Before canada

The story of Canada stretches back over centuries and millennia, well before the emergence of the modern nation-state. It features the complex evolution of Indigenous societies as well as the incursions of Europeans fishers, explorers and colonizers. In Before Canada, archaeologists, historians a...

Delayed impact

In Delayed Impact Franklin Bialystok explores the evolution of the legacy of the Holocaust in the collective memory of the post-war Canadian Jewish community. He seeks to understand why the Holocaust's effect was relatively muted up to 1960, moved to the forefront with the rise of antisemitism in...

A liberal theory of collective rights

An original contribution to the politics of recognition and the theory of collective rights.

The making of an explorer

The Making of an Explorer reveals how George Hubert Wilkins' experiences with the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16 helped a little-known Australian photographer develop into the world-famous polar explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins. Making extensive use of Wilkins' Arctic diary and other sources, b...

All the god-sized fruit

Shawna Lemay scrutinizes some of the best-known art masterpieces of the Western world, alerting her readers to the power and peril of seduction. All the God-sized Fruit melds the sister arts - poetry and painting - in a sensual exploration of history, forgery, and violation. In poems rich with se...

Judging obscenity

In Judging Obscenity Christopher Nowlin examines expert evidence in North American obscenity trials and reveals how little consensus there is among those who purport to know best about the nature of artistic representation, human sexuality, and the psychological and behavioral effects of reading,...

Secret history

As John le Carré's fictional intelligence men admit, it was the case histories - constructed narratives serving shifting agendas - that shaped the British intelligence machine, rather than their personal experience of secret operations. Secret History demonstrates that a critical scrutiny of inte...

The roots of culture, the power of art

An engaging history of the Canada Council for the Arts that marks its sixtieth anniversary.

Amassing power

At the turn of the century American industrialist J.B. Duke set his sights on one of North America's greatest and most spectacular rivers - the Saguenay. In Amassing Power David Massell chronicles thirty years of international intrigue as Duke manoeuvred to gain access to, develop, and sell the t...

Midnight cowboy

An iconic and controversial film, Midnight Cowboy is given its due as a classic of queer cinema. By shifting the perspective away from interpretations of Midnight Cowboy as homophobic, Jon Towlson argues for a new interpretation of the film as a proto-queer buddy movie and portrait of a friendship.

Inclusive equality

An innovative work that outlines new ways to think about equality and law.

Robert and frances flaherty

Robert Flaherty's groundbreaking Nanook of the North (1922) was the first full-length anthropological documentary in cinematic history. Drawing from the unpublished diaries of Flaherty and his wife, Frances, Robert Christopher's biography fills in crucial background in the emergence of a document...

Oil in the people's republic of china

Robert laird borden, vol ii

John mcdowell

An intellectual primer for reading one of the most challenging contemporary philosophers.

Italians in toronto

Italians in Toronto provides an insightful account of how village and regional groups transplanted their communities into the city that is now one of the largest expatriate centres for Italians in the world. The history of Italian migration to Canada is the history of emigration from countless to...

Jane austen's transatlantic sister

A revealing account of a naval officer's young wife, her life during the Napoleonic Wars, and her influence on Jane Austen's fiction.

Fred taylor

John Virtue uncovers the dynamics of a prominent Ottawa family and reveals the divergent paths of brothers E.P. and Fred Taylor. E.P. became mid-century Canada's leading industrialist, while Fred became an artist and a Communist.

Cautiously hopeful

If feminism has always been characterised by its divisions, it is metafeminism that defines and embraces that disorder. A hopefulness animates this timely work that, like metafeminism, stands alert to the challenges that feminism faces in its capacity to effect social change in the 21st century.

Wildlife, land, and people

A wide-ranging study of people's diverse and often contradictory relationships with wild animals in the prairie provinces after 1870.

Feminist philosophies of life

Exploring life’s character, sex, and meaning, while calling attention to the most precarious among us.

Aristotle's poetics

George Whalley's English translation of the Poetics breathes new life into the study of Aristotle's aesthetics by allowing the English-speaking student to experience the dynamic quality characteristic of Aristotle's arguments in the original Greek.

D.h. lawrence and attachment

Using concepts from attachment theory, D.H. Lawrence and Attachment presents innovative readings of Lawrence’s fiction. Ronald Granofsky teases out hidden patterns in Lawrence’s work, deepening our understanding of his fictional characters and revealing new significance to key thematic concerns l...

In the maelstrom

In the Maelstrom is the first study of the Fourteenth Waffen-SS “Galicia” Division that covers both the military formation’s wartime experience and its postwar fate. It explores the lives of the Division’s veterans, controversial ongoing debates surrounding the motivation of recruits, and accusat...

Ha!

On 15 March 1977, with his wife's consent, celebrated writer and former terrorist Hubert Aquin blew his brains out on the grounds of a Montreal convent school. Shocked by this self-murder, a filmmaker friend feels compelled to understand why Aquin killed himself - and discovers, at the heart of t...

The methodist church on the prairies, 1896-1914

At the turn of the twentieth century economic development transformed Canada's prairie region, as the region's population exploded due to migration from central and eastern Canada and immigration from Britain, the United States, and Europe. This boom sev

Modal logics and philosophy, second edition

The first text to combine a clear introduction to formal modal logic with a rigorous presentation of its uses as a tool for philosophical analysis.

Workers and canadian history

Workers and Canadian History is a collection of twelve essays by Gregory Kealey, the recognized Canadian leader in the growing field of working-class history. Available for the first time in a single volume, the essays provide an extensive study of various trends and themes in Canadian labour and...

Eyewitness textures

Journalists are increasingly incorporating user-generated content into news stories. Tracing recent shifts in journalism practice around the world, Eyewitness Textures examines the creative adaptation and strategies of journalists and news organizations in the face of transformative technological...

An anatomy of everyday arguments

Interpersonal arguments, with their potential for defensiveness and hostility, can be difficult to navigate. This book examines the structure and dynamics of conflict to find new ways forward. Jull analyzes four personal stories through the lens of the Insight approach, an innovative way to decip...

Iso 9001 registration for small and medium-sized software enterprises

This book provides an inexpensive and comprehensive approach to ISO 9001 registration. The book is for executives, quality managers, and project leaders of small and medium-sized software development organizations. The book assists executives, quality managers and project leaders to: reduce the t...

Chora 3

This third volume in the CHORA series continues to explore diverse historical and critical issues in architecture. Attempting to discover architectural alternatives based on concepts of aesthetics, technology, or sociology, the contributors offer refreshing interdisciplinary explorations of archi...

The man in the ivory tower

Frank Cyril James, Principal of McGill University from 1940-62, made important contributions not only to the growth and reputation of the university but also to the development of higher education in Canada.

Steamboat connections

In Steamboat Connections Frank Mackey gives us a narrative account of the first twenty-five years of steam navigation along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. Relying on a wealth of primary archival sources, Mackey focuses on the development of steamer traffic from 1816 - when the foundations wer...

The art of sharing

The untold history of how Ottawa tackled fiscal inequalities among the resentful provinces.

The life of luigi giussani

A detailed account of the life and legacy of the founder of the Communion and Liberation movement.

Northern experience and the myths of canadian culture

In Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture Renée Hulan disputes the notion that the north is a source of distinct collective identity for Canadians. Through a synthesis of critical, historical, and theoretical approaches to northern subjects in literary studies, she challenges the e...

Pietro bembo

Carol Kidwell's lavishly illustrated book is the first full-length biography of Renaissance Cardinal Pietro Bembo. Her extensive use of translations from Bembo's 2,600 letters, including exchanges of love letters with Lucrezia Borgia, provide a picture of personal life in the brilliant, turbulent...

Never rest on your ores

In Never Rest on Your Ores, Keevil recounts how a team of engineers and entrepreneurs built Canada’s largest diversified mining company. Drawing lessons from the turbulent period between 2005 and 2023, this new edition is both entertaining and instructive, a rare insider’s account of an industry ...

Introduction to mamluk historiograph

Boundless dominion

A study of the ideas – especially regarding providence, politics, nature, and history – that influenced the early Canadian Presbyterian worldview.

Saturn and melancholy

An augmented edition of the famed Warburgian interdisciplinary study on saturnine melancholy. Edited by Philippe Despoix and Georges Leroux, with a preface by Bill Sherman.

Saul kripke

An introduction to one of today's most original and creative philosophers whose work has sparked some of the most important philosophical debates of recent years.

The challenge of arctic shipping

The Challenge of Arctic Shipping presents a collection of candid essays on the future of Arctic waters. A number of distinguished contributors address critical issues in Arctic development examining the implications for both policy-making in the North and the impact of that policy on native peopl...