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Series: The Gatherings Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations Hardcover Shirley Hager 9781487508951 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 31, 2021

In a world that more than ever needs all of our knowledge and wisdom to address the developing crises around us, The Gatherings shows how Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can come together to create mutually beneficial relationships.Thirty years ago, in Wabanaki territory – a region encompassing the state of Maine and the Canadian Maritimes – a group of Native and non-Native individuals came together to explore some of the most pressing questions at the heart of Truth and Healing efforts in the United States and Canada. What price do we pa... + Read More
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Series: UTP Insights Sovereignty The Biography of a Claim Hardcover Peter Russell 9781487509095 $29.95 HISTORY Apr 10, 2021

Peter H. Russell presents an accessible, historically-informed biography of the sovereignty claim, explores its limitations as well as ways of transcending them through the division of powers found within federal states.To be effective, sovereignty must be secured through force or consent by those living in a territory, and accepted externally by other sovereign states. To be legitimate, the sovereignty claim must have the consent of its people and accord with international human rights. In Sovereignty: The Biography of a Claim, Peter H. Russel... + Read More
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Series: Oil in Putin's Russia The Contests over Rents and Economic Policy Paperback Adrian Vatansever 9781487522810 $44.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 06, 2021

Providing an in-depth review of Russia’s key economic policies, this book is the first systematic study of the political economy of oil windfalls in Putin’s Russia.No sector has been as vital as oil to the Russian economy since Vladimir Putin came to power. The longest serving leader since Stalin, Putin has presided during a period of relative economic prosperity driven largely by booming oil windfalls. Oil in Putin’s Russia offers an in-depth examination of the contests over windfalls drawn from the oil sector. Examining how the Russian leader... + Read More
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Series: Colour Matters Essays on the Experiences, Education, and Pursuits of Black Youth Paperback Carl E. James 9781487526313 $35.95 EDUCATION Mar 20, 2021

Written over a period of more than two decades, Colour Matters is a collection of essays that shows how race informs the aspirational pursuits of Black youth in the Greater Toronto Area.Based on research conducted throughout Black communities, along with over thirty years of teaching experience, Colour Matters is a collection of essays that engages educators, youth workers, and policymakers to think about the discursive ways in which race shapes the education and community-based aspirations of African Canadians. Informed by the current socio-po... + Read More
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Series: ethnoGRAPHIC The King of Bangkok Paperback Claudio Sopranzetti 9781487526412 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2021

This beautifully illustrated graphic novel tells the history of contemporary Thailand through the life of a blind man who walks on the streets of the capital for the last time.Based on a decade of interviews and archival research, the English translation of this best-selling graphic novel tells the story of Nok, an old blind man who sells lottery tickets in Bangkok, as he decides to leave the urban capital and return to his native village. The King of Bangkok follows Nok as he walks the streets of the city for the last time, trying to get rid o... + Read More
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Series: The Heartbeat of Innovation A History of Cardiac Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital Hardcover Edward Shorter 9781487526818 $45.00 MEDICAL Aug 15, 2021

This book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the development of cardiovascular surgery at the Toronto General Hospital – now rated as one of the best hospitals in the world.Great innovations take place within great institutions. Founded in 1819, Toronto General Hospital (TGH) is one of Canada’s oldest hospitals and has created a nurturing environment for early Canadian innovations in heart surgery. The Heartbeat of Innovation tells the story of the brilliant surgeons who worked there and the hospital environment that provided an incubator to ... + Read More
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Series: The United States of Medievalism Paperback Tison Pugh 9781487525088 $42.95 HISTORY Aug 15, 2021

This fascinating collection explores America’s appropriations and fabrications of the Middle Ages, revealing the nation’s complicated love affair with a past it never had, but has created from history and imagination.The United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams, and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is so temporally, spatially, and at times politically removed from them. The European Middle Ages have long influenced the national landscape of the United States through the medieval sites... + Read More
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Series: Artistry Unleashed A Guide to Pursuing Great Performance in Work and Life Paperback Hilary Austen 9781487528386 $29.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jan 15, 2021

Helping individuals deal effectively with risks, failures and successes, Artistry Unleashed stimulates great performance and innovation in the workplace.Artistry Unleashed is about working and living at the edge of what you know and beyond. Surprise, uncertainty, ambiguity, intensity, and change are all disruptive forces that we often avoid or fear. Yet they are the essential origin of both creativity and great performance.Imagine if you could make effective progress with no clear plan or destination in view; if you could achieve excellence wit... + Read More
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Series: Connected Capitalism How Jewish Wisdom Can Transform Work Hardcover David Weitzner 9781487508425 $29.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 28, 2021

Applying the classic teachings of Judaism, Connected Capitalism is an empowering call to fix what is currently broken in our social, political, and economic spaces.We can co-create or we can manage. We cannot do both. Transforming work from something that is seen as antithetical to spirituality into an endeavor of cooperative value creation requires injecting intellectual meaning, emotional connection, and awe-inducing wonder. Connected Capitalism begins with a timely critique of mindfulness, suggesting that it is too passive for our current mo... + Read More
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Series: IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance The Four Lenses of Population Aging Planning for the Future in Canada's Provinces Paperback Patrik Marier 9781442612631 $44.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 28, 2021

This book analyses the actions and plans enacted by the ten Canadian provinces to prepare for the new reality of an aging society.Population aging is one of the most pressing issues facing governments and society today. With implications for health care, the economy, and an assortment of other policy areas, confronting this complex reality is increasingly urgent and never more so in the age of COVID-19. In The Four Lenses of Population Aging, Patrik Marier looks at how Canada’s ten provinces are preparing for an aging society. Focusing on a wid... + Read More
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Series: Electing a Mega-Mayor Toronto 2014 Paperback R. Michael McGregor 9781487509644 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 10, 2021

This book offers a thorough account of the attitudes and behaviour of electors towards the 2014 Toronto Mayoral Election.Electing a Mega-Mayor represents the first ever comprehensive, survey-based, examination of a Canadian mayoral race, and provides a unique and detailed account of the 2014 mayoral election in Toronto. After making the case that local elections deserve more attention from scholars of political behaviour, this book offers readers an understanding of Toronto politics at the time of the 2014 election, and presents relevant backgr... + Read More
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Series: Open Federalism Revisited Regional and Federal Dynamics in the Harper Era Paperback James Farney 9781487509606 $42.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 15, 2021

Open Federalism Revisited provides a systematic, encompassing assessment of Canadian federalism in the “Harper era,” offering a fresh perspective in federalism scholarship.Regional dynamics and federalism lie at the heart of Canadian politics. In Open Federalism Revisited, James Farney, Julie M. Simmons, and a diverse group of contributors examine the legacy of Prime Minister Stephen Harper in areas of public policy, political institutions, and cultural and economic development. The volume examines how these areas significantly affected the bal... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy The Capacity to Innovate Cluster Policy and Management in the Biotechnology Sector Hardcover Sarah Giest 9781442650060 $65.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 26, 2021

This book develops a capacity framework for policymakers and researchers alike in order to address elements that limit the development of local innovation clusters.In The Capacity to Innovate, Sarah Giest provides insight into the collaborative and absorptive capacities needed to provide public support to local innovation through cluster organizations. The book offers a detailed view of the vertical, multi-level, and horizontal dynamics in clusters and cluster policy and addresses how they are managed and supported. Using the biotechnology fiel... + Read More
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Series: Provincial Policy Laboratories Policy Diffusion and Transfer in Canada's Federal System Paperback Brendan Boyd 9781487526399 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 13, 2021

Examining a range of policy areas in Canada, this book assesses the extent to which governments share information and learn from each other when tackling challenging policy problems and the impact it has on national policy making.Canada's federal system, composed of ten provincial governments and three territories, all with varying economies and political cultures, is often blamed for the country's failure to develop coordinated policy responses to key issues. But in other federal and multi-level governance systems, the ability of multiple gove... + Read More
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Series: Federal Democracies at Work Varieties of Complex Government Hardcover Jared Sonnicksen 9781487509002 $75.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 26, 2021

Applying an innovative approach to capture varieties and dynamics of federal democracies, this collection examines the conditions, mechanisms and practices that make federal democracies work.Scholars widely agree that a federal system cannot work effectively without democracy. As a result of the division or sharing of powers between levels of government, there remains a considerable uncertainty about how rules or patterns of politics between the executive and legislative branches interact. Combining theoretical analyses and selected case studie... + Read More
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Series: IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance Local Government in a Global World Australia and Canada in Comparative Perspective Paperback Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly 9781487526078 $31.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 04, 2020

Local Government in a Global World provides insights into key themes impacting local governance in two federations with much in common historically, culturally, and politically: Australia and Canada.Local government plays a critical role in the lives of all citizens, from remote towns to capital cities. As the political legitimacy and importance of municipalities grow, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to strike a balance between local and higher levels of government. The contributors to Local Government in a Global World provide insig... + Read More
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Series: Japan and Global Society Harvesting State Support Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture Hardcover Hanno Jentzsch 9781487508548 $70.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 25, 2021

Harvesting State Support provides an analytical focus on the local implementation and interpretation of the agricultural reform process in Japan.Agriculture has been among the toughest political battlegrounds in post-war Japan and represents an ideal case study in institutional stability and change. Inefficient land use and a rapidly aging work force have long been undermining the economic viability of the agricultural sector. Yet, vested interests in the small-scale, part-time agricultural production structure have obstructed major structural ... + Read More
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Series: Japan and Global Society Strands of Modernization The Circulation of Technology and Business Practices in East Asia, 1850-1920 Hardcover David B. Sicilia 9781487509088 $60.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 15, 2021

Expanding the historical understanding of the myriad ways in which the transfer of technology and business methods unfolded within East Asia, Strands of Modernization examines the translation of technologies among competing developing economies. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of extraordinary transfer and diffusion of industry, transportation-related technology and business methods. While most scholarship on nineteenth century technology transfer beyond Europe and North America has focussed on the Wes... + Read More
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Series: The Pluralist Right to Health Care A Framework and Case Study Hardcover Michael Da Silva 9781487508722 $85.00 LAW Jun 15, 2021

Offering a new conception of the right to health care as a complex but morally justifiable and realistically achievable right, this book helps resolve persistent problems with the idea of health rights.Health rights are a common but controversial legal phenomenon. Every country is signatory to a treaty that incorporates health rights, yet existing health rights do not easily fit the traditional "claim right" model, and questions remain over how to theoretically incorporate health rights into domestic systems. The Pluralist Right to Health Care ... + Read More
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Series: Unbound in War? International Law in Canada and Britain's Participation in the Korean War and Afghanistan Hardcover Sean Richmond 9781487503468 $65.00 LAW Jan 31, 2021

This book tells the story of how Canada and Britain have sought to reconcile their security concerns with their legal obligations during two of the most significant international conflicts since the Second World War.In Unbound in War?, Sean Richmond examines the influence and interpretation of international law in conflicts of force by two important but under-studied countries, Canada and Britain, during two of the most significant conflicts since 1945, namely the Korean War and the Afghanistan Conflict. Through an innovative application of soc... + Read More
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Series: Laws of Transgression The Return of Judge Schreber Hardcover Peter Goodrich 9781487509156 $70.00 LAW Jul 15, 2021

Offering diverse perspectives on Daniel Paul Scheber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, this volume uses law and legal thought to uncover fundamental questions about the nature of law and gender, sexuality and normativity.Laws of Transgression offers multiple perspectives on the story of Daniel Paul Schreber (1842 –1911), a Chamber President of the German Supreme Court who was confined to a mental asylum after claiming God had communicated with him, desiring to make him into a woman. Schreber was not only a successful judge, but was also to becom... + Read More
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Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Wounded Feelings Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950 Paperback Eric H. Reiter 9781487526986 $44.95 HISTORY Sep 04, 2020

Wounded Feelings explores how people brought stories of emotional injury like betrayal, grief, humiliation, and anger before the Quebec courts from 1870 to 1950, and how lawyers and judges translated those feelings into the rational language of law.Wounded Feelings is the first legal history of emotions in Canada. Through detailed histories of how people litigated emotional injuries like dishonour, humiliation, grief, and betrayal before the Quebec civil courts from 1870 to 1950, Eric H. Reiter explores the confrontation between people’s lived ... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Methodologies Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts, Second Edition Paperback Margaret Kovach 9781487525644 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 21, 2021

An innovative and important contribution to Indigenous research approaches, this revised second edition provides a framework for conducting Indigenous methodologies, serving as an entry point to learn more broadly about Indigenous research.Indigenous Methodologies is a groundbreaking text in the field of Indigenous research. Since its original publication in 2009, it has become the most-trusted guide used in the study of Indigenous methodologies and has been adopted in university courses around the world. It provides a conceptual and methodolog... + Read More
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Series: Framing Borders Principle and Practicality in the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory Paperback Ian Kalman 9781487526535 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 11, 2021

Framing Borders is the first book-length ethnography looking at interactions between border officers and Indigenous cross-border travellers in North America.Framing Borders addresses a fundamental disjuncture between scholastic portrayals of settler colonialism and what actually takes place in Akwesasne Territory, the largest Indigenous cross-border community in Canada. Whereas most existing portrayals of Indigenous nationalism emphasize border crossing as a site of conflict between officers and Indigenous nationalists, in this book Ian Kalman ... + Read More
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Series: Disruptive Prisoners Resistance, Reform, and the New Deal Paperback Chris Clarkson 9781487525910 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 26, 2020

In this history of prison reform in mid-twentieth-century Canada, the voices of prisoners help to provide a nuanced understanding of prisoners as active agents of change.Disruptive Prisoners reconstitutes the history of Canada’s federal prison system in the mid-twentieth century through a process of collective biography – one involving prisoners, administrators, prison reformers, and politicians. This social history relies on extensive archival research and access to government documents, but more importantly, uses the penal press materials cre... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Social History Series All Things in Common A Canadian Family and Its Island Utopia Paperback Ruth Brouwer 9781487525569 $32.95 HISTORY Jul 09, 2021

All Things in Common explores the history of a Canadian utopian community, highlighting the roles of family, faith, and business pragmatism in its cohesion and longevity.In the first decade of the twentieth century, a few closely related families established a utopian community in Canada’s smallest province. Known officially as B. Compton Limited but described by a journalist in 1935 as "Prince Edward Island’s unique ‘brotherly love’ community," this utopia owed its longevity to the cohesion provided by its communal organization, dense kin ties... + Read More
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Series: Opportunism and Goodwill Canadian Business Expansion in Colombia, 1867-1979 Hardcover Stefano Tijerina 9781442646865 $65.00 HISTORY May 15, 2021

Opportunism and Goodwill explores the relatively untapped history of Canadian-Colombian relations and the role Canada has played in the modern economic development of the region.Canada’s social, economic, political, and environmental impacts on the western hemisphere have been largely overlooked by historians and other social scientists. Most narratives of the relationships between North America and the emerging markets of the south disproportionately focus on the United States. By downplaying Canada’s role, these narratives have fallen short i... + Read More
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Series: History of Medicine A Scandalously Short Introduction, Third Edition Paperback Jacalyn Duffin 9781487509170 $49.95 MEDICAL Apr 01, 2021

The third edition of this bestselling introduction to medical history has been thoroughly updated to include recent scholarship and new events in major fields of medical endeavor.Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine is one of the leading texts used to teach medical and nursing students the history of their profession. Emphasizing broad concepts rather than names and dates, it has also been widely used and appreciated in history courses and by general readers for more than twenty years. Based on sound scholarship and meticulous research, History... + Read More
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Series: German and European Studies Dance on the Razor's Edge Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos Paperback Svenja Bethke 9781487523541 $29.95 HISTORY Mar 01, 2021

Exploring notions of justice and morality, this book offers a new interpretation of everyday life in the ghettos during the Second World War.The ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe during the Second World War have mainly been seen as lawless spaces marked by brutality, tyranny, and the systematic murder of the Jewish population. Drawing on examples from the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos, Dance on the Razor’s Edge explores how under these circumstances highly improvised legal spheres emerged in these coerced and ... + Read More
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Series: German and European Studies Heavenly Fatherland German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire Hardcover Jeremy Best 9781487505639 $75.00 HISTORY Feb 10, 2021

A history of German Protestant missionaries, Heavenly Fatherland investigates the theological, cultural, and political activities of missionaries and their allies in Germany and the German colonial empire before World War I.Motivated by a theology that declared missionary work was independent of secular colonial pursuits, Protestant missionaries from Germany operated in ways that contradict current and prevailing interpretations of nineteenth-century missionary work. As a result of their travels, these missionaries contributed to Germany’s colo... + Read More
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Series: Art Work Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism Hardcover Katja Praznik 9781487508418 $75.00 ART Jul 15, 2021

By exposing the separation of art and labour, Art Work provides a valuable, historical perspective on the present-day struggle for artists’ rights.In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art – as an activity done out of love, a passion for self-expression, and without any concern for financial aspects – and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible labour. Focusing on the experiences of art workers and the history of labour regulation in the arts in socialist Yugoslavia, Praznik helps elucidate ... + Read More
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Series: Toronto Iberic The Sword of Luchana Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793-1879 Hardcover Adrian Shubert 9781487508609 $90.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 30, 2021

The Sword of Luchana is the first full-length biography of Baldomero Espartero, the most important figure in Spain’s modern history.Born into obscurity in a rural backwater of central Spain in the waning years of the eighteenth century, Baldomero Espartero (1793–1879) led a life resembling that of a character created by Stendhal or Gabriel García Márquez. As a seventy-five-year-old man he was offered – and turned down – the throne of an industrializing nation. He fought against Napoleon, Simón Bolívar, and other Latin American independence... + Read More
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Series: Toronto Italian Studies Galeazzo Ciano The Fascist Pretender Hardcover Tobias Hof 9781487507985 $80.00 HISTORY Jun 10, 2021

Through the prism of the rise and fall of Galeazzo Ciano (1903–1944), this biography is a comprehensive study of a leading member of the fascist regime other than Benito Mussolini.Building on extensive archival research and important scholarly analysis, Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender examines the life of Galeazzo Ciano, foreign minister of fascist Italy from 1936 to 1943 and Benito Mussolini’s son-in-law. Ciano’s life serves as the lens through which we gain a better understanding of crucial issues of Italian and European fascism, includ... + Read More
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Series: The Time of Enlightenment Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One Hardcover William Max Nelson 9781487507701 $75.00 SCIENCE Jan 04, 2021

The Time of Enlightenment investigates how a new idea of the future emerged with the development of modern practices in France from 1750 to Year One, the first year of the Republican calendar that marked the Revolutionary caesura in time.A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future transformed from being predetermined and beyond significant human intervention into something that could be dramatically affected through actions in the present.... + Read More
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Series: New Soviet Gypsies Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union Paperback Brigid O'Keeffe 9781487528294 $34.95 HISTORY Nov 03, 2020

New Soviet Gypsies is a unique study of how Roma mobilized the Bolsheviks’ “affirmative action” nationality policy in the 1920s and 1930s, thereby transforming themselves into integrated citizens of the multiethnic Soviet Union.As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism, “Gypsies” threatened the Bolsheviks’ ideal of New Soviet Men and Women. The early Soviet state feared that its Romani population suffered from an extraordinary and potentially insurmountable cultural “backwardness,” and sought to sovieti... + Read More
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Series: Orality and Literacy Reflections across Disciplines Paperback Keith Thor Carlson 9781487527686 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 13, 2020

This diverse collection of essays looks at the relationship between orality and literacy from a series of disciplinary-based perspectives. Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular cultures at specific historical moments. Rejecting the 'great-divide' theory of orality and literacy as separate and opposite to one another, the contributors posit that whatever meanings the two concepts have are products of their ever-changing relationships to one another.Through topics ... + Read More
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Series: Of Apes and Ancestors Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate Paperback Ian Hesketh 9781487526801 $24.95 SCIENCE Jul 15, 2020

Of Apes and Ancestors reconstructs the famous Oxford debate of 1860, the first public debate between supporters and opponents of Darwin’s recently published Origin of Species.Tell me, sir, is it on your grandmother's or your grandfather's side that you are descended from an ape?In June of 1860, some of Britain's most influential scientific and religious authorities gathered in Oxford to hear a heated debate on the merits of Charles Darwin's recently published Origin of Species. The Bishop of Oxford, "Soapy" Samuel Wilberforce, clashed swords wi... + Read More
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Series: Social Service, Private Gain The Political Economy of Social Impact Bonds Paperback Jesse Hajer 9781487526917 $39.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jul 16, 2021

This book examines Social Impact Bonds as a means to finance social services, and how mainstream and heterodox economic theory can help understand their existence and emergence.The 2008 financial crisis and its subsequent economic impacts generated a challenge for national and regional governments across the world. From this economic ruin, the Social Impact Bond (SIB) was born as an alternative mechanism for government procurement and delivery of social public services. Social Service, Private Gain examines the evolution of SIBs, how they work,... + Read More
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Series: Applied Welfare Economics, Trade, and Agricultural Policy Analysis Paperback G. Cornelis van Kooten 9781487524098 $79.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 06, 2021

Providing a broad-based background for analysing economic policies, this textbook brings economic rationality to political decision making.This textbook integrates three related fields in economics, namely agricultural/forestry economics, environmental economics, and international trade, by foregrounding cost-benefit analysis as a significant policy tool. Exploring how welfare measures can be used in the analysis of agricultural, trade and other economic policies, Applied Welfare Economics, Trade, and Agricultural Policy Analysis fills a gap in... + Read More
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Series: Health and Healthcare in Northern Canada Paperback Rebecca Schiff 9781487521790 $49.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Sep 15, 2021

Addressing the diversity of communities and experiences across Northern Canada, \Health and Healthcare in Northern Canada pays attention to what is needed to support and achieve health equity for northern communities and peoples.Accounting for almost two thirds of the country’s land-mass, Northern Canada is a vast region, host to rich natural resources and a diverse cultural heritage shared across Indigenous and non-indigenous residents. In this book, Rebecca Schiff and Helle Møller analyse health and healthcare in Northern Canada f... + Read More
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Series: Provincial and Territorial Health System Profiles Alberta A Health System Profile Paperback John Church 9781487525163 $36.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Nov 15, 2021

Alberta: A Health System Profile provides the first comprehensive and detailed overview of the economic, political, population health, program and service delivery aspects of health care in Alberta and the resulting health outcomes.Alberta: A Health System Profile provides the first detailed description of Alberta’s health care system and the underpinning political and social forces that have shaped it. Due to the significant wealth resulting from government revenues generated through the energy sector, Alberta has been able to develop an exten... + Read More
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Series: Provincial and Territorial Health System Profiles Newfoundland and Labrador A Health System Profile Paperback Stephen Bornstein 9781487525859 $34.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Oct 15, 2021

Combining a historical account with a current analysis, Newfoundland and Labrador: A Health System Profile is the first comprehensive study of the province’s health institutions, policies, and outcomes.There is not, and has never been, a single Canadian health system. Newfoundland and Labrador: A Health System Profile provides a detailed and critical analysis of how Canada’s single-payer healthcare system has been implemented in the country’s youngest province. As part of a series on the health systems of Canada’s provinces and territories, thi... + Read More
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Series: Making a Grade Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing Hardcover James Elwick 9781487508937 $70.00 EDUCATION Apr 09, 2021

Making a Grade takes historiographic and sociological perspectives developed to understand large-scale scientific and technical systems and uses them to highlight the standardization that went into “standardized testing.”Starting in the 1850s achievement tests became standardized in the British Isles, and were administered on an industrial scale. By the end of the century, over two million people had written mass exams, particularly in science, technology and mathematics. Some candidates responded to this standardization by cramming or cheating... + Read More
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Series: Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge Paperback Michelle Stack 9781487523398 $32.95 EDUCATION Jun 12, 2021

Analysing rankings in diverse higher education settings, this book draws on discourse analysis, theory, ethnography, and case studies, to consider the question of how knowledge is produced and shared.For many institutions, to ignore your university’s ranking is to become invisible, a risky proposition in a competitive search for funding. But rankings tell us little if anything about the education, scholarship or engagement with communities offered by a university. Drawing on a range of research and inquiry-based methods, Global University Ranki... + Read More
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Series: Global Citizenship Education Challenges and Successes Hardcover Aboagye Eva 9781487506377 $65.00 EDUCATION Apr 01, 2021

Drawing on contemporary global events, this book highlights how global citizenship education can be used to critically educate about the complexity and repressive nature of global events and our collective role in creating a just world.The idea of citizenship and conceptions of what it means to be a good citizen has evolved over time. On the one hand, good citizenship entails the ability to live with others in diverse societies, and to promote a common set of values of acceptance, human rights, and democracy. On the other hand, in order to comp... + Read More
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Series: Falsehood and Fallacy How to Think, Read, and Write in the Twenty-First Century Paperback Bethany Kilcrease 9781487588618 $22.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES May 07, 2021

Falsehood and Fallacy emphasizes that in our politically divided landscape, we all need to be able to read and research more critically in order to make well-reasoned arguments.Falsehood and Fallacy shows students how to evaluate what they read in a digital age now that old institutional gatekeepers, such as the media or institutions of higher education, no longer hold a monopoly on disseminating knowledge. Short chapters cover the problems that exist as a result of the current flow of unmediated information, Fake News, and bad arguments, and d... + Read More
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Series: New Generation Korean Workbook Beginner Level Paperback Mihyon Jeon 9781487526894 $29.95 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Aug 17, 2020

Designed by instructors with long-standing experience in teaching Korean, this workbook helps students acquire and practice their Korean language skills. New Generation Korean Workbook is a student-friendly resource for acquiring Korean language skills, including reading, writing, and comprehension. It is designed to accompany the textbook, New Generation Korean: Beginner Level. Each chapter in the workbook includes practice questions with cues that prompt students to either choose, match, or fill in the blanks. Throughout the book, QR c... + Read More
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Series: Ageism at Work Deconstructing Age and Gender in the Discriminating Labour Market Paperback Ellie D. Berger 9781442615281 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 25, 2021

This book looks at how ageism plays out in the labour market and how it intersects with sexism from the perspective of both older workers and employers.The Canadian population is aging, bringing with it an increasing number of social and economic challenges. With the aging of the workforce, the reconceptualization of older workers and retirement, the increasing share of women in the labour force, the elimination of mandatory retirement, the fluctuating economy, and the changes to the pension system, barriers to employment for older workers, suc... + Read More
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Series: Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity A Comparative Introduction Paperback Gregg M. Olsen 9781487509859 $28.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2021

Drawing from a cross-national perspective and a range of comparative vantage points, Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of poverty.In wealthy nations such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, issues of poverty and homelessness have often been displaced or sidelined by the accelerating number of studies on income inequality and wealth disparity. In Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity, Gregg M. Olsen refocuses our attention on rising levels of poverty and homelessness, sugge... + Read More
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Series: Global Taiwanese Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World Hardcover Fiona Moore 9781487500016 $55.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 21, 2021

Illuminating how the identities of Taiwanese diasporic subjects are contextually and historically shaped, this book advances a nuanced, complex, and differentiated understanding of globalization.In Global Taiwanese, Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates living in London and Toronto, along with globally networked professionals in Taipei, use their shared Taiwanese identities to construct and maintain global and local networks. Based on a three-year-long ethnographic study that incorporates interviews with people ... + Read More
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Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom Fat in Four Cultures A Global Ethnography of Weight Paperback Cindi SturtzSreetharan 9781487525620 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 27, 2021

This unique comparative ethnography uses a systematic and nuanced approach to delve into the myriad meanings of “being fat” within and across different global sites.Traits that signal belonging dictate our daily routines, including how we eat, move, and connect to others. In recent years, "fat" has emerged as a shared anchor in defining who belongs and is valued versus who does not and is not. The stigma surrounding weight transcends many social, cultural, political, and economic divides. The concern over body image shapes not only how we see o... + Read More
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Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom The Living Inca Town Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes Paperback Karoline Guelke 9781487525668 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 18, 2021

Using an accessible style and innovative visual methods, The Living Inca Town illustrates how tourism can perpetuate and even exacerbate gendered and global inequalities, while also exploring new avenues in which these can be contested.Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, but its benefits, including economic gain, are not felt by the majority of the country’s inhabitants. The Living Inca Town provides a rich case study of tourism in Ollantaytambo, a rapidly developing destination in the Southern Peruvian Andes and the starting... + Read More
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Series: Butinage The Art of Religious Mobility Hardcover Yonatan Gez 9781487508807 $60.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 31, 2021

Using the metaphor of “religious butinage,” this book explores the idea of religious practices as predominantly mobile, eschewing rigid frameworks oriented around exclusive categories of membership and conversion.Based on comparative ethnographic research in four countries and three continents, Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility explores the notion of "religious butinage" as a conceptual framework intended to shed light on the dynamics of everyday religious practice. Derived from the French word butiner, which refers to the foraging activi... + Read More
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Series: The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast Paperback Matthew Betts 9781487587949 $59.95 HISTORY May 06, 2021

The first comprehensive look at the archaeological history of the Atlantic Northeast, this book presents the archaeology of the region from the earliest Indigenous occupation to the first centuries of European occupation.Filling a notable gap in North American archaeological literature, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast is the first book to integrate and interpret archaeological data from the entire Atlantic Northeast, making unprecedented cultural connections across the region. Spanning from the earliest Indigenous occupation of the ar... + Read More
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Series: A History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition Paperback Paul A. Erickson 9781487524982 $49.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 30, 2021

The sixth edition of this bestselling text offers a concise history of anthropological theory from antiquity to the twenty-first century, with new and significantly revised sections that reflect the current state of the field.For over twenty years, A History of Anthropological Theory has provided a strong foundation for understanding anthropological thinking, tracing how the discipline has evolved from its origins to the present day. The sixth edition of this important text offers substantial updates throughout, including more balanced coverage... + Read More
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Series: Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition Paperback Liam Murphy 9781487526320 $79.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2021

The sixth edition of this bestselling reader offers a comprehensive collection of readings critical to the understanding of anthropological theory, with a selection of new pieces that represent major developments in the field.Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory curates and collects many of the most important publications of anthropological thinking spanning the last hundred years, building a strong foundation in both classical and contemporary theory. The sixth edition includes seventeen new readings, with a sharpened focus on publ... + Read More
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Series: Persons and Other Things Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible Hardcover Mark Glouberman 9781487508982 $85.00 RELIGION May 15, 2021

Persons and Other Things looks closely at the Bible as a philosophical work, asking insightful questions about how to interpret the Hebrew Bible, what it means to be Jewish, and how to live a meaningful and moral life.The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God’s name exactly as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms. Abraham comes forward as a critic of pagan thought about, specifically, persons. Moses, to whom the baton is passed, spells out the practical implications... + Read More
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Series: Collected Works of Erasmus The Correspondence of Erasmus Letters 2940 to 3141, Volume 21 Hardcover Desiderius Erasmus 9781487507664 $250.00 HISTORY Aug 15, 2021

This final volume of the Correspondence subseries of the Collected Works of Erasmus includes the letters from Erasmus’ final years.This volume comprises Erasmus' correspondence during the final two years of his life, June 1534–August 1536. In the public sphere it was a time of dramatic events: the reconquest of the duchy Württemberg from its Austrian occupiers; the siege and destruction of the Anabaptist "kingdom" at Münster; Charles V's great victory at Tunis; and the resumption of the Habsburg-Valois wars in Italy. In the private sphere, thes... + Read More
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Series: Cultural Spaces Refugee States Critical Refugee Studies in Canada Hardcover Vinh Nguyen 9781487508647 $55.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2021

Refugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.Exploring "refuge" and "refugee" as concepts that shape Canadian nation-building both within and beyond national borders, Refugee States takes an interdisciplinary and critical approach to describing how refugees articulate their relation to and defiance of official discourses. Through close examinations of refugee movements, contexts, and subjectivities, this collection reveals how Canada has relied upo... + Read More
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Series: Painting Place The Life and Work of David B. Milne Paperback David P. Silcox 9781487540258 $69.95 ART Feb 01, 2021

Painting Place is an introduction to David B. Milne – the man, the painter, the printmaker, and the writer – and a tribute to his splendid gifts.This lavishly illustrated study tells the remarkable story of the work of one of Canada's great artists. David B. Milne (1882–1953) left rural Ontario for New York City in 1903. After training at the Art Students' League, he emerged as an exceptional modernist, one of the "American extremists" whose work was well-represented at the famous 1913 Armory Show and won a major prize at the 1915 Panama-Pacifi... + Read More