2008

Showing 1–16 of 149 results

Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Aboriginal Canada Revisited University of Ottawa Press	Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film— Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and …	Kerstin Knopf	437	2008	View
Captured Hearts New Brunswick's War Brides Goose Lane Editions	Imagine you’re a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war …	Melynda Jarratt	148	2008	View
Car Nation An Illustrated History of Canada's Transformation Behind the Wheel James Lorimer and Company	Canadians fell in love with the car at first glance. They were scared by it too, and by its potential. Canada was quick to become a car nation, as the automobile was enthusiastically adopted by …	Dimitry Anastakis	96	2008	View
Colonial Systems of Control Criminal Justice in Nigeria University of Ottawa Press	A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by …	Viviane Saleh-Hanna	535	2008	View
Defending a Contested Ideal Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008 University of Ottawa Press	In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, …	Luc Juillet	265	2008	View
Immodest and Sensational 150 Years of Canadian Women in Sports James Lorimer and Company	With the Canadian women’s Olympic hockey team and other high-profile female athletes in recent years drawing a healthy share of the sports media limelight, there is a perception that …	M. Ann Hall	96	2008	View
Mobilizations, Protests & Engagements Canadian Perspectives on Social Movements Fernwood Publishing	This book addresses many questions in evaluating social movements and is the first in a series being developed by The Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. What lessons can we …	Marie Hammond-Callaghan; Matthew Hayday	263	2008	View
Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx University of Ottawa Press	Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these …	Réal Fillion	185	2008	View
Tar Sands Showdown Canada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change James Lorimer and Company	Canada’s oil patch is booming. The Alberta tar sands have become the next big oil source for the United States, replacing Saudi Arabia. Within the next 15 years, Canada will be pumping four …	Tony Clarke	312	2008	View
The Bitter Harvest of War New Brunswick and the Conscription Crisis of 1917 Goose Lane Editions	In 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in northern France, and a myth grew that Canada — as a nation — was born on its slopes. But the cost was tremendous: 10,000 Canadians …	Andrew Theobald	120	2008	View
The Dictionary of Homophobia A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience Arsenal Pulp Press	Based on the work of seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobia is a mammoth, encyclopedic book that documents the history of homosexuality, and various …	Louis-Georges Tin	496	2008	View
The Mean Girl Motive Negotiating Power and Femininity Fernwood Publishing	Prior to the 1980s, girls were completely excluded from research on childhood aggression, presumably because their ‘sugar and spice and everything nice’ made them averse to …	Nicole E.R. Landry	96	2008	View
Getting Started View Fernwood Publishing		Shawn Wilson	10	2008	$1.00 Add
From Introduction Machines, People, Places and a World Transformed From: Car Nation View James Lorimer and Company	Examines the car as a technology that changed the world as we know it. Outlines that the car became a fulcrum for human interaction. Looks at the American Influence on the Canadian Car Industry. …	Dimitry Anastakis	9	2008	$0.90 Add
From Introduction From: Immodest and Sensational View James Lorimer and Company	1860s-1870s. Outlines early physical activities and sports that women engaged in in Canada, outlines availability to European women and what Indigenous women participated in as part of their …	M. Ann Hall	7	2008	$0.70 Add
From Introduction From: Mobilizations, Protests & Engagements View Fernwood Publishing		Marie Hammond-Callaghan; Matthew Hayday	6	2008	$0.60 Add