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Where is god?

In an extended interview with Vatican expert Andrea Tornielli, Julián Carrón examines our current place in time to revive the essential core of Christian faith. Where Is God? discovers and rediscovers the contents of Christianity, asking how they can be witnessed again in a society that is not ye...

The long road to reform

Although it has often been assumed that the Quiet Revolution represented the triumph of secularism over religion in Quebec, important vestiges of ecclesiastical influence have remained; among those which have proved to be particularly well entrenched are the structural foundations of the school s...

Look it up!

A behind-the-scenes guide that reveals how online information affects both patients and clinicians.

Ethics and experience

A hundred years eating

Laurier

Pensionnats du canada : l’expérience inuite et nordique

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...

Bibliotheca osleriana

Why canada cares

Debunking common myths about Canada's international human rights policies.

Graphic culture

How print pioneers transformed sketches of urban life and observation into conspicuous cultural currency.

Setting the stage

Setting the Stage is the story of Montreal's theatrical cultures and their part in the development of Canadian theatre - a story that only Herbert Whittaker, Canada's first and foremost theatre critic, can tell. Before his long and distinguished career with the Globe and Mail, Whittaker had alrea...

Free will

Free Will explores the determinist rejection of free will through detailed exposition of the central determinist argument and consideration of responses to each of its premises. At every stage familiar examples and case studies help frame and ground the argument.

Adapted brains and imaginary worlds

Building bridges between brain science and fictional creations may be literary criticism’s most pressing new challenge.

Send them here

The United States and Canada have historically accepted approximately three-quarters of resettled refugees, leading the world in this key aspect of global refugee protection. Send Them Here draws on a rich archival record and extensive comparative research to contribute new insights to the histor...

Questions of miracle

This collection of essays explores new avenues in the ongoing debate on miracles and sheds light on various theological and philosophical issues. Presented as a dialogue between Robert Larmer and other leading philosophers in the field, all sides of the issues are provocatively explored.

Creed and culture

Until now Canadian religious historiography has neglected the English-speaking Catholic community in Canada. In part this neglect has occurred because Roman Catholicism is so closely associated with the French language and culture, while English-speaking

Small fires

Poems that illustrate the stories that lie buried in landscapes and in human lives.

Inventing the middle east

The “Middle East” has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. In Inventing the Middle East Guillemette Crouzet charts the spatial, political, and cultural emergence of the Middle East, not in the twentieth centur...

John william dawson

In the first full-length biography of John William Dawson (1820-1899), eminent scientist and principal of McGill University, Susan Sheets-Pyenson highlights the extraordinary scope of Dawson's educational and scientific career and his commitment to science, rationality, and the advancement of kno...

Struggling for effectiveness

A critical and constructive examination of Canada's assistance to developing countries.

The last well person

Dr Nortin Hadler believes that heart bypass surgery is usually a waste of money, time, and energy, that treatment for prostate cancer does more harm than good, and that testing for breast cancer is not always useful or effective. The Last Well Person shows how a self-serving medical industry prom...

Frequencies

Our digital world is increasingly mobile. All mobile communication rests upon access to one invisible, essential element: the radio spectrum. Frequencies brings together diverse national perspectives to explore the current and future state of spectrum governance worldwide. The book offers illumin...

Reading alice munro with jacques lacan

How Lacanian psychoanalysis illuminates the enigmas of human subjectivity at the heart of Alice Munro’s fiction.

Enthusiasms and loyalties

In Enthusiasms and Loyalties Keith Grant draws on a fascinating range of archival sources from Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia, during the years 1770–1850 to explore a diversity of public feelings, from disaffected Loyalists and unfeeling enthusiasts, as well as passionate patriots and ecstatic ...

Strange things done

Yukon History has its fair share of unique characters and fascinating events. Contemporary Yukoners talk about the colourful 5%,quirky individuals who have come to Canadas North to find or reinvent themselves. Northern literature is full of accounts of mad trappers, jilted lovers, miners driven m...

The making of canadian food aid policy

Since the Colombo Plan in the early 1950s, food aid has been an important and highly visible component of the Canadian development assistance program. Until the early 1970s, however, the Canadian food aid program was little more than a loosely connected collection of disparate programs designed t...

Queen's university, vol i

In this account of the first seventy-six years of Queen's University at Kingston, Hilda Neatby traces the development of Queen's from its inauspicious beginnings as a struggling Presbyterian "Bible college" to the period when the university had become a permanent national institution. The story i...

Redressing the past

Focusing on a body of lost and forgotten plays by women and situating them in the context of the early women's movement and its major discourses on suffrage, higher education, and social gospel, Kym Bird challenges the male-defined focus of recent historical studies into nineteenth-century Canadi...

Contemporary federalist thought in quebec

Contemporary Federalist Thought in Quebec explores the federalist thought that shaped the constitutional debate in Quebec. Examining historical perspectives from 1950 to the present, the volume draws portraits of the key federalist actors, compares their outlooks, and examines the ties that bind ...

Nationalism and minority identities in islamic societies

The movement of nation building in Islamic societies away from the secular or Pan-Arab models of the early twentieth century toward a variety of nationalisms was accompanied by growing antagonism between the Muslim majority and ethnic or religious minorities. The papers in Nationalism and Minorit...

The canadian defence industry in the new global environment

The defence industry in Canada is facing serious challenges. Declining defence expenditures, protectionism in Canada's principal markets, political resistance, and escalating costs of weapons technology all threaten it. The Canadian Defence Industry in the New Global Environment is a thorough exa...

The limits to satisfaction

At a time when the supply of resources is a problem, William Leiss analyses demand and consumption. Why do we need so much? Does the ability to choose from such a wide range of commodities give us more satisfaction? Why do we accept being pushed into buying products about which we know little bec...

Legislated inequality

A timely analysis of Canadian temporary labour migration policies.

On the house

A former House of Commons official’s personal account – a learning experience that will surprise.

The book of absolutes

Current dogma holds that all cultures and moral values are conditional, nothing human is innate, and Einstein proved that the whole universe is "relative." Challenging this position, William Gairdner argues that relativism is not only logically and morally self-defeating but that progress in scie...

A course in urdu

The racial mosaic

The Racial Mosaic demonstrates how cultural pluralism in Canada was founded upon, and easily coexisted with, settler colonialism and racism. Looking at how Canadians interpreted diversity before multiculturalism became official policy, it compels readers to consider how racism has structured Cana...

Women in zones of conflict

Tami Amanda Jacoby investigates the constraints and opportunities for women's civic engagements in zones of conflict through a case study of three women's political movements in Israel: Women in Green, The Jerusalem Link, and the lobby for women's right to fight in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).

Pensionnats du canada : l’histoire, partie 2, de 1939 à 2000

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...

Britain and the war for the union

Outrageous seas

Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, experience of shipwreck, near-shipwreck, and survival in waters off Newfoundland.

Making out in the mainstream

A behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of LGBT media activism during a period of rapid societal change.

A breviate of british diplomatic blue books, 1919-1939