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The University of British Columbia Press is Canada’s leading social sciences publisher. With an international reputation for publishing high-quality works of original scholarship, our books draw on and reflect cutting-edge research, pushing the boundaries of academic discourse in innovative directions. Each year UBC Press publishes seventy new titles in a number of fields, including Aboriginal studies, Asian studies, Canadian history, environmental studies, gender and women’s studies, health and food studies, geography, law, media and communications, military and security studies, planning and urban studies, and political science.
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Indian Education in Canada, Volume 2

The Challenge

The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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No Bleeding Heart

Charlotte Whitton: A Feminist on the Right

One of this country's first generation of professional women, Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton championed the cause of child welfare across the country and worked hard for the status of women long before the word "feminism" had passed into everyday language.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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The Athenians and Their Empire

In this straightforward but colourful narrative, the only critical study of its kind, Malcolm McGregor explains how democracy was nurtured in Athens and how effective government was achieved.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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The Raven's Tail

An important contribution to the knowledge of early Indian weaving.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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Turn Up the Contrast

CBC Television Drama since 1952

Both a critical analysis and a survey history of how Canadians have used the medium of television, this is the first book to explore the content of Canadian television drama.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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Uncommon Property

The Fishing and Fish-Processing Industries in British Columbia

The product of a three-year research project, Uncommon Property describes Canadian West Coast fisheries in the 1980s, focusing on the social and economic structure of the industry.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 24, 1986

Edited by C.B. Bourne

The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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Cervantes, Volume 1

Don Quixote de la Mancha: An Old-Spelling Control Edition Based on the First Editions of Parts 1 & 2

Edited by R.M. Flores

This old-spelling edition of Don Quixote provides scholars with a text closer to that of Cervantes's original manuscript than any previous edition.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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Cervantes, Volume 2

An Old-Spelling Control Edition Based on the First Editions of Parts 1 & 2

Edited by R. M. Flores

This old-spelling edition of Don Quixote provides scholars with a text closer to that of Cervantes's original manuscript than any previous edition.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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Ethics and Aging

The Right to Live, the Right to Die

This book reflects the complexity of ethical questions, but develops them in relation to a single general theme: that of the involvement of the elderly in the design of social policy and the research which affects them.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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On the Northwest

Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest, 1790-1967

On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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The Letters of Malcolm Lowry and Gerald Noxon, 1940-1952

These letters observe the mind of eminent author Malcolm Lowry at play on questions of literary technique, on films, and on the beauties and rigors of life in his Dollarton shack on an inlet near Vancouver.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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