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Outbursts!

Outbursts!

A Queer Erotic Thesaurus
by Allan Peterkin
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Erotic slang words from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, and other English-speaking nations number well into the tens of thousands. But the history of terms used to describe the sexual activities of gays and lesbians have opposing sources: one, the discreet networks of gay men and lesbians who sought to come up with a new termin …

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Hunters and Bureaucrats

Hunters and Bureaucrats

Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon
by Paul Nadasdy
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Based on three years of ethnographic research in the Yukon, this book examines contemporary efforts to restructure the relationship between aboriginal peoples and the state in Canada. Although it is widely held that land claims and co-management – two of the most visible and celebrated elements of this restructuring – will help reverse centurie …

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Shifting Boundaries

Shifting Boundaries

Aboriginal Identity, Pluralist Theory, and the Politics of Self-Government
by Tim Schouls
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Canada is often called a pluralist state, but few commentators view Aboriginal self-government from the perspective of political pluralism. Instead, Aboriginal identity is framed in terms of cultural and national traits, while self-government is taken to represent an Aboriginal desire to protect those traits. Shifting Boundaries challenges this vie …

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Potlatch People

Potlatch People

Indian Lives and Legends of British Columbia
by Mildred Valley Thornton
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This title is complimentary to Hancock House's first Mildred Valley Thornton book released in 2000, Buffalo People: Portraits of a Vanishing Nation. Potlatch People concentrates on the lives and legends of the Coastal Indian Tribes. Mildred Valley Thornton had an abiding passion which she pursued with almost missionary fervor throughout her life-th …

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Women in a World at War

Women in a World at War

Seven Dispatches from the Front
by Madeleine Gagnon, translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott
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In 1999, poet and novelist Madeleine Gagnon undertook to document the experience of women in the many war zones at the end of a “century of ashes” through their own eyes and in their own words. Her record of those encounters boldly confronts the harshest realities of and asks the most difficult questions about not only the horrors of war, but a …

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Emerging from the Mist

Emerging from the Mist

Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History
edited by Quentin Mackie; Gary Coupland & R.G. Matson
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Our understanding of the precontact nature of the Northwest Coast has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. This book brings together the most recent research on the culture history and archaeology of a region of longstanding anthropological importance, whose complex societies represent the most prominent examples of hunters and gatherer …

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Hidden Agendas

Hidden Agendas

How Journalists Influence the News
by Lydia Miljan & Barry Cooper
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In our news-hungry society, where CNN is considered a staple of primetime viewing, journalists have become celebrities and often, political proxies. To a large degree, our world is shaped by their commentaries on everything from war to health care to trade. Hidden Agendas: How Journalists Influence the News is a no-holds-barred exposé of how the o …

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Tlingit Art

Tlingit Art

Totem Poles & Art of the Alaskan Indians
by Maria Bolanz & Gloria Williams
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The Tlingit Indians of the Northwest Coast carved interior house posts, portal entrances and free standing totem poles with crests of animals, sea creatures, birds, and legendary and human figures, successfully combining symbolism and realism. This book examines the social and artistic relevance of the Tlingit carvings and relates many of the fasci …

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Spirit of Powwow

Spirit of Powwow

by Kay Johnston & Gloria Nahanee
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Spirit of Powwow has evolved as we have talked with dancers and drummers until we feel we now have a powwow book that goes beyond the usual mere description of regalia and dances. The photography and text cover every component of the powwow, not just the dance competition. The Nahanee family and their friends make this book a very personal experien …

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The Speaking Cure

The Speaking Cure

by David Homel
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A stunning drama of love and intrigue set against the backdrop of war in Yugoslavia, where power is used to manipulate and break people.

 

I saw what the mural was all about. The entire war was portrayed on it from the asylum's point of view. The tanks with predatory smiles, the civilians naked with zippers up their middles so the soldiers could open …

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Gender and Change in Hong Kong

Gender and Change in Hong Kong

Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy
edited by Eliza Wing-Yee Lee
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Gender and Change in Hong Kong analyzes women’s changing identities and agencies amidst the complex interaction of three important forces, namely, globalization, postcolonialism, and Chinese patriarchy. The chapters examine the issues from a number of perspectives to consider legal changes, political participation, the situation of working-class …

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Unnatural Law

Unnatural Law

Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy
by David R. Boyd
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While governments assert that Canada is a world leader in sustainability, Unnatural Law provides extensive evidence to refute this claim. A comprehensive assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian environmental law, the book provides a balanced, critical examination of Canada’s record, focusing on laws and policies intended to protect …

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Misplaced Distrust

Misplaced Distrust

Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada
by Éric Montpetit
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Citizens of industrialized countries largely share a sense that national and international governance is inadequate, believing not only that public authorities are incapable of making the right policy decisions, but also that the entire network of state and civil society actors responsible for the discussion, negotiation, and implementation of poli …

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The Co-Workplace

The Co-Workplace

Teleworking in the Neighbourhood
by Laura C. Johnson
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Almost half of all jobs in North America and Europe could today be performed away from a traditional office. Millions of office workers are already working from home, and while some appreciate the flexibility of home-based telework, others find that they are bound to their employers by an "electronic leash." This book explores the "co-workplace" …

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Being a Tourist

Being a Tourist

Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel
by Julia Harrison
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What is meaningful about the experience of travelling abroad? What feeds the impulse to explore new horizons? In Being a Tourist, Harrison analyzes her conversations with a large group of upper-middle-class travellers. Why, she asks, do these people invest their resources -- financial, emotional, psychological, and physical -- in this activity? Har …

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Tales of Ghosts

Tales of Ghosts

First Nations Art in British Columbia, 1922-61
by Ronald W. Hawker
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The years between 1922 and 1961, often referred to as the “Dark Ages of Northwest Coast art,” have largely been ignored by art historians, and dismissed as a period of artistic decline. Tales of Ghosts compellingly reclaims this era, arguing that it was instead a critical period during which the art played an important role in public discourses …

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Tlingit: Their Art and Culture

Tlingit: Their Art and Culture

by David Hancock
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A new look at the Tlingit. The author weaves personal observations in with historical and cultural references to give a lively account of these artistic native peoples. When you visit southeast Alaska you encounter the Tlingit Indians and their very rich lands, diversified culture and wondrous art forms. You can visit from cruise ships, from the Al …

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New Perspectives on the Public-Private Divide

New Perspectives on the Public-Private Divide

by Law Commission of Canada
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This rich collection of essays explores how the public-private divide influences, challenges, and interacts with law and law reform. Through various case studies, the contributors reflect on this complex dichotomy's role in structuring the socio-legal environment for the personal, social, economic, and governance relationships of citizens. They dem …

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Taking Stands

Taking Stands

Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities
by Maureen G. Reed
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This book goes beyond the dichotomies of “pro” and “anti” environmentalism to tell the stories of the women who seek to maintain resource use in rural places. The author links the experiences of women who seek to protect forestry as an industry, a livelihood, a community, and a culture to policy making by considering the effects of environm …

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Reclaiming Aboriginal Justice, Identity, and Community

by Craig Proulx
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In his analysis of justice issues facing urban Aboriginals, Proulx pays particular attention to the situation of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, and how the current justice system has failed them. He looks at alternatives to the current system, examining in detail the Community Council Project (CCP), an Aboriginal-run diversion program in Toronto. Th …

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A War of Patrols

A War of Patrols

Canadian Army Operations in Korea
by William Johnston
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The extended peace the world anticipated following the decisive Allied victory in the Second World War was abruptly shattered in June 1950 by the invasion of South Korea by communist North Korea. Responding to a United Nations’ call to assist the South Korean regime, Canada deployed an 8000-man brigade to the peninsula to fight as part of an Amer …

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Japan at the Millennium

Japan at the Millennium

Joining Past and Future
by David Edgington
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This critical, multi-disciplinary collection explores the convergence of past and future in contemporary Japan. Contributors comment on a wide range of economic, socio-cultural, and political trends – such as the mobilization of Japanese labour, the burgeoning Ainu identity movement, and the shifting place of the modern woman – and conclude tha …

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Training the Excluded for Work

Training the Excluded for Work

Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income
edited by Marjorie Griffin Cohen
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In recent years job training programs have suffered severe funding cuts and the focus of training programs has shifted to meet the directives of funders rather than the needs of the community. How do these changes to job training affect disadvantaged workers and the unemployed?

In an insightful and comprehensive discussion of job education in Canada …

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Out of the Darkness

Out of the Darkness

Teens Talk About Suicide
by Marion Crook
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The fearless monsters we think are our kind
The changes we take, the evil we love
The insane things we have all done
No one has won.
-Megan

Teen suicide has long been considered one of society's darkest secrets; the idea of troubled young people driven to take their own lives was a tragedy too horrible to contemplate, let alone talk about openly. B …

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Who are Canada's Aboriginal Peoples?

Recognition, Definition, and Jurisdiction
foreword by Harry Daniels, edited by Paul Chartrand
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Amendments to the Canadian Constitution in 1982 recognize and affirm “the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada”, specifically the Indian, Inuit and Métis peoples. A 1996 report from The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples laid out a process to recognize and define Canada’s Aboriginal peoples according …

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The Beast Within

The Beast Within

Why Men Are Violent
by Neil Boyd
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Thoughtful, provocative and definitely controversial, The Beast Within is essential reading for anyone concerned about violence in our society. Clearly written, extensively researched and logically reasoned, this is a book that challenges as it informs.

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Intensive Care

Intensive Care

A Memoir
by Alan Twigg
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One night in April, after a Sunday soccer game, Alan Twigg couldn't remember the names of his two sons or his wife-and he couldn't hold a pen. An emergency CAT scan revealed a large brain tumour squeezed against his motor cortex. 'Intensive Care' tells the story of why this was a good thing. 'Intensive Care' isn't a medical survival story; it's a y …

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The Indian Association of Alberta

The Indian Association of Alberta

A History of Political Action
by Laurie Meijer Drees
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The history of indigenous political action in Canada is long, hard-fought, and under-told. By the mid-1900s, Native peoples across western Canada were actively involved in their own political unions in a drive to be heard outside their own, often isolated, reserve communities. In Alberta, the Indian Association of Alberta (IAA) represented the inte …

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Sex and Borders

Sex and Borders

Gender, National Identity and Prostitution Policy in Thailand
by Leslie Ann Jeffrey
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Prostitution in Thailand has been the subject of media sensationalism for decades. Bangkok’s brothels have become international icons of “third world” women’s exploitation in the global sex trade. Recently, however, sex workers have begun to demand not pity, but rights as workers in the global economy.

 

This book explores how Thai national i …

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Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada

Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada

by Stuart N. Soroka
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Why do public issues like the environment rise and fall in importance over time? To what extent can the trends in salience be explained by real-world factors? To what degree are they the product of interactions between media content, public opinion, and policymaking? This book surveys the development of eight issues in Canada over a decade -- AIDS, …

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Anatomy of a Conflict

Anatomy of a Conflict

Identity, Knowledge, and Emotion in Old-Growth Forests
by Terre Satterfield
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Anatomy of a Conflict explores the cultural aspects of the fierce dispute between activist loggers and environmentalists over the fate of Oregon’s temperate rain forest. Centred on the practice of old-growth logging and the survival of the northern spotted owl, the conflict has lead to the burning down of ranger stations, the spiking of trees, lo …

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The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 39, 2001

edited by D.M. McRae
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The Canadian Yearbook of International Law is issued annually under the auspices of the Canadian Branch of the International Law Association (Canadian Society of International Law) and the Canadian Council on International Law.

 

The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies, a notes and comments s …

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Making Native Space

Making Native Space

Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
by Cole Harris
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This elegantly written and insightful book provides a geographical history of the Indian reserve in British Columbia. Cole Harris analyzes the impact of reserves on Native lives and livelihoods and considers how, in light of this, the Native land question might begin to be resolved. The account begins in the early nineteenth-century British Empire …

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Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb

Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb

A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals
by Rod Preece
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In our modern world, where human will routinely presides over the natural world, it is easy to imagine that sensibility to animals has been merely a matter of peripheral concern in human history. Rod Preece, in this impressively researched volume, demonstrates that, on the contrary, respect for animals has always been a part of human consciousness. …

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Salish Elders

Salish Elders

by Wim Tewinkle
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With stunning photographs and the Elders' stories, author Wim Tewinkel records the lives lead by twenty-one elders of the Interior Salish people. They share with the author the highlights of their lives -- from being a bomber in World War II to being a great-grandmother and master bead worker. Tewinkel's photographic portraits capture both the dept …

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Taxing Choices

Taxing Choices

The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law
by Rebecca Johnson
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In the early 1990s, lawyer Beth Symes brought an equality challenge against the Canadian Income Tax Act, arguing that her childcare costs were a business expense. The case ignited public controversy. Was Symes disadvantaged on the basis of gender, or unfairly privileged on the basis of class? This book seeks answers to those questions through close …

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Modern Women Modernizing Men

Modern Women Modernizing Men

The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69
by Ruth Compton Brouwer
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During the interwar era, the world of mainstream Protestant missions was in transition. The once-dominant paradigm of separate spheres – “women’s work for women” – had lost its saliency, and professional women often entered work worlds largely peopled by men. Medical missionaries Belle Choné Oliver and Florence Murray and literature spec …

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Restoration of the Great Lakes

Restoration of the Great Lakes

Promises, Practices, and Performances
by Mark Sproule-Jones
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The Great Lakes of North America are one of the world’s most important natural resources. The source of vast quantities of fish, shipping lanes, hydroelectric energy, and usable water, they are also increasingly the site of severe environmental degradation and resource contamination. This study analyzes how well governments and other stakeholders …

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Women and the White Man's God

Women and the White Man's God

Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field
by Myra Rutherdale
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Between 1860 and 1940, Anglican missionaries were very active in northern British Columbia, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. To date, histories of this mission work have largely focused on men, while the activities of women – either as missionary wives or as missionaries in their own right – have been seen as peripheral at best, if not com …

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Systematics of Lasiopogon

Systematics of Lasiopogon

(Diptera: Asilidae)
by Robert A. Cannings
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The genus Lasiopogon is a widespread group of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) inhabiting the north temperate parts of the Earth. This study is the first to examine the genus as a complete entity and clearly define intrageneric relationships. It is also the first to pay special attention to the male and female genitalia, important structures in the …

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Heroines

Heroines

A Social Documentary
by Clarkes Lincoln & Hodgson Barbara
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The Heroines Series is an epic photographic documentary of the addicted women of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In 1997, fashion and portrait photographer Lincoln Clarkes turned his lens away from the world of glamour and began documenting the dire circumstances being endured by the marginalized women living and working on the streets of Vancouver' …

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Let Me Kiss It Better

Let Me Kiss It Better

Elixirs for the Not So Straight and Narrow
by Billeh Nickerson
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Billeh Nickerson tells it like it is: a wry and at times outrageous chronicler of contemporary gay life, written for those who can take it like a man, or at least read about it without squirming. In these charming and very funny essays, Billeh writes with disarming sweetness about love, sex, relationships, and subjects that might even make the wom …

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