University of Regina Press Fall 2020
University of Regina Press Fall 2020 PUBLISHER’S LETTER NEW RELEASE Dear Readers, Whether examining the Horse), the historical and ongoing CONCRETE remarkable life of Saskatchewan’s impact of human ingenuity From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future ow more than ever, it first female Lieutenant Governor (Concrete), and a consideration would seem, change (A Radiant Life), witnessing of life in the Anthropocene by Mary Soderstrom is constant. Climate the story of a residential school (A Book of Ecological Virtues) change, political change, survivor’s post-settlement path remind us all of our relationships N It’s all around us, as ubiquitous as air—concrete. Soderstrom cultural change—every day, the toward healing (Genocidal Love), with the environment that traces the history and impact of this world-changing material. news surprises, shocks, upsets, or reexamining the troubling and supports our lives. inspires us. Change is something unsolved disappearance of two that we all experience, all the Indigenous activists (Cold Case We hope you are as engaged with magine what the world would be like without concrete: there’d be time, often at breakneck speed. North), or absorbing the World these books as we are, as we, no high-rises, no grand irrigation projects, no lettuce from southern War I history of a 17-year-old like you, navigate change in our climes in the winter, no multi-lane highways crisscrossing continents, Books help us deal with that soldier (Burden), the personal worlds and on a global scale, while Ia shortage of electricity, more mud in some places, more solitude in change.
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