2008

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Protecting the Human Rights of People with Mental Health Disabilities in African Prisons

Protecting the Human Rights of People with Mental Health Disabilities in African Prisons

From: Colonial Systems of Control

It has been argued that the mentally ill are victims of two failed public policies: the failure of public officials to ensure an effective mental health system, and an overly ambitious criminal … 23 $2.30 Add
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Pushing the Boundaries

Pushing the Boundaries

From: Immodest and Sensational

Looks at an analysis of women’s sports columnists in the 1930s and the women writers who defeneded women’s sports and female athletes 10 $1.00 Add
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Race, Class and Gender

Race, Class and Gender

From: The Mean Girl Motive

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Real Universality as a Challenge to the Cosmopolitan Ideal

Real Universality as a Challenge to the Cosmopolitan Ideal

From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History

Through Kant’s idea that the intelligibility of the historical process as a whole should be grasped as revealing a "secret plan of Nature," he actually betrays, if not disdain … 19 $2.47 Add
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Reflections of Oral Traditions in Contemporary Native Writing: Ruby Slipperjack's Honour The Sun

Reflections of Oral Traditions in Contemporary Native Writing: Ruby Slipperjack’s Honour The Sun

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader to the world of oral traditions in a contemporary Native literary text, using Honour the Sun by Ruby Slipperjack as an example. As a result of … 17 $1.70 Add
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Resistance Movement

Resistance Movement

From: Tar Sands Showdown

Chapter 7 discusses the building of a social movement of resistance against the massive and rapid development of the tar sands for crude exports to the US: (a) campaign networks: the various … 35 $3.50 Add
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Responding to the Needs of Post-secondary Aboriginal Education: The Development of the Indigenous Leadership and Community Development Program

Responding to the Needs of Post-secondary Aboriginal Education: The Development of the Indigenous Leadership and Community Development Program

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

Aboriginal peoples in Canada are presently engaged in a process of decolonization, in the restructuring of their societies through self-government and in the reaffirmation of their knowledge and … 20 $2.00 Add
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Rethinking the CSC: Gordon, Heeney and Glassco: 1945-1967

Rethinking the CSC: Gordon, Heeney and Glassco: 1945-1967

From: Defending a Contested Ideal

The Civil Service Commission always had an important role to play in creating a public service that was staffed efficiently and effectively, protected from unwelcome political interference, and … ; 23 $2.30 Add
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Social Upheaval

Social Upheaval

From: Tar Sands Showdown

Chapter 6 discusses the many ways in which the development of the tar sands has become a caldron that is brewing with social conflicts and tensions: (a) social conflicts: ranging from the … 39 $3.90 Add
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Stolen Sisters': Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women as Represented in Canadian Films

Stolen Sisters’: Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women as Represented in Canadian Films

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

In spite of cautious improvements, the situation of many Aboriginal women face is still appalling, and the report reveals cases of sexually assaulted, missing, and/or brutally murdered Aboriginal … 36 $3.60 Add
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Struggling to Defend Political Neutrality: 1979-2006

Struggling to Defend Political Neutrality: 1979-2006

From: Defending a Contested Ideal

This chapter will recount the debates of the last few decades about the principle of the political neutrality of the public service and the events that challenged the traditional norms and … ; 28 $2.80 Add
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Sweetheart Heroines

Sweetheart Heroines

From: Immodest and Sensational

1940-1955. Examines the effect of the war on women’s sports and how the immidiate post-war period was characterized by a remarkable emphasis on beauty, grace, femininity and, for some … 10 $1.00 Add