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“Where do you come from?” When Vijay Agnew first immigrated to Canada people would often ask her “Where do you come from?” She thought it a simple, straightforward question, and would answer in the same simple, straightforward manner, by telling them where she had been...

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Télécharger le livre :  Prophets, Pastors and Public Choices
The Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline debate included many actors. This is the first in-depth study in comparative religious ethics to examine the debate with a particular focus on the role of the Canadian churches. In 1974 twenty-seven of the world’s largest oil...

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Télécharger le livre :  The New Land
The essays in this volume were originally presented at a workshop held at the University of Calgary on August 1–5, 1977 and sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. The phrase “the new land” underwent careful scrutiny and reassessment during the course of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Spiritual Care and Therapy
The current interest in spirituality has intensified the quest to incorporate spirituality in non-sectarian therapy. Spiritual Care and Therapy is a hands-on, up-to-date clinical guide that addresses this concern. Peter VanKatwyk explores spiritual care, from pastoral...

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Télécharger le livre :  Paul Cardinal Cullen and the Shaping of Modern Irish Catholicism
Paul Cullen (1803–78) was the outstanding figure in Irish history between the death of Daniel O’Connell and the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell. Yet this powerful prelate remains an enigmatic figure. This new study of his career sets out to reveal the real nature of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Leopoldo Zea
The author analyzes Mexican national identity in the context of the philosophy of Leopoldo Zea, contemporary Mexican thinker. He attempts to establish national character traits peculiar to Mexico, using sociological, psychological, historical, and philosophical...

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Télécharger le livre :  Gender Bias in Scholarship
This multi-disciplinary anthology is about hermeneutical issues pertaining to gender ideology in university scholarship. The authors provide, from their own discipline, an extensive examination of the issues raised in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council...

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Télécharger le livre :  The British Ordnance Department and Canada’s Canals 1815-1855
In this book, George Raudzens seeks to enhance our understanding of the British military's contribution 'to the shaping of Canada' by providing an administrative history of the Ordnance Department in the context of its particular contribution to Canadian development....

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Télécharger le livre :  Reason Over Passion
"Reason is not passion's slave." Rather, the author argues, reason appraises the cultural appropriateness of passion, thus directing our attitudinal behaviour. He refutes those theories of value which correspond philosophically to societies described by Jean-Jacques...

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Télécharger le livre :  Mobility, Elites and Education in French Society of the Second Empire
Based on a unique historical source, this book examines the social origins, career expectations, and first jobs of 28,000 students in the “elitist” French secondary schools of the 1860s. Using sophisticated statistical analysis as well as conventional historical...

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Télécharger le livre :  Early Modern Concepts for a Late Modern World
Who was Althusius, and why is the work of a seventeenth- century political theorist important in modern times? Johannes Althusius (1557-1638) was a political theorist and a combative city politician who defended the rights of small communities against territorial...

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Télécharger le livre :  Of God and Maxim Guns
The founding of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria arose out of the enthusiasm of the young church in Jamaica.The first mission party arrived in Calabar in 1846 and settled into a routine of preaching, teaching, campaigning for social reform, ministerial training, and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Calderon and the Baroque Tradition
Calderón and the Baroque Tradition is the outcome of a tricentennial commemoration of the seventeenth century Spanish poet and dramatist, PedroCalderón de la Barca, and a tribute to a distinguished tradition in Calderonian studies at the University of Toronto. A major...

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Télécharger le livre :  Ritual and Ethnic Identity
In this innovative and comprehensive collection of essays Jack Lightstone and Frederick Bird document and interpret ritual practice among contemporary Canadian Jews. They particularly focus on the character and meaning of the public performance of the Sabbath liturgy...

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Télécharger le livre :  Civil Servants and Public Policy
This thoroughgoing study of international secretariats might be entitled "What the International Civil Servant Really Does," as opposed to what he or she should do or is believed to do. The author interviewed international officials, studied the documents of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine
This work is a bibliography of secondary sources in Canadian medical history.

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Télécharger le livre :  Craving and Salvation
Is there any escape form the awareness of pain and the bonds of an unending cycle of life? Why are human subject to craving" What is the nature human beings? The Buddhist understanding of salvation is based upon such queries. A thorough grasp of the function of craving...

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Télécharger le livre :  Mobilization for Total War
The two World Wars placed unprecedented demands on their participants and had a profound impact on many aspects of national life. The mobilization of human and material resources for total war by three nations in the twentieth century was discussed at the Seventh Royal...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Social Sciences in Canada
The Social Sciences in Canada is about the background and history of the Social Science Federation of Canada in honour of its fifty years of national activity. There can be little doubt that during the last fifty years the federation, and its predecessors, have had a...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Diverse Worlds of Unemployed Adults
Multi-method research study shows why leisure activities are as important for the unemployed as they are for the employed. Can someone who is unemployed experience leisure, or does that seem like a contradiction in terms? If unemployed people can experience leisure,...

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