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The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Volume One: A Life in Print
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles significant rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors throughout her high-profile career and after her death. Each of its three volumes gathers pieces published all over the world to set the stage for a much-needed reassessment...
Social Criticism
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Stephen Leacock, long celebrated as Canada's foremost humorist and social satirist, has received little recognition for his considerable accomplishments as a serious thinker and social critic. In fact, Leacock was a professor of political economy, and more than half of his writings addressed the pressing...
Rulers and Ruled
An Introduction to Classical Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 1996
This book illuminates several timeless principles of political philosophy that have come down to us through the ages in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and the authors of the Federalist Papers, Madison, Hamilton, and Jay. Among these principles...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
The first of its kind in English, Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature is a selection of readings from Italian fiction and non-fiction writers on the subject of the Mafia. Among the renowned writers featured are Giovanni Verga, Grazia Deledda, Anna Maria Ortese, Livia De Stefani,...
Poyln
My Life within Jewish Life in Poland, Sketches and Images
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Originally published between 1944 and 1953, Poyln (Poland) is one of the treasures of Yiddish literature. Despite its reputation, the book has not been fully translated into English until now. Written by Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk, a prominent Polish Jewish writer, Poyln is a colourful epic, a moving testimony,...
Short Stories
Collected Works of A.M. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
A.M. Klein's reputation as a writer on his poetry and to a lesser extent on his remarkable poetic novel The Second Scroll. But he also wrote many short stories over a period of more than a quarter of a century. Until now few people have been aware of their existence; many exist only in manuscript...
Filipinos in Canada
Disturbing Invisibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The Philippines became Canada’s largest source of short- and long-term migrants in 2010, surpassing China and India, both of which are more than ten times larger. The fourth-largest racialized minority group in the country, the Filipino community is frequently understood by such figures as the victimized...
Alliances
Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
When Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists work together, what are the ends that they seek, and how do they negotiate their relationships while pursuing social change? Alliances brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders, activists, and scholars in order to examine their experiences of...
The Force of Family
Repatriation, Kinship, and Memory on Haida Gwaii
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Over the course of more than a decade, the Haida Nation triumphantly returned home all known Haida ancestral remains from North American museums. In the summer of 2010, they achieved what many thought was impossible: the repatriation of ancestral remains from the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University...
Industry and humanity
A study in the principles of industrial reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Industry and Humanity was first published in 1918. In it William Lyon Mackenzie King, then a prominent public servant who had forged a respectable reputation among business leaders as an expert in labour affairs, discussed the process of national and industrial reconstruction then about to begin....
'Enough to Keep Them Alive'
Indian Social Welfare in Canada, 1873-1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Far from being a measure of progress or humanitarian aid, Indian welfare policy in Canada was used deliberately to oppress and marginalize First Nations peoples and to foster their assimilation into the dominant society. 'Enough to Keep Them Alive' explores the history of the development and administration...
The Wrong Door
The Complete Plays of Natalia Ginzburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
The Wrong Door is the first English-language translation of the complete plays of Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991). Bringing together the eleven plays Ginzburg wrote between 1965 and the months before her death, this volume directs attention to Ginzburg's unique talent as a dramatist.
Ginzburg's...
by William Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1996
In this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second centuries).
Anderson begins by defining major innovations that Plautus made on inherited Greek...
Justifying Our Existence
An Essay in Applied Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2009
In his magnum opus Being in Time (1927), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) argued that individuals have assumed that their existence is "a given," when in actual fact they simply have the ability to be. Justifying Our Existence examines the ways in which human beings attempt to calm their existential...