Product Description: Poetry. Inspired by the Rocky Mountains, LAND OF THE SKY is a means of using detail from a distance to reflect on the socio-political and the human that is all around us. The poems in this collection explore the land through the distance of the sky and understand that which seems so grounded as a sky full of metaphor and near- unfathomable reflexes of history...read more

Product Description: Rethinking Unequal Exchange traces the structural forces that have created the conditions for the increasing use, production, and circulation of temporary migrant nurses worldwide. Salimah Valiani explores the political economy of health care of three globally important countries in the importing and exporting of temporary migrant nurses: the Philippines, the world's largest supplier of temporary migrant nurses; the United States, the world's largest demander of internationally trained nurses; and Canada, which is both a supplier and a demander of internationally trained nurses...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Using post-Apartheid South Africa as a point from which to reflect on Canada and beyond, LETTER OUT: LETTER IN is a poetry collection of social commentary, political-economic analysis, and philosophical meditation. Historic and persisting structures of racism, sexism and economic inequality are explored, but also the nature of gender and ethnic divisions within and among oppressed groups...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Asian Studies. The poems in this elegaic collection deal with such various subjects as accepting vulnerability, searching for beauty and endurance, exploring protest and resistance, taking risks, learning, and becoming, through experiences larger than the self, and beyond the personal...read more