This added up to about seven kilos, nearly pushing me into excess baggage territory again…

Half-price review copies of Canadiana/Canadian politics published within the last couple of weeks (an absolute steal!):

• Roy MacGregor, Canadians
• Andrew Cohen, The Unfinished Canadian

Politics:

• Jamey Heath, Dead Centre (NDP insider on Canadian politics - not published here)
• Greg Palast, Armed Madhouse (just getting around to picking up the paperback edition. I have a (wait for it) signed copy of his first book, from when he spoke in TCD).

Media/tech/culture/etc

• Lawrence Lessig, Code v 2.0 (replacing PDF)
• Graham Fraser, Sorry, I Don’t Speak French (out last year in Canada, now in PB and Fraser has since become Official Languages Commissioner!)
• Wayne Skene, Fade To Black: A Requiem for the CBC (out of print, early 90s, ex-library copy).
• Carpenter & McLuhan, Explorations in Communication (early 50s, extremely out of print, so delighted to find).

Harold Innis:

• Empire and Communications (new paperback edition, meaning that this book is finally back in print)
• Marginal Man (Watson’s lengthy biography, just out in paperback from U of T press)

Brief histories:

Spotted these in a bargain bin for great value: A Brief History Of The Future (nothing to do with John Naughton’s book!) and A Brief History of Globalization.

My article (based on a speech I made in March 2006) has just (finally) been published in Higher Education in Europe (journal site here):

Student Contributions to Academic Values
Daithí Mac Síthigh
Higher Education in Europe, Volume 31 Issue 4, 409-413

Link (to subscription version). I’ll sort out a pre-print version soon.

This came as a nice piece of news this morning - on Saturday, I gave what was essentially my ‘retirement speech’ as a student representative (after - can you believe it - seven years!).

On a related note (of education journals, that is), congratulations to Jeremy Hunsinger and co on the publication of issue 1 of Learning Inquiry (blogged by Jeremy here). In particular, this article on critical media literacy is excellent.