Dawn of the neuron

How Darwin's theory of evolution drove generations of zoologists to search for the first evolved nervous systems in simple organisms.

Humanizing mental illness

Humanizing Mental Illness demonstrates that we need to challenge our explicit and implicit biases and learn to interact with mental illness in more intentional, supportive, and inclusive ways. While most philosophical accounts of the matter are concerned with the question of how much agency a per...

Britain, france, and the financing of the first world war

Fighting the First World War consumed lives, material, and money. Millions died; more suffered. By the war's end, the political map of Europe had been redrawn as empires disappeared and new states arose. In Britain, France, and the Financing of the First World War Martin Horn traces the financial...

Stories of women in the middle ages

An insightful window into the lives of women in the Middle Ages.

Running on empty

A powerful history of how Canada rescued 70,000 Indochinese refugees between 1975 and 1980.

The philosophy of kierkegaard

The author confronts Kierkegaard's "anti-philosophical" reputation and shows that he greatly influenced twentieth-century Continental philosophers and theologians.

The english housewife

In 1615 Englishman Gervase Markham published a handbook for housewives containing "all the virtuous knowledges and actions both of the mind and body, which ought to be in any complete housewife."

Margaret addison

As dean of Annesley Hall residence at Victoria University from its founding in 1903 until 1931, Margaret Addison set the tone for university women during the period when college education for women changed from the unusual to the accepted. Jean O'Grady describes her complex personality B revealed...

Persuasion and propaganda

In the eighteenth century sugar planters, merchants, aristocrats, politicians, and governments erected hundreds of commemorative monuments throughout the British Empire as expressions of social status, personal dynasties, territorial occupation, and imperial ambitions. In a culture transformed by...

Canada: the state of the federation, 2012

Regional resource disparities and the tensions they generate are a perennial Canadian topic. This edition of Canada: The State of the Federation presents essays on regions, resources, and the resiliency of the Canadian federal system. Contributors consider questions such as: to what extent do Can...

Embodiment and the meaning of life

A brazen defence of the good of human limitations in the face of naive technological optimism.

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The epic of qayaq

The Epic of Qayaq is richly illustrated from the Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks Collection of Inuit Art, housed at Carleton University Art Gallery. A scholarly preface by Ann Chandonnet explains the conventions of Native Alaskan storytelling, and there is an introduction by Priscilla Tyler and ...

Reading the diaries of henry trent

As it follows Trent through the different stages of his long life, Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent explores the complexities of class and colonialism, gender roles within the rural family, and the transition from youth to manhood to old age. The diaries provide a rare opportunity to read the t...

Northern getaway

Northern Getaway investigates the connections between film and tourism of the 1890s through the 1950s. Using evidence from archival sources and current scholarship in film history and tourism studies, Dominique Brégent-Heald demonstrates that Canada was an innovator in employing film to project a...

A diplomacy of hope

A Diplomacy of Hope is the first comprehensive survey of the history of Canadian diplomacy in the area of arms control and disarmament. Taking much of their information from Canadian archival sources, Albert Legault and Michel Fortmann cover all major negotiations on arms control and disarmament ...

Orwell, second edition

"It is doubtful that any book provides a better foundation for a full understanding of Orwell's unique and troubling vision." Washington Post.

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Uttering the unutterable

Uttering the Unutterable explores how we use literature as an honorific term to describe texts that are so overpowering that the encounter with meaning exceeds the capacities of ordinary language. Through a new reading of Aristotelian philosophy, Groarke identifies an experience of transcendence ...

At home on the world markets

In the lavishly illustrated At Home on the World Markets Joost Jonker and Keetie Sluyterman look at mercantile dynasties - such as the Trips and the Van Eeghens - and companies - such as the famous Dutch East Indian Company VOC and the modern trading company Hagemeyer - that have been largely uns...

Politics and territory

Keeping promises

How historic and modern Aboriginal treaties continue to shape the Canadian landscape.

Little theologians

Children don't just learn theology. They actively create it, playing with ideas and drawing together aspects of their own lives to form theological understanding. In Little Theologians David Csinos offers a groundbreaking exploration of how cultural contexts intersect with the theological meaning...

Into silence and servitude

A critical examination of the recruitment and formation of American Catholic nuns during the final decades of convent expansion.

Poverty reform in canada, 1958-1978

Rodney Haddow explains and compares the Canada Assistance Plan (CAP) and the Social Security Review, the two most extensive attempts by the federal government to reform Canadian poverty policy during the postwar era. Using previously confidential government documents and interviews with many of t...

The summer trade

Tourism has been a central part of Prince Edward Island’s identity for over a century. Lavishly illustrated with postcards, tourist guides, licence plates, and other memorabilia, The Summer Trade presents a sweeping history of Island tourism against the larger backdrop of cultural, economic, poli...

Peeking through the keyhole

Peeking through the Keyhole is about transformations in the way we live and the places we call home. Until the past few decades, transitions in the style of homes and types of households were slow and gradual.

The role of transportation in the industrial revolution

Addressing the question of why the Industrial Revolution occurred first in England, Rick Szostak demonstrates the crucial role played by the development of a nation-wide network of land and water transport. He rejects revisionist arguments that downplay the significance of transportation to the I...

Women and narrative identity

Women writers have made significant contributions to Quebec's ongoing process of cultural self-definition. Because the novel has traditionally played a central role in the construction of national identity, Quebec literary history has seen the continued production of identity narratives, which Ja...

Berruyer's bible

Berruyer's Bible offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Catholic Enlightenment. By exploring the rise and fall of the French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu, Daniel Watkins reveals how Catholic attempts to assimilate Enlightenment ideas caused conflicts within ...

The meaning of sunday

Explaining varying levels of religiosity and church attendance in Canada.

The fundamental things apply

"Compromise has remained a good thing in the mosaic called Canada, contributing indirectly and in its own mysterious way to whatever good humour, proportion, tolerance, judgment, and civility we have achieved. When such fundamental things apply, we can learn more about how best to live together, ...

Tsardom of sufficiency, empire of norms

An examination of how land became a measured entitlement in Russia.

The etruscans in the modern imagination

The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had all but disappeared by the start of the Christian era. Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to the intellectual and cultural history of the west, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists, to provide a fa...

The unbounded level of the mind

Essays honouring one of Canada’s most brilliant legal minds.

In the public good

In the Public Good examines the trajectory of eugenic ideas in Ontario in the early twentieth century, when the eugenics movement gained support for the solutions it offered to social ills of the day. Koester focuses on key legal events that influenced eugenic ideas, showing how the law was used ...

Vasil bykau

The Soviet Union banned many of Vasil Bykau's novels, which often focus on the agonizing moral dilemmas faced by young officers during the horrors of war. Considered the best modern Belarusan writer and the last Eastern European literary dissident, Bykau (1924-2003) is referred to as the "conscie...

Something i'm supposed to remember

Something I'm Supposed to Remember is the first title in the Harbinger Poetry Series. This fine collection of gritty, thought-provoking works is written with the wisdom and sensitivity of a writer who knows of what she speaks. Holly Kritsch has a knack for drawing the reader "in" with such detail...

Democratic legitimacy

In Democratic Legitimacy Frederick Barnard argues that political accountability is as important to the democratic ethic as political participation B and equally in need of reappraisal and invigoration. Unless its importance is recognised, accountability,

Through sunshine and shadow

The Ontario Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) quickly evolved from an organization established to eradicate the consumption of alcohol to become concerned with broader social problems. Sharon Cook shows that the WCTU nurtured a distinct feminist c

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Critical images

How did the tall, lanky Don Quixote and the short, stout Sancho Panza become staple figures of Western iconography, so well known that their silhouettes are easily recognizable in Picasso's famous work? How did the novel Don Quixote, a parody of the romances of knight errantry, become a paean to ...

Innovation, science, environment 1987-2007

This special edition of Innovation, Science, Environment includes reflections from a number of Canada's leading sustainable development thinkers, two decades after the 1987 publication of the seminal United Nations report Our Common Future. Published by the World Commission on Environment and Dev...

Bahia's independence

How the people of Salvador, Bahia, celebrated independence in their province, challenging dominant understandings of nineteenth-century Brazil.