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A banner image announcing the finalists for the 2025 Walter Owen Book Prize. Two book covers appear on the left side. Cover: Judging Sex Work: Bedford and the Attenuation of Rights, by Colton Fehr. Photo: a red umbrella, the open crown viewed from above. Cover: A Culture of Justification: Vavilov and the Future of Administrative Law, by Paul Daly. Illustration: light blue scribbles concentrated at the top left of the cover, on a dark blue background.

Hooray! Two books from the Landmark Cases in Canadian Law series are finalists for the Walter Owen Book Prize, awarded by the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research. 🎉

Congratulations to Colton Fehr ("Judging Sex Work") and Paul Daly ("A Culture of Justification").

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Have you ever wondered about the effects of youth consumer culture today?

Using rich visuals, historian Katharine Rollwagen unpacks how department stores like Eaton’s didn’t just sell to teens—they helped reshape what it meant to be a young Canadian.

Out now from @ubcpress.bsky.social!

YouTube video by Words Festival Trading on Art: Sarah E.K. Smith, Judith Rodger, and Ruth Skinner

Want to know more about how culture relates to the current trade war and Canada-US relations? Check out the recording of the Words Festival event last week celebrating my new book 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵 (@ubcpress.bsky.social). Featuring talks by Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner and myself.

Cover: Feathered Entanglements: Human-Bird Relations in the Anthropocene, edited by Scott E. Simon and Frédéric Laugrand. Illustration: a long-legged bird, standing upright in a human-like pose, with one foot extended as if doing ballet. Its body is a collage of maps. Beside the cover, it reads, "New in Paperback"

"Feathered Entanglements" investigates human-bird relations across the Indo-Pacific and shows what birds can teach us about how to live with other species in the Anthropocene. 🐦 bit.ly/3GWGyCR

Cover: Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, by Peter Clancy and Mario Levesque. Photo: a view overlooking a rural coastline of forest and bucolic land dotted with houses. A band of white clouds divides the ocean from a big blue sky. Beside the cover, it reads: "Now Available" with the UBC Press logo in the bottom right corner.

Available in paperback and free PDF, "Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence" provides guidance for enhancing the management of a vast and complex marine system. bit.ly/4nWFK1j

Dive into BC’s Wonderful Water World with These 10 Books Dive deep into our province's waters through apocalyptic comedies, climate calls to action, and stories from rivers and the people who live off them.

Dive Into Bc’s Wonderful Water World With These 10 Books

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Cover: After Ice: Cold Humanities for a Warming Planet, edited by Rafico Ruiz, Paula Schönach, and Rob Shields. Illustration: an abstract piece of art in shades of blue and white, evoking a river running through an iceberg. Beside the cover, it reads, "New in Paperback."

Can reading about the cold cool us down? Probably not, but we're willing to try. 🥵

"After Ice" asks us to consider how we define the experience of cold – its temporal, spatial, and material qualities – as cycles of freezing and thawing change across our warming planet. 🧊 bit.ly/40ij5CE

RLBC Staff Picks: eBook Edition!

Check out these titles as ebooks anytime, anywhere, with the RLBC eBookshelf on Libby! These are the books we're most excited to check out 🤓

Find out more about RLBC eBookshelf: www.readlocalbc.ca/ebookshelf/

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Canadian publishers condemn Alberta Government’s school library book bans - Association of Canadian Publishers

ACP condemns Alberta’s recent banning of "sexually explicit" books in school libraries, which disproportionately targets 2SLGBTQIA+ titles under the pretense of age-appropriateness. All students deserve to see themselves reflected in the stories they read. publishers.ca/alberta-scho...

Cover: The Debt of a Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820–73, by Angela C. Tozer. Photo: The title, in red, is superimposed over a background of scuffed linen-textured paper. At the bottom, the remains of tape are visible. The final N of Nation appears to drip, evoking blood. Beside the cover, it reads: "Now Available."

Available in paperback and open access PDF, "The Debt of a Nation" reveals not only the intimate relationship between public debt financing and colonization but also its continuing implications for contemporary Canadian politics. bit.ly/4ey4h8V #cdnpoli

Cover: The Lights on the Tipple are Going Out: Fighting Economic Ruin in a Canadian Coalfield Community, by Tom Langford. Photo: a group of five miners wearing helmets with wired headlamps. Their faces are dirty, as if they have just left the mineshaft. Beside the cover, it reads: "New in Paperback" with the UBC Press logo in the bottom right corner.

"The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out" documents the tumultuous struggle of one coal-mining region to stave off economic ruin in the face of changing times and technologies. bit.ly/4k0bMGH

A table in a conference centre. The table features books and brochures. Two blue banners with the UBC Press logo hang from the front of the table.

If you haven't had a chance to visit us at #NAISA2025, we're here until 6:00 PM today and back again tomorrow! We'd love to share our books with you and discuss your latest project.

About the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference: www.naisaconvention.org

Stylized graphic of a black tree with red berries and black roots, forming a symmetrical design with the trunk in the center. Behind the tree is a pale circle. The text reads: “OKLA HOMMA” on the left and "NAISA 2025, OKLAHOMA CITY” on the right. The background is a light beige color.

This week, we are at NAISA in Oklahoma City. Stop by our booth to browse our latest Indigenous Studies books! We’re here today, tomorrow, and Saturday: 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

Check out our Indigenous Studies catalogue: www.ubcpress.ca/indigenous-s...

ACP is very excited to be displaying our members' books at the #NAISA2025 Conference this year! Our table features some of the leading Indigenous literature by Indigenous and Canadian independent presses. 📚 A special thank you to @ubcpress.bsky.social for volunteering to staff the table!

Cover: Transforming the Prairies: Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada, by Shannon Stunden Bower. Photo collage: on the top half of the cover is a photo of a cloudy sky. On the bottom half is an aerial shot of prairie farmland. Beside the photo, text reads: "Congratulations. Shortlisted, 2024 Margaret McWilliams Award, Manitoba Historical Society."

Congratulations to Shannon Stunden Bower! "Transforming the Prairies: Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada" has been shortlisted for the Margaret McWilliams Award, awarded by the Manitoba Historical Society.

Congratulations and good luck to all the finalists and their publishers! 🎉

Cover: The Lights on the Tipple are Going Out: Fighting Economic Ruin in a Canadian Coalfield Community, by Tom Langford. Photo: a group of five miners wearing helmets with wired headlamps. Their faces are dirty, as if they have just left the mineshaft. Beside the cover, it reads "New in Paperback."

"The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out" by Thomas Langford documents the tumultuous struggle of one coal-mining region to stave off economic ruin in the face of changing times and technologies. bit.ly/4k0bMGH

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"Shifting Gears" won the 2025 Leo Panitch Book Prize, celebrating the best book in Canadian work and labour studies. Thank you to the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies for honouring this book! 🎉

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Check your inboxes! We're celebrating the final days of spring with our latest newsletter. 🌻🌷

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Review of Langford, The Lights on the Tipple are Going Out In Langford’s telling, Robert Lilley ultimately serves as a martyr of a well-fought battle against capitalist destruction and environmental ruin.

Today on our site Sarah Perry reviews Thomas Langford's The Lights on the Tipple are Going Out: Fighting Economic Ruin in a Canadian Coalfield Community (@ubcpress.bsky.social 2025)

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Cover: Times of Transformation: The 1921 Canadian General Election, by Barbara J. Messamore. Illustration: a sheaf of wheat. Beside the cover, white text reads "new in paperback"

Uniquely focused on Canada’s 1921 federal election, "Times of Transformation" recounts the many firsts that made this a watershed event and situates these within the global zeitgeist of post–Great War disillusionment and hope. bit.ly/3SJGEA9

Cover: Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics, by Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage. Illustration: tire tracks on a gritty road. Beside the cover, text reads, "New in Paperback"

"Shifting Gears" tells the story of how Canada’s largest private-sector union shifted its political strategy from an emphasis on transformative activism to transactional partnerships. bit.ly/43YFIx2

Book clubs are one of the best ways to celebrate books and share in the love of reading with other book lovers. These amazing BC books will make for enriching conversations that will spark new ideas.

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Book cover for Ancillary Police Powers in Canada is white and yellow text on a teal blue background. Beside the cover, it reads "New in Paperback" in white block text.

"Ancillary Police Powers in Canada" investigates the scope of police powers under Canadian common law, and the implications for our rights, freedoms, and individual liberty. bit.ly/4kywfmS

A woman in a black hoodie wearing a black skirt with a white floral pattern, standing under an archway with various artificial flowers holding a book titled "The Debt of a Nation." Behind her is a display with a variety of out of focus books.

The ACSC Interim Director @agentlazero.bsky.social under the @ubcpress.bsky.social floral archway at #congressh 2025 with her just released book The Debt of A Nation— in it you'll find a chapter about Epekwitk (PEI) and land theft via globalizing financial markets

A group of six people standing in front of a floral archway, all holding a book titled "The Civil Sphere in Canada"

A woman in a light blue dress holds a small red bucket while a man in a blue suit jacket reads a slip of paper.

Today is the last day of the #Congressh expo and our booth is the place to be! Here are some scenes from earlier in the week:

Contributors to "The Civil Sphere in Canada" meet under the civil arch in the UBC Press booth.

Laraine Coates and Douglas Hildebrand select the winner of our patio set!

Graphic is a pink to yellow gradient with "Browse our books" in handwritten font in the top right. Graphic shows six rectangles with subjects from Anthropology to Sociology.

Unable to attend #Congressh in person? Browse our latest books in our curated subject catalogues! 📚 bit.ly/43uaTQu

8 Local Titles that Explore the Globe - Read Local BC BC-published books that will take you on unforgettable journeys around the world.Go to full post ...read more

Explore the world with these BC books!

Dive into these valuable stories that reflect the global curiosity and experiences of their authors, and the diverse nature of BC's literary world.

Browse the booklist: buff.ly/rX3Y0Cv

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A Cold Colonialism A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...

Delighted to announce that yesterday was publication day for *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North* 🥳

It feels great to have it out there. I look forward to hearing from readers 😃

Available from @ubcpress.bsky.social: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...

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A conference booth adorned with paper flowers. Two excited editors choose a book draw winner. Nadine, a woman in a bright pink top, is holding a white pail while a man in a grey suit jacket holds a piece of paper and smiles widely.

A conference booth with two people sitting on orange chairs around a green table. One, a woman in a pink sweater, holds a copy of a book toward the camera.

Some Scenes from #Congressh!

Editors Randy Schmidt and Nadine Pedersen selecting the the latest book draw winner!

Editor James MacNevin with author Linda Ambrose ("Pentecostal Preacher Woman").

Thank you to the visitors to our booth so far! Check our website for booth hours: bit.ly/4kfJvgo