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How Canadians Communicate IV
Media and Politics
A comprehensive, up-to-date, and probing examination of media and politics in Canada.
Imperfection
A mature scholar and established literary critic, Grant has emerged as a cultural critic of religious and ethnic conflict.
Union Power
Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara
Charts the development of the region's labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Connecting Canadians
Investigations in Community Informatics
Connecting Canadians examines the burgeoning field of community informatics.
Social Democracy After the Cold War
The end of the Cold War was widely seen as a victory for free market capitalism. Drawing on evidence from different countries, Social Democracy After the Cold War explains the rise and fall of social democrattic governments under the reign of global finance capital.
Selves and Subjectivities
Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture
The self and the other in the works of Canadian contemporary artists.
Reel Time
Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986
Reel Time depicts how the industry shaped the development of the Canadian Prairie West and propelled the region into the modern era.
Man Proposes, God Disposes
Recollections of a French Pioneer
A crystal clear evocation of another time and place and a compelling meditation on hope and loss.
Solidarités Provinciales
Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick
On enseigne l’histoire tous les jours à l’école; pourquoi alors ne pourrait-on pas enseigner un peu d’histoire du travail de la province ou même du pays?