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Brian Dickson
A Judge's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
When Brian Dickson was appointed in 1973, the Supreme Court of Canada was preoccupied with run-of-the-mill disputes. By the time he retired as Chief Justice of Canada in 1990, the Court had become a major national institution, very much in the public eye. The Court's decisions, reforming large areas...
Fields of Fire
The Canadians in Normandy: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
With Fields of Fire, Terry Copp challenges the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a “failure” – that the allies won only through the use of brute force, and that the Canadian soldiers and commanding officers were essentially incompetent. His detailed...
First Voyage Around the World (1519-1522)
An Account of Magellan's Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of one of the few crew members who returned to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. A...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Lori Chambers’ fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921. This volume explores a wide range of themes and issues in the history of adoption including: the reasons for the creation of statutory adoption, the increasing voice...
Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education
Philosophies of Iethi'nihstenha Ohwentsia'kekha (Land)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Indigenous scholars have been gathering, speaking, and writing about Indigenous knowledge for decades. These knowledges are grounded in ancient traditions and very old pedagogies that have been woven with the tangled strings and chipped beads of colonial relations.
Pathways for Remembering...
Living with Animals
Ojibwe Spirit Powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Within nineteenth-century Ojibwe/Chippewa medicine societies, and in communities at large, animals are realities and symbols that demonstrate cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls,...
The Phonological Interpretation of Ancient Greek
A Pandialectal Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
This volume treats systematically the variation found in the successive stages of the development of all ancient Greek dialects. It combines synchronic approach, in which generative rules expound phonological divergencies between the systems of different dialects, with a diachronic statement of unproductive...
Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss
Figuring the Social
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2008
A leading public intellectual, Michael Bliss has written prolifically for academic and popular audiences and taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 2006. Among his publications are a comprehensive history of the discovery of insulin, and major biographies of Frederick Banting, William Osler,...
SickKids
The History of The Hospital for Sick Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is the most famous medical institution in Canada. In addition to being the largest pediatric centre in North America, it has earned an international reputation for clinical care and research that has influenced generations of health care practitioners across the...
To Walk with the Devil
Slovene Collaboration and Axis Occupation, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
In the spring of 1941, when Slovenia was invaded by Germany, Italy, and Hungary, Slovenes faced at best assimilation, and at worst deportation or extermination. Still, a significant number of Slovenes would eventually collaborate with the Axis powers. Why were they so ready to work with their invaders,...
Croatia
Land, People, Culture Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
This book represents a survey of the cultural and economic life of the Croatian people, who have long been noted for their significant contributions to the arts and the humanities. It contains a wealth of factual information on various aspects of one of the most interesting regions in Europe.
The...
The Slovak National Awakening
An Essay in the Intellectual History of East Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
The Slovaks lived under Hungarian rule for centuries, with no clear sense of political separateness, preserving Slovak as their spoken language, but using Czech as their written language. In the last decades of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, the efforts made by clerical intellectuals...
by Selena Daly
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Selena Daly’s work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period. In this book, she examines the cultural, political, and military engagement of the Futurists with the war effort, both on the battlefields and on the home front.
Beginning with the outbreak...
Compact, Contract, Covenant
Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
One of Canada's longest unresolved issues is the historical and present-day failure of the country's governments to recognize treaties made between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown. Compact, Contract, Covenant is renowned historian of Native-newcomer relations J.R. Miller's exploration and explanation...