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Télécharger le livre :  Gandhi in a Canadian Context
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Gandhi in a Canadian Context


Alex Damm


Gandhi in a Canadian Context examines a range of intriguing and under-studied connections between India’s greatest nationalist leader, MahatmaGandhi (1869–1948), and facets of life in Canada, including Gandhi’s interest in and contact with Canada and Canadians early in...

Parution : 2017-01-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Loyal Gunners
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Loyal Gunners


Marc Milner , Roger Sarty , Lee Windsor


Loyal Gunners uniquely encapsulates the experience of Canadian militia gunners and their units into a single compelling narrative that centres on the artillery units of New Brunswick. The story of those units is a profoundly Canadian story: one of dedication and...

Parution : 2016-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Plotting the Reading Experience
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Plotting the Reading Experience


Lynne (E.F.) Mckechnie , Knut Oterholm , Paulette M. Rothbauer , Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad


This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors...

Parution : 2016-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding the Consecrated Life in Canada
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Understanding the Consecrated Life in Canada


Jason Zuidema


The story of the consecrated life in Canada since the 1960s should be about much more than numerical decline. Although the falling numbers are significant among Catholic religious in communities that pre-date Vatican II, many communities continue to show stability and...

Parution : 2015-12-21
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Collection : Editions SR
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Télécharger le livre :  Subversive Action
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Subversive Action


Deena Mandell , Nilan Yu


Subversive Action presents cases that explore the use of extralegal action undertaken in pursuit of human rights and social justice, and locate that action with reference to the boundaries of social work. Definitions of social work often include goals of social change,...

Parution : 2015-12-10
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Télécharger le livre :  A History of Antisemitism in Canada
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A History of Antisemitism in Canada


Ira Robinson


This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the...

Parution : 2015-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Unravelling Encounters
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Unravelling Encounters


Caitlin Janzen , Donna Jeffery , Kristin Smith


This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal, socio-political moment and its relationship to the historical legacies of...

Parution : 2015-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Europe in Its Own Eyes, Europe in the Eyes of the Other
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Europe in Its Own Eyes, Europe in the Eyes of the Other


Mary-Michelle Decoste , David B. Macdonald


What is Europe? Who is European? What do Europe and European identity mean in the twenty-first century? This collection of sixteen essays seeks to answer these questions by focusing on Europe as it is seen through its own eyes and through the eyes of others across a...

Parution : 2014-04-23
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Collection : Cultural Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Memory Effect
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The Memory Effect


Russell J.A. Kilbourn , Eleanor Ty


The Memory Effect is a collection of essays on the status of memory—individual and collective, cultural and transcultural—in contemporary literature, film, and other visual media. Contributors look at memory’s representation, adaptation, translation, and appropriation,...

Parution : 2014-03-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Eighteenth-Century Wyandot
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The Eighteenth-Century Wyandot


John L. Steckley


The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth century—the otherwise named Petun and Huron—and their history is fragmented by their dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This book weaves...

Parution : 2014-03-25
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Collection : Indigenous Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  From the Iron House
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From the Iron House


Deena Rymhs


In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in...

Parution : 2014-01-07
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Collection : Indigenous Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding and Addressing Girls’ Aggressive Behaviour Problems
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Understanding and Addressing Girls’ Aggressive Behaviour Problems


H. Bruce Ferguson , Debra Pepler


Understanding and Addressing Girls’ Aggressive Behaviour Problems reflects a major shift in understanding children’s aggressive-behaviour problems. Researchers used to study what went wrong with a troubled child and needed to be fixed; we now aim to understand what is...

Parution : 2013-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Map Worlds
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Map Worlds


Will C. Van Den Hoonaard


Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women in the...

Parution : 2013-09-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Map Worlds
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Map Worlds


Will C. Van Den Hoonaard


Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women in the...

Parution : 2013-09-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Discipline, Devotion, and Dissent
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Discipline, Devotion, and Dissent


Graham P. Mcdonough , Nadeem A. Memon , Avi I. Mintz


The education provided by Canada’s faith-based schools is a subject of public, political, and scholarly controversy. As the population becomes more religiously diverse, the continued establishment and support of faith-based schools has reignited debates about whether...

Parution : 2013-09-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Youth, Education, and Marginality
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Youth, Education, and Marginality


H. Bruce Ferguson , Kate Tilleczek


Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators provide international insights grounded in educational and community practice and policy. They...

Parution : 2013-06-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Mapping Canada's Music
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Mapping Canada's Music


Helmut Kallmann


Mapping Canada’s Music is a selection of writings by the late Canadian music librarian and historian Helmut Kallmann (1922–2012). Most of the essays deal with aspects of Canadian music, but some are also autobiographical, including one written during retirement in which...

Parution : 2013-05-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Preventing Eating-Related and Weight-Related Disorders
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Preventing Eating-Related and Weight-Related Disorders


H. Bruce Ferguson , Michael P. Levine , Gail L. Mcvey , Niva Piran


This book presents a collection of writings by expert researchers from Canada, the United States, and Australia who are committed to finding common cause and common ground in the prevention of eating disorders and obesity. The ten chapters in this book seek to create a...

Parution : 2013-01-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Spirituality in Social Work and Education
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Spirituality in Social Work and Education


Diana Coholic , John R. Graham , Janet Groen


Over the past ten years, the fields of social work and education have grappled separately with definitions of spirituality, ways to integrate spirituality into the classroom, and the rendering of spirituality as a meaningful concept for practitioners, students, and...

Parution : 2013-01-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace
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Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace


Linda M. Morra , Jessica Schagerl


Women’s letters and memoirs were until recently considered to have little historical significance. Many of these materials have disappeared or remain unarchived, often dismissed as ephemera and relegated to basements, attics, closets, and, increasingly, cyberspace...

Parution : 2013-01-24
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Collection : Life Writing
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