The canadian city

The emphasis is on urban society, with new essays on social structure, the family, ethnicity and immigration, and religion. Other sections are devoted to urban growth, the physical environment, and urban government and reform.

Languages in conflict

The lives of lake ontario

Lake Ontario has materially enabled and enriched the societies that have crowded its edges, from fertile agriculture landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities. The Lives of Lake Ontario examines the myriad ways Canada and the United States have used and abused this remarkably re...

Colonization and community

In the nineteenth century coal-miners imported from Europe, Asia, and eastern North America burrowed beneath the Vancouver Island towns of Nanaimo, Wellington, and Cumberland. No group was as numerous and influential in this enterprise as the hundreds o

Sound and noise

A timely evaluation of the noise that surrounds us, how we hear it, and what we can do about it, Marcia Jenneth Epstein gives us the impetus and the tools to understand the sounds and noise that define our daily lives. This is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of how auditory stimuli impac...

Depression and the social environment

While depression has been the subject of much research in the last decade, far too little attention has been paid to the influence of the social environment on depression and on mental health generally. This lack has become more conspicuous since the Canadian federal government began requiring th...

Canada among nations, 2005

In the 2005 edition of the Canada Among Nations series, contributors explore the divergences - the split - within Canada over a number of foreign policy areas, including defence and economic strategies. This volume highlights Canada's pivotal relationship with the U.S. in contrast to its importan...

Shooting from the east

A critical history of filmmaking in Atlantic Canada from the early days of art cinema to the contemporary media industry.

Collective bargaining and the public interest

Canadian opinions about labour unions have changed in recent years. The more frequent use of strikes to resolve disputes has contributed to a growing intolerance of unions, particularly in the public service. Canadians now seem to be more concerned about the increasing power of unions than about ...

State and society in transition

Examining the process of state formation as it occurred in the Eastern Townships of Quebec following the unification of Upper and Lower Canada, J.I. Little argues that institutional reform was not simply imposed by the government but the result of a complex process of interaction between the stat...

Learning to look

In Learning to Look Lesley Clement traces the evolution of Mavis Gallant's visually evocative style through five decades of her short fictional works. Gallant explores the boundaries between visible and invisible worlds as the lines, shapes, and colours suggested by her allusions, analogies, and ...

Fourth south american workshop on string processing (wsp 1997)

This is an original, thoroughly researched account of the image of Canada in Soviet writings - political, jounalistic and academic - over the entire course of Soviet history. A study of the role of ideology in Soviet foreign affairs, the book traces the influence of an adjusting Marxist-Leninist ...

Rushes from the river disappointment

Lyrical field notes exploring tests of courage in relationships from a bold emerging voice in Canadian poetry.

Culture and nationality

Robert laird borden, vol i

The memoirs of Sir Robert Borden are honest, straightforward, and fair; qualities similar to those possessed by the unpretentious Nova Scotia lawyer who became leader of the Conservative Party and Canada's prime minister during World War One.

Recurrent dislocation of the shoulder

Canadian science, technology, and innovation policy

An extensive and in-depth account and explanation of Canada’s changing policies for science, technology, and innovation.

Under siege

Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, Under Siege examines how the global war on terror and heightened anti-Muslim racism have affected millennials who were socialized into a world where their faith and identity are under attack. Jasmin Zine explores the experiences of Canadian Muslim youth to unp...

The search for good government

Observers have frequently noted that Italians seem skilled at many things - but not at good government. As a people Italians are said to have flair, panache, and tenacity, while as a polity Italy is in shambles. This paradoxical view of politics can be found in Italian history as far back as Guic...

Atiqput

Atiqput is the first book-length study of Project Naming, the photo-based history research initiative established by the Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut in collaboration with Library and Archives Canada. Through oral testimony and photography, Atiqput rewrites settler societies’ historical reco...

The irish war of independence

The Irish War of Independence was a sporadic guerrilla campaign that lasted from January 1919 until July 1921. Michael Hopkinson makes full use of the recently opened files of the Bureau of Military Archives in Dublin, which contain valuable first-hand contemporary accounts of the war, meticulous...

Outside, inside

A humble admission that while we can't know it all, we keep asking.

Possible worlds

Ever since Kripke and others developed a semantic interpretation for modal logic, "possible worlds" has become a much debated issue in contemporary metaphysics.

Feelings of structure

How places, objects, fantasies, histories, and memories get under our skin and how we understand their affective connections.

Community in crisis

Trials of labour

Trials of Labour is a detailed study of the available social science literature on childbirth and midwifery. Brian Burtch highlights the difficulties associated with the present lack of regulation of midwifery, pointing to ways of reducing the dangers through establishing guidelines for domicilia...

Sojourns in the new world

This collection of essays represents a reflective inquiry into the way in which our world is set apart from its past, its present defined and its destiny shaped by technology. The contributors tackle the subject from different perspectives within the fields of philosophy and politics.

Survival and consolidation

At a time when the Soviet Union is disintegrating, Richard Debo provides an intriguing and detailed examination of the new political realities that slowly and painfully emerged in eastern Europe out of the chaos left in the wake of the First World War. Revealing the reasons for the victory of Len...

Curative illnesses

A necessary second opinion on the national implications of an epidemic of sick literary characters.

Yogalands

Promoted as a way of healing people from wounds inflicted by the world, modern yoga offers an “anti-world” to which practitioners can escape. Yet yoga can never free itself entirely from the compromises and contradictions of the real world. Yogalands encourages practitioners and critics to be cur...

Local government and metropolitan regions in federal systems

Examining the various functions of local governments.

After evangelicalism

A fascinating account of how Canada's largest Protestant church reinvented itself during the tumultuous 1960s.

Urdu for children, book ii, let's read urdu, part one

The second set of books in the groundbreaking series of instructional resource for teaching Urdu at primary level.

Joseph howe, volume ii

In this concluding volume of the biography of the great Nova Scotia tribune, Joseph Howe extends his horizon well beyond his native province and in the climactic period of a tumultuous political career accepts the union of the British North American colonies and "becomes a Canadian."

Collapse of a country

A rare first-hand account of the violent implosion and ongoing humanitarian tragedy of the world’s youngest state.

Donald davidson

An in-depth examination of Donald Davidson's work.

Hunter with harpoon

Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In t...

Law, policy, and international justice

Law, Policy, and International Justice is a collection of essays published in honour of Judge Maxwell Cohen. As a law professor, dean, and scholar, and through domestic and international public service, Cohen has played an important part in determining the direction of the law and legal instituti...

The embattled general

A re-evaluation of a controversial Canadian general that overturns much of what is known about him.

Scott, brandtner, eveleigh, webber

Four artists who are today relatively or almost entirely unknown – Marian Dale Scott, Fritz Brandtner, Henry Eveleigh, and Gordon Webber – nevertheless played a part in the aesthetic upheavals that led to abstraction in 1940s Montreal. This book reinstates the oeuvres of these forgotten protagoni...

Lament for a nation, 40th anniversary edition

The classic masterpiece of political meditation.

Lying about the wolf

Addressing some of the major issues plaguing education, particularly the scandal of illiteracy and the growing mediocrity in academic performance, David Solway argues that the current state of affairs in education is the result not simply of poor training in elementary school or the disappearance...

Professional heckler

A candid biography of one of the most influential editorial cartoonists in recent Canadian history.

The drug solution

This provocative volume makes a valuable contribution to debates on drug legislation. It is the only book that analyses and assesses all regulatory alternatives to drug prohibition. The author brings together research from the scientific, medical, ethical and legal fields to criticize drug laws a...