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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.
Making Sense in Education is a clear and concise guide to research and writing for students at all levels of undergraduate study. It is intended for students in any education course containing research/writing components.
Geographic Information Systems helps students understand how GIS enables us to digitally represent the forms, patterns and processes of Earth.
Using a series of immersive case studies, Lean, Ethical Business Communication is a guide to effective business communication that reflects real-world practice, fosters critical thinking, and applies rhetorical strategy.
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.
Social Movements, third edition, is a core or supplemental text suitable for social movements courses offered out of sociology, labour studies, and political science departments in both colleges and universities. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories.
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.
Created for students studying introduction to social statistics,Understanding Social Statistics acts as both a map and toolkit for navigating this often-daunting course successfully.
A core text suitable for introductory electric circuits courses offered through electrical technologist- and electrical technician-level programs at the college level. This text is also suitable for use in non-specialist survey courses at the university level.
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.
Practical Grammar: A Canadian Writer's Resource offers students of all levels and disciplines a succinct and comprehensive overview of the basics of English grammar.
First-year and second-year students taking introductory courses in human geography offered at the university level.
Fiscal Federalism: A Comparative Introduction is a concise introduction to the ways in which the world's federations manage their finances. Topics covered include the distribution of taxation powers among different levels of government; regional equalization schemes; authority over natural resource revenues; and the impact of federal systems of government on pension, welfare, and income assistance programs. The book targets second-, third-, and fourth-yearcourses in Federalism and Comparative Politics at the university level, and will also be useful for practitioners and civil servants.
Kennedy's Constitution of Canada: An Introduction to its Development and Law was first published in 1922 and has long been considered to be a classic work on Canadian legal history. This new Wynford edition, introduced by legal academic and former Dean of Toronto Law School Martin Friedland, reflects on the context and the influence of Kennedy's remarkable work. In his comprehensive and knowledgeable volume, Kennedy traces the development of Canada from theearliest days of the French explorers until 1922. The book covers the seigniorial system in Quebec, colonial policy, responsible government, federation, Canada as a dominion, the distribution of legislative power, the imperial tie and federalism.
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.
The first volume of a two-volume series, The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History, fourth edition, is an introductory text for first- and second-year students that surveys the social, cultural, political, and economic history of Canada from first contact to Confederation.
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.
The book is simultaneously a history of law, aspects of the state, trade unions and labouring people, and their interaction within the broad and shifting terrain of political economy. The authors are attentive to regional differences and sectoral divergences, and they attempt to address the fragmentation of class experience.
Engineering Communication: From Principles to Practice, 2e, is a writing and communications text designed to guide engineering students through the process of writing polished and professional documents.
In A Fatherly Eye, historian Robin Brownlie examines how paternalism and assimilation during the interwar period were made manifest in the 'field', far from the bureaucrats in Ottawa, but never free of their oppressive supervision.
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.
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