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The rise and fall of an african utopia
In 1947 a group of Yoruba-speaking fishermen who had been persecuted because of their religious beliefs founded their own community in order to worship in peace. Although located in an impoverished part of Nigeria, within a few years the village enjoyed remarkable economic success. This was partl...
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Moving archives
Moving Archives grounds itself in theories of affect to offer fresh insights about archiving and approaching literary materials. Archives are not neutral repositories but rather demand involvement in an emotionally charged process, one that acts upon its subjects and engages specific fields of kn...
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Narrative in the feminine
What does it mean to tell a story from a woman’s point of view? How have Canadian anglophone and francophone writers translated feminist literary theory into practice? Avant-garde writers Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard answer these, and many more questions, in their two groundbreaking work...
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Clinical pastoral supervision and the theology of charles gerkin
In the last twenty years, the number of texts written on clinical pastoral supervision has accelerated. Thomas St. James O’Connor analyzes these texts, nearly 300 of them, in light of three fundamental questions about the praxis of clinical pastoral supervision: (1)what is distinctive about the p...
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Radical difference
It is commonly assumed that all religions are essentially alike, that they are all common members of the genus Religion. But what if religions are not fundamentally similar after all? What if, on the contrary, it is better to presuppose a radical difference among the world’s various religious com...
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Translation and translating in german studies
A collection of essays in honour of Professor Raleigh Whitinger. Essays from Canadian and international experts explore new perspectives on translation and German Studies as they inform processes of identity formation, gendered representations, visual and textual mediations, and teaching and lear...
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Social work artfully
The past two decades have witnessed a vigorous challenge to social work. A growing global convergence between the market and the public sector means that private sector values, priorities, and forms of work organization increasingly permeate social and community services. As challenges facing peo...
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Doing ethics in a pluralistic world
Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World is an apt title for this collection of essays in honour of Roger C. Hutchinson who, over many decades, has encouraged and participated in shaping a Canadian contextual social ethics. His abiding interest in social ethics and in religious engagement with public ...
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The queen of peace room
What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime? Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker,...
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Florence nightingale: the nightingale school
Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime’s writing on nursing is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to “look to the future, not to the past,” and often ignore her or rely on faulty secondary sources. Nightingale’s work on nursing is now available t...
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Florence nightingale on mysticism and eastern religions
Mysticism and Eastern Religions, the fourth volume in the Collected Works and the third on Nightingale’s religion, begins with the publication for the first time of Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Devotional Authors of the Middle Ages, translations from and comments on the medieval (and some late...
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Parallel encounters
The essays collected offer analysis of cultural representations of the Canada–US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences. Contributors examine a variety of forms, including poetry, fiction, drama, visual art, television, and c...
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Dostoyevsky’s critique of the west
Not much attention has been given to Dostoyevsky's concern with the crisis of the modern West, although allusions to almost every aspect of Western civilization—including the political, economic, and social dimensions—are present in his literary works and abound in his secondary writings.This boo...
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The question of peace in modern political thought
By looking back at the great works of political philosophy, this collection hopes to revive peace as an active question for political philosophy while making an original contribution to contemporary peace research and international relations.
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The noble savage
Stelio Cro’s revealing work, arising from his more than half dozen previous books, considers the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the context of the European experience with, and reaction to, the cultures of America’s original inhabitants. Taking into account Spanish, Italian, French, and Engl...
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Unravelling encounters
This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal, socio-political moment and its relationship to the historical legacies of colonialism, white settlement...
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A sentimental education
How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a ...
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Exporting good governance
Can good governance be exported? International development assistance is more frequently being applied to strengthening governance in developing countries, and in Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada’s Aid Program, the editors bring together diverse perspectives to inve...
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Travels and identities
Diaries and letters of Adam and Elizabeth Shortt from their 1911 voyage from Canada to England, their extended visit there and later trips to the continent. Introduction and conclusion analyze the various identities of the travelers.
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Emerging powers in global governance
The early twenty-first century has seen the beginning of a considerable shift in the global balance of power. Major international governance challenges can no longer be addressed without the ongoing co-operation of the large countries of the global South. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Afric...
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Blocking public participation
Study of strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPPs) examines the dangers SLAPPs pose to political expression and to the quality and integrity of our democratic political institutions. Explores the need to regulate SLAPPs in Canada and assesses various regulatory proposals.
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Battle lines
Reorients conventional understandings of Canadian First World War poetry. By focusing on poems about the Canadian soldier, Battle Lines reveals the period's robust literary activity and its conflicting poetic renditions of battle romance and modernist fractiousness.
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Coalition warfare
The essays that comprise this volume clearly demonstrate that coalitions have dramatically altered the shape of war. Paul Kennedy's overview of coalitions over the past century shows that, with coalitions firmly established as viable in the minds of strategists, wars have become markedly lengthie...
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Please, no more poetry
Since the beginning of his poetic career in the 1990s, derek beaulieu has created works that have challenged readers to understand in new ways the possibilities of poetry. With nine books currently to his credit, and many works appearing in chapbooks, broadsides, and magazines, beaulieu continues...
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After prison
This collection explores the relationship between offending, reentry, and employment, and barriers encountered in securing a rewarding job after prison. Interviews, statistics, and literature highlight how employment assumes considerable meaning for former prisoners that can foster successful rei...
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Muslim ethics and modernity
A study of modern Muslim ethics, focused upon the lives and writings of Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Mawlana Mawdudi, this book sheds light upon the modern ethical problems of contemporary Islam. Sayyid Ahmad Khan, often called a liberal, a modernist, or an acculturationist, represents the "liberal" tr...
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Aaron
W. Donald Wilson and Paul G. Socken’s translation of Aaron, by Québécois author Yves Thériault, makes this fine novel available in English for the first time. An exploration of “otherness,” the story centres on Moishe, an Orthodox Jew and refugee from Russia, who is raising his grandson, Aaro...
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The five aggregates
If Buddhism denies a permanent self, how does it perceive identity? According to Buddhist texts, the entire universe, including the individual, is made up of different phenomena, which Buddhism classifies into different categories: what we conventionally call a “person” can be understood in terms...
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Textual mothers/maternal texts
Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter. The collect...
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Conflict and compromise in multilingual societies: belgium
The author of an authoritative work on this topic in Swiss society now draws a comprehensive picture of Belgium's linguistic demarcations. Firmly rooting the discussion in an historical background, the author discusses group images and attitudes and the constitutional and institutional framework ...
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Weaving a canadian allegory
Loretta Czernis applies her sociological training in document analysis to study one government prescription for what ails Canadians. The Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity rewrote Canada by reinventing patriotism, essentially inviting Canadians to imagine a new Canada. The Report itself i...
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A textured life
Thirty years ago, spending one’s life in a large institution was, for most adults with developmental disabilities, the norm. Three decades later, theirs is a very different world. Deinstitutionalization has been heralded as bringing about a return to a life of “community.” To support adults with...
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Calderon and the baroque tradition
Calderón and the Baroque Tradition is the outcome of a tricentennial commemoration of the seventeenth centurySpanish poet and dramatist, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and a tribute to a distinguished tradition in Calderonian studies at the University of Toronto.A major dramatist of the Spanish Gold...
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Humanities in the present day
This collection of addresses presented at the Official Inauguration of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Calgary, in February 1978, is edited by the Dean and the Associate Dean of the Faculty. As well as the essays, the collection includes biographies and photographs of the contributors an...
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The world of niagara wine
Reviews the Niagara wine industry, its history and regulation of production and its contemporary economic significance, the entrepreneurship behind and the promotion and marketing of Niagara wines, the science behind the industry, and the social and cultural ramifications of Niagara’s increasing ...
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Cubism and futurism
At its inception, the cinema was understood by many to be an electric art, akin to X-rays, coloured light, and sonic energy. This book examines the two movements’ engagement with the Faraday and Maxwell’s new science of energy, and shows energy came to be understood as a spiritual phenomenon and ...
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The great war
This book examines how the Great War has been remembered and commemorated through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Drawing on contributions from history, cultural studies, film, and literary studies this collection offers fresh perspectives on the Great War and its legacy at the l...
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The contemporary leonard cohen
Essay collection on Leonard Cohen's work organized by the concept of “the contemporary,” which helps to explain Cohen’s staying power and existential depth. The chapters offer related but diverse perspectives—historical, artistic, spiritual—on his songs, poems, novels, and drawings, and examine h...
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Limelight
Examines the celebrity autobiography and how it has changed in form, function, and content over the last 115 years. Focusing on the autobiographies of famous Canadian women, it charts a history of fame in English Canada and examines the influence of gender and nation in the experience and represe...
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This is not a hoax
An original look at hoaxes in Canadian culture, this book shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of Canada’s most respected cultural institutions – art galleries, museums, and publishers – in order to celebrate discomfort, imagi...
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