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Thrilling Tales of Canadian superheroes... and villains 75 years ago Canadian cartoonist Joe Shuster co-created the world's premier superhero: Superman. Over the decades the genre has gone from camp to counter-culture, from pop art to postmodern, from noir to new wave. Today's superheroes feature in bestselling novels, hit TV shows, Hollywood blockbusters ... and Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories. Mexican luchadores wrestle primordial evil in Vancouver ... The Intrepids battle Nazis in Nova Scotia ... A mysterious masked man rescues an adventuring heiress in a steampunk Gold Rush-era...

Twenty-five dark stories that span a daring breadth of genres - by the author of "Objects of Worship" and "The Door to Lost Pages," which "Publishers' Weekly" calls "intensely memorable" and "insanely imaginative."
In these noir tales that unfold at the edge of realism, mythic nocturnes from impossible pasts, and disquietingly intimate stories of speculative fiction, Claude Lalumiere explores our collective and intertwined obsessions with sex and death.
"In "Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes" Claude Lalumiere plumbs the deep trenches of yearning, fear and the agonies of unfulfilled need."...

As state spending on legal services has come under pressure, so too has state commitment to equal access to justice. This volume brings together experts from around the world to look at what happens when the notion that justice should be available to everyone, regardless of means, is challenged by managerial and market paradigms and a general retreat from universal forms of welfare provision.