Thomas nagel

Projecting canada

The National Film Board of Canada, now in its seventh decade, is internationally acclaimed as a beacon of non-commercial filmmaking. In Projecting Canada Zoë Druick shows that the NFB, born out of a nation-building project, continues to be inextricably involved in the crises of nation, technology...

The pleasure of fools

Men cannot laugh heartily without showing their teeth, quipped Samuel Butler. From St Paul to Descartes to Adorno, scholars and writers have questioned the ethics of laughter - any laughter. In The Pleasure of Fools, Jure Gantar wrestles with our moral right to laugh and the limitations of contem...

The constitutions that shaped us

The Constitutions that Shaped Us re-examines from a comparative and critical standpoint the events, key players, and texts which, taken together, help to interpret all Canadian constitutions prior to Confederation. The key constitutional documents that are studied in this book are the Royal Procl...

How ottawa spends, 2007-2008

The priorities and policies of the Harper conservatives as they confront a climate of change both politically and environmentally.

Canada: the state of the federation, 2011

In this edition of Canada: The State of the Federation, contributors consider whether and to what degree the relationship between the central government and the provincial and territorial governments has changed in the past decade. The authors address three overarching questions. First, is the po...

A sadly troubled history

A comparative history of suicide, consulting the largest set of case files ever assembled.

Lyric and polemic

Canada, the provinces, and the global nuclear revival

A timely contribution to understanding the policy challenges of relying on nuclear power.

Global shift

A striking portrait of states in the non-Western world from the dismantling of European empires to their inclusion into a universe of global capitalism.

The philosophy of derrida

One country or two?

Chiefs of the plantation

An inside look at the ways in which labour relations are constituted and contested in South African agriculture.

Nature as landscape

Human interaction with the natural world has created serious environmental problems. In Nature as Landscape Kraft von Maltzahn examines the "unnatural" relationship that has developed between human beings and nature. Drawing on evidence from philosophy and the history of science, he argues that h...

Youth squad

How police surveillance and crime prevention programs became a normal part of modern-day childhood.

Dal & rice

In 1914 Godfrey Davis arrived in India, a junior officer in the Indian Civil Service. By the time he reluctantly returned to England thirty years later he was a high court judge with a knighthood. Sir Godfrey fell in love with India. He sympathized with the independence movement and shared a grea...

One of the boys, second edition

A new edition of a book that has changed the way we think about sexual conduct and combat.

Lord lyons

A biography of a man for all international crises.

The victorian army at home

The accidental indies

The Accidental Indies is a tale in which we join Christopher Columbus on a voyage through western seas and Western imagination. Robert Finley imagines, sings, charts, and paints the story of Columbus's problematic 1492 expedition to the Caribbean, creating a world that is as vivid and compelling ...

Religion, family, and community in victorian canada

While we know a great deal about the role religion played in institutions in Victorian Canada, its place in home and family life has remained relatively unexplored. Drawing on a treasure trove of family papers and material culture, Marguerite Van Die depicts religion as "lived experience" in a po...

Yellow crocodiles and blue oranges

Political positions come and go but talking animals, evil witches, and mythical princesses endure. David MacFadyen argues that Soviet socialist animation between 1936 and 1999 was a fundamentally emotional, not propagandistic, enterprise that requires a reconsideration of Soviet art in general. O...

Steeped in blood

An excoriation of bio-essentialism, this book turns conventional wisdom about adoption, identity, and biological family on its head.

Law, life, and government at red river, volume 1

A new view of frontier justice in western Canada’s first major settlement through the eyes of its courts and witnesses.

Law, life, and government at red river, volume 2

A new view of frontier justice in western Canada’s first major settlement through the eyes of its courts and witnesses.

The anatomy of scottish capital

Scripture, skepticism, and the character of god

The intersection of the Bible, the morality of God, and the crisis of faith in Victorian England.

The philosophy of gesture

A revolutionary pragmatist account of creativity and synthetic reasoning that relies upon gesture, an action that carries on meaning.

The yearbook of symbolic anthropology

Canada and the great war

Canada and the Great War explores the military and socio-cultural history of World War I, adding new dimensions not only to the history of Canadas role in the war but to the wars role in shaping Canada.

Robert laird borden, vol i

The memoirs of Sir Robert Borden are honest, straightforward, and fair; qualities similar to those possessed by the unpretentious Nova Scotia lawyer who became leader of the Conservative Party and Canada's prime minister during World War One.

Canadian international development assistance policies, first edition

For over twenty-five years Canadians have considered the activities and programs of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to be the most important international expression of Canadian social values. Consonant with this, the government has always claimed that CIDA's primary objectiv...

The life and times of raúl prebisch, 1901-1986

Selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Economist.

Dystopian fiction east and west

In Dystopian Fiction East and West Erika Gottlieb offers an original and comprehensive exploration of dystopian fiction. She discusses Western classics such as Huxley's Brave New World, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Bradbury's Farenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player Piano, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale,...

Far in the waste sudan

In 2000, with controversy raging over the presence in Sudan of Talisman Energy, Canada's largest independent oil and gas producer, Ottawa decided to open a post in Khartoum. Nicholas Coghlan was recalled from assignment in Colombia to set up and run Canada's first diplomatic post in the largest c...

The language of the inuit

A historical and anthropological overview of Inuit peoples through the study of language.

The struggle to serve

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the creation of Canada's modern hospital system. While it is often assumed that this process was inevitable, many small communities had difficulty creating and maintaining public hospitals. In an era of government cutbacks in health services and c...

Implied consent and sexual assault

Revisiting the doctrine of implied consent in Canadian sexual assault law.

Colonization and community

In the nineteenth century coal-miners imported from Europe, Asia, and eastern North America burrowed beneath the Vancouver Island towns of Nanaimo, Wellington, and Cumberland. No group was as numerous and influential in this enterprise as the hundreds o

Justice in paradise

As a newsmaker, Bruce Clark is infamous - not for his discussions of the finer points of the law in relation to Aboriginal rights but for being dragged away by the police at the Native standoff at Gustafsen Lake, British Columbia. Now he is challenging the United States' ownership of Liberty Isla...

Lyndhurst

Only recently have the voices of the disabled - the personal experiences of people with disabilities - been included in medical history. Lyndhurst marks an important contribution to disability and medical history by providing first-person accounts of patients, staff, and disability activists at L...

White siberia

In the first full-length account of the Siberian theatre during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, N.G.O. Pereira documents the nature, causes, and consequences of the failure of the anti-Bolshevik White movement. The term "White," used in a broad political sense to contrast with the "Red" Bol...

Village politics and the mafia in sicily, second edition

Sicily has long been seen as an island whose people are plagued by governmental failings and general social disintegration, as well as the home of the mafia. In Village Politics and the Mafia in Sicily Filippo Sabetti examines more than two hundred years

Cuthbert grant of grantown

This book examines the Métis settlement of Grantown, the controversial "massacre" of Seven Oaks, the Siouan wars and the Red River settlement's fight for survival.

Islam and bosnia

An exploration of the causes of the Bosnian war by academics and diplomats that offers the broadest perspective on the conflict to date.

The freedom to smoke

A social and cultural history of the rise of the cigarette and the way smoking rituals in Montreal were shaped by gender, class, and race.

Reason and self-enactment in history and politics

F.M. Barnard goes beyond the seventeenth-century understanding of the social contract by making national self-enactment contingent on public reasons for individual liberty within civic mutuality. He examines the possibilities and limits for a self-enacting, principled politics, acknowledging reas...

The journals of yaakov zipper, 1950-1982

Following his death at age eighty-three, it was discovered that for over three decades Yaacov Zipper had kept a journal. Replete with compelling character sketches of many of Montreal's Jewish leaders, most of whom Zipper seems to have disliked, his diary provides a personal account of Montreal's...

For patients of moderate means

Between 1890 and 1910 scientific and technological innovation transformed the custodial Victorian charity hospital for the sick poor into the primary source of effective acute medical care for all members of society. For the next half century hospitals coped with relentlessly escalating demands f...

Situating "race" and racisms in space, time, and theory

Grounded in real life and theoretically charged, the nine essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore how race, racisms, and racialization are changing and suggest strategies for reading their emerging forms and discourses. Race has historically been defined by visible difference, but the...

Left and right

How left/right ideology has evolved in the postwar era and changed Canadian politics.

Economic intelligence and national security

Since the end of the Cold War, competition among states has been waged along economic rather than ideological or military lines. In Canada, as elsewhere, this shift has forced a rethinking of the role of intelligence services in protecting and promoting national economic security. The scholars an...

Charles clarke, pen and ink warrior

A compelling look at the public and private life of a nineteenth-century radical.

Search out the land

To date, Jews and Jewish contributions to the early development of Canada and the British colonies have been marginalized in Canadian history. In Search Out the Land Sheldon Godfrey and Judith Godfrey begin to redress this situation by illustrating and an

Twentieth-century shore-station whaling in newfoundland and labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador has a long history of commercial whaling, beginning in the first half of the sixteenth century when Basque whalers established seasonal stations on the Labrador coast from which to hunt bowheads and North Atlantic right whales. Anthony Dickinson and Chesley Sanger examin...

Telling the flesh

An engaging exploration of the stories our bodies tell and the stories we tell about our bodies.

At the origin of the christian claim

In At the Origin of the Christian Claim Luigi Giussani examines Christ's "claim" to identify himself with the mystery that is the ultimate answer to our search for the meaning of existence.

Jesuit relations and allied documents

This edition focuses on the Jesuit mission to the Hurons which culminated in the martyrdom of Fathers Brébeuf and Lalemant, and gives a fascinating glimpse of the Great Lakes Indian culture at the time the white man first came.

Teaching as activism

Weaving together concerns about environmental and social justice, Teaching as Activism brings together constructive demands for change and theoretical debate. Written by activists who also teach, the essays challenge the current pedagogical literature with proposals that would bring discussion of...

A national soul

From Confederation to World War II mural painting was an important tool for Canadian nation-building. In A National Soul, Marilyn McKay shows how, in both Protestant English Canada and Catholic French Canada, these artworks were designed to promote specific civic values.

Silent surrender, new edition

First published in 1970, Silent Surrender helped educate a generation of students about Canadian political economy. Kari Levitt details the historical background of foreign investments in Canada, their acceleration since World War II, and the nature of intrusions by multinational corporations int...

Critical reflection

An introductory textbook on critical thinking full of real-life examples and exercises from contemporary sources.

Flexible design

Vala or The Four Zoas is one of William Blake's few surviving manuscripts and affords a unique opportunity to examine a significant evolution in his poetic practice. While the poem itself exhibits a consistent thematic interest, the modes and methods of representing these interests underwent a ra...

Comparative administrative change and reform

Thought provoking perspectives on attempts to change government.

Charting northern waters

Charting Northern Waters celebrates the achievements and history of the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) and examines a wide range of topics relating to the origins of the CHS and to its subsequent development. Topics include the colonial heritage of hydrography in Canadians waters, the politi...

The one recipe recipe book

So, who are you? A poet, musician, painter, sculptor, dancer, actor, a singer, or one of the many striving in the cultural sweatshop? Like most slaves to the Muse you are probably cash-poor, but you need a clear head and healthy body to be an artist. Well ... you can do it on $15 a week. Here is ...

J.w. mcconnell

J.W. McConnell (1877-1963), born to a poor farming family in Ontario, became one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen of his generation - in Canada and internationally.

The mastery and uses of fire in antiquity

The material fabric of nearly all settled civilizations exists largely because of pyrotechnology - the generation, control, and application of the heat from fire to change the properties of materials. The technological achievements that make contemporary society possible, for instance, are the re...

Deep futures

Will the human lineage survive, reasonably happily, into the distant future? Will we survive the next millennium? Will the next 1,000 years be particularly difficult … or just plain difficult? Supposing that we survive the next 1,000 years, will we eventually become extinct (like most species) or...

The ill-made alliance

Divided into three parts, The Ill-Made Alliance examines the roots and course of the Anglo-Turkish rapprochement in the years 1934-38; the economic, military, and politic factors in 1938-39 that inhibited development of the emerging alliance to the point where it might have been fully functional;...

Global journalism ethics

An argument for a new system of ethics in journalism that will take into account its global reach and impact.

Action

Seven absolute rights

Redeeming the forgotten history of our rule of law and its categorical limits on executive power.

From power sharing to democracy

Post-conflict societies invariably experience great difficulty in making their new democratic power-sharing institutions work. In Northern Ireland, the system for power sharing prescribed in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement has repeatedly broken down. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the system prescribed u...

Psychiatry disrupted

A provocative argument against conventional study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of "mental illness."

A history of canadian catholics

A history of the first 400 years of Catholic life in Canada.

Values in conflict

An impassioned defence of the liberal arts.

Secession and self

The possibility of Quebec's departure has long haunted Canadian politics, and English-speaking Canadians have resisted such a break. But why, and how, does Quebec's membership in the existing constitutional order matter to Canadians outside Quebec?

Dmitri shostakovich, pianist

Dmitri Shoshtakovich (1906-1975) is recognized as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century yet few people know that he was also an outstanding concert pianist who maintained a hectic performing schedule. In Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist Sofia Moshevich offers the first detailed exami...

Fresh strange music

A new approach to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's art through the music of her poetry and its social and political implications.

Ireland, a bicycle, and a tin whistle

Cycling around Ireland in search of traditional music, a tin whistle in his saddlebag, David Wilson follows the coastline from Presbyterian Islandmagee to Gaelic Cape Clear and back up north from Dublin to Belfast. Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle takes us on a journey across wild open space...

Forced migration, reconciliation, and justice

The links between displacement and the search for justice and reconciliation, in theory and in practice.

Getting it done

Whether it was organizing Canada's first G-7 Summit or concluding the Free Trade agreement, Derek Burney fused politics, public policy, and diplomacy into a fine art. His tenure as chief of staff to Brian Mulroney is often cited as a model of how the Prime Minister's Office should work. As Canada...

This distant and unsurveyed country

In 1857 Margaret Penny set off from Aberdeen, Scotland, with her husband, Captain William Penny, aboard the whaler Lady Franklin on a wintering voyage to what is now the eastern Canadian Arctic. Wives of British captains rarely sailed with their husbands and Margaret Penny was one of the few wome...

Reaching outward and upward

Teaching, research, community engagement, and explorations in ways of knowing - Uvic fifty years on.

My life at the bar and beyond

Alex Paterson grew up in Montreal during the Duplessis era and watched the Quiet Revolution transform Quebec from a deeply religious and almost agrarian society into a modern and secular state. From the 1980 referendum to the Oka crisis, he played a critical role in the defining events of Quebec'...

The empire within

A compelling study of the global dimensions and local particularities of political activism in Sixties Montreal.

Our son a stranger

The emotionally compelling experiences of couples who adopted native children in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Minding the public purse

Janice MacKinnon became minister of Finance for the province of Saskatchewan in 1993, under NDP Premier Roy Romanow, just as the province became the first casualty of the debt and deficit crises that dominated both provincial and federal politics throughout the decade. Minding the Public Purse is...

Ripping down half the trees

One out of every twenty students in the adult education classes Evan J teaches in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, dies every year; the surviving students are often afflicted by severe racism, poverty, addictions, and violence. Ripping down half the trees engages with these struggles, offering a catalogue...

Sherlock holmes

Craftsman or copyist? Genius or journeyman? Artist or artisan? Of these, what was Conan Doyle? Does anyone take Conan Doyle seriously? Who can explain the phenomenon which makes Sherlock Holmes the instantly recognizable stock figure, probably the only such stereotype and standby in late Victoria...

For canada's sake

In 1967, Canadians cheered and ate cake on Parliament Hill, spent millions on outlandish modern buildings, and flocked to the World Expo in Montreal. In his groundbreaking book, Gary Miedema uses Canada's centennial celebrations to illustrate how religion informed nation-building and national ide...

Rent boys

Rent Boys paints a vivid picture of the men who service men in an urban Western context. Using interviews with forty young male sex workers, Michel Dorais analyses their differences in terms of self-esteem, control over their lives, relations to their clients, and risk of HIV infection. He insigh...

Speculative fictions

An exploration of the proliferation of historical novels in English-Canadian literature over the last thirty years.

Franklin's passage