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This Is Not a Peace Pipe
Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
How can indigenous people best assert their legal and political distinctiveness? In This is Not a Peace Pipe, Dale Turner explores indigenous intellectual culture and its relationship to, and within, the dominant Euro-American culture. He contends that indigenous intellectuals need to engage the legal...
Science in Canada
Selections from the Speeches of E.W.R. Steacie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
The relationship between science and government, currently the subject of much lively debate, was one to which E.W.R. Steacie devoted a great deal of his energy and outstanding talents. As President of the National Research Council, a key position which he held for ten years, Dr. Steacie played an...
The Virtues Reconciled
An Iconographical Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1947
This volume contains the Alexander Lectures in University College, University of Toronto, for the session 1945-46, delivered by Samuel C. Chew, Professor of English Literature at Bryn Mawr College and author of Byron in England and The Crescent and the Rose.
For a number of years Professor...
Thinking Radical Democracy
The Return to Politics in Post-War France
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Thinking Radical Democracy is an introduction to nine key political thinkers who contributed to the emergence of radical democratic thought in post-war French political theory: Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Pierre Clastres, Claude Lefort, Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Jacques Rancière,...
A Darkened House
Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
From its first appearance in 1832 until the last scares of 1871, cholera aroused fear in British North America. The disease killed 20,000 people and its psychological effects were enormous. Cholera unsettled governments, undermined the medical profession, exposed inadequacies in public health, and...
In Defence of Canada Volume II
Appeasement and Rearmament
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1965
In Defence of Canada: Appeasement and Rearmament is a companion and sequel to Eayrs' In Defence of Canada: From the Great War to the Great Depression (Toronto 1964). Like Volume I, Volume II rejects as outmoded and misleading the traditional division of national security policy into two compartments,...
Tournaments of Value
Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1996
A significant addition to our understanding of the varied experience of Middle Eastern women, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing - the volume, velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this female social world is remarkable. This work represents a substantial...
Ethnicity and Aboriginality
Case Studies in Ethnonationalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Ethnonationalism is a phenomenon of great importance in many parts of the world today. In this collection of papers, nine distinguished anthropologists focus on Canadian and international case studies to show how ethnonational claims of cultural groups have been expressed and developed in specific...
The Labyrinth of Technology
A Preventive Technology and Economic Strategy as a Way Out
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Why does modern technology succeed so brilliantly in some respects and simultaneously fail in others? While he was completing a doctoral thesis in mechanical engineering in the late 60s and early 70s, Willem Vanderburg became convinced that the environmental crisis and the possible limits to growth...
Critical To Care
The Invisible Women in Health Services
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2008
Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care. It is a central issue for policy development because the definition often results...
Seeing Through the Veil
Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
During the later Middle Ages, new optical theories were introduced that located the power of sight not in the seeing subject, but in the passive object of vision. This shift had a powerful impact not only on medieval science but also on theories of knowledge, and this changing relationship of vision...
by William F. Ganong, Theodore F. Layng
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
The Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for the years from 1929 to 1937 included a series in nine parts of important papers on "Crucial Maps" which have been a frequent source of reference ever since for students of the history of discovery and of early cartography. Their author,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
'A judicious and discerning selection of large extracts from the Collected Works of Erasmus ... thoughtfully designed to include major statements of Erasmus on civility in individual morals, humanistic study and education, the Christian life, reform of the church, and the peaceful constraint of political...
Picturing Canada
A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The study of children's illustrated books is located within the broad histories of print culture, publishing, the book trade, and concepts of childhood. An interdisciplinary history, Picturing Canada provides a critical understanding of the changing geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of...