ED BROADBENT ’59
Part memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy: Seven decades in the fight for equality offers the first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent’s ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life. In dialogue with three collaborators from different generations, Broadbent leads readers through a life spent fighting for equality in Parliament and beyond. (ECW Press)
CHRISTINA CAMERON ’67
Evolving Heritage Conservation Practice in the 21st Century focuses on current trends in cultural heritage conservation and their influence on heritage practice. Seen through the lenses of world heritage, historic urban landscapes, heritage tourism, climate change or the nature/culture nexus, these challenges call for innovative approaches to protect and conserve our heritage places. (Springer Nature)
ANDERSON CHARTERS, ALEX RUSSELL and PETER RUSSELL ’55, C.C., Trinity Fellow Emeritus
No Comfortable Pew is a collection of the writings of The Rev. Campbell Russell ’62, an Anglican priest and community activist who died in 2017. The book includes a biographical sketch of his life, a selection of his sermons, theological discussions, talks on public affairs and a detailed historical study of the Annex neighbourhood in Toronto. (Manticore Books)
MELINDA JACOBS ’12
In Work Life: Working Remotely from Bali to Boardroom, Jacobs takes readers from coworking spaces in Bali to corporate offices in North America to look at how remote work is changing what it means to have a desk job. Combining personal experiences and research on traditional and changing workplaces, she explores coworking, remote work, and the evolving office from within, exposing their opportunities and contradictions. By presenting an updated set of options for the modern worker, she asks, If you could work from anywhere, where would you go? What would your work life look like? (YGTMedia Co. Publishing)
CHRISTIAN LEUPRECHT ’96 and TODD HATALEY
In Security. Cooperation. Governance.: The Canada-United States Open Border Paradox, Leuprecht explores Canada–US border and security policies that have evolved from successive trade agreements since the 1950s, punctuated by new and emerging challenges to security in the twenty-first century. The sectoral and geographical diversity of cross-border interdependence of what remains the world’s largest bilateral trade relationship makes the Canada–US border a living laboratory for studying the interaction of trade, security, and other border policies that challenge traditional centralized approaches to national security. (University of Michigan Press)
LEANNE TOSHIKO SIMPSON, Trinity Writing Centre Instructor and founder of the Trinity College BIPOC Writing Circle
Never Been Better is a hilariously offbeat and tender comedy about one bipolar woman’s messy search for love at a seaside wedding where no one can stay afloat. Described as “My Best Friend’s Wedding” meets “The Silver Linings Playbook.” (HarperCollins Publishers)
ROBERT THOMAS ’64 and NATHAN SIDOLI
The Spherics of Theodosios is the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE). This study of one of the canonical mathematical and astronomical texts of the ancient Greco-Roman, classical Islamic, and medieval Christian worlds provides an invaluable resource for historians of science, astronomy, and mathematics, and scholars of the ancient and medieval periods. (Routledge)
R.H. THOMSON ’69 (Hon. DSL ’98)
In By the Ghost Light, Thomson offers an extraordinary look at his family’s history while providing a powerful examination of how we understand war and its aftermath. Using his family letters as a starting point, Thomson roams through a century of folly, touching on areas of military history, art, literature and science to express the tragic human cost of war behind the order and calm of ceremonial parades, memorials and monuments. In an urgent call for new ways to acknowledge the dead, Thomson has created “The World Remembers,” an ambitious international project to individually name each of the millions killed in the First World War. (Knopf Canada)
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