Press Publishing: 3010 books
Polling and Public Opinion
A Canadian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2007
The importance of polling public opinion is widely recognized today. Indeed, it is sometimes argued that in mass societies, polls have also become an important medium for communicating ideas and beliefs, especially since many people have become less involved in community organizations and interest...
Hopeful Travellers
Families, Land, and Social Change in Mid-Victorian Peel County, Canada West
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
In this exploration of the nature of social reality in a mid-nineteenth-century Upper Canadian farming community, Professor Gagan employs the techniques of historical demography to reconstruct the population of mid-Victorian Peel County – specifically the histories of those families who occupied...
Dependent America?
How Canada and Mexico Construct US Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Following the acclaimed Uncle Sam and Us and the influential Does North America Exist? Stephen Clarkson — the preeminent analyst of North America's political economy — and Matto Mildenberger turn continental scholarship on its head by showing how Canada and Mexico contribute to the United States'...
Political Responsibility Refocused
Thinking Justice after Iris Marion Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
In our highly globalized and networked society, even our most seemingly local actions can have far-reaching social, political, economic, and environmental consequences. Has this changed our moral and political obligations towards people distant from us in space and time – for instance, to generations...
Engaging China
Myth, Aspiration, and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
For more than four decades, engagement has been the bedrock of Canada’s policy toward China, as Ottawa has attempted to assist China’s entry into the international system and advance a commercial agenda. More than just high policy, engagement has also been a recurrent narrative that sees changing...
by Geoffrey Peruniak
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Career development - the processes that shape a person's career over his or her life - is a relatively new field of research in applied psychology. In A Quality of Life Approach to Career Development, Geoffrey S. Peruniak draws from philosophy, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, political...
Women Challenging Unions
Feminism, Democracy, and Militancy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Women Challenging Unions is a collection of original papers that presents a vision of an invigorated and vibrant labour movement, one that would actively seek the full participation of women and other traditionally excluded groups, and that would willingly incorporate a feminist agenda. This vision...
by Lynn Bosetti, Dianne Gereluk
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Understanding School Choice in Canada provides a nuanced and theoretical overview of the formation and rise of school choice policies in Canada. Drawing on twenty years of work, Lynn Bosetti and Dianne Gereluk analyze the philosophical, historical, political, and social principles that underpin the...
Beyond Persuasion
Communication Strategies for Healthcare Managers in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The advent of social media has forever changed how organizations communicate with the public, and healthcare organizations are no exception. Beyond Persuasion provides healthcare managers with a guide to using strategic communication to meet both personal and professional objectives in the digital...
Continuities and Discontinuities
The Political Economy of Social Welfare and Labour Market Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Continuities and Discontinuities assesses the making of Canadian social and labour market policy in the context of two factors—globalization and neoconservatism. Specialists from a variety of fields and disciplines examine the relation between Canada's changing political economy and its social...
Perceptions of Cuba
Canadian and American Policies in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2010
In 1976, with the US trade embargo against Cuba underway, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau visited the island nation, befriended his counterpart, and exclaimed publicly "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" During the past half-century of communist rule in Cuba, Canada's...
Community, State, and Market on the North Atlantic Rim
Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
This is a study of Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, two regions experiencing a severe crisis due to overexploitation of fisheries resources. The work of a group of researchers from Canada, Norway, and the United States, it examines the implications of common market integration, privatized resource...
by W. Edmund Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
With its emphasis on rural development as opposed to urban development, Tanzania has pursued an individual path in socialist development. This work is the first empirical analysis of public investment in matters of agriculture, education, rural health, manufacturing, and commerce, comparing the actual...
Dreams of Equality
Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both...