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Reversibility – politics under conditions of uncertainty
In a highly connected world of political, social, and ecological interdependencies, we cannot predict the consequences of our decisions. Reversibility – Politics under Conditions of Uncertainty offers a policy framework that demands ethical and practical reflection on the conditions of action to ...
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Write to return
The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 led to over 200,000 Huguenots fleeing France. Bryan Banks directs our attention to four authors who advocated for the Huguenots’ right to return. Write to Return shows that by presenting themselves as loyal French subjects, Huguenots were at the foref...
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Becoming green gables
In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of a farm in Cavendish, PEI, already becoming known as inspiration for Anne of Green Gables. Myrtle kept a diary, describing life on the farm as it became a major tourist attraction. Becoming Green Gables tells the story of Myrtle and her family, and...
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Voting online
Voting Online investigates the effects of cyber elections by looking at how adoption of online voting affects attitudes towards democracy, who uses and who benefits from the voting mode, the extent to which candidates support it, and what factors election administrators consider when deciding to ...
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Ukrainian ritual on the prairies
Natalie Kononenko describes the everyday lives of Ukrainian Canadians on the prairies and explores how they have preserved existing Ukrainian traditions and developed a new culture sensitive to the realities of Canadian life. Drawing on ten years of interviews, the book focuses on Ukrainian Canad...
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Metromorphoses
Grounded in the local and immediate – from Toronto’s rivers and ravines to its highways and skyscrapers – John Reibetanz’s Metromorphoses explores, in roughly chronological order, some of the radical changes that have taken place in the city during the course of its history.
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Nietzsche as stylist
Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in seventeen years. Nietzsche as Stylist traces the emergence of his idiosyncratic writing style as he experimented with various rhetorical tactics. With a historical sensibility, the book highlights how Nietzsche’s style evolv...
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Logic in the wild
In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday decision making – logic provides neutral ground for the healthy pursuit of common goals and interests.
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Odagahodhes
Odagahodhesfollows an Indigenous sharing circle, relaying teachings by Cayuga Elder Gae Ho Hwako Norma Jacobs and the diverse experiences and knowledge participants bring into reflective relation with the teachings. Each circle ends by inviting the reader into the sacred space of odagahodhesand c...
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City symphonies
This book explores the unheard sonic dimensions of the city symphony. Instead of looking at the city symphony as a narrowly defined silent film genre, it turns its ear to the city symphony as an audible phenomenon, one that encompasses a multitude of works beyond the cinema and that treats the ci...
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Patriarchy's remains
Analysing a series of Iberian cinematic dark comedies from the 1950s to the present day, Patriarchy’s Remains argues that the cinematic trope of patriarchal death symbolises the lingering remains of a regime of patriarchy and neoliberalism that has outlived the Francisco Franco dictatorship in Sp...
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More richly in earth
Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s life and legacy, preserved within landscape and memory. Marilyn Bowering forms an unlikely connection with MacLeod despite differe...
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Bach’s architecture of gratitude
Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude explores this profound aesthetic experience in a case study of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor and its capac...
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What the world might look like
What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models of thought.
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Ghost stories
Judith Adamson’s memoir reveals the questions Adamson asked as she researched her biographies of literary luminaries, and the personal challenges she faced along the way. Uncovering new information about her famous subjects, from Graham Greene to Max Reinhardt, Ghost Stories is a fascinating acco...
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Seapower in the post-modern world
While naval operations, maritime security, and ocean governance are increasingly relevant in world politics, seapower is largely neglected by international relations scholarship. Seapower in the Post-modern World fills this gap with a comprehensive analysis of the concept and practice of seapower...
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Fate and life
Fate remains central to many cultural outlooks, and in our age of conflict, climate change, and pandemic, it features conspicuously in debates about the future. A careful examination of this important idea is not only informative and intriguing but also timely. Fate and Life confronts the idea of...
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Dreamcraft
Dreamcraft is a book that crosses distances and straddles boundaries. Moving from whistleblower law to the mimetic properties of DNA, from “the entropic spread / of the drifting cosmos / after the big bang” to “the push of lawn grass / under foot,” Scott interrogates topics that have occupied his...
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Migration governance in north america
Migration Governance in North America engages the complex dynamics of mobilities across the continent. Situating North America within the global migration landscape, it unpacks such issues as temporary labour mobility, border security, asylum governance, refugee resettlement, and the role of loca...
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Whiny baby
Expansive in form and voice, the poems in Julie Paul’s second collection offer both love letters and laments. They take us to construction sites, meadows, waiting rooms, beaches, alleys, gardens, and frozen rivers. They ask us to live in the moment, despite the moment. At turns frank, peevish, in...
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The pause
When COVID-19 spread across the globe, protection measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and self-quarantine were experienced as life on hold. A cultural inquiry into the moment of pausing and its social, political, and personal manifestations, The Pause captures the experience of be...
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Restless in sleep country
Cultural visions of sleep circulate through such diverse forms as mattress ads, billboards, comic books, memoirs, experimental poetry, and bedtime story phone apps. Guiding us through the imaginative landscape of slumber, Restless in Sleep Country illuminates the figure of sleep as a site of ineq...
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The children's hour
The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia Erhart explores how the film’s conception, production, and reception reveal deep insights into the politics of sexuality and censorship in midcentury America and into social and pol...
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What women represent
What Women Represent, the first large-scale analysis of the substantive representation of women in Canadian politics, adds depth to our understanding of issues of gender in parliamentary institutions. Using cutting-edge methodologies, Erica Rayment examines which members of parliament represent w...
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Fichte in berlin
Fichte in Berlin offers a new reading of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s philosophical output during his time in Berlin from 1804 to 1806. The study focuses on the philosopher’s second set of lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre from 1804, one of the most exemplary versions of Fichte’s philosophical project.
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Making sense of myth
For Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human – a condition of life for all. Making Sense of Myth offers a series of conversations with Brisson on life, myth, and Plato.
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Bridestones
The early elegiac poems in Bridestones emerge from the borderlands between life and death, loss and renewal. Drawing on dreams, opera and visual art, and employing symbolist and playfully surreal imagery, Miranda Pearson questions the ways we tend and grieve – for each other and our environment.
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The notwithstanding clause and the canadian charter
The significance, effects, and legitimacy of Section 33 of the Charter have been vigorously debated. The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter examines the NWC from all perspectives, asking who should have the last word on matters of rights and justice – the legislatures or the judiciar...
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Winter kept us warm
Winter Kept Us Warm explores a romance between two young men at the University of Toronto in the early 1960s, when being gay was still a crime in Canada. The film achieved international success when first released but has largely disappeared form the contemporary queer film canon. Chris Dupuis ex...
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Twofold
The form of the diptych shapes language and meaning, symmetry and difference. Edward Carson’s twofold delivers a liminal gathering of short diptych poems exploring themes of love, relationships, myth, art, language, math, physics, geometry, and artificial intelligence, framed within Ovidian and H...
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Nostalgic virility as a cause of war
Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War argues that world leaders react to status decline by going to war, guided by a nostalgic, virile understanding of what it means to be powerful. Consulting newly declassified documents at the highest levels of decision-making, Grandpierron uses the framework of...
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Hope circuits
How do we model abundance – in teaching, in learning, in leading organizations, particularly non-profits – when dealing with fiscal austerity and other forms of scarcity thinking? Hope Circuits explores this question, balancing sophisticated ideas with democratizing higher education for everybody.
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Their benevolent design
Before the advent of state-financed social services, poor relief in Quebec was private and sectarian. In Montreal a group of conservative, bourgeois women played a significant role by establishing institutions for destitute women and children. Their Benevolent Design explores how gender shaped th...
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Political engagement in canadian city elections
Little is known about why voter turnout in city elections is so low. Drawing from the Canadian Municipal Election Study, a novel survey of electors collected in eight large cities across the country in 2017 and 2018, Political Engagement in Canadian City Elections addresses key questions about en...
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Urban refugees and digital technology
Urban Refugees and Digital Technology explores refugee communities from Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia’s growing cities to build a new understanding of how technology reshapes the ways refugees contribute to social, economic, and political networks in urban areas.
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A thirst for wine and war
To maintain morale amongst soldiers in the wretched trenches of World War I, the French army provided regular rations of wine and other alcohol that became a defining feature of French soldiers’ experience. A Thirst for Wine and War explores the French army’s strategic distribution of alcohol as ...
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Friendship and the novel
Friendship enables plots about rivalry, education, compassion, pity, deceit, betrayal, animosity, and breakup. It crosses boundaries of gender, class, nationality, disposition, race, age, and experience. The essays in Friendship and the Novel illustrate that friendship, in its many forms, is a ce...
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Lost in the crowd
Gregory Kennedy presents a new kind of history focusing on the experiences of Acadian soldiers and their families before, during, and after the First World War. He significantly shifts common interpretations about recruitment in French Canada, service overseas, and the factors determining post-wa...
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To make a killing
To Make a Killing chronicles the life of Arthur Cutten, the grain and stock market speculator who made a fortune during the 1920s and was later vilified by the Roosevelt administration as one of the “banksters” responsible for the Great Depression.
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Hungry and starving
Stalin’s collectivization of Soviet Russia’s agriculture resulted in the deaths of at least ten million people through starvation and associated diseases between 1928 and 1934. Hungry and Starving explores primary accounts of the Great Soviet Famine on the part of both its perpetrators and its su...
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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...
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Art, medicine, and femininity
Rampant morphine addiction in Third Republic France captured the imagination of artists in Paris. However, while the majority morphine users were male medical professionals, artists almost always pictured a female addict. Art, Medicine, and Femininity explores the societal impact of the feminizat...
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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...
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Justice, rights, and toleration
The political theory of Richard Vernon has made major contributions to the many complex dimensions of political morality, democratic dialogue, justice, and toleration. Justice, Rights, and Toleration offers critical engagement with the central ideas of his work on the perennial political challeng...
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Diversity leadership in education
Diversity Leadership in Education dives into the complexities and opportunities afforded by new models of diversity leadership. The volume explores how Indigenous, Black, racialized, and collaborative leadership contributes to decolonizing educational settings through advocacy, solidarity, spirit...
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The handbook of ethnic media in canada
Ethnic minority groups in Canada have set up their own communication infrastructure that has evolved from the analogue to digital age, and continues to remain relevant across generations. This volume asks how ethnic media have changed, how they continue to be relevant, and what that means for mul...
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Total defence forces in the twenty-first century
This volume considers the various groups that make up total defence forces: the military, reservists, civil defence servants, and contractors working for private military and security companies. It offers an essential analysis of civilian-military personnel integration and collaboration toward de...
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Place matters
Bordo and Fitzpatrick coin the term critical topography to describe how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image. International in scope, Canadian in spirit, and grounded in singular sites, Place Matters presents critical topography as an approach to analyze, interpret, and ...
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Honouring age
Exploring age, intergenerational relationships, and the social power of reputation across ancient Mediterranean cultural contexts, Honouring Age positions age as an essential aspect of communal identity and familial roles in the early Christian experience as represented in one of the most content...
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Reimagining illness
Reimagining Illness analyzes works by eighteenth-century British women writers alongside contemporaneous medical texts to argue that the circulation of medical knowledge in this period was not determined only by scientific rationalism and male expertise but rather shaped in part by women’s accoun...
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Population control
Violence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents. While Canada closes many of its large-scale facilities, institutional violence continues to spill over into community settings. Population Control explores the relational conditions that give rise to this v...
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Cette science nécessaire
Quels morts peut-on disséquer pour apprendre l’anatomie humaine et devenir un médecin compétent ? Cette science nécessaire fait la lumière sur une histoire originale et méconnue pour mieux comprendre l’essor de la profession médicale au Québec et l’histoire de la formation médicale globalement, a...
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Truth commissions and state building
Truth Commissions and State Building demonstrates that the work of both institutions is interlinked and intrinsic to reform in post-conflict and post-authoritarian settings. Chapters examine truth commissions as transitional justice mechanisms for civic inclusion, identity formation, institutiona...
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Variable conditions
Variable Conditions recovers Canadian instances of early encounters between computational media and contemporary art in the late twentieth century. The book provides valuable new perspectives and new contexts for understanding computer art pioneers, sketching a new landscape of surprising connect...
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State of disappearance
State of Disappearance brings together abstract artistic testimony and witnessing with critical voices to ask deeper questions about extreme violence, the normalization of human vanishing, state and ideological complicity, and memorialization, along with wider concerns about what it means to be h...
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Fashioning acadians
Fashioning Acadians analyzes the clothing of early Acadians through the innovative reconstruction of dress and accessories found in a new analysis of archaeological excavations. The book discusses what the clothing reveals about Acadian lives, their material cultures, and the influence of interse...
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What television remembers
What Television Remembers explores the relationship between the medium of TV and the city of Toronto. In a close reading of CBC dramas from the 1960s to 2010, VanderBurgh explains how the city has functioned as a strategic location in CBC programming, reflecting changing ideas about Canadian iden...
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Laboratory of modernity
Laboratory of Modernity is a history of Ukraine during the long nineteenth century, providing a unique study of its pluralistic society, culture, and political scene. In this first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Ukraine in English, Serhiy Bilenky traces the historical origins of some o...
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The beautiful unwanted
Chris Kaposy reflects on parenting his son with Down syndrome in the midst of a supposed disappearance of people with this condition. Writing from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective, Kaposy presents decades-old bioethical controversies, revealing the prehistory that has shaped current ...
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Towards a godless dominion
A century ago Canada was considered to be a Christian nation and the vast majority of Canadians claimed they were devoutly religious. But some vigorously resisted the dominance of Christianity. Towards a Godless Dominion explores both anti-religious activism and the organized opposition religious...
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Social democracy, capitalism, and competition
Our social democracies and welfare states are facing challenges that threaten their very survival. Boyer argues that a true social democracy requires a clear definition and a refocusing of the roles of the public and private sectors in the provision of public and social goods and services – a rei...
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Settler-indigeneity in the west bank
Since Israel conquered the West Bank from Jordan in 1967, Israeli settler organizations have used narratives of indigeneity to claim divine rights to the land. Settler Indigeneity in the West Bank asks what indigeneity means to Israeli settlers, and how settler-indigeneity interacts with transnat...
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Nation branding and international politics
Today, nation branding is regarded as essential for competitiveness among countries. In academia, however, the idea is often dismissed as unserious. Bringing nation branding to the scholarly discourse, Browning critically unpacks the trend, providing theoretical lenses through which to view the r...
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Paths of pollen
As human actions erase habitats and raise the planet’s temperature, plant diversity is dropping and a growing list of pollinators faces decline or even extinction. Paths of Pollen chronicles pollen’s vital mission to spread plant genes, from the prehistoric past to the present, while looking towa...
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