How can you truly belong to a place? What does being at home mean in a society that has always celebrated the search for greener pastures? And can a newcomer ever acquire the deep understanding of the land that comes from being part of a culture that has lived there for centuries?When Daniel Coleman came to Hamilton to take a position at McMaster University, he began to ask himself these kinds of questions, and Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place is his answer. In this...

In today’s world, the dream of early retirement and financial independence is more achievable than ever. Retire Early: Achieving Financial Independence is your essential guide to building a life of freedom, where work becomes optional, and your time belongs to you. This comprehensive book walks you through each step of the journey, from setting clear financial goals to implementing smart investment strategies, designing sustainable income streams, and cultivating the mindset needed to reac...

**Shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction****Winner of the Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award for Non-fiction****Winner of the Hamilton Arts Council Kerry Schooley Award**How can you truly belong to a place? What does being at home mean in a society that has always celebrated the search for greener pastures? And can a newcomer ever acquire the deep understanding of the land that comes from...

Deyohahá:ge:, “two roads or paths” in Cayuga language, evokes the Covenant Chain-Two Row Wampum, known as the “grandfather of the treaties.” Famously, this Haudenosaunee wampum agreement showed how Indigenous people and newcomers could build peace and friendship by respecting each other’s cultures, beliefs, and laws as they shared the river of life.Written by members of Six Nations and their neighbours, this book introduces readers not only to the 17th-century hist...

A girl traveling alone to a new world carrying the secrets of generations…A powerful man in steerage with other ideas for a lone traveler…A pair of Spaniards who appear just when the girl's secrets are splayed out…An unknown entity, chronicling everything onboard, including thoughts…The Passage of Falyn Sweeney is the first short story in the Falyn Sweeney Saga by award-winning author Daniel Coleman.

One girl, the scion of generations, the last of a bloodline, so alone she doesn't even have a name.Another girl, disinherited for her beliefs but clinging tightly to her hope of a new life in a new land.And a hunter, determined to end a bloodline.

In Bed with the Word addresses questions such as: When people want to pray, to worship, to marry or bury, why do they reach for a book? What is it about reading that feels like a spiritual posture? What kinds of reading go beyond being private entertainment to produce personal and social change? A work of informal literary essays on the relations between spirituality, reading, and living in the public, social world, In Bed with the Word is a timely project that calls attention to the incre...

The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars speak to the government’s diplomatic and economic about-face and its implications for representations of Canadian writing within and outside Canada’s borders. The contributors to this volume remind us of ...

The essays in this collection explore the activities of two populations of displaced peoples that are seldom discussed together: Indigenous peoples and refugees or diasporic peoples around the world. Rather than focusing on victimhood, the authors focus on the creativity and agency of displaced peoples, thereby emphasizing capacity and resilience. Throughout their chapters, they show how cultural activities—from public performance to filmmaking to community arts—recur as significant ways i...

There are hundreds of books written by women for women. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. If men are supposedly from Mars and women from Venus, why do women get the bigger planet? Women are already responsible for about 80% of all retail spending and have most of the financial and emotional control in relationships. Guys everywhere are getting SCREWED – not just a little but a lot. It is time for the shocking truth to be told! WARNING: This book is by men and FOR MEN ONLY. It entertains, educates a...

The Foreigner (1909) tells the story of Kalman Kalmar, a young Ukrainian immigrant working in rural Saskatchewan. It addresses the themes of male maturation, cultural assimilation, and a form of “muscular Christianity” recurring in Connor’s popular Western tales. Daniel Coleman’s afterword considers the text’s departure from Connor’s established fiction formulas and provides a unique framework for understanding its depiction of difference.

The first enhanced audiobook from Warsaken!Mission first. Survival second.Lieutenant Wilfred Louis, fresh-faced intelligence officer, embarks on a mission to hijack code technology from rival nation Trionvice. A successful mission could upend the global intelligence hierarchy. And while briefing details are sparse, he suspects their survival is not high on the list of mission objectives.Can Will find a way to accomplish the mission and bring his men...