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The Lily and the Thistle
The French Tradition and the Older Literature of Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
In The Lily and the Thistle, William Calin argues for a reconsideration of the French impact on medieval and renaissance Scottish literature. Calin proposes that much of traditional, medieval, and early modern Scottish culture, thought to be native to Scotland or primarily from England, is in fact...
The English Boccaccio
A History in Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdisciplinary study presents the first exploration of the reception of Boccaccio’s writings in English literary culture, tracing his presence from the early fifteenth century to the 1930s....
by Nelson Wiseman
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This illuminating, entertaining, and timely volume examines the place and impact of public intellectuals in our rapidly changing and diverse society. Boasting an all-star cast of contributors – including some of Canada’s most prominent writers, journalists, and academics – it probes the role...
The Constitution in a Hall of Mirrors
Canada at 150
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Whether it’s the first-past-the-post electoral system or partisan government appointees to the Senate, Canadians want better representation and accountability from the federal government. Before reforms can be enacted, however, it is important to explore and clarify the relationships among Canada’s...
The Invisible Crown
The First Principle of Canadian Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
The Crown is not only Canada’s oldest continuing political institution, but also its most pervasive, affecting the operation of Parliament and the legislatures, the executive, the bureaucracy, the courts, and federalism. However, many consider the Crown to be obscure and anachronistic. David E....
Making a Global City
How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Half of Toronto’s population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada – and many other western nations – has to face head on.
Making a Global...
Canada’s Department of External Affairs, Volume 3
Innovation and Adaptation, 1968–1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Volume three of the official history of Canada’s Department of External Affairs offers readers an unparalleled look at the evolving structures underpinning Canadian foreign policy from 1968 to 1984. Using untapped archival sources and extensive interviews with top-level officials and ministers,...
Spying on Canadians
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the Origins of the Long Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey’s study of Canada’s security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caught up in the Red Scare in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and tangled up with the imperial interests of first the United Kingdom and then...
by Electra Aria
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Melissa has an insatiable appetite that Russ just can't handle by himself. And he has a secret fantasy of seeing his wife with a black man.
It isn't long before Melissa makes that secret fantasy a reality, so that she can satisfy her urges to get blacked. This fertile wife takes it hard while...
The Filled Pen
Selected Non-Fiction of P.K. Page
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
P.K. Page is best known as one of Canada's finest poets, but over the course of her career she has also written a number of essays – meditations – on her life and work, on the nature of art and the imagination, and on Canadian works of literature, painting, and film that have had special significance...
by Desiderius Erasmus, Craig Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Erasmus' Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris about 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin. Twenty years later the material was published by Johann Froben (Basel 1518). It was an immediate success...
Strengths-Based Child Protection
Firm, Fair, and Friendly
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Strengths-based, solution-focused practice is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary child protection work. The demand for this protection practice has increased faster than the availability of training resources to help students and practitioners, until now.
Strengths-Based Child Protection...
Creating Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare
Congruence with the Everyday Lives of Children and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
The North American approach to child protection is broadly accepted, despite frequent criticisms of its core limitations: parental fear and resistance, the limited range of services and supports available to families, escalating costs, and high stress and turnover among service providers. Could these...
by Giles Constable
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
The abbey of Bec was founded in the eleventh century and was one of the best-known and most influential monasteries in Normandy. Celebrated for its high standard of religious life and its intellectual activity, Bec also had an exceptional degree of institutional independence.
The three treatises...