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Reducere. downstream: reimagining water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shar...

Reducere. In the 1960s, Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking....

Avatar and Nature Spirituality explores the cultural and religious significance of James Cameron's film Avatar (2010), one of the most commercially...

Reducere. Linda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within it...

Reducere. Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and supporting creative works on a representative array of Canadian, literary avant-gard...

Reducere. Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster cri...

Reducere. Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers--an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his caree...

Reducere. This collection explores the relationship between offending, reentry, and employment, and barriers encountered in securing a rewarding job after pr...

Reducere. Music lives where people live. Historically, music study has centred on the conservatory, which privileges the study of the Western European canon ...

Reducere. Nelson Ball has had a significant impact on contemporary Canadian poetry not only as a poet but as an editor, with his Weed/Flower Press in the 196...

Reducere. The first anthology to focus on the rich tradition of Canadian nature poetry in English, Open Wide a Wilderness is a survey of Canada's regions, po...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of "black prairie" literature, and includes writing that ranges...

DescriptionShould we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that eve...

Presents a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch's iconic collection, Complet...

Reducere. This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and es...

Reducere. At the beginning of the Nazi period, 25, 000 Jewish people lived in Tarnow, Poland. By the end of the Second World War, nine remained. Like Anne Fr...

Reducere. (Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm exploring a range of issues: from violence against Indigenous w...

Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swep...

The essays collected in Parallel Encounters offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada-US border, in both site-spec...

Reducere. A queer minister, politician and staunch activist for LGBTQ rights, Cheri DiNovo went from living on the streets as a teenager to performing the fi...

Reducere. Youth are one of the fastest growing segments of the homeless population. Although there has been much research on how youth become homeless and su...

Reducere. In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journal...

Reducere. DescriptionAppel: A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion is the first-hand account of the author's six years as a professional soldier during the ...

Literature not only represents Canada as "our home and native land" but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that...

Reducere. After a fifteen-year career as a sled dog racer, musher Dave Olesen turned his focus away from competition and set out to fulfill a lifelong dream....

Gathers nine conversations with Indigenous writers about the relationship between Indigenous literatures and learning, and how their writing relate...

Reducere. Description Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rura...

Critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indig...

The diary of David Watson, who rose through the officer ranks to command one of the four divisions in the Great War, is an exceptional document tha...

Reducere. Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated rel...

Presents in print for the first time three plays written by soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Guy L. Beck This innovative book explores religion through music, one of the most universally recognized forms of human exp...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada's black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have pl...

Reducere. For social workers, activists, bureaucrats, and engaged citizens in third-sector organizations (NGOs, charities, not-for-profits, co-operatives), t...

Looking at the way sacrifice, service, and the commemoration of war are represented in literary works, this book argues that iterations of a notion...

The baby boomers and postwar suburbia remain a touchstone. For many, there is a belief that it has never been as good for youngsters and their fami...

When, in 1940, Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them for the duration of the war, no one knew how long it would last...

Reducere. Co-published with the Association for Bah ' Studies In 1844 a charismatic young Persian merchant from Shiraz, known as the B b, electrified the Sh ...

Reducere. How do older women come to terms with widowhood? Are they vulnerable or courageous, predictable or creative in dealing with this life challenge? Mo...

Reducere. In this new collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines provide a critical context for the relationship between feminist pedagogy and ac...

Reducere. In Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how films portray human emotional relationships with...

Using a box of her father's tape recordings, Annette Libeskind Berkovits weaves together an unforgettable story of a Jewish family before, during, ...

One Hundred Years of Social Work is the first comprehensive history of social work as a profession in English Canada. Organized chronologically, it...

In 1932, Isay Rottenberg, a Jewish paper merchant, bought a cigar factory in Germany: Deutsche Zigarren-Werke. When his competitors, supported by N...

Reducere. Since the late 1950s Stan Brakhage has been in the forefront of independent filmmaking. His body of work - some seventy hours - is one of the large...

Reducere. Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada's Truth and Reconc...

Reducere. The "H" in the H factor stands for "Honesty-Humility, " one of the six basic dimensions of the human personality. People who have high levels of H ...