Press Publishing: 3010 books
by E.H. Moss, John Packer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Since the publication of the first edition more than thirty years ago, The Flora of Alberta has become the standard guide for naturalists, botanists, and all those interested in the wildlife of the province. It provides an inventory of 1775 known vascular plant species – ferns, conifers, and flowering...
Doctors and Doctrines
The Ideology of Medical Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
There has been controversy for several years now in Canada over the various developments in insurance for medical care. The Canadian Medical Association is of course concerned with protecting the profession as well as the public: those who believe in a government-sponsored medicare plan claim that...
New Liberalism
The Political Economy of J.A. Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
John A. Hobson was a prominent member of a small band of British radicals who argued around the turn of the century that the consistent application of liberal ideas required the reorganization of capitalist societies along socialist lines. Allett here suggests that their march toward socialism was...
Remembering Mass Violence
Oral History, New Media and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of community-university collaboration, it includes...
Comrades and Critics
Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2009
While Canadian historians have studied socialism in the 1930s, and although there have been many studies of American and British literary leftists from this period, Comrades and Critics is the first full-length study of Canada's 1930s literary left. Challenging dominant perceptions that this decade...
Ukraine
A History, 4th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
In 1988, the first edition of Orest Subtelny's Ukraine was published to international acclaim, as the definitive history of what was at that time a republic in the USSR. In the years since, the world has seen the dismantling of the Soviet bloc and the restoration of Ukraine's independence - an event...
Invaders as Ancestors
On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
Since pre-Incan times, native Andean people had worshipped their ancestors, and the custom continued even after the arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Ancestor-worship however, did not exclude members of other cultures: in fact, the Andeans welcomed outsiders as ancestors. Invaders...
Acculturation and Its Discontents
The Italian Jewish Experience Between Exclusion and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2008
Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry.
The...
Solution-Focused Interviewing
Applying Positive Psychology, A Manual for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Too often doctors, therapists, and social workers ask “what’s wrong in your life?” rather than “what do you want?” Ronald E. Warner’s Solution-Focused Interviewing is a practical guide to talking to clients using a solution-driven and strength-based approach that empowers clients and helps...
Paradise
Class, Commuters, and Ethnicity in Rural Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
What was life like in the 1950s in small communities in Ontario? Lower-class and upper-class residents might have different memories of those days, but on one thing they would agree: it is a much different world in rural Ontario today. The old guard has lost most of its power, displaced partly by...
Do Men Mother?
Fathering, Care, and Domestic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2006
More and more, fathers are deciding to stay at home and care for their children rather than work full-time outside of the home. More and more, Canadian families are lead by single fathers. Shining a spotlight on the lives of stay at home dads and single fathers, Do Men Mother? provides groundbreaking...
Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment
Art, Science, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740–58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European intellectual community, and expand papal patronage of...
Brothers or Enemies
The Ukrainian National Movement and Russia from the 1840s to the 1870s
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Contrary to the prevailing opinion, the idea of Ukrainian independence did not emerge at the end of the nineteenth-century. In Brothers and Enemies, Johannes Remy reveals that the roots of Ukrainian independence were planted fifty years earlier.
Remy contextualizes the Ukrainian national movement...
Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge
State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on theater and on the multi-ethnic...