Collected poems of bronwen wallace

A new collection that includes all of Bronwen Wallace's published poems, as well as a selection of previously unpublished early work.

Narratives unfolding

In a global art world, how fares the nation?

Adam smith’s islands

Through an in-depth case study of New Zealand, Adam Smith’s Islands advances scholarship on economic restructuring activities prominent from the late 1970s into the 1990s.

Steps on the road to medicare

An in-depth look at why Saskatchewan was the first province to introduce medicare.

A thirst for wine and war

To maintain morale amongst soldiers in the wretched trenches of World War I, the French army provided regular rations of wine and other alcohol that became a defining feature of French soldiers’ experience. A Thirst for Wine and War explores the French army’s strategic distribution of alcohol as ...

Making ei work

Since the inception and design of Canada's Employment Insurance (EI) program, the Canadian economy and labour market have undergone dramatic changes. It is clear that EI has not kept pace with those changes, and experts and advocates agree that the program is no longer effective or equitable. Mak...

How ottawa spends, 1992-1993

This volume is the thirteenth in the series on federal government spending and policy performance compiled by Carleton University's School of Public Administration. This year's edition considers the politics of competitiveness - the ways in which international forces and trends pose particular ch...

Labeling people

Nineteenth-century French scholars, during a turbulent era of revolution and industrialization, ranked intelligence and character according to facial profile, skin colour, and head shape. They believed that such indicators could determine whether individuals were educable and peoples perfectible....

Nietzsche and the rhetoric of nihilism

New readings and perspectives on Nietzsche's work are brought together in this collection of essays by prominent scholars from North America and Europe. They question whether Nietzsche's work and the conventional interpretation of it is rhetorical and nihilistic.

Domicide

Media reports describing the destruction of people's homes, for reasons ranging from ethnic persecution to the perceived need for a new airport or highway, are all too familiar. The planned destruction of homes affects millions of people globally; places destroyed range in scale from single dwell...

Architecture in transition

The world of Canadian architecture was transformed during the years before 1900. New technologies such as the steel frame changed the way buildings were constructed, new styles such as the Richardsonian Romanesque changed the way buildings looked, and the development of the Canadian economy meant...

Smitten by giraffe

In Smitten by Giraffe the noted zoologist and feminist Anne Innis Dagg reflects on her scientific work as well as the leading role she has played in numerous activist campaigns, offering an inside perspective on the workings of scientific research and debate, the history of academia, and the rise...

The civil war years

While the Yankees and the Confederates fought a ruthless civil war in the United States, Britain and the northern states waged a "war in anticipation" as British North America waited and wondered whether the federal army of the United States would invade. Robin Winks's classic study is a dramatic...

How ottawa spends, 1995-1996

Restless history

Restless History re-examines the post-Stalinist period in Bulgaria, Eastern Europe, and beyond – in all its tensions and contradictions – to offer the socialist past as an unfinished history, one that cannot be easily put to rest.

Travellers through empire

An exploration of Indigenous people’s experiences travelling from Canada to Britain and beyond from the 1770s to 1914.

Yellow crocodiles and blue oranges

Political positions come and go but talking animals, evil witches, and mythical princesses endure. David MacFadyen argues that Soviet socialist animation between 1936 and 1999 was a fundamentally emotional, not propagandistic, enterprise that requires a reconsideration of Soviet art in general. O...

Governing charities

Governing Charities challenges received accounts of the welfare state by highlighting the complex web of relationships that characterize the delivery of social services. In tracing the connections between the Catholic Church in Toronto and provincial and municipal governments, Paula Maurutto take...

Delivering the news

A rich gathering of lyric poems by anative of Prince Edward Island.

Recognizing religion in a secular society

What does it mean to describe our society as secular? And what role might religion play in its evolution? Are religious considerations a necessary part of coherent speech about human dignity or human rights? Are religious communities properly accounted for in our talk of a "social contract"? "Rec...

Contemporary musical expressions in canada

An exploration of the cultural diversity and vitality of contemporary music and dance practices in Canada.

Writing herself into being

Quebec women’s struggle for self and portrayal of their society in autobiographies, letters, and private diaries.

Russian émigrés in the intellectual and literary life of inter-war france

An encyclopedic bibliography of material published in the cultural exchange between French intellectuals and Russian exiles who fled the Soviet Union.

Faces of displacement

How emigration transformed the creative palette of a major Ukrainian writer and political figure.How emigration transformed the creative palette of a major Ukrainian writer and political figure.

Building bridges

A life devoted to social reconciliation and public understanding.

Alkibiades' love

A highly original series of essays on the nature and practice of philosophy.

Patriotic elaborations

How an understanding of dialogue supports original approaches to politics, ethics, religion, and aesthetics.

One country or two?

Net privacy

In our digital world, we are confused by privacy – what is public, what is private? We are also challenged by it, the conditions of privacy so uncertain we become unsure about our rights to it. We may choose to share personal information, but often do so on the assumption that it won't be re-shar...

Hope circuits

How do we model abundance – in teaching, in learning, in leading organizations, particularly non-profits – when dealing with fiscal austerity and other forms of scarcity thinking? Hope Circuits explores this question, balancing sophisticated ideas with democratizing higher education for everybody.

Braiding legal orders

An examination of international, Indigenous, and Canadian constitutional law relating to the implementation of UNDRIP in Canada by leading Indigenous legal scholars and policy leaders.

Mind and body

In Mind and Body Robert Kirk offers an introduction to the complex tangle of questions and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem.

Transdisciplinarity

This book addresses the need for transdisciplinarity, a new and important approach to solution of global problems.

How ottawa spends, 1991-1992

This volume is the twelfth in the series on federal government spending and policy performance compiled by Carleton University's School of Public Administration. This edition assesses the future of Canada in the post-Meech, post-free trade era. Four articles concentrate on the increasing fragment...

Minority men in a majority setting

Global shift

A striking portrait of states in the non-Western world from the dismantling of European empires to their inclusion into a universe of global capitalism.

Rivermen

Rivers and their sources have captured the human imagination for centuries. Their special potential for both mystery and commerce has inspired writers, artists, scientists, and politicians throughout history. In both literature and art, riverscapes have traditionally been seen as more than simply...

Leading research universities in a competitive world

Comparative analyses of the elements that help research universities perform to world-class standards.

Twenty-first-century feminismos

Twenty-First-Century Feminismos provides a compelling account of the important victories attained by Latin American and Caribbean organized women over the course of the last forty years. Ten case studies are examined to better understand the ways in which women’s and feminist movements react to, ...

Tradition and tension

Tradition and Tension is the history of a period that marked a dramatic change in the Presbyterian Church’s fortunes – from confident expansion in the immediate postwar period to a relatively sudden contraction in the early 1960s, followed by waning membership and influence into the 1980s.

Wacousta or, the prophecy

Set on the northwest frontier during the Pontiac conspiracy of the 1760s, this story of false identity, wasted love, diabolic vengeance and unquenchable hatred articulates themes and mythologies relevant to French, British, Canadian and American history.

Eighteenth-century naturalists of hudson bay

Where Peter Newman's best-selling trilogy captured the essence of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) as a business empire, Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay presents the scientific achievements of the company's early employees, drawing largely on materials in the HBC Winnipeg archives. C. ...

Common sense and legal judgment

An analysis of the surprisingly inscrutable idea of “common sense” and its relationship to reflective and accountable legal judgment.

The pleasure of fools

Men cannot laugh heartily without showing their teeth, quipped Samuel Butler. From St Paul to Descartes to Adorno, scholars and writers have questioned the ethics of laughter - any laughter. In The Pleasure of Fools, Jure Gantar wrestles with our moral right to laugh and the limitations of contem...