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How ottawa spends, 2014-2015
A critical examination of the Harper Government in its eighth year in power as it faces the first serious electoral challenge by a reenergized Liberal Party.
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Métis music
Monique Giroux traces the path of Métis music as it has moved within and through mainstream spaces while remaining embedded in relationships with place, community, and kin.
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Brewed in the north
Tracing the evolution of Canada's Labatt brewery from its colonial beginnings until its sale to Belgium-based Interbrew.
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Transnational italians and the culture of everyday life
Departing from conventional community-based histories, this innovative work demonstrates why ethnic identity is best understood as a transnational construct – shaped by migrants’ mobility and the global dispersal of extended families and kin networks.
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From white to yellow
An examination of the evolution of European racial views of the Japanese.
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Imprinting britain
An in-depth look at how colonists created a vibrant print culture that shaped the foundations of modern Canada.
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Finding safe harbour: supporting the integration of refugee youth
The UN Refugee Agency reported 79.5 million people were displaced worldwide in 2019, and over half of all displaced persons were under eighteen. This book investigates Canada's current response to refugee youth, highlighting how Halifax, NS, as a mid-sized urban centre, has mobilized services and...
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Canlit across media
An innovative collection that evaluates diverse methods of recording, archiving, and remediating literature and literary culture in Canada.
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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...
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Dilemmas, challenges, and ethics of humanitarian action
A study of the perception issues and ethical dilemmas faced by humanitarian organizations.
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The little yellow house
Silent echoes of memories forgotten.
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British generals in the war of 1812
The Canadian people have faced crises of leadership, but never more seriously than during the War of 1812. Despite the many studies of this turbulent time, there are still controversies over traditional issues, one being the quality of leadership on both sides.
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Statesman of the piano
Jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894–1977), Paul Robeson’s first accompanist and teacher to Oscar Peterson, came to prominence near the end of his life for his exceptional career. Statesman of the Piano makes his unpublished autobiography widely available for the first time, with commentary from histori...
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Postcards of skopje
Christina Kramer uses a rich archive of picture postcards to read and make visible political history, revealing how the Macedonian city of Skopje evolved over the course of the twentieth century.
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Stikeman elliott
The recent history of a leading Canadian law firm.
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Forget not
A fascinating journey into the history of an exiled Anglo-Quebec family against the backdrop of three generations and more than a century of Canadian and international social, political, and business history.
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Rethinking islamic modernism
An exploration of Islamic modernism in colonial South Asia that reveals how the work of voluntary associations shaped and transformed Muslim identity and community in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.
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Untimely bodies, untimely aesthetics
Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics examines the fluidity of time in eight contemporary films by focusing on characters who struggle for connection in an environment shaped by heteronormative temporality and intimacies. The book proposes a model for viewing non-normative relationality through th...
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The democracy of suffering
A philosopher's passionate intervention into the meaning of life, and the future of civilization, in the face of catastrophic climate change.
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The quest of the folk, cls edition
Debunking the myth of Nova Scotians as "simple folk."
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The jewish oil magnates of galicia
The critical role of the Jews in the ninety-five-year boom and bust cycle of one of the earliest oil industries.
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Worldwise
Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century; his writings are an account of a life lived across continents and languages, and at flashpoints of history. Worldwise brings together a wide range of Roditi’s writings, focusing renewed attention on the polygot writer, cr...
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Witch hunts
Witch hunts are the products of intense fear and paranoia and the results are often terrible. The accused in three famous witchcraft cases - in Bamberg and Wurzburg, Germany, in Loudun, France, and in Salem, Massachusetts - were assumed to be guilty without proof. Secret accusations were accepted...
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Tomboy
An exploration of Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy, a quiet, understated examination of childhood, gender, and queer selfhood amidst the shifting sands of late childhood and early adolescence.
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Hurrah revolutionaries
An in-depth analysis of the history, culture, and politics of Polish Canadian radicals and Communists.
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A touch of fire
The life of a multi-talented colonial woman, hospital administrator, and literary innovator.
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Maurice
Maurice (1987), a British film based on the novel by E.M. Forster, follows an Edwardian man’s journey to self-acceptance as someone who loves and desires men. Rebutting its critical reception, this volume champions the film as a sympathetic adaptation, making a case for its underappreciated posit...
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Resilience and contagion
An in-depth study of why civil society advocacy groups working on HIV choose the language of rights.
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The multiculturalism question
A detailed analysis of the meaning of multiculturalism in Canada.
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This strange loneliness
This Strange Loneliness is the first comprehensive account of the poetic relationship between Seamus Heaney and William Wordsworth. Peter Mackay explores how Heaney repeatedly turns to the Romantic poet's work for inspiration, corroboration, and amplification, and as a model for the fortifying po...
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Boys don't cry
The Oscar-winning film Boys Don’t Cry (1999) offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America. This book relocates the film within historical and conceptual contexts that influenced its ambivalent reception while emphasizing the importance of trans visibilities an...
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Image-building in canadian municipalities
How cities use image-building to define themselves to the world.
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The adventures of priscilla, queen of the desert
Renée Middlemost provides valuable insight into the production, reception, and continued relevance of the iconic film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
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Illegitimate justice
Drawing from extensive primary research in Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Kenya, Izabela Steflja shows that the stories locals tell about international courts differ radically from those told by the international community.
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Measuring the value of a postsecondary education
A comprehensive study of higher education practices and outcomes.
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Our ice is vanishing / sikuvut nunguliqtuq
A remarkable and moving journey through Arctic history into an uncertain future, highlighting Inuit as well as European and Canadian perspectives.
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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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A complex fate
The first biography of one of the most provocative and influential American journalists and historians of the twentieth century.
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Delivering the news
A rich gathering of lyric poems by anative of Prince Edward Island.
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Emergence and empire
A ground-breaking look at the writings and philosophy of pioneering Canadian thinker Harold Adams Innis.
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By authority of parliament
The tension between parliamentary sovereignty and constitutional rights exposes a misconception: that Canadian legislators can abolish all fundamental rights with ordinary law. Ryan Alford demonstrates that they do not have this power, nor did they ever.
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The spirit lives in the mind
Louis Bird has spent the last three decades documenting Cree oral traditions and sharing his stories with audiences in Canada, the United States, and Europe. In The Spirit Lives in the Mind the renowned storyteller and historian of the Omushkego shares teachings and stories of the Swampy Cree peo...
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At beckett’s grave
In poems of loss and hope, Robin Durnford dares to pause for a moment, finding meaning in the metaphor of the life and work of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett.
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An ambulance on safari
An Ambulance on Safari describes the efforts of the African National Congress (ANC) to deliver emergency healthcare to South African exiles and, in the same stroke, to establish political legitimacy and foster anti-apartheid sentiment on an international stage.
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To detain or to punish
Challenging traditional ideas about who and what prisons were for and how they operated, To Detain or to Punish offers a radical reappraisal of London’s prison system between 1750 and 1840.
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Translating air
A dreamy yet haunting account of H.D.'s imagined conversations with Sigmund Freud during her sessions with him in the 1930s.
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The tantramar re-vision
Inspired by the literary landscape of the late poet John Thompson, Kevin Irie's The Tantramar Re-Vision presents a portrait of nature where the benign and the bedevilled coexist, collude, or collide. The lyrical poems in this collection charts routes of discovery as it follows trails, waterways, ...
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The form of politics
A study of Aristotle’s and Plato’s interpretations of friendship and their significance for political life.
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Tradition and tension
Tradition and Tension is the history of a period that marked a dramatic change in the Presbyterian Church’s fortunes – from confident expansion in the immediate postwar period to a relatively sudden contraction in the early 1960s, followed by waning membership and influence into the 1980s.
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Workhouse lives
The Victorian workhouse was an institution shaped and animated by those who ran it. Workhouse Lives reconstructs the careers and experiences of workhouse staff as the functions of the welfare state expanded.
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The crisis of modernity
A selection of essays on modernity and secularization by one of the most distinguished Italian thinkers of the mid-twentieth century.
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Power
Has power moved out of institutions into the hands of powerful individuals?
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Precario
A narrative-driven collection of stories from primary sources that trace the loss of land, forced departures, and the occupation of new spaces in Costa Rica, spanning from the sixteenth-century moment of contact to the present.
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Tender to the world
How pleasure, inversion, and story characterize five decades of connections between the United Church of Canada, Jean Vanier, and L'Arche.
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Strategy and command
Based on extensive research in French political and military archives, this new in-depth study of Anglo-French military relations on the Western Front in 1915 fills a major gap in the unfolding drama of the First World War.
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John stuart mill, socialist
Best known as the author of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains a canonical figure in liberalism today. Yet according to his autobiography, by the mid-1840s he placed himself "under the general designation of Socialist." Taking this self-description seriously, John Stuart Mill, Socialist reinter...
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Le retour à la bière… et au hockey
Un regard personnel sur la quête d'un homme paisible afin de transformer Molson en un brasseur de classe mondiale.
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The moral mapping of victorian and edwardian london
The London poor and the cruel world of Christian charity circa 1900.
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Music in canada
Kwakwaka'wakw welcome songs, an aria from Joseph Quesnel's 1808 opera Lucas et Cécile, rubbaboos (a combination of elements from First Peoples, French, and English music), the Tin Pan Alley hits of Shelton Brooks, and the contemporary work of Claude Vivier and Blue Rodeo all dance together in Can...
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Africanism
Investigating the history of anti-Black racism in several canonical texts of Arabic culture, Africanism explores how Black people are perceived, imagined, and represented in the Arab imaginary from the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century in works of religion, literature, and history.
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A renewed canadian welcome
A Renewed Canadian Welcome centres the perspectives of migrants, refugees, and advocates to explore what Canada’s immigration policies would look like if they were reimagined from a human rights perspective, informed by lived experience.
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Kingdom of the clock
Set in a vibrant yet ragged coastal city, Kingdom of the Clock is a verse novel whose interwoven storylines begin with one dawn and end at the first light of the next. Within the cycles of that single day, the lives of the city's inhabitants unfold in Cowper’s clear, flowing lyricism.
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The romance of transgression in canada
The rich and contradictory history of Canadian cinema and video - queer, queered, and queering.
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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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A fleeting empire
An illuminating history of the first mercenaries and merchants who fought to control North America.
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The devout hand
Exploring the role of women artists in creating visual imagery during the Renaissance.
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An american princess
How a New Englander became a princess, made literary history, and helped create Italy’s most romantic garden.
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Democracy in decline
A lament on the inroads that over-powerful judges and international law are making into democratic decision-making.
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The risk of education
How an effective education gives young people the fundamental support of tradition and historical perspective, nurturing their ability to understand and discern.
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The higgs years
Drawing on original data from the Polimeter, a non-partisan tool that measures whether politicians keep the promises they make, contributors assess Blaine Higgs and his Progressive Conservative Party’s record in New Brunswick.
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Particles
"There's a gap between where / an electron is and where it might be / and that's the only real work-place. / You occupy that office of possibility." Where are you in that space between the electron and the galaxy, and how do you find yourself there? Particles asks this question and answers it by ...
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Mainstreaming porn
Mainstreaming Porn reveals how sexual norms, practices, and desires are shaped by corporate platforms such as Pornhub in the same way that social media has affected society at large. It is a powerful argument for law and policy responses to the impact of monopolistic, corporate porn platforms on ...
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Maps and memes
A critical introduction to Canadian cartography and counter-mapping in indigenous, legal, and educational contexts.
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Dismantling canada
A Liberal insider analyzes Stephen Harper’s drive to create a new Conservative Canada.
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The communion of the book
It was neither the civilization of Renaissance Italy nor the printing press that created the modern world. Instead, it was reading. Through historical analysis and readings of Petrarch, Bruni, Valla, Reuchlin, Erasmus, Foxe and Milton, The Communion of the Book explores how literacy produced mode...
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The chrétien legacy
Assessing the legacy of Canada's twentieth prime minister.
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Mcmaster university, volume 3: 1957-1987
A lively history of Canada's "Little Big U."
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Morals and consent
An evolutionary defence of contractarian ethics as applied to social norms.
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Work in a warming world
Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the twenty-first century. Environmental polices on the one hand, and economic and labour market polices on the other, often exist in separate silos creating a dilemma that Work in a Warming World confronts.The world of work - goods, services...
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A catholic philosophy of education
Exploring a Catholic philosophy of education in the modern world.
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The practice of her profession
Florence Carlyle (1864-1923), born in Galt, Ontario, emerged as one of the most successful Canadian artists of her time. Trained in Paris, she lived and worked in New York City and in Canada, cultivating a career as a popular portrait and genre painter. Known for her masterful use of colour, Carl...
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Iconoclasm
Case studies that investigate the paradoxical nature of iconoclasm, when destroying icons only enhances their iconicity.
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Diagnosing genius
Beethoven's extraordinary ability to compose great music despite severe health problems, including deafness and depression, has puzzled and inspired. In Diagnosing Genius François Martin Mai looks at the relationship between Beethoven's health and creativity to show how the composer was able to t...
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A singular case
A study of a time when Europeans sought to learn from China’s successful model of political economy.
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Slow war
remember your body again / how cedar smells of god / and a Bach cantata / makes you almost / forgive / your hands.
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Time and a place
Canada’s first province-based environmental history tracks changes from the Ice Age to the Information Age.
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Nazi germany, canadian responses
Exploring the nature of Canada's response to the plight of European Jews seeking refuge and to anti-Jewish discrimination in Canada.
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English atlantics revisited
Ian K. Steele's pioneering work in imperial and early North American history was a pivotal contribution to the establishment of Atlantic history as a field. His study of a unified English - and later British - Atlantic challenged American exceptionalism and encouraged the current wave of interest...
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Canada in nato, 1949–2019
Canada in NATO, 1949-2019 provides the first analysis of Canada’s involvement and military engagement in NATO, from initial negotiations in 1949 to the alliance’s seventieth anniversary. The book sheds light on how NATO profoundly shaped Canadian defence and foreign policy and served vital Canadi...
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They shot, he scored
The remarkable story of Eldon Rathburn, prolific Canadian composer, legendary NFB collaborator, railway enthusiast, and chronicler of his life and times.
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The decline and fall of the chatty empire
Chatty Cathy, while not the first talking doll, was certainly the most widely known, and the only one elevated to idiom. The Decline and Fall of the Chatty Empire chronicles her later career and luridly illustrates the perils of reaching such linguistic heights with so very little to say.
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Smitten by giraffe
In Smitten by Giraffe the noted zoologist and feminist Anne Innis Dagg reflects on her scientific work as well as the leading role she has played in numerous activist campaigns, offering an inside perspective on the workings of scientific research and debate, the history of academia, and the rise...
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The politics of popular culture
Why popular culture matters to political science - and vice versa.
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Mcgill in history
McGill in History broadens the historical frame of critical university studies, challenging previous siloed narratives and showing how the university can serve as a model for understanding power in modern society.
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Hamlet-911
A new edition of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Hamlet-911, an incisive and satirical play in which a famous actor about to perform Hamlet at the Stratford Festival suddenly finds himself in the Underworld.
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Like everyone else but different, second edition
A timely analysis of the possibilities and challenges of multiculturalism as seen in the iconic case of Canada’s Jewish community.
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A grand adventure
A riveting account of two people's adventures, perseverance, and discoveries.
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Pensionnats du canada : les séquelles
Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de christianiser » les enfants autochtones, il fallait les éloign...
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Canada and the ukrainian crisis
Assessing the role of order, interests, and agency as determinants of the Harper government's response to the Ukrainian crisis.
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Dyslexia
This first comprehensive history of dyslexia charts a journey that begins with Victorian medicine and continues to dyslexia becoming the most globally recognized specific learning difficulty. Philip Kirby and Margaret Snowling use a historical lens to explain current debates around dyslexia, and ...
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