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Semantics and the Body
Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 1997
In traditional semantics, the human body tends to be ignored in the process of constructing meaning. Horst Ruthrof argues, by contrast, that the body is an integral part of this hermeneutic activity. Strictly language-based theories, and theories which conflate formal and natural languages, run into...
Mencius
A New Translation Arranged and Annotated For The General Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Most educated Westerners are familiar with the thinkers and prophets who inform the Western spirit. But they are less familiar with the thinkers who have shaped the major oriental civilizations. The heirs of these ancient civilizations are now once again in the ascendant. We must understand the ways...
On Preserving
Essays on Preservationism and Paraconsistent Logic
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2009
Paraconsistent logic is a theory of reasoning in philosophy that studies inconsistent data. The discipline has several different schools of thought, including preservationism, which responds to the problems that arise when human beings continue to reason when faced with inconsistent data. On Preserving...
Empire's Ally
Canada and the War in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
The war in Afghanistan has been a major policy commitment and central undertaking of the Canadian state since 2001: Canada has been a leading force in the war, and has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on aid and reconstruction. After a decade of conflict, however, there is considerable debate...
The Dignity of Every Human Being
New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
“The Dignity of Every Human Being” studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged “the tyranny of the Group of Seven” with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s. Using extensive archival and documentary research, Kirk Niergarth follows the work of regional artists...
The Politics of Architecture
A history of modern architecture in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
The history of British architecture since 1930 has been one of frequently heated controversy between the old idiom and the new and between various social and technological viewpoints. The battle is by no means over; indeed it is spreading to wider issues and outside what was previously a largely professional...
Discounted Labour
Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as a time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work and in gaining access...
Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens
A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
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...
Overland to Starvation Cove
With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled...
by Robert de Roquebrune
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
Life in a Quebec manor-house at the turn of the century is colourfully described in this biography of his childhood by Robert de Roquebrune. Skilfully woven into the texture of reminiscences about his own growing up are absorbing accounts of the early history of Canada. Through his ancestors, whose...
Jean Monnet and Canada
Early Travels and the Idea of European Unity
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2011
Jean Monnet (1888-1979) is often viewed as the chief architect of the European Coal and Steel Community, which over time evolved into today's European Union. Monnet spent his early years working as an agent for his father, a cognac producer. It was this experience that took him to Scandinavia, England,...
Honorary Protestants
The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, the Jewish community in Montreal carved out an often tenuous arrangement for public schooling as “honorary...
More than Just Games
Canada and the 1936 Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Held in Germany, the 1936 Olympic Games sparked international controversy. Should athletes and nations boycott the games to protest the Nazi regime? More Than Just Games is the history of Canada’s involvement in the 1936 Olympics. It is the story of the Canadian Olympic officials and promoters who...
Kensington Market
Collective Memory, Public History, and Toronto's Urban Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood has been home to a multicultural mosaic of immigrant communities: Jewish, Portuguese, Chinese, South Asian, Caribbean, and many others. Despite repeated transformations, the neighbourhood has never lost its vibrant,...