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Multicultural Cities
Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
What defines a multicultural city? Policy? Geography? Demography? In Multicultural Cities, Mohammad Abdul Qadeer offers a tour of three of North America’s premier multicultural metropolises – Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles – that demonstrates the critical qualities that make these cities...
Diaspora by Design
Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2009
Few groups face as many misconceptions within their new countries as do Muslim immigrants. This book challenges the common misperceptions of Muslim immigrants as a homogeneous, religiously driven group and identifies the tensions they experience within their host countries.
A comparative, multi-ethnic...
by Laurie Mook
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
When organizations use social accounting practices, they are able to measure their performance in terms of benefits accrued to key stakeholders such as their communities, human resources, and those investing in the organization. This innovative change in accounting can lead to a fundamentally different...
Does North America Exist?
Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Clarkson asks whether North America "exists" in the sense that the European Union has made Europe exist.
Clarkson's rigorous study...
Aboriginal Health in Canada
Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2006
Numerous studies, inquiries, and statistics accumulated over the years have demonstrated the poor health status of Aboriginal peoples relative to the Canadian population in general. Aboriginal Health in Canada is about the complex web of physiological, psychological, spiritual, historical, sociological,...
In Defence of Science
Science, Technology, and Politics in Modern Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
Science holds a central role in the modern world, yet its complex interrelationships with nature, technology, and politics are often misunderstood or seen from a false perspective. In a series of essays that make extensive use of original work by sociologists, historians, and philosophers of science,...
Imperial Republics
Revolution, War and Territorial Expansion from the English Civil War to the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Republicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In Imperial Republics, Edward G. Andrew challenges the supposed incompatibility of these theories with regard to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United States,...
Treating Health Care
How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international...
Counting for Nothing
What Men Value and What Women are Worth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Safe drinking water counts for nothing. A pollution-free environment counts for nothing. Even some people - namely women - count for nothing. This is the case, at least, according to the United Nations System of National Accounts. Author Marilyn Waring, former New Zealand M.P., now professor, development...
by Ross McKitrick
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is at the forefront of public attention and poses serious challenges for policymakers around the world. Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, provides a rigorous and thorough...
Canadian Issues
Essays in Honour of Henry F. Angus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Topics of widespread concern to Canadians interested in the social sciences and to the general reading public are dealt with in this volume of essays by a group of Canada's leading scholars in political science and history. The book is presented in honour of Henry Forbes Angus, Head of the Department...
From Adam Smith to Maynard Keynes
The Heritage of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
In this survey of the great exponents of the classical tradition, Vincent Bladen examines the thought and works of Adam Smith, T.R. Malthus, Henry Thornton, David Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx, W.S. Jevons, Alfred Marshall, and John Maynard Keynes, and relates their views to modern situations. This...
Our Battle for the Human Spirit
Scientific Knowing, Technical Doing, and Daily Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships. Expanding social inequality, the use of social media and the rise of mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression are manifestations of this shift in our civilization.
Our...
The Promise of Schooling
Education in Canada, 1800-1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 1997
Between 1800 and 1914, Canadian society and its school systems were forged, populated, expanded and reformed. The Promise of Schooling explores the links between social and educational change in this complex and dynamic period. It raises and seeks to answer a number of questions: How extensive was...