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The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.

This social and political history of the struggle for literacy in rural China shows how China's revolutionary leaders conceived and promoted literacy in the countryside and how villagers made use of the literacy education they were offered.

This landmark study examines the Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government - the first socialist government in North America - and the development of policies aimed at Indian and Metis people in the post-war period.

This book throws light on Japanese-Canadian relations in the first few decades of this century.

The International Politics of Whaling examines contemporary whaling issues with an emphasis on three factors: our knowledge of whales and current whale populations and the impact of whaling; the actors and institutions involved in the debate over whaling; and the ethical dimension.

A comprehensive study of the Whitehorse Mining Initiative, which aimed to revitalize the mining industry.

In this beautifully crafted collection of essays, Cole Harris reflects on the strategies of colonialism in British Columbia during the first 150 years after the arrival of European settlers.

These top scholars probe the discretionary use of power and inquire how it has been exercised to spare convicted criminals from the full might of the law.

Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, this is the first book to focus on British Columbia's fossils.

Written by well-known experts, this book provides an up-to-date portrait and analysis of one of the many dynamic faces of BC politics.

Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, this is the first book to focus on British Columbia's fossils.

This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experience colonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British naval officer who spent three years on Vancouver Island commanding a Royal Navy gunboat during the Cariboo gold rush.

The Birds of British Columbia is a complete reference work for bird-watchers, ornithologists, and naturalists who want in-depth information on the province's regularly occurring and rare birds.

The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.

This bibliography cites those Canadian and foreign reference sources that describe Canadian people, institutions, organizations, publications, art, literature, languages, and history.

A ground-breaking, practical, and, above all, positive vision of life in twenty-first-century Canada.

Geographic variation within tree species is one of the basic issues facing foresters, biologists, and others who work with trees.

The first in-depth study of the impact of federalism on Canadian environmental policy, this book takes a detailed look at the ongoing debate on the subject and traces the evolution of the role of the federal government in environmental policy and federal-provincial relations concerning the environment from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.

Offers an innovative and far-reaching contribution to the debate over sustainability at a time when many individuals are questioning the future of the environment in British Columbia.

In this beautifully designed and richly illustrated book, Diane Eaton and Sheila Urbanek re-create Paul Kane's heroic journey across Canada and bring to life the people, places, and events he experienced.

The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.

This book provides a critical analysis of the most significant developments in the college systems in every province and territory since 1895.

The struggle of the Witsuwit'en peoples to establish the meaning of aboriginal rights.

The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.

A critical ethnography of the Native Education Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.

This book examines the work of the classical social theorists -- Durkheim, Weber, Marx, Engels and Freud -- from a feminist perspective.

Contains essays written by experts in the field, addressing important aspects of the physiological ecology of Pacific salmon.

Argues that only by understanding the psychology of both the aggressors and the victims of wife assault can we generate informed social and criminal justice policy.

The first book to pay serious attention to the European economic and political factors which promoted colonization, this book argues that the prime determinant was the uneven development of agricultural systems in western Europe.