant challenges.. (Routledge)

 

Peter Love ’71

Fundamentals of Energy Efficiency: Policy, Programs and Best Practices is a free, online resource for professors and students at colleges/universities as well as employees whose jobs requires a better understanding of energy efficiency.  It consists of three sections including theory, policies, case studies and course materials such as templates for cabinet submissions, briefing notes and building assessments. Download free copy.

 

Alice Major ’71
Welcome to the Anthropocene is Alice Major’s 11th collection of poetry, and continues her long engagement with science and math for finding significance in human life and in the universe. In these poems she observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on earth. (University of Alberta Press)

 

John McIntyre ’73

Ebenezer and John Doan: Canadian Quaker Master Builders and Cabinet Makers tells the story of a family of skilled craftsmen who came from Pennsylvania to Upper Canada in the early 1800s and created some of Canada’s most remarkable buildings and finest pieces of furniture. Co-authored with William C. Reeve, the lavishly illustrated volume offers a significant contribution to the study of Canada’s material culture. (Quarry Heritage Books)

 

Francine McKenzie ’89, Laura Madokoro, David Meren (Editors)

Dominion of Race: Rethinking Canada’s International History exposes how race-thinking –- normalizing racial differences and perpetuating them through words and actions that legitimize a discriminatory system of beliefs – has informed priorities and policies, positioned Canada in the international community, and contributed to a global order rooted in racial beliefs. Four themes develop throughout the volume: the relationship between empire, identity, and liberal internationalism; the tensions between individual, structure, theory, and practice; the mutual constitution of domestic and international spheres; and the notion of marginalized terrain and space. While the contributors reconsider familiar topics, including the Paris Peace Conference and Canada’s involvement with the United Nations, they also enlarge the scope of Canada’s international history by subject, geography, and methodology. (UBC Press)

 

Greer Roberts ’74

The Slaughters is an illustrated poetry chapbook inspired by a recent trip to Lower Slaughter in the Cotswolds region of England. The poetry explores themes ranging from school safety, symbols and suicide. The Slaughters follows 2014’s Tell It.

 

Samantha Majic ’01 and Carisa Showden

Youth Who Trade Sex in the U.S.: Intersectionality, Agency, and Vulnerability. Stories of innocent girls captured by predatory men dominate public and political discussions of domestic minor sex trafficking. This book examines this narrative by tracking its growth and influence on public policy in the US, and considering how well it stands up against an extensive body of research that has emerged on the topic since 2000. Arguing that the dominant narrative is radically divorced from the complex reality for most young people who sell or trade sex, the authors develop an intersectional “matrix of agency and vulnerability” designed to improve research, policy, and community interventions that focus on the needs of these young people. (Temple University Press)

 

Caro Soles ’63

People Like Us follows the reunion of old university pals at a Georgian Bay cottage where a long-buried secret threatens to crack their perfect lives wide open. Tentacles from the past grasp each of them, until one buckles under the pressure and slides headlong into murder. (Crossroad Press)

 

Michael Szonyi ’89

The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China explores the lives of ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and the ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation of an important period in China’s history as well as a broader theory of politics.Combining traditional scholarship with innovative fieldwork in the villages where descendants of Ming subjects still live, The Art of Being Governed illustrates the the consequences of historical arrangements between communities and the state and their relevance today. (Princeton University Press)

 

Michael Szonyi ’89 and Jennifer Rudoloph (Editors)

The China Question. Thirty-six of the world’s leading China experts—all affiliates of the renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University—answer key questions about where this new superpower is headed and what makes its people and their leaders tick. The book distills a lifetime of cutting-edge scholarship into short, accessible essays about Chinese identity, culture, environment, society, history, and policy. (Harvard University Press)

 

Daniel Kintai Woo ’04. 

Learning How to Love China is a biting satire of modern-day China and its social hierarchies. Little Comrade, a young woman who struggles with the expectations of her family and romantic fantasies of a mythical place called Canada, is caught in a cycle of working poverty, and navigates a world that is equal parts tragedy and comedy. Winner of the 2018 Ken Klonsky Novella Award.  (Quattro Books)