Keeping the dream alive

Keeping the Dream Alive examines a crucial era in the evolution of the CCF/NDP in Ontario when, after almost a decade of unprecedented popularity, the party experienced a significant decline in support. Dan Azoulay chronicles the party's difficult but inspiring struggle to survive and regain its ...

Urban enigmas

The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.

Dark age

A gripping political biography of one of Africa's most controversial leaders.

Externalism

An examination of the view that mental states and processes are essentially dependent on the world for their nature and contents.

The war against the seals

Controversy arises whenever and wherever the sealing industry is discussed. But the modern-day anti-sealing movement is very new in comparison with the industry it opposes. This comprehensive history begins with the opening of American trade with China, and follows the industry wherever North Ame...

Making and moving knowledge

How to combine scholarly research with practical knowledge to maximize its scientific and social impact.

Through sunshine and shadow

The Ontario Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) quickly evolved from an organization established to eradicate the consumption of alcohol to become concerned with broader social problems. Sharon Cook shows that the WCTU nurtured a distinct feminist c

Vasil bykau

The Soviet Union banned many of Vasil Bykau's novels, which often focus on the agonizing moral dilemmas faced by young officers during the horrors of war. Considered the best modern Belarusan writer and the last Eastern European literary dissident, Bykau (1924-2003) is referred to as the "conscie...

Phoenix

The life and loves of Norman Bethune - Canadian doctor and activist and battlefield surgeon in China during the Japanese invasion of the 1930s.

The future's back

Given the likely proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the future, and the failure of "non-proliferation" regimes to provide effective barriers to the spread of nuclear technology in the past, efforts towards greater understanding of nuclear rivalry are crucial. The Future's Back provid...

Disrobing the aboriginal industry

Despite the billions of dollars devoted to aboriginal causes, Native people in Canada continue to suffer all the symptoms of a marginalized existence - high rates of substance abuse, violence, poverty. Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry argues that the policies proposed to address these problems -...

Canada as statebuilder?

In Canada as Statebuilder? Laura Grant and Benjamin Zyla analyze over one hundred and thirty Canadian-led development projects in Afghanistan to illustrate that Canada has limited capacity to effectively run humanitarian efforts in unstable, insecure, or inaccessible environments. Reflecting on C...

Marguerite bourgeoys and the congregation of notre dame, 1665-1700

Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700) was canonized in 1982. Patricia Simpson goes beyond myth and hagiography to explore Bourgeoys's dream of establishing a radically new religious community of women, recounting her thirty-year struggle to obtain official recognition for the Congregation of Notre Dame.

The epic of qayaq

The Epic of Qayaq is richly illustrated from the Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks Collection of Inuit Art, housed at Carleton University Art Gallery. A scholarly preface by Ann Chandonnet explains the conventions of Native Alaskan storytelling, and there is an introduction by Priscilla Tyler and ...

The west indians of costa rica

The Jamaicans, Barbadians, and other West Indians who migrated to Costa Rica at the turn of the twentieth century found themselves in a country that prides itself on its Spanish and "white settler" origins. In The West Indians of Costa Rica Ronald Harpell

Britannia’s palette

The lives and work of British war artists of "the golden age" of naval history from 1793 to 1815.

Women and work

Women and Work is based on the joint John Deutsch Institute and Canadian Workplace Research Network conference held at Queen's University in April 1998. This conference brought together leading academic researchers and policymakers who presented new empirical research on policy issues related to ...

Peeking through the keyhole

Peeking through the Keyhole is about transformations in the way we live and the places we call home. Until the past few decades, transitions in the style of homes and types of households were slow and gradual.

The philosophy of kierkegaard

The author confronts Kierkegaard's "anti-philosophical" reputation and shows that he greatly influenced twentieth-century Continental philosophers and theologians.

Patriots and profiteers, second edition

R.T. Naylor demonstrates that economic warfare fails almost everywhere it is attempted, and that even when it succeeds, it has consequences that are not only unintended, but also frequently the precise opposite of their advertised result.

Pitseolak: pictures out of my life, second edition

Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life is an illustrated oral biography created from recorded interviews by Dorothy Harley Eber in 1970. In these interviews, and through her drawings and prints, Pitseolak makes what Inuit call "the old way" come alive, reflecting on life on the land, its pleasure and...

The idea of popular schooling in upper canada

A study of the popular movement and political agitation for educational reform in Upper Canada.

John lehman: a tribute

One of the outstanding editors of this century, John Lehmann founded New Writing and London Magazine as well as other literary journals. He also wrote poems, two novels and a distinguished literary autobiography. All aspects of Lehmann's work are discussed in this book of recollections and essays...

Arctic justice

Arctic Justice is the story of the execution of a white fur trader by an Inuk. Shelagh Grant recounts how this event was crucial in establishing law enforcement in the High Arctic and documents its tragic consequences for Inuit in the subsequent decades. This compelling and generously illustrated...

Resistance and revolution

This is the story of a special time and some extraordinary people. After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the architectural wonder of Prague became the setting for some of the harshest communist repression in the Cold War. Yet this bleak period produced an unusual cast of chara...

Anthology of australian aboriginal literature

A rich collection of writing - poetry, prose, and drama - from some of the greatest Australian Aboriginal authors.

Fiscal federalism in multinational states

Fiscal Federalism in Multinational States brings together scholars of nationalism and federalism in a groundbreaking analysis of the connections between nationalist claims and fiscal debates within plurinational states.

North of athabasca

The fur trade has been an important building block in Canada's history. While much is known about the Hudson's Bay Company, information about the North West Company in the Slave Lake and Mackenzie River Districts has been scattered in various archives. In North of Athabasca Lloyd Keith provides t...

A short history of modern ireland

White canada forever, third edition

Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries white British Columbians directed recurring outbursts of prejudice against the Chinese, Japanese, and East Indians who lived among them. In White Canada Forever Peter Ward reveals the full extent and

Benedict arnold

General, soldier, businessman, traitor: these are all words associated with the name Benedict Arnold. One of America's greatest soldiers and most reviled traitors, he was also a significant and intriguing player in Canada's history. In Benedict Arnold Barry Wilson takes a fresh look at this contr...

Unthinking modernity

In Unthinking Modernity Judith Stamps reinterprets the communications theory of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan as a Canadian variant of the critical theory associated with the early Frankfurt school. Stamps argues that Innis and McLuhan used their studies of media to develop a critique of the ...

J.b. collip and the development of medical research in canada

The intriguing life of J.B. Collip, whose restless drive fuelled his pioneering studies in endocrinology and sustained a successful research enterprise through the first half of the twentieth century.

Pierre-esprit radisson: the collected writings, volume 1

A vivid and illuminating view of the New World through the eyes of a seventeenth-century explorer, trader, and adventurer.

A short history of quebec, fourth edition

Written by two of Quebec's most respected historians, A Short History of Quebec offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the province from the pre-contact native period to the present-day.

Continentalizing canadian telecommunications

In Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications Vanda Rideout examines active political resistance to the radical, neo-liberal transformation of Canadian telecommunications that has been orchestrated by the federal government, big business, and their powerful lobbyists over the last two decades.

The most dangerous branch

Judges on the Supreme Court of Canada are guided by reason and principle - or so most Canadians think. In The Most Dangerous Branch Robert Martin argues that the court has changed from acting on principles to acting on values, allowing it to impose its own personal preferences. As judges are not ...

Is it possible to live this way? volume 1: faith

A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church

Blood and religion

In Blood and Religion Ronald Love explores the symbiosis of religion and politics in the early career of Henri IV of France, examining the king's strong religious beliefs - imbibed in early youth from his mother, Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre - and the profound effect they had not only on his...

Keeping canada running

In this groundbreaking study, authors Bruce Doern, Christopher Stoney, and Robert Hilton provide the first comprehensive overview of Canadian infrastructure policy, examining the impact and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and rapid technological change as Canada looks to recover and rebuild...

The child letters

The Child Letters provides an intimate look at the daily life of an ordinary Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the recently unified province of Canada. A collection of the almost daily correspondence between Marcus Child and his family while he was attending legislative sessions in King...

The return of caribou to ungava

How a caribou population went from the brink of extinction in the 1950s to the largest herd in the world in the late 1980s - and whether it can survive today's environmental changes.

Paradox

An in-depth examination of paradoxes and the philosophical issues they raise.

Something new in the air

After decades of distorted stereotyping by the media, Canada's First Peoples began to take control of their own image by creating a broadcast industry to transmit their own representations and perspectives. Something New in the Air charts the development of indigenous television broadcasting with...

Why the church?

From its beginnings, the Church has presented itself as a human phenomenon that carries the divine within it. As a social fact, its reality given form by men and women, the Church has always affirmed that its existence surpasses the human reality of its components and that it stands as the contin...

The history of the german resistance, 1933-1945, third edition

The History of the German Resistance is the most comprehensive and authoritative account ever published of the German opposition's struggle against Hitler, covering all the serious attempts to overthrow or assassinate him leading up to the failed attempt of 20 July 1944. Extensive notes, a full b...

Une mort très digne

Une mort très digne est l'histoire sociale de la mort, de la sépulture et du cimetière Mont-Royal de Montréal. Lieu de grande beauté, le cimetière Mont-Royal a inspiré Henry Law Olmsted lors de la création du parc voisin du Mont-Royal et a joué un rôle notable dans le développement de Montréal. B...

Empty revelations

A rich and engaging investigation into the nature of literary fiction.

The philosophy of habermas

A comprehensive introduction to the thought of Jürgen Habermas.

Controversy and complexity

Canada is high on the list of desirable destinations for prospective immigrants and has received more than five million immigrants and refugees since the end of World War II. In this comprehensive overview of Canadian immigration policy Gerald Dirks describes the forces and factors that influence...

Countering violent extremism and terrorism

How to improve responses to extremism and terrorism while avoiding past mistakes.

Dialogues sur les origines, structures et changements constitutionnels dans les pays federaux, livret 1 french

Centrée sur les grands thèmes de la gouvernance fédérale, la collection présente des etudes de cas illustrant la diversité, les défis et les occasions qu'offre le fédéralisme dans divers pays.

Healing the world's children

In 1990, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child declared that children's "survival, protection, growth and development in good health and with proper nutrition is the essential foundation of human development." Drawing from many disciplines - history, anthropology, demography, art history, ...

Sécurité humaine et nouvelle diplomatie

With civilians around the world increasingly at risk from virulent internal conflicts within states, traditional foreign policy instruments have often failed to prevent violence, to protect civilians when conflict breaks out, or to encourage the rebuilding of war-torn societies. The human securit...

Eighteenth-century naturalists of hudson bay

Where Peter Newman's best-selling trilogy captured the essence of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) as a business empire, Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay presents the scientific achievements of the company's early employees, drawing largely on materials in the HBC Winnipeg archives. C. ...

Central works of philosophy, volume 1

A primer on the core texts of the Western philosophical canon for undergraduate students and general readers.

In twilight and in dawn

An informative study of the evolution of a discipline focused through the life of one of its leading practitioners, In Twilight and in Dawn is an illuminating look at anthropological thought and practice in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century.

Canada and the cost of world war ii

Canada's most famous contributions to the Allied victory in World War II include Dieppe, the campaign in Italy, the bombing missions over Germany, and D-Day. Much less known are Canada's financial contributions to the war effort. In this sequel to his groundbreaking Maturing in Hard Times, legend...

A dream of sulphur

From childhood scenes in Deep Creek to the restless migrations across Canada, A Dream of Sulphur explores the relationship between memory, language, and geography. As a grandmother battles memory loss, a Hungarian is exiled to Canada, the Tofino fishing industry collapses, or August fire in the S...

Michael walzer on war and justice

This is a book about justice: the justice of a nation's major institutions and the justice of the interaction of nations on the world stage. Michael Walzer, one of North America's most prominent social critics, has written acclaimed works about the morality of warfare, the distribution of health ...

The philosophy of heidegger

In The Philosophy of Heidegger, Michael Watts provides an overview of Heidegger's thoughts that is suitable for both beginning and advanced students. Free from jargon and the standard idioms of academic philosophical writing, Watts uses several illustrations and concrete examples to introduce key...

Drum songs, first edition

Drum Songs examines the history of the Dene, one of the aboriginal peoples of Canada's western subarctic, from ancient times to the present. Using a range of sources that includes archival documents, oral testimony, archaeological findings, linguistic studies, and folk traditions, Kerry Abel show...

Living rhythms

There are few works on economic development among Canada's Aboriginal. Living Rhythms offers a current perspective on indigenous economics, planning, business development, sustainable development, and knowledge systems. Using a series of cases studies featuring Aboriginal communities and organiza...

Mind and body

In Mind and Body Robert Kirk offers an introduction to the complex tangle of questions and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem.

From drawing to visual culture

A vivid picture of the evolution of art education in Canada from the nineteenth century to the present.

Christian ethics and political economy in north america

In this religious and moral critique of liberalism, Travis Kroeker analyses how religio-ethical discourse is changed when it is translated into the economic policy discourse of North American liberalism. Focusing on influential representatives of contempo

Jean-luc nancy and the future of philosophy

The first introduction to the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy.

Depth psychology, interpretation, and the bible

In Depth Psychology, Interpretation, and the Bible Brayton Polka shows that the ideas central to Freud's major texts can be truly understood only in light of a theory of interpretation whose ontology is consistent with biblical values. Polka argues that only this hermeneutic frees Freud's insight...

Contemporary musical expressions in canada

An exploration of the cultural diversity and vitality of contemporary music and dance practices in Canada.

Blood ground

In Blood Ground Elizabeth Elbourne looks at the relationship between the Khoekhoe, the British empire, and the London Missionary Society in the early nineteenth century, a time of intense conflict in which different groups competed to mobilize Christianit

Le chien d'or/the golden dog, critical edition

A beloved literary artefact, presented for the first time as the author intended.

Body counts

In an invigorating comparative and interdisciplinary reconsideration of the role of different types of medical counting, this wide-ranging bilingual volume takes us from the mortality tables of the eighteenth century to the movement for evidence-based medicine in our own day. Culled from the proc...

Labeling people

Nineteenth-century French scholars, during a turbulent era of revolution and industrialization, ranked intelligence and character according to facial profile, skin colour, and head shape. They believed that such indicators could determine whether individuals were educable and peoples perfectible....

Traditional gaelic bagpiping, 1745-1945

The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared. Few recordings were ever made of traditional pipe music and there are almost no Gaelic-speaking pipers of the old school left. Recording an im...

Networked operations and transformation

The driving concept behind the transformation of Western armed forces in the twenty-first century has been a fully integrated information network that will supposedly create a "decisive" advantage in fighting and other military actions. In a detailed examination of different types of networked op...

Writing the everyday

In Writing the Everyday Danielle Fuller analyses writing by Atlantic Canadian women from diverse backgrounds. Drawing extensively on original interviews with writers, editors, and publishers, Fuller investigates how and why communities form around texts that record women's everyday realities, his...

Human security and the new diplomacy

With civilians around the world increasingly at risk from virulent internal conflicts within states, traditional foreign policy instruments have often failed to prevent violence, to protect civilians when conflict breaks out, or to encourage the rebuilding of war-torn societies. The human securit...

Philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness

Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems. Immediately known, familiar and obvious, consciousness is also baffling, opaque, and strange. How and when did we become conscious? What exactly is consciousness? A gift from God? Some kind of emer...

Lady landlords of prince edward island

A lively look at estate management and resistance to land reform in nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island through the life stories of four elite British women landowners.

Reforming parliamentary democracy

Parliamentary government combines stability and dynamism. Its continuity is rooted in enduring principles such as citizen representation and accountability to the legislature. But parliamentary systems have evolved in response to changes in the societies they govern and in citizens' views about d...

Carlyle and the economics of terror

Thomas Carlyle's difficult and obscure prose - the bane of every reader who has attempted to come to terms with his works - has often been interpreted as a reflection of the author's temperament or idiosyncrasies. Mary Desaulniers, however, argues that Carlyle's language is a deliberate strategy ...

The early journals and letters of fanny burney: volume v, 1782-1783

A brilliant portrait of eighteenth-century English life and manners from the pen of a major British novelist.

Weakening philosophy

Gianni Vattimo is one of the world's most important philosophers, yet he has received scant attention in the English-speaking world. The essays in Weakening Philosophy, from leading figures such as Umberto Eco and Charles Taylor, introduce his ideas to a wider audience.

From spinster to career woman

Challenging preconceived notions about femininity, respectability, paid employment, and middle-class ladies in Victorian England.

Ghost brothers

While Spanish conquistadores in the Americas seemed bent on plunder and the British on land appropriation, the French became swept up in a complex web of Native alliances. In an unprecedented study, Rony Blum explores how phantom-mediated interpretations of the past and present were key to the un...

Philosophy of language, second edition

Alexander Miller's accessible survey shows that philosophy of language is at the centre of the energetic philosophical activity of this century. By interweaving the historical development of the subject with a thematic overview of radically different approaches to theories of meaning he gives rea...

The modern dilemma

Leon Surette's new study of T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens challenges the received view that Stevens' poetry expresses a Humanist world view, and - more surprisingly - documents Eliot's early Humanist phase.

The ontario cancer institute

In The Ontario Cancer Institute Ernest McCulloch discusses how the institute, dedicated to the goal of reducing the burden of cancer, continuously strove for excellence and shows how both original and collaborative work were encouraged within a supportive environment.

History of the liverpool privateers and letters of marque with an account of the liverpool slave trade, 1744-1812

"Though we are on the threshold of the Twentieth Century, with its tremendous possibilities, there are indications that white men still exist who would gladly revert to the iniquitous system of a bygone age, and enslave the African in his own land. If anything in this book should help to awaken t...

The franco-americans of new england

Between 1840 and 1930, approximately 900,000 people left Quebec for the United States, with the number of French-Canadian colonies in New England's industrial cities growing rapidly. The first generation of immigrants, who considered themselves French Canadians living in the United States, lived ...

The flying tiger

Storytelling bridges culture, history, and spirituality. In The Flying Tiger Kira Van Deusen takes us into the world of the female shamans of the Amur, presenting over fifty traditional stories she recorded in the 1990s from the people of the taiga forest in the Russian Far East. More than a coll...

The turtle hypodermic of sickenpods

David Solway's The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods is an eye-opening polemic against technology in the classroom and pedagogical theory as furthered by current administrative policy. He dissects the way computers have affected the learning process and students' ability to understand material pres...

Walter long, ireland, and the union, 1905-1920

It has been argued that Walter Long was the most powerful single voice on Irish affairs in the British government for the critical period from 1916 to 1920. As the leader most committed to a federalist approach to constitutional reform in Ireland, he was a central figure in maintaining a firm sta...

Marion

Mysteries of identity and the trials of working girls from the first published Asian North American novelist.