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The Legacies of Fear
Law and Politics in Quebec in the Era of the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Many people assume that a French-English cleavage has always existed and historians have been uncertain as to just how it unfolded. This book provides the answer. Greenwood re-creates a Quebec in which trust between French and English Canadians was an early casualty of the execution of Louis XVI and...
Strangers and Neighbours
Rural Migration in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Though historians have come to acknowledge the mobility of rural populations in early modern Europe, few books demonstrate the intensity and importance of short-distance migrations as definitively as Strangers and Neighbours. Marshalling an incredible range of evidence that includes judicial records,...
The Contemplative Practitioner
Meditation in Education and the Workplace, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Meditation is a simple and practical activity that can enrich our lives and work in innumerable ways. It allows us to connect more deeply to ourselves and others and to the environment. In this book, John P. Miller, an expert in the field of holistic education, looks at mediation and how it can be...
The Art of Objects
The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The Art of Objects is a cultural history of early Italian industrialism, set against the political, social, and intellectual background of post-unification Italy, and a cutting-edge investigation of the formation of Italy's industrial culture at the turn of the twentieth century. Providing a close...
Being a Parent
Unchanging Values in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
During his thirty years with the Institute of Child Study of the University of Toronto the late Dr. Karl S. Bernhardt wrote hundreds of articles and gave hundreds of talks to parents on the best way to bring up children. His philosophy is based on a belief in the worth of the individual. He believed...
Affecting Grace
Literature from Lessing to Kleist
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Affecting Grace examines the importance of Shakespeare’s poetry and plays within German literature and thought after 1750 – including its relationship to German classicism, which favoured unreflected ease over theatricality. Kenneth S. Calhoon examines this tension against an extensive backdrop...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Banksy is known worldwide for his politically subversive works of art, but he is far from the only artist whose creations are infused with internationally relevant, activist themes. How else can the arts help activate citizen participation in social justice movements? Moreover, what is the role of...
Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women
Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Between the late 1970s and the early 2000s, at least sixty-five women, many of them members of Indigenous communities, were found murdered or reported missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. In a work driven by the urgency of this ongoing crisis, which extends across the country, Amber Dean...
Mafia Movies
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Rico 'Little Caesar' Bandello, Michael Corleone, and Tony Soprano are just some of the onscreen mafia figures that have fascinated audiences since cinema's inception. Portrayals of the Italian and Italian-American mafia, though, have differed markedly over time and across multiple cultures—from...
Restructuring Canada's Health Systems: How Do We Get There From Here?
Proceedings of the Fourth Canadian Conference on Health Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Is the Canadian health care system becoming a victim of its own success? It has done what it set out to do – provide universal access to all medically necessary health services without financial barriers to patients – but expanding technology, an aging population, and escalating costs strain its...
by Kenneth Clute
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
An important and definitive study and critique of 86 general practices in Ontario and Nova Scotia, with particular attention to the quality of medical care and to problems of medical education and of the organization of medical care as these relate to quality. It was conceived by the College of General...
Hamilton Babylon
A History of the McMaster Film Board
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Founded in 1966 at McMaster University by avant-garde filmmaker John Hofsess and future frat-comedy innovator Ivan Reitman, the McMaster Film Board was a milestone in the development of Canada’s commercial and experimental film communities. McMaster’s student film society quickly became the site...
In the House of the Hanged
Essays and Vers Libres
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Arguably the most important living Russian writer, Sasha Sokolov is an acknowledged literary master. Widely admired for his ability to elevate prose to the level of poetry, he is also known for his craftsmanship and phenomenal use of language. Until now, however, English-speaking audiences have only...
The Land of Weddings and Rain
Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In The Land of Weddings and Rain, Gediminas Lankauskas examines the components of the contemporary urban wedding – religious and civil ceremonies, “traditional” imagery and practices, and the conspicuous consumption of domestic and imported goods – in the context of the Western-style modernization...