Hugh macdiarmid

Christopher Grieve, writing under the name of Hugh MacDiarmid, was a major modern poet and founder of the Scottish literary Renaissance. In this study of his poetry, John Baglow eliminates what has been a stumbling block for most MacDiarmid scholars by showing the very real thematic and psycologi...

The explorations of edmund snow carpenter

A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.

Discrepant parallels

An examination of the divergent Canadian cultural investments in the Canada-US border.

How ottawa spends, 2013-2014

A critical examination of the Harper Government at the mid-point of the electoral cycle set in the context of its long term plans beyond the next federal election.

The diplomacy of prudence

In this analysis of Canadian foreign policy during the first decade of Israeli independence Zachariah Kay argues that the Canadian government was cautious in its support of Israel, attempting to maintain a balanced position between the warring Arab and Israeli sides.

Shaping the metropolis

How American and Canadian cities came to be governed differently – and what it means for the future.

The corpus and the cortex

While The 3-D Mind 1 started the trilogy on the lateral plane (right and left hemispheres), The Corpus and the Cortex looks at brain and sign processing from an axial, or vertical, perspective, with an emphasis on neural projections that divide and connect the neocortex and the lower emotional sy...

What it means to write

An intimate and worldly adventure into the heart of language, learning, and getting lost.

American protestant theology

American Protestantism from the perspective of a renowned Roman Catholic priest, educator, and public intellectual.

Outsourcing control

The first comprehensive study to trace the emergence of extraterritorial migration control agreements across nations, Outsourcing Control reveals the international and domestic pressures behind the complex, brutal, and often deadly situation facing migrants today.

International perspectives

How the rising tide of international migration is impacting state policy across the globe.

Gangs and girls

Gangs and Girls is the first major piece of qualitative research specifically aimed at understanding and analyzing the involvement of street gangs in female juvenile prostitution. Organized around a number of direct central questions, Michel Dorais and Patrice Corriveau document how street gangs ...

Telling it to the judge

In 1973, the Supreme Court's historic Calder decision on the Nisga'a community's title suit in British Columbia launched the Native rights litigation era in Canada. Legal claims have raised questions with significant historical implications, such as, "What treaty rights have survived in various p...

Nouvelles directions

Twenty-first-century immigration to north america

A revealing assessment of the policies, practices, and impact of immigration to Canada and the United States.

Protecting multiculturalism

A provocative look at the viability of Canadian multiculturalism and the experience of Canadian Muslims.

Enemy aliens, prisoners of war

Some eight thousand immigrant-settlers of "enemy" nationality - so called enemy aliens - were interned as civilian prisoners of war in Canada during World War I. The majority, deemed second-class prisoners, were sent to the hinterland of the Canadian Rock

Phillipe de rigaud de vaudreil

Up and to the right, second edition

The first-ever look at one of Canada's greatest growth investors and champions of entrepreneurship.

The politics of the northwest passage

In August 1985, the United States Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea sailed through the Northwest Passage without requesting Canadian permission. The voyage served to highlight the American belief that the channels of the Canadian Arctic archipelago are an international strait. As such, it challeng...

Hall-dennis and the road to utopia

As Canadians once again find themselves asking fundamental questions about the aims and objectives of education under radically changing circumstances, Josh Cole revisits Hall-Dennis to show how the committee and its report represents a significant moment in Canadian cultural and political history.

The wisdom of eccentric old men

The wise fool, the sensible madman, and the village idiot, traditional characters in European literature, are best-known through Don Quixote. Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920), Spain's most important novelist after Cervantes, contributed to this corpus with a number of principal characters whose af...

The right to an age-friendly city

A detailed and timely examination, The Right to an Age-Friendly City offers both broad and tangible insights into the intermingled political, economic, cultural, and administrative changes needed to protect the rights of senior citizens to access urban space in Toronto and beyond.

Robert emmet

Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was one Ireland's most romantic revolutionaries. The youngest son of Ireland's state physician, he was educated privately at Trinity College Dublin and, like many young people, was caught up in the fervour of the French Revolution. Expelled from Trinity in 1798 after invo...

Routines and orgies

The biography of value investor Peter Cundill - marathon runner, world-traveler, philosopher, cultural enthusiast, and playboy.

The domestic battleground

The Middle East has always been a source of great power confrontations, vast religious movements, and historic "about- faces." It has also had a magnetic pull, enticing commitments and allegiances from other countries. The conflict between Israel and the Arab states has been characterized by fail...

The translating subject

The Translating Subject explores how queer women writers use multilingual strategies to create intimacy with the unknown and enable ethical engagement across social, cultural, and linguistic differences.

Trance speakers

A thought-provoking exploration of women’s voices and their agency in practices of trance possession.

Integrating school and workplace learning in canada

In response to concerns that our educational system B from public schools through colleges, universities, and apprenticeship programs - cannot adequately prepare students for work in the new economy, Integrating School and Workplace Learning in Canada proposes alternation - a hybrid form of learn...

Bodily subjects

Historical understandings of gender and health that raise important questions about how health care works today.

A case of witchcraft

An extraordinary tale of passion, intrigue, and revenge, A Case of Witchcraft is the true story of Urbain Grandier, a seventeenth-century priest who was accused and found guilty of sorcery. Although popularized by Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun, the story has never been told in its entirety...

History of canadian literature, second edition

The definitive text on Canadian literature.

Troubling natural categories

A collection of essays taking up Margaret Lock's enduring project to question our deeply held assumptions about biology, medicine, and culture.

The origin of species revisited

Major inconsistencies in Darwin's theory of the origin of species by natural selection remained unresolved for over a century until the results of recent research in various genome projects led to the theory's reinterpretation. Reviewing this new information, Donald Forsdyke, a laboratory scienti...

The clockmaker

In 1835 Thomas Chandler Haliburton introduced Samuel Slick of Slicksville, Connecticut, into the pages of the Novascotian in order to awaken his fellow citizens to the economic opportunities of their province. From this Halifax newspaper trotted out the C

Reflecting on our past and embracing our future

A clear-eyed look at the Senate's original purpose and contemporary role in Canada.

Journey with no maps

Poet, traveller, artist, and mystic - the story of one extraordinary woman's many lives.

Service in the field

The most important people in government are not the prime minister, premiers, and senior bureaucrats but the people who work in government field offices across the country, providing service to Canadians. The first book to focus exclusively on the role of field-level public servants in Canada, Se...

Mugabe and the politics of security in zimbabwe

How President Robert Mugabe manipulated Zimbabwe's security policy to exploit past problems for present gain.

Urban encounters

Exploring how art and the public interact in cities.

The development of postsecondary education systems in canada

How higher education policy affects educational outcomes.

How ottawa spends, 1994-1995

Canadian indians and the law

The experience of meaning

A provocative exploration of the experience of meaning, and a clarion call for its recovery in contemporary culture.