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Series: Reframed Self-Reg for a Just Society Hardcover Stuart Shanker 9781487506315 $34.95 SELF-HELP Apr 12, 2020

For Stuart Shanker, the possibility of a truly just and free society begins with how we see and nurture our children. Shanker is renowned for using cutting-edge neuroscience to help children feel happy and think clearly by better regulating themselves. In his new book, Reframed, Shanker explores self-regulation in wider, social terms. Whereas his two previous books, Calm, Alert, and Learning and Self-Reg, were written for educators and parents, Reframed, the final book in the trilogy, unpacks the unique science and conceptual practices that are... + Read More
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Series: Breathe, Baby, Breathe! Neonatal Intensive Care, Prematurity, and Complicated Pregnancies Paperback Annie Janvier 9781487523060 $32.95 MEDICAL Jan 04, 2020

Every year in the United States, 12 per cent of all births are preterm births, 5 per cent of all babies need help to breathe at birth, and 3 per cent of neonates are born with at least one severe malformation. Many of these babies are hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit. Annie Janvier and her husband, Keith Barrington, are both pediatricians who specialize in the care of these sick babies and are internationally known for their research in this area. In 2005, when their daughter Violette was born extremely prematurely, four months be... + Read More
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Series: The Conflict over the Conflict The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate Hardcover Kenneth S. Stern 9781487507367 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 15, 2020

The Conflict over the Conflict chronicles one of the most divisive and toxic issues on today’s college and university campuses: Israel/Palestine. Some pro-Palestinian students call supporters of Israel's right to exist racist, and disrupt their events. Some pro-Israel students label pro-Palestinian students terrorists, and the Jews among them traitors. Lawsuits are filed. Legislation is proposed. Faculty members are blacklisted and receive death threats. Academic freedom is compromised and the entire academic enterprise is threatened. How did w... + Read More
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Series: The A-Z of Intermarriage Paperback Denise Handlarski 9781487506780 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 10, 2020

Most Jewish communities continue to cite intermarriage as the most serious threat to Jewish continuity. Contrary to the view that intermarriage is a crisis for Judaism, The A–Z of Intermarriage reveals that intermarriage can be a force for good in the lives of Jewish families and communities. Written by Rabbi Denise Handlarski, an intermarried rabbi, The A–Z of Intermarriage is part story, part strategy, and all heart, as well as a coming together of religious source material, cultural context, and personal narrative. Fun to read and full of he... + Read More
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Series: ethnoGRAPHIC Gringo Love Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil Paperback Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan 9781487594527 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 15, 2020

In the city of Natal in northeast Brazil, several local women negotiate the terms of their intimate relationships with foreign tourists, or gringos, in a situation often referred to as "sex tourism." These women each have different experiences, but they all share in the desire to "escape" their lives as young, poor, racialized women in Brazil. Based on original ethnographic research and presented in graphic form, Gringo Love explores the hopes, dreams, and experiences of these women against a backdrop of entrenched social inequality and increas... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Gender and History Intimate Integration A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship Paperback Allyson Stevenson 9781487520458 $32.95 HISTORY Aug 14, 2020

Privileging Indigenous voices and experiences, Intimate Integration documents the rise and fall of North American transracial adoption projects, including the Adopt Indian and Métis Project and the Indian Adoption Project. The author argues that the integration of adopted Indian and Métis children mirrored the new direction in post-war Indian policy and welfare services. She illustrates how the removal of Indigenous children from Indigenous families and communities took on increasing political and social urgency, contributing to what we now cal... + Read More
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Series: Winning and Keeping Power in Canadian Politics Paperback Jason Roy 9781487525019 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 15, 2020

Do negative campaigns win elections? Do voters abandon candidates accused of scandalous behaviour? Do government apologies impact prospects for re-election? While many people assume the answer to each of these questions is yes, there is limited empirical evidence to support these assumptions. In this book, Jason Roy and Christopher Alcantara use a series of experiments to test these and other commonly held beliefs. Each chapter draws upon contemporary events and literature to frame the issues and strategies. The findings suggest that not all of... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Landmark Cases in Forensic Mental Health Paperback Graham Glancy 9781487525040 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 16, 2020

High profile legal cases involving individuals with mental health challenges often involve complex issues that confront previous decisions of the courts, influence or change existing social policies, and ultimately have a profound impact on the daily practice of mental health professionals and the lives of their patients. Providing in-depth context into milestone cases in forensic mental health, this book addresses issues such as the confidentiality of mental health records, criminal responsibility, fitness to stand trial, the right of individu... + Read More
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Series: Shift A New Mindset for Sustainable Execution Hardcover M. Kathryn Brohman 9781487503789 $32.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 18, 2019

Organizations all too often create impressive strategies but fail at implementing them. Based on research with over 750 organizations, Shift conceptualizes execution with energy management in mind to offer discrete capabilities that will help leaders "shift" into more sustainable and dynamic execution practices. With the importance of orchestrating balance between stability and flexibility at the core, Shift is written in four parts - identifying execution barriers, filling gaps, removing distractions, and differentiating execution leaders that... + Read More
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Series: Creating Gender-Inclusive Organizations Lessons from Research and Practice Hardcover Ellen Ernst Kossek 9781487503734 $32.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS May 27, 2020

This book examines key themes relevant to advancing women in organizations and the need for individual and organizational mechanisms to foster career agility, with a constant focus on how to bridge research to practice. Providing insights on gender inclusion, mentoring, team diversity, and female leadership, Creating Gender-Inclusive Organizations provides actual hands-on advice from experts on how to leverage human resource and organizational strategies to advance women and close the gender gap. It is a must-read for management leaders, HR pro... + Read More
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Series: Better Boardrooms Repairing Corporate Governance for the 21st Century Hardcover Patricia Meredith 9781442649750 $32.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 15, 2020

Sudden, disruptive change is increasingly common in today’s fast-paced business world. Why are most boards of directors still so ineffective in dealing with it? Author Pat Meredith explores this timely question in Broken Boardrooms, her follow-up to last year’s Donner Award-winning book Stumbling Giants. Meredith aims to spur a public conversation on the board’s role in corporate strategy and managing uncertainty, and to reduce the tremendous waste of resources – financial, human, customer, and human – that takes place when companies fail to re... + Read More
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Series: Creating Healthy Organizations Taking Action to Improve Employee Well-Being, Revised and Expanded Edition Hardcover Graham Lowe 9781487505158 $34.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS May 07, 2020

How can you future-proof your organization by making it humanly sustainable? Creating Healthy Organizations answers this question, showing how to forge stronger links between employee well-being and the future success of any organization. The book makes a compelling case for resilient and humanly sustainable businesses by focusing on improving employees’ well-being. Employee stress, burnout, work-life conflict, and disengagement remain significant workplace problems. Yet, there are important signs of progress. The healthy organization concept h... + Read More
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Series: Political Development: Comparative Perspectives Lost on Division Party Unity in the Canadian Parliament Paperback Jean-François Godbout 9781487524753 $44.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 17, 2020

Compared to other countries, Canada’s Parliament shows a high level of party unity when it comes to legislative voting. This was not always the case, however. One hundred years ago, this sort of party discipline was not as evident, leading scholars to wonder what explains the growing influence of political parties in the Canadian Parliament. In Lost on Division, Jean-François Godbout analyses more than two million individual votes recorded in the House of Commons and the Senate since Confederation, demonstrating that the increase in partisanshi... + Read More
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Series: Carbon Province, Hydro Province The Challenge of Canadian Energy and Climate Federalism Paperback Douglas Macdonald 9781487524906 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 03, 2020

Why has Canada been unable to achieve any of its climate-change targets? Part of the reason is that emissions in two provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, already about half the Canadian total when taken together, have been steadily increasing as a result of expanding oil and gas production. Declining emissions in other provinces, such as Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, have been cancelled out by those western increases. The ultimate explanation for Canadian failure lies in the differing energy interests of the western and easter... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy The Multilevel Politics of Trade Paperback JORG BROSCHEK 9781487524524 $49.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 17, 2020

The Multilevel Politics of Trade presents a timely comparative analysis of eight federations (plus the European Union) to explore why some sub-federal actors have become more active in trade politics in recent years. As the contributing authors find, there is considerable variation in the intensity and modes of sub-federal participation. This they attribute to three key factors: the distinctive institutional features of federal systems; the nature and scope of trade policy and trade agreements; and the extent of social mobilization that accompa... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy Closing the Enforcement Gap Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs Paperback Leah Faith Vosko 9781487524319 $47.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 27, 2020

The nature of employment is changing: low wage jobs are increasingly common, fewer workers belong to unions, and workplaces are being transformed through the growth of contracting-out, franchising, and extended supply chains. Closing the Enforcement Gap offers a comprehensive analysis of the enforcement of employment standards in Ontario. Adopting mixed methods, this work includes qualitative research involving in-depth interviews with workers, community advocates, and enforcement officials; extensive archival research excavating decades of min... + Read More
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Series: Creating Spaces of Engagement Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy Paperback Leah R.E. Levac 9781487523251 $49.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 21, 2020

There is a growing need for public buy-in if democratic processes are to run smoothly. But who exactly is "the public"? What does their engagement in policy-making processes look like? How can our understanding of "the public" be expanded to include – or be led by – diverse voices and experiences, particularly of those who have been historically marginalized? And what does this expansion mean not only for public policies and their development, but for how we teach policy? Drawing upon public engagement case studies, sites of inquiry, and vignet... + Read More
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Series: IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance Distributed Democracy Health Care Governance in Ontario Hardcover Carey Doberstein 9781487507251 $60.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 07, 2020

The governance of health care in Ontario has long provided opportunities for citizens and stakeholders to participate, deliberate, and influence health care policy and investment decisions. Yet, despite providing opportunities for deliberation and influence amongst citizens, we don’t know how democratic the system actually is. Distributed Democracy advances an original analytical framework to guide an investigation of democracy and accountability relationships in complex policy making environments. Applying the analytical framework in the conte... + Read More
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Series: From Malaise to Meltdown The International Origins of Financial Folly, 1844- Hardcover Michael Lee 9781487506896 $50.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 15, 2020

For the past two centuries, the great power sitting atop the international global financial system has enjoyed outsized rewards. As the saying goes, however, all good things come to an end. Providing insights into the evolution of the global political economy, From Malaise to Meltdown identifies the main instigators behind the global financial crises we’ve seen in the last two hundred years. Michael Lee shows that, in time, power diffuses from the leading economy to others, creating an intensely competitive push for global financial leadership.... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Politics, Seventh Edition Paperback James Bickerton 9781487588106 $62.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 15, 2020

For this new edition, James Bickerton and Alain-G. Gagnon have organized the book into six parts. Part I covers the origins and foundations of Canada as a political entity while Part II focuses on Government, Parliament, and the Courts. Part III examines matters pertaining to federalism and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Part IV casts some new light on electoral politics and political communications and Part V examines citizenship, diversity, and social movements. Part VI, the final section of the book, concentrates on a number of... + Read More
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Series: What Is Democracy and How Do We Study It? Paperback Cameron D. Anderson 9781487588571 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 15, 2020

There are many different ways to do political science research. This book takes a core question that motivates research in political science – what is democracy? – and presents, in a single volume, original research demonstrating a variety of approaches to studying it. The approaches and related methods covered by the chapters of this book include normative political theory, positivist quantitative analysis, behaviouralism, critical theory, post-structuralism, historical institutionalism, process tracing, case studies, and literature reviews. A... + Read More
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Series: Digital Politics in Canada Promises and Realities Paperback Tamara Small 9781487587581 $49.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2020

Digital Politics in Canada addresses a significant gap both in the scholarly literature on media in Canada and in Canadian political science. Using a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, historical, and focused analysis of Canadian digital politics, this book covers the full scope of actors in the Canadian political system, including traditional political institutions of the government, elected officials, political parties, and the mass media. At a time when issues of inclusion are central to political debate, this book features timely chapters on... + Read More
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Series: Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities? Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow Paperback Fiona MacDonald 9781487588328 $49.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 26, 2020

In Canada, and elsewhere, recent political, economic, and social shifts have brought gender to the forefront of politics as never before, from gender-based analyses and "feminist budgets" to #Metoo, Idle No More, and Black Lives Matter movements. Detailing these gendered and turbulent political times, this book features diverse contributors’ state-of-the art scholarship encompassing both contemporary challenges as well as avenues for change now and into the future. This collection provides a more complex treatment of both gender and politics: g... + Read More
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Series: Human Rights after Corporate Personhood Hardcover Jody Greene 9781487506964 $80.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jul 15, 2020

Human Rights after Corporate Personhood offers a rich overview of current debates, and seeks to transcend the "outrage response" often found in public discourse and corporate legal theory. Through original and innovative analyses, the volume offers an alternative account of corporate juridical personality and its relation to the human, one that departs from accounts offered by public law. In addition, it explores opportunities for the application of legal personality to assist progressive projects, including, but not limited to, environmental j... + Read More
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Series: The United Nations Genocide Convention An Introduction Paperback Samuel Totten 9781487524081 $24.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 22, 2019

It is virtually impossible to understand the phenomenon of genocide without a clear understanding of the complexities of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG). This brief but cogent book provides an introduction to the unique wording, legal terminology, and key components of the convention, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. Providing clarity on the distinctions between genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing, this book is designe... + Read More
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Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History A History of Law in Canada, Volume One Beginnings to 1866 Paperback Philip Girard 9781487547462 $60.00 LAW May 17, 2019

A History of Law in Canada is the first of two volumes. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, while Volume Two will start with Confederation and end at approximately 2000. The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal culture. The authors assume that since 1500 there have been three legal systems in Canada – the Indigenous, the French, and the English. At all times, these systems have co-existed and interacted, with the relative power and influence of ea... + Read More
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Series: Being a Scientist Tools for Science Students Paperback Michael H. Schmidt 9781487588441 $36.95 SCIENCE Nov 19, 2019

Being a Scientist is a comprehensive introduction to the many aspects of scientific life beyond the classroom and laboratory. Written with undergraduate science majors in mind, the book covers ethics, the philosophical bases of scientific methods, library research, reading, peer review, creativity, proposal and paper writing, and oral and poster presentations. In contrast to other texts in the field, which often take a simple prescriptive approach to these topics, Being a Scientist connects them to the historical and philosophical roots of mode... + Read More
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Series: Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University Paperback rosalind hampton 9781487524869 $32.95 EDUCATION May 30, 2020

The presence and experiences of Black people at elite universities have been largely underrepresented and erased from institutional histories. This book engages with a collection of these experiences that span half a century and reflect differences in class, gender, and national identifications among Black scholars. By mapping Black people’s experiences of studying and teaching at McGill University, this book reveals how the "whiteness" of the university both includes and exceeds the racial identities of students and professors. It highlights t... + Read More
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Series: Beyond History for Historical Consciousness Students, Narrative, and Memory Paperback Stephane Levesque 9781487524531 $29.95 EDUCATION May 08, 2020

As issues of history, memory, and identity collide in society and in the classroom, the timing is ideal to investigate the views of twenty-first-century students. Relying on the theory of historical consciousness, this book presents the results of a comprehensive study conducted with over six hundred French Canadian students, examining their narrative views of the collective past. The authors offer new evidence on how young citizens from various regions and ethnocultural groups of Québec and Ontario think about their national history in the twe... + Read More
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Series: Public Education, Neoliberalism, and Teachers New York, Mexico City, Toronto Hardcover Paul Bocking 9781487506605 $60.00 EDUCATION May 06, 2020

From pressure to "teach to the test" and the use of quantitative metrics to define education "quality," to the rise of "school choice" and the shift of principals from colleagues to managers, teachers in New York, Mexico City, and Toronto have experienced strikingly similar challenges to their professional autonomy. By visiting schools and meeting teachers, government officials, and union leaders, Paul Bocking identifies commonalities that are shaping how teachers’ work and public schools function. While arguing that neoliberal education policy... + Read More
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Series: The Craft of University Teaching Paperback Peter Lindsay 9781487525149 $27.95 EDUCATION Aug 01, 2019

What does university teaching – as a craft – look like? What changes does a craft perspective suggest for higher education? The Craft of University Teaching addresses these questions in both a general sense – What does the act of teaching become when treated as a craft? What changes to a professor’s educational philosophy does it require? – and with respect to the practical, everyday tasks of university professors, such as the use and misuse of technology, the handling of academic dishonesty, the assignment of course reading, and the instilling... + Read More
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Series: International Themes and Issues Contested Fields A Global History of Modern Football Paperback Alan McDougall 9781487594565 $26.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Mar 15, 2020

Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this cheap and simple sport emerged as a major legacy of Britain’s formal and informal empires and spread quickly across Europe, South America, and Africa. More slowly and hesitantly, it made inroads into the sports cultures of North America and Australasia. Today, football (known to many as soccer) is arguably the world’s most popular pastime, an activity played and watched by millions of people around the... + Read More
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Series: Canada at a Crossroads Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations Paperback Jeffrey Denis 9781442614475 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 05, 2020

Drawing on group position theory, settler colonial studies, critical race theory, and Indigenous theorizing, Canada at a Crossroads emphasizes the social psychological barriers to transforming white settler ideologies and practices and working towards decolonization. After tracing settlers’ sense of group superiority and entitlement to historical and ongoing colonial processes, Denis illustrates how contemporary Indigenous and settler residents think about and relate to one another. He highlights how, despite often having close cross-group rela... + Read More
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Series: “Where Are You From?” Growing Up African-Canadian in Vancouver Paperback Gillian Creese 9781487524562 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 12, 2019

Metro Vancouver is a diverse city where half the residents identify as people of colour, but only one percent of the population is racialized as Black. In this context, African-Canadians are both hyper-visible as Black, and invisible as distinct communities. Informed by feminist and critical race theories, and based on interviews with women and men who grew up in Vancouver, "Where Are You From?" recounts the unique experience of growing up in a place where the second generation seldom sees other people who look like them, and yet are inundated ... + Read More
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Series: Necessary but Not Sufficient Improving Community Living for Youth after Residential Mental Health Programs Hardcover Gary Cameron 9781487507282 $65.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 23, 2020

Youth residential mental health care is often a last resort after a long time searching for help. Despite engaging with residential care, moving from residential mental health programs to life in the community, many youth still confront disturbing prospects. Incorporating vignettes, chapter summaries, as well as theory and evidence in fields such as education, juvenile justice, child welfare, independent living, supporting families, and positive youth development, this book proposes a template that is both credible and feasible for improving co... + Read More
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Series: The Anthropology of Precious Minerals Hardcover Elizabeth Ferry 9781487503178 $55.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 06, 2019

Why do people single out gold, sapphires, diamonds, and other minerals as particularly “precious”? What makes precious minerals “precious”? Drawing from ethnographic and cross-cultural research, this collection of anthropological essays and case studies answers these questions by exploring humans’ multifaceted relationships with the minerals they deem “precious.” The Anthropology of Precious Minerals addresses the entanglement of humans and minerals, with a particular focus on the practices of scrappers, miners, and hunters as they work to extr... + Read More
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Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom Millennial Movements Positive Social Change in Urban Costa Rica Paperback Karen Stocker 9781487588670 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 15, 2020

Through social movements that are both grassroots and global, young leaders in San José, Costa Rica, have sought to create positive social change in their communities. Using social media, art, local organizations, corporations, and government entities, these leaders have found creative ways to connect with and support one another’s efforts to promote change and tackle growing concerns, including environmental sustainability, freedom from sexual assault, food security, LGBTQ+ rights, and more. Presenting case studies of Costa Rican millennial le... + Read More
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Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom I Was Never Alone or Oporniki An Ethnographic Play on Disability in Russia Paperback Cassandra Hartblay 9781487588403 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 15, 2020

I Was Never Alone or Oporniki presents an original ethnographic stage play, based on fieldwork conducted in Russia with adults with disabilities. The core of the work is the script of the play itself, which is accompanied by a description of the script development process, from the research in the field to rehearsals for public performances. In a supporting essay, the author argues that both ethnography and theatre can be understood as designs for being together in unusual ways, and that both practices can be deepened by recognizing the vibrant... + Read More
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Series: The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard Contradiction and Meaning in City Form Hardcover Abraham Akkerman 9781487501266 $80.00 SCIENCE Jan 09, 2020

Ebenezer Howard, an Englishman, and Jane Jacobs, a naturalized Canadian, personify the twentieth century’s opposing outlooks on cities. Howard had envisaged small towns, newly built from scratch, fashioned on single family homes with small gardens. Jacobs embraced existing inner-city neighbourhoods emphasizing the verve of the living street. From Howard’s idea, the American Dream of garden suburbs had emerged, yet his conceptualization of a modern city received criticism for being uniform and alienated from the rest of the city. Similarly, at t... + Read More
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Series: Global Suburbanisms The Life of North American Suburbs Paperback Jan Nijman 9781487520779 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 29, 2020

This book chronicles and explains the role of suburbs in North American cities since the mid-twentieth century. Examining fifteen case studies from New York to Vancouver, Atlanta to Chicago, Montreal to Phoenix, The Life of North American Suburbs traces the insightful connection between the evolution of suburbs and the cultural dynamics of modern society. Suburbs are uniquely significant spaces: their creation and evolution reflect the shifting demographics, race relations, modes of production, cultural fabric, and class structures of society a... + Read More
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Series: On the Margins of Urban South Korea Core Location as Method and Praxis Hardcover Jesook Song 9781487503352 $49.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 19, 2019

This book provides a rich and illuminating account of the peripheries of urban, regional, and transnational development in South Korea. Engaging with the ideas of "core location," a term coined by Baik Young-seo, and "Asia as method," a concept with a century-old intellectual lineage in East Asia, each chapter in the volume discusses the ways in which a place can be studied in an increasingly globalized world. Examining cases set in the Jeju English Education City, anti-poverty and community activist sites, rural areas home to large numbers of ... + Read More
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Series: Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective Paperback Lisa B Welch Drummond 9781442632530 $39.95 SCIENCE Apr 11, 2020

Socialist cities have special qualities which endure in particular, subtle, and often under-theorized ways. This book engages with socialism on a global scale, as well as the variety of socialist urbanisms and post-socialist urbanisms, and the range of ways in which globalization intersects with changes in socialist and post-socialist cities. Offering a unique international comparative focus, the book’s fourteen case studies from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa are grouped under three main themes: housing experiences and life trajectori... + Read More
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Series: Beauty or Statistics Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000 Hardcover Bert Theunissen 9781487507008 $90.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 08, 2020

In the 1970s, scientists claimed that farm animal breeding was finally evolving from an art into a science. In their view, the switch to scientific breeding was as inevitable as the ongoing process of agricultural modernization. However, the art-to-science scenario is too simplistic to do justice to the complex dynamic that characterized the transformation of the field. The livestock breeds that take centre stage in this book – dairy cattle, chickens, pigs, sheep, and horses – were products of the twentieth century. The methods used by breeder... + Read More
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Series: German and European Studies The Seduction of Youth Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic Paperback Javier Samper Vendrell 9781487525033 $32.95 HISTORY May 13, 2020

A simple man from the provinces, Friedrich Radszuweit merged popular culture, consumerism, and politics as the leader of the League for Human Rights, Germany’s first mass homosexual organization. The Seduction of Youth is the first study to focus on the League and its leader, using his position at the centre of the Weimar-era gay rights movement to tease out the diverging political strategies and contradictory tactics that distinguished the movement. By examining news articles and opinion pieces, as well as literary texts and photographs in the... + Read More
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Series: Men Out of Focus The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties Hardcover Marko Dumancic 9781487505257 $75.00 HISTORY Jul 15, 2020

Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period – often described as "The Thaw" – between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The book shows how the filmmakers of the long 1960s built stories around male protagonists who felt disoriented by a world that was becoming increasingly suburbanized, rebellious, consumerist, household-oriented, and scientifically complex. The dramatic tension of 1960s cinema revolved around the male pro... + Read More
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Series: Scholars in Exile The Ukrainian Intellectual World in Interwar Czechoslovakia Hardcover Nadia Zavorotna 9781487504458 $75.00 HISTORY Mar 28, 2020

In the interwar years, émigré scholars in Czechoslovakia provided continuity and a bridge for Ukrainian scholarship from its inception at the end of the nineteenth century to the development of Ukrainian studies in the twenty-first century. These scholars forged a legacy that spread beyond Czechoslovakia. Without their work in the postwar era, the development of Ukrainian émigré scholarship would not have flourished. Narrated from a Ukrainian perspective, Scholars in Exile concentrates on the astounding efforts by Ukrainians to establish instit... + Read More
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Series: Picturing the Page Soviet Illustrated Children's Literature and Reading under Lenin Paperback Megan Swift 9781442615311 $29.95 HISTORY Jul 12, 2020

Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page offers a vivid exploration of illustrated children’s literature and reading under Lenin and Stalin – a period when mass publishing for children and universal public education became available for the first time in Russia. Through an analysis of illustrations in fairy tales, classics, and wartime picture books, Megan Swift elucidates the vital and multifaceted function of illustrated children’s literature in repurposing the past. Picturing the Page demon... + Read More
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Series: Russia and Central Asia Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence Paperback Shoshana Keller 9781487594343 $52.95 HISTORY Nov 20, 2019

Russia and Central Asia provides an overview of the relationship between these two dynamic regions, highlighting the ways in which they have influenced and been influenced by Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. This readable synthesis, covering early coexistence in the seventeenth century to the present day, seeks to encourage new ways of thinking about how the modern world developed. Shoshana Keller focuses on the five major "Stans": Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. Cultural and social history are interwoven wit... + Read More
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Series: War and Enlightenment in Russia Military Culture in the Age of Catherine II Hardcover Eugene Miakinkov 9781487503543 $75.00 HISTORY Jul 22, 2020

War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlightenment ideas about the equality and moral worth of all humans with the Russian reality based on serfdom, a world governed by autocracy, absolute respect for authority, and subordination to seniority. While there is a sizable literature about the impact of the Enlightenment on government, economy, manners, and literature in Russia, no analytical framework that outlines its impact on the military exists. Eugene Miakinkov’s resea... + Read More
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Series: The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions From Ultramontane Origins to a New Cosmology Hardcover Rosa Bruno-Jofre 9781487505646 $77.00 HISTORY Dec 13, 2012

This book traces the journey taken by the Canadian Province of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions / Religieuses de Notre Dame des Missions (RNDM), from its establishment in Manitoba in 1898 to 2008, when the congregation as a whole redefined its mission and vision. Using archival research conducted in Canada, England, and Italy and incorporating oral interviews with RNDM sisters, this book explores the historical work of the sisters in schools and the part they played in the developing educational state. The congregation’s activities in sc... + Read More
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Series: Andrew Fernando Holmes Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal Hardcover Richard Vaudry 9781487502195 $80.00 HISTORY Mar 29, 2020

This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Andrew Fernando Holmes, famous for his work on congenital heart disease. Physician, surgeon, natural historian, educator, Protestant evangelical. Andrew Fernando Holmes’s name is synonymous with the McGill medical faculty and with the discovery of a congenital heart malformation known as the "Holmes heart." He also played a critical role in the creation of a scientific culture in early-nineteenth-century Montreal. Born in captivity at Cadiz, Spain, Holmes immigrated to Lower Canada i... + Read More
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Series: After the Famine The Irish Family Farm in Eastern Ontario, 1851-1881 Paperback Edward J. Hedican 9781487523848 $39.95 HISTORY Apr 19, 2020

The Irish Famine saw hapless Irish citizens starve to death and die of disease, while the population of a neighbouring country, England, lived in relative bounty and apparent disinterest. After the Famine investigates the subsequent emigration of many surviving Irish to Eastern Ontario and tells the story of how, despite hardships, the Irish in Canada managed to survive and prosper after fleeing tragedy. The author explains how the Irish adapted to their new land, and how we might account for their triumph as farmers under somewhat less than fa... + Read More
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Series: A Weary Road Shell Shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 Paperback Mark Osborne Humphries 9781487525187 $32.95 HISTORY Sep 06, 2019

More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it was experienced, diagnosed, treated, and managed in the frontline trenches in the Canadian and British forces. How did soldiers relate to suffering comrades? Did large numbers of shell shock cases affect the outcome of important battles? Was frontline psychiatric treatment as effective as many experts claimed after the war? Were Canadians treated any differe... + Read More
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Series: Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy The Biography of an Enigma Paperback Martin L. Friedland 9781487525255 $49.95 HISTORY Apr 26, 2020

Born in Ireland in 1879, W.P.M. Kennedy was a distinguished Canadian academic and the leading Canadian constitutional law scholar for much of the twentieth century. Despite his trailblazing career and intriguing personal life, Kennedy’s story is largely a mystery. Weaving together a number of key events, Martin L. Friedland’s lively biography discusses Kennedy’s contributions as a legal and interdisciplinary scholar, his work at the University of Toronto where he founded the Faculty of Law, as well as his personal life, detailing stories about ... + Read More
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Series: Reinventing Bankruptcy Law A History of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act Hardcover Virginia Torrie 9781487506421 $65.00 HISTORY Jul 22, 2020

Reinventing Bankruptcy Law explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and in its place offers the first historical account of Canada’s premier corporate restructuring statute. The book adopts a novel research approach that combines legal history, socio-legal theory, ideas from political science, and doctrinal legal analysis. Meticulously researched and multi-disciplinary, Reinventing Bankruptcy Law provides a comprehensive and concise history of CCAA law over the course of the twentieth century, f... + Read More
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Series: Oneida-English/English-Oneida Dictionary Paperback Karin Michelson 9781487525170 $150.00 REFERENCE Sep 19, 2019

Oneida is an endangered Iroquoian language spoken fluently by fewer than 250 people. This is the first comprehensive dictionary of the Oneida language as used in Ontario, where most of the surviving speakers reside. The dictionary contains both Oneida-English and English-Oneida sections. The Oneida-English portion includes some 6000 entries, presenting lexical bases, particles, and grammatical morphemes. Each entry for a base shows several forms; illustrates inflection, meaning, and use; and gives details regarding pronunciation and cultural si... + Read More
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Series: Erasmus Studies Erasmus on the New Testament Paperback Robert D. Sider 9781487524104 $47.95 RELIGION Apr 24, 2020

When Erasmus, at Cambridge in 1512, began to mark up his copy of the Vulgate Bible with a few alternative Latin translations and a biting comment here and there in Latin, he could not have guessed that his work would grow over the next twenty-three years into the twenty volumes currently being produced as annotated translations in The Collected Works of Erasmus. Paraphrases vastly expanded the text of the New Testament books, and brought dynamic and controversial interpretations to the traditional reading of the Latin texts. A new translation b... + Read More
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Series: Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan Archival Material Early Papers on History, Volume 25 Paperback Robert Doran, S.J. 9781487524388 $32.95 RELIGION Nov 06, 2019

In the mid- to late-1930s, while he was a student at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan wrote a series of eight essays on the philosophy and theology of history. These essays foreshadow a number of the major themes in his life’s work. The significance of these essays is enormous, not only for an understanding of the later trajectory of Lonergan’s own work but also for the development of a contemporary systematic theology. In an important entry from 1965 in his archival papers, Lonergan wrote that the "mediated object" of systema... + Read More
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Series: The Catholic Reception of Continental Philosophy in North America Hardcover Gregory P. Floyd 9781487506490 $80.00 PHILOSOPHY Feb 07, 2020

This volume by leading philosophers and theologians explores the reception of continental philosophy in North America and its ongoing relation to Catholic institutions. What has prompted so many North American Catholics to support this particular school of thought? Why do so many Catholics continue to find continental philosophy attractive, and why do so many continental philosophers work in Catholic departments? The establishment of the relationship between continental philosophy and Catholicism was not obvious, nor was it easy. Many of the co... + Read More
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Series: Ethics Out of Law Hermann Cohen and the “Neighbor” Hardcover Dana Hollander 9781487506247 $80.00 RELIGION Sep 15, 2020

Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) was a leading figure in the Neo-Kantian philosophical movement that dominated European thought before 1918. He was also an inaugural figure in modern Jewish philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores Cohen’s striking claim that ethics is rooted in law – a claim developed both in his philosophical ethics and his philosophy of Judaism, in particular in his writings on "love-of-neighbor," up to and including his well-known Religion of Reason. Dana Hollander proposes that neither Cohen’s sys... + Read More