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Check out the latest on the Dundurn blog from Anne Baldo as she clashes against the toxic advice of 2000s magazines with her own antidote reading list.

“Our teenage years often become lifelong arsenals of nostalgia. Each decade, details change, then resurface, like low-rise jeans and platform shoes. In 2004, we had social media, but it was Myspace; Atkins instead of keto. Then, as always, female bodies were public property, disputed, under constant inspection. Pop culture — television, transactional dating guides built on gender stereotypes, tabloids and high-gloss magazines — all provided the template for how we should look, interact, and exist in the world…”

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This Canada Day — Dundurn Press is proud to say that we’re a Certified Canadian Publisher.

This seal, administered by the Association of Canadian Publishers, identifies a growing list of publishers who are Canadian-owned, and meet professional publishing standards. With the Certified Canadian Publisher seal, consumers can more easily navigate a complex industry where “Is it Canadian?” is never an easy question to solve.

If the availability of Canadian-authored books and long-term growth of our local publishing industry matters to you, then keep looking for the Certified Canadian Publisher seal.

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For National Indigenous Peoples Day, we’re spotlighting Listening Once Again to Our Great Mother by Elder Bill Jones and Karen Moe ().

This powerful memoir weaves together Elder Bill Jones’s life story, Indigenous wisdom, and the Fairy Creek Blockades, one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history.

"With the masterful insight and skill of Karen Moe, Elder Bill Jones breaks our hearts open with his deeply personal expose of the ongoing trauma inflicted on Indigenous people and their beautiful ancestral forests by colonial capitalism in Canada... This book belongs in the curriculum of all students of our Great Mother, and especially in the schools and universities of Canada."
— Suzanne Simard, author of When the Forest Breathes and Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"This is far more than the story of one of the extraordinary and brave Forest Defenders of Fairy Creek... The teachings of Elder Bill are inspirational. This is myth, legend, theology and philosophy. It is the essential teaching for our time."
— Elizabeth May, O.C., M.P

"Elder Bill Jones is one of the last living connections we have to the intrinsic, spiritual, and physical bonds of the ancient forests of his Pacheedaht homelands. Listening Once Again to Our Great Mother, is a gem — one we must honour, cherish, and pass to every generation that follows."
— Brandi Morin, author of Our Voice of Fire

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NEW RELEASE — Please Touch Everything: A History of the Ontario Science Centre by Joan Francuz

"Please Touch Everything captures the bold spirit that changed how the world experiences science. The Ontario Science Centre showed us that science is something you do, not just observe, inspiring institutions like Science North to put curiosity first."
— Ashley Larose, CEO, Science North

A Centennial project announced by Premier John Robarts in 1964, the Ontario Science Centre upended the traditional museum model and created a new way for visitors to interact with science. Its designers, scientists, and craftspeople developed hands-on exhibits, including the bicycle generator and demonstrations that made your hair stand on end.

In Please Touch Everything: A History of the Ontario Science Centre, Joan Francuz explores the story of the revolutionary institution, its iconic exhibits, and the people who made it all happen. From its groundbreaking beginnings to its enduring legacy, this book chronicles one of Canada's most beloved science centres and its impact on generations of visitors.

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