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Making Native Space

Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia

It presents the most comprehensive account available of perhaps the most critical mapping of space ever undertaken in BC – the drawing of the lines that separated the tiny plots of land reserved for Native people from the rest.

Awards

2003, Winner - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association

2003, Winner - Clio Award (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Association

2002, Shortlisted - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize, British Columbia Book Awards

2003, Winner - Massey Medal, Royal Canadian Geographical Society

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Modern Women Modernizing Men

The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69

Explores how professionalism, religion, and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men.

Awards

2003, Shortlisted - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Personal Relationships of Dependence and Interdependence in Law

This collection explores the intersection of interdependency and the law, and contemplates some of the key issues at stake in the way the law interprets and addresses human relationships.

Awards

2002, Winner - Canadian Policy Research Award for Outstanding Research Contribution

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Taxing Choices

The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law

This fascinating analysis of the controversial Symes case of the 1990s examines how class and gender interests clashed over the tax treatment of childcare.

Awards

2004, Winner - Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Globalization and Well-Being

Throughout this concise and elegant book, John Helliwell emphasizes well-being as an explicit focus for research and for public policies.

Awards

2002, Winner - Donner Prize, Donner Foundation

  • Copyright year: 2002
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The Co-Workplace

Teleworking in the Neighbourhood

Borrowing from the experience of cooperative artists' studios, business incubators, and the corner copy shop, this book explains why office infrastructure can be important for productivity as well as the quality of work life.

Awards

2003, Winner - Diana C. Donald Award, American Planning Association, Planning and Women Division

  • Copyright year: 2002
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