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History of Medicine, Second Edition
A Scandalously Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine has for ten years been one of the leading texts used to teach medical and nursing students the history of their profession. It has also been widely used in history courses and by general readers. An accessible overview of medical history, this new edition is greatly...
Sir Robert Falconer
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
Biblical scholar, social critic, and internationalist, Robert Alexander Falconer was also the foremost Canadian university leader of his generation, serving as president of the University of Toronto from 1907 to 1932. James Greenlee's biography chronicles his development as an academic leader and a public man.
Galileo
Pioneer Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
Since publication of Stillman Drake’s landmark volume, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography, new and exciting information has come to light about this towering figure in the history of Western science. Drawing largely from Galileo’s manuscript working papers, Drake now adds a wealth of detail...
Citizens and Nation
An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2000
Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of interviews with her son. Today's families rely on television and video cameras. They are all making history.
In a different approach to that old issue,...
by Amy Carney
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS, a paramilitary group under the Nazi party, sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy. They utilized the science of eugenics to convince SS men to marry suitable wives and...
Living Masks
The Achievement of Pirandello
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
The Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is undoubtedly one of the most innovative playwrights of the twentieth century and also one of the most complex. While his influence spread throughout modernist and postmodernist works, many first-time audiences and readers are confronted...
by Robert Barr, Douglas Lochhead
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Robert Barr has been almost completely overlooked by critics and anthologists of Canadian literature, in part because, although he was educated in Canada, he spent most of his life in the United States and England. However, since most of his serious novels are either set in Canada or have some Canadian...
Foreign Modernism
Cosmopolitanism, Identity, and Style in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Paris was the cosmopolitan hub of Europe and home to a vast number of foreigners – including the writers, painters, sculptors, and musicians who were creating works now synonymous with modernism itself, such as Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon, The Rite of...
by E.H. Moss, John Packer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Since the publication of the first edition more than thirty years ago, The Flora of Alberta has become the standard guide for naturalists, botanists, and all those interested in the wildlife of the province. It provides an inventory of 1775 known vascular plant species – ferns, conifers, and flowering...
Doctors and Doctrines
The Ideology of Medical Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
There has been controversy for several years now in Canada over the various developments in insurance for medical care. The Canadian Medical Association is of course concerned with protecting the profession as well as the public: those who believe in a government-sponsored medicare plan claim that...
New Liberalism
The Political Economy of J.A. Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
John A. Hobson was a prominent member of a small band of British radicals who argued around the turn of the century that the consistent application of liberal ideas required the reorganization of capitalist societies along socialist lines. Allett here suggests that their march toward socialism was...
Remembering Mass Violence
Oral History, New Media and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of community-university collaboration, it includes...
Comrades and Critics
Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2009
While Canadian historians have studied socialism in the 1930s, and although there have been many studies of American and British literary leftists from this period, Comrades and Critics is the first full-length study of Canada's 1930s literary left. Challenging dominant perceptions that this decade...
Ukraine
A History, 4th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
In 1988, the first edition of Orest Subtelny's Ukraine was published to international acclaim, as the definitive history of what was at that time a republic in the USSR. In the years since, the world has seen the dismantling of the Soviet bloc and the restoration of Ukraine's independence - an event...