UBC Press

Publishing high calibre works of original scholarship, University of British Columbia Press (more commonly, UBC Press) is known and admired internationally for its rigorously academic and tightly focused list. UBC Press authors draw their ideas from current research and seek to engage with society and its thinkers on a deep and oftentimes challenging level, pushing the boundaries of social science discourse into innovative, controversial, yet always well-argued directions. UBC Press produces over sixty publications every year; each of which is comprehensively peer reviewed and the beneficiary of a finely exacting, full-fledged editorial process. As a result, the Presss books and their authors have an excellent scholarly reputation in a number of fields including, but not limited to, Aboriginal Studies, Asian studies, Canadian history, environmental studies, gender and womens studies, health, geography, law, media and communications, planning and urban studies, political science, ...