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The Handover

How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational

By: Elaine Dewar

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The Handover

How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational

By: Elaine Dewar

Until recently, McClelland and Stewart had been known as “The Canadian Publisher,” the country’s longest-lived and best independent press. Its dynamic leader Jack McClelland worked with successive provincial and federal governments to help draft policies in the 1960s and 70s which ensured that Canadian stories would, for the first time in the nation’s history, be told and published by Canadians. M&S introduced Canadians to themselves while championing the nation’s literature, bringing to the world Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Mavis Gallant, Farley Mowat, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, and many others. When 75% of M&S was gifted amidst great fanfare to the University of Toronto on Canada Day 2000—“To achieve the survival of one great Canadian institution,” M&S owner Avie Bennett declared at the time, “I have given it into the care of another great Canadian institution”—one could’ve assumed that it would remain in Canadian hands and under Canadian control in perpetuity. But one would have been wrong. In her controversial new book, Elaine Dewar reveals for the first time how M&S was sold salami-style to Random House, a division of German media giant Bertelsmann; how smart businessmen and even smarter lawyers danced through the raindrops of the laws put into place to protect Canadian cultural institutions from foreign ownership while cultural bureaucrats looked the other way; and why we should care. It is the story not just of the demise of the country’s best independent publisher, it is about the threats, internal and otherwise, facing Canadian culture. The Handover is more than just a CanLit How-Done-It: it is essential reading for anyone interested in the telling of Canadian stories.

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Biblioasis

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1771961120

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Beauty Therapy

S/NVQ Level 3

By: Jane Hiscock,Elaine Stoddart,Jeanine Connor

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Beauty Therapy

S/NVQ Level 3

By: Jane Hiscock,Elaine Stoddart,Jeanine Connor

Matched to the 2004 standards, this handbook contains comprehensive coverage of the Beauty Therapy, Body Massage and Spa pathways. It includes step-by-step photographs for every procedure to help students learn the skills they need.

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550

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Heinemann

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0435456407

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9780435456405

Invitation to Research in Practical Theology

By: Zoë Bennett,Elaine Graham,Stephen Pattison,Heather Walton

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Invitation to Research in Practical Theology

By: Zoë Bennett,Elaine Graham,Stephen Pattison,Heather Walton

Practical theology as a subject area has grown and become more sophisticated in its methods and self-understanding over the last few decades. This book provides a complete and original research primer in the major theories, approaches and methods at the cutting-edge of research in contemporary practical theology. It represents a reflection on the very practice of the discipline itself, its foundational questions and epistemological claims. Each chapter examines different aspects of the research process: starting with experience and practice, aspects of research design and epistemology, communities of learning, the influence of theological norms and tradition on the practice of research, and ethical considerations about what constitutes ‘the good’ in advanced research. The uniqueness of this book rests in its authoritative overview of current practical theological research across a range of traditions and approaches, combined with a comprehensive introduction to research methodology. It offers worked examples from the authors, their colleagues and research students that serve to illustrate key ideas and approaches in practical theological research. The four authors are all internationally-leading scholars and rank amongst the most influential figures in practical theology of their generation. The book promises to be of interest to students, teachers and researchers in practical theology, especially those looking to conduct original practice-based enquiry in the field.

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287

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Routledge

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1351068229

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Manhood Lost

Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States

By: Elaine Frantz Parsons

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Manhood Lost

Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States

By: Elaine Frantz Parsons

In fiction, drama, poems, and pamphlets, nineteenth-century reformers told the familiar tale of the decent young man who fell victim to demon rum: Robbed of his manhood by his first drink, he slid inevitably into an abyss of despair and depravity. In its discounting of the importance of free will, argues Elaine Frantz Parsons, this story led to increased emphasis on environmental influences as root causes of drunkenness, poverty, and moral corruption—thus inadvertently opening the door to state intervention in the form of Prohibition. Parsons also identifies the emergence of a complementary narrative of "female invasion"—womanhood as a moral force powerful enough to sway choice. As did many social reformers, women temperance advocates capitalized on notions of feminine virtue and domestic responsibilities to create a public role for themselves. Entering a distinctively male space—the saloon—to rescue fathers, brothers, and sons, women at the same time began to enter another male bastion—politics—again justifying their transgression in terms of rescuing the nation's manhood.

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268

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JHU Press

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142140169X

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9781421401690

The Seeds of Innovation

Cultivating the Synergy that Fosters New Ideas

By: Elaine Dundon

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The Seeds of Innovation

Cultivating the Synergy that Fosters New Ideas

By: Elaine Dundon

Consultant Dundon describes the three components of innovation as creative thinking, strategic thinking, and transformational thinking. She argues that innovation is not restricted to right brainers or to new products and technologies, and that small steps of evolution can be as valuable as great leaps of revolution. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Amacom

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0814471463

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Cloak of Green

The Links Between Key Environmental Groups, Government and Big Business

By: Elaine Dewar

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Cloak of Green

The Links Between Key Environmental Groups, Government and Big Business

By: Elaine Dewar

Most concerned citizens trust environmental groups to fight on behalf of the public for sensible solutions to the world's most pressing problems. But Elaine Dewar discovered that this trust is often misplaced. In this book the award-winning journalist explores links between key environmental groups, government and big business. Written like a mystery, Cloak of Green follows the author from a Toronto fundraiser for the Kayapo Indians of Brazil to the Amazon rainforest and the global backrooms of Brasilia, Washington and Geneva. Along the way she meets some fascinating peopleAnita Roddick of the Body Shop, businessman-politican Maurice Strong, and activists who run key Canadian and American environmental groups. She discovers some disturbing revelations about these groups and their relations to "green" corporations and government. Cloak of Green is a penetrating investigative study that challenges many established pieties of the environmental movement.

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James Lorimer & Company

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1550284509

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9781550284508

Living Liberalism

Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain

By: Elaine Hadley

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Living Liberalism

Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain

By: Elaine Hadley

In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. It was also the first British political movement to depend more on people than property, and on opinion rather than interest. But how would these subjects of liberal politics actually live liberalism? To answer this question, Elaine Hadley focuses on the key concept of individuation—how it is embodied in politics and daily life and how it is expressed through opinion, discussion and sincerity. These are concerns that have been absent from commentary on the liberal subject. Living Liberalism argues that the properties of liberalism—citizenship, the vote, the candidate, and reform, among others—were developed in response to a chaotic and antagonistic world. In exploring how political liberalism imagined its impact on Victorian society, Hadley reveals an entirely new and unexpected prehistory of our modern liberal politics. A major revisionist account that alters our sense of the trajectory of liberalism, Living Liberalism revises our understanding of the presumption of the liberal subject.

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401

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University of Chicago Press

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0226311902

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9780226311906

Putting Trials on Trial

Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession

By: Elaine Craig

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Putting Trials on Trial

Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession

By: Elaine Craig

Over the past few years, public attention focused on the Jian Ghomeshi trial, the failings of Judge Greg Lenehan in the Halifax taxi driver case, and the judicial disciplinary proceedings against former Justice Robin Camp have placed the sexual assault trial process under significant scrutiny. Less than one percent of the sexual assaults that occur each year in Canada result in legal sanction for those who commit these offences. Survivors often distrust and fear the criminal justice process, and as a result, over ninety percent of sexual assaults go unreported. Unfortunately, their fears are well founded. In this thorough evaluation of the legal culture and courtroom practices prevalent in sexual assault prosecutions, Elaine Craig provides an even-handed account of the ways in which the legal profession unnecessarily – and sometimes unlawfully – contributes to the trauma and re-victimization experienced by those who testify as sexual assault complainants. Gathering conclusive evidence from interviews with experienced lawyers across Canada, reported case law, lawyer memoirs, recent trial transcripts, and defence lawyers’ public statements and commercial advertisements, Putting Trials on Trial demonstrates that – despite prominent contestations – complainants are regularly subjected to abusive, humiliating, and discriminatory treatment when they turn to the law to respond to sexual violations. In pursuit of trial practices that are less harmful to sexual assault complainants as well as survivors of sexual violence more broadly, Putting Trials on Trial makes serious, substantiated, and necessary claims about the ethical and cultural failures of the Canadian legal profession.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773553002

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9780773553002

Fighting

Deal with it Without Coming to Blows

By: Elaine Slavens

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Fighting

Deal with it Without Coming to Blows

By: Elaine Slavens

Provides illustrations and instructions on settling conflicts without resorting to physical violence.

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James Lorimer & Company

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1550287915

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Travelers' Vaccines

By: Elaine C. Jong,Jane N. Zuckerman

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Travelers' Vaccines

By: Elaine C. Jong,Jane N. Zuckerman

Covers the currently available and future vaccines contributing to the health of international travelers. Provides in-depth coverage on immunologic principles of vaccination, geographic assessment and disease transmission, history of vaccines, safety issues, health economics, and more.

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PMPH-USA

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1550092251

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9781550092257

Educating for Professional Life

Twenty-five Years of the University of Westminster

By: Elaine Penn

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Educating for Professional Life

Twenty-five Years of the University of Westminster

By: Elaine Penn

The story of the University of Westminster is the fifth volume in a series of titles exploring the University's long and diverse history. This book celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the institution gaining university status, the right to award its own degrees and to participate in publicly funded research. Drawing on extensive research conducted in the University of Westminster Archive this volume investigates the evolution from Polytechnic to University within the broader context of the transformation of UK higher education in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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University of Westminster Press

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191153498X

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Landscapes of the Song of Songs

Poetry and Place

By: Elaine T. James

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Landscapes of the Song of Songs

Poetry and Place

By: Elaine T. James

In this masterful new study of the ancient poetry of the Song of Songs, Elaine T. James explores the Song's underlying interest in the natural world. Engaging with the fields of geography, landscape architecture, and literature, James critiques the tendency of scholars to reify a perceived dichotomy between "nature" and "culture" and instead argues that the poetic attention to landscape indicates an awareness of a viewer. Nature is here a poetic device that informs James's close-readings of agrarianism, gardens, cities, social control, and feminism and the gaze in the Song. With this two-fold emphasis on landscape and lyric, Landscape of the Song of Songs shows how the Song persistently envisions a world in which human lovers are embedded in the natural world, complexly enfolded in relationships of fragility and care.

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Oxford University Press

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0190619031

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9780190619039

Peer Pressure

Deal with it Without Losing Your Cool

By: Elaine Slavens

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Peer Pressure

Deal with it Without Losing Your Cool

By: Elaine Slavens

Provides illustrations and instructions for dealing effectively with peer pressure.

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James Lorimer & Company

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1550288156

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9781550288155

Choice Atlantic

Writers of Newfoundland and the Maritimes

By: Elaine Crocker

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Choice Atlantic

Writers of Newfoundland and the Maritimes

By: Elaine Crocker

Choice Atlantic presents to the reader a carefully chosen Varity of experiences: The introspective of poetry, the action and adventure of prose, the humor and the precision of the essay, and the sensual wonder of song. In these sometimes disturbing, sometimes whimsical stories, songs and characters there ring the notes and voices of a rich Atlantic Tradition.

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St. John's, Nfld. : Breakwater

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1550810200

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The Handover

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Beauty Therapy

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Invitation to Research in Practical Theology

Invitation to Research in Practical Theology

Manhood Lost

Manhood Lost

The Seeds of Innovation

The Seeds of Innovation

Cloak of Green

Cloak of Green

Living Liberalism

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Putting Trials on Trial

Putting Trials on Trial

Fighting

Fighting

Travelers' Vaccines

Travelers' Vaccines

Educating for Professional Life

Educating for Professional Life

Landscapes of the Song of Songs

Landscapes of the Song of Songs

Peer Pressure

Peer Pressure

Choice Atlantic

Choice Atlantic

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