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by Van Kingsley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
This primer is directed to air contamination control personnel, air engineers, whose only contact with bacteriology is usually their responsibility for providing "white" surroundings in industry and research. Professor Kingsley provides most basic information and describes problems in bacteriology...
For a New Political Economy
Volume 21
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 1998
Bernard Lonergan's economic writings span forty years and represent one of the most important intellectual achievements of the twentieth century. Unfortunately they have been inaccessible outside of the Lonergan research community as the majority of them have not been formally published, and exist...
Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
At the clinical, management, and policy levels, the use of knowledge and evidence in health care has become a worldwide priority. The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating...
Absent Citizens
Disability Politics and Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic...
Wages, Prices, Profits, and Economic Policy
Proceedings of a Conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
The essays included in this book are the proceedings of a conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto, 1967. They have been divided into five sections: "Wage-Price-Profit Relations in Canada—The Problem in Perspective," "A Diagnosis of the Problem,"...
Afghanistan Remembers
Gendered Narrations of Violence and Culinary Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Although extensive literature exists on the violence of war, little attention has been given to the ways in which this violence becomes entrenched and normalized in the inner recesses of everyday life. In Afghanistan Remembers, Parin Dossa examines Afghan women’s recall of violence through memories...
Ghostly Landscapes
Film, Photography, and the Aesthetics of Haunting in Contemporary Spanish Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In Ghostly Landscapes, Patricia M. Keller analyses the aesthetics of haunting and the relationship between ideology and image production by revisiting twentieth-century Spanish history through the camera’s lens. Through its vision she demonstrates how the traumatic losses of the Spanish Civil...
Troubled Masculinities
Reimagining Urban Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
In the contemporary urban environment, the once-dominant concept of a ‘masculine’ identity is being replaced by alternative ideas of what it means to be a man. Troubled Masculinities explores and theorizes the ways in which men who experience marginalization in urban settings reimagine and reconstruct...
The Silvering Screen
Old Age and Disability in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2011
Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role onscreen. Now, as the Baby Boomer population hits retirement, there has been an explosion of films, including Away From Her, The Straight Story, The Barbarian Invasions, and About Schmidt,...
Travelling Concepts in the Humanities
A Rough Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2002
Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with any guide, it can be used in a number of ways...
Prairie Rising
Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
In 2016, Canada’s newly elected federal government publically committed to reconciling the social and material deprivation of Indigenous communities across the country. Does this outward shift in the Canadian state’s approach to longstanding injustices facing Indigenous peoples reflect a “transformation...
Learning to School
Federalism and Public Schooling in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Among countries in the industrialized world, Canada is the only one without a national department of education, national standards for education, and national regulations for elementary or secondary schooling. For many observers, the system seems impractical and almost incoherent. But despite a total...
Orality and Literacy
Reflections across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular cultures at specific historical moments. Rejecting the 'great-divide' theory of orality and literacy as separate and opposite to one another, the contributors posit that whatever meanings...
Raising the Workers' Flag
The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
During the Great Depression, the conflicting interests of capital and labour became clearer than ever before. Radical Canadian workers, encouraged by the Red International of Labour Unions, responded by building the Workers' Unity League – an organization that greatly advanced the cause of unions...