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Revenge of the Windigo
The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
What is known about Aboriginal mental health and mental illness, and on what basis is this 'knowing' assumed? This question, while appearing simple, leads to a tangled web of theory, method, and data rife with conceptual problems, shaky assumptions, and inappropriate generalizations. It is also the...
The Organic Psychoses
A Guide to Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1958
Psychoses due to physical disturbances involving the brain are common and can complicate a bewildering variety of illnesses. Patients with such disorders may be encountered in general practice, emergency wards, medical services, on the surgical ward, post-operatively as well as in psychiatric clinics...
Village Among Nations
"Canadian" Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and the Paraguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentieth century, they became increasingly scattered through secondary migrations to East Paraguay, British...
by Karen Bamford
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Borrowing its title from renowned scholar Alexander Leggatt's landmark 1974 study, Shakespeare's Comedies of Love is a tribute to a critic who has shaped the way the world understands Shakespeare and his comedies. To help celebrate his distinguished career as a teacher and scholar, this collection...
Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare
The Debt Never Promised
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Some of Shakespeare's most memorable male characters, such as Hamlet, Prince Hal, and Edgar, are defined by their relationships with their fathers. In Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare, Fred B. Tromly demonstrates that these relationships are far more complicated than most critics have assumed. While...
by Ian Angus
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2008
In this provocative study of the task of English-Canadian philosophy, Ian Angus contends that English Canada harbours a secret and unofficial dream of self-rule that is revealed through critiques of empire. Looking at the main tensions between local dwelling and the globalized market, Identity and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
This is a translation from a Russian work published in 1958, one of the major works of a well-known and prolific writer. It deals with the origins of the small nations and peoples of central Siberia and northeastern Asia. Many guesses have been made about these peoples but most have not been substantiated,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film is the most exhaustive and up-to-date reference book on Canadian film and filmmakers, combining 700 reviews and biographical listings with a detailed chronology of major events in Canadian film and television history. Compiled by Wyndham Wise, the editor...
Immigrants in Prairie Cities
Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that...
The First Day of Spring
Stories and Other Prose
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Raymond Knister had a strong sense of commitment both to his own career and to literature, particularly Canadian literature. In his ten working years he proved himself a prolific writer with wide-ranging interests.
Although his work has appeared in many anthologies of Canadian literature, there...
by Natalia Ginzburg
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy. The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg brings together in English translation for the first time the eight short stories that Ginzburg wrote between 1933 and 1965.
These...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon’s Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada. The Reader is the perfect textbook for undergraduate courses in Race and Ethnic Studies,...
Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens
A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2000
Highly acclaimed when the first edition appeared in 1989, "Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens" is the first comprehensive account of Indian-white relations throughout Canada's history. J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade...
A Fatherly Eye
Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
For more than a century, government policy towards Aboriginal peoples in Canada was shaped by paternalistic attitudes and an ultimate goal of assimilation. Indeed, remnants of that thinking still linger today, more than thirty years after protests against the White Paper of 1969 led to reconsideration...