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International Ecopolitical Theory

• Paperback | Engels
• The global community's ability to deal effectively with environmental problems is contingent on the successful integration of international relations ... Lees meer

Aboriginal Student Engagement and Achievement

Lorenzo Cherubini

• Hardcover | Engels
• Aboriginal people want an education that reflects their cultural values and linguistic heritages, an education that will foster their children's engag... Lees meer

Bar Codes

Jean McKenzie Leiper

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• Bar Codes examines women lawyers' attempts to reconcile their professional obligations with other aspects of their lives. It charts the life courses o... Lees meer

Military Education and the British Empire, 1815-1949

• Hardcover | Engels
• Military education was the lifeblood of the armies, navies, and air forces of the British Empire and an essential ingredient for success in both war a... Lees meer

Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada

• Hardcover | Engels
• Aboriginal people in Canada have long struggled to regain control over their traditional forest lands. Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada b... Lees meer

Contact and Conflict

Robin Fisher

• Paperback | Engels
• Originally published in 1977, Contact and Conflict has remained an important book, which has inspired numerous scholars to examine further the relatio... Lees meer

Property, Territory, Globalization

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Autonomy
• In a world of flux, as old territorial borders dissolve and new nations come together, who controls ideas, information, and creativity? Who patrols th... Lees meer

The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science

• Hardcover | Engels
• Over the past decade, the introspective, insular, and largely atheoretical style that informed Canadian political science for most of the postwar peri... Lees meer

Consuming Modernity

• Paperback | Engels
• Positioning consumer culture in Canada within a wider international context, Consuming Modernity explores the roots of modern Western mass culture bet... Lees meer

Terrain of Memory

Kirsten Emiko McAllister

• Paperback | Engels
• For communities who have been the target of political violence, the damaging after-effects can haunt what remains of their families, their communities... Lees meer

Brokering Access

• Paperback | Engels
• Access to information (ATI) is widely regarded as a fundamental democratic right. Yet in Canada there still exists a struggle between the public's que... Lees meer

Postsecondary Education in British Columbia

Robert Cowin

• Hardcover | Engels
• The literature about postsecondary education in British Columbia has largely focused on public colleges and universities, while paying less attention ... Lees meer

Milestones on a Golden Road

Richard King

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King presents pivotal works of fiction published under the watchful eye of China's Communist regime between 19... Lees meer

The Price of Alliance

Frank Maas

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Canadian Military History
• The first major reappraisal of Pierre Trudeau's controversial defence policy, The Price of Alliance uses the 1976 procurement of Leopard tanks for Can... Lees meer

Canada and the British World

• Paperback | Engels
• Canada and the British World surveys Canada's national history through a British lens. In a series of essays focusing on the social, cultural, and int... Lees meer

Keeping the Nation's House

Helen M Schneider

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Chinese Studies
• The term home economics often conjures images of sterile classrooms where girls learn to cook dinner and swaddle dolls, far removed from the seats of ... Lees meer

Red Stamps and Gold Stars

• Hardcover | Engels
• Red Stamps and Gold Stars brings together all the messiness, compromise, and ethical dilemmas that underscore fieldwork in upland socialist Asia and e... Lees meer

Public Engagement and Emerging Technologies

• Paperback | Engels
• New technologies and the science that created them have transformed our lives, posing challenges as to how technological change can be better integrat... Lees meer

Democratizing Pension Funds

Ronald B Davis

• Paperback | Engels
• This book will spark a debate concerning the need for democracy and accountability in the governance of trillions of dollars of plan members' pension ... Lees meer

Born with a Copper Spoon

• Paperback | Engels
• A global perspective on the demand for and production of copper. Over the past two centuries, industrial societies hungry for copper--essential for li... Lees meer

Getting Wise about Getting Old

• Paperback | Engels
• As the world's population ages, our economies are doomed--doomed to higher retirement and medical costs, lower productivity, and lower economic growth... Lees meer

Families, Labour and Love

Maureen Baker

• Hardcover | Engels
• 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... Lees meer

Caring for Children

• Hardcover | Engels
• Social inequality. Selective political attention. Insufficient funding and access. Caring for Children provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exa... Lees meer

On the Side of the Angels

Andrew Thompson

• Paperback | Engels
• When it comes to upholding human rights both at home and abroad, many Canadians believe that we have always been "on the side of the angels." This boo... Lees meer