Politics & Social Sciences

Tomson Highway is one of Canada's foremost playwrights and novelists. In Comparing Mythologies he addresses a theme that is central to much of his work: the...

Canada And The Third World Provides A Long Overdue Introduction To Canada's Historical Relationship With The Third World.Categories: Politics & Social S...

In fall 2015, the newly elected Trudeau government endorsed the Paris Agreement and promised to tackle global warming. In 2016, it released a major report w...

A Sexual Abuse Survivor Unapologetically Confesses The Intimate Workings Of The Catholic Seminary, Celibacy And Priesthood During An Era Of Sexual Scandal A...

this Guide Summarizes Lessons Learned By Studying Successful Community-building Initiatives In Hundreds Of Neighborhoods Across The U.s. It Outlines What Lo...

Ripper: The Making of Pierre PoilievreCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government International & World PoliticsCanadian

In the museums of Ürümchi, the windswept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known as Chinese Turkestan), a collection of ancient mummie...

Winner • 2021 An Post Irish Book Award ― Nonfiction Book of the Year • from the judges: “The most remarkable Irish nonfiction book I’ve read in th...

In this new fifth edition of Social Welfare in Canadian Society, author Rosalie Chappell provides a critical look at chronic and emerging social issues, as ...

The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), examines a series of interconnect...

During The Second World War, Canadians Found Themselves Behind Enemy Lines In Europe And Asia. Not All, Were Ill-fated Airmen Shot Down In The Fury Of Battl...

How far have we come in 100 years of juvenile justice? Have we changed our thinking about youth crime and our responses to it? To address these broader ques...

The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, "a sideshow to a sideshow." As a result, the conflict was shaped to a r...

In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural meanings. D...

Canadian children are safer now than at any other time in history. So why are we so fearful for them? When they’re young, we drive them to playdates, fill...

Welcome to the new era of organizational behaviour! Virtual teams are replacing committees. Values and self-leadership are replacing command-and-control sup...

A New York Times BestsellerWith a New AfterwordIn an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the way that...

In Addition To Environmental Change, The Structure And Trends Of Global Politics And The Economy Are Also Changing As More Countries Join The Ranks Of The W...

Designed for courses in the history of philosophy, social and political theory, government, and Plato specifically, Plato's Republic: Critical Essays will e...

First published in 1967, The Art of the Soluble presents collection of essays giving the views of the author on creativity and originality in science and on...

Popular Culture: A User S Guide Is An Introduction To The Critical Study Of Popular Culture. The Text Enables Readers To Examine Parts Of The Contemporary C...

Q: Skills for Success is a six-level series with two strands, Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking. The series provides students with:Clearly ide...

Love. It’s right up there with air, food, and water as the most necessary of ingredients for existence. And yet it is one of the hardest things to fin...

Challenges the scientific theories on the establishment of civilization and technology • Contains 42 essays by 17 key thinkers in the fields of alternat...

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Book of the Year A CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the Year A Maclean's 20 Books You Need to Re...

john Kotter, The World's Foremost Expert On Business Leadership, Distills Twenty-five Years Of Experience Into leading Change. A Must-have For Any Organiza...

This is the first full history of fascism - as a force and as a phenomenon - in Europe and elsewhere between the world wars. This history encompasses all th...

Autobiography of the KING of PORN In the world of adult cinema, one name stands out above all others: John Holmes. For nearly 20 years, from 1967 to 1987, H...

Can We Imagine A World In Which Homer's Lyre And Gutenberg's Press Have Given Way To Virtual Reality Environments Like The Star Trek Holodeck? Murray Sees T...

The legalization of marijuana has changed the way we live, party, and treat illnesses. If you have ever wanted to grow your own Cannabis, now you can, with...

The Destroyers: Rachel Notley and the NDP’s War on Alberta is essential reading for anyone trying to understand Alberta’s new government. Jam-packed wit...

From top journalists and the bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington, an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency. Revered journ...

Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick's Secret City. For decades, the ...

Yes, It All Really Happened Just Like This. . . Here's the story of Rich Merritt--the good son, teacher's pet, Southern gentleman, model Christian studen...

Filled with real–life examples, practical applications, and case law discussions, this proven text covers new and emerging fields of study, the many areas...

Human Geography 8 provides a study of the patterns in human geography, including population distribution, population characteristics, settlement patterns, a...

For hundreds of thousands of gay Americans, New York City is the literal gay metropolis: the place where they have learned how to live openly, honestly, and...

Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today. From Profumo to the cash-for-questions scandal, from Watergate to the Clinton-L...

A Portrait In Text And Photographs Of Canada's Twenty-one Dynastic Families. Includes A Directory Of The Power-elites In Business, The Arts, Politics, And T...

Why do countries have different institutions and forms of government? Why do some social revolutions succeed and endure while others fail? Why are some soci...

from The Foremost Living Authority On Yoga Comes A Work Of Impeccable Scholarship. The Yoga Tradition. This Is A Complete Overview Of The Great Traditions ...

For A Half Century Following The End Of World War Ii, The Seemingly Permanent Cold War Provided The United States With An Organizing Logic That Governed Nea...

About the Author\Judy Arnall, BA, DTM, is a certified child development expert, keynote speaker, and master of non-punitive parenting and education practice...

Manitous lived in human form among the Ojibway in the early days, after Kitchi-Manitou (the Great Mystery) created all things and Muzzu-Kummik-Quae (Mother ...

using Unconventional Examples From His Own Life, Shane Claiborne Stirs Up Questions About The Church And The World, And Challenges Readers To Truly Live Ou...

Drug Use and Abuse takes an interdisciplinary approach in its coverage of current drug issues. Replete with Canadian examples, it weaves psychological, hist...

Gadfly, heretic, persuasive expositor, and illuminating teacher, Marjorie Grene has been writing about philosophical issues and influencing philosophical d...

Sports In Society Provides A Comprehensive Introduction To Understanding The Issues And Controversies Surrounding Sports In Society. Coakley Delivers A Crit...