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This volume examines the normative and operational dimensions of China's legal performance related to international standards on trade and human rights.

A timely and insightful volume, The OECD and Transnational Governance fills an important gap in the literature on global governance.

Bridging the solitudes of constitutional law and international relations, this book offers a brand new interpretation of Canada's Constitution.

By unravelling the discourse and rhetoric of news coverage in Canada at the dawn of the 9/11 era, this book not only uncovers racist representations of Muslim communities but also reveals the discursive processes that rendered this racism invisible.

Eleven diverse scholars interrogate the belief that polygamy is inherently harmful, questioning the ways in which society assigns value to family and intimacy, and its right to do so.

This new collection of original research demonstrates the continued relevance of the feminist history project in Canada.

Northscapes examines concepts of North and the way in which different northern environments are shaped by the intersection of technology and human societies.

Reveals how local life and culture in selected colonies interacted with the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project. This book presents an account of the 'incomplete implementation of the British constitution' in the colonies. It explores themes of legal translation, local understandings, and judicial biography.

Northscapes examines concepts of North and the way in which different northern environments are shaped by the intersection of technology and human societies.

This new collection of original research demonstrates the continued relevance of the feminist history project in Canada.

This revised and expanded edition of Community Mental Health in Canada offers a timely, critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada, past, present, and future.

Drawing on trial transcripts, this book tells the stories of ten battered women who killed their male partners and one who did not, revealing why women don't "just leave" and the serious barriers to achieving acquittal.

Leading international scholars examine the production of culture during China's rise to global superpower in the last quarter of a century.

This book explores how the Canadian Army prepared for the possibility of a Third World War and how its innovations and adaptations laid the groundwork for the evolution of our national army.

Leading political scientists, sociologists, and economists explain how and why Canadian public policy has been falling behind in the race to contain surging income inequality.

This book examines over 4000 years of culture history of the related Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Makah peoples on western Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula.

Strong, Beautiful and Modern tells the story of the national fitness campaigns spanning the "British world" beginning in the 1930s.

This book analyzes the representation of women in elected and appointed office in Canada to explain why gender parity remains elusive.

An investigation into the intersection of Japanese imperialist politics and left-wing, avant-garde arts and culture in 1930s and '40s Manchukuo.

Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada is the first work to focus sustained and serious attention on the wider implications of Aboriginal peoples' involvement in sport.

The first comprehensive account in decades of major party system change in Canada.

This groundbreaking collection explores relational theory and how it can be brought to bear on practical areas of concern in health law and policy.

An exploration of the canoe and its role in Canadian culture, nature, and colonial past.

By exposing Catholicism's long-term influence in Japan, this volume disrupts conventional assumptions about tradition, modernity, and Christianity in the East and the West.

Focusing on the 1990s, when debates over voice and representation were particularly explosive, McCall investigates a wide range of "told-to" narratives that have shaped the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Canada, and asks what is at stake in crafting a politics and ethics of collaboration.

A comprehensive review of the first four decades of the Canadian Election Studies, showing how this series of surveys is important in the study not only of Canadian politics but also of comparative electoral behavior.

Leading theorists debate the strengths and limitations of deliberative democracy in theory and practice.

Representing the work of distinguished Japanese scholars, this is the first comprehensive English-language overview of forestry, forest management, and the forest products industry in Japan.

An examination of the gender differences in media coverage of politicians in Canada, and the barriers this poses to gender equality in political representation.