<div>The COVID-19 virus was responsible for the deaths of over thirty-five thousand Canadians in its first two years alone. Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, it was an uncertain threat, which emerged within complex psychological, social, legal, administrative, and economic contexts. Seized by Uncertainty explains how Canadian governments responded to that threat. Despite early warning signs, governments failed to appreciate the trade-offs required to respond to the pandemic. Their approach, at times intolerant of debate and ignorant of diversity, served the interests of some over others. Their response prioritized stability and containment, enabling four in ten people to work from home, disproportionately benefiting an educated middle class who profited further from soaring stock markets and housing prices. Mental health issues spiked, racialized people were much more likely to test positive for the virus, those in low-income sectors experienced unstable employment and lacked workplace safety protections, the lives of low-risk youth were in constant suspension, and residents of some care homes were virtually abandoned. Seized by Uncertainty studies the pandemic response through the contexts in which it emerged, exposing uncomfortable truths about a fragmented society and governance problems that predated the threat.</div>

Seized by Uncertainty: The Markets, Media, and Special Interests that Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19

Politics & Social Sciences

Quigley, Kevin

Moore, Sarah

Wolfe, Brianna

Lowe, Kaitlynne

Sociology

McGill-Queen's University Press

Too Critical to Fail: How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure

In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths of forty-seven in Quebec, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi emerged from the Alberta crisis as a folk hero. As the Lac-Mégantic train derailment and the flood in Alberta demonstrate, political, economic, legal, and cultural climates influence the way disasters are received and managed. In Too Critical to Fail, Kevin Quigley, Ben Bisset, and Bryan Mills identify the social context that shapes the Canadian government?s ability to prepare for and respond to emergencies. Using original research on natural disasters, pandemics, industrial failures, cyber-attacks, and terrorist threats, the authors evaluate the risk regulation regimes that monitor, interpret, and respond to failures in Canada?s critical infrastructure to limit their possibilities and consequences. More broadly, this book identifies key vulnerabilities and regulatory challenges for both the government and the private sector in mitigating threats to safety and security. Too Critical to Fail applies an investigative lens to the multiple and competing risks that the government balances to secure assets that enable modern civilization. Raising questions about Canadians? ability to protect critical infrastructure and respond to threats, this book challenges the biases that determine who is held to account when the system fails.

Bisset, Ben

Mills, Bryan

Politics & Government

Social Sciences

An offbeat cartoon collection featuring a foreword by Abraham Lincoln

To Whom It May Concern: A Cartoon Book

Comics & Graphic Novels

Samuelson, Richard

Comic Strips

Max Jacobson Books

New Englanders are as far away from the South Pacific as any American can be, yet when tiki fever gripped the country in the mid-twentieth century, even they were not immune. Tropical-themed restaurants and bars sprang up in the unlikeliest of places, from coastal cities to far-flung suburbs. Places like the Hu Ke Lau, the Aku-Aku and the Kowloon were packed every night. Decades after the fever ended, it re-emerged as a new century dawned, and New Englanders took up the mantles of Polynesian pop to escape to places of tropical leisure in their own backyard. Local author Kevin Quigley dives deep into the region's unusual history with tiki culture.

New England Tiki (The History Press)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

The History Press

New England Tiki (American Palate)

History PR

The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book features more than 1,000 questions to test your knowledge of the movies, miniseries, and television episodes of the King of Horror, along with dozens of special illustration-based questions from Cemetery Dance favorite artist Glenn Chadbourne! This is an amazing publication you won't want to miss!Written by Brian James Freeman (co-author of The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book with Bev Vincent), Hans-Åke Lilja (founder of Lilja's Library, the premiere site for Stephen King news and related interviews, and author of Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King), and Kevin Quigley (founder of Charnel House, one of the original Stephen King news websites and a source for thought provoking reviews of King's work), this amazing new trivia collection will also feature artwork by Glenn Chadbourne (the artist behind The Secretary of Dreams by Stephen King and The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book) and an afterword by special guest who knows all about King movies first-hand. The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book includes material right up through this year and no Stephen King collection will be complete without it!

The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book

Freeman, Brian James

Lilja, Hans-Åke

Reference

Cemetery Dance Pubns

The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book by Brian James Freeman, Hans-Åke Lilja, and Kevin Quigley features more than 1,000 questions to test your knowledge of the movies, miniseries, and television episodes based on ideas conjured from the imagination of the King of Horror, along with more than 50 special illustration-based questions from Cemetery Dance favorite artist Glenn Chadbourne! In addition, the book begins with a special introduction by Mick Garris, director of The Stand, The Shining, Riding the Bullet, Desperation, Bag of Bones, and many others. The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book includes material right up through this year and no Stephen King collection will be complete without it!

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

A deserted quarry, where a young girl dangles her feet high above a fathomless pool filled with countless dead things. A circus tent, where a madman thwarts a murderer with his own diabolical plans. A half-lit basement, where the tools of a maniac's extreme weight-loss program are a cage, a knife and a wet/dry vacuum. These places and more are the settings of This Terrestrial Hell, the first short fiction collection by Cemetery Dance writer and FEARnet columnist, Kevin Quigley. Comprised of eleven stories of horror, lunacy, and human desperation, This Terrestrial Hell announces a fresh and often frightening new voice in fiction. Populated with murderers, pregnant teenage girls withviolent secrets, and frantic young men with borrowed guns, this collection stares unblinkingly into the dark depths of hell on earth.

This Terrestrial Hell

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Cemetery Dance Publications

CHART OF DARKNESS: A HISTORY OF STEPHEN KING ON THE BESTSELLER LIST. Kevin Quigley Signed. Rare Publisher's Copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. New from Cemetery Dance & out of print from the publisher. 6" x 9" x .75"

Chart of Darkness: A History Of Stephen King Publisher's Copy

Cemetery Dance

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