The Flicker Tree
Okanagan Poems

(Ronsdale Press, 2012)
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How do we learn to be where we live? How can a 21st-century mind, saturated with the culture and metaphors of contemporary life, connect to the natural world that surrounds us? In Nancy Holmes’ book of poetry, these questions are asked of her home, the Okanagan valley in the southern interior of British Columbia. In these poems, as Holmes comes to terms with personal grief, she tries to find consolation in the place she shares with other beings. Holmes’ poetry looks for relationships with the prickly pear cacti, bluebunch wheatgrass, the black bears, the coyotes, and the northern flickers. She seeks to embed herself in the geography and consciousness of this arid Western landscape, one of the most endangered ecosystems in Canada, a landscape of great beauty and spiritual power with its volcanic glaciated mountains and fragile long lakes. The result is poetry that is both elegiac and humorous, with a vision often skewed by the lenses of mass media, anxiety, and the obsessions of the contemporary world. Sometimes disturbed and questioning, sometimes delighted and awed, sometimes troubled by the history of settlers and indigenous peoples, the poems explore our complicity in the destruction of, and our love for, the wild animals, plants, and places around us.

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Author

Nancy Holmes is an associate professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS) at UBC Okanagan. She has published six collections of poetry, most recently Arborophobia (University of Alberta Press, 2022) and The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems (Ronsdale Press, 2012), a collection of poems about the place, people, plants, and animals of the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia. Nancy won the 2017 Malahat Review’s Creative Non-Fiction award.

Nancy’s poems, essays and short stories have been published in Canada, the UK, and Ireland. She is the editor of Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009). She teaches Creative Writing and has been both Head of the Department of Creative Studies and the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in FCCS. She also collaborates with communities and other artists on eco art projects both locally and internationally, including the award-winning Border Free Bees project https://borderfreebees.com/.
 

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Sites of Genocide

(Routledge, 2022)
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“Genocide” may be the most powerful word in the English language. What is the significance and relevance of this formative concept today? In an extraordinarily wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews, Adam Jones, one of the world’s leading genocide scholars, explores the uses and controversies surrounding the term that Raphael Lemkin coined during the Second World War to describe and prohibit mass atrocities against defined human groups.

In a style that is learned but always accessible and engaging, Jones addresses key historical and contemporary issues, such as: What were the motivations and proclaimed justifications for genocide in the “long nineteenth century” that shaped our modern world? How can “humanitarian” interventions in genocide avoid sliding into new imperialism? What are the connections between religion and genocide? How can the gender variable in genocide perpetration and victimization be understood? A wide range of historical and contemporary genocides and crimes against humanity, from the eighteenth-century slave rebellion in Haiti to Myanmar’s destruction of the Rohingya, and to the forms of structural and systemic violence that Jones argues should be encompassed by any global-historical understanding of genocide.

Sites of Genocide is illustrated with photos from Jones’s own collection and other sources. It will be of interest to all students and scholars of human rights and for general readers seeking a point of entry to the rich and provocative debates in comparative genocide studies.

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Author

Adam Jones is a professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna, Canada. He is the author of the bestselling textbook, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction (third edition, Routledge, 2017), and author or editor of a dozen other books, mostly on genocide and crimes against humanity. They include Gender Inclusive: Essays on Violence, Men, and Feminist International Relations (2008), Gendercide and Genocide (2004), and Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity (2004).
 

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The Right to Higher Education
A Political Theory

(Oxford University Press, 2022)
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Is higher education a right, or a privilege? The author argues that all citizens in a free and open society should have an unconditional right to higher education. Such an education should be costless for the individual and open to everyone regardless of talent. A readiness and willingness to learn should be the only qualification. It should offer opportunities that benefit citizens with different interests and goals in life. And it should aim, as its foundational moral purpose, to help citizens from all walks of life live better, freer lives. Using concepts and ideas from liberal political philosophy, the author argues that access to educational goods and services is something to which all citizens have a right over a full life. Such goods, it is argued, play a key role in helping citizens realize self-determined goals. Higher education should therefore be understood as a basic social institution responsible for ensuring that all citizens can access such “autonomy-supporting” goods. The book examines the implications of this justification of the right to higher education for questions of educational justice, political authority, distributive justice, civic education, and personal autonomy.

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Author

Christopher Martin is an associate professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). His research focuses on the philosophy of education. His specific areas of interest include educational ethics, the aims of higher education, and education for democracy. His work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Spencer Foundation, and the Centre for Ethics and Education (Wisconsin). 

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Numerical Methods for Solving Discrete Event Systems
With Applications to Queueing Systems

(Springer, 2022)
SCI 333

This graduate textbook provides an alternative to discrete event simulation.  It describes how to formulate discrete event systems, how to convert them into Markov chains, and how to calculate their transient and equilibrium probabilities. The most appropriate methods for finding these probabilities are described in some detail, and templates for efficient algorithms are provided. These algorithms can be executed on any laptop, even in cases where the Markov chain has hundreds of thousands of states. This book features the probabilistic interpretation of Gaussian elimination, a concept that unifies many of the topics covered, such as embedded Markov chains and matrix analytic methods.

The material provided should aid practitioners significantly to solve their problems. This book also provides an interesting approach to teaching courses of stochastic processes.

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Author

Javadi Tavakoli is a professor of Mathematics at UBC Okanagan. He holds a PhD in Categorical Algebra from Dalhousie University, NS, Canada. In 1996 he proudly had the opportunity to meet with Winfried Grassmann at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, where he started his new research area in Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes. Javad Tavakoli has been a researcher and educator at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada since 2003. He published a number of papers in Queuing Theory, mostly with Winfried Grassmann. Javad Tavakoli also has received several awards for teaching excellence and published a pre-calculus book from the indigenous perspective.

Winfried Grassmann is a professor emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan in the department of Computer Science.

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Reproductive Acts
Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film

(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013)
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Forty years after Roe v. Wade, it is evident that the ideologies of “choices” and “rights,” which have publicly framed reproductive politics in North America since the landmark legal decision, have been inadequate in making sense of the topic’s complexities. In Reproductive Acts, Heather Latimer investigates what contemporary fiction and film can tell us about the divisive nature of these politics, and demonstrates how fictional representations of reproduction allow for readings of reproductive politics that are critical of the terms of the debate itself.

In an innovative argument about the power of fiction to engage and shape politics, Latimer analyzes works by authors such as Margaret Atwood, Kathy Acker, Toni Morrison, Larissa Lai, and director Alfonso Cuarón, among others, to claim that the unease surrounding reproduction, particularly the abortion debate, has increased both inside and outside the US over the last forty years. Fictional representation, Latimer argues, reveals reproductive politics to be deeply connected to cultural anxieties about gender, race, citizenship, and sexuality – anxieties that cannot be contained under the rules of individual rights or choices.

Striking a balance between fictional, historical, and political analysis, Reproductive Acts makes a compelling argument for the vital role narrative plays in how we make sense of North American reproductive politics.

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Author

Heather Latimer is an assistant professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at UBC Okanagan, on Syilx Okanagan territory, where she teaches undergraduate classes on reproductive politics, feminist epistemologies, and critical sexuality studies. She also supervises graduate students interested in reproduction, health humanities, fiction and film, or science and technology studies. She received a PhD in English from Simon Fraser University.

In general, her research aims to understand and explain the history of reproductive politics by studying representations of reproduction, mostly in science fiction and film.
 

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Wa7 Sqwéqwel´ sSam
St’át’imcets stories from Sam Mitchell

(PNWLL/USLCES, 2022)
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This volume features historical narratives, personal anecdotes, and descriptions of traditional practices, as told by Sam Mitchell in St’át’imcets between 1968 and 1973. These narratives, originally recorded by Randy Bouchard, have been transcribed and translated by John Lyon (UBC-Okanagan) and Henry Davis (UBC-Vancouver). There are 15 narratives in all, accompanied by maps and a series of pictures. Each narrative is presented in the original St’át’imcets, in an English translation, and finally as a fully analyzed text featuring a detailed interlinear gloss.

This volume will be valuable for advanced language learners and teachers, as well as linguists and anyone with an interest in Salish languages and culture.

This volume is the third in a series of Upper St’át’imcets texts, jointly published by PNWLL Press (formerly UBCOPL) and the Upper St’át’imc Language, Culture and Education Society (USLCES), and the first in a series of three volumes covering the recordings of Upper St’át’imcets made by Randy Bouchard between 1968 and 1973.

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Author

Henry Davis is a professor in department of Linguistics at UBC Vancouver. His background is in language acquisition. For the past twenty years his research has focused on the critically endangered indigenous languages of BC, in particular, those of the Salish, Wakashan, and Tsimshianic families.

He has been working since 1992 on the Northern Interior Salish language St’át’imcets (Lilllooet), in partnership with the Upper St’át’imcets Language, Culture and Education Society and collaboration with his colleague Lisa Matthewson.

Besides syntactic research on categories, configurationality, anaphora, ellipsis, and WH-questions, and semantic work on modality and quantification, he has written a large but as yet-unpublished teaching grammar of the language, is collaborating on a three-volume English-St’át’imcets dictionary, and has worked on both contemporary and historical textual materials.

John Lyon is an assistant professor in the Community, Culture and Global Studies program at UBC Okanagan. He received his PhD in linguistics from UBC Vancouver. For the past fourteen years, he has worked with Salish language speaking elders and communities in Canada and the U.S. on dictionaries, story collections, and some of the finer grammatical nuances of how these languages work.

He teaches Syilx language (Nsyilxcn; Okanagan Salish) at UBCO’s Bachelor of Nsyilxcn Language Fluency (BNLF) Program, and works closely with the En’owkin Centre to provide post-graduate language learning and research opportunities for indigenous and non-indigenous students pursuing language revitalization or language fluency.

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The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature

(Cambridge University Press, 2021)
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This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature, including new world migration, indigenous encounters, religious and secular histories, and the emergence of American literary genres. This book guides readers through important conceptual and theoretical issues, while also grounding these issues in close readings of key literary texts from early America.

Among its various contributions, it provides new readings of familiar and unfamiliar texts and authors, introduces readers to new scholarship in this rapidly changing field, and demonstrates the diversification of the field.

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Editor

Bryce Traister studies and teaches courses in early American literature and culture at UBC Okanagan. He holds a BA and PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and taught for 20 years at Western University in London, Ontario, before joining the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies in 2017. He is the author, most recently, of Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism, published by Ohio State University Press, and is the editor of American Literature and the New Puritan Studies, (September 2017). His current work includes a second edited collection for Cambridge, The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature.

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Pengetahuan Biologi Laut
(Marine Biology Knowledge in Gwatle Kal)
Sebuah Ilustrasi ensiklopedia
(An Illustrated Encyclopedia)

(Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia, Jakarta, 2016)
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Informasi yang disajikan dalam buku ini merefleksikan sebuah ringkasan dari beberapa wawancara yang dilakukan oleh pria dan wanita di tujuh desa Batuley di bagian pantai timur Kepulauan Aru yang berbicara bahasa Batuley (Gwatle Lir). Dengan kata lain, buku ini mendokumentasukan pengetahuan orang Batulet dalam bahasa Batuley sehingga lebih baik menggunakan istilah-istilah bahasa Batuley.

This book contains knowledge of the sea and the practices of Gwatle (Batuley) people. The information was recorded during interviews in the seven Gwatle villages during 2014-2015. Gwatle Lir (Batuley language) is used in the book along with translations into Dobo Malay, Bahasa Indonesion, and English. Gwatle people have rich and detailed knowledge of their marine environment. The book presents a portion of this knowledge to the extent that could be gathered during the available research time. The purposes of the book are as follows:

1. Document Gwatle Lir (Batuley language) and marine life knowledge in a form accessible to Gwatle people.
2. Create a book for use in Batuley schools and homes in order to support learning of languages and local marine science.
3. Create a record of Gwatle culture and knowledge that establishes Gwatle indigeneity/masyarakat and rights to the seas and resources within Gwatle territories.

The book contains substantial evidence of the factors currently used in order to establish territorial rights and indigeneity elsewhere in Indonesia.

(Description Source: Perpustakaan Nasional RI and Ross Gordon)

Authors

Ross Gordon is a lecturer at UBC Okanagan and associate faculty at St. Stephen’s College, Edmonton. His publications include a.o. Nakasaleka: Language, marine ethnobiology, and life on a Fijian Island (PhD thesis of University of Alberta, 2013). Recent publishing co-author credits (with Sonny A. Djonler) include: Marine biology knowledge in Gwatle Kal; An illustrated encyclopaedia (Jakarta: Yayasan Pustaka Obor, 2016) and “Hope and Energy at the Arafura Sea Shore”, Journal of Ritual Studies Vol. 33. No. 2 (2019): 1-18.

Sonny A. Djonler holds a bachelors in fisheries from Pattimura University in Ambon. He works as a consultant for the Aru parliament.

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The Adultery Poems

(Ronsdale Press, 2002)
ART 108

Adultery with its pleasure, pain and outrage! No one writes the poetry of adultery as does Nancy Holmes. For her guide, she takes the poet Ovid who schools her in his tender cynicism and teaches her the art of love.

When she capitulates to the temptations of bad love, the poems themselves speak up and scold her into behaving properly (or improperly). When she pauses to consider her wayward ways or guilty conscience, the poems remind her that poetry is where wild abandon meets control, that her life and follies are the fuel for art. “Shut up and make love, you crazy fool,” they shout.

As Holmes shows, no matter how ridiculously one behaves or how poorly one chooses, the adventure of lust and love is one of the deepest pleasures of our adult life. Through love we are transformed into sensual slaves, life’s clowns and criminals, but these roles must be embraced or we miss out on one of the great experiences of life. These wry, sad and comic poems remind us that it was always thus, for men and women, both.

(Description Source: Ronsdale Press)

Author

Nancy Holmes is an associate professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS) at UBC Okanagan. She has published six collections of poetry, most recently Arborophobia (University of Alberta Press, 2022) and The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems (Ronsdale Press, 2012), a collection of poems about the place, people, plants, and animals of the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia. Nancy won the 2017 Malahat Review’s Creative Non-Fiction award.

Nancy’s poems, essays and short stories have been published in Canada, the UK, and Ireland. She is the editor of Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009). She teaches Creative Writing and has been both Head of the Department of Creative Studies and the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in FCCS. She also collaborates with communities and other artists on eco art projects both locally and internationally, including the award-winning Border Free Bees project https://borderfreebees.com/.

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Mandorla

(Ronsdale Press, 2005)
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Motherhood—personal, historical, mythological. Mandorla is all about mothers and children, especially the mothering of challenging children, children with disabilities. In the first section of Nancy Holmes’ new collection of poems, the Virgin Mary is the archetypal suffering mother who worries about the fate of her son. Through a poetic re-drawing of the hieratic poses of icons of the Virgin in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Holmes comes to recognize the fear and absolute love for a child who is fated to be different.

The second section moves out of cultural myth into family history, the Ukrainian side of the poet’s family, people who settled in north-eastern Alberta in the first years of the twentieth century. These poems use images drawn from domestic fairy tales and the family farm, tracking imagined inner lives of immigrant children. Through speculation, magic and distorted family stories, Holmes explores not only the damage of mental disability, cultural displacement and corrosive prejudice, but also the beauty and social isolation of rural Alberta.

In the last section of the book, the author focuses on her own experience of motherhood, its pain and comedy, its bewilderment and bedazzlement, its crushing collisions with schools and social systems. Holmes creates a triptych that opens up some of the emotional and spiritual adventure of being a parent, that most heart-breaking yet enriching of human roles, past or present.

(Description Source: Ronsdale Press)

Author

Nancy Holmes is an associate professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS) at UBC Okanagan. She has published six collections of poetry, most recently Arborophobia (University of Alberta Press, 2022) and The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems (Ronsdale Press, 2012), a collection of poems about the place, people, plants, and animals of the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia. Nancy won the 2017 Malahat Review’s Creative Non-Fiction award.

Nancy’s poems, essays and short stories have been published in Canada, the UK, and Ireland. She is the editor of Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009). She teaches Creative Writing and has been both Head of the Department of Creative Studies and the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in FCCS. She also collaborates with communities and other artists on eco art projects both locally and internationally, including the award-winning Border Free Bees project https://borderfreebees.com/.

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UBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project

The University of British Columbia Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project aims to display academically inspiring artwork in classrooms and other teaching areas of the university.

Artwork displayed as part of this project – including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers – is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.

How to Submit Artwork

If you know of other book or journal covers, or other academically inspiring artwork that is connected to work carried out by UBCO artists, scholars or researchers and that is consistent with UBCO’s educational mission, please email your suggestions to classroom.artwork@ubc.ca.

The UBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project began in 2019 with support from the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences. It is now a joint project of UBCO’s Faculties and the Office of the Provost.

Artwork and other images that are a part of this project are displayed solely for educational purposes.