Achieving inner balance in anxious times

Whether our anxiety arises because of uncertain tough economic times or as a result of our own struggle with workaholism, obsession, or depression, too often we lose touch with our feeling side, experience numb flat affect, and gradually become immobilized by fear. Constructive and easy-to-follow...

Credo

The elegance, verbal felicitousness, and subtle crafting that were the signature qualities of Carmine Starnino's debut, The New World, are once again on display in his second book, Credo. Whether the subject is a passport, a clothesline, an antique goblet, prayer, or archaic English words, Starni...

Chinese education in transition

Recent dramatic developments in China have increased Western interest in both her institutions and her politics. However, most of the studies dealing with the 'new' China tend to concentrate on recent events, leaving undocumented, particularly, the years between the establishment of the People's ...

Canadian foreign policy, 1955-1965

This volume documents the decade in which Canada's influence on world affairs was at its apex, and contains speeches and writings of Lester B. Pearson, Sydney Smith, Howard C. Green and Paul Martin.

Choosing to labour?

How social class influences the educational decisions and experiences of vocational and academic-track youth in Canada and Germany.

Authors and audiences

From the 1890s through the 1920s, the best-selling fiction of Ralph Connor, Robert Stead, Nellie McClung, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Arthur Stringer was internationally recognized. In this intriguing cultural history of the conception, production, and reception of popular fiction, Clarence Karr ch...

Canada among nations, 1992-93

Anxiety and depression

Family and community life in northeastern ontario

How people lived, played, and celebrated when radio was new, dance bands the rage, and Quintland the place to visit.

A two-edged sword

An examination of the Royal Canadian Navy and its promotion of sovereignty through collective defence.

How schools worked

A richly textured study of educational developments in English-speaking Canada from the close of the Victorian Age to the eve of World War II.

A reconstructed world

The first biography of Gertrude Richardson (1875-1946), A Reconstructed World reveals her key role in the development of feminism and pacifism in England and Canada and her remarkable accomplishments as both an activist and a writer.

Chemotaxonomy of flowering plants

The origins of walter rauschenbusch's social ethics

Walter Rauschenbusch is known as the father of the Social Concern movement in America. Traditionally, the source of his social ethic has been seen to lie in the single motif of liberalism. Donovan Smucker provides a new perspective, arguing that Rauschenbusch's social ethic was based on not one b...

Normal bad boys

Institutions for juveniles have achieved a degree of professionalism that allows them to mask their selection of particular clients for organizationally convenient rather than clinically appropriate reasons. In Normal Bad Boys, Prue Rains and Eli Teram document the evolution and transformation of...

The frontier and canadian letters

A blend of social sciences, history and literary analyses of contemporaries such as A.G. Bailey and E.K. Brown. this work was a turning point in Canadian literary criticism at the very time of an unprecedented expansion in Canadian studies.

Ringing in the common love of good

Founded in 1914, the United Farmers of Ontario (UFO) became a significant force in the province, winning the most seats in the 1919 provincial election and forming a governing coalition with the Independent Labour Party. The UFO and its companion organizations, the United Farmers Cooperative Comp...

Women's struggle for higher education in russia, 1855-1900

Women in nineteenth-century Russia had greater access to medical and higher education than any of their contemporaries in Europe. Women's Struggle for Higher Education in Russia explores the remarkable expansion and upgrading of women's education during the turbulent decades following the Crimean...

Democracy burning?

The history of Russia's urban fire departments and the authoritarian elements of a growing public sphere.

From liberal to labour with women's suffrage

Catherine Marshall was a vital figure in the women's suffrage movement in Britain before the First World War. Using her remarkable political skills on behalf of the major non-militant organization, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), she built close connections with major su...

Popper’s legacy

Karl Popper has had an extraordinary influence on scientific and social thought. Widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century, he was also a highly influential social and political philosopher, a proponent and defender of the "open society." Popper's Leg...

The making of the northern ontario school of medicine

Rural and remote communities have long been challenging health care settings that rely on distant metropolises to supply their health workforce. The Northern Ontario School of Medicine, a pioneering faculty of medicine founded in 2005, was established to realize the potential of the rich learning...

Boundaries of the canadian confederation

In translation

An homage to Canada's pre-eminent literary translator and a tribute to the connections created through translation.

Dispossession

An exploration into the darker aspects of contemporary Canadian fiction.

Queen charlotte sound, new zealand

Keynesian economics

Norwegian resistance, 1940-1945

Cold comfort, first edition

In 1936 the least-known area of Canada was the west coast of Baffin Island, part of which was still unexplored. Graham Rowley went to the Arctic as the archaeologist of a small British expedition to map and investigate this uncharted area. Cold Comfort is a personal account of his experiences in ...

Beyond the indian act

Should Canada's First Nations have full ownership of reservation lands?

Conrad's later novels

Canada among nations, 1993-94

This year's volume of Canada Among Nations addresses the following key issues: Canada's role in international peacekeeping The aftermath of the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Sustainable Development Canada and the Pacific International migration and refugees International securi...

Does money matter?

Does Money Matter provides a useful summary of previous studies and government schemes to promote accessibility, and evaluates present policy in light of its analysis of the effect of social class, sex, money and other factors on the educational aspirations of young people.

Unfulfilled union, fifth edition

A comprehensive examination of Canadian federalism and its evolution from 1867 to the present.

Shadow woman

The remarkable career of the American woman who became the world's first female master of Chinese shadow theatre.

Imagination indulged

Considerations on france

The present translation of Considérations sur la France is made from the critical French edition of R. de Johannet and F. Vermale (Paris: Vrin, 1936), which in turn is based on Maistre's own corrected edition of 1821.

The birth of modernism

In The Birth of Modernism Leon Surette challenges our traditional understanding of modernism by situating the origins of modernist aesthetics in the occult.

Interregional migration and public policy in canada

Given Canada's vast geography and uneven distribution of economic activity, almost all Canadians have at one time or another faced the question of whether an interprovincial move would make them better off.

The doukhobors

Irish nationalism and the british state

Drawing on an immense body of literature and research, Brian Jenkins analyses the forces that shaped mid-nineteenth century Irish nationalism in Ireland and North America as well as the role of the Roman Catholic Church. He outlines the relationship between newly arrived Irish Catholic immigrants...

House, home, and community

House, Home, and Community is the result of a project conceived by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) to investigate progress in housing Canadians. In a unique experiment, a consortium of twenty-two authors, including scholars, housing advocates, and individuals directly involved ...

But for now

An exploration of the hinterland between the havens of faith and the rough terrain of doubt.

Canadian economic history

This seminal collection contains formative articles on Canadian economic history by W.A. Mackintosh, Mel Watkins, and Harold Innis as well as thirteen more current contributions. These essays frame the classic staples thesis in terms of its significance and applications for the field while drawin...

Constitutional predicament

This collection of essays by prominent Canadian political scientists and philosophers examines why the Charlottetown Accord failed to resolve Canada's constitutional problems and explains the design and fate of the accord as reflected in the theories and political forces that framed it.

A course in baluchi

A different drummer

This volume is a collective production by Carleton University's anthropology caucus, for use in introductory courses in cultural anthropology. It is an alternative to available textbooks which the caucus feels are mainly American in orientation, and not respectful of third and fourth world peoples.

The history of greenland

Chairman hua

Gender, religion, and modern hindi drama

An exploration of the issues of religion and gender in Hindi drama from the 1880s to the 1960s.

C.p. snow and the struggle of modernity

The condition of modernity springs from that tension between science and the humanities which had its roots in the Enlightenment but only reached the height of its impact with the rise of twentieth-century technology. It manifests itself most notably in a crisis of individuality generated by the ...

Recent social trends in quebec, 1960-1990

Readers will follow an intense period of social change in Quebec, during which there was a remarkable increase in the level of modernization. They will note a massive entry of women into the labour force and a growing service sector that now constitutes seventy percent of all economic activity. T...

Memories, myths, and dreams of an ojibwe leader

In the 1930s, Chief William Berens shared with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell a remarkable history of his life, as well as many personal and dream experiences that held special significance for him. Most of this material has never been published.

Challenging times

Challenging Times offers a provocative and detailed overview of feminist movements in Canada and the United States. Through a series of essays that offer innovative interpretations and careful, original scholarship, Constance Backhouse, David Flaherty, and the contributing authors compare and con...

Leadership under fire

While the role of the university president has evolved dramatically in recent years, the recruitment pool and selection process have changed little since the 1960s. In Leadership Under Fire, Ross H. Paul combines leadership theory, interviews with eleven of Canada's most successful presidents, an...

Divided loyalties: canadian concepts of federalism

Outposts of empire

Following World War II the United States, determined to prevent the extension of Soviet and Communist Chinese influence, took the lead in organizing the defence of Western interests in Asia. Steven Lee explores the foreign policy objectives of the United States, Great Britain, and Canada, and exa...

The carnivalization of politics

Focusing on English-French relations and attitudes towards the United Kingdom, France, and the rest of Canada, Raymond Morris explores recurrent themes in the works of Quebec's most popular francophone and anglophone political cartoonists - Aislin (Terry Mosher), Berthio (Roland Berthiaume), Pier...

What's to eat?

What do and did we eat? What do our food stories tell us about who we are or were? What's to Eat? serves up twelve preliminary answers to initiate and nourish the discussion of food in Canada.

Regulating screens

How are children protected in today's multi-screen environment?

Eskimo of the canadian arctic

These essays, which extend in subject from Shamanism to Eskimo language, from the Eskimo economy to Eskimo art, continue to appeal to a wide range of readers.

English poetry in quebec

Shattered images

The integrated circus

In The Integrated Circus Patricia Marchak examines the relationship between the emergence of the New Right and the development of a global marketplace after the Second World War. Focusing on the political organization and neo-conservative ideologies of the New Right, Marchak scrutinizes the conne...

Genre/trope/gender

Northrop Frye embellishes the theory of genre in "Henry James and the Comedy of the Occult." In "The Power of Postmodern Irony," Linda Hutcheon furthers her reputation as a theorist of contemporary culture, and Shirley Neuman investigates gender in writing and reading in "Autobiography, Mothers' ...

Jena romanticism and its appropriation of jakob böhme

Interest in German Romanticism has been revitalized in recent years by new post-structural, interdisciplinary, and intertextual perspectives. However until now this renewed interest has not led to a re-examination of Jakob Böhme's formative influence on

A most pernicious thing

The author challenges the myth of trade dependence which has pervaded histories of this period, by proving the superiority of native weapons over matchlock muskets. A fascinating argument on a contentious ethno-historical issue.

Idea of the victorian church: a study of the church of england, 1833-1887

Domination of eastern europe: native nobilities and foreign absolutism, 1500-1715

On to civvy street

The bungled demobilization of Canadians returning from the First World War contributed to a period of intense political, social, and economic upheaval. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Ottawa - having learned from the previous domestic turmoil - immediately began planning for the return o...

Old age pensions and policy-making in canada

Old age pensions have been a recurring issue in Canadian politics since the beginning of the twentieth century and now have more government resources devoted to them than to any other single public program. For these reasons the author has selected old age pensions as a case study on the politics...

Tides of empire

Sars in context

Less than a year after the SARS outbreak in Toronto and well before the official reports were written, physicians involved in the control of the SARS outbreak joined with several historians of disease and policy experts to reflect on the crisis. The essays in SARS in Context are based on the pape...

Making music

The women founders of the social sciences

Ground-breaking and original, this book debunks the myth that empirical social science has been dominated by its male founders and methodologists. The author re-analyses the critical role British, French and American women played in creating the field from the 16th through the early 20th centurie...

Bilingual today, united tomorrow

Forty years after the creation of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, Bilingual Today, United Tomorrow examines the responses of Canada's federal and provincial governments to the Commission's recommendations on education. In contrast to the many critics of official bilinguali...

Beyond the divide

Beyond the Divide explores the mosques of Canada in their diversity, beauty, practicality, and versatility. Visiting ninety mosques across Canada to document the external and internal characteristics of each one, Gaber provides the first study to analyze these gendered spaces with architectural d...

Social justice and the constitution

Hungochani, first edition

Challenging the stereotypes of African heterosexuality - from the precolonial era to the present.

Growth and the canadian economy

Reviewing several theories of economic growth, the contributors discuss a wide range of policy suggestions. The liveliness of their thought disproves the old maxim that economics is the "dismal science."

Chief justice william johnstone ritchie

Studies in christian existentialism

Reclaiming indigenous planning

How Indigenous peoples are reclaiming community planning practices and ideologies.

Trans-atlantic partners

The end of the Cold War and the advent of the European Union (EU) as an emerging political actor have fundamentally changed Canada's approach to its relations with Western Europe. Trans-Atlantic Partners traces the Canadian Government's reassessment of its traditional Atlanticist foreign policy o...

What the thunder really said

Building better health care leadership for canada

How to train senior managers to make better use of evidence to transform health care.

Fragile truths

Supreme fictions

In grouping together in a single study the work of Blake, Carlyle, Yeats, and D. H. Lawrence, one becomes aware of a common tradition in which they all participate, of certain shared principles, attitudes, and values, and, despite the individual inflexion of voice, a common language. No matter ho...

Interactive realism

It is commonplace in our digitized world to think that technology is the primary agent of psychological and social change. In Interactive Realism Daniel Downes argues that it continues to be people who construct social reality through their interactions, critiquing the tranformative turn in media...

Drink in canada

The Elixir of Life or the Demon Rum? Liquor has been an integral aspect of Canadian culture since European contact. The contributing authors of this collection describe drinking habits, temperance movements, and the prohibition experience in Canada from the 1830s to the 1980s.

Dialogues on diversity and unity in federal countries

These lively, timely, and accessible dialogues on federal systems provide the reader with highlights of each topic, serving as an entry point to the corresponding book, which offers a more in depth, comprehensive exploration of the theme. Whether you are a student or teacher of federalism, workin...

The journey to truth is an experience

As a young priest, Luigi Giussani was troubled by Catholicism's inability to effectively deal with secularism or laicism. In 1954 he began to develop a vision of faith rooted in experience. His ideas resonated with students and led to the birth of the Gioventù Studentesca (Student Youth) movement...

Independent foreign policy for canada?

Policy governance in multi-level systems

An examination of trends towards increasing state-society partnerships and intergovernmental collaboration in the face of global economic restructuring.

Anatomy of a naval disaster

Intended as a riposte to the Anglo-American capture of Louisbourg in 1745, the so-called d'Enville expedition set out from France the following year to secure Canada, recapture Acadia and Louisbourg, and ravage the New England coast as far south as Boston. Many of the sixty-four French vessels in...