This "gorgeously written" National Book Award finalist is a dazzling, heart-rending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend goes missing, plunging him into isolation and forcing him to confront his past (NPR, One of the Best Books ...

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Covering nearly 200 years of history, The General relates the story of the hospital from its origins and founding to the transition and aftermath of its incorporation into the McGill University Health Centre in 1997.

Addressing emerging and complex topics, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary art.

"Originally published in the U.K. in 2014 under the title Ten cities that made an empire, by Allen Lane, London."

This book provides an evidence-based introduction to the interface between sleep wide range of medical disorders.

As modern society’s routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society’s growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a social emotion, bringing together ...