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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! 1968 in Canada A Year and Its Legacies	The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one, unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of a new national consciousness among Canadians. …	Andrew C. Holman; Christopher Kirkey; Michael K. Hawes	400	2021	View
Aboriginal Canada Revisited	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
Accounting for Culture Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship	Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved …	Caroline Andrew; M. Sharon Jeannotte; Monica Gattinger	286	2005	View
Borderlands Comparing Border Security in North America and Europe	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
NEW! Borders, Culture, and Globalization A Canadian Perspective	Border culture emerges through the intersection and engagement of imagination, affinity and identity. It is evident wherever boundaries separate or sort people and their goods, ideas or other …	Melissa Kelly; Victor Konrad	376	2021	View
Caring and Curing Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada	This collection of essays takes the reader from the early 19th century struggle between female midwives and male physicians right up to the late 20th century emergence of professionally trained …	Deborah Gorham; Dianne Dodd	231	1994	View
Colonial Systems of Control Criminal Justice in Nigeria	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
Cyberidentities Canadian and European Presence in Cyberspace	This innovative study explores diverse aspects of Canadian and European identity on the information highway and reaches beyond technical issues to confront and explore communication, culture and …	Leen d'Haenens	220	1999	View
Defending a Contested Ideal Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008	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
From Subjects to Citizens A Hundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada	Australia and Canada are both lively, multicultural societies with British constitutional traditions. Historically, they have faced similar challenges in defining and sustaining citizenship that …	Linda Cardinal; Pierre Boyer	328	2004	View
God and Argument – Dieu et l’argumentation philosophique	Given the challenge of anti-realism, anti-foundationalism, and post-modernism, is rational argument concerning religious belief still possible? This collection provides a broad range of …	William Sweet	277	1999	View
NEW! History of the Jews in Quebec	The presence of Jews in Quebec dates back four centuries. Quebec Jewry, in Montreal in particular, has evolved over time, thanks to successive waves of migration from different regions of the …	Pierre Anctil	490	2021	View
Interpreters as Diplomats A Diplomatic History of the Role of Interpreters in World Politics	This book looks at the role played throughout history by translators and interpreters in international relations. It considers how political linguistics function and have functioned throughout …	Ruth Roland	209	1999	View
Language Testing Reconsidered	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
Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation Text-based Studies in Honour of Ingrid Meyer	This volume in honour of Ingrid Meyer is a tribute to her work in the interrelated fields of lexicography, terminology and translation. One key thing shared by these fields is that they all deal …	Lynne Bowker	252	2006	View
Managing Diversity Practices of Citizenship	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