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Luminous creatures
How a striking phenomenon people have observed for millennia became a field of scientific inquiry and revolutionized molecular biology and medical research.
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From white to yellow
An examination of the evolution of European racial views of the Japanese.
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Christ, god's companionship with man
This volume is a selection of the most significant writings by Monsignor Luigi Giussani, founder of the Italian Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, which is practised in eighty countries around the world.Presented by Julián Carrón, Giussani's successor as head of Communion and Liberat...
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Unlucky to the end
On 12 March 1976 Calgary police officer Allan Keith Harrison was shot and killed following a robbery at the Inglewood Credit Union. By the end of the year, Janise Marie Gamble, a twenty-one year-old girl from Peterborough, Ontario, had been convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to...
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Both hands
The life and times of a landmark creator of Canadian culture.
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Lady landlords of prince edward island
A lively look at estate management and resistance to land reform in nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island through the life stories of four elite British women landowners.
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Florence nightingale and the medical men
Florence Nightingale is known as a hospital reformer, a social reformer, and the founder of professional nursing; few realize that she worked closely with doctors on these issues. In Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men Lynn McDonald details the involvement of doctors in Nightingale’s legacy.
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Where we live
Poems that focus on our relationships with the places we inhabit and that inhabit us.
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Queen of versailles
The rise to power of Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), a queen in all but name, was nothing short of extraordinary. Born into poverty and ignominy, she used her intellect, charisma, and connections to join the ranks of fashionable society, eventually establishing herself at ...
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Secession and conflict
The overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 in Iraq opened the door for Kurdish nationalists to establish an independent state. Drawing on historical research and first-hand interviews, Secession and Conflict asks why Iraqi Kurdistan has not declared independence, and offers a comparative analysis in...
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Writers' rights
A timely study of freelance journalists’ working conditions and what is at stake for the future of journalism in precarious times.
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Attitudes of play
Gabor Csepregi presents a comprehensive study of the persistent human tendency to bring attitudes of play to even serious and mundane situations. He offers a phenomenological description of forms of playfulness, examines the skills that support them, and provides diverse examples.
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Revitalizing rural economies
A research-based economic development resource for leaders building strong rural communities.
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Before copernicus
A multi-disciplinary approach to Copernicus’s momentous transformation from geocentric to heliocentric cosmology.
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From drawing to visual culture
A vivid picture of the evolution of art education in Canada from the nineteenth century to the present.
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The theatricality of robert lepage
Since the 1980s, multimedia and new technologies have had a great impact on theatre, allowing performance to establish its own language of communication with the audience independent of the written text. Robert Lepage is one of the pioneers and main exponents of mixed-media performance, internati...
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The winter count
Challenging the "official story" about the role of First Nations in the 1885 Rebellion and the medical commission that sealed Louis Riel’s fate.
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W.a. mackintosh
The first biography of a leading Canadian economist and policy advisor.
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War memories
Shaping individual and collective war memories through the art of commemoration.
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À quoi sert la philanthropie
Dans À quoi sert la philanthropie?, Hilary Pearson démystifie le monde de la philanthropie canadienne en dressant un portrait actuel des fondations et en mettant en lumière des organisations qui agissent avec détermination face à certains des défis sociaux et économiques les plus pressants de not...
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Growing up canadian
A ground-breaking, comparative study of how second-generation young adults from immigrant families relate to the religions of their backgrounds.
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Eating the urban wild
Imagining systems beyond extractive and industrial models, Natalie Doonan leads readers on an unconventional food tour through the wild corners and everyday streets of Montreal, inviting us to experience food as part of a vibrant, entangled ecosystem.
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Anthology of australian aboriginal literature
A rich collection of writing - poetry, prose, and drama - from some of the greatest Australian Aboriginal authors.
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Achieving inner balance in anxious times
Whether our anxiety arises because of uncertain tough economic times or as a result of our own struggle with workaholism, obsession, or depression, too often we lose touch with our feeling side, experience numb flat affect, and gradually become immobilized by fear. Constructive and easy-to-follow...
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Educating the imagination
How Northrop Frye recognized the imagination as a window opening onto literature, society, and the human spirit.
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In search of r.b. bennett
No Canadian prime minister has a legacy as uncertain as that of R.B. Bennett (1870-1947). Leader of the country during the worst years of the Great Depression, Bennett's fortune and ascension to the British House of Lords distanced him from the Canadian people during his lifetime, while his buria...
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Building jewish roots
Thousands of young North American Jews visit Israel every year on organized, educational, heritage tours. Israel Experience Programs present religion, homeland, and nation to participants in compelling and sometimes unsettling ways. Supported by Jewish communal institutions, these programs are en...
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From the vilna ghetto to nuremberg
In 1944, Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters. He was encouraged by Ilya Ehrenburg to write a memoir. From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg returns readers to a moment when the scale of the Holocaust was first co...
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Greatness and decline
Greatness and Decline sheds new light on Britain's interactions with the rest of the world while demonstrating new possibilities for constructivist foreign policy analysis. Arguing that Britain's search for greatness in world affairs was, and still is, a matter of habit, Srdjan Vucetic takes a cl...
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A different wolf
A critical, poetic celebration of Alfred Hitchcock's life and work.
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Mobilizing mercy
An engaging history that follows Canada’s leading humanitarian organization through decades of war, peace, and social change.
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Pasting up protest
Pasting Up Protest examines the sociopolitical engagement of contemporary artists in Mexico, analyzing street art produced over the past decade by ASARO, URT-Arte, ARMARTE, and MuGRe.
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Ryszard kapuscinski
In the first posthumous monograph on Ryszard Kapuściński’s life and work, Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Ziątek confront the mixed reception of the writer’s use of the Polish concept of literary reportage, located on the border between journalism and artistic prose, and identify this tension as the dr...
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Before we disappear into oblivion
The October 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent Civil War triggered a mass exodus from Russia to the American west coast. Before We Disappear into Oblivion examines the efforts of newly arrived Russians in San Francisco as they built communities and negotiated their acculturation into Amer...
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Canada’s residential schools: the legacy
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and t...
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The end of ethics in a technological society
A critical assessment of the failure of liberal ethics to meet the challenges posed by techno-science.
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Tsardom of sufficiency, empire of norms
An examination of how land became a measured entitlement in Russia.
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The christian moses
How ancient Christian debates concerning Moses' ability to see God embroiled social rivalries and defined the limits of humanity.
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Regulating screens
How are children protected in today's multi-screen environment?
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When the french tried to be british
The restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814 was accompanied by the grant of the Charte - a written constitution modeled on what its authors imagined to be the contemporary British practice of parliamentary monarchy. A unique experiment, in effect it meant attempting to implement institutions ...
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Being neighbours
Drawing on the writing of over one hundred diarists, this book takes us into the heart of informal neighbourhood labour exchanges known as “bees” and the context of farm families’ daily lives in Southern Ontario. It sheds light on the workways of rural people and on how neighbouring was a dynamic...
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The fate of canada
The Fate of Canada introduces readers to poet, intellectual, constitutional expert, activist and law professor F.R. Scott’s biography, puts his diary entries into the political context of the time, and identifies the people he met and the places he visited during the hearings of the Royal Commiss...
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The boundaries of meaning and the formation of law
Different legal systems share some basic developmental tendencies that are rooted in the historical evolution of language and culture. In this comparative history of English common law, Islamic law, and Chinese imperialist law Sharron Gu describes the formation of three diverse legal systems in t...
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Gaelic cape breton step-dancing
Placing the phenomenon of Gaelic Cape Breton step-dancing into an historical perspective.
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