Jerusalem on the Amur by Dr. Henry Srebrnik (Political Studies) describes the involvement of Canadian Jewish Communists in the development of Birobidzhan, a Jewish autonomous region in the far east of the Soviet Union, from the 1920s to the 1950s. (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Terminal Damage: The Politics of VLTs in Atlantic Canada by Peter McKenna (Political Studies)looks at the critical aspect of social harm caused by VLTs, and examines just how enveloped VLTs are in Atlantic Canadian politics and policy. The author explains VLT gaming decisions in a political context one province at a time — bringing in electoral, economic, personal, bureaucratic and cultural factors to shed some much-needed light on these public policy outcomes. (Fernwood Books)

Spirits in the Material World: The Challenge of Technology by Gil Germain (Political Studies) uses an analysis of four French philosophers to illuminate our implication in technology and our tenuous hold on reality. Germain provocatively argues that humans are fast becoming disembodied or spirit-like creatures, and gives reasons why this inclination towards spiritization ought to be resisted. (Lexington Books)