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Keshen presents a set of guidelines for analysing self-esteem and examines various factors that influence our self-esteem, such as other people's evaluations, comparisons with others, social relationships, and inherent qualities. He asserts that...

On the night of Saturday, July 13, 1991, a mob of male students at the St. Kizito Mixed Secondary School in Meru, Kenya, attacked their female classmates in a dormitory. Nineteen schoolgirls were killed in the melee and more than 70 were raped or gang...

First published in 1912, this book by F. R. Tennant was intended to redress the vague and inconsistent conceptions of sin that were popularly held at the beginning of the twentieth century. Tennant maintained that for any ongoing debate to remain...

On September 11 more people clicked "on documentary news photographs than on pornography for the first (and only) time in the history of the Internet," reports writer David Levi Strauss. The archive of images associated with the tragic events of 9/11...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490848938Author R I JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint WestBow PressPublisher WestBow PressWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

An illuminating study of the complex history of madness.An illuminating study of the complex history of madness.About the AuthorJames Moran is professor, history, University of Prince Edward Island, and the author of Committed to the State Asylum:...

In Itineraries in Conflict, Rebecca L. Stein argues that through tourist practices-acts of cultural consumption, routes and imaginary voyages to neighboring Arab countries, culinary desires-Israeli citizens are negotiating Israel's changing place in the...

For Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the state's coast have remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tradable commodity, and material with which to make adornment and sacred regalia. The large mollusks also...

In Health Care at Risk Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, a leading expert in health law, weighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC), which many policymakers and analysts are promoting as the answer to the severe access, cost, and quality problems afflicting...

The most typical treatment of international relations is to conceive it as a battle between two antagonistic states volleying back and forth. In reality, interstate relations are often at least two-level games in which decision-makers operate not only in...

At a time when Canadian governments are encouraging the dispersion of immigrants throughout the provinces in an attempt to reduce clustering in large metropolitan areas, studies of immigration outside urban centres are rare - and studies of immigrant...

Current policy initiatives that address the health of youth, a group where more than one set of developmental standards may apply, often are based on conflicting evidence. At the same time, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has provided an...

Why the 1969 federal policy regarding bilingual districts was never implemented - and why it should be reconsidered.Why the 1969 federal policy regarding bilingual districts was never implemented - and why it should be reconsidered.About the AuthorDaniel...

A dialogue on the nature and realization of reconciliationA dialogue on the nature and realization of reconciliationAbout the AuthorJoanna R. Quinn is assistant professor of political science, and co-director, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Research...

The definitive history of the birth of Medicare in CanadaThe definitive history of the birth of Medicare in CanadaAbout the AuthorMalcolm G. Taylor (1915-1994), professor of public policy, Faculty of Administrative Studies, York University, served as...

The communications revolution and increased democratization and globalization have made every country more aware of its image and reputation - its 'national brand.' Whether a country needs to build international coalitions against terrorism, encourage...

Chronicles the history of accountability in the World Bank and major commercial banksChronicles the history of accountability in the World Bank and major commercial banksAbout the AuthorMaartje van Putten was a member of the European Parliament (1989-99)...

A collection of essays, historical and contemporary, on the health and healing of children around the world.A collection of essays, historical and contemporary, on the health and healing of children around the world.About the AuthorCynthia Comacchio,...

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Swirski begins with a series of groundbreaking questions about the nature of popular fiction, vindicating it as an artform that expresses and reflects the aesthetic and social values of its readers. He follows his insightful introduction to the...

Argues that the crisis was largely manufactured by a few individualsArgues that the crisis was largely manufactured by a few individualsAbout the AuthorRaymond M. Hebert is professor of political studies and Canadian studies, St Boniface College,...

Part reportage and part protest, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb is an inquiry into the cultural logic and global repercussions of the war on terror. At its center are two men convicted in U.S. courts on terrorism-related...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788757431261Author Nina Holst-ChristensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 1178Imprint DJOFPublishingPublisher DJOFPublishing

The essays in this volume enhance our understanding of Canadians on the job. Focusing on specific industries and kinds of work, from logging and longshoring to restaurant work and the needle trades, the contributors consider such issues as job skill,...

Most historical accounts of the Irish Catholic community in Toronto describe it as a poor underclass of society, ghettoised by the largely British, Protestant population and characterised by the sectarian violence between Protestants and Catholics that...

Donald Theall explores and explains the significance of the emergence of McLuhan as an important figure in North America in the development of an understanding of culture, communication, and technology. He reveals important information about McLuhan and...

The Doctor Dilemma provides a timely discussion of policy issues in five key areas of physician-related public policy in Ontario: physician payment schemes, regulation of physician numbers and distribution, monitoring of the quality of medical care, the...

Topics in this collection of essays range from a utopian-style foray into possible structures for democratic governance at the global level to a Hobbesian analysis of the ongoing challenges that democratic theory faces; from an assertion of the...

A ground-breaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen to twenty-fiveA ground-breaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen...

Questions amp Answers About Cancer Symptoms and Cancer Treatment Side Effects, Second Edition provides authoritative answers to the most commonly asked questions about cancer symptoms and treatments. Written by cancer professionals and featuring...

For more than two decades, the law and economics movement has been one of the most influential and controversial schools of thought in American jurisprudence. In this authoritative intellectual history, James R. Hackney Jr. situates the modern law and...

Caribbean Journeys is an ethnographic analysis of the cultural meaning of migration and home in three families of West Indian background that are now dispersed throughout the Caribbean, North America, and Great Britain. Moving migration studies beyond...

The history of Western intervention in the Middle East stretches from the late eighteenth century to the present day. All too often, the Western rationale for invading and occupying a country to liberate its people has produced new forms of domination...

Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workers-mostly...

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forster's epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the...

Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection...

For more than a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has turned a skeptical eye toward Congress. Distrustful of Congress's capacity to respect constitutional boundaries, the Court has recently overturned federal legislation at a historically unprecedented rate...

Landscapes of Power and Identity is a groundbreaking comparative history of two colonies on the frontiers of the Spanish empire-the Sonora region of northwestern Mexico and the Chiquitos region of eastern Bolivia's lowlands-from the late colonial period...

How do we learn to recognize the damning effects of good rhetorical intentions? And where will we find arguments which escape this trap that permeates the liberal social policy world? i??Shifting Bordersi?? uses an evaluation of the debate over...

The Rowley family's struggle began when Amy entered kindergarten and culminated five years later in a pivotal decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. In effect, the Court majority concluded that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act did not...