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Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings.

This collection written by professors experiencing the journey to tenure in education puts the reader in the writer's shoes to provide insight for those who are considering this path, as well as for policy makers.

In 1969, Canada officially embraced and wrote into law the equality of English and French, and in 1988, both were legislated as working languages in its federal institutions. With the half-century mark fast approaching, this book takes an unflinching look at the divergence between policy and practice.

Engages the imagination to illustrate the power of mathematical modelling. This book brings together a highly skilled team of contributors to fend off a zombie uprising. It helps you to learn how modelling can advise government policy, and how theoretical results can be communicated to a nonmathematical audience.

Months of surveillance-related leaks from U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden have fuelled an international debate over privacy, spying, and Internet surveillance. This book explores current issues torn from the headlines with a uniquely Canadian perspective.

Known primarily as a poet, Isabella Valancy Crawford's short stories represent the best of early English-Canadian prose. In her stories, as in her poetry, her power lies in her use of imagery. In this collection, her fictional portrayals of Canadian life give us glimpses into our literary past.

Explores the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape the health of homeless persons in Canada. Covering a range of topics from youth homelessness to end-of-life care, this book outlines policy and practice recommendations to respond to the ongoing public health crisis.

The first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012.

The expansion and intensification of coercive powers is a global phenomenon, reflecting the fragility of social order and the authority of ruling elites in the 21st century.Relationships of domination, powerlessness and resistance, still characterize the carceral experience.

This volume of the JPP looks at the aging process inside prisons, whereevery problem is amplified by the prisoner's age.

The writers in this volume expose the pre-September 11, 2001 context and its relevance to the present controversies over political internment, and the attendant mistreatment, torture, and destruction of the carceral subject.

A provocative reimagining of the Canadian public service.

In 1908 the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This history recounts its unique contribution to the development of an independent public service.

Analyzing issues ranging from urban planning and the provision of broadcasting services for minority languages, to principled debates over basic rights and entitlements, this title includes essays that offer summaries of each political culture while also prompting comparative reflection on the broad theme of 'democracy and difference'.

Offers an assessment and planning approach for children and youth in out of home care, first developed in the UK, and since 1997 adapted and used increasingly in Canada, particularly in Ontario. This title includes training material that can help practitioners understand and put the LAC approach and tools to effective use.

Collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall".

Examines the relations and interrelations among theoretical and practical analyses of human rights. This volume argues that the language of rights and corresponding legal and political instruments have an important place in contemporary social political philosophy.

With nine out of ten Canadians claiming a religious affiliation of some kind, faith has huge impact on our personal and social lives. In this book, the author offers a comprehensive history of religion in Canada and examines the tug-of-war between modernity and conservatism within the religious traditions themselves.

What is Canada? This book addresses this question. It suggests that the Canadian approach of 'finding a way' may well contribute to successful resolution of both local and global challenges.

Offers a collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies that addresses the basic problems in reading his work. This title looks at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony, paradox, and dwelling in 'gaps' or spaces 'in between'.

Includes articles that focus on politics in the widest sense and its influence and visibility in translations from the early Middle Ages to the late Renaissance - from Eusbius' translations of "Virgil" to Shakespeare's adaptation of the story of Titus Andronicus.

First-wave feminist, activist, and social reformer, Nellie McClung is ranked as one of the most popular Canadian authors and is among the liveliest critics of Canada's male-dominated society. This title presents a selection of her short fiction that includes depictions of difficult rural living conditions in Western Canada.

From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, traditionally called Acadia, with Eastern Canada's Algonkian-speaking peoples, the Mi'kmaq. This historical analysis of colonial Acadia from the perspective of symbolic and mythic existence will be useful to those interested in Canadian history, native Canadian history, religion in Canada, and history of religion.

Presents four extant manuscripts of the Viandier de Taillevent. This title includes the commentary and notes that trace the significance of these modifications and indicate the influence the Viandier exercised on cookery books throughout Europe. It also includes a glossary and a bibliography.

Margaret Atwood enjoys a unique prominence in Canadian letters. With over thirty books to her credit, in genres ranging from children's writing to dystopic novels, she is as creatively diverse as she is internationally acclaimed. This title provides a critical base from which readers can assess Atwood's novels.

Nursing has a long and varied history in Canada. Since the founding of the first hospital by the Augustine nuns in 1637, nurses have contributed greatly to Canadians' quality of life. This title offers a comprehensive history of Canadian nursing. Illustrated with archival photographs, it is suitable for scholars of Canadian health care history.

Highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. This title features a collection of essays that explores her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers.

A leading Polish philosopher of the 20th century, Roman Ingarden is principally renowned in Western culture for his work in aesthetics and the theory of literature. This work demonstrates how Ingarden's thought constitutes a major contribution to the fundamental fields of ontology and metaphysics.

Tells the early history of the Halifax Naval Yard. From the building of the yard and its expansion, to the people involved in the enterprise, to the nuts and bolts of buying the masts and paying the bills, this title includes illustrations and copious appendices, including a biographical directory.