The rough poets

A rallying cry for climate justice, The Rough Poets introduces the reader to poetry that is ambivalent, playful, crude, and honest, and to oil-worker poets who grieve the environmental and social impacts of their work, worry about climate change and the future of their communities, and desire job...

Banana bending

Banana Bending is the first book to offer a comparative study of diasporic Asian literatures in Australia and Canada, arguing that while contingent coalitions between diasporic groups serve various politicizing and promotional purposes, artistic and cultural struggles manifest themselves within l...

William blake in the desolate market

The life of a brilliant poet, exquisite painter, and rotten salesman.

Canadian literary fare

When literary writers place food in front of their characters, they ask readers to be alert to the meaning and implication of food choices. In Canadian Literary Fare Nathalie Cooke and Shelley Boyd explore food voices in a wide range of Canadian fiction, drama, and poetry.

The habsburg empire under siege

Offering a trans-imperial perspective that reassesses the complex relationship between Hungarians, Habsburgs, and Ottomans, this book portrays the resistance of ordinary men and women and their hopes for liberation from Habsburg oppression, reclaiming their place in history.

The gate of heaven

The Gate of Heaven is the story of the evolution of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, from the beginnings of Jewish settlement in Canada to present-day activities. Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat shows how the achievement of political rights for Jews in Canada galvanized immigration, leading the English/Germa...

The permanent nature of everything

A childhood of freedom and risk, of navigating the shoals of a combative family, and reaching out for an understanding of the world.

The wings of the doves

The tragic love of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta - a classic story of passion and death - revisited through the lenses of literature, philosophy, and theology.

Nationalism, capitalism, and colonization in nineteenth-century quebec

In the late 1830s the governments of Britain and Lower Canada, the Catholic Church, and a number of capitalist enterprises began to play a role in the settlement and exploitation of the economically marginal Upper St Francis district of Southern Quebec. British attempts to encourage immigration w...

A portrait of the artist as australian

Best known to his fans for the flamboyant character Dame Edna Everage, the Australian actor and comedian Barry Humphries is also a painter, composer, and critically acclaimed author. Taking outrageousness to new heights by borrowing from the British Music Hall tradition and the Dada art movement,...

Report on social security for canada

Public welfare and social security in Canada as envisioned by Leonard Marsh.

Negotiating disease

Criticism of conventional medicine is often regarded as a product of the 1960s. Before then, "scientific medicine" enjoyed uncontestable cultural prestige, with kindly but strict doctors wielding unquestioned authority over grateful patients while "quacks" flogged dubious remedies to the poor and...

War as paradox

The origin and continued importance of dialectical war theory in the works of Clausewitz and Hegel.

The making of the nations and cultures of the new world

Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand emerged as nations. Through conquest and violent appropriation, European immigrants settled these lands and developed a sense of belonging, powerfully expressed in identity, memory, and the belief in utopias. ...

Canadian counselling and counselling psychology in the 21st century

A comprehensive review of Canadian counselling and counselling psychology scholarship.

Marina warner and the ethics of telling silenced stories

A wide-ranging study of the influential British novelist and public intellectual writer Marina Warner and the ways she negotiates the dangers of appropriating voices through narrative, examining her writing from her early journalism to her novels, short stories, and studies of myths and fairy tales.

It’s nation time

In It’s Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphold progressive globalisation.

Women and the canadian state/les femmes et l'etat canadien

A collection of essays presented at a conference to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the release of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, Women and the Canadian State both celebrates and critically assesses the Report. Women bureaucrats, activists, and academics consi...

Shades of laura

Understanding Nabokov's oeuvre through a detailed look at the posthumous publication of his unrealized novel.

Half-brain fables and figs in paradise

In his three-book exploration of signs and synapse, Jacques Chevalier explores the links between brain science, studies of symbolism, and debates in ancient, modern, and postmodern philosophy to shed light on how brain and signs in language actually interface. In The 3D Mind the author pursues th...

The grandmothers' movement

Grandmothers' alliances across distance and difference - unlikely mobilizations, unexpected change.

How long have we got?

How ottawa spends, 2014-2015

A critical examination of the Harper Government in its eighth year in power as it faces the first serious electoral challenge by a reenergized Liberal Party.

Carbon blues

Climate change is the most serious crisis of our time. As history is being written in fire in Australia, California and Greece, in the warming waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and in the melting ice of the Arctic and Antarctica, Carbon Blues demystifies current debates on climate change, discussing ...

Black then

A sixteen-year-old slave boy who finds freedom in a most unusual way, a teenage prostitute who does not, a business manager of the 1790s, a four-year-old boy placed as a servant, a respected activist of the 1830s, a fugitive Kentucky slave who makes a name for himself as a jockey and horse traine...

Minority languages, national languages, and official language policies

An examination of the interdisciplinary field of language policy offering a rich collection of new research on diversity and multilingualism.

Museum pieces

The ways in which Aboriginal people and museums work together have changed drastically in recent decades. This historic process of decolonization, including distinctive attempts to institutionalize multiculturalism, has pushed Canadian museums to pioneer new practices that can accommodate both di...

Relativism

Relativism lies at the very heart of philosophy since there can be little point to debates in other philosophical areas if the issues surrounding relativism are not resolved. This book offers a systematic discussion of a variety of different relativist positions that are often grouped together un...

Ontology

This introduction to ontology - the philosophical study of what exists and what it means for something to exist - will provide students of metaphysics with a comprehensive account of the central ideas at the heart of the subject of being.

Cartographies of place

Engaging with place, image, and media to understand the complexity of urban life.

Schooling the system

As schools continue to grapple with creating diverse educational programs for all Canadians, Schooling the System is a timely excavation of the meaningful contributions of black women educators who helped create equitable policies and practices in schools and communities.

Taming cannabis

Despite having the highest rates of cannabis use in the continent, France enforces the most repressive laws against the drug in all of Europe. Perhaps surprisingly, France was once the epicentre of a global movement to medicalize cannabis, specifically hashish, in the treatment of disease. In Tam...

Post secondary education in a technological society/ l'enseignement post-secondaire dans une société technologique

This publication is composed of the summary of discussion and the papers prepared for the Nuffield Canadian Seminar. The seminar, entitled "The Costs of Post-Secondary Education in a Technological Society," was held at Cap-Rouge, near Quebec City, 25-27 June 1971. La présente publication comprend...

Historical essays on upper canada

This collection of articles provides a fresh look at the multi-faceted history of Upper Canada. As well as new perspectives on themes in economic, social and political history, essays are included on topics of concern to contemporary scholars such as nati

Vanguard of the new age

The story of the small "new age" religious group that introduced Victorian Toronto to Eastern thought and theology, vegetarianism, reincarnation, cremation, and the pacifism of Mohandas Gandhi.

Toward a healthcare strategy for canadians

A comprehensive look at reforming Canada's mediocre public healthcare system from a system-wide strategic perspective.

Like everyone else but different, second edition

A timely analysis of the possibilities and challenges of multiculturalism as seen in the iconic case of Canada’s Jewish community.

How ottawa spends, 2004-2005

The twenty-fifth edition of "How Ottawa Spends" assesses the priorities, initial spending, and policy initiatives of the new Paul Martin era. Writing in the context of the Liberal Party's internal regime change and the formation of a new Conservative Party, contributors to this volume examine key...

Interests of state

Leslie Pal explores a phenomenon unique to Canadian politics - the direct funding of advocacy groups by the government - and makes a significant contribution to the debate on the role of the state in shaping society. Focusing on groups concerned with the official languages, multiculturalism, and ...

Censorship in canadian literature

Censorship has been amply studied in the context of European and American literatures but largely ignored in Canadian literary studies. In Censorship in Canadian Literature Mark Cohen provides the first analysis of censorship of and in English Canadian literature. He examines the views of five Ca...

The serbian project and its adversaries

An examination of the military dimensions of Serbian aggression in the former Yugoslavia.

Trio

One woman. Two lovers. It's a complicated dance.

Maurice

Maurice (1987), a British film based on the novel by E.M. Forster, follows an Edwardian man’s journey to self-acceptance as someone who loves and desires men. Rebutting its critical reception, this volume champions the film as a sympathetic adaptation, making a case for its underappreciated posit...

Voices for the watershed

Voices for the Watershed is a unique look at the singular and ecologically inter-connected region of the Great Lakes-St Lawrence watershed, including the headwater and upland regions. With contributions from experts from the United States, Quebec, and Ontario, this book offers an accessible intro...