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  • Learning in An Uncertain World: Transforming Higher Education for the Anthropocene by Nathaniel Barr, Kylie Hartley, Joel Lopata, Brandon McFarlane, and Dr. Michael J. McNamara

    Learning in An Uncertain World: Transforming Higher Education for the Anthropocene

    Nathaniel Barr, Kylie Hartley, Joel Lopata, Brandon McFarlane, and Dr. Michael J. McNamara

    As the Fourth Industrial Revolution rapidly changes how people live, work, and connect, and as the realities of the Anthropocene and a planet irrevocably marked by human activity come to impact all aspects of existence on Earth, our species faces great uncertainty. Social, economic, and environmental challenges, primarily of our own doing, pose grave risks with no certainties as

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  • Cooking Memories: A Sheridan College Community Cookbook by Jessica Carey and Téa Smith

    Cooking Memories: A Sheridan College Community Cookbook

    Jessica Carey and Téa Smith

    With the support of an internal SRCA Growth Grant and a team of student editors and designers, Dr. Jessica Carey, professor in the faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences (FHASS), has produced Cooking Memories: A Sheridan Community Cookbook - a collection of over forty recipes and food stories contributed by staff, faculty, and students at Sheridan College. The collection

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  • Creative Humanities 2016-2021 by Brandon McFarlane

    Creative Humanities 2016-2021

    Brandon McFarlane

    In 2016, the Creative Humanities initiative at Sheridan College was founded by Dr. Brandon McFarlane with the ambition of retooling the humanities by inspiring new approaches grounded in creative inquiry and critical innovation. We imagine optimistic futures for the humanities and higher education and engage in the struggle work necessary to manifest those utopian visions in our everyday lives.

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  • Experiencing Culture by Anna Boshnakova

    Experiencing Culture

    Anna Boshnakova

    Cultural anthropology is a rich multidisciplinary subfield of anthropology. Cultural anthropologists’ study all aspect of people’s life simultaneously; they observe, describe and experience different cultures participating in their everyday activities for an extended period of time; compare and explain the similarities and differences among cultural groups around the world based on ethnographic accounts; study genetic predispositions to certain diseases,

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  • Introduction to Anthropology by Anna Boshnakova

    Introduction to Anthropology

    Anna Boshnakova

    Anthropology is a discipline with an intriguing reputation. The unforgettable George Lucas Indiana Jones movies, Dan Brown’s bestselling mystery-detective novel The Da Vinci Code or the popular TV series Bones represent different aspects of the multidisciplinary nature of anthropology and give us an idea what anthropologists do, albeit a Hollywoodized one. The smart and brave Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana”

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  • Sociology Unlocked by Sara Cumming

    Sociology Unlocked

    Sara Cumming

    This engaging new introduction presents sociological concepts in easy-to-understand, relatable, and practical terms - with just the right amount of depth. Featuring an authentic narrative writing style, real-world examples and activities, and extensive pedagogical tools, Sociology Unlocked is your students' key to understanding sociology.

  • Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020 by Paul Vermeersch

    Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020

    Paul Vermeersch

    Paul Vermeersch has reinvented the “new and selected.” Bringing together the very best of his poetry from the last quarter century with new and never-before-published works, Shared Universe is a sprawling chronicle of the dawn of civilizations, the riddles of 21st-century existence, and any number of glorious, or menacing, futures. Selected poetry collections are traditionally organized according to the

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  • The Musicality of Canadian Cinema by Michael Brendan Baker

    The Musicality of Canadian Cinema

    Michael Brendan Baker

    This chapter offers a narrative account of music in Canadian cinema that highlights the contributions of its pioneers. Case studies spanning the critically acclaimed, the curious, and the marginalized allow for an effort to flesh out the place of music, particularly popular music, in this national cinema. While the esthetics and dollars-and-cents of music in film may be similar

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  • It’s Such a Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: A Genealogy of the Music Mockumentary by Michael Brendan Baker and Peter Lester

    It’s Such a Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: A Genealogy of the Music Mockumentary

    Michael Brendan Baker and Peter Lester

    Recognized primarily for its commercial breakthrough, Rob Reiner’s This is Spinal Tap (USA, 1984), the music mockumentary genre comprises dozens of films addressing a range of musical styles and performers in comedic ways. This chapter presents a genealogy of the music mockumentary, detailing its successes, limits, and potential in the contemporary history of film and television comedy. Styled primarily

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  • COMM 19999: Essential Communication Skills by Julie Warkentin and Jonathan Filipovic

    COMM 19999: Essential Communication Skills

    Julie Warkentin and Jonathan Filipovic

    This open educational resource textbook provides Sheridan students with the foundational information and skills necessary to be successful in diploma-level programs. The book integrates customized Sheridan-centred content, including information on academic resources available on campus and customized readings that reflect the cross-disciplinary work of Sheridan programs, students, and faculty. With a focus on writing and research skills for both

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  • Intuition, reason, and creativity: An integrative dual-process perspective by Nathaniel Barr

    Intuition, reason, and creativity: An integrative dual-process perspective

    Nathaniel Barr

    Long before psychology was a science, creativity was seen in many cultures as an essentially important yet difficult to understand aspect of human experience. Throughout history, to account for the mysterious inception of novel and useful ideas, appeals have often been made to supernatural forces and divine intervention. Decades ago, as psychology first began to approach, in earnest, the

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  • Why Reason Matters: Connecting Research on Human Reason to the Challenges of the Anthropocene by Nathaniel Barr and Gordon Pennycook

    Why Reason Matters: Connecting Research on Human Reason to the Challenges of the Anthropocene

    Nathaniel Barr and Gordon Pennycook

    The capacity to reason has improved the life of human beings in innumerable ways through the innovations it has wrought and the experiences it affords. Culture, art, music, literature, science, and engineering are all products of reason that enrich our collective experience and well-being. Although these benefits are intuitively apparent, a reflective analysis reveals that the same advances that

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  • When Are Students Ready Enough? Issues and Dilemmas Around Assessment of L2 Writers in a WAC Program by Hee-Seung Kang

    When Are Students Ready Enough? Issues and Dilemmas Around Assessment of L2 Writers in a WAC Program

    Hee-Seung Kang

    This vignette chapter reflects on the complexities surrounding assessment of L2 writers in a WAC program. As Director of ESL Writing Program working with disciplinary faculty, the author observes that faculty members’ expectations for L2 writers vary, and as a result, faculty assessment practices differ. Some faculty were uncertain how to respond and accurately evaluate L2 writers’ writing while

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  • Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy by Paul Vermeersch

    Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy

    Paul Vermeersch

    It is the Third Millennium. The 20th century is a memory. Humans no longer walk on the moon. Passenger planes no longer fly at supersonic speeds. Disinformation overwhelms the legitimate news. The signs of our civilization’s demise are all around us, but hope is not lost. In these poems, you will find a map through our dystopia and protection

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  • The Sheridan Notebook by Brandon McFarlane, Kristine Villeneuve, and Devin Murray

    The Sheridan Notebook

    Brandon McFarlane, Kristine Villeneuve, and Devin Murray

    The Sheridan Notebook is an integral component to a series of studies that seek to better understand (1) the impact of adult colouring on creativity and mindfulness, and (2) the educational potential of adult colouring. A growing volume of research suggests there is a noteworthy connection between mindfulness and creativity: mindful individuals through presence, openness, acceptance, and self-inquiry are

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  • Martin Scorsese and the Music Documentary by Michael Brendan Baker

    Martin Scorsese and the Music Documentary

    Michael Brendan Baker

    A Companion to Martin Scorsese comprises original essays by prominent scholars on the career of filmmaker Martin Scorsese. The essays examine Scorsese's work within the history of American and world cinema, his work in relation to auteur theory, and his use of popular music, as well as examining Scorsese's use of themes such as violence, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender, and race.

  • Don't Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something by Paul Vermeersch

    Don't Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something

    Paul Vermeersch

    Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something — Paul Vermeersch’s fifth collection of poetry — is, as its title suggests, a lyrical meditation on written language and the end of civilization. It combines centos, glosas, erasures, text collage, and other forms to imagine a post-apocalyptic literature built, or rebuilt, from the rubble of the texts that came before.

  • Jainism by Mikal Austin Radford

    Jainism

    Mikal Austin Radford

    World Religions: Canadian Perspectives--Eastern Traditions provides students with a solid introduction to the study of world religions and highlights how Canadians have both experienced and shaped these religions. This text covers areas traditionally considered to be foundational, while also including material to address contemporary concerns. By addressing both the historical and the current impacts of religion, students come to

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  • Christian Knudsen contributed the essay, "Promiscuous Monks and Naughty Nuns: Poverty, Sex and Apostasy in Later Medieval England," in Poverty and Prosperity: The Rich and the Poor in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Christian Knudsen

    Christian Knudsen contributed the essay, "Promiscuous Monks and Naughty Nuns: Poverty, Sex and Apostasy in Later Medieval England," in Poverty and Prosperity: The Rich and the Poor in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

    Christian Knudsen

  • Religion as Meaning and the Canadian Context by Mikal Austin Radford

    Religion as Meaning and the Canadian Context

    Mikal Austin Radford

    Written for Canadians, by Canadians, Our Society provides students with an up-to-date analysis of the major diversities that characterize Canadian society. The contributors use several paradigms to frame their discussion, including inequality, sexuality, regionalism, family, disability, the media, race, class and gender, to challenge students to think critically about the world around them.

  • Who’s on the Home Front? Canadian Masculinity in the NFB’s Second World War Series “Canada Carries On” by Michael Brendan Baker

    Who’s on the Home Front? Canadian Masculinity in the NFB’s Second World War Series “Canada Carries On”

    Michael Brendan Baker

    A study of the National Film Board of Canada's World War II film series in terms of its demonstration of assumed cultural values regarding identity, agency, and "manliness" in the context of the NFB's wartime nation-building project.

  • Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada by Michael Brendan Baker, Thomas Waugh, and Ezra Winton

    Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada

    Michael Brendan Baker, Thomas Waugh, and Ezra Winton

    Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada examines the ambitious initiative "Challenge for Change/Société nouvelle" that brought together the unlikely partners of government bureaucrats, documentary filmmakers, community activists, and "ordinary" citizens. Launched in 1967 by the National Film Board of Canada and several government agencies with the primary goal of addressing poverty in Canada

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  • The Reinvention of the Human Hand by Paul Vermeersch

    The Reinvention of the Human Hand

    Paul Vermeersch

    Paul Vermeersch’s new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body’s experience, of a primal being that struggles to assert itself, or

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  • Between the Walls by Paul Vermeersch

    Between the Walls

    Paul Vermeersch

    Paul Vermeersch examines the forces that divide us and isolate us as individuals in both the natural and man-made worlds, at the moments when those worlds intersect, and in the places where we live and work. During a violent row between teenage boys, a starling explodes like a hand grenade. A clutter of inbred cats plays out the rise

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  • (Re) Creating Transnational Religious Identity Within the Jaina Community of Toronto by Mikal Austin Radford

    (Re) Creating Transnational Religious Identity Within the Jaina Community of Toronto

    Mikal Austin Radford

    This volume deals with a phenomenon of increasing global significance, the South Asian diaspora. In particular it deals with the role of religion. The diversity of religious life in South Asia is remarkable and much of this diversity is replicated in the diaspora communities around the world. The case studies in this book explore and analyse the social, religious

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