Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Andrew, Caroline, Gattinger, Monica, Jeannotte, M. Sharon, Straw, WillSummary: - Author:Pavlich, George, Unger, Matthew P.Summary:
Much critical scholarship has detailed the punitive effects of accusations that lead to criminalization. Less well documented is the founding role that accusation plays in creating potential criminals. In an attempt at redress, this...
- Author:Toulouse, Pamela RoseSummary:
In Achieving Indigenous Student Success, author Pamela Toulouse provides strategies, lessons, and hands-on activities that support both Indigenous and non-Indigenous learners in the secondary classroom. While the author's primary focus...
- Author:Beagan, Brenda L., Chapman, Gwen E., Johnston, Josée, McPhail, Deborah, Power, Elaine M., Vallianatos, HelenSummary:
Magazine articles and self-improvement books tell us that our food choices serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes reveals that they say more about where we come from and who we would like to be....
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Robert (Bob) Andrew Young (1950-2017) was Canada Research Chair in Multilevel Governance at the University of Western Ontario and one of Canada's most distinguished political scientists. In Across BoundariesYoung's former...
- Author:Gibson, DouglasSummary:
More adventures from one of Canada's premier editors and storytellers. Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country's leading editors and publishers for 40...
- Author:Gibson, DouglasSummary:
More adventures from one of Canada’s premier editors and storytellers
Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country’s leading editors and...
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Across Cultures/Across Borders is a collection of new critical essays, interviews, and other writings by twenty-five established and emerging Canadian Aboriginal and Native American scholars and creative writers across Turtle Island....
- Author:Botsford Fraser, Marian, Pillay, Sukanya, Roach, Kent, Boyden, JosephSummary:
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with this overview of its activities--sometimes quiet and sometimes strident--as a watchdog and safeguard for Canadians and their rights as citizens. Through a...
- Author:Christensen, Julia, Cox, Christopher, Szabo-Jones, LisaSummary:
Activating the Heart is an exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. The collection pays particular...
- Author:Sexual Violence Training Development TeamSummary:
A workshop and facilitation guide to support B.C. post-secondary institutions to prevent and respond to sexual violence and misconduct. Active Bystander Intervention is a 90-minute workshop for all members of the campus community:...
- Author:MacDougall, HeatherSummary:
For more than a century, Toronto’s Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond. From horse manure to hippies and small pox to AIDS, the Department’s staff have established...
- Author:Armitage, Derek, Berkes, Fikret, Doubleday, NancySummary:
In Canada and around the world, new concerns with adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships are reshaping environmental governance. Meanwhile, ideas about collaboration and learning are converging around the idea...
- Author:Crozier, Lorna, Lane, PatrickSummary:
With new material from Susan Cheever, Molly Jong-Fast, and Rick Whitaker. What is this craving that overpowers all else? What is it like to be addicted, and what does it take to get straight or sober? In this new and expanded edition of...
- Author:MacDonald, CherylSummary:
Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, lifelong crusader for the recognition of the domestic sciences (cooking, sewing, childcare and housework) and an early proponent of home economics in Canada, was considered one of the radical new woman of the...
- Author:Dow, Leslie SmithSummary:
When Victor Hugo died in 1885, the world was shocked to discover that he had a lone survivor: his daughter Adèle, incarcerated in an asylum for insane gentlewomen. Adèle Hugo was an accomplished, intelligent, and ambitious young woman...
- Author:Smith Dow, LeslieSummary:
When Victor Hugo died in 1885, the world was shocked to discover that he had a lone survivor: his daughter Adèle, incarcerated in an asylum for insane gentlewomen. Adèle Hugo was an accomplished, intelligent, and ambitious young woman...
- Author:Van Harten, GusSummary:
The seventh edition of Administrative Law: Cases, Text, and Materials has been meticulously reorganized and updated to provide detailed commentary and a thorough review of recent case law in a resource that is engaging and accessible to...
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Administrative Law in Context, 3rd Edition roots its approach to administrative law in the important contexts that shape legal ideas and doctrines in this field. It provides a fresh examination of key principles and cases by leveraging...
- Author:Delagrave, MichelSummary:
L'adolescence est une étape de croissance importante accélérée au cours de laquelle le jeune apprend à se passer de plus en plus de ses parents. Devant ce désir croissant d'indépendance et face aux choix de l'adolescent les parents...
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