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Through its account of influential socio-political processes - such as the resurgence of fascism and white supremacy, the crafting of new technologies of governance, and the operation of digital media and algorithms - Revolutionary Routines rethinks not only how change works, but also what counts as change.

The Canadian federal election of 2019 is extensively analysed in this collaborative volume. Bringing together leading political scientists and media scholars, the book examines the strategies, successes, and failures of each of Canada's major political parties.

Explores how Canadians engaged in informal and formal politics in the course of their everyday lives, locally and transnationally. Langford provides an enduring record of otherwise fleeting anti-poverty programs and their effects: the lived activism and opinions of development workers and ordinary people.

A wide-ranging study of the politicizing effects of social program participation, Take a Number introduces a compelling new dimension to our understanding of why some citizens are politically active while others remain quiescent.

There is increasing interest in the use of learning outcomes in postsecondary education, and deliberations have surfaced with regard to their potential to serve as a tool for advancing credit transfer. This book assesses the conceptual foundations and implications of using learning outcomes.

A wide-ranging study of the influential British novelist and public intellectual writer Marina Warner and the ways she negotiates the dangers of appropriating voices through narrative, examining her writing from her early journalism to her novels, short stories, and studies of myths and fairy tales.

New technologies are transforming healthcare work, changing how patients interact with healthcare providers. This book is a call for healthcare providers, educators, and organisations to lead with compassion through times of rapid technological change.

An unflinching look at how eugenics and population control continued to inform family planning in 1970s Canada.

By analysing significant diplomatic and military decisions of the Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton administrations, and offering an account of national security entrepreneurship under the recent presidents, this book argues for an agent-based explanation of foreign policy change and continuity.

If feminism has always been characterised by its divisions, it is metafeminism that defines and embraces that disorder. A hopefulness animates this timely work that, like metafeminism, stands alert to the challenges that feminism faces in its capacity to effect social change in the 21st century.

Acclaimed as Sappho reborn by the circle of humanist intellectuals centred around Groningen University in the Netherlands, the brilliant seventeenth-century Dutch poet Titia Brongersma published her only book, The Swan of the Well, in 1686. This is the first complete English translation of the work.

A critical account of the ANC Health Department's medical delivery and anti-apartheid agenda in exile.

Both a documentation of history and a deeply personal story. Mason is an Ojibway activist who campaigns for the rights of residential school survivors and a founder of Spirit Wind, an organisation that played a key role in the development of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement.

Creating a national literature through a series of original poetry booklets.

A new English translation of an acclaimed 1970 novel reveals a stark, powerful story, an Inuit worldview, and the unique voice of Markoosie Patsauq.

What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a series of articles by Henri Ellenberger, presented here for the first time in English.

Set in the context of a new field of engineering, driven apace by conflict, this fascinating history follows the mathematicians and scientists who learnt to fly in order to expand our understanding of aeronautics. Tony Royle makes accessible the mathematics and the personal stories that forever changed the course of aviation.

A groundbreaking exploration of the literature and folklore of North America's Irish and Scottish Gaelic-speaking diaspora since the eighteenth century. North American Gaels shines new light on the ways Irish and Scottish Gaels have left an enduring mark through speech, story, and song.

As the UK leaves the EU and as the multilateral order is increasingly under stress, bilateral security links are more important than ever. Rivals in Arms is the untold story of the thriving yet complicated defence relationship of two countries, the UK and France, caught between strategic decline and global ambitions.

Weaves memoir, microbiology, and artistic antics together with descriptions of a sublime Arctic landscape. Inspiring and deeply personal, this is the story of one scientist's rediscovery of what it means to live a good life at a time of increasing desperation about the future.

As the US challenges the liberal international order, fights back China's ascendency, and reconsiders its traditional alliances, this book analyses key lessons from Europe's experience and provides comparative insight into the likely dynamics of cooperation and conflict in the 21st century.

In the realm of political discourse there is a distinct gap in understanding between Russia and the West. To an outsider, the ideas that animate the actions of Russia's ruling elite, opposition, and civil society remain shrouded in mystery. This key text is a major contribution to our understanding of this world power.

From humble beginnings wholesaling at a small tobacconist-hairdresser shop in 1915, the London Rubber Company rapidly became the UK's biggest postwar producer and exporter of disposable rubber condoms. Borge shows how aggressive business practices were successfully deployed to protect the monopoly and squash competition.

A candid new look at the career and legacy of one of Canada's most beloved poets.

An in-depth analysis of the history, culture, and politics of Polish Canadian radicals and Communists.

A comprehensive cookbook that emphasizes delicious and nutritious eating.

Interrogating and integrating the various aspects of women's reproductive lives to expose the political dimensions of reproduction.

A multi-disciplinary study of two of the most poignant speeches in Canadian history.

An exploration of the hinterland between the havens of faith and the rough terrain of doubt.