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Making a Global City

Making a Global City celebrates one of the world’s most multicultural cities and shows how education plays a vital role in shaping and integrating immigrants in liberal democracies.

Redesigning Work

By (author) Graham Lowe & Frank Graves
Categories: Sociology

Redesigning Work is a data-rich analysis of the state of Canada’s workers and their job market… This is an important book for employers, workers and policy-makers alike. ”Honourable John ...

Closer

By (author) Sarah Barmak
Categories: Feminism and feminist theory
Series: Exploded Views

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We think of the modern woman as sexually liberated – if anything, we’re told we’re oversexed. ...

Horse-and-Buggy Genius

In both North and South America, many ultra-traditional Mennonites rejected the modern world, especially its icon the automobile. They became known as “horse-and-buggy” people. Historian Royden Loewen, ...

Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada

In step with rural development initiatives across Canada today, these fourteen case studies examine the shift toward sustainability-based planning as a key element of community development. They also ...

Planning Toronto

By (author) Richard White
Categories: Political Science

In this lavishly illustrated book, Richard White reveals how urban planning contributed to Toronto becoming a functional, world-class city: the “city that works. ” Focusing on the period from 1940 ...

Canadian Countercultures and the Environment

Those who moved “back-to-the-land” following the turbulent 1960s engaged with environmental issues in ways that have had a long-term impact on Canadian society. This collection contributes a sustained ...

Settler

Canada has never had an “Indian problem” but it does have a Settler problem. Through an engaging, and sometimes enraging, look at the relationships between Canada and Indigenous nations, the authors ...

The Cowboy Legend

By (author) John Jennings
Categories: Literature: history and criticism
Series: The West

In The Cowboy Legend, John Jennings details the evidence that Everett Johnson was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister’s cowboy, and in the process shows that Johnson led a fascinating life ...

Dying from Improvement

By (author) Sherene Razack
Categories: Sociology

Dying from Improvement is a major contribution to the issues of Indigenous disposability, suffering, and struggles for justice within a settler state that is dedicated to their disappearance. ” –Audra ...