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The Holistic Curriculum
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2007
Holistic education is concerned with connections in human experience - connections between mind and body, between linear thinking and intuitive ways of knowing, between individual and community, and between the personal self and the transpersonal self.
First published in 1988, The Holistic...
The Last Plague
Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The ‘Spanish’ influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide. Canadian federal public health officials tried to prevent the disease from entering the country by implementing a maritime quarantine, as had been their standard practice since...
The Conflict of European and Eastern Algonkian Cultures, 1504-1700
A Study in Canadian Civilization, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
The movement of one cultural group into the territory of another has always produced conflict: a conflict which is resolved at times by the obliteration of one group, but more often by a gradual fusion of elements drawn from both. This study examines the conflict between the Europeans and the Indians...
Tranquil Prisons
Chemical Incarceration under Community Treatment Orders
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Antipsychotic medications are sometimes imposed on psychiatric patients deemed dangerous to themselves and others. This is based on the assumption that treatment is safe and effective, and that recovery depends on biological adjustment. Under new laws, patients can be required to remain on these medications...
A Laboratory Guide to the Anatomy of The Rabbit
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1966
The present work does not in any way aim to replace Bensley's Practical Anatomy of the Rabbit, which has long since proved its value beyond question. The attempt has been to meet a need for a shorter and less detailed laboratory guide adapted to courses for which Bensley's Anatomy has been found too...
Urban Futures for Central Canada
Perspectives on Forecasting Urban Growth and Form
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Urban problems are now a dominant social issue: the essays in this volume consider the direction some of these problems may take in Central Canada. Three broad themes are discussed: forecasting (a spectrum of methodologies and urban forecasts); assessing the consequences of these forecasts at two...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
While categorization has always been one of the primary focuses of the social sciences, recent trends within these disciplines have tended to categorize various behaviours as disorders. Researching Resilience challenges this tendency to pathologize, and marks a profound shift in research methods from...
by Linda Liebenberg, Michael Ungar
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2008
Mental health specialists and researchers contend that the development of resilience in youth is facilitated at several levels. Relational, cultural, individual, and governmental factors all have a strong influence over the mental well being of young people. Resilience in Action looks at youth interventions...
A History of Ukraine
The Land and Its Peoples, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
First published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Paul Robert Magocsi examines recent developments in the country's history and uses new scholarship in order...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Jacques Cartier's voyages of 1534, 1535, and 1541constitute the first record of European impressions of the St Lawrence region of northeastern North American and its peoples. The Voyages are rich in details about almost every aspect of the region's environment and the people who inhabited it.
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by Donald Savoie
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
There is a consensus throughout much of the western world that the public sector is in urgent need of repair. This study seeks to understand why this is so by comparing developments in Canada and the United Kingdom. It looks to changes in values both in society and inside government, and to the relationships...
Visiting Grandchildren
Economic Development in the Maritimes
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2006
During his successful campaign to become Conservative Party leader in the spring of 2004, Stephen Harper said of the Maritime provinces, "We will see the day when the region is not the place where you visit your grandparents, but instead more often than not the place where you visit your grandchildren."...
Negotiating the Deal
Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the factors that explain both completed and incomplete treaty negotiations between Aboriginal groups and the federal, provincial, and territorial governments of Canada. Since 1973, groups that have never signed treaties with the...
Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives
Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2002
Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives examines the repercussions of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada. Foregrounding a distinct interest in the 'grassroots' effects of such contemporary corporate strategies as plant closures and downsizing, authors Anthony...