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Pascal Lé​vesque, PhD’16 (Law), has written Frontline Justice: The Evolution and Reform of Summary Trials in the Canadian Armed Forces (McGill-�ʹ�����’s University Press). Compared with its civilian counterpart – which struggles with delays and uncertain results – summary military justice is efficient. From offence until outcome, 90 per cent of cases are dealt with in under 90 days. The other side of the coin is that there is no right to representation by defence counsel, no transcript produced, and no appeal to a judge. Nine times out of ten, individuals are found guilty. For service members, consequences can include fines, reductions in rank, confinement, and sentences of up to 30 days in military jail, sometimes with a criminal conviction.

Addressing important gaps in legal literature, this work sets out to examine summary justice in Canada's military and to advocate for reform. Pascal Lévesque describes the origins, purposes, and features of the summary trial system in the Canadian Armed Forces. He then analyzes the system's benefits and flaws and the challenges it faces in maintaining discipline while respecting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He determines that troubling aspects of the system, including the fact that lower and higher ranks are dealt with and punished differently, are clear indicators of a need for change. Criticizing current legislation, the book takes into account the latest developments in military law and jurisprudence to make concrete recommendations for an alternative model of military justice.

Brian Lenahan, Com’86, followed up his career in banking with a “left turn” into the field of AI. His latest book is Artificial Intelligence: Transitions – Successfully Prepare for a Career in the World of Artificial Intelligence. This book is recommended for students, people new to the workforce, or those looking to make a career change. Mr. Lenahan’s other books are Digital Coach: Coaching in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence: Foundations for Business Leaders and Consultants. Mr. Lenahan is the CEO of Aquitaine Innovation Advisors. This year, he will also teach a number of courses on artificial intelligence at McMaster University. He will also be a speaker at the 2020 McMaster World Congress.

Jennifer McKendry, MA’84(Art History), has a new book out: Architects Working in the Kingston Region 1820–1920. Major players in the region were William Coverdale(Kingston Penitentiary in the 1840s), George Browne(Kingston City Hall in the early 1840s), Power & Son (McIntosh Castle, 1852, and rebuilding St George’s Cathedral in the 1890s), William Newlands (Victoria School, now Goodes Hall, home to Smith School of Business, 1892) and Edward Horsey (Frontenac County Court House, 1856). Architects from Toronto and other areas are included if they designed at least one project in or near Kingston, for example, the contributions to �ʹ�����’s University (Ontario Hall, Grant Hall, Kingston Hall) by Symons & Rae around 1900. Also included are a list of selected builders, contractors and craftsmen; architectural pattern books available in Kingston; and a bibliography of Kingston architecture. This work builds upon Dr. McKendry’s other books focusing on buildings of brick and wood in the Kingston area, as well as considering the impact of styles from 19th and 20th centuries.

Mary Jane Edwards, MA’63(English), is the editor of Richard Bentley and the British Empire: Imperial and Colonial Publishing Connections. Richard Bentley was the leading publisher of fiction in three-volume form for much of the 19th century. From 1832 until it was sold to Macmillan in 1898,his London-based firm developed networks to distribute its books throughout the British Empire. It also issued works of fiction and non-fiction about Great Britain’s various colonies in what are now Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and South Africa. Contributors to the volume analyze fundamental aspects of the structure, history, and functioning of the international book trade. They explore the many roles that Bentley played in disseminating information about these far-flung possessions and in helping to develop – and modify – British cultural values in them. Dr. Edwards is the director of the Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts.

Doug Jordan, Arts’69, MBA’71, has been on a journey of change and transition in the last several years, beginning with the diagnosis, and then death, of his wife, Marlene, in 2017 from complications of breast cancer. Struggling with grief and loss he sought to find a new purpose in his life and a new identity, as author. His latest book, Travels With Myself, a mixture of anguish and irony, bitterness and humour, recounts his journey of discovery about grief, empathy, mental health, love and purpose; he hopes others will find meaning and understanding in it for themselves. You can discover more about his work at his website, .

Keith Garebian, PhD’73 (English), has a new work out: Mini Musings: Miniature Thoughts on Theatre and Poetry. The titles alone speak to the little book's uniqueness: they include Watching Your Father Die on Stage, Do Actors Love the Audience?, Can There Be Poetry After Donald Trump?, and Filthy Shakespeare. The mini musings bubble with a sense of wonder, excitement, and intimacy. This is Dr. Garebian’s 27th book.

Anna Frenkel, Artsci’16, Ed’17, has created a travel journal: Q & A a Day for Travelers. “After studying abroad,” she writes, “I decided to create a book to help people document their travels and plan new ones.” The book is a three-year guided journal that provides a question prompt each day. Writers answer a question each day and then see how their answers change. Whether you are hiking the Appalachian Trail or discovering secret corners of your hometown, the prompts in this journal will spur you to remember great trips, meals, people and all the odd moments and details that make travel so exciting. Your answers year-over-year will reveal what you love best about travel and what you should avoid, as well as documenting the journeys you have taken. Ms. Frenkel is a French language teacher and is studying to be a speech-language pathologist.

Neil Dukas, Artsci’83, published a new edition of his 2004 book A Military History of Sovereign Hawai’i. The book provides an overview of Hawai’i’s remarkable military history, beginning with its classical period as a sovereign nation and progressing through the political turmoil of the 19th century to its annexation, in 1898, by the United States. The 2020 edition reflects recent findings and new schools of thought, as well as new illustrations. Captain Dukas was recently appointed director of the non-profit Forum on Hawai‘i’s Military and Warrior Past.

Claudia (Brown) Coutu Radmore, BFA’84, is the author of rabbit, her fifth collection of poems. Ms. Radmore celebrates, and sometimes grieves, the unique inhabitants of our natural and human worlds in lines teeming with observation, curiosity, and appropriate wonder. Rife with detail and greedy for understanding, the poems in rabbit pulse with buoyant energy, the title poem alone an invitation to perceive “the other” and to be changed. A poem from her last volume, camera obscura, was included in The Best Canadian Poetry of 2019. A new collection, Park Ex Girl: Life with Gasometer, will be published later this year.

Lee Airton, Assistant Professor (Gender and Sexuality Studies in Education), is co-editor of Teaching about Gender Diversity, a collection of teacher-tested interdisciplinary lesson plans that provides K–12 teachers with the tools to implement gender-inclusive practices into their curriculum and talk to their students about gender and sex. Divided into three sections dedicated to the elementary, middle, and secondary grade levels, this practical resource provides lessons for a variety of subject areas, including English language arts, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), and health and physical education. The lessons range from reading aloud early literacy picture books that use gender-neutral language and highlight the gendered experiences of characters to engaging mathematics in the study of targeting gender terminology, stereotypes, and the social construction of binary gender.

Lance Triskle, Law’00, is the author of Guide to Martin’s Annual Criminal Code (third edition). The book assists students and professionals to successfully navigate Martin’s Annual Criminal Code. Examples from Martin’s are reproduced for the reader, including excerpts from the Criminal Code, the Offence Grid, and the Table of Cases. The Guide also includes exercises for readers to practise skills required for their research. Through learning how to review Martin’s more effectively, users learn to read other annotated texts. The Guide is ideal for students studying criminal law and criminal procedure.

T. J. Radcliffe, Sc’84, PhD’91 (Physics), is the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Ham: a medieval miscellany, a modern romance in verse inspired by the medieval tale of King Arthur’s famously courteous nephew, Sir Gawain, and his adventures fighting the Green Knight. A new story, rather than a re-telling, this work is both ribald and serious, sober and fun, creating a tale that is accessible to modern readers while paying homage to one of the great medieval romances.

Bruce MacGregor, Ed’70, is the author of Capital Recollections: A Baby Boomer Growing Up in Ottawa, a humorous, affectionate look at Ottawa in the 1950s and ’60s. These should ring a bell for Ottawa boomers: Cradle League Hockey; Elvis rocking the Auditorium; Squirrels vs. Yohawks; the Ottawa Exhibition; Saturday Date on CJOH television; the Pigskin Parade at Lansdowne Park; and much more. Revisit the birth of television and rock ‘n’ roll, and remember the many Ottawa personalities in the media, music, and sports from that unique period of astonishing growth and change.

Robert Clark, Ed’79, is the author of Down Inside: Thirty years in Canada’s Prison Service. During his career with Corrections Canada, Robert Clark rose through the ranks from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked with some of Canada’s most notorious prisoners, including Tyrone Conn and Paul Bernardo, and he dealt with escapes, lockdowns, murders, suicides, and a riot. But he also arranged;ice hockey games in a maximum-security institution,sat in a darkened gym watching movies with 300 inmates, took parolees sightseeing, and consoled victims of violent crime. In this book, Mr. Clark challenges the popular belief that a “tough on crime" approach makes communities and prisons safer, arguing instead for humane treatment and rehabilitation and for an end to the abuse of solitary confinement.

Many people at �ʹ�����’s will remember Artur Zylinski Arthur, an emeritus professor of psychology who died in 1990. But few of his colleagues or students would know about his life as a teen in Lithuania during the Second World War. Artur was conscripted, against his will, to work for the Nazis. He escaped and was helped by the French Resistance before fleeing to the U.K. and joining the Polish Forces. Artur’s daughter-in-law, Sandra Arthur, has written a historical novel based on Artur’s early life. Against My Will: Lithuania to Freedom was written using anecdotes from family members as well as historical research. after 15 years of piecing together Artur’s story, Sandra Arthur used the opportunity of being in quarantine to finish her novel. The work was a true family project; husband Richard Arthur, Sc’87, helped edit and proofread the manuscript, and their son Alex designed the book cover.

Don Hutchinson, Artsci’82, has published his second book: Church in Society: First-Century Citizenship Lessons for Twenty-First-Century Christians. In storyteller style, he shares a real how-we-live-life-today narrative, applying lessons from the teachings of Jesus and life of the apostle Paul to our understanding of Christian exercise of citizenship. The text weaves its way into lessons on generosity, business practices, politics, media engagement and environmental stewardship. Mr. Hutchinson studied history and politics at �ʹ�����’s, law at UBC (JD’88), and theology with the Salvation Army and at Canada Christian College and School of Graduate Theological Studies. Church in Society is available from major booksellers and at .