Writing lovers

Is it possible to capture something as ephemeral as love with mere words? Méira Cook draws on Lacan, Derrida, Barthes, and Kristeva to wrestle with the theoretical problems of representing the unrepresentable. In Writing Lovers she searches for a language adequate to articulating the discourse of...

Surpassing wonder

What Noam Chomsky did for political commentary, and Stephen Hawking did for cosmology, Donald Harman Akenson does for the Bible and its interpreters - and the resulting conclusions are just as astounding. Surpassing Wonder illuminates how the greatest cul

Stage turns

How Canadian theatre artists are challenging traditional theatre practices and reimagining disability on stage.

From personal duties towards personal rights

Focusing on the concepts of popular consent, representation, limit, and resistance to tyranny as essential features of modern theories of parliamentary democracy, Monahan shows a continuity in use of these concepts across the alleged divide between the Mi

Canada: the state of the federation, 2011

In this edition of Canada: The State of the Federation, contributors consider whether and to what degree the relationship between the central government and the provincial and territorial governments has changed in the past decade. The authors address three overarching questions. First, is the po...

Politics in high latitudes

Rockefeller foundation funding and medical education in toronto, montreal, and halifax

In 1919 a five million dollar Rockefeller Foundation gift to certain Canadian medical schools, coupled with a major donation from Sir John Craig and Lady Eaton, helped bring Canadian medical education into the twentieth century. Marianne Fedunkiw charts how this significant gift affected the univ...

Améliorer le leadership dans les services de santé au canada

How to train senior managers to make better use of evidence to transform health care.

Principles and methods in historical phonology

Arapaho, a western Algonkian language, is still spoken on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Phonologically modern Arapaho looks very "un-Algonkian," for it has undergone a rather startling number of sound changes. In this study Marc Picard attempts to use the phonological history of A...

Bilingual being

An intimate memoir of a bilingual childhood in Quebec at mid-century that shows how language can reshape a life after trauma.

Stranger gods

In Stranger Gods Roger Clark offers an ambitious and wide-ranging study of Salman Rushdie's seven published novels, with a special focus on his earliest, Grimus, and his most powerful and provocative, Midnight's Children, Shame, and The Satanic Verses. Clark shows how Rushdie employs cosmology, m...

The practice of fiscal federalism, vol. 4

Leading scholars and practitioners examine constitutional design and taxing, spending, and regulatory responsibilities at the federal, state/provincial, and local/municipal levels in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the Un...

Good citizens

The inescapable political dimensions of missionary enterprises were never more obvious than during the turbulent period from 1870 to 1918. As world powers expanded and often collided in all too concrete political, economic, and military terms, leaders of

Thomas nagel

Children of peace

Taking its title from the religious sect examined, Children of Peace is a history of one of the most significant and least-studied religious sects in English-speaking Canada. John McIntyre paints a colourful picture of a group of individuals who tried to

Un homme grand

The essays collected in this volume constitute a breakthrough in an understanding of the life and works of Kerouac. Fellow Beats, biographers, critics, poets and scholars write about their views of a man who epitomizes both the American Dream and the French-Canadian experience on this continent. ...

Shut off

A critical analysis of the most significant technological change in Canadian television history.

Community besieged

Until the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s English-speaking Quebecers seldom thought of themselves as a minority and the Quebec government had little influence on their lives. Over the last generation their situation has been totally transformed, as Quebec governments have sought to promote the Fren...

Documents of protest and compassion

Walter Bauer, a socially committed writer and humanist, emigrated from Germany to Canada in 1952 after becoming disillusioned with social and intellectual developments in Germany. During his progression from dishwasher to university professor, Canada's multicultural outlook allowed him to remain ...

Projecting canada

The National Film Board of Canada, now in its seventh decade, is internationally acclaimed as a beacon of non-commercial filmmaking. In Projecting Canada Zoë Druick shows that the NFB, born out of a nation-building project, continues to be inextricably involved in the crises of nation, technology...

Home medicine

John Crellin assesses popular home remedies from amulets to Zam-Buk ointment, revealing traditional - often ingenious - ways of coping with common health problems. Home Medicine is both a comprehensive reference to folk cures and self-treatment and a social history of pharmaceutical practices and...

Kingsley amis

Uncovering Kingsley Amis's hidden artistic agenda.

Omar khadr, oh canada

Diverse insights into the life and legal case of a Canadian child soldier.

The price of leisure

T.a. crerar

T.A. Crerar's career as a federal politician spanned a period of tremendous change in Canada. In public life from 1917 to 1966, he served under prime ministers Borden, King, St Laurent, and Pearson. The only politician to serve in two wartime cabinets, Crerar participated in some of the major pol...

Children into swans

A lucid exploration of fairy tales and the lore of ancient stories embedded in them.

Arctic ordeal

Only a handful of the original members of Sir John Franklin's first Arctic expedition returned. John Richardson was one of them. His journal recounts their journey across the Barren Grounds, providing many details not found in Franklin's own 1823 narrative and raising questions about Franklin's a...

Serious leisure and individuality

A thoughtful examination of how we become individuals and how we fit into personal and social life.

A young man's benefit

In the past a family's chief cost of sickness was loss of the family head's earning, not expenses for health care. Since there were no government programs, sickness insurance provided by friendly societies, commercial insurers, and other institutions was important in partially replacing the wage ...

The sixties

A new approach to one of the most memorable decades in recent history.

Dictionary of the english/creole of trinidad & tobago

The twin-island nation of Trinidad & Tobago has a complex history that has resulted in a unique English language, shaped by all members of its multi-ethnic community: the original Amerindian inhabitants, the European colonizers, the Africans - enslaved, free, and indentured - as well as the p...

Reading mansfield and metaphors of form

Although Katherine Mansfield's short stories have remained continuously in print and appear in all standard anthologies, they have attracted remarkably little critical attention. W.H. New rectifies this by presenting a detailed critical analysis of her short stories, establishing Mansfield as a m...

A sourcebook of canadian media law, second edition

This edition examines the Canadian Constitution and its effect on the principle of freedom of expression. The balance of the book directs attention to the laws that have been enacted that limit such freedom.

Anne around the world

New perspectives on the literary classic that enchants and engages readers across times and cultures.

Strategy and command

Histories of the First World War are often written from a British perspective, ignoring the coalition element of the conflict and the French point of view. In Strategy and Command, Roy Prete offers a major new interpretation supported by in-depth research in French archival sources.

Reconciling france against democracy

Launched as a veterans' group, during the mid-1930s the Croix de Feu grew into a nationalist movement with half a million supporters. In Reconciling France against Democracy Sean Kennedy explores how the group, led by François de La Rocque, reshaped French politics and helped set the stage for th...

Demography, state and society

The process of migration is associated with longing, homesickness, the shock of exposure to a new culture, and, sometimes, escape and freedom. Between the foundation of the new Irish state in 1921-22 and the early 1970s approximately one and one-half mill

Taking stock

In the last two decades governments have invested a great deal of time, money, and political capital in reforms to make the public sector more efficient. They have, however, invested little in evaluating the effectiveness of their efforts, accepting many of the reforms because of a belief in a pa...

Canada - an american nation?

Are Canadians so influenced by the United States that they lack a distinct identity? This question has preoccupied Canadians and Canadianists for years. Canada - An American Nation? is a compilation of Allan Smith's essays on the influence of American society on Canadian identity. Based on the no...

Visibly canadian

A ground-breaking study revealing how culture shaped citizenship and belonging in nineteenth-century Ontario and Quebec.

Pearson

Lester B. Pearson was Canada's most successful diplomat, but as prime minister he was both controversial and paradoxical. He was the butter-fingered old smoothie, the cautious innovator, the anti-war warrior, the mild-mannered confrontationalist. The Pearson years were full of action and original...

The architecture of andrew thomas taylor

How Andrew Thomas Taylor advanced the quality of architecture in Canada.

Remaining loyal

How social democrats have changed with the times while their key values have stayed the same.

Canadian bilingual districts

Bilingual districts were recommended in 1969 by the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism to help resolve Canada's sociolinguistic tensions. The "cornerstone" of the Commission's 150 recommendations and its federal language policy, these administrative enclaves were intended to provi...