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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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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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Preserving What Is Valued

Preserving What Is Valued

Museums, Conservation, and First Nations
by Miriam Clavir
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Preserving What Is Valued explores the concept of preserving heritage. It presents the conservation profession's code of ethics and discusses four significant contexts embedded in museum conservation practice: science, professionalization, museum practice, and the relationship between museums and First Nations peoples.

 

Museum practice regarding han …

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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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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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Introducing the Dragonflies of British Columbia and the Yukon

Introducing the Dragonflies of British Columbia and the Yukon

by Robert A. Cannings
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Birding and butterfly watching have been popular outdoor activities for decades. Now, dragonfly watching is catching on as a fascinating and enjoyable pursuit. Dragonflies are large, colourful insects with amazing and easily observed behaviour. Noted entomologist Dr. Robert Cannings introduces students, naturalists and outdoor enthusiasts to the wo …

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Creating Community

Creating Community

edited by Renate Eigenbrod & Jo-Anne Episkenew
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Creating Community is a special book about imagination and challenge. We know that writers try to tell us things. We know that what they tell is culturally-based. But what exactly are Aboriginal authors trying to tell us?Fifteen authors and scholars discuss Aboriginal literature in it's unique Canadian context

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Street Protests and Fantasy Parks

Street Protests and Fantasy Parks

Globalization, Culture, and the State
edited by David R. Cameron & Janice Gross Stein
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The speed and intensity of global integration in the last two decades have provoked serious debate about the human impact of globalization and deep concern about the capacity of the state to provide social justice. Street Protests and Fantasy Parks focuses on two dimensions of globalization: the cultural and social realities of global connection an …

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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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No Place to Learn

No Place to Learn

Why Universities Aren't Working
by Thomas C Pocklington & Allan Tupper
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The Red Cross is studied and criticized. The Royal Family is studied and criticized. Churches and hospitals are studied and criticized. Canadian universities are seldom studied and criticized and are worse off for this neglect. This book seeks to repair this damage by casting a critical eye on how Canadian universities work – or fail to work.

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Planning Canadian Regions

Planning Canadian Regions

by Gerald Hodge & Ira M. Robinson
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Planning Canadian Regions is the first book to consolidate the history, evolution, current practice, and future prospects for regional planning in Canada. As planners grapple with challenges wrought by globalization, the evolution of massive new city-regions, and the pressures for sustainable and community economic development, a deeper understandi …

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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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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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Daughters of Copper Woman

Daughters of Copper Woman

by Anne Cameron
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tagged : native american studies, women's studies

Since its first publication in 1981, Daughters of Copper Woman has become an underground classic, selling over 200,000 copies. Now comes a new edition that includes many pieces cut from the original as well as fresh material added by the author. Here finally, after twenty-two years of gathering dust, is the complete version of the groundbreaking be …

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Driven Apart

Driven Apart

Women's Employment Equality and Child Care in Canadian Public Policy
by Annis May Timpson
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Annis May Timpson demonstrates how Canadian women’s calls for family-friendly employment policies have translated into inaction or inappropriate action on the part of successive federal governments. She focuses on debates, public inquiries, and policy evolution during the Trudeau, Mulroney, and Chrétien eras, contextualizing these developments w …

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Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador

Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador

edited by Colin Scott
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The Canadian North is witness to some of the most innovative efforts by Aboriginal peoples to reshape their relations with “mainstream” political and economic structures. Northern Quebec and Labrador are particularly dynamic examples of these efforts, composed of First Nations territories that until the 1970s had never been subject to treaty bu …

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Canada and the Beijing Conference on Women

Canada and the Beijing Conference on Women

Governmental Politics and NGO Participation
by Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon
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This book examines the process by which Canada’s policies for the Fourth World Conference on Women were formulated: a process that involved federal government officials from some twenty departments, provincial representatives, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from across Canada.

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Gender in the Legal Profession

Gender in the Legal Profession

Fitting or Breaking the Mould
by Joan Brockman
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The history of the legal profession in Canada and elsewhere is one of the exclusion of women, Aboriginals, ethnic and racial minorities, and those from less privileged classes. Based on face-to-face interviews with 50 women and 50 men called to the Bar in British Columbia during the past 3-7 years, Joan Brockman has studied this phenomenon and trie …

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(Ad)dressing Our Words

(Ad)dressing Our Words

Aboriginal Perspectives on Aboriginal Literature
edited by Armand Garnet Ruffo & Greg Young-Ing
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This critical anthology of essays by Aboriginal academics provides an in-depth analysis of the emerging body of literature by Aboriginal authors. The contributors study the works of their peers with an insightful understanding of the significance of contemporary literature within Aboriginal cultural paradigms.This critical anthology of essays by Ab …

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Garments of the Known

Garments of the Known

by Norm Sacuta
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With its juxtaposition of Canadian prairie with the downs of southern England, with its movement between reality and dream, night and day, Norm Sacuta's brilliant debut poetry collection, Garments of the Known, uses both traditional verse forms and linguistic fracture to create a most passionate landscape.

That landscape is always half one world, ha …

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Witch

Witch

The Wild Ride from Wicked to Wicca
by Candace Savage
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Witches have always been figures electric with possibility, feared as menacing hags but also standing as towering images of female rebellion. Trace their wild ride across the centuries, flying on brooms, turning into animals, making spirit journeys, visiting the dead, casting spells, and causing or healing illnesses. Every age has fashioned this le …

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One Thousand Beards

One Thousand Beards

A Cultural History of Facial Hair
by Allan Peterkin
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As seen in Time Magazine, Esquire, and The New Yorker!

 

Every man has the capacity to grow facial hair, but the decision to do so has always come with layers of meaning. Facial hair has traditionally marked a passage into manhood, but its various manifestations have been determined by class, religious belief, historical precedent, and occupational …

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In a Queer Country

In a Queer Country

Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context
edited by Terry Goldie
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In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most liberal of nations. Yet this picture of harmonious gay and lesbian assimilation is nothing if not fractured and fraught with the contradictions of place, privilege, race, and gender. In a Queer Country is a groundbreaking collection of fourteen e …

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Wired to the World, Chained to the Home

Wired to the World, Chained to the Home

Telework in Daily Life
by Penny Gurstein
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How does working at home change people's activity patterns, social networks, and their living and working spaces? How will it change the way we plan houses and communities in the future? Will telecommuting solve many of society's ills, or create new ghettos?

Gurstein combines a background in planning, sociology of work, and feminist theory with qual …

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Casanova Sexicon, The

Casanova Sexicon, The

A Manual for Liberated Men
by Eric Nicol
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What does Jacques Casanova, demonstrably the world's greatest lover, have to say to heterosexual men of the 21st century? Do his celebrated memoirs provide a message for the muddled swains of our time, whose sex drive is often stuck in neutral because liberated women can be a scary climb? The answer, one that Casanova was accustomed to hearing: si …

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The Gift of Reading

The Gift of Reading

by David Bouchard & Wendy Sutton
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Promoting literacy should be our focus from before our children are born until they leave secondary school. Teaching children to read and to love reading is the shared responsibility of every teacher, every administrator and every parent. Together, David Bouchard and Wendy Sutton explore how we can turn our homes and our schools into environments r …

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Plains Indian Rock Art

by James D. Keyser & Michael A. Klassen
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Archaeologists James Keyser and Michael Klassen show us the origins, diversity, and beauty of Plains rock art. The seemingly endless variety of images include humans, animals, weapons, masks, mazes, handprints, finger lines, geometric and abstract forms, tally marks, hoofprints, and the wavy lines and starbursts that humans universally associate wi …

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Being in Being

Being in Being

Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay
by Robert Bringhurst & Skaay
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Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay was born in the Haida village of Qquuna about 1827. Crippled by an injury in middle age, he devoted himself to the art of telling stories. He could neither read nor write, and it is purely a matter of luck that his work survives. But so great were his talents that he remains the most important figure in all of Haida l …

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Families, Labour and Love

Families, Labour and Love

Family Diversity in a Changing World
by Maureen Baker
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We think of our family life as very personal, but in fact it is shaped by influences well beyond our control. Families, Labour and Love identifies the ways in which family and personal life in three 'settler' societies - Australia, New Zealand and Canada - has been shaped by colonisation, immigration, globalisation, demographic changes, law and pol …

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Inuksuit

Inuksuit

Silent Messengers of the Arctic
by Norman Hallendy
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The mysterious stone figures known as inuksuit can be found throughout the circumpolar world. Built from whatever stones are at hand, each one is unique. Inuksuit are among the oldest and most important objects placed by humans upon the vast Arctic landscape and have become a familiar symbol of the Inuit and their homeland.

In author Norman Hallendy …

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Nitassinan

Nitassinan

The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland
by Marie Wadden
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This print-on-demand title is available by request from most booksellers.

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This Blessed Wilderness

This Blessed Wilderness

Archibald McDonald's Letters from the Columbia, 1822-44
by Jean M. Cole
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The twenty-five years between 1821 and 1846 were turbulent but important years in the history of the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest: 1821 saw the merger of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company, and 1846 saw the signing of the Oregon Treaty, which established the Canada-U.S. border.

 

Archibald McDonald was a man who experienced t …

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Cis dideen kat – When the Plumes Rise

The Way of the Lake Babine Nation
by Jo-Anne Fiske & Betty Patrick
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This book, the first to be written about the Lake Babine Nation in north-central British Columbia, examines its traditional legal order, self-identity, and their involvement in current treaty negotiations.Changing relations between the First Nations and the Canadian state have led to a new awareness of customary legal orders. These orders can help …

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Citizens Plus

Citizens Plus

Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State
by Alan C. Cairns
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In Citizens Plus, Alan Cairns unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state. He considers the assimilationist policy assumptions of the imperial era, examines more recent government initiatives, and analyzes the emergence of the nation-to-nation paradigm given massive support …

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An Overview of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Compensation for Their Breach

An Overview of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Compensation for Their Breach

by Robert Mainville
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A pressing issue today is how to compensate Aboriginal peoples for the infringement of their rights. Aboriginal rights include more than a title; within the fiduciary relationship between the federal government and Aboriginal peoples is the issue of compensation for the infringement of Aboriginal and treaty rights. In an historical and legal contex …

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Hurricanes over London

Hurricanes over London

by Charles Reid
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Browsing in his grandfather's study, young Jamie discovers a notebook entitled "This Was My War" and finds himself pulled into the life of East End London teenagers whose adolescent years were overtaken by the devastation of World War II. As Jamie follows his grandfather's story in which "war" changes from silver screen exploits to bombs exploding …

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Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape

Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape

Patterns and Processes of Forest Landscapes in Ontario
edited by Ajith H. Perera; David L. Euler & Ian D. Thompson
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The growing popularity of the broad, landscape-scale approach to forest management represents a dramatic shift from the traditional, stand-based focus on timber production. Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape responds to the increasing need of forest policy developers, planners, and managers for an integrated, comprehensive perspective on ec …

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Telling Tales

Telling Tales

Essays in Western Women's History
edited by Catherine A. Cavanaugh & Randi R. Warne
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Women played a vital role in the shaping of the West in Canada between the 1880s and 1940s. Yet surprisingly little is known about their contributions or the differences sex and gender made to the opportunities and obstacles women encountered. Telling Tales contributes to the rewriting of western Canada’s past by integrating women into the shifti …

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Aboriginal Education

Aboriginal Education

Fulfilling the Promise
edited by Marlene Brant Castellano; Lynne Davis & Louise Lahache
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Education is at the heart of the struggle of Aboriginal peoples to regain control over their lives as communities and nations. The promise of education is that it will instruct the people in ways to live long and well, respecting the wisdom of their ancestors and fulfilling their responsibilities in the circle of life. Aboriginal Education document …

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This Tremor Love Is

This Tremor Love Is

by Daphne Marlatt
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Daphne Marlatt’s latest book of poems is a memory book—an album of love poems spanning twenty-five years, from her first writing of what was to become the opening section, “A Lost Book,” to later, most recent sequences.

These are love poems in the sense that in the meeting of our minds and bodies, we are actually tied to the earth, and how, …

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Heavy Traffic

Heavy Traffic

Deregulation, Trade, and Transformation in North American Trucking
by Daniel Madar
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Canada and the United States exchange the world’s highest level of bilateral trade, valued at $1.4 billion a day. Two-thirds of this trade travels on trucks. Heavy Traffic examines the way in which the regulatory reform of American and Canadian trucking, coupled with free trade, has internationalized this vital industry.

 

Before deregulation, rest …

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