Oxford University Press Canada: 55 books

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Minetown, Milltown, Railtown

Life in Canadian Communities of Single Industry

by Rex Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The company town, source of so much of Canada's wealth, was-and is-a place with nowhere to hide. First published in 1971, Rex Lucas's Minetown, Milltown, Railtown is a groundbreaking study of what it's like to live in such communities. Today, with the oil-sands boom and rising commodity prices affecting...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Most of the caring work in our society is done by women. This work is often hidden in the roles of mothers, daughters, and wives and is undervalued outside the home as women work in the community as volunteers, in the 'caring' professions, and in low-wage jobs in hospitals, child-care centres, and homemaking...
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The Sense of Sociability

How People Overcome the Forces Pulling Them Apart

by Lorne Tepperman
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013

Are human beings a species in constant need of firm, aggressive government to save us from ourselves? Or are we fundamentally sociable beings, woven together in a complex array of networks, interdependent and willing to work together? The Sense of Sociability is a modern, highly readable, and often idiosyncratic...
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The Incredible Canadian

A Candid Portrait of Mackenzie King

by Bruce Hutchison
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013

From Canada's greatest political journalist comes the astonishing story of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. As the original edition described this award-winning book: "He appeared to the public a drab little man, round of face and body, who spoke in banalities. Behind this façade lay the...
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Social Work and HIV

The Canadian Experience

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Social Work and HIV: The Canadian Experience brings together essays by front-line workers and researchers from across the country. The essayists describe their own successes and failures in dealing with the effects of HIV in rural communities, urban Aboriginal street youth, upon haemophiliacs, the gay...
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Canadian Film

Perspectives on Canadian Culture

by David Clandfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Canadian Film is a historical overview of film in both English and French Canada, from its early use to encourage immigration and, in Quebec, to promote traditional fidelities, to its struggles to project a uniquely Canadian identity and experience. All major modes of film are discussed—the documentary...
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Sir John A.

An Anecdotal Life of Sir John A. Macdonald

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This is the man behind the legend. Lively and revealing anecdotes about Sir John A.s political and parliamentary life are set against stories of his private joys and sorrows. Stories of patronage, of political campaigns, of loyal supporters and bitter opponents take readers through many of the major...
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by Lorne Tepperman, Nina Gheihman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

British social reformer Robert Owen once declared that "man is the creature of circumstances." A century and a half later, his famous words still ring true. While many adopt a fatalist approach, believing that their lot in life is inevitable, in fact a number of highly complex social factors determine...
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Feminist Organizing for Change

The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada

by Nancy Adamson, Linda Briskin, Margaret McPhail
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The women's liberation movement is one of the most successful social movements of the twentieth century. Most writing about it, however, has focused on the issues it has addressed rather than the practices, ideology, organizations, and strategies of the movement itself. Feminist Organizing For Change...
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by Gregory Albo, Leo Panitch
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

A large factor in the appeal of neo-conservatism in the early 1980s was its sustained attack on the welfare state. Even those most dependent on public services were frustrated by a system that allowed them no say in decisions directly affecting their lives. A decade later, the alternative offered by...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Here is a sampling of Canadas long and exciting history of human endeavor on broad waters. Stories that capture the spirit of our past afloat range from the west to eastern coasts and the frozen waters of the Arctic to the treacherous expanses of the worlds largest freshwater lake system. Canadian sea...
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by Enid Slack, Rupak Chattopadhyay
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013

This volume examines the governing structure and finances of metropolitan areas in federal systems. Taking a comparative approach, each chapter examines two large metropolitan areas in a federal country, including Australia (South East Queensland and Perth); Brazil (Belo Horizonte and São Paulo); Canada...
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Entering the Eighties

Canada in Crisis

by W. Peter Ward
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The essays in this volume, which explore the Canadian condition at the beginning of the eighties, deal with fundamental issues of concern to all thoughtful Canadians. The eight essayists are distinguished historians and political scientists: Louis Balthazar, Michael Bliss, Robert Craig Brown, Ramsay...
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by N. J. Berrill
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013

From one of Canada's most distinguished writers and scientists comes this startlingly prescient examination of how humanity's evolutionary past shapes both human nature and the human future. Winner of the Governor General's Award for non-fiction in 1955 and hailed by The New York Times as demonstrating...
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