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Archetypes from underground
Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self uncovers archetypal imagery in Dostoevsky’s stories and novels and argues that archetypes bring a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of his works. In this interdisciplinary study, Harrison analyzes selected texts in ligh...
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Catholic sexual theology and adolescent girls
Applying a feminist natural law framework this book explores the intersection in contemporary Western culture of Catholic sexual theology and adolescent female developmental and sexual experiences. The voices of adolescent females, so long silent in sexual theologies, are given privilege here in ...
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Struggles for justice in canada and mexico
Case studies of Canadian and Mexican communities struggling for justice illustrate social mobilization and community organizing theory. Examples include the poor, women, and indigenous people developing income generating projects; taking action to promote health, decent housing, and a safe enviro...
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Loyal gunners
Loyal Gunners is a story of one province's artillery units between 1893 and 2012. It uniquely encapsulates the wider experience of Canadian militia gunners and their units into a single compelling narrative. As a result, it is a profoundly Canadian story: one of dedication and sacrifice in servic...
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Claiming space
Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities critically examines the various ways in which Canadian cities continue to be racialized despite objective evidence of racial diversity and the dominant ideology of multiculturalism. Contributors consider how spatial conditions in Canadian cities ar...
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Ontario boys
Explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945–1960. The ideal version of boyhood stressed selflessness, togetherness, honesty, fearlessness, determination, and emotional toughness. An “appropriate” boyhood in the postwar period became a metaphor for ...
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Margaret laurence writes africa and canada
Articulates how Margaret Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English-Canada. Laurence displaces the simple notion that Canada is a sum total of different cultures, and conceives Canada as a mosaic that is in flux and constituted th...
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Detachable penis
Through an examination of author Sam Elkins legal casework and law reform efforts, accompanied by the story of his journey from lesbian to transgender lawyerDetachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga is a politically sharp narrative that offers a kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQIA+ communities living on th...
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Discipline, devotion, and dissent
The education provided by Canada’s faith-based schools is a subject of public, political, and scholarly controversy. As the population becomes more religiously diverse, the continued establishment and support of faith-based schools has reignited debates about whether they should be funded publi...
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Toronto’s fighting 75th in the great war 1915–1919
Travel with Toronto's 75th Battalion to Niagara, England and to the First World War zone in Belgium and France and witness how ordinary young men carried out extraordinary deeds through the terror and horror of the first global conflict. Foreword by His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales.
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Canada and the second world war
This collection, drawn from the work of Terry Copp’s colleagues and former students, considers Canada and the Second World War from a wealth of perspectives.Topics addressed are: The Home Front, The War of the Scientists, The Mediterranean Theatre, Normandy/Northwest Europe, and The Aftermath.
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Society, the sacred and scripture in ancient judaism
This work explores the relationship between religion, social patterns, and the perception of the character of scripture in four modes of Ancient Judaism: (1) the Jerusalem community of the fifth to fourth centuries B.C.E. (ie, the Early Second Temple Period); (2) the Judaism of the Graeco-Roman D...
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Recollections of waterloo lutheran university 1960-1973
To the very few women who were teaching in Ontario’s universities at the time of the great expansion in the 1960s, Flora Roy is a legendary figure. To many others, academic colleagues and former students, she has continued to be just that through all the years since....Flora Roy is unique among C...
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The cigar factory of isay rottenberg
In 1932, Isay Rottenberg, a Jewish paper merchant, bought a cigar factory in Germany: Deutsche Zigarren-Werke. When his competitors, supported by Nazi authorities, tried to shut it down, the headstrong entrepreneur refused to give up the fight.Isay Rottenberg was born into a large Jewish family i...
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Haven’t any news
“Ruby wrote letters home almost every week....She wrote anything that came into her head: about her children and Fred, her housekeeping, food, clothes, her friends, activities, schemes for making money, her dreams for the future....Her letters, nave, intimate and lively, were always optimistic or...
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Rage and resistance
On December 6, 1989, a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle entered an engineering school in Montreal and murdered fourteen women before killing himself. Responses to what has come to be known as “The Montreal Massacre” varied, from the initial shock and mourning and efforts to “make sense” of t...
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Appel
In vivid detail, Joel Struthers chronicles the French Foreign Legion’s storied history, including the rigorous discipline it instills in its recruits, as part of his six years as a professional solider, from the unrelenting operational training in France to face-to-face combat in Africa.
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Depicting canada’s children
Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a ...
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Progressive heritage
Most critics and literary historians have ignored Marxist-inspired creative literature in Canada, or dismissed it as an ephemeral phenomenon of the 1930s. Research reveals, however, that from the 1920s onward Canadian creative writers influenced by Marxist ideas have produced a quantitatively sub...
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Florence nightingale and hospital reform
Florence Nightingale began working on hospital reform even before she founded her famous school of nursing; hospitals were dangerous places for nurses as well as patients, and they urgently needed fundamental reform. She continued to work on safer hospital design, location, and materials to the e...
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Florence nightingale: the crimean war
Florence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nig...
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Deportment
A selection of poems by Alice Burdick in which she examines the dangers of dogma, women’s rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving elegies, and anti-sentimental lyrics filled with mischievous wordplay. The selection includes rare work from the beginning of her career as wel...
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One hundred years of social work
One Hundred Years of Social Work is the first comprehensive history of social work as a profession in English Canada. Organized chronologically, it provides a critical and compelling look at the internal struggles and debates in the social work profession over the course of a century and investig...
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Editing as cultural practice in canada
Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada focuses on the varied and complex roles that editors have played in the production of literary and scholarly texts in Canada. Contributors offer analyses of the cultural and publishing politics of editorial practices that question inherited paradigms of lite...
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Graphic refuge
The first in-depth study of comics about refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and detainees by artists from the Global North and South, Graphic Refuge explores graphic narratives about refugee experiences, from war, displacement, and perilous sea crossings to detention camps, resettlement schemes,...
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A.s. byatt and the heliotropic imagination
A.S. Byatt’s novel Possession: A Romance attracted international acclaim in 1990, winning both the Booker Prize and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. In her long and eminent career, Byatt has steadily published both fiction and non-fiction, the latest of which has not, until...
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The challenge of children's rights for canada, 2nd edition
In ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1991, Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children outlined within it. The second edition of The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada, assesses the extent to which Canada has fulfilled this promise.
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“race,” rights and the law in the supreme court of canada
Four cases in which the legal issue was “race” — that of a Chinese restaurant owner who was fined for employing a white woman; a black man who was refused service in a bar; a Jew who wanted to buy a cottage but was prevented by the property owners’ association; and a Trinidadian of East Indian de...
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New brunswick at the crossroads
Examines the relationship between distinct periods of creative ferment in New Brunswick and the socio-cultural conditions in which those periods emerged. Contributes to current critical discussions about what constitutes "the creative" in Canadian society, especially in bilingual, rural, non-cent...
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Counterrealism and indo-anglian fiction
What do R.K. Narayan, G.V. Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi, and Salman Rushdie have in common? They represent Indian writing in English over five decades. Vilified by many cultural nationalists for not writing in native languages, they nonetheless present a critique of the ...
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Value assumptions in risk assessment
Selected by Choice as one of the outstanding publications for 1991. Are risk debates disputes between those who accept the findings of science and those who do not? Between good and bad science? Or is it possible that opposing assessments of risk, by scientific experts as well as ordinary citize...
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The montreal massacre
The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis adopts an ethnomethodological viewpoint to analyze how the murder of women by a lone gunman at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal was presented to the public via media publication over a two-week period in 1989. All that the pu...
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Vladimir solov’ev and the knighthood of the divine sophia
Vladimir Solov’ev and the Knighthood of the Divine Sophia tells how at the turn of the century an intimate alliance of philosophers, poets and theologians discovered the incarnation of their aspirations for a spiritually transformed world in the symbol of Sophia, the Divine Wisdom of God.Under h...
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Catastrophe
On December 6, 1917, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was shattered when a volatile cargo exploded in the bustling wartime harbour. Over 1,600 people were killed and 9,000 injured. At the time, it was the worst man-made disaster in history. This book weaves together the compelling stori...
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1930
1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of what Auden would call “a low, dishonest decade.” Europe questioned itself and its viability. Major writers and artists sought to grapple with issues still central to our lives, including mass culture and its dangers and the ri...
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Found in alberta
A collection of essays about the environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. Alberta’s industries and government are currently at the heart of a global environmental debate, so this collection is valuable to those wishing to understand the natural and ...
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Teaching as scholarship
This book is about teaching for professional practice and explores ways to engage students in the classroom. Each contributor addresses the need to connect theory with community practice, deploying different methods in different contexts, and sharing scholarly reflections about how to improve the...
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Animal subjects 2.0
Exciting discussions in critical animal studies and posthumanism. Intertwining analyses of gender, disability, culture, and race into species, this collection demonstrates that respect for difference rather than similarity marks a vibrant turn in thinking about nonhuman animals, as well as our en...
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Writing surfaces
Writing Surfaces: Selected Fiction of John Riddell is a love letter to the letter, a whirlwind of photocopiers and typewriters, of fax machines and shredders. Riddell dances though this technology maelstrom with comic books and poetry in hand; the result is a poetic guidebook to the possibilities...
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Bountiful island
In Bountiful Island a major Arctic scholar turns his eye on Micronesia: the small and isolated atoll of Pingelap in Micronesia lies in a moist climatic belt which encourages abundant plant life, including such food plants as coconuts, breadfruit and taro. In this detailed examination of land-tenu...
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Idrc
The book focuses on the International Development Research Centre as a unique institution that has funded research in the developing South—research proposed and undertaken by Southern researchers—and how, as a result, it has had tremendous impact despite a relatively small budget. The IDRC is muc...
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Canada and the changing arctic
Leading commentators on Arctic affairs grapple with fundamental questions about how Canada should craft a responsible and effective Northern strategy. They outline diverse paths to achieving sovereignty, security, and stewardship in Canada’s Arctic and in the broader circumpolar world.
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The rhetoric of the babylonian talmud, its social meaning and context
Virtually from its redaction about the sixth century A.D., the Babylonian Talmud became the rabbinic document par excellence. Through its lens almost all previous canonical rabbinic tradition was refracted. Study and mastery of the Talmud marked one as a rabbi, a “master.” This book examines the ...
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Podcast studies
Offers an array of scholars' self-reflective journeys into podcasting, illustrating how the academic world is shaped by the adoption of this audio medium. It delves into the transformative effects on pedagogy, research dissemination, and the fabric of academic communication as podcasting evolves ...
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A question of commitment
In this essay collection, scholars assess the extent to which children’s rights have been incorporated into Canadian policy and law, drawing conclusions about the status of children in Canada. Overall, many challenges remain on the pathway to full recognition of children as subjects and bearers o...
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Leaving the shade of the middle ground
Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground contains thirty-five of F.R. Scott’s poems from across the five decades of his career. Scott’s artistic responses to a litany of social problems, as well as his emphasis on nature and landscapes, remain remarkably relevant. Scott weighed in on many issues im...
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Must write
Long before she became the renowned author of the best-selling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Macleans, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the age of sixteen and continue...
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Germany’s western front: 1914
The first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg, the German official history of the First World War. Originally produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the Second World War, Der Weltkrieg is the inside story of Germanys exp...
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Hearing voices
Exploring qualitative research in early psychosis as psychiatry shifts from a focus on symptom reduction to enabling people to live meaningful lives. The proliferation of early-psychosis clinics demands that we inquire about the subjective experience of those impacted by psychosis and the social ...
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Going by the moon and the stars
So, it was January the 18 and it was the middle of the night. And it was very, very cold. Snow was — we went just about knee deep in snow — And we went on the road going toward Posen, capital of Wartegau. And so we said, “Let’s take that direction.” Just going by the moon and the stars. (Katja En...
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Dancing fear and desire
Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals, evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and revulsion. This profound ambivalence forms the...
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Cinema and social change in germany and austria
This book explores contemporary German and Austrian cinema and the trend away from “cinema of consensus” toward a more heterogeneous and critical cinema culture. Functioning both as a product and as an agent of globalizing processes, this new cinema mediates and influences important political a...
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Sexual violence at canadian universities
This timely collection explores campus sexual violence and its causes, consequences, and strategies for its elimination at Canadian universities. Through empirical research and theoretical writings by new and established scholars and community and campus activists, it offers the first interdiscip...
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Between a rock and a hard place
Where else can that well-known phrase be better applied than to a study of the Finns in Sudbury? “Rock” defines the physical reality of the Sudbury setting: rugged hills, mines, farms and forests set in the Precambrian Shield. “Hard” defines the human setting: Finnish immigrants having to contend...
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Trans.can.lit
The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contribu...
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Human rights in canada
Is there such a thing as a Canadian rights culture? There are virtually no limits to how people employ rights-talk today, from the most profound violations of individual freedom to the mundane realities of daily life. This book is both a history of human rights in Canada and an attempt to better ...
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Current, climate
Selected poetry of environmental and social justice activist Rita Wong. In her intertwining of poetry and political activism, she explores the meeting places of land, life, and language. Nicholas Bradley’s introduction highlights the role of the author in a time of crisis and places Wong’s poetry...
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Indianthusiasm
Indianthusiasm brings together interviews with twelve Indigenous authors, artists and scholars who comment on the German fascination with North American Indigenous Peoples.
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The young, the restless, and the dead
The Young, the Restless, and the Dead captures the spirit of Canadian filmmakers through interviews with the most accomplished and dynamic of yesterday’s, today’s, and tomorrow’s film greats. Funny, provocative, and enlightening, the filmmakers reflect on their careers and explore with the interv...
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By word of mouth
Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other Canadian poets, but he insists on disturbing the formal poetic inheritance he esteems. His engageme...
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Canadian women in print, 1750–1918
Canadian Women in Print, 1750—1918 is the first historical examination of women’s engagement with multiple aspects of print over some two hundred years, from the settlers who wrote diaries and letters to the New Women who argued for ballots and equal rights. Considering women’s published writing ...
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The collected writings of michael snow
Writing, for Michael Snow, is as much a form of “art-making” as the broad range of visual art activities for which he is renowned, including the “Walking Woman” series and the film Wavelength. Conversely, many of the texts included in this anthology are as significant visually as they are at the ...
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The order in which we do things
Tom Wayman’s poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada’s most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but simultaneously ours too. Hi...
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Image and identity
Examines the unique qualities of Canadian cinema, situating it within the broader spectrum of Canadian culture as a whole. Bruce Elder explores the essential features of Canadian thought and the distinctive Canadian philosophical traditions that developed in response to our particular historical ...
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Party and parish pump
“My attention was drawn to Ireland by footnotes,” writes the author. “Over and over again the literature of comparative politics noted simply ‘except in Ireland’.... The question that puzzled me was, Why should this be so?” Professor Carty’s answers to the question appear in this detailed study...
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The doctrine of humanity in the theology of reinhold niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr was a twentieth-century American theologian who was known for his commentary on public affairs. One of his most influential ideas was the relating of his Christian faith to realism rather than idealism in foreign affairs. His perspective influenced many liberals and is enjoying a...
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Florence nightingale on society and politics, philosophy, science, education and literature
Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale’s work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her “call to...
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Narcissistic narrative
Linda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself some sort of commentary on its own narrative and/or linguistic nature. Her analysis is further extended to discuss the implications of such a dev...
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The united church of canada
From its inception in the early 1900s, The United Church of Canada set out to become the national church of Canada. This book recounts and analyzes the history of the church of Canada’s largest Protestant denomination and its engagement with issues of social and private morality, evangelistic cam...
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In good faith
In retrospect it is difficult to accept that Western democracies have implicitly supported, or at least tolerated, the legalized system of white supremacy in South Africa known as apartheid. Renate Pratt’s new book, In Good Faith, explains why the Christian churches were among the first to publi...
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Men, machines, and war
Using examples from the last two centuries, this collection of essays discusses the close links between technology and war. In the opening essay, distinguished historian William H. McNeill demonstrates the extent to which military technology has often led to differentiations among people, both wi...
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Lines drawn upon the water
The First Nations who have lived in the Great Lakes watershed have been strongly influenced by the imposition of colonial and national boundaries there. The essays in Lines Drawn upon the Water examine the impact of the Canadian—American border on communities, with reference to national efforts t...
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The diverse worlds of unemployed adults
Multi-method research study shows why leisure activities are as important for the unemployed as they are for the employed. Can someone who is unemployed experience leisure, or does that seem like a contradiction in terms? If unemployed people can experience leisure, how might it mitigate the ne...
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Arab techno for the people
Ethnography of Arab electronic music in Montreal and Toronto. Its primary concern is with the performance and production of self for Arab individuals living in Canada who produce, play, and dance to this music and who have varying relations to home, diaspora, nation, gender, sexuality, and their ...
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Figuring redemption
Can visual art help redeem one’s sense of self, damaged by technological society? Michael Snow’s work is often described as self-referential, meaning that it “talks” about the relationships between its materials and images, largely ignoring relationships beyond the “frame.” However, since the w...
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Anne of tim hortons
A study of the work of contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. Examines their treatment of work, culture, and history, and highlights how these writers resist the image of Atlantic Canadians as improvident a...
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The wartime letters of leslie and cecil frost, 1915-1919
The letters of brothers Leslie and Cecil Frost during the First World War. Leslie Frost went on to become the premier of Ontario between 1949 and 1961. His government introduced anti-discrimination laws and voting rights for First Nations.
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Children of the outer dark
A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining of place and memory. Beginning with Paleozoic fossil formations in southwestern Ontario and mo...
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Eagle minds
Eagle Minds—a selection from the correspondence between the Canadian composer and scholar Istvan Anhalt and his American counterpart George Rochberg—is a splendid chronicle and a penetrating analysis of the swerving socio-cultural movements of a volatile half-century as observed by two highly gif...
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In search of the visible past
This book is a combination of five public lectures offered to the university and community during the academic year 1973–1974, given by the History Department of Wilfrid Laurier University. These were given by leading scholars in their individual fields and are published here. The essays are on...
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Speaking of power
Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt introduces the reader to the lyric power and political urgency of the poetry of Di Brandt, providing an overview of her poetry written during a prolific and revolutionary twenty-year period. Beginning with her early poetic inquiries into the dynamics o...
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Edward schillebeeckx and hans frei
What is “theological method”? Can there be more than one method? If so, how do you choose between them? How does method relate to experience? Would experience affect your choice of method and method affect experience? Abdul-Masih offers a three-part proposition. The first is that theological ...
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Studies in the book of job
The four essays in this volume present an overview of current issues in studies of the book of Job. The opening essay, by Williams, deals with major aspects of Joban research: new commentaries, Near Eastern backgrounds, textual criticism, language and vocabulary, literary criticism, dating proble...
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Spirituality in social work and education
Over the past ten years, the fields of social work and education have grappled separately with definitions of spirituality, ways to integrate spirituality into the classroom, and the rendering of spirituality as a meaningful concept for practitioners, students, and researchers. Social work and ed...
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Text and artifact in the religions of mediterranean antiquity
Can archaeological remains be made to “speak” when brought into conjunction with texts? Can written remains, on stone or papyrus, shed light on the parables of Jesus, or on the Jewish view of afterlife? What are the limits to the use of artifactual data, and when is the value overstated? Text and...
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Florence nightingale on wars and the war office
Volume 15 of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Wars and the War Office, picks up on the previous volume’s recounting of Nightingale’s famous work during the Crimean War and the comprehensive analysis she did on its high death rates. This volume moves on to the implementation of the rec...
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Secret museums
A study in the life and work of Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett, whose struggles with illness overshadowed his vital and innovative work. It explores the spiritual themes and formal challenges posed by his films and their relation to the absurdist, comic, beatnik attitudes that defined the era ...
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Through a changing landscape
Taken over a span of several decades, 75 coloured photographs of Waterloo Region illustrate how setting or place can either foster the development of a sense of community, or hinder it.
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Centre and periphery, roots and exile
This book examines the impact place and displacement can have on the composition and interpretation of Western art music, using as its primary objects of study the work of István Anhalt (1919–) and György Kurtág (1926–), composers of Hungarian origin whose careers followed radically different paths.
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A war guest in canada
A collection of letters from Londoner W.A.B. (Alec) Douglas, a child war guest in Canada between 1940 and 1943, to his mother back home. Details the excitement of the voyage and his years in Toronto with the Fry family.
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Can the world be governed?
In this book, leading international relations experts and practitioners examine through theory and case study the prospect for successful multilateral management of the global economy and international security. In the theory section contributors tackle the big questions: Why is there an apparen...
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Critical condition
This book challenges long-held beliefs about the benefits of critical thinking, which is shown to be far too linear to deal with the twenty-first century world. Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a “critica...
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Playing a jewish game
Is it possible that early Christian anti-Judaism was directed toward people other than Jews? Michele Murray proposes that significant strands of early Christian anti-Judaism were directed against Gentile Christians. More specifically, it was directed toward Gentile Christian judaizers. These we...
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A different species of breathing
This selected work of Sue Goyette's poetry brings together work from eight books of poetry to show that Sue Goyette has sustained a practice of witnessing and reinterpreting the world for her readers. Introduction by Bart Vautour. Interview with the poet by Erin Wunker.
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Scandalous bodies
Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationsh...
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