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Title: Flying wounded
Author(s): Susan McCaslin (author)
Date: 2000
Abstract: "Flying Wounded", Susan McCaslin's seventh book of poetry, is a daring exploration of the disturbance wreaked on a daughter by her mother's ill-treated, then untreated, mental illness and of the daughter's almost miraculous transformation. The first half of the book charts the decline of the mother, "a boisterous southern woman of voluminous laughter" who finds herself "incarcerated in an inquisitional tower." The tower is both the asylum (a university hospital) and, later, her own phobic existence as a "mall bag lady."
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Subject(s): Mothers and daughters--Poetry, Children of mentally ill mothers--Poetry, Adult children of dysfunctional families--Poetry, Canadian poetry (English)--21st century, Canadian poetry (English)--Women authors, Canadian poetry--21st century, Canadian poetry--Women authors
Department: Creative Writing, Humanities and Social Sciences

Title: Common longing: the Teresa poems and a canticle for Mary and Martha
Author(s): Susan McCaslin (author)
Date: 2001
Abstract: These poems string from a tradition of mystical contemplation, asking such questions as: How can one sustain an interior life in the midst of a material culture? How can a person bring the fruits of that interior awakening back into the world? The book moves freely between the unified polarities of contemplation and action, utilizing both free verse and metrical experimentation.
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Subject(s): Contemplation--Poetry, Canadian poetry (English)--21st century, Canadian poetry (English)--Women authors, Canadian poetry--21st century, Canadian poetry--Women authors
Department: Creative Writing, Humanities and Social Sciences

Title

At the mercy seat

Author(s)

Susan McCaslin (author)

Date

2003

Abstract

"At the Mercy Seat" explores the relentlessness of mercy as it permeates the natural world and also our relationships, opening them to mystery. Whether the poems reclaim biblical stories or the voices of McCaslin’s poetic progenitors, they are compelling and finely nuanced events leading to a contemplative being-in-the-world, in which spirit and matter, the sacred and profane, the delicate and the disturbing develop as a unified field.

This is a book about thresholds: the meeting places of silence and language, suburbia and coastal wilderness, the seemingly disparate worlds of parent and child, husband and wife. The poems remind the reader that magical transformations can occur at places both “here” and “there,” that we are all to some extent “threshold dwellers,” that divine mercy still breaks into the middle of our most ordinary lives — with a sudden rupturing of the fabric, the “jagged edge of raw blue silk torn from its skein.”

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Subject(s)

Canadian poetry (English)--21st century, Canadian poetry (English)--Women authors, Canadian poetry--21st century, Canadian poetry--Women authors

Department

Creative Writing, Humanities and Social Sciences

Title

A plot of light

Author(s)

Susan McCaslin (author)

Date

2004

Abstract

Susan McCaslin’s "A Plot of Light" charts a contemplative journey in which the world of visionary dreaming lies along a continuum with the everyday life of the mystic, baffled and blessed by moments of connection with a larger, more comprehensive mind, wooing us with her poems into the world of the invisible.

The poems form a quaternary, beginning with a series of visionary dreams, then exploring the dreamer as pilgrim treading the sites of poet-contemplative Thomas Merton’s birthplace in Southern France. The poems integrate moments of transcendence into the sharper light of the everyday, and the volume ends with an elegiac sequence about the decline and death of the poet’s father, in which the world of the dead is inseparable from the world of the living. These poems embody the longing for the birth of a new self.

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Subject(s)

Canadian poetry (English)--21st century, Canadian poetry (English)--Women authors, Canadian poetry--21st century, Canadian poetry--Women authors

Department

Creative Writing, Humanities and Social Sciences

Title

Arousing the spirit: provocative writings

Author(s)

Susan McCaslin (author)

Date

2011

Abstract

These writings by author-poet Susan McCaslin offer fresh and alternative ways of seeing and understanding our relationship with the Spirit. Christian-based, the 14 pieces that make up this collection (on topics such as perfectionism, paradise, the Beatitudes, Revelation, and presence) range beyond the compass of traditional Christianity to reveal universal wisdom and meaning.

Written in beautifully nuanced language that articulates her clear thinking and captures her poet heart, the book reflects the central passions of McCaslin’s life: “mysticism (or the direct experience of the sacred) and its place in everyday life; peacemaking and justice;…the relation of spirituality and sexuality; and the significance of Jesus of Nazareth once divested of outworn theology and his sappy Hollywood persona.” McCaslin believes that actions speak louder than words or beliefs, and her pieces encourage us to explore ways to live life as a “mystical dance.”

Each chapter is prefaced by one of McCaslin’s exquisite poems, leading the reader into a place of quiet contemplation from which to explore the writing.

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Subject(s)

Spiritual life, Mysticism--Christianity, Meditations

Department

Creative Writing, Humanities and Social Sciences

Title: Lifting the stone
Author(s): Susan McCaslin (author)
Date: 2007
Abstract: "Lifting the Stone" is the finest collection yet by an award-winning poet with a growing reputation for writing with passionate candor and exquisite finesse on matters of faith and spirituality in the tradition of Herbert, Hopkins, and Avison. A series of courageously forthright treatments of the problematics of 21st Century belief is complemented by a set of affectionately witty accounts of family, students and mentors, electronic technology, and a veritable bestiary of creatures; and the book concludes with a luminous meditation on water "in her myriad transformations."
From publisher description
Subject(s): Faith--Poetry, Spirituality--Poetry, Canadian poetry (English)--21st century, Canadian poetry (English)--Women authors, Canadian poetry--21st century, Canadian poetry--Women authors
Department: Creative Writing, Humanities and Social Sciences

Title

Demeter goes skydiving

Author(s)

Susan McCaslin (author)

Date

2011

Abstract

A part of the "cuRRents" Canadian literature series.

What if Demeter, the timeless fertility goddess of ancient Greek myth, slipped through a crack into the twenty-first century, shook off her ankle bracelets, corn tassels, and garlands, and began a tour of our improbable culture? Award-winning poet Susan McCaslin exercises the profound mother-daughter trauma forged in the Demeter-Persephone myth with unapologetic modernity. This sequence takes on a novel life all its own: Hades steals away the maiden into a cult/culture of distorted body image, addiction, high anxiety, and rampant consumerism. Mother Demeter must negotiate this alien world of health clubs, paparazzi, and so-called reality shows locked in spiritual winter. McCaslin's lyrics are by turns profound, hilarious, and devastating as she journeys to the heart of a mother's love for her daughter. Here is poetry that seeks ties to the past inside the present, poetry that speaks to us all.

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Subject(s)

Demeter--(Greek deity)--Poetry, Canadian poetry (English)--21st century, Canadian poetry (English)--Women authors, Canadian poetry--21st century, Canadian poetry--Women authors

Department

Creative Writing, Humanities and Social Sciences

Title

The reason for time

Author(s)

Mary Burns (author)

Date

2016

Abstract

"Whole minutes passed when I didn’t think of my man and the swimming lesson set up for the next day, if no one was murdered before then, or the cars stopped, or a bomb go off somewhere…"

On a hot, humid Monday afternoon in July 1919, Maeve Curragh watches as a blimp plunges from the sky and smashes into a downtown Chicago bank building. It is the first of ten extraordinary days in Chicago history that will forever change the course of her life. Racial tensions mount as soldiers return from the battlefields of Europe and the Great Migration brings new faces to the city, culminating in violent race riots. Each day the young Irish immigrant, a catalogue order clerk for the Chicago Magic Company, devours the news of a metropolis where cultural pressures are every bit as febrile as the weather. But her interest in the headlines wanes when she catches the eye of a charming streetcar conductor. Maeve’s singular voice captures the spirit of a young woman living through one of Chicago’s most turbulent periods. Seamlessly blending fact with fiction, Mary Burns weaves an evocative tale of how an ordinary life can become inextricably linked with history.

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Subject(s)

Irish Americans--Chicago--Fiction, Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century--Fiction, Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--History--20th century--Fiction, Nineteen tens--Fiction, Chicago Race Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1919--Fiction, Nineteen tens--Fiction, United States--History--1919-1933--Fiction

Department

Creative Writing, Humanities and Social Sciences

Title: Intermediate accounting. Volume 2
Author(s): Kin Lo (author), George Fisher (author)
Abstract: Current Liabilities and Contingencies -- Non-current Financial Liabilities -- Equities -- Complex Financial Instruments -- Earnings per Share -- Pensions and Other Employee Future Benefits -- Accounting for Leases -- Accounting for Income Taxes -- Accounting Changes -- Statement of Cash Flows. From publisher content.
Subject(s): Accounting, Accounting--Canada, Income tax, Liabilities (Accounting), Employee benefits, Old age pensions, Leases
Department: Accounting, Commerce and Business Administration

Title: Road rashers: A smuggler's tale
Author(s): David A. Brown (author)
Date: 2017
Abstract: Published work by a Douglas College Student Alumni. In the latter half of the 21st century, global climate change has made the southern half of North America arid and uninhabitable. The Incorporated States of America wages a brutal war against their northern neighbors, the Confederation of Canada in a bid to secure usable farm land. In the midst of this vicious border war, one ruthless smuggler attempts the most daring border crossing of all. From publisher description.
Subject(s): Climatic changes--Social aspects--North America, Global warming--Social aspects--North America, Environmental degradation--Social aspects--North America, Smugglers--United States, Border crossing, Canada--Foreign relations--United States, United States--Foreign relations--Canada, United States--Social conditions--21st century, Canada--Social conditions--21st century, Canadian fiction (English)

Title: The microfinance mirage: The politics of poverty, social capital and women's empowerment in Ethiopia
Author(s): Esayas B. Geleta (author)
Date: 2016
Abstract: Microfinance has long been considered a development strategy that can correct the failure of the global credit market and address the financial needs of the poor enabling them to create and run profitable business enterprises. The Microfinance Mirage argues that this neo–liberal oriented analysis overemphasises the economic argument whilst ignoring the cultural roots of inequality and subordination. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted among rural credit clients in the Northern region of Ethiopia, Esayas Bekele Geleta provides a nuanced critical analysis of microfinance challenging the common assumption that it facilitates the building of social capital, poverty reduction and the empowerment of women. Making a unique contribution to our further understanding of the microfinance industry the research shows that, in some cases, microfinance can result in the disintegration of pre–existing relationships and in the disruption and destruction of the livelihoods of the poor. Exploring the impact of microfinance in one of the poorest regions of sub–Saharan Africa, this book demonstrates its potential and problems and shows the complex and contradictory social and cultural environments in which projects are often located.
Department: Sociology

Title: Intermediate accounting. Volume 1
Author(s): Kin Lo (author), George Fisher (author)
Abstract: Fundamentals of Financial Accounting Theory -- Conceptual Frameworks for Financial Reporting -- Accrual Accounting -- Revenue Recognition -- Cash and Receivables -- Inventories -- Financial Assets -- Property, Plant, and Equipment -- Intangible Assets, Goodwill, Mineral Resources, and Government Grants -- Applications of Fair Value to Non-Current Assets. From publisher content.
Subject(s): Revenue, Accounting, Accounting--Canada, Financial statements
Department: Accounting, Commerce and Business Administration

Title: Experience research social change: methods beyond the mainstream
Author(s): Sandra Kirby (author), Lorraine Greaves (author), Colleen Reid (author)
Date: 2006
Abstract: Experience Research Social Change: Methods Beyond the Mainstream discusses the issues emerging within contemporary social science research. Based on their extensive applied research experience, the authors build the important theoretical framing and methodological (practical and analytical) steps, enabling those new to social science approaches to undertake social research oriented toward social change. Experience Research Social Change also captures the emerging issues and debates, particularly those concerning research ethics, working in research teams, and doing interdisciplinary and collaborative work. This new edition is an essential book for a whole new generation of students, researchers, and lecturers within the social sciences.
Subject(s): Social sciences--Research--Methodology, Research--Moral and ethical aspects, Research teams
Department: Therapeutic Recreation

Title: Sodom road exit
Author(s): Amber Dawn (author)
Date: 2018
Abstract: It's the summer of 1990, and Crystal Beach in Ontario has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving the lakeside village a virtual ghost town. It is back to this fallen community that Bailey Enrica Martin must return to live with her overbearing mother after dropping out of university and racking up significant debt. But an economic downturn, mother-daughter drama, and Generation X disillusionment soon prove to be the least of Bailey's troubles: a mysterious and salacious force begins to dog her; inexplicable sounds in the night and unimaginable sites spotted in the periphery. Soon enough, Bailey must confront the unresolved traumas that haunt Crystal Beach. Sodom Road Exit might read like a conventional paranormal thriller, except that Bailey is far from a conventional protagonist. Where others might feel fear, Bailey feels lust and queer desire. When others might run, Bailey draws the horror nearer. And in turn, she draws a host of capricious characters toward her-all of them challenged to seek answers beyond their own temporal realities. From publisher description.
Subject(s): Parapsychology--Ontario, Mothers and daughters, Ghost towns, Dropouts, Ontario, Canadian fiction--21st century, Paranormal fiction
Department: Creative Writing, Language, Literature and Performing Arts

Title: Leviathan - Dies irae
Author(s): Jon-Paul Henry (author)
Date: 2019
Abstract: In a relatively energy-poor future, Earth’s engineers have built an orbital Station that captures sunlight and transforms it into petawatts of microwave power, which is then beamed down to the planet and transformed into electrical energy. To lower costs, the Station has been designed to be autonomous, maintained and repaired by an army of robots, and needing no assistance from humans. When the Station slides off-beam, its enormous power makes it a potential threat, a potential that is quickly actualized. Chief operating engineer Graciella Ch’Ou, Chinese-American daughter of the man who built the Station, Major-General Ethain Rigsby, is the only person with the knowledge and skills to fix the problem. But to do so, she must battle not only her own father, but as well a US Army space combat mission, tasked to destroy the Station, a group of mercenaries determined to capture the facility for their own purposes, and the Station itself, which has a built-in means of defense--the horde or robots, which sustain it. Graciella’s chief enemy, however, is space itself, a hostile and unforgiving environment where the slightest mistake spells death. Racing against time and implacable enemies, Graciella must shut down the Station before it triggers a die ira--a day of wrath from heaven--an apocalypse which will destroy the Earth. Provided by publisher.
Subject(s): Space stations, Satellite solar power stations, Autonomous robots, Space warfare, Women engineers, Science fiction
Department: English, Language, Literature and Performing Arts

Title: Canadian policing
Author(s): Colin S. Campbell (author), John Cater (author), Nahanni Pollard (author)
Date: 2017
Abstract: "Canadian Policing is a current and comprehensive introduction to the realities of police work in the twenty-first century. The book helps students gain a balanced, real-world, and practical perspective on policing in Canada today by providing engaging coverage of policing history in Canada, the current structure and operation of policing across the country, and contemporary issues facing police departments and policymakers-including crime analysis, crime prevention, performance measurement, police and the media, a diverse society, and policing post-9/11. The impressive author team with experience from the field, research, and teaching, work together to examine the most up-to-date research and theories of policing as well as on-the-ground implementation to give students a well-rounded, realistic understanding of the job. Exciting and relevant examples, controversial topics, "Challenge Your Assumptions" and "Case Study" boxes, as well as end-of-chapter critical thinking questions, all encourage students to engage with the material as they learn about the challenges and successes in Canadian policing. Canadian Policing is the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and relevant representation of policing fundamentals and what is happening in the industry for students." (From publisher description)
Subject(s): Police--Canada, Police--Canada--History, Police--Canada--Case studies
Department: Criminology, Humanities and Social Sciences

Title: Douglas College Human Anatomy & Physiology II
Author(s): Jennifer Barker (author), Jessie Clasen (author), Reyniel Cruz-Aguado (author), Casper De Villiers (author), Luis R. Gonzalez-Torres (author), Leon J. Guppy (author), Todd Harper (author), Sarwat Jamil (author), Shamsa Jessa (author), Weissy Lee (author), Elinor Matheson (author), Rosemary Oh-McGinnis (author), Maxence Salomon (author), Lynette Sigola-Baretto (author), Mike Silvergieter (author), Liza Sutton (author), Ryan Viveiros (author), Shelley Weisser (author), Cheryl Tautorus (author)
Date: 2019
Abstract: This textbook is a project under development by our Biology faculty to ultimately provide students with all the factual information they need to succeed in the BIOL 1203 and BIOL 1209 courses at Douglas College in BC, Canada. It was developed initially as an adaptation of the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology textbook, freely available online at http://cnx.org/content/col11496/latest/. The original adaptations of that OpenStax textbook for Douglas College are accessible online at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol11031109/ and https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/dcbiol12031209/ In the first edition of the Douglas College adaptations the chapter and section numbers were left as they were in the version of the OpenStax A&P textbook, from which they were largely drawn. However, this second edition has been more extensively edited and rearranged to correspond with the curriculum used at Douglas College, so chapter and section numbers are no longer aligned specifically with the OpenStax A&P textbook.
Department: Biology

Title: Bluesprint: Black British Columbian literature and orature
Author(s): Wayde Compton (editor)
Date: 2002
Abstract: In the spring and summer of 1858, 600 blacks moved from San Francisco to the colonies that would eventually become British Columbia. The move was in part initiated by an invitation penned by the governor of the British colonies, James Douglas, who is commonly believed to have had African ancestry, a rumour he neither confirmed nor denied. His appearance was such that he could "pass" for white. By 1871, after swelling to over 1,000, the Black population in BC had dwindled to fewer than 500. But in the late 19th century, and on into the twentieth, Blacks continued to come to BC From the time of the first arrivals, the population and history of BC's Black community has been always in flux. If there is a unifying characteristic of black identity in BC, it is surely the talent for reinvention and for pioneering new versions of traditional identities that such conditions demand. And in all this time, BC's Black citizens created poems and stories and lyrics. Some were written, others spoken. "Bluesprint" is a groundbreaking, first-time collection of this creative output, and includes the work of such individuals as: Rebecca Gibbs, Nora Hendrix (grandmother to Jimi), Austin Phillips, Rosemary Brown, Yvonne Brown, Hope Anderson, Lorena Gale, Mercedes Baines, David Nandi Odhiambo, and many others dealing with issues surrounding race, community, gender, and genre. From the literal writings of James Douglas, a figure whose "Blackness" can only be construed from rumour and speculation, through to the contemporary hip hop lyrics of Rascalz, and including the work of poets, journalists, letter writers, biographers, fiction writers, and speech givers, "Bluesprint" is a comprehensive anthology of literature and orature by black British Columbians.
Subject(s): Black Canadians--British Columbia, Blacks--British Columbia, Canadian literature (English)--Black Canadian authors, Canadian literature (English)--British Columbia, Canadian literature (English)--20th century, Canadian literature--Black authors, Canadian literature--British Columbia, Canadian literature--20th century
Department: Creative Writing, Language, Literature and Performing Arts

Title

Fist of the spider woman: tales of fear and queer desire

Author(s)

Amber Dawn (editor)

Date

2009

Abstract

Short-listed, Lambda Literary Award 2010

Traditional horror has often portrayed female characters in direct relation to their sexual role according to men, such as the lascivious victim or innocent heroine; even vampy, powerful female villains, such as the classic noir "spider women," use their sexual prowess to seduce and overwhelm married men. "Fist of the Spider Woman" is a revelatory anthology of horror stories by queer and transgressive women and others that disrupts reality as queer women know it, instilling both fear and arousal while turning traditional horror iconography on its head. In this collection, horror (including gothic, noir, and speculative writing) is defined as that which both titillates and terrorizes, forcing readers to confront who they are. Kristyn Dunnion's "Homeland" reveals the horrors that lurk in your average night at a lesbian bar; Elizabeth Bachinsky's "Postulation on the Violent Works of the Marquis de Sade" is a response to Sade from a feminist (yet kinky) perspective; and Amber Dawn's "Here Lies the Last Lesbian Rental" is a paranormal fantasia about urban gentrification, set in a house rented by lesbians on the eve that it is sold to new owners. Subversive, witty, sexy--and scary --"Fist of the Spider Woman" poses two questions: "What do queer women fear the most?" and "What do queer women desire the most?" Amber Dawn is a writer, performance artist, and radical sex/gender activist who co-edited "With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn".

From publisher description.

Subject(s)

Horror tales, Canadian (English)--21st century, Erotic stories, Canadian (English)--21st century, Short stories, Canadian (English)--21st century, Canadian fiction (English)--21st century, Canadian fiction (English)--Women authors, Horror tales, Canadian--21st century, Erotic stories, Canadian--21st century, Short stories, Canadian--21st century, Canadian fiction--21st century, Canadian fiction--Women authors

Department

Creative Writing, Language, Literature and Performing Arts

Title: Sputnik diner
Author(s): Rick Maddocks (author)
Date: 2002
Abstract: From an award-winning writer reminiscent of Richard Russo and Russell Banks: get ready for a heady and heartbreaking stay in Nanticoke, home of the Sputnik Diner. Travelling on Highway 3, along the upper lip of Lake Erie and through a moustache of tobacco fields and sky, we arrive in Nanticoke, Ontario. At the heart of the town is the Sputnik Diner, a smoky grill where the jukebox whirs out an ever-changing soundtrack. Navigating their way through the lies and sexual betrayals are Grace, waitress and self-defeating artist; Buzz, who offers the cook's eye view of the eccentric patrons and staff; and Marcel, the gruff French-Canadian owner who doles out hilarious malapropisms and his own peculiar brand of hospitality. In muscular prose, Maddocks traces the lives of flawed, gutsy, and utterly loveable characters: an immigrant family from Wales, struggling to find their place in the ragged, darkly absurd world of tobacco-belt Ontario; two young brothers who steal the family car and try to come to grips with their father's cancer out on the dinosaur mini-putt course in the pouring rain; and Grace, who seeks out her birth parents only to confront the dizzying epiphanies of that momentous discovery. There are others too, whose stalled dreams, gritty hopes and humour spark through the Sputnik Diner universe.
From publisher description.
Subject(s): Restaurants--Employees--Fiction, City and town life--Ontario--Fiction, Ontario--Fiction, Short stories, Canadian (English)--21st century, Short stories, Canadian--21st century
Department: Creative Writing, Language, Literature and Performing Arts