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Cycling into Saigon
The Conservative Transition in Ontario
The essence of democracy is the peaceful and legitimate transfer of government. In 1995 in Ontario, the omens for a successful transition weren’t promising …
2001, Shortlisted - Donner Prize, Donner Foundation
- Copyright year: 2001
Heavy Traffic
Deregulation, Trade, and Transformation in North American Trucking
Examines the way in which the regulatory reform of American and Canadian trucking, coupled with free trade, has internationalized this $1.4-billion-a-day industry.
2001, Shortlisted - Donner Prize, Donner Foundation
- Copyright year: 2000
Driven Apart
Women's Employment Equality and Child Care in Canadian Public Policy
2002, Winner - CWSA Book Prize, Canadian Women's Studies Association
2002, Winner - Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
2002, Winner - Pierre Savard Prize, International Council for Canadian Studies
- Copyright year: 2001
Birds of British Columbia, Volume 4
Wood Warblers through Old World Sparrows
The culmination of more than 25 years of effort, this much-awaited final volume of The Birds of British Columbia completes what some have called one of the most important regional ornithological works in North America.
2002, Shortlisted - BC Book Prize, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional, Province of British Columbia
- Copyright year: 2001
Butterflies of British Columbia
Including Western Alberta, Southern Yukon, the Alaska Panhandle, Washington, Northern Oregon, Northern Idaho, and Northwestern Montana
The butterfly fauna of British Columbia is by far the largest and most diverse in Canada. With the publication of this volume, there is finally a comprehensive, single source that summarizes all available information on butterflies in the British Columbia and adjacent areas.
2001, Winner - Alcuin Citation for excellence in book design in Canada, Alcuin Society
- Copyright year: 2001
Citizens Plus
Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State
Alan Cairns unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state.
2000, Runner-up - Donner Prize, Donner Foundation
2002, Shortlisted - Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Copyright year: 2000