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At a time when secularism is put forward as the answer to religious fundamentalism and violence, Secularisms offers a powerful, multivoiced critique of the narrative equating secularism with modernity, reason, freedom, peace, and progress. Bringing...

While physics can seem challenging, its true quality is the sheer simplicity of fundamental physical theories-theories and concepts that can enrich your view of the world around you. COLLEGE PHYSICS, VOLUME 1, 9e, International Edition provides a clear...

In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since China's one-child policy was introduced in 1979. Her book Only Hope left readers with a picture of...

How Canadians rate the prestige of their occupations, and what this says about our understanding of the knowledge economy, social mobility and inequality, and our working selvesHow Canadians rate the prestige of their occupationsAbout the AuthorJohn...

A unique interdisciplinary analysis of the social and environmental forces affecting local communities on Canada's east and west coasts.A unique interdiscplinary analysis of the social and environmental forces affecting local communities on Canada's east...

A provocative contribution to the debate on how we should deal with women prisonersA provocative contribution to the debate on how we should deal with women prisonersAbout the AuthorStephanie Hayman is senior lecturer, criminology, Kingston University,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorKatherine A.H. Graham is professor of public policy and administration and senior advisor to the provost at Carleton University. Caroline Andrew is director of...

This is a comprehensive examination of astronomy in Melville's works. In this text, Brett Zimmerman investigates Melville's knowledge and literary uses of astronomy, especially within the thematic contexts of Mardi, Clarel, and Billy Budd. Melville's...

Canadian and Australian economic geographers provide a comparative analysis of the economies of the two countries as both nations attempt to redefine their roles in a rapidly changing world.Canadian and Australian economic geographers provide a...

Social democrats have always understood that business will act differently if the rules governing economic life are changed: it is not because they share a commitment to gender equality that Scandinavian employers pay women and men wages that are...

Distinguished scholars from six countries investigate the effects of reforms in a number of areas, including budgeting, personnel management, and accountability. While reforms have been beneficial in some of these areas, success has been far from...

Contributors demonstrate that informal traditional and popular expressive cultural forms continue to be central to Canadians' gender constructions and clearly display the creation and re-creation of women's often subordinate position in society. They not...

This 1954 book was the first to be devoted to the fundamental properties of the aromatic compounds as a whole. It describes the experimental and theoretical attempts to explain their structure and discusses their characteristic properties and the...

Like the complex systems of man-made power lines that transmit electricity and connect people and places, feminist alliances are elaborate networks that have the potential to provide access to institutional power and to transform relations. In Power...

In Now Is the Time! Todd C. Shaw delves into the political strategies of post-Civil Rights Movement African American activists in Detroit, Michigan, to discover the conditions for effective social activism. Analyzing a wide range of grassroots...

A thorough investigation of recent alcohol policy debates.A thorough investigation of recent alcohol policy debates.About the AuthorNorman Giesbrecht is senior scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto. Andree Demers is professor...

Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, reigniting questions of racialized dispossession, land rights, and legacies of liberation. Donald S. Moore probes these contentious politics by analyzing fierce disputes over...

A detailed portrait of ideological consensus and conflict during the period that initiated the long decline of the welfare state.A detailed portrait of ideological consensus and conflict during the period that initiated the long decline of the welfare...

Because men typically owned the "family farm," farm women's economic welfare depended largely on the smooth negotiation of their interconnected roles. Yet the women Halpern uncovers were surprisingly outspoken about their devaluation on the farm and...

An examination of the transformations taking place in Canada's political economy.An examination of the transformations taking place in Canada's political economy.About the AuthorWallace Clement is Chancellor's Professor at Carleton University. Leah F...

In Rites of Privacy and the Privacy Trade Neill constructs an original theory of natural rights and human dignity to ground our right to privacy, arguing that privacy and autonomy are innate natural properties metaphorically represented on the moral...

This volume is a study of the campaign, designed and led by physicians, to reduce infant and maternal mortality in early-20th-century Ontario. Against a background of socio-economic transformation, infant and maternal mortality were identified as public...

An inspiring case for parliamentary democracy and a sympathetic exploration of current discontents.An inspiring case for parliamentary democracy and a sympathetic exploration of current discontents.About the AuthorJanet Ajzenstat is professor emeritus,...

In Women and Narrative Identity Green demonstrates that the "national text" has at times functioned to constrain women's literary expression, while in other cases it has empowered the feminine voice, endowing it with a unique identitary power. She shows...

An innovative assessment of water use conflict and governance across Canada.An innovative assessment of water use conflict and governance across Canada.About the AuthorMark Sproule-Jones, professor in the Department of Political Science and the Victor K...

Why the growth and flux of city-regions impedes their prospects for increased political autonomy.Why the growth and flux of city-regions impedes their prospects for increased political autonomy.About the AuthorAndrew Sancton is professor of political...

"Who Killed the Queen?" is the first sustained investigation ever attempted into the mass closures of hospitals and hospital beds in Canada during the mid-1990s, showing the effects that the loss of 20 per cent of beds has had on health care across the...

Written by a group of international experts in their field, this book is a review of Lagrangian observation, analysis and assimilation methods in physical and biological oceanography. This multidisciplinary text presents new results on nonlinear analysis...

Ways of Communicating is a stimulating exploration of the single most powerful force that gives humankind its control over the natural world - the communication between us. So integral a part of everyday life as to be taken for granted, yet so...

A bold and penetrating look at the ideology that has dominated Canadian Aboriginal policy.A bold and penetrating look at the ideology that has dominated Canadian Aboriginal policy.About the AuthorTom Flanagan is professor of political science at the...

With its ability to explore the surface of the sample by means of a local scanning probe and its use of dedicated software allows to be visualize results, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has revolutionized the study of the smallest aspects of life. Atomic...

Learning to conduct your own research projects and become a critical consumer of everyday research-related information with FUNDAMENTALS OF BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH. This easy-to-follow and practical textbook provides numerous examples from the real world (as...

An in-depth examination of expert evidence in obscenity trials in the last century.An in-depth examination of expert evidence in obscenity trials in the last century.About the AuthorCAReviewsJudging Obscenity is a very interesting book that presents a...

Although the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is twenty years old, little is known about how it affects those who wield power, what influence it has on legislative decisions, or to what extent the government believes it should be constrained by...

Given the support of the Mulroney government, many of the Canadian units under the United Nations in Yugoslavia were willing to bend the United Nations' rules of engagement when confronting Muslim, Serb, and Croat forces, establishing Srebrenica as a...

Where did the idea for nonpartisan constituency redistributions come from? What were the principal reasons that Canada turned to arm's-length commissions to design its electoral districts? In Commissioned Ridings John Courtney addresses these questions...

In beautifully simple language, Gregory Baum discusses the writings of four men whose nationalism was shaped by their religion and their time: Martin Buber's speeches on Zionism before the creation of Israel; Mahatma Gandhi's influential incitement to...

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants enter the United States each year, and the number appearing in U.S. courts is rising in many states. Immigrants in Courts addresses their access to justice in the United States and the procedural obstacles they face...

Real and imagined encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations produced racial anxieties that underwrote crossracial contacts in the salmon canneries, the illicit liquor trade, and the (white)...

In the American media, Russian mail-order brides are often portrayed either as docile victims or as gold diggers in search of money and green cards. Rarely are they allowed to speak for themselves. Until now. In Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband, six...