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The federal public service plays a vital role in Canada's development by helping to shape public policies and deliver programs and services to Canadians. Speaking Truth to Canadians about Their Public Service provides a comprehensive review of the challenges confronting the public service, how the relationship between politicians and career officials has evolved in recent years, and what motivates public servants. Donald Savoie calls on Canadians and their politicians to consider what they want from their federal public service. Answering this question requires a fresh look at the government's traditional accountability requirements, how policies are shaped, and how government programs and services are delivered. It also requires a review of ambitious modernization and reform measures launched over the past forty years to make the public service more accommodating to political direction and to improve program delivery. Dividing federal public servants into two groups - poets (those who write policy) and plumbers (those who deliver programs and services) - the book establishes who has the upper hand. This division sheds new light on the theories that seek to explain the attitudes and behaviours of career government officials. Amid increasingly stronger signs that the public service is in need of a reset, Speaking Truth to Canadians about Their Public Service concludes with practical recommendations to assist Canadians and their politicians in defining what they want their public service to be.

Complemented by over 150 rarely seen illustrations, Needle Work moves from coast to coast and across more than one hundred years to provide a key chapter in the history of the international emergence and development of commercial tattooing.

Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic spheres in Canada. The book explores works by leading practitioners in both oral/aural and literary forms.

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents have significant social, cultural and policy meaning, and reveal aspects of precarity and inequity.

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models of thought.

Migration Governance in North America engages the complex dynamics of mobilities across the continent. Situating North America within the global migration landscape, it unpacks such issues as temporary labour mobility, border security, asylum governance, refugee resettlement, and the role of local actors in coping with changing policies and politics.

While naval operations, maritime security, and ocean governance are increasingly relevant in world politics, seapower is largely neglected by international relations scholarship. Seapower in the Post-modern World fills this gap with a comprehensive analysis of the concept and practice of seapower from antiquity to the contemporary era.

Fichte in Berlin offers a new reading of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's philosophical output during his time in Berlin from 1804 to 1806. The study focuses on the philosopher's second set of lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre from 1804, one of the most exemplary versions of Fichte's philosophical project.

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and legal regulation that enabled agents to send children away from their homes and parents, who often lost sight of them forever.

Expansive in form and voice, the poems in Julie Paul's second collection offer both love letters and laments. They take us to construction sites, meadows, waiting rooms, beaches, alleys, gardens, and frozen rivers. They ask us to live in the moment, despite the moment. At turns frank, peevish, introspective, and mischievous, Whiny Baby calls on us to examine, and exult in our brief time on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in seventeen years. Nietzsche as Stylist traces the emergence of his idiosyncratic writing style as he experimented with various rhetorical tactics. With a historical sensibility, the book highlights how Nietzsche's style evolved in the context of his life and world.

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy - certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. Bach's Architecture of Gratitude explores this profound aesthetic experience in a case study of J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and its capacity to inspire gratitude.

Grounded in the local and immediate - from Toronto's rivers and ravines to its highways and skyscrapers - John Reibetanz's Metromorphoses explores, in roughly chronological order, some of the radical changes that have taken place in the city during the course of its history.

In the 2010s Canada was a world leader in creating interactive documentaries. By the 2020s many of these celebrated i-docs were rendered inaccessible by obsolete technology. This collection examines the short-lived past and the imagined future of the i-doc and emphasizes its impact on the contemporary film and media landscape in Canada and beyond.

*Early Modern Naval Health Care in England *follows the transformation of organized health care for Royal Navy seamen from 1650 to 1750. Matthew Neufeld finds that these changes relied on the relationship between naval officials and the ordinary people of coastal areas, especially the women who typically oversaw care spaces and engaged in care work.

For Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human - a condition of life for all. Making Sense of Myth offers a series of conversations with Brisson on life, myth, and Plato.

Dreamcraft is a book that crosses distances and straddles boundaries. Moving from whistleblower law to the mimetic properties of DNA, from "the entropic spread / of the drifting cosmos / after the big bang" to "the push of lawn grass / under foot," Scott interrogates topics that have occupied his later life and writing.

Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors, displacing rural communities and disproportionately impacting women. Gender and the Global Land Grab introduces a feminist framework to analyze global land governance policy and offers tools for developing gender-sensitive resource policy.

Cultural visions of sleep circulate through such diverse forms as mattress ads, billboards, comic books, memoirs, experimental poetry, and bedtime story phone apps. Guiding us through the imaginative landscape of slumber, Restless in Sleep Country illuminates the figure of sleep as a site of inequity, struggle, and gratification.

In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday decision making - logic provides neutral ground for the healthy pursuit of common goals and interests.

Drawing on British seafaring memoirs from the late-nineteenth century, Making Men in the Age of Sail explores how sailors became nostalgic symbols of maritime prowess and heroic masculinity. The book argues that maritime writing preserved ideas of masculinity in an era when modernization was challenging assumptions about gender, class, and society.

History Has Made Us Friends illuminates the nature and dynamics of Canada-US relations, examining their history, attributed meaning, and conceptualization. Contributors consider whether shared values and demographic similarities continue to cement the relationship, and if it still matters that presidents and prime ministers get along.

The early elegiac poems in Bridestones emerge from the borderlands between life and death, loss and renewal. Drawing on dreams, opera and visual art, and employing symbolist and playfully surreal imagery, Miranda Pearson questions the ways we tend and grieve - for each other and our environment.

When COVID-19 spread across the globe, protection measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and self-quarantine were experienced as life on hold. A cultural inquiry into the moment of pausing and its social, political, and personal manifestations, The Pause captures the experience of being inside the pandemic even as that experience continues to unfold.

This book explores the unheard sonic dimensions of the city symphony. Instead of looking at the city symphony as a narrowly defined silent film genre, it turns its ear to the city symphony as an audible phenomenon, one that encompasses a multitude of works beyond the cinema and that treats the city as a sonic medium.

While scholarship on refugee migration tends to center on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in the Global South. This book shifts the focus, revealing how governments in the Global South make refugee policy, including a decade-long account of how two small states responded to the Syrian refugee crisis.

Urban Refugees and Digital Technology explores refugee communities from Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia's growing cities to build a new understanding of how technology reshapes the ways refugees contribute to social, economic, and political networks in urban areas.

In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of a farm in Cavendish, PEI, already becoming known as inspiration for Anne of Green Gables. Myrtle kept a diary, describing life on the farm as it became a major tourist attraction. Becoming Green Gables tells the story of Myrtle and her family, and the making of the most famous house in Canada.

Voting Online investigates the effects of cyber elections by looking at how adoption of online voting affects attitudes towards democracy, who uses and who benefits from the voting mode, the extent to which candidates support it, and what factors election administrators consider when deciding to adopt it. The authors provide important lessons for all interested in the health of democratic societies.

Judith Adamson's memoir reveals the questions Adamson asked as she researched her biographies of literary luminaries, and the personal challenges she faced along the way. Uncovering new information about her famous subjects, from Graham Greene to Max Reinhardt, Ghost Stories is a fascinating account of a twentieth-century career in literature.