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Newspaper City
Toronto's Street Surfaces and the Liberal Press, 1860-1935
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets. He demonstrates how Toronto’s two liberal newspapers, the Toronto Globe and Toronto Daily Star, nevertheless campaigned for surface infrastructure as the leading expression of modern...
Pleyn Delit
Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 1996
This is a completely revised edition of the classic cookbook that makes genuine medieval meals available to modern cooks. Using the best recipes from the first edition as a base, Constance Hieatt and Brenda Hosington have added many new recipes from more countries to add depth and flavour to our understanding...
by John Gellner, John Smerek
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
This is a chronicle of one of the many ethnic groups in Canada, a group of about 80,000 people of Czech and Slovak origin who now live in this country. In the authors' own words, "the book is addressed both to Canadian-Canadians and to Czech-and-Slovak Canadians (if there is such a distinction)."...
Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Essays in Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
The first comprehensive history of Newfoundland was published in 1793, but a centenary and a half passed before the first university course in the history of the island was offered there. During the past fifteen years there has been growing activity in the subject. This volume is the work of six scholars...
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume II, 1924-1932
The Lonely Heights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
This second volume of the official biography of Mackenzie King (the first, written by R. MacG. Dawson, was published in 1958) covers the years 1924 to 1932. At the opening of this period, King was still an inexperienced and untried leader but the next few years were to test his qualities as he dealt...
by David Bodle, Axel Ghazi, Moninuddin Syed
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
A communication system must have adequate electrical protection in order to meet the reliability standards for commercially acceptable service and to keep down maintenance expenses. This report characterizes, from the viewpoint of electrical protection and coordination, the conditions of the electrical...
Anthropology
A Student's Guide to Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Stanley R. Barrett's Anthropology has long been a premiere sourcebook for students, providing a comprehensive overview of both theory and method in the discipline. In this updated second edition, Barrett's discussion of the origins and evolution of anthropology remains, augmented by sections addressing...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Since its implementation in 2003, the Youth Criminal Justice Act has been the subject of intense political and scholarly debate. A complicated mixture of provisions intended to provide harsher punishments for serious violent crimes while encouraging positive, non-punitive interventions in less serious...
Water without Borders?
Canada, the United States, and Shared Waters
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Since 1909, the waters along the Canada-US border have been governed in accordance with the Boundary Water Treaty, but much has changed in the last 100 years. This engaging volume brings together experts from both sides of the border to examine the changing relationship between Canada and the US with...
Weapons of Mass Persuasion
Marketing the War Against Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
With nearly sixty percent of Americans initially against a pre-emptive war without sanction from the United Nations, and even higher anti-war numbers in most other nations of the world, the 2003 war against Iraq quickly became an enormous public relations challenge for the George W. Bush administration....
Us, Them, and Others
Pluralism and National Identity in Diverse Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
How do countries come to view themselves as being ‘multicultural’? Us, Them, and Others presents a dynamic new model for understanding pluralism based on the triangular relationship between three groups — the national majority, historically recognized minorities, and diverse immigrant bodies....
Politics as Radical Creation
Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt on Political Performativity
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Politics as Radical Creation examines the meaning of democratic practice through the critical social theory of the Frankfurt School. It provides an understanding of democratic politics as a potentially performative good-in-itself, undertaken not just to the extent that it seeks to achieve a certain...
Critical Ecologies
The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
Environmental movements are the subject of increasingly rigorous political theoretical study. Can the Frankfurt School's critical frameworks be used to address ecological issues, or do environmental conflicts remain part of the "failed promise" of this group? Critical Ecologies aims to redeem...
Suburban Governance
A Global View
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
North American gated communities, African squatter settlements, European housing estates, and Chinese urban villages all share one thing in common: they represent types of suburban space. As suburban growth becomes the dominant urban process of the twenty-first century, its governance poses an increasingly...