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The new canadian political economy
Studies in political economy are now at a crossroads. The revival of political economy as an important area of research in Canada began in the early 1970s with the publication of Kari Levitt's Silent Surrender. In 1976 it was launched in earnest by the first session on Canadian political economy ...
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Immigrants and the labour force
In Immigrants and the Labour Force Ravi Pendakur considers whether today's immigrants are more upwardly mobile than those who came to Canada earlier, whether they face discrimination in the labour force, and whether refusal to recognize credentials earned before migrating hurts life chances in th...
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The churches and social order in nineteenth- and twentieth-century canada
Changing social and cultural strategies pursued by Protestant and Catholic religious institutions have shaped the social order in Quebec and English Canada. Through a sustained comparison of Protestantism and Catholicism, this volume explores the transition from pre-industrial to industrial socie...
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The distant relation
In The Distant Relation Eoin Thomson presents innovative readings of canonical philosophic and literary texts, focusing on the distance that mediates the relation between word and thing, past and present, I and you. Through a novel convergence, itself ari
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Out of the basement
Mapping the changing realities of youth creative self-employment in the twenty-first century.
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Seeding buddhism with multiculturalism
How Buddhist immigrants in Toronto transmit their teachings and traditions to the next generation.
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The fenian problem
Irish revolutionary nationalism, initially dedicated to insurgency, quickly descended into less conventional violence. How successive British governments responded to this challenge and the extent of their respect for essential freedoms are the subject of The Fenian Problem.
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The eye of the master
The Eye of the Master confronts the missed opportunities for a decolonial version of indépendance in Quebec and imagines a different future, detached from domination and exploitation, through models based in Indigenous thought and anti-racist, ecological, and feminist movements.
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Illustrating el cid, 1498 to today
The first critical examination of a literary hero and complex historical figure through book illustration.
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Bare poles
Designing successfully for people in the world's coldest climates demands a broad understanding of site conditions and their unique social context. Until now such knowledge often lay unarticulated in the minds of a few experienced practitioners or in the disappearing traditions of aboriginal peop...
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Don't cry
In Don’t Cry the Enlhet people give their own account of the Chaco War (1932–35) between Paraguay and Bolivia in voices never before heard outside their own society, translated from the Enlhet language. Their accounts, set alongside sensitive historical-anthropological analysis, allow unique acce...
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Dead boys can't dance
Dead Boys Can't Dance is a ground-breaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen to twenty-five. North American society has been reluctant to recognize that there is a link between the social stigmatization of homosexuality and the h...
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Canadian public budgeting in the age of crises
A broad look at attempts to address economic crises by various governments, with insights into how budget decisions are made.
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Mr simson's knotty case
In Mr Simson's Knotty Case Anne Skoczylas examines the heresy trials of John Simson, professor of Divinity at Glasgow University from 1708-40. Accused of teaching unsound doctrine, Simson retained his position after mild censure in 1717 but was eventually suspended from teaching and preaching aft...
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Entangling the quebec act
Brings together essays by historians from North America and Europe to explore this seminal event using a variety of historical approaches. It weaves together perspectives from spatially and conceptually distinct historical fields - legal and cultural, political and religious, and beyond.
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Race riots
From Black Mischief to The Buddha of Suburbia, twentieth-century British fiction is rife with racial humour. Challenging the common reluctance to take such comedy seriously, Michael Ross shows how humour directed at ethnic "others" exposes deep-seated national attitudes. Race Riots explores the d...
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Words in collision
For centuries, English-language writers have borrowed words and phrases from other languages in their fictional works. Words in Collision explores consequences of this tradition of language-mixing, asking why writers employ “foreign” phrases in their English-language texts and how this practice h...
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Unfinishing
This dream book of kaleidoscopic, holographic, mutagenic poems is haunted by the loops, aporias, and entanglements of time. With imagery both striking and nuanced, and language rich and strange, Brian Henderson presents mesmerizing poems that celebrate the strange and vertiginous musics of a kind...
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The politics of collegiality
Declining enrolment, retrenchment (cutback) strategies, and demands from the public for increased accountability have forced university administrators to re-examine the efficiency of the university and adopt managerial techniques that advocate increased accountability, centralized authority, and ...
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Youth, university, and canadian society
Paul Axelrod and John Reid take the reader through one hundred years of the complex and turbulent history of youth, university, and society. Contributors explore the question of how students have been affected by war and social change and discuss who was able to attend university and who was not,...
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Chronic conditions
Chronic Conditions captures myriad ways in which the chronic conditions the sufferer. Karen Engle explores, through personal experience as well as research in medical history, literature, and art, how it feels to become attuned to the rhythms of ongoing physical pain.
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A full-orbed christianity
Challenging widely held views that religious institutions entered a period of decline and irrelevance after 1900, Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau argue that the Methodist, Presbyterian, and United Churches enjoyed their greatest cultural influence dur
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Brigh an òrain - a story in every song
Lauchie MacLellan (1910-1991), carpenter, farmer, and woodsman, was one of this century's outstanding Scottish Gaelic singer-storytellers. MacLellan, part of a Scottish family with an extensive Gaelic oral tradition who emigrated to Canada early in the ni
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In defence of the faith
Recounting an insider's perspective of the turbulent historical currents of late eighteenth-century Brazil.
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The geography of aging
The Geography of Aging provides an essential perspective for gerontologists, community planners, service providers, and caregivers, as well as provincial and local policy-makers, to enable them to better respond to the needs of senior citizens now and in the future.
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This unfriendly soil
Following the American Revolution, more than 20,000 loyalists fled to Nova Scotia, doubling the population in a single year. Neil MacKinnon provides the first detailed account of this great wave of immigrants, their exodus and settlement, their adjustment to the new land, and their effect upon it...
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Habitations et milieu de vie
Habitations et milieu de vie est le fruit d'un projet conçu par la Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement (SCHL) afin d'examiner les progrès accomplis en matière de logement au Canada. Dans le cadre d'une expérience inusitée, un consortium de vingt-deux auteurs comprenant des universitai...
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Singing story, healing drum
A must read for anyone interested in Siberian culture.
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Look here look away look again
To look is to fill our thoughts and consciousness with an experience of the other.
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The participation paradox
The last two decades have ushered in what has become known as a “Participatory Revolution,” with authorities called into communities to listen to ordinary people through “open” forums for engagement. The Participation Paradox argues that amplifying the voices of the poor and dispossessed is often...
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Ivan mazepa and the russian empire
A political biography of the famous Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa and his clash with the emerging Russian empire.
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Freeing trade in north america
An overview of the North American Free Trade Agreement and its successor, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
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St petersburg dialogues
A classic renowned for both its content and its French literary style that today still influences the direction of far-right conservatism in Western political thought.
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Eranos
A detailed account of a vital incubator for global humanism.
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Chasing empire across the sea
Drawing on a vast array of official correspondence, merchant's letters, ship's logs, and graphic material from archives and research libraries in Canada, France, and the United States, Kenneth Banks details how France, as the most powerful nation on the Continent and possessing a tradition of mar...
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Coalescence of styles
Unique nuances and styles often develop because of interactions between groups of people. By studying furniture produced and decorated by Mi'kmaq, Acadians, French Canadians, Americans, English, Scots, and Irish, Jane Cook shows that their diverse styles
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Saqiyuq
A grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter take us on a remarkable journey in which the cycles of life - childhood, adolescence, marriage, birthing and child rearing - are presented against the contrasting experiences of three successive generations. Their memories and reflections give us poignan...
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Ellen smallboy
Ellen Smallboy's life spanned a period of immense change among the Cree of northern Ontario. Born in about 1853 near James Bay, for most of her lifetime Smallboy led a semi-nomadic life that revolved around seasonal hunting. By the time she was an old woman, however, Cree lifestyle and culture we...
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Crass struggle
An original and cutting commentary on the bad side of the good life.
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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...
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Divining margaret laurence
The most complete consideration of all the major writings of Margaret Laurence.
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Psychological activity in homer
This work focuses upon one word among several that make up Homer's psychological terminology. By its wide range of meaning, phren illustrates many aspects of psychic activity in Homer, including emotion, volition, and different forms of thought. Psychological terminology poses a challenge for exa...
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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...
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Capitalism and the alternatives
A proposal for a new society liberated from the cult of frenetic growth and from multiculturalism and political correctness.
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The transcultural streams of chinese canadian identities
Investigating the conditions that shape Chinese Canadian identities from various historical, social, and literary perspectives.
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The orangeman, second edition
The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from Ireland who brought the Orange Order to central Canada, to explore the migration and prejudice that shaped Canadian politics. This lively novel shows that while one never knows everything about a historical person, someti...
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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.
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Time in time
A look at experiment and continuity in North American poetry since the 1960s.
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Commissions high
Commissions High is an account of the work of the Canadian High Commission from 1870 until Britain's entry into the European Common Market one hundred years later. Roy MacLaren argues that, until the defeat of Diefenbaker in 1963, there was tension between the forces of imperial (later Commonweal...
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The problem of atheism
The Problem of Atheism offers the first translation of Augusto Del Noce’s landmark book from 1964. One of the earliest works to recognize the new secularizing trends in Western culture following World War II, this book remains relevant to contemporary debates about secularization, political theol...
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Becoming bamboo
The many problems we face in today's world -- among them war, environmental destruction, religious and racial intolerance, and inappropriate technologies -- demand that we carefully re-evaluate such issues as our relation to the environment, the nature of progress, ultimate purposes, and human va...
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Canada among nations, 2007
Canada's thirty-four million people and trillion dollar GDP don't occupy much space on a planet of seven billion whose economy is now worth forty trillion dollars. The country is not a lightweight yet, but certainly its position as a power is shrinking. What does that mean for the country's forei...
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The art and science of stanislaw lem
Leading scholars examine the social and cultural significance of technology and science in the work of Stanislaw Lem, the author of Solaris.
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A generative thought
Luigi Giussani, born in 1922, is one of the most influential thinkers and leaders in the Catholic world today. He is the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, now present in more than seventy countries worldwide, with a membership well in excess of 100,000. In addition, h...
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Men at play
After a year spent documenting the working life and daily routines of players for an American Hockey League team, Michael Robidoux found that most peoples' perceptions of hockey players' lives as romantic and glamorized are unrealistic. The majority of professional hockey players work in a closed...
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Stephen leacock
Gerald Lynch offers new insights into the work of a popular Canadian humourist in Stephen Leacock: Humour and Humanity. He considers Leacock's satire to be the result of a combination of two traditions - toryism and humanism - and examines the relation between Leacock's theory of humour and his v...
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A russian jew of bloomsbury
A stirring account of the early-twentieth century, Jewish émigré life, and English and Russian letters, A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury casts new light - and shadows - on the giants of English modernism.
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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...
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History in the age of abundance?
A guide to the World Wide Web and its archives for the contemporary historian.
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The outbreak of the irish rebellion of 1641
The Irish rebellion of 1641 had a profound effect not only on the history of Ireland but also on that of England and Scotland. Perceval-Maxwell reviews conditions in Ireland and relations with England and Scotland in the period preceding the rebellion and
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Classroom and empire
The central challenge to imperial powers entering the modern era was the schooling of their peoples. How could they insure the literacy that modernity required without providing a foundation for nationalism among the colonized? In Russia's eastern empire in the late nineteenth century, Orthodox C...
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English immigrant voices
Emigrants sent by the Petworth Emigration Committee were part of a wave of rural workers in the 1830s whose immigration to Upper Canada was sponsored by English parishes and landlords. Their letters written or dictated to family and friends, leave us a rare first-hand view of the immigrant experi...
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Being vulnerable
Interrupting the dialectic by which sovereignty manages to be both the cause of our vulnerabilization and the tool of its prevention, in Being Vulnerable Arne De Boever explores how today’s experiences of vulnerabilization can be translated into a collective human power that dismantles the form o...
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Stikeman elliott
The recent history of a leading Canadian law firm.
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From cohen to carson
From Cohen to Carson provides the first book-length analysis of one of Canada's most distinctive fields of literary production. Ian Rae argues that Canadian poets have turned to the novel because of the limitations of the lyric, but have used lyric methods - puns, symbolism, repetition, juxtaposi...
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I can only paint
For Mary Riter Hamilton, capturing the emotional landscape of battlefields and graveyards in the months after the Great War's armistice became an artistic calling and defined her work. This book recovers a body of work that stands as a unique and enduring portrait of the effects of the Great War.
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Wives and mothers, school mistresses and scullery maids
Arguing that the role of Upper Canadian women in the overall economy of the early colonial period has been greatly undervalued by contemporary historians. Jane Errington illustrates how the work they did, particularly as wives and mothers, played a significant role in the development of the colony.
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Sport and canadian diplomacy
In Sport and Canadian Diplomacy Donald Macintosh and Michael Hawes describe how the Department of External Affairs used sport in its foreign policy initiatives, from the beginning of its involvement in 1972 to the recent initiative of former Secretary of State for External Affairs Joe Clark to pr...
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University women
For the first generations of university women, higher education was a transformative experience, but these opportunities would narrow in the decades that followed. Examining the period between 1870 and 1930, University Women explores the processes of integration and separation that marked women’s...
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The failure of remain
The Failure of Remain offers the first comprehensive study of the UK’s grassroots anti-Brexit movement after the June 2016 referendum. Through first-hand interviews, a survey of anti-Brexit activists, and an analysis of their campaign materials, Adam Fagan and Stijn van Kessel assess the ideology...
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Trials of labour
Trials of Labour is a detailed study of the available social science literature on childbirth and midwifery. Brian Burtch highlights the difficulties associated with the present lack of regulation of midwifery, pointing to ways of reducing the dangers through establishing guidelines for domicilia...
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Hunter with harpoon
Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In t...
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Newton's dream
In 1687, Isaac Newton published "Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica" (the "Principia") a work which represents the greatest single advance in the history of science and human thought. In 1987, Queen's University, the Royal Military College of Canada, and the Royal Society of Canada spon...
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Framing our past
Lavishly illustrated and written for a broad audience, Framing Our Past offers insights into the lives of individual Canadian women, the obscure as well as the better-known, who pioneered new activities or expanded the boundaries of women's traditional roles. On topics ranging from everyday life ...
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The oil has not run dry
A Catholic theologian - praised by some and denounced by others - tells the story of his involvement in the renewal of the Catholic Church.
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Putin kitsch in america
How the image of Russian president Vladimir Putin permeates contemporary American material, political, and digital culture.
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Women in power
How the personality traits of Gandhi, Meir, and Thatcher developed, and their impact on leadership behaviour.
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Violence and militants
The first comprehensive analysis of the use of violence by militant groups across time and space.
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The marshall decision and native rights
In The Marshall Decision and Native Rights Ken Coates explains the cross-cultural, legal, and political implications of the recent Supreme Court decision on the Donald Marshall case. He describes the events, personalities, and conflicts that brought the Maritimes to the brink of a major confronta...
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Inhabited
Through an ethnographic exploration of Canada’s ten UNESCO Natural World Heritage sites, Inhabited reflects on the meanings of wildness, wilderness, and natural heritage. Presenting perspectives of local inhabitants, the authors ask us to reflect on the colonial and dualist assumptions behind the...
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The theology of the oral torah
The Theology of the Oral Torah demonstrates the cogency and inner rationality of the classical statement of Judaism in the Oral Torah, bringing a theological assessment to bear on the whole of rabbinic literature. Jacob Neusner shows how the proposition
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Learning to look
In Learning to Look Lesley Clement traces the evolution of Mavis Gallant's visually evocative style through five decades of her short fictional works. Gallant explores the boundaries between visible and invisible worlds as the lines, shapes, and colours suggested by her allusions, analogies, and ...
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Creating complicated lives
The nearly forgotten history and complex career paths of the first Canadian women scientists.
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Kierkegaard as humanist
Arnold Come draws on Kierkegaard's major works, journals, and papers to reveal the humanist dimensions of his thought, highlighting the importance of the self as the central theme of all his writings.
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Reigns of terror
Reigns of Terror is a study of states that have committed gross human rights crimes against their own citizens. Patricia Marchak seeks to discover whether these states have anything in common - whether there are preconditions that can be identified as leading to crimes against humanity so that th...
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Sound and noise
A timely evaluation of the noise that surrounds us, how we hear it, and what we can do about it, Marcia Jenneth Epstein gives us the impetus and the tools to understand the sounds and noise that define our daily lives. This is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of how auditory stimuli impac...
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The little yellow house
Silent echoes of memories forgotten.
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The right to research
Refugees and displaced people rarely figure as historical actors, and almost never as historical narrators and historians. The Right to Research offers a critical reflection on what history means, who narrates it, and what happens when those long excluded from authorship bring their knowledge and...
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The good regiment
The Good Regiment provides an intriguing account of the Carignan-Salières Regiment -- the only seventeenth-century French infantry regiment ever to serve in Canada -- and its activities and presents a critical assessment of the regiment's significance. It greatly enriches our knowledge of sevente...
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Human rights in canadian foreign policy
Concern for international human rights is well entrenched in the rhetoric of Canadian foreign relations. This book is one of the first comprehensive efforts to present, assess, and explain the actual effect which this concern has had on Canada's foreign policy.
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Voluntary detours
After visiting hundreds of museums across Alberta, Lianne McTavish chronicles some of the most challenging and unexpected sites where the idea of the museum is being reshaped. Honouring local, rural, and Indigenous knowledge, Voluntary Detours enriches critical accounts of the past, present, and ...
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A land of dreams
A comparative history of Irish community and identity in St John’s, Halifax, and Portland.
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Tropes and territories
Postcolonial and Commonwealth literary scholarship has tended to emphasize the novel. Tropes and Territories is the first book to focus on modern short fiction, including Métis narratives, Maori myth, and stories by Mansfield, Frame, Munro, Rushdie, MacLeod, Gallant, Narayan, Jarman, and King. Wh...
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Measuring the value of a postsecondary education
A comprehensive study of higher education practices and outcomes.
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The american empire and the fourth world
In a book that Naomi Klein says could "change the world," Anthony Hall shows that the globalization debate actually began in 1492.
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Chess pieces
But never underestimate the powers of the pawn who can promote into a queen and put a kingdom on, or moving humbly up the board, killing on the side, outpriest the priest, and leave the knight without a horse to ride, and trip the elevated rook to bring it crashing down, and nudge the misanthropi...
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The art of collectivity
What tensions and what potential emerge when a community art program seeks to promote collectivity in the present era?
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Damned women
Damned Women charts the previously unexplored literary territory of the place of lesbians in the French novel. Beginning with the early depictions of lesbians as "decadent monsters" by nineteenth-century male authors such as Diderot, Balzac, and Gautier, Jennifer Waelti-Walters shows how later, l...
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The covenanters in canada
A sensitive and nuanced narrative of a dissenting religious minority in a pluralistic society.
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A great duty
In A Great Duty L.B. Kuffert shows that the history of Canadian culture from the war to Canada's centenary is much richer and more complex than has previously been recognized. He looks at the responses of cultural critics to such topics as war, reconstruction, science, conformity, personality, an...
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