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Canada’s Department of External Affairs, Volume 3
Innovation and Adaptation, 1968–1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Volume three of the official history of Canada’s Department of External Affairs offers readers an unparalleled look at the evolving structures underpinning Canadian foreign policy from 1968 to 1984. Using untapped archival sources and extensive interviews with top-level officials and ministers,...
Spying on Canadians
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the Origins of the Long Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey’s study of Canada’s security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caught up in the Red Scare in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and tangled up with the imperial interests of first the United Kingdom and then...
Theodore and the Enchanted Bookstore (book one)
Tale of the Spectacular Spectacles
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Living life as a bumbling breadbox with fur, was hardship enough for Theodore the Corgi, but when the young dog finds himself cold and alone in a frightening animal shelter, it’s clear that his struggles have only just begun.
Labeled “unadoptable,” by shelter staff, Theodore mires in...
The Filled Pen
Selected Non-Fiction of P.K. Page
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
P.K. Page is best known as one of Canada's finest poets, but over the course of her career she has also written a number of essays – meditations – on her life and work, on the nature of art and the imagination, and on Canadian works of literature, painting, and film that have had special significance...
The Adventures of Robin Hound
Theodore and the Enchanted Bookstore (book two)
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
In book two of the series, Theodore and Sam have been transported, while reading their book together, to the land and time of Robin Hood. Now, they must figure out what happened and how to get back to the bookstore! Oh, and Theo can now speak!
Together, they will meet Robin Hood himself and,...
by Desiderius Erasmus, Craig Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Erasmus' Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris about 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin. Twenty years later the material was published by Johann Froben (Basel 1518). It was an immediate success...
Strengths-Based Child Protection
Firm, Fair, and Friendly
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Strengths-based, solution-focused practice is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary child protection work. The demand for this protection practice has increased faster than the availability of training resources to help students and practitioners, until now.
Strengths-Based Child Protection...
Creating Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare
Congruence with the Everyday Lives of Children and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
The North American approach to child protection is broadly accepted, despite frequent criticisms of its core limitations: parental fear and resistance, the limited range of services and supports available to families, escalating costs, and high stress and turnover among service providers. Could these...
by Giles Constable
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
The abbey of Bec was founded in the eleventh century and was one of the best-known and most influential monasteries in Normandy. Celebrated for its high standard of religious life and its intellectual activity, Bec also had an exceptional degree of institutional independence.
The three treatises...
Public Art in Canada
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Arguably, public art is experienced daily by more people than most offerings in galleries, yet our notion of what constitutes public art is surprisingly limited. Public Art in Canada broadens the critical discussion by exploring public art's varied means of engaging with public space and the public...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
As a medium, film is constantly evolving both in form and in content. Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema considers the shift from traditional cinema to new frontiers of interactive, performative, and networked media.
Using the theories of Marshall McLuhan and Gilles Deleuze as a starting point,...
The Event of the Thing
Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Jacques Derrida's writings often embed the key themes of deconstruction in a notion of the thing. The Event of the Thing is the most complete examination to date of Derrida's understanding of thinghood and its crucial role in psychoanalysis, ethics, literary theory, aesthetics, and Marxism.
Arguing...
by George W. McClure
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.
Beneath...
Exhibiting the German Past
Museums, Film, and Musealization
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
While scholars recognize both museums and films as sites where historical knowledge and cultural memory are created, the convergence between their methods of constructing the past has only recently been acknowledged. The essays in Exhibiting the German Past examine a range of films, museums, and experiences...