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The main philosophical writings and the novel allwill

This scholarly edition is the first extensive English translation of Jacobi's major literary and philosophical classics. A key but somewhat eclipsed figure in the German Enlightenment, Jacobi had an enormous impact on philosophical thought in the later pa

Surface imaginations

A meditation on why surfaces are so profound in the contemporary culture of cosmetic surgery.

The origins of walter rauschenbusch's social ethics

Walter Rauschenbusch is known as the father of the Social Concern movement in America. Traditionally, the source of his social ethic has been seen to lie in the single motif of liberalism. Donovan Smucker provides a new perspective, arguing that Rauschenbusch's social ethic was based on not one b...

Peasant economic development within the english manorial system

Challenging a hundred-year tradition that English peasants were serfs at the disposal of their lord, J.A. Raftis argues that tenants were in considerable control of the manorial regime and were able to take advantage of what most scholars have considered to be exploitive and negative aspects of t...

International education as public policy in canada

Unravelling the story of international education and its emergence as public policy in Canada.

Invasion 14

An epic novel recounting the German occupation of northern France during World War I.

Walter long, ireland, and the union, 1905-1920

It has been argued that Walter Long was the most powerful single voice on Irish affairs in the British government for the critical period from 1916 to 1920. As the leader most committed to a federalist approach to constitutional reform in Ireland, he was a central figure in maintaining a firm sta...

Reasonable self-esteem

In this fascinating look at the philosophy of self-esteem, Richard Keshen develops and defends the idea of reasonable self-esteem -- a concept based on an ideal of reasonableness -- and argues that individuals who think of themselves in terms of this paradigm will lead happier and more fulfilling...

Canada in the european age, 1453-1919, new edition

When Canada in the European Age, 1453-1919 was first published, it reversed traditional methodology by placing Canada's evolution in the context of the rise and fall of empires around the world, not just in the Americas. R.T. Naylor contends that the struggle for property (and political) rights i...

Norwegian oil policies

The shape of thought

Building on inquiries spanning three decades, The Shape of Thought shows that by understanding the many different things that people achieve with computers, we can improve and diversify AI to allow for richer, more beneficial human-computer interaction.

Giving my body to science

I bow and hand Sensei her arrows. All but one that I can't find, though I combed the long grass with my fingers. One arrow gone. Perhaps underground you hold it in your hand against the broken dawn. You are the wandering arrow, the bow unstrung. Your sudden absence has startled the partridges fro...

Canada among nations, 1992-93

Doing harm

*Doing Harm *recounts a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field’s enmeshment in the “war on terror,” and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics during times of threat. Eidelson exposes the challenges that the American Psychological Association faced when government a...

Visible histories

While there has been growing interest in assimilating women's experience into the social record of human history, relatively few studies have examined the environments women have built and changed in creating history. Through an examination of the process of environmental change as an important p...

Households of faith

Households of Faith examines a variety of religious traditions with a particular focus on the way in which religious communities define gender identities. The authors explore the boundaries drawn in religious discourse between the private and public, offe

Canada before television

A look at radio’s early history and the development of cultural democracy in Canada.

History of the liverpool privateers and letters of marque with an account of the liverpool slave trade, 1744-1812

"Though we are on the threshold of the Twentieth Century, with its tremendous possibilities, there are indications that white men still exist who would gladly revert to the iniquitous system of a bygone age, and enslave the African in his own land. If anything in this book should help to awaken t...

Bringing art to life

In 1959, Alan Jarvis - the brilliant and charismatic director of the National Gallery of Canada - was forced to resign following a disagreement with the government over the purchase of works by European Old Masters. He never fully recovered from this dismissal, or the public humiliation that foll...

Anthems and minstrel shows

From Montreal to New Orleans - the music and complex patriotism of the composer of "O Canada."

Waiting for the wave

In 1993, the neophyte Reform Party stunned the nation, winning 52 seats in the House of Commons, narrowly missing Official Opposition status. Having collected just 2% of the popular vote in the 1988 federal election, it garnered an astonishing 19% five years later.

When the north was red

Dennis Bartels and Alice Bartels trace the development of Soviet policy towards Aboriginal peoples from 1917 to 1989. Focusing on educational and social policies and practices, When the North Was Red reveals the problems encountered by Native peoples in Siberia and provides insights into Aborigin...

Staging strife

A candid look at anthropological research methods, political theatre, and advocacy.

The measure of canadian society

Vertical Mosaic. In this book are gathered ten of his outstanding essays, written over a period of twenty-five years. Porter's well-known ex-student Wallace Clement provides the introduction for this volume, and Richard Helmes-Hayes has compiled an updated bibliography of writings by and about Jo...

Protective practices

From humble beginnings wholesaling at a small tobacconist-hairdresser shop in 1915, the London Rubber Company rapidly became the UK's biggest postwar producer and exporter of disposable rubber condoms. Borge shows how aggressive business practices were successfully deployed to protect the monopol...

Civilization

Civilization explores how Scottish Enlightenment theories played out in Canadian imaginaries and institutions: the state and society; the liberal and the conservative. E.A. Heaman’s case study identifies crucial spaces and moments of conceptual reversal to consider what was unique and what was br...

Politics and the british novel in the 1970s

In Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s Russell Perkin looks at social novels by John Fowles and Margaret Drabble, the Cold War thrillers of John le Carré, Richard Adams's best-selling fable Watership Down, the popular campus novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge, Doris Lessing's dyst...

Ghost brothers

While Spanish conquistadores in the Americas seemed bent on plunder and the British on land appropriation, the French became swept up in a complex web of Native alliances. In an unprecedented study, Rony Blum explores how phantom-mediated interpretations of the past and present were key to the un...

Northern lights against pops

Representatives of 111 nations gathered in Stockholm in May 2001 to sign a legally binding convention to eliminate or reduce emissions of pesticides, insecticides, and other industrial combustion by-products. Long-range transport by air and water carries many of these pollutants to the circumpola...

Vingt ans après, habitants et marchands

This collection of essays commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Louise Dechêne's landmark book Habitants et marchands de Montréal au XVIIe siècle, which ushered in a new phase in the study of the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Canada. In Habitants et marchan...

Solitudes of the workplace

A consideration of workplace identities and the stresses women experience within the university system.

The subversive evangelical

A close investigation of a new wave of "reflexive evangelicals," whose playful critique of their own faith wins crowds.

Canada's game

Almost every Canadian can hum the original Hockey Night in Canada theme - even those who don't think of themselves as hockey fans. For more than a century, Canadians have seen something of themselves in the sport of hockey. Canada's Game explores the critical aspects of this relationship. Contrib...

The royal vic

Commemorating the first one hundred years of the Royal Victoria Hospital, this engaging and beautifully illustrated retrospective pays tribute to a great Montreal landmark and the people who contributed to its greatness.

William thomas, architect: 1799-1860

Among architect-historians, William Thomas is recognized as being "one of the founders of the Canadian architectural profession." His prodigious output during a 17-year career in Canada, dating from 1843 to 1860, included over 100 buildings, many of which are still standing today. The significanc...

A history of slovak literature

In spite of its richness and long history, Slovak literature is one of the least-known Slavic literatures in the English-speaking world. Few translations of Slovak works exist and until now there has been no systematic English-language history of the field. A History of Slovak Literature provides...

A practice of anthropology

Eminent anthropologists explore the nature of culture in essays honoring a colleague and teacher.

Carlyle and the economics of terror

Thomas Carlyle's difficult and obscure prose - the bane of every reader who has attempted to come to terms with his works - has often been interpreted as a reflection of the author's temperament or idiosyncrasies. Mary Desaulniers, however, argues that Carlyle's language is a deliberate strategy ...

Imprisoning our sisters

The federal Prison for Women in Kingston, an isolated, unsafe penitentiary characterized as "unfit for bears, much less women," finally closed in 2000. Stephanie Hayman charts the development of the five new prisons that replaced it, including an Aboriginal healing lodge, placing her study within...

First crack

This collection comes from an alternate world of poetry running close beside our own, one which is always chugging away at shaping meaning and adding substance to our feelings. These poems are usually a study in near-solitude: domestic scenes, Michelangelo's Last Judgement, the myths of Egypt, sk...

The politics of motherhood

Rush of wingspan

Along woodland trails and on the shores of essential bodies of water, these intimate poems by Eleonore Schönmaier reveal beauty and loss in equal measure.

Standard dictionary of meteorological sciences