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Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts

Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts

Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Literatures
edited by Elizabeth Podnieks & Andrea O’Reilly
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Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter.

The collection examines how authors use textual spaces to accept, …

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Leaving Fundamentalism

Leaving Fundamentalism

Personal Stories
edited by G. Elijah Dann
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The stories in Leaving Fundamentalism provide a personal and intimate look behind sermons, religious services, and church life, and promote an understanding of those who have been deeply involved in, and then left, the conservative Christian church.

These autobiographies come from within the congregations and homes of religious fundamentalists, whe …

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Accusation

Accusation

by Catherine Bush
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Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013, a Canada Reads Top 40 Pick, and a NOW Magazine Book of the Year

While in Copenhagen, Sara Wheeler, a Toronto journalist, happens upon Cirkus Mirak, a touring Ethiopian children's circus. She later meets and is convinced to drive the circus founder, Raymond Renaud, through the night from Toronto to Montreal …

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Critical Condition

Critical Condition

Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity
by Patrick Finn
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Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a “critical thinker.”

The book starts with the pre-Socratics and the impact that Socrates’ death had on his student Plato and traces the increasingly violent use of critical …

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You Are Stardust

You Are Stardust

by Elin Kelsey, illustrated by Soyeon Kim
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age: 4 to 18
Grade: 1 to 4
tagged : body, mind & spirit

You Are Stardust begins by introducing the idea that every tiny atom in our bodies came from a star that exploded long before we were born. From its opening pages, the book suggests that we are intimately connected to the natural world; it compares the way we learn to speak to the way baby birds learn to sing, and the growth of human bodies to the …

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Touch Anywhere to Begin

Touch Anywhere to Begin

The Living Landscape
by Mark Anthony Jarman
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Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction)

From acclaimed author Mark Anthony Jarman comes Touch Anywhere to Begin, his first book of travel writing since the publication of the critically acclaimed Ireland’s Eye in 2002.

In 18 unusual, head-spinning essays, Jarman can drift through Venice amid the revelry of carnival and the arrival of th …

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Skunk on a String

Skunk on a String

by Thao Lam
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age: 4 to 7
Grade: p to 2
tagged : imagination & play, humorous stories, city & town life, new experience

The highly anticipated wordless picture book from debut author and collage artist Thao Lam

"Wordless... colorful... hilarious." Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW

In Skunk on a String, we meet a skunk who has been tied to the tail of a balloon. Try as he might, the persistent critter can’t get anyone to untie him. In this wordless story, he is shooed and sw …

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Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow

Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow

Canadian Health Professionals’ Experience of Compassion Fatigue
by Wendy Austin; E. Sharon Brintnell; Erika Goble; Leon Kagan; Linda Kreitzer; Denise Larsen & Brendan Leier
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Compassion fatigue from the perspective of insiders in caregiving roles

First used to describe the weariness the public felt toward media portrayals of societal crises, the term compassion fatigue has been taken up by health professionals to name—along with burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion stress, and secondary traumatic stress—the …

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Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction

Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction

by Chelva Kanaganayakam
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tagged : middle eastern, english, irish, scottish, welsh

What do R.K. Narayan, G.V. Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi, and Salman Rushdie have in common?

They represent Indian writing in English over five decades. Vilified by many cultural nationalists for not writing in native languages, they nonetheless present a critique of the historical and cultural conditions that promoted and su …

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The Memory of Water

The Memory of Water

by Allen Smutylo
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Adventurer, writer, and artist Allen Smutylo has experienced some of the wildest and most captivating waters imaginable in all corners of the globe. The stories in The Memory of Water—all of them accompanied by the author’s own stunning artwork—describe his adventures in the Arctic, South Pacific, Great Lakes region, and India.

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Knife Party at the Hotel Europa

Knife Party at the Hotel Europa

by Mark Anthony Jarman
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Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction, New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award

One of Canada's literary treasures, Mark Anthony Jarman returns with a book of moving and often funny tales of a man's quest for himself. A.S. Byatt says that his writing is "extraordinary, his stories gripping," and …

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Woman Gored by Bison Lives

Woman Gored by Bison Lives

by Douglas Glover
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The beguiling "Woman Gored by Bison Lives" is from Douglas Glover's 1991 Governor General Award-nominated story collection, A Guide to Animal Behaviour. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it is also part of the six@sixty collection.

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The Diplomat

The Diplomat

Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis
by Antony Anderson
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tagged : presidents & heads of state, 20th century, political, egypt

Shortlisted, John W. Dafoe Book Prize

Saturday, November 3, 1956
The United Nations, New York City
about 10 p.m.

Lester Pearson, Canada's foreign minister (and future prime minister) stands before the United Nations General Assembly. He is about to speak, reading from a proposal composed of seventy-eight painstakingly chosen words. These words, shape …

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Crosstalk

Crosstalk

Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue
edited by Diana Brydon & Marta Dvořák
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What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection argues for the value of attending to narratorial, lyric, and theatrical conventions in dialogue w …

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We All Giggled

We All Giggled

A Bourgeois Family Memoir
by Thomas O. Hueglin
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We All Giggled tells the stories of two families that came together when the author’s parents met and married in 1945. The Hüglins had lost most of their fortune in the course of two world wars, and the Wachendorff s had survived the Nazi years despite their Jewish ancestry. The families’ roots are traced back to a vineyard in southern Germany …

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Postcolonizing the Commonwealth

Postcolonizing the Commonwealth

Studies in Literature and Culture
edited by Rowland Smith
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tagged : books & reading, higher, arts & humanities

Women and resistance in Iran; cowboy songs; fetal alcohol syndrome; the conquest of Everest; women settlers in Natal. What do these topics have in common?

The study of what used to be called Commonwealth literature, or the new literatures, has by now come to be known as postcolonial study. This collection of essays investigates the status of postco …

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Canadian Women in Print, 1750–1918

Canadian Women in Print, 1750–1918

by Carole Gerson
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Canadian Women in Print, 1750—1918 is the first historical examination of women’s engagement with multiple aspects of print over some two hundred years, from the settlers who wrote diaries and letters to the New Women who argued for ballots and equal rights. Considering women’s published writing as an intervention in the public sphere of nati …

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Living Recovery

Living Recovery

Youth Speak Out on “Owning” Mental Illness
by JoAnn Elizabeth Leavey
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Living Recovery provides critical information for practitioners and educators in mental health services about the self-described needs of young people diagnosed with mental illness. It portrays the stages of living with mental illness through the recovery model ELAR—emergence, loss, adaptation, and recovery. The …

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Indian Country

Indian Country

Essays on Contemporary Native Culture
by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
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tagged : native american studies, popular culture, cultural

Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern “Indian wars” are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, and academic analysis, while Native communities struggle among themselves over membership, money, and cultural meaning. In cultural and po …

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A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination

A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination

by Jane Campbell
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tagged : women authors, english, irish, scottish, welsh, 20th century

A.S. Byatt’s novel Possession: A Romance attracted international acclaim in 1990, winning both the Booker Prize and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. In her long and eminent career, Byatt has steadily published both fiction and non-fiction, the latest of which has not, until now, been given full critical consideration.

Enter …

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Women in God’s Army

Women in God’s Army

Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army
by Andrew Mark Eason
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tagged : sexuality & gender studies, india & south asia, women's studies

The early Salvation Army professed its commitment to sexual equality in ministry and leadership. In fact, its founding constitution proclaimed women had the right to preach and hold any office in the organization. But did they?

Women in God’s Army is the first study of its kind devoted to the critical analysis of this central claim. It traces the …

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Imagining Resistance

Imagining Resistance

Visual Culture and Activism in Canada
edited by J. Keri Cronin & Kirsty Robertson
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tagged : contemporary (1945-), popular culture, criticism & theory

Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection of eleven essays that focus on a range of institutions, artists, events, and …

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The Postwar Novel in Canada

The Postwar Novel in Canada

Narrative Patterns and Reader Response
by Rosmarin Heidenreich, foreword by Linda Hutcheon
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tagged : canadian, 20th century, books & reading

As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it has developed in this country since the Second World War. Focusing on narratological rather than thematic elements, the book represents a systematic application of the insights and analytical tools of read …

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Unsettled Remains

Unsettled Remains

Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic
edited by Cynthia Sugars & Gerry Turcotte
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Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response to Canadian history. The essays gathered here range from treatments of early postcolonial gothic expression in Canadian literature to attempts to …

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Activating the Heart

Activating the Heart

Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing, and Relationship
edited by Julia Christensen; Christopher Cox & Lisa Szabo-Jones
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Activating the Heart is an exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. The collection pays particular attention to the significance of storytelling in Indigenous knowledge frameworks and extends into other ways of know …

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Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace

Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace

Explorations in Canadian Women’s Archives
edited by Linda M. Morra & Jessica Schagerl
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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 rather than public institutions. This collection showcases the range of critical de …

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Girls, Texts, Cultures

Girls, Texts, Cultures

edited by Clare Bradford & Mavis Reimer
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tagged : feminism & feminist theory, feminist

This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls’ experience. It brings together scholars from girls’ studies and children’s literature, fields that have traditionally conducted their research separately, and the collaboration showcases the breadth and complexity of girl-related s …

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Writing in Our Time

Writing in Our Time

Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003)
by Pauline Butling & Susan Rudy
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Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject positions, repetition, fragmentation, and disjunction.

To trace the aesthetically and politically radical poetries in English Canada since the 1960s …

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Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory

Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory

Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard
edited by Eva C. Karpinski; Jennifer Henderson; Ian Sowton & Ray Ellenwood
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Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors, both established and emerging scholars, extend Godard’s work through engagements …

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Child Welfare

Child Welfare

Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice
edited by Kathleen Kufeldt & Brad McKenzie
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tagged : social work, children's studies, child advocacy

Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about current outcomes, indicators of success and failure, and best practices. This second edition of Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice has a special focus on Canadian child welf …

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Playing a Jewish Game

Playing a Jewish Game

Gentile Christian Judaizing in the First and Second Centuries CE
by Michele Murray
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Is it possible that early Christian anti-Judaism was directed toward people other than Jews?

Michele Murray proposes that significant strands of early Christian anti-Judaism were directed against Gentile Christians. More specifically, it was directed toward Gentile Christian judaizers. These were Christians who combined a commitment to Christianity …

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The Great War

The Great War

From Memory to History
edited by Kellen Kurschinski; Steve Marti; Alicia Robinet; Matt Symes & Jonathan F. Vance
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tagged : world war i, post-confederation (1867-)

The Great War: From Memory to History offers a new look at the multiple ways the Great War has been remembered and commemorated through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Drawing on contributions from history, cultural studies, film, and literary studies this collection offers fresh perspectives on the Great War and its legacy at the …

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Draw Out the Story

Draw Out the Story

Ten Secrets to Creating Your Own Comics
by Brian McLachlan
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Grade: 3 to 7
tagged : cartooning, comic strips & cartoons

Whether kids want to write or draw a comic that's funny or scary, long or short, made-up or true-to-life, cartoonist and author Brian McLachlan maintains there are just ten crucial things they need to know to get started.

Using colloquial text, images, and examples, each chapter hones in on a different secret to creating great comics. Budding comic …

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Knife Party

Knife Party

by Mark Anthony Jarman
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The extraordinary "Knife Party" is from a new collection of stories by Mark Anthony Jarman titled Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, published in the spring of 2015. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it is also part of the six@sixty collection.

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The Effects of Feminist Approaches on Research Methodologies

The Effects of Feminist Approaches on Research Methodologies

edited by Winnie Tomm
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The Effects of Feminist Approaches on Research Methodologies is about feminist approaches to research in twelve disciplines. The authors look at whether there is something called feminist methodology, whether there are several feminist methodologies, or whether feminists use existing methodologies from a feminist perspective. The answers vary accor …

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Food That Really Schmecks

Food That Really Schmecks

by Edna Staebler, introduction by Wayson Choy, foreword by Rose Murray
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An updated edition of a bestselling book in the food writing genre from award-winning author and journalist Edna Staebler. In the 1960s, Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking. From this fieldwork came the cookbook Food That Really Schmecks.

 

Originally pub …

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The Forest of Bourg-Marie

The Forest of Bourg-Marie

by S. Frances Harrison, afterword by Cynthia Sugars
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In The Forest of Bourg-Marie, originally published in 1898, Toronto author and musician S. Frances Harrison draws together a highly mythologized image of Quebec society and the forms of Gothic literature that were already familiar to her English-speaking audience. It tells the story of a fourteen-year-old French Canadian who is lured to the United …

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A Guide to Animal Behaviour

A Guide to Animal Behaviour

by Douglas Glover
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Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Fiction

A Guide to Animal Behaviour is a stunning collection of stories by an author who is fast becoming one of the great, innovative story writers of his generation. Following on the heels of his widely acclaimed comic novel, The South Will Rise at Noon, Douglas Glover's new collection smashes all t …

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Skeletons in the Closet

Skeletons in the Closet

A Sociological Analysis of Family Conflicts
edited by Aysan Sev’er & Jan E. Trost
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tagged : conflict resolution, marriage & family, dysfunctional families

Family conflict has traditionally been studied by researchers who are at a safe intellectual distance from the families under their study. In Skeletons in the Closet, and in line with feminist research methodologies, the hierarchical distance between researcher and subject is broken down. All of the contributors to this volume are academics, and al …

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Counting on Fall

Counting on Fall

by Lizann Flatt, illustrated by Ashley Barron
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Grade: k to 2
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In Counting on Fall, the first title in the best-selling Math in Nature series, nature comes to life to help children in Grades K to 2 learn concepts of number sense and numeration.
As young readers journey into the natural world, they will discover that numbers, patterns, shapes — and much more! — can be found by observing everyday plants and …

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Abuse or Punishment?

Abuse or Punishment?

Violence toward Children in Quebec Families, 1850-1969
by Marie-Aimée Cliche, translated by W. Donald Wilson
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At one time, the use of corporal punishment by parents in child-rearing was considered normal, but in the second half of the nineteenth century this begin to change, in Quebec as well as the rest of the Western world. It was during this period that the extent of ill-treatment inflicted on children—treatment once excused as good child-rearing prac …

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The Curtain

The Curtain

Witness and Memory in Wartime Holland
by Henry G. Schogt
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Henry Schogt met his wife, Corrie, in 1954 in Amsterdam. Each knew the other had grown up in the Netherlands during World War II, but for years they barely spoke of their experiences. This was true for many people — the memories were just too painful. Years later, Henry and Corrie began to piece their memories together, to untangle reality from d …

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The End(s) of Community

The End(s) of Community

History, Sovereignty, and the Question of Law
by Joshua Ben David Nichols
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tagged : post-structuralism, political, criticism

This book stems from an examination of how Western philosophy has accounted for the foundations of law. In this tradition, the character of the “sovereign” or “lawgiver” has provided the solution to this problem. But how does the sovereign acquire the right to found law? As soon as we ask this question we are immediately confronted with a c …

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six@sixty

six@sixty

by Alden Nowlan; Douglas Glover; Lynn Coady; Shauna Singh Baldwin; Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer & Mark Anthony Jarman
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To mark Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, the editors at Goose Lane selected six tiny perfect stories for your reading pleasure. Authored by some of Canada's finest writers, they come from the sweep of Goose Lane's publishing history. Each story is part of this collection or they may be purchased individually in eBook singles. Here's what you …

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Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work

Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work

edited by Francis J. Turner
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tagged : encyclopedias, social work, social services & welfare

All of us, as Canadians, are touched throughout our lives by some aspect of social welfare, either as recipients, donors, or taxpayers. But despite the importance of the social network in our country, there has been no single source of information about this critical component of our society. Even professionals in the field of social work or social …

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The Independence of South Sudan

The Independence of South Sudan

The Role of Mass Media in the Responsibility to Prevent
by Walter C. Soderlund & E. Donald Briggs
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The Responsibility to Protect, the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), focused on three international responsibilities in the area of human security: the responsibility to prevent, the responsibility to react, and the responsibility to rebuild. The report acknowledged the difficulty of identifying c …

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Beyond Mysticism

Beyond Mysticism

by James R. Horne
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This study of the meaning and the experience of mysticism is a product of the author's personal interest in mysticism and his reflection, as a philosopher, on some of the philosophical questions raised by mysticism is a "a psychological process which occurs with varying degrees of intensity in everyone's life" and the observation that this process …

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Canada the Good

Canada the Good

A Short History of Vice since 1500
by Marcel Martel
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tagged : social history, post-confederation (1867-), pre-confederation (to 1867)

To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take pride in supporting the tobacco industry, knowing it sells a deadly product? And what social responsibilities do investors bear with respect to comp …

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Becoming My Mother’s Daughter

Becoming My Mother’s Daughter

A Story of Survival and Renewal
by Erika Gottlieb
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Becoming My Mother’s Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of Europe, from the First World War through the Holocaust and the communist takeover after World War II, to the family’s dramatic escape and emmigra …

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What Had Become of Us

What Had Become of Us

by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
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Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's haunting "What Had Become of Us," is from her 2003 debut book of short fiction, Way Up. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it is also part of the six@sixty collection.

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