2007

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place Between The Lines	Black Geographies and the Politics of Place is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in black geographic theory. Fourteen authors address specific geographic sites and develop their …	Katherine McKittrick	272	2007	View
Borderlands Comparing Border Security in North America and Europe University of Ottawa Press	Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the …	Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly	393	2007	View
Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada Fernwood Publishing	The criminalization and penalization of poverty through increased surveillance and control of welfare recipients in recent years has led many poverty advocates to claim that “a war against …	Kiran Mirchandani; Wendy Chan	102	2007	View
Good Crop / Bad Crop Seed Politics and the Future of Food in Canada Between The Lines	In recent years Canadians have become more and more concerned about the origins of their food and the environmental impacts of pesticides in agriculture. What is less well known is that pesticide …	Devlin Kuyek	160	2007	View
Illusion or Opportunity Civil Society and the Quest for Social Change Fernwood Publishing	The failure of development strategies in the past few decades has given rise to a worldwide movement in the direction of “another development.” This is a form of development that is …	Henry Veltmeyer	142	2007	View
Language Testing Reconsidered University of Ottawa Press	Language Testing Reconsidered provides a critical update on major issues that have engaged the field of language testing since its inception. Anyone who is working in, studying or teaching …	Carolyn E. Turner; Christine ed. Doe; Doreen Bayliss; Janna Fox; Liying Cheng; Mari Wesche	180	2007	View
Learning to Leave The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community Fernwood Publishing	It has been argued that if education is to be democratic and serve the purpose of social and cultural elevation, then it must be generic and transcend the specificity of the locale. …	Michael Corbett	303	2007	View
Making Space For Indigenous Feminism Fernwood Publishing	The majority of scholarly and activist opinion by and about Aboriginal women claims that feminism is irrelevant for them. Yet, there is also an articulate, theoretically informed and activist …	Joyce Green	254	2007	View
Managing Diversity Practices of Citizenship University of Ottawa Press	Australia, Canada, and Ireland are all engaged in questions of multiculturalism and in the politics of recognition and reconciliation, the opportunities and pressures of geographic regionalism, …	Linda Cardinal; Nicholas Brown	225	2007	View
Medicare Facts, Myths, Problems & Promise James Lorimer and Company	Most health care professionals are committed to the principles of medicare, and so are most other Canadians. Yet everyone recognizes that the health care system has serious problems, and often …	Bruce Campbell; Greg Marchildon		2007	View
National Security Law Canadian Practice in International Perspective Irwin Law Inc.	National Security Law is a comprehensive handbook that focuses on the law and legal instruments governing the Canadian state’s response to events that jeopardize its “national …	Craig Forcese	688	2007	View
Not Just a Pretty Face The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry New Society Publishers	Lead in lipstick? 1,4 dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful that they’ve kept themselves unregulated for …	Stacy Malkan	193	2007	View
Payback Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth House of Anansi Press	Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood gives us a surprising look at the topic of debt — a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the …	Margaret Atwood	242	2007	View
The Politics of Voting Reforming Canada's Electoral System Emond Montgomery	The Politics of Voting: Reforming Canada’s Electoral System is a timely examination of Canada’s voting system by one of Canada’s leading authorities on electoral reform. In a …	Dennis Pilon	227	2007	View
Transforming or Reforming Capitalism Towards a Theory of Community Economic Development Fernwood Publishing	Growing worldwide interest in community economic development has led to a blossoming of “how to” manuals,as well as analyses of co-operatives, development corporations, gender, …	John Loxley	168	2007	View
Translating Canada University of Ottawa Press	In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this patronage of …	Luise von Flotow; Reingard M. Nischik	351	2007	View