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Cinema of the PresentRobertson proves hard to explain but easy to enjoy. . . . Dauntlessly and resourcefully intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt. . . . She wields language expertly, even beautifully.--The New York TimesWhat if the cinema of the present were a M...
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Criminalizing Women: Gender and Injustice in Neo-Liberal TimesThis reference focuses on the key issues addressed by feminists in their engagement with criminology over the past four decades. Exploring women s lives as "errant females," this volume maps out the connections between the choices women make and their environment as linked to...
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Knights of the Air: Canadian Fighter Pilots in the First World WarThis book contains many striking historical photographs, maps, and documents, and the text is complemented by the outstanding art of Stephen Quick.Author: David L. BashowPublisher: McArthur & CompanyPublished: 08/02/2001Pages: 210Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.75lbsSize: 12.29h x 9.34w x 0.83dISBN: 9781552781623Review Citation(s): Quill & Quire 01/01/2001...
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Gods of the Hammer: The Teenage Head StoryTeenage Head was a full-on, balls-to-the-wall, three-chord band that obliterated categories and labels with their sonic assault, and everywhere they played they converted the merely curious to the insanely devoted. And they almost became world famous. Almost. Told by film critic and pop-culture aficionado...
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Food Regimes and Agrarian QuestionsFood Regimes and Agrarian Questions extends the original conception of the food regime, formulated by Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, detailing new dimensions of the succession of imperial, intensive and corporate food regimes. Developing the methodological contributions of food regime analysis, McMichael re-examines the...
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And the Birds Rained DownAn award-winning and haunting meditation on aging and self-determination. A CBC Canada Reads 2015 Selection Finalist for the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English Translation Deep in a Northern Ontario forest live Tom and Charlie, two octogenarians determined to live out the rest...
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The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct, 2nd EditionReissued with a new preface by the author, The Paraguayan War is an engrossing and comprehensive account of the origins and early campaigns of the deadliest and most extensive interstate war ever fought in Latin America. A 2003 CHOICE Academic Title of the Year,...
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The Lawyer's Guide to the Forensic SciencesWinner of the 2017 Walter Owen Book Prize The clash of the scientific and legal cultures in the courtroom, though theoretically directed at finding the truth, is marked by tension. Forensic science -- science applied to the legal context -- advances rapidly and has...
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Emily Carr: An Introduction to Her Life and ArtSome can be active to a great age but enjoy little, observed Emily Carr shortly before her death in 1945. I have lived. The impressive scope of Carr's art and her unorthodox life are the subjects of art educator Anne Newlands' latest book. In...
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One God: The Political and Moral Philosophy of Western CivilizationHalf of the world's most dangerous terrorist groups claim religion as their motivation. How can the word of God sanction acts of terror against human beings? How can violence become a sacred duty? This wide-ranging and insightful book asks one of the most important...
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Intellectual Property Law, 2/E: Copyright Patents Trade-MarksSince the publication of the first edition in 1997, David Vaver's Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-Marks has become one of the most important treatises on the subject in Canada. It has been relied upon by scholars, practitioners, policy analysts and students alike, as...
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Requiem for a LightweightThis is the story of Stockwell Day--a small-town politician of modest accomplishments--whom the big boys with the big money, and the handlers with the smarts, thought could be sold as the Great Right Hope. This book chronicles it all: the people, personalities, and politics....
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Montreal at the Crossroads: Super Highways, Turcot and EnvironmentIn cities across North America, car-era infrastructures such as elevated highways are crumbling. City residents the world over are questioning how best to deal with aging infrastructures built for the automobile during an era of cheap fuel. The environmental crisis obliges cities to think...
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Cabin at Singing River: One Woman's Story of Building a Home in the WildernessChris Czajkowski came to Canada's attention in the mid-1980s when she began writing to CBC Radio's Morningside about a particularly unusual adventure: in her late thirties, she headed into the pristine wilderness of British Columbia's Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. There, she single-handedly cleared the land...
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Thorstein Veblen and the American Way of LifeLouis Patsouras unravels the riddled reputation of Thorstein Veblen and analyzes his varied and important contributions to modern social theory. Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was an unrelenting critic of the American way of life. In his first and best-known work, The Theory of the Leisure...
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Rebetika: Music from the Old Greek UnderworldIn 1923-24, over a million and a half Greeks were forced to leave their lands which they settled on for 3000 years. From the hoards of refugees, there emerged a group of musicians that would mark the century forever: the rebetes. Although the endured...
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Economy and Society: Money, Capitalism and Transition: Money, Capitalism and TransitionThe end of the twentieth century brought with it uncertainties about the future in all parts of the world, but out of these experiences comes rich material for reflection on possible future directions of development. This volume represents a tribute to the legacy of...
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Oceans Are Emptying theThe oceans, long thought to hold unlimited bounty, are emptying.Author: Raymond RogersPublisher: Black Rose BooksPublished: 09/12/1995Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.22w x 0.53dISBN: 9781551640303This title is only available via back order
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Paris Is BurningThis latest addition to the Queer Film Classics series pays tribute to Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston's brilliant and award-winning 1991 documentary that captures the energy, ambition, wit, and struggle of African American and Latino participants in the 1980s New York drag ball scene....
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KuessipanNaomi Fontaine] writes in the same tradition as Native writers such as Thomas King and Louise Erdrich.?Le DevoirKuessipan (to you in the Innu language) is an extraordinary, meditative novel about life among the Native Innu people in the wilds of the Canadian North. With...
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