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“In the Shadow of the Manhattan Project” by Patricia I. McMahon and Robert Bothwell tells the remarkable story of how wartime secrecy surrounding a Canadian company’s role in developing the atomic bomb led to fraud, environmental contamination, and decades of delayed justice. tinyurl.com/5x4yzedu

Cover: In the Shadow of the Manhattan Project: Radium, Fraud, and Secrecy at Eldorado, by Patricia I. McMahon and Robert Bothwell. Illustration: a glowing green bomb standing upright, surrounded by a green polka dot motif on a black background. On one of the bomb’s fins there is a graphic of an open door with yellow light spilling out of it.
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“Silent Knowledge” is freely available as an open access edition with funds received from the 2024 Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award, granted to UBC Press by the American Council of Learned Societies with generous support from Arcadia.

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📖 A joint book launch at Shelf Life Books with Cheryl Troupe (“Nora Cummings, enn pchit fee Michif,” University of Regina Press), Jennifer Markides and Laura Forsythe (“Métis Methodologies,” Fernwood Publishing), and Janice Cindy Gaudet, (“Visiting with Aunties,” UBC Press).

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We’re at the Mawachihitotaak Métis Studies Conference in Calgary! If you’re at the conference, please stop by our table to say hello, browse our books, and learn about publishing with UBC Press.

A person in an orange and purple blazer stands behind a display table at a conference. The table is adorned with many books, mostly on the subject of Indigenous Studies.A person in a purple top, black skirt, and red scarf stands looking at a book display table at a conference.