Christ, god's companionship with man

This volume is a selection of the most significant writings by Monsignor Luigi Giussani, founder of the Italian Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, which is practised in eighty countries around the world.Presented by Julián Carrón, Giussani's successor as head of Communion and Liberat...

Beyond liberty and property

Professor Gunn presents a fresh, revealing picture of the public mind in Britain, from the Glorious Revolution to the First Reform Act, showing how British people of the eighteenth century came to a new understanding of politics. Departing form the usual

The word of the law

The subjugation of canadian wildlife

A wake-up call to reform conservation practices and policies and to recognize the value of wildlife in Canada before further extinction.

What the bones say

Here is a thoroughly engaging history of one line of human science research and its consequences for the hapless, and often helpless, subject of study: the indigenous peoples of Tasmania. Research questions arising from skeletal remains were posed and pursued on the assumption that these vanishin...

The early journals and letters of fanny burney: volume iii

At the beginning of 1778 twenty-five-year-old Fanny Burney was an unknown. By year's end, however, she had emerged as the author of Evelina, or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World, a universally acclaimed novel which admirers ranked with the works of Fielding and Richardson.

A portrait of the artist as australian

Best known to his fans for the flamboyant character Dame Edna Everage, the Australian actor and comedian Barry Humphries is also a painter, composer, and critically acclaimed author. Taking outrageousness to new heights by borrowing from the British Music Hall tradition and the Dada art movement,...

Rocke robertson

The life of the war surgeon who became principal of McGill University in the midst of political, student, and faculty unrest.

Reading between the borderlines

“[Reading Between the Borderlines] is impeccably edited and well-written. Its wide-ranging contributions make it a mandatory addition to any library concerned with North American studies.” Amerikastudien / American StudiesAn investigation into how culture is made, moved, and used across the Canad...

Rediscovering reverence

A surprising and insightful work, Rediscovering Reverence offers a rational explanation of what the modern western world calls "religion" and argues that it is not what most people assume. Questioning western culture's evolving use of the word "religion" over the last five centuries, Ralph Heintz...

Policing the banks

From 1999 to 2004 Maartje van Putten served as a member of the World Bank's Inspection Panel. Using personal experience and extensive interviews with principal decision-makers and stakeholders in the Panel's work, she chronicles the history of accountability in the World Bank and other major fina...

John case and aristotelianism in renaissance england

This perceptive study of John Case, teacher of philosophy at Oxford from the mid-1560s until his death in 1600 and author of expositions of Aristotle which became standard textbooks of the time, focuses on his intellectual and cultural milieu and reveals

The politics of popular culture

Why popular culture matters to political science - and vice versa.

Shades of laura

Understanding Nabokov's oeuvre through a detailed look at the posthumous publication of his unrealized novel.

The quebec conference of 1864

A new interpretation of a key period in Canadian political history.

Before ontario

A lively and accessible introduction to Ontario's Aboriginal past, from the province’s leading archaeologists.

Quebec hydropolitics

An examination of the effects of dams on the environment, Aboriginal peoples, and the war effort.

Democracy with justice/la juste democratie

The essays in this volume (22 in English, 5 in French), examine themes important to the late Professor Paltiel, including individual vs. collective rights, constitutional change, lobbying and modern Quebec politics.

The ethical world of british mps

The ethical standards of the British House of Commons depend almost entirely upon the personal ethics of its individual members. Parliament expects that its members, as holders of a public trust, will be "honourable members" in both name and deed. Maureen Mancuso examines the current state of Bri...

One of the boys, first edition

Homosexuality and military service have made strange bedfellows over the last hundred years. Military leaders have generally seen homosexuals as unmanly, immoral, and – according to the U.S. military – a threat to unit cohesion, a claim that continues to prop up the controversial “don’t ask, don’...

Vatican ii and beyond

A look at the impact of Vatican II through the Canadian Religious Conference and the lived experience of Sisters Alice Trudeau and Mary Alban.

Leadership in disaster

Environmental disasters occur when natural hazards strike areas of socio-technological vulnerability. We expect our leaders to prepare for such threats, but they must do so using current science, which provides valuable indications of risk but not certainty. Raymond Murphy's study of the manageme...

Back to beer ... and hockey

A personal look into a quiet man's quest to make Molson a global brewer.

Trade and health

Integrating health objectives and international trade policies.

Harriet brooks

Harriet Brooks (1876-1933) was one of the first Canadian researchers in the field of radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford called her the best woman scientist in the field next to Marie Curie. She worked with Rutherford, J.J. Thompson, and Curie, and her achievements include identifying "emanation" (r...

A wampum denied, first edition

This formative history takes a new look at a dramatic conflict-the war on the Detroit frontier in 1812-13. Powerful key players (Procter, Tecumseh and Brock), their disparate war aims, and the "all or nothing" character of the campaigns they waged still seem larger than life. Yet Sandy Antal's ca...

The moral economy of welfare and migration

Britain's coalition government of 2010–2015 ushered in an enduring age of austerity and a "moral mission" of welfare reform as part of a drive for deficit reduction. Stricter controls were applied to both domestic welfare and international migration and asylum, which were presented as two sides o...

Delicious mirth

Recovering the lyrical voice and remarkable literary life of James McCarroll, Canada's Irish-born poet and humorist.

Solitudes of the workplace

A consideration of workplace identities and the stresses women experience within the university system.

Canadian water politics

Water, an increasingly valuable multiple-use resource, is the source of continuing conflict in Canada and abroad. Its use and control presents significant challenges to governments, stakeholders, and citizens.

Trudeau and the end of a canadian dream

In Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream Guy Laforest argues that Trudeau's constitutional reforms destroyed the dualistic vision of the Canadian federation developed in Quebec throughout the twentieth century.

First crack

This collection comes from an alternate world of poetry running close beside our own, one which is always chugging away at shaping meaning and adding substance to our feelings. These poems are usually a study in near-solitude: domestic scenes, Michelangelo's Last Judgement, the myths of Egypt, sk...

Staging strife

A candid look at anthropological research methods, political theatre, and advocacy.

Unpacking the kists

An analysis of the scale and impact of Scottish migration to Britain's most distant nineteenth-century colony.

Ladies, upstairs!

The intriguing memoir of a fish out of water in Pierre Trudeau's cabinet.

The contribution of methodism to atlantic canada

The Methodism of John Wesley was a vigorous presence in Atlantic Canada from its introduction in the eighteenth century until its incorporation into the United Church of Canada in 1925. The growing body of scholarly writing on religion in the region, however, has concentrated on other denominatio...

A meeting of the people

A study of the local school board as a key political and social institution in Protestant communities in Quebec.

Giving my body to science

I bow and hand Sensei her arrows. All but one that I can't find, though I combed the long grass with my fingers. One arrow gone. Perhaps underground you hold it in your hand against the broken dawn. You are the wandering arrow, the bow unstrung. Your sudden absence has startled the partridges fro...

A cold war tourist and his camera

Cold War-era imagery is defined by the striking contrast between the ideal of the nuclear family and the nightmare of nuclear annihilation. In 1963, Warren Langford, a Second World War air force veteran and career public servant, travelled through Europe, North America, and Africa as part of the ...

Slut-shaming, whorephobia, and the unfinished sexual revolution

The sexual revolution is unfinished. A sexual double standard between men and women still exists, and society continues to punish bad girls and reward good ones. Until we eliminate good-girl privilege and bad-girl stigma, women will not be fully free to embrace their sexuality. Meredith Ralston l...

Charter versus federalism

In Charter Versus Federalism, Alan Cairns provides an insightful analysis of the consequences -- for citizen and government alike -- of the changes undergone by the Canadian constitution, especially since 1982. He also illuminates the difficulties of resolving the constitutional tensions between ...

Silent history

An innovative historical study of body language using unknown snapshot photography.

Surface imaginations

A meditation on why surfaces are so profound in the contemporary culture of cosmetic surgery.

The catholic origins of quebec's quiet revolution, 1931-1970

A cogent study that investigates the Catholic origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution.

Assessing quality in postsecondary education

For many years the benefits conferred by a higher education went undisputed. But students, employers, governments, and taxpayers are now demanding evidence of educational quality and value. At the same time, fiscally strapped governments are raising questions about how institutions are funded and...

Education as dialogue

An original examination of the intellectual and moral prerequisites of education and dialogue and their role in preventing indoctrination.

Forgotten

A groundbreaking comparison of scientific, popular, and literary approaches to provoke new stories of dementia.

Social inequality in canada

Do Canadians believe they can succeed on the basis of their own abilities? And how do they compare with Americans, Germans, Italians, Australians and Russians? There is much debate as to how Canadians differ from or resemble citizens of other countries, particularly the United States. Is it true ...

Sexual diversity in africa

A comprehensive analysis of sexual diversity in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Equivocal city

A fresh approach to Montreal fiction, integrating French and English novels into a common literary history.

Getting on track

New Democratic Party governments in Canada have always been strongly committed to redistributing wealth and stabilizing the economy, but present conditions require that they broaden their perspective. They must also find ways of generating wealth if they expect to finance new social programs or p...

Russian entrepreneur

Not only did Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin build Sytin & Co. into the largest publishing concern in Russia prior to the Revolution, he also transformed Russian Word from an obscure, conservative newspaper into Russia's leading daily, with a circulation of over o

Liberal nationalisms

A revealing comparative history of nationalist politics in Scotland and Quebec.

Crimes, constables, and courts

Blending narrative and social history in this fascinating study of crime in a Canadian community, John Weaver describes both the patterns of crime and the evolution of the Canadian criminal justice system over 150 years.

Realism and anti-realism

An introduction to realism and anti-realism - a major subject in contemporary metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language.

Everyday sacred

The first English-language volume on religion in contemporary Quebec.

Timing canada

Time as a form of power in Canadian society, literature, and cultural imagination.

Inside politics

An illuminating collection of writings from one of Canada’s most recognized political columnists.

Managing the canadian mosaic in wartime

An account of the Canadian government's attempts to "Canadianize" immigrants during the Second World War.

Student's guide for writing in political science

This concise methodological guide is geared to undergraduates making the transition between descriptive and analytical work. Many aspects of study and writing are explored: posing a general political problem, active reading, approaches to research, textual analysis, the linking of ideas and data,...

The limits of boundaries

With city-regions becoming increasingly important as sources of innovation and wealth in our society, does it follow that their institutions of government will become increasingly autonomous, allowing them to become self-governing?

Beyond the sea

A collection of innovative essays on the iconic, dystopian video game series and its lasting influence.

Island doctor

Dr John Mackieson practised medicine in Prince Edward Island from 1821 to 1885. Island Doctor offers an intimate look at the work of this "ordinary" physician and a fascinating glimpse of medicine in the nineteenth century.

A nation's navy

Bounded by three great oceans, Canada stands as a maritime nation with rich seafaring traditions. Born of both national and British imperial interests in 1910 and maturing in two world wars, its navy is a vital national institution that continues to evolve in response to new and complex challenge...

Missionaires oblates

Dans cette importante analyse féministe, Rosa Bruno-Jofré présente un portrait sensible et nuancé de comment un groupe de femmes -- les Soeurs Missionnaires Oblates, une congrégation bilingue d'enseignantes au Manitoba -- composait avec les structures patriarcales et les opinions, traditions et a...

Resilience and contagion

An in-depth study of why civil society advocacy groups working on HIV choose the language of rights.

Partita for glenn gould

A privileged look into the life of a solitary artist with an extraordinary gift for communicating art to everyone.

The politics of conflict

A new look at the politics and legitimation of violence.

Done with slavery

Did slavery exist in Montreal, and if so what did it look like? Frank Mackey grapples with this question in Done with Slavery, a study of black Montrealers in the eighty years between the British Conquest and the union of Lower and Upper Canada.Through close examination of archival and contempora...

Understand and control your asthma

Understand and Control Your Asthma is designed to help asthmatics take control of their health through better understanding of the disease and its treatment and by applying self-management skills to avoid attacks.

Building resistance

How tuberculosis infection and disease impacted the bodies, families, and lives of children before antibiotics.

Political choices and electoral consequences

The creation of the NDP out of the CCF in 1961 was intended to strengthen Canada's left-wing political party through a closer alliance with organized labour. This strength has failed to materialize. In Political Choices and Electoral Consequences, Keith Archer reveals why.

Why did we choose to industrialize?

A new analysis of the factors and human choice at the heart of industrialization and social change.

The highway of the atom

The surprising story of the atomic bomb's origins in Canada's North.

Coleridge and the inspired word

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the central figure in the dissemination of higher criticism, the analytical and historical study of the Bible begun in Germany in the late eighteenth century by Lessing, Herder, and Eichorn.

Canada and the idea of north

A comprehensive overview of the role of the idea of North in Canadian thought, art, and popular culture.

Christian plain style

Christian Plain Style is a historical survey of the origins, growth, and decline of "the plain style," a mode of rhetorical discourse that reflected the mode of expression exemplified by Christ. Peter Auksi draws on an impressive array of classical, biblical, patristic, medieval, and Renaissance ...

Small differences

The assumption that Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics are fundamentally different is central to modern Irish history. There are hundreds of books and thousands of articles that either presuppose the existence of Irish Catholic-Protestant differences

The imperial irish

A social and religious history of ethnic conflict and nationalism during the Great War.

Urdu for children, book ii, let's write urdu, part one

The second set of books in the groundbreaking series of instructional resource for teaching Urdu at primary level.

Canada's vegetation

Following an ecoclimatic approach, Geoffrey Scott reviews vegetation formations found in Canada in relation to physical geography.

The perils of pedagogy

The first book to examine the works of controversial film and video-maker, queer activist, and agent provocateur, John Greyson.

The catholicisms of coutances

How religious belief and practice shaped daily life in early modern France.

Gael force, second edition

An engaging record of the legacy of one of the best and oldest college football teams in Canada.

Life embodied

A compelling tour through the scientific, philosophical, and cultural meanings of vital force in Spanish modernity.

Planets, potions, and parchments

Planets, Potions, and Parchments is a heavily illustrated and informative catalogue published in conjunction with a major exhibition of the same name. The exhibition, presented by the Jewish Public Library, runs from May to September at the David M. Stewart Museum in Montreal. Both catalogue and ...

Government-nonprofit relations in times of recession

An exhaustive study of changing nonprofit policy issues in response to the economic recession.

Social and political bonds

Profound analysis of potential ways to better balance governmental power and the freedom of the people.

The feminist challenge to the canadian left, 1900-1918

Exploring the role of women and feminism in the early Canadian socialist movement, Janice Newton traces the growth and ultimate decline of feminist ideas within the Canadian Socialist League, the Socialist Party of Canada, and the Social Democratic Party.

Psyche

A child who is the centre of her parents' life, is torn away in the darkness from her comfortable urban home and left to grow up in the barren hills of northern mining country. Over time, recognizing that she has outgrown the kindly but uneducated couple who raise her, she begins a relationship w...

Challenge for change

An examination of the radical politics and cinema of the legendary documentary film program devoted to social change.

Designing fictions

From Tono-Bungay to Mad Men - how fiction has treated the omnipresent influence of advertising.

Transcanadian feminist fictions

A cutting-edge feminist study of borders and transnational ethics in Canadian literature since the turn of the twenty-first century.

Works by a.y. jackson from the 1930s

This volume by A.Y. Jackson's niece provides fascinating insights into the man and his work at a time the author calls "a rugged-romantic high point in A.Y.'s life." The illustrations reproduced and discussed come mainly from the Carleton University Art Collection. Groves places the works in the ...

Urdu for children, book ii, teacher's manual

The second set of books in the groundbreaking series of instructional resource for teaching Urdu at primary level.

The social history of ideas in quebec, 1760-1896

The first synthesis of the history of ideas over a century in Quebec.

Is it possible to live this way? volume 2: hope

Unusual yet reasonable approaches to living life as a Christian.

The national question and electoral politics in quebec and scotland

A comprehensive look at the intricacies of issue voting in substate nations.

Art and work

A notable addition to the growing body of work that examines art and work as social constructs, Art and Work traces the development of commercial illustration and the graphic arts industry in Canada from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s.

Short histories of light

Vivid, haunting, and rhythmical, these poems illuminate the struggles of mental illness and uncover the sinister side of religion.