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Encyclopedia - Ukraine: Volume 5 by University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division 9781442652453
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £54.01Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora... -
Encyclopedia - Ukraine: Volume 4 by University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division 9781442652446
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £53.21Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora... -
Legendary Sources of Flaubert's Saint Julien by University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division 9781442651685
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The sources for La Legende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier, one of Flaubert's finest literary works, have long been the subject of numerous conflicting theories. The implications of the controversy are... -
The Domestic Space Reader by Chiara Briganti
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.48Tune in to HGTV, visit your local bookstore's magazine section, or flip to the 'Homes' section of your weekend newspaper, and it becomes clear: domestic spaces play an immense role in our cultural... -
Collected Poems by Isabella Valancy Crawford
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40This volume established Isabella Valancy Crawford as one of Canada's principal poets. Coupled with an introductory collage of viewpoints and reactions to her work by James Reaney its provides a vivid... -
Learning and Teaching Community-Based Research: Linking Pedagogy to Practice by Catherine Etmanski
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70Community-Based Research, or CBR, is a mix of innovative, participatory approaches that put the community at the heart of the research process. Learning and Teaching Community-Based Research shows... -
Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard by Paul Edward Dutton
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Among the readings included are several existing letters by Emma (Einhard's wife), The Life of Charlemagne, and The History of His Relics. The latter work transports us into an almost unknown world... -
On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada by Michael Asch
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89What, other than numbers and power, justifies Canada's assertion of sovereignty and jurisdiction over the country's vast territory? Why should Canada's original inhabitants have to ask for rights to... -
Social Purpose Enterprises: Case Studies for Social Change by Jack Quarter
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Social Purpose Enterprises: Case Studies for Social Change presents case studies of twelve organizations that operate in a growing niche within the Canadian social economy: market-based entities... -
Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses by James Penton
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.48Since 1876, Jehovah's Witnesses have believed that they are living in the last days of the present world. Charles T. Russell, their founder, advised his followers that members of Christ's church... -
Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation by Kyle Conway
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14In 2007, Little Mosque on the Prairie premiered on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation network. It told the story of a mosque community that worshiped in the basement of an Anglican church. It was... -
Knowledge, Experience, and Ruling: Studies in the Social Organization of Knowledge by Marie L. Campbell
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Dorothy Smith is considered one of the most original sociologists and theorists of our time, and her writings have attracted much attention in Europe and the US as well as in Canada. This collection... -
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain by Enrique Fernandez
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £44.89Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe's "culture of dissection" to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the... -
Culturing Bioscience: A Case Study in the Anthropology of Science by Udo Krautwurst
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Charting the rise and fall of an experimental biomedical facility at a North American university, Culturing Bioscience offers a fascinating glimpse into scientific culture and the social and... -
The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and Their Verse Inscriptions by Calvin B Kendall
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04Verse inscriptions in stone appeared in abundance on the facades of Romanesque churches in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Marking the place where medieval worshippers were transported from... -
Ezra Pound and Confucianism: Remaking Humanism in the Face of Modernity by Feng Lan
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Ezra Pound and Confucianism, Feng Lan offers the first study of Ezra Pound's project of establishing a Confucian humanism as an alternative to Western modernism. While Pound scholars are familiar... -
Innovating in Urban Economies: Economic Transformation in Canadian City-Regions by David A. Wolfe
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, innovation and creative capacity lead to economic prosperity. Starting in 2006, the Innovation Systems Research Network began a six year-long study on how... -
Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle by Alison Keith
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.44Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from... -
Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England: lfric and Wulfstan by Milton McC Gatch
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92In Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England, Professor Gatch deals with two aspects of the writings of AElfric and Wulfstan that have been hitherto ignored by scholars of the period. First, he... -
Mennonites in Canada, 1939-1970: A People Transformed by T D Regehr
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.38When war broke out in 1939 Canadian Mennonites were overwhelmingly a rural people. By 1970 they had largely completed one of the greatest `migrations' in their history - the transformation from a... -
Marriage in Europe, 1400-1800 by Silvana Seidel Menchi
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.57Drawing on the extensive and underused body of legal records on marriage that exist in Europe's ecclesiastical and secular archives, Marriage in Europe, 1400-1800 examines the institution not just as... -
Becoming a History Teacher: Sustaining Practices in Historical Thinking and Knowing by Ruth Sandwell
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61A revolution in history education is propelling historical thinking and knowing to the forefront of history and social studies education in North America and beyond. Teachers, teacher education... -
Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis by Laurie Marhoefer
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany's Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world's first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a... -
Designer Animals: Mapping the Issues in Animal Biotechnology by Conrad G. Brunk
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Designer Animals is an in-depth study of the debates surrounding the development of animal biotechnology, which is quickly emerging out of the laboratory and into the commercial marketplace. This... -
Late Han Chinese: A Study of the Archaic-Han Shift by W A C H Dobson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12This book continues and carries a stage further Professor Dobson's pioneering researches into the nature and development of Classical Chinese. He has here compared a Late Archaic text with a... -
Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960 by Joan Sangster
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04For people living in Ontario, as throughout Canada, the period from 1920 to 1960 was one of great change and turmoil - the roaring twenties the Great Depression, the upheaval of war, and the economic... -
The Importance of Insight: Essays in Honour of Michael Vertin by John J Liptay
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £34.43Written in honour of Michael Vertin the distinguished philosopher and Lonergan scholar at the University of Toronto, The Importance of Insight brings together a number of thoughtful essays by leading... -
Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Volume 5: The Brezhnev Years 1964-1981 by Donald V Schwartz
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21This set of four volumes is an indispensable reference work for the study of modern Russia in general and Soviet Communism in particular. Ever since its foundation on the eve of the twentieth... -
The Ethics Rupture: Exploring Alternatives to Formal Research-Ethics Review by Will C. van den Hoonaard
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40For decades now, researchers in the social sciences and humanities have been expressing a deep dissatisfaction with the process of research-ethics review in academia. Continuing the ongoing critique... -
Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe by Mary Barnard
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £44.59Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain. As... -
Reformers, Rebels, and Revolutionaries: The Western Canadian Radical Movement 1899-1919 by A.Ross McCormack
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92The opening of the twentieth century saw a fervour of radical political movements in Western Canada. Ross McCormack explores the constituencies, ideologies, and development of early reformist,... -
Cases of Conflict: Transboundary Disputes and the Development of International Environmental Law by Allen L. Springer
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.15Cases of Conflict focuses on times of dispute as important moments in the development of international environmental law. Conflict tests international law-both its content and its relevance become... -
Mike: The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume Three: 1957-1968 by Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04One of Canada's most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. This third and final volume of his... -
In Defence of Theatre: Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions by Kathleen Gallagher
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre... -
The New Christianity: The Theology of the Social Gospel by Salem Bland
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99This volume, a survey of the Canadian scene that urged various reforms, appeared shortly after the First World War. It was considered to be extremely radical in its proposals and implications at that... -
Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada: The 1982 Joanne Goodman Lectures by Carl Berger
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Professor Berger aims in this book to 'explore the rise, expression, and relative decline of the idea of natural history' in Canada, during the age of Victoria. Science, particularly natural science,... -
Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Coast Fisheries by Dianne Newell
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26Fishing rights are one of the major areas of dispute for aboriginals in Canada today. Dianne Newell explores this controversial issue and looks at the ways government regulatory policy and the law... -
Building a Community-Controlled Economy: The Evangeline Co-operative Experience by Jack Quarter
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14This case study focuses on and analyses the formation of four co-operatives in the Evangeline region, a small Acadian community in the southwest part of Prince Edward Island. Defined by the authors... -
Peirce, Signs, and Meaning by Floyd Merrell
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40C.S. Peirce was the founder of pragmatism and a pioneer in the field of semiotics. His work investigated the problem of meaning, which is the core aspect of semiosis as well as a significant issue in... -
The Politics of Race: Canada, the United States, and Australia by Jill Vickers
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.18The Politics of Race is an excellent resource for students and general readers seeking to learn about race policies and legislation. Arguing that 'states make race,' it provides a unique comparison...