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Canada's cold environments

Eleven of Canada's leading geographers, geologists, and ecologists provide an authoritative, readable collection of scientific essays about the physical nature of Canada's coldness. They focus on the distinctive attributes of Canada's cold environments, their temporal and spatial variability, and...

Blindfold

Blinded by a grenade in Lebanon as a teenager, poet John Asfour came to Canada armed with James Joyce's words, "For the eyes, they bring us nothing. I have a hundred worlds to create and I am only losing one of them." Blindfold investigates the ways in which disability influences our lives and is...

Blowing up the skirt of history

From history and politics to fantasy and farce, the first flourish of women's theatre in Canada questioned the discourses that formed and informed ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality. This book revives ten theatrical comedies that staged the promise of social change.From history and politics to f...

Imagining holiness

Hasidic tales are often read as charming, timeless expressions of Jewish spirituality. The best-known versions of these stories, however, have been rewritten for audiences outside traditional Judaism and few works have explored Hasidic tales as they were created by Hasidic Jews.

The most dangerous branch

Judges on the Supreme Court of Canada are guided by reason and principle - or so most Canadians think. In The Most Dangerous Branch Robert Martin argues that the court has changed from acting on principles to acting on values, allowing it to impose its own personal preferences. As judges are not ...

Space, time and einstein

Then and now

A fresh account of the British aristocracy's relationship with the classical world.

Jacob burckhardt and the crisis of modernity

With the values of Western civilization increasingly under siege, economic crises, political unrest, and environmental degradation oblige us to reassess the assumptions of modern mass society. Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity, the first major

Respectable burial

Respectable Burial is a social history of death, burial, and a cherished public space in Montreal from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Brian Young shows how the history of the Mount Royal Cemetery, founded in 1852, mirrors the evolving social makeup, changing mores, and tragic ev...

Unified fields

Forming common ground for literature and science.

Honorer la vérité, réconcilier pour l’avenir

Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de christianiser » les enfants autochtones, il fallait les éloign...

Not even a god can save us now

A lively interpretation of Machiavelli’s thought, applied to contemporary philosophy.

The siege of fort cumberland, 1776

Focusing on the revolutionary movement in the Fort Cumberland region of Nova Scotia in 1775-76, Ernest Clarke explores why supporters of American independence did not prevail in this British North American colony. He reveals how the siege of Fort Cumberland shaped the attitudes of Nova Scotians t...

Obsession

Une étude révélatrice portant sur une collection tombée dans l’oubli et le plus remarquable collectionneur du Mille carré doré de Montréal.

Circulation and the city

How does movement affect the metropolis?

Central works of philosophy, volume 1

A primer on the core texts of the Western philosophical canon for undergraduate students and general readers.

What ails france?

What Ails France? is a provocative but constructive critique of the French model of technocratic, elite leadership. Brigitte Granville applies an economist's vision to the monetary and fiscal pathologies flowing from this ideologically motivated technocratic rule, reflected in Europe's flawed mon...

Joseph brodsky and the soviet muse

Research concerning Joseph Brodsky has emphasized two aspects of his work - his poetry and philosophy as an exile from the Soviet Union. The resulting scholarship has presented him as a fundamentally dissident author with little or no positive connection to the social and literary environments in...

The greenland mummies

In 1972, two brothers on a hunting expedition in Greenland, 450 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, discovered the graves of six women and two children who had died more than 500 years ago. They had been buried in the traditional Inuit way, dressed in warm clothing and provided with the goods ...

An american princess

How a New Englander became a princess, made literary history, and helped create Italy’s most romantic garden.

Voltaire and sensibility

A house of one's own

An intimate study of everyday humanitarianism in post-earthquake El Salvador.

A capitol idea

A Capitol Idea reveals the extent to which think tanks in the United States have become active and vocal participants in the foreign policy-making process. In this timely exploration, Donald Abelson re-evaluates the role of these complex organizations and looks at how political influence is achie...

North american gaels

A groundbreaking exploration of the literature and folklore of North America's Irish and Scottish Gaelic-speaking diaspora since the eighteenth century. North American Gaels shines new light on the ways Irish and Scottish Gaels have left an enduring mark through speech, story, and song.

Asleep at the switch

Why Canadian industrial R&D remains limited in comparison with other economies - and how federal policy contributes to the problem.

Science and politics in canada

Unthinking modernity

In Unthinking Modernity Judith Stamps reinterprets the communications theory of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan as a Canadian variant of the critical theory associated with the early Frankfurt school. Stamps argues that Innis and McLuhan used their studies of media to develop a critique of the ...

Booze, cigarettes, and constitutional dust-ups

In 2012, after Gerard Comeau had driven to Quebec to purchase cheaper beer and crossed back into New Brunswick, police officers tailed and detained him, confiscated his haul, and levied a fine. With Comeau’s story as his starting point, Ryan Manucha tells the fascinating tale of Canadian interpro...

Patriots and proletarians

Patriots and Proletarians examines the influence of political ideology on the development of a cultural identity among Hungarian immigrants in Canada during the interwar years. It traces the politicization of the Hungarian community into two rival camps -

Verbal art

Anders Pettersson presents a comprehensive account of the foundations of literature, grounded in an original analysis of the interactions between author and reader. Drawing on post-Gricean pragmatics and Nicholas Wolterstorff's notion of presentationality, Pettersson develops the idea of the verb...

Une grand patron

Idealism

The rediscovery of Idealism is an unmistakable feature of contemporary philosophy. Heavily criticised by the dominant philosophies of the twentieth century, it is being reconsidered in the twenty-first as a rich and untapped resource for contemporary philosophical arguments and concepts. Idealism...

Jacobitism in britain and the united states, 1880–1910

“Michael J. Connolly takes the American Jacobites seriously in way that has not been done before. The Jacobites stretched the bounds of American political debate into areas few scholars have contemplated. This work adds a new dimension to our understanding of anti-modernism and opens a new chapte...

Welfare, property rights and economic policy

This volume celebrates one of Canada's most distinguished social scientists and economics scholars. The book contains four essays, with comments, written to honour Gordon, with reminiscences by friends and colleagues from many universities in Canada and the U.S.

Chekhov's children

Chekhov's Children explores Anton Chekhov's stories – dating from his early writings in the 1880s – as a distinct body of work unified by the theme of maturation and by the creation of a literary model of childhood.

Humboldt’s mexico

A study of a gifted scientist and visionary who embodies the spirit of adventure and discovery.

W.a. mackintosh

The first biography of a leading Canadian economist and policy advisor.

Kierkegaard's livingroom

In Kierkegaard's Livingroom David Mercer weaves his way through the Philosophical Fragments, bringing the reader a new understanding of Kierkegaard's work. Placing the Philosophical Fragments in the context of Kierkegaard's others works, Mercer's commentary shows how literary style and character ...

Cultiver la différence

A story about building a meaningful life through family, work, and community.

Inequality in canada

In Inequality in Canada Eric Sager considers one of the defining – but hardest to define – ideas of our era and traces its different meanings and contexts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Arctic justice

Arctic Justice is the story of the execution of a white fur trader by an Inuk. Shelagh Grant recounts how this event was crucial in establishing law enforcement in the High Arctic and documents its tragic consequences for Inuit in the subsequent decades. This compelling and generously illustrated...

Joseph brodsky and the baroque

Literary criticism of the work of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky has tended to be biographical, stressing the significance of physical or metaphysical exile, estrangement, and alienation in his poetry. In a welcome move away from previous emphases, David MacFadyen argues that Brodsky's corpus was in...

Into deep waters

How two generations of preachers and parishioners created and sustained a religious tradition.