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On Civic Republicanism

Ancient Lessons for Global Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016

Continuing the analysis of contemporary issues through the lens of ancient theories beyond the themes of Enduring Empire and the award-winning On Oligarchy, On Civic Republicanism explores the enduring relevance of the ancient concepts of republicanism and civic virtue to modern questions about political...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961

In this collection of essays the changing structure of the Canadian community, especially in its urban growth, is brought before the reader with many fresh insights, much vigorous comment, and apt illustration. The authors, concentrating on certain kinds of problems which have interested them individually,...
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Beyond the Box

B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s

by Alexandra Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2009

B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) is one of the most famous and influential figures in twentieth century psychology. A best-selling author, inventor, and social commentator, Skinner was both a renowned scientist and a public intellectual known for his controversial theories of human behavior. Beyond the Box...
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Seeing Things

From Shakespeare to Pixar

by Alan Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011

A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators share a collective fascination with the nebulous boundary between material objects and our imaginative...
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Korean Immigrants in Canada

Perspectives on Migration, Integration, and the Family

by Samuel Noh, Ann Kim, Marianne Noh
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012

Koreans are one of the fastest-growing visible minority groups in Canada today. However, very few studies of their experiences in Canada or their paths of integration are available to public and academic communities. Korean Immigrants in Canada provides the first scholarly collection of papers on...
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Prisons, Asylums, and the Public

Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century

by Janet Miron
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011

The prisons and asylums of Canada and the United States were a popular destination for institutional tourists in the nineteenth-century. Thousands of visitors entered their walls, recording and describing the interiors, inmates, and therapeutic and reformative practices they encountered in letters,...
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Stranger Rape

Rapists, Masculinity and Penal Governance

by Kevin Bonnycastle
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012

Kevin Denys Bonnycastle’s Stranger Rape is an in-depth study of the lives of fourteen men who raped women unknown to them. Using new data derived from official offender files, offender program observations, and the men’s personal histories, Bonnycastle documents, compares, and contrasts their...
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Ruling by Schooling Quebec

Conquest to Liberal Governmentality - A Historical Sociology

by Bruce Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012

Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. This first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebec’s educational history extends the sophisticated method...
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Manufacturing Phobias

The Political Production of Fear in Theory and Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016

Fear is a powerful emotion and a formidable spur to action, a source of worry and – when it is manipulated – a source of injustice. Manufacturing Phobias demonstrates how economic and political elites mobilize fears of terrorism, crime, migration, invasion, and infection to twist political and...
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by Beverly Leipert, Belinda Leach, Wilfreda Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012

The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food, drinking water, infectious disease, extreme environmental events, recreation, and for many, retirement residence. In rural areas themselves, women play...
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A Mennonite in Russia

The Diaries of Jacob D. Epp, 1851-1880

by Harvey L. Dyck
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

In the lives of ordinary people are the truths of history. Such truths abound in the diaries of Jacob Epp, a Russian Mennonite school-teacher, lay minister, farmer, and village secretary in southern Ukraine. This abridged translation of his diaries offers a remarkably vivid picture of Mennonite community...
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by James Butrica
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984

The elegist Sextus Propertius (ca 50–ca 16 BC) is generally reckoned among the most difficult of Latin authors. At the root of this difficulty lies a deeply corrupt text and uncertainty over the manuscript transmission; moreover, the manuscripts used in the standard editions of today have been selected...
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Purchase for Profit

Public-Private Partnerships and Canada's Public Health Care System

by Heather Whiteside
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015

Since the start of the twenty-first century, Canadian provinces have increasingly begun turning to the private sector to finance and construct large-scale infrastructure projects. From a critical public policy perspective, the danger of these public-private partnerships (P3s) is that they are more...
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by Aaron Thomas, Cesare Beccaria
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009

Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlightenment luminaries and enlightened monarchs alike lauded the text and looked to it for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the...
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