The imaginative structure of the city

In The Imaginative Structure of the City Alan Blum explores the symbolic and imaginative nature of the city as a vital part of everyday life in modern civilization. He introduces the city as a community that must struggle to maintain its collective identity against typical problems - problems tha...

Lessons on the noun phrase in english

While ordinary speakers - and some linguists - assume we have a mental dictionary stocked with words ready for use, Walter Hirtle shows that this view leads to contradictions. Focusing on the English noun with its modifiers and determiners, he proposes a radically different approach, arguing that...

Watermelon snow

Weaves memoir, microbiology, and artistic antics together with descriptions of a sublime Arctic landscape. Inspiring and deeply personal, this is the story of one scientist's rediscovery of what it means to live a good life at a time of increasing desperation about the future.

Inventing canada

The classic study of science, land, and nation in Canada.

Ecosystems, society, and health

International perspectives on the interdependence of ecological, health, and societal problems.

The politics of popular culture

Why popular culture matters to political science - and vice versa.

Consent, coercion, and limit

The concepts of popular consent and limit, as applied to the exercise of political authority, are fundamental features of parliamentary democracy. Both these concepts played a role in medieval political theorizing, although the meaning and significance of political consent in this thought has not...

Kit's kingdom

This first title in the Carleton Women's Experience Series looks at the lively writing of Kit Coleman, best known as the first accredited North American female war correspondent for her coverage of the Spanish-American War of 1898. The author outlines how Coleman created "Kit" of "Woman's Kingdom...

Organizing equality

Organizing Equality engages activist and scholarly debates about the organization of social and economic equality movements around the globe. The collection highlights a myriad of issues, approaches, and experiences, forging a link between critical scholarly studies and artistic works that offer ...

Strategy and command

Based on extensive research in French political and military archives, this new in-depth study of Anglo-French military relations on the Western Front in 1915 fills a major gap in the unfolding drama of the First World War.

Body counts

In an invigorating comparative and interdisciplinary reconsideration of the role of different types of medical counting, this wide-ranging bilingual volume takes us from the mortality tables of the eighteenth century to the movement for evidence-based medicine in our own day. Culled from the proc...

J.e.h. macdonald, designer

The design work of Group of Seven painter J.E.H. MacDonald was not only central to his personal artistic development, but inseparable from the graphic design industry in Toronto from the 1890s to the 1930s: the "golden age" of book and magazine illustration. This connection has been largely overs...

A history and ethnography of the beothuk

This beautifully illustrated book is an elegant, comprehensive, and scholarly review of the history and culture of the Beothuk that incorporates an unmatched amount of archival material and archaeological data.

Hamlet-911

A new edition of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Hamlet-911, an incisive and satirical play in which a famous actor about to perform Hamlet at the Stratford Festival suddenly finds himself in the Underworld.

Tuberculosis then and now

One-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacillus and up to ten percent of these individuals will go on to develop tuberculosis. Today the disease is most prevalent in Africa and South Asia, but a century and a half ago it was the largest single cause of death in Euro...

Vatican ii and beyond

A look at the impact of Vatican II through the Canadian Religious Conference and the lived experience of Sisters Alice Trudeau and Mary Alban.

Mimic fires

In this survey and analysis of long poems written about Canada between 1690 and 1900, D.M.R. Bentley establishes literary contexts for a greatly neglected period of Canadian literature. He also provides critical discussions of the poems, addresses larger questions of tradition and intertextuality...

Early modern spectatorship

Essays that converge on the idea of spectatorship in the theatre, in criminal punishment, in religious worship, in urban perambulation, and even where least expected.

Subsistence under capitalism

An understanding of subsistence is crucial to comprehending and challenging the human relationship to nature under capitalism.

How ottawa spends, 1997-1998

During the 1993 Federal election, the Liberals produced a document, known as the Red Book, which provided a detailed blueprint for how the party would govern, if elected. Jean Chrétien often stated that the promises were put in writing so the public would be better able to hold his government acc...

Christian ethics and political economy in north america

In this religious and moral critique of liberalism, Travis Kroeker analyses how religio-ethical discourse is changed when it is translated into the economic policy discourse of North American liberalism. Focusing on influential representatives of contempo

Maidan

The 2013–14 Maidan Revolution marked a turning point in Ukrainian history. Sophia Wilson investigates how participants self-organized to create the resistance, why the peaceful movement turned to violence, and how the revolutionary process changed those who came to change the country.

The chrétien legacy

Assessing the legacy of Canada's twentieth prime minister.

Canadian conference on computational geometry

The 8th Canadian conference on computational geometry had an international flavour. Sixty-one papers were submitted by authors from over 20 countries representing four continents. The conference was held at Carleton University in August 1996.

Big moves

Examining how transportation policy is not only shaped by global aspirations and local anxieties but directly linked to the successes and challenges faced by Canada's biggest cities.

The early journals and letters of fanny burney: volume iii

At the beginning of 1778 twenty-five-year-old Fanny Burney was an unknown. By year's end, however, she had emerged as the author of Evelina, or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World, a universally acclaimed novel which admirers ranked with the works of Fielding and Richardson.

Mainstream growth economists and capital theorists

A necessary assessment of modern growth theories within a historical context.

The royal college of physicians and surgeons of canada, 1920-1960

A vision greater than themselves

A richly illustrated history of the making of Canada’s first bank revealed through carefully chosen images, themes, and objects.

D.h. lawrence and survival

Although Darwin's ideas about evolution were dominant in D.H. Lawrence's day, little scholarly work has been done on the influence of these concepts on his work. In D.H. Lawrence and Survival Ronald Granofsky argues that Lawrence employed ideas based on evolution in his fiction, particularly duri...

Living rhythms

There are few works on economic development among Canada's Aboriginal. Living Rhythms offers a current perspective on indigenous economics, planning, business development, sustainable development, and knowledge systems. Using a series of cases studies featuring Aboriginal communities and organiza...

Canadians under fire

Infantrymen have been the sledgehammer of land warfare throughout the twentieth century, but precisely how they fought at the tactical level has been difficult to determine. American historian S.L.A. Marshall, for instance, famously claimed that most Allied soldiers would not fight at all, even w...

The watch that ends the night

George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have...

Coping with geopolitical decline

As the US challenges the liberal international order, fights back China's ascendency, and reconsiders its traditional alliances, this book analyses key lessons from Europe's experience and provides comparative insight into the likely dynamics of cooperation and conflict in the 21st century.

Christ, god's companionship with man

This volume is a selection of the most significant writings by Monsignor Luigi Giussani, founder of the Italian Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, which is practised in eighty countries around the world.Presented by Julián Carrón, Giussani's successor as head of Communion and Liberat...

Infection of the innocents

A study of the attempts to cure infants of syphilis and the wet nurses who were harmed.

Wallace stevens among others

A provocative reassessment of modern American literature and culture through the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.

Iron and blood

Iron and Blood will permanently change the way we perceive sixteenth-century French history. Henry Heller shows that mounting social unrest in the first half of the century finally resulted in the French Civil Wars. Challenging the works of Fernand Braudel and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Heller argu...

A life on the line

Pierre-Étienne Fortin led a life and plied a career at the heart of Canada's early history. He was an adventurer, an amateur scientist, an early (if ambiguous) conservationist and a Conservative politician from 1867 to 1888. He was a doctor on Grosse-Île amid the horrors of the 1847 typhus epidem...

Managing a canadian healthcare strategy

Canada’s fragmented healthcare system is one of the most expensive among the OECD countries, yet the quality of its performance is mediocre at best. Canada lacks a system-wide healthcare strategy that brings together many individual federal, provincial, and territorial strategies into a comprehen...

Mothers of invention

Mothers of Invention draws together innovative works of fiction written by French and Quebec feminists in the mid-1970s. Through an analysis of the strategies adopted by Hélène Cixous, Madeleine Gagnon, Nicole Brossard, and Jeanne Hyvrard as they rework maternal and (pro)creative metaphors and pl...

Canada and the cost of world war ii

Canada's most famous contributions to the Allied victory in World War II include Dieppe, the campaign in Italy, the bombing missions over Germany, and D-Day. Much less known are Canada's financial contributions to the war effort. In this sequel to his groundbreaking Maturing in Hard Times, legend...

The pursuit of division

The topic of equity policies and identity politics in Canada is at the forefront of public and media discussion, and Martin Loney adds fuel to the fire. In The Pursuit of Division he provides a provocative critique of recent government policies with respect to race, gender, and preferential hirin...

Batten down

These are poems of Dorothy and the Witch in Oz, of cinematic mythologies and fractured fairy tales, inviting us to witness acts of grim revenge and reconsider the folkloric forests lodged in our collective minds.