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Before he died in February 1991 Eugene Forsey had the pleasure of reading these tributes to his autobiography, A Life on the fringe, and of seeing it nominated for a Governor General's Award and become a bestseller. Dr. Forsey writes warmly of his association and friendship with a host of people-including Stephen Leacock, Donald Creighton, Arthur Meighen, John Diefenbaker, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, M.J. Coldwell, Stanley Knowles, F.R. Scott, King Gordon, and Carl Goldenberg-many of whom are discussed in the chapter entitled 'Of Politics and Politicians'. A Life on the Fringe is an informative, often humorous, storyladen account of a life of distinguished service that covers most of this century.

This text is based on the assumption that nothing is inherently deviant, but that what is regarded as deviant is the result of socio-historical context. It focuses on five social categories in which it discusses how definitions of unconventionality are formed and how they influence control.

This is a study of the history and current state of the aboriginal politics in Canada, comparing them with aboriginal politics in New Zealand and the USA.

This volume is the culmination of an objective study of the attack on the Alberta deficit launched by Premier Ralph Klein's government in 1993. The book answers the question, "how was the goal achieved so quickly?" and examines Klein's cost cutting strategies and theories of government.

This work considers the question of Quebec's role and place in Canada, an issue that has been long ignored. It considers these and other questions in the light of Canada's constitutional past and its political present.

This book explores the difficult challenges that face any government as it determines when to treat dissent as legitimate political behaviour and when as an illegimitate threat to individuals and society.

Canadian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World examines the theoretical and practical realities of a unipolar world - a system in which a single power is disproportionally dominant and influential - and asks how it affects Canadian foreign policy.

The English Language: A Linguistic History surveys the development of the English language from its Indo-European past to the present day.

A core text for psychology of criminal behaviour courses offered out of psychology and criminology departments nation-wide.

Desire, Love, and Identity: Philosophy of Sex and Love combines classical readings with contemporary articles exploring love and sex as defining features of our identity.

Writing Critically: Key Skills for Post-Secondary Success is designed to foster an active and engaged problem-solving approach to writing rooted in real-world situations, which include multi-disciplinary academic settings.

This text is a clear and concise guide to research and writing for students at all levels of undergraduate psychology studies. Making Sense in Psychology: A Student's Guide to Research and Writing is intended for students in any psychology course containing research/writing components.

Ear Training and Sight Singing is an introductory text designed to present a wealth of material suitable for use in ear training and sight singing courses for a 4-semester university or college programme anywhere in North America.

Women and Religious Traditions uses a critical feminist lens to explore the roles and interactions of women with major world faith traditions. Within each particular tradition, the text examines the history and status of women, family structures, sexuality, and social change, as well as texts, rituals, and interpretations by and for women.

This wide-ranging collection of essays explores aspects of historical remembering in Canadian literature. Essays consider a range of topics, from Canada's earliest historical narratives to its most recent, and are representative of the country's regional character, as well as of the ongoing movement of peoples in immigration and diaspora. The book's division into five parts (amnesia, postmemory, recovery work, trauma, and globalization) reflect the many ways the pastinfuses the present, and how the present adapts the past.

A core text for first- and second-year religion and popular culture courses that focuses on examining and applying theories to the interactions between religion and popular culture using a cultural studies approach.

Reel Canada is an advanced ESL text for adult and young adult learners. This four-skills book uses Canadian films as a starting point for each theme-based chapter. It is the first level of the new Culture Link series of four-skill, culture-focused books.

Specifically designed for third- and fourth-year students, Religion and Global Politics uses case studies from the US, India, and Latin America, as well as theoretical concepts to explore the relationship between religion and world order.

An upper-level supplementary text for students from a range of disciplines looking for help writing proposals, term papers, and major research projects.

In Canada human rights are considered to be fundamental and inalienable, and on the international stage our rights regime is seen to be forward-looking. The historical reality, however, is that Canada was surprisingly slow to adopt and adapt to the "rights revolution" that followed the Second World War. Canadians are by and large unaware of the uneven emergence of a rights consciousness, nor is there a general understanding of how the Canadian experience fits intothe international story of the age of rights. This collection explores the changing attitudes toward human rights in Canada in the last hundred years. Contributors detail the novelty of, the struggle for, and the limitations of universal human rights in Canada and their uneven application acrossCanadian society. The history of this long process of transformation includes the struggle faced by many groups for recognition of their rights and the important work of rights activists.

By examining the cult of manliness as it developed in Victorian and Edwardian Ontario, Moss reveals a number of factors that made young men eager to prove their mettle on the battlefields of Europe.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada is the leading non-governmental land conservation organization, a private, not-for-profit organization that partners with corporate and individual landowners to protect natural lands. The NCC's work is supported by about 40,000 active donors and manages 2.2 million acres of ecologically important land nationwide. The NCC is by all accounts a rare good news environmental story.

Offering unparalleled guidance to the intricacies of the language, Writing English: The Canadian Handbook is an essential tool for writers, students, business people, and anyone who works with the written word in Canada.

Offering a current and comprehensive analysis of Canadian cinema in its political and cultural contexts, this new edition of Film in Canada introduces students to a cinema that is as diverse as the country itself. Major developments in Canadian filmmaking are explored in depth, from direct cinema and the national-realist films of the 1960s to later avant-garde projects and beyond. With detailed discussions on recent and well-established works by prominentCanadian filmmakers, along with new film commentaries and movie stills, this text is an invaluable resource for film students and film lovers alike.

Sociology of Science: A Critical Canadian Introduction provides an overview of the scientific enterprise using the techniques and tools of modern sociology with a particular emphasis on Canadian research.

This text examines the history of children in Canada from New France to the end of the twentieth century. It includes primary source documents as well as important secondary source writings.

In Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to do with Pigs, Katherine Barber reveals the surprising and delightful histories behind 400 of the commonest words in the English language. Written in a lively, witty and conversational style, the entries are arranged thematically by season and takes the reader on a lively journey through the year.

Population and Society brings together twenty-six classic and contemporary published works that are considered to be foundational reading for the study of human population and society. The book is divided into ten sections with concise introductory overviews by the editor, Frank Trovato.

This book examines key issues surrounding ethnicity and human rights in our country. It asks: How do we account for the persistence of racism in the face of increasing legal protection for human rights?Kallen's classic study reveals the ways in which human rights violations, by way of discrimination on the bases of race and ethnicity, create and sustain the marginalized status of diverse racial and ethnic groups in Canada. Minority rights issues central to the concerns of Canada's three major ethnic constituencies are examined: Aboriginal peoples, Franco-Quebecois, and racial and ethnic immigrant groups. Other central issues - gender, religious symbolism, and the mosaic versus the melting pot- are also considered. In ten chapters the author leads the reader through the pressures that flow from Canada's international human rights obligations, new patterns of immigration and ethnic structure, and the politicization of ethnicity. Racism, ethnicity, ethnic identity, social stratification, human rights violations, and the social construction of ethnic and other minorities are examined, as are the vertical ethnic mosaic and the Canadian system of ethnic stratification. Ethnic integration including models,policies, and realities are well articulated, as are minority protest movements. The approach of the book is unique and worth articulation. One reviewer called Kallen's approach "a blended sociological, legal, and policy perspective."