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  • - Corporate Governance and Accountability
    by Ronald B. Davis
    £25.49 - 75.49

    Pension funds own significant shares of the world's largest corporations. However, the beneficiaries of pensions often have little or no say in corporate governance. This book speaks to this imbalance by exploring different ways to make capital accountable to labour, offering suggestions for improving corporate responsibility.

  • - Agricultural Adaptation in Canada
     
    £25.49

    Covering all agricultural regions and a wide variety of commodity production and farming systems, this comprehensive survey synthesizes twenty years of research on climate change and Canadian agriculture.

  • - A Fire History of Canada
    by Stephen J. Pyne
    £25.49

    Fire is a defining element in Canadian land and life. With few exceptions, Canada's forests and prairies have evolved with fire; its peoples have exploited fire and sought to protect themselves from its excesses. This book narrates the history of this saga.

  • - Governing Drugs and Users
    by Dawn Moore
    £25.49 - 75.49

    By looking curiously on the criminal addict as an artefact of criminal justice, this book asks us to question why the criminalized drug user has become such a focus of contemporary criminal justice practices.

  • - Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-75
     
    £75.49

    Postwar Canada is more complex than stereotypes of Cold War conformity and sixties rebellion suggest. This title presents research that explores how Canadian communities were imagined and reimagined from the end of the Second World War to the Oil Crisis of the 1970s. It is for historians, students, and readers interested in postwar Canada.

  • - Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology
    by Sharon Hargus
    £116.49

    Witsuwit'en Grammar presents acoustic studies of several aspects of Witsuwit'en phonetics, including vowel quality, vowel quantity, ejectives, voice quality, and stress.

  • - Women's Films, Women's Film Theories
    by Hoi F. Cheu
    £25.49 - 75.49

    Feminist film theory has flourished since the 1970s, but faces a double impasse. This work shows how studying women's filmmaking is more effective than criticizing mainstream movies from feminist perspectives. It analyzes films and screenplays by women to consider how women theorize the process and function of storytelling in cinema.

  • - Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau
    by William J. Turkel
    £25.49 - 75.49

    Weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in British Columbia's Chilcotin Plateau.

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    £75.49

    Contributors contemplate the evolution of child protection policy and practice in BC, addressing political influences on structural arrangements, cultural traditions of First Nations clients, and establishing community control over services.

  • - Canada and the World, 1945-1984
    by Robert Bothwell
    £25.49

    This is the definitive assessment of the domestic and international aspects of Canadian foreign policy in the modern era.

  • - The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934
    by David Goutor
    £25.49 - 75.49

    A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders' approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.

  • - Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories
    by John Sandlos
    £25.49 - 75.49

    Hunters at the Margin examines the conflict in the Northwest Territories between Native hunters and conservationists, arguing that game regulations and national parks helped assert state authority over traditional hunting cultures.

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    £136.49

    Contains articles of significance in the field of international legal studies; a comments section; a digest of international economic law; and a section on Canadian practice in international law. This yearbook also contains a digest of Canadian cases in the fields of public international law, private international law, and conflict of laws.

  • - Narratives of Sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70
    by Greg Gillespie
    £25.49 - 75.49

    Offers a fresh cultural history of sport and imperialism. focusing on nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert's Land.

  • - Bureaucracy, Human Rights, and Public Accountability
    by Rosanna L. Langer
    £25.49 - 75.49

    Investigates the day-to-day practices of the officials who manage human rights complaints. This work documents agencies' struggle to reconcile a huge body of claims within expansive standards and restrictive rules. It also examines how independent human rights advocates and organizations challenge the agency to respond to calls for change.

  • - Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization
    by Shanti Fernando
    £23.99 - 75.49

    Presents an elegant analysis of the mechanisms of political mobilization under systemic racism that draws on case studies, interviews, and a detailed understanding of the racialized legal and sociocultural histories of the United States and Canada.

  • - Maritime Leadership Politics, 1971-2003
    by Ian Stewart & David K. Stewart
    £25.49 - 75.49

    Conventional Choices examines twenty-five different leadership elections over thirty-two years in three of Canada's maritime provinces to explore the backgrounds, attitudes, and motivations of those who select party leaders.

  • - The Future of Canada's Water
     
    £75.49

    The country's top water experts discusses our most pressing water issues.

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    £25.49

    The essays in this volume look at China's relationships with border peoples over a long span of time, questioning whether the process of expansion was a benevolent civilizing mission.

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    £75.49

    The essays in this volume look at China's relationships with border peoples over a long span of time, questioning whether the process of expansion was a benevolent civilizing mission.

  • by Aleck Samuel Ostry
    £25.49 - 75.49

    Examines the beginnings and early evolution of nutrition policy developments in Canada from the late nineteenth century to the beginning of the Second World War.

  • by Reva Joshee & Lauri Johnson
    £25.49 - 75.49

    This volume compares and contrasts foundational myths and highlights the sociopolitical contexts that affect the conditions of citizenship, access to education, and inclusion of diverse cultural knowledge in educational systems.

  • - Essays on the Coast Salish
     
    £25.49

    Presents the views of Aboriginal leaders, anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, and linguists about how Coast Salish lives and identities have been reshaped by two colonizing nations and by networks of kinfolk, spiritual practices, and understandings of landscape.

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    £75.49

    Critical Policy Studies describes how new policy problems such as border screening and global warming have been catapulted onto the agenda in the neo-liberal era.

  • - The Canadian Military and Aboriginal Lands
    by P. Whitney Lackenbauer
    £23.99 - 75.49

    Examines the evolution of the military's interest in Aboriginal lands and its relationships with communities over the course of the twentieth century. This book explores how the Canadian military came to use Aboriginal lands for training purposes, and how the growth of Aboriginal assertiveness and activism has affected the land rights issue.

  • - Reconciling Automony, Identity, and Community
    by Andrew M. Robinson
    £23.99 - 75.49

    Theories of liberal multiculturalism seek to reconcile cultural rights with universal liberal principles. Some focus on individual autonomy; others emphasize communal identity. Andrew Robinson argues that liberal multiculturalism can be justified without privileging either ...

  • by C. L. Ostberg & Matthew E. Wetstein
    £25.49 - 75.49

    Provides a comprehensive exploration of ideological patterns of judicial behaviour in the Supreme Court of Canada. This work presents a discussion of the attitudinal model of decision making ever conducted outside the setting of the US Supreme Court. It is suitable for a range of legal scholars and court watchers.

  • by Gordon Hak
    £23.99 - 75.49

    The history of British Columbia's economy in the 20th century is inextricably bound to the development of the forest industry. This work investigates the relationship between capital and labour in a historical context, focusing on the corporations and their employees, taking account of the roles played by the state and environmental organizations.

  • - Culture, Migration, and Identity
     
    £75.49

    In the aftermath of the Second World War, Canadian national identity underwent a transformation. This book surveys Canada's national history through a British lens. In a series of essays focusing on discrete aspects of Canadian identity, it reveals the complex relationship between Canada and the larger British world.

  • - Culture, Migration, and Identity
     
    £25.49

    In the aftermath of the Second World War, Canadian national identity underwent a transformation. This book surveys Canada's national history through a British lens.

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