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Schooling the Next Generation
Creating Success in Urban Elementary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Public schools are among the most important institutions in North American communities, especially in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods. At their best, they enable students to overcome challenges like poverty by providing vital literacy and numeracy skills. At their worst, they condemn students to...
The Persons Case
The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Murphy and four other activist women, the Persons case challenged the exclusion of women from Canada's...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2011
There have been dramatic changes to the landscape of European security in the twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The essays in European Security Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall collectively take stock of how approaches to security in Europe have changed, both in practice and in theory,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2007
This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and activists to examine expressions of racism in contemporary policy areas, including education, labour, immigration, media, and urban planning. While anti-racist struggles during the twentieth century were largely pitched against overt forms...
Practising Social Work Research
Case Studies for Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
Research is as critical to social work practice as individual and group counseling skills, policy analysis, or community development. Using an approach similar to those adopted in direct practice courses, this book integrates research with social work practice and in so doing, promotes an understanding...
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
In Honour of R.C.B. Risk
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority. The fifteen original essays are by notable scholars, some of whom were...
by Julius Kirshner
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Through his research on the status of women in Florence and other Italian cities, Julius Kirshner helped to establish the socio-legal history of women in late medieval and Renaissance Italy and challenge the idea that Florentine women had an inferior legal position and civic status.
In Marriage,...
by David Beatty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
David Beatty draws on more than twenty years' teaching experience to produce a comprehensive introduction to the basic rules in constitutional law, accessible to law and non-law students alike. He reviews the leading cases handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada and the Privy Council concerning...
The Slow Professor
Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship.
In...
On Civic Republicanism
Ancient Lessons for Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Continuing the analysis of contemporary issues through the lens of ancient theories beyond the themes of Enduring Empire and the award-winning On Oligarchy, On Civic Republicanism explores the enduring relevance of the ancient concepts of republicanism and civic virtue to modern questions about political...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
In this collection of essays the changing structure of the Canadian community, especially in its urban growth, is brought before the reader with many fresh insights, much vigorous comment, and apt illustration. The authors, concentrating on certain kinds of problems which have interested them individually,...
Beyond the Box
B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2009
B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) is one of the most famous and influential figures in twentieth century psychology. A best-selling author, inventor, and social commentator, Skinner was both a renowned scientist and a public intellectual known for his controversial theories of human behavior. Beyond the Box...
Seeing Things
From Shakespeare to Pixar
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators share a collective fascination with the nebulous boundary between material objects and our imaginative...
Korean Immigrants in Canada
Perspectives on Migration, Integration, and the Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Koreans are one of the fastest-growing visible minority groups in Canada today. However, very few studies of their experiences in Canada or their paths of integration are available to public and academic communities. Korean Immigrants in Canada provides the first scholarly collection of papers on...