mcgill queen's university press jun 2022 (20 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry (1999) offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America. This book relocates the film within historical and conceptual contexts that influenced its ambivalent reception while emphasizing the importance of trans visibilities and representations in the mainstream.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using concepts from attachment theory, D.H. Lawrence and Attachment presents innovative readings of Lawrence's fiction. Ronald Granofsky teases out hidden patterns in Lawrence's work, deepening our understanding of his fictional characters and revealing new significance to key thematic concerns like gender identification, marriage, and class.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Florence Nightingale is known as a hospital reformer, a social reformer, and the founder of professional nursing; few realize that she worked closely with doctors on these issues. In Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men Lynn McDonald details the involvement of doctors in Nightingale's legacy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Smile Gap, the first history of oral health in Canada, examines the enormous improvements to oral health and beauty over the past century. Catherine Carstairs reveals how dentistry not only affects our physical health but also impacts our self-image and the ways in which we relate to one another.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Limits of Common Humanity provides an interdisciplinary response to theorise the role of 'humanity' as a motivational concept. Jarvis examines the creation and mission of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) concept, highlighting the challenges that have restricted its application in practice.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through a comparative analysis of medical texts produced in England and France, Lori Jones reveals changing perceptions across four centuries. Using plague tracts to explore how medical and wider social understandings of the plague evolved, this innovative study considers the array of factors that influence how people think about epidemic disease.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Scrutinizing the events of the 2019 federal election and looking to the future, Cyber-Threats to Canadian Democracy examines how new technologies have affected the practice of electoral politics and what we can do to strengthen Canadian democracy, shedding light on some of the most contentious issues around technology and electoral integrity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a theoretical, empirical, and normative analysis of the debates surrounding the accommodation of ethnocultural and societal diversity in contemporary liberal democracies. It invites readers to explore questions about pluralism and accommodation and proposes political reforms to meet the challenges arising from diversity.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Udege, a small Indigenous group in Russia's far east, have a rich oral storytelling tradition. Kira Van Deusen befriended and interviewed Udege storytellers during her travels in Russia. Tigers and the Internet shows their fascinating culture and provides a valuable collection of their stories translated into English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Challenging the colonial foundations of Canadian Protestantism, the century-long Korean-Canadian church relationship continues to transform the United Church of Canada's mission. This book traces the origins and consequences of this little-known tributary in Korean-Canadian history, giving voice to two distinct historical-cultural perspectives.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In late 2017 and early 2018, South Africa and Zimbabwe both saw the unexpected fall of their sitting presidents, Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe. New Leaders, New Dawns explores these political transitions and the way they were received, revealing that despite what the new leaders may have promised, a 'new dawn' has not yet arrived in southern Africa.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Deindustrializing Montreal challenges the deepening divergence of class and race analysis by recognizing the intimate relationship between capitalism, class struggles, and racial inequality in historically white Point Saint-Charles, and multiracial Little Burgundy, home to the city's English-speaking Black community.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Expo 67 and Its World brings together Québécois, Canadian, First Nations, and international scholars to propose a reappraisal of Expo 67 as an opportunity for collective re-imagining across a range of social spaces, from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples to the increasingly global ambit of youth culture, medicine, film, and finance.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, this collection addresses visual and material cultural histories of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada, offering new perspectives for decolonial and anti-racist scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through a comparative analysis of medical texts produced in England and France, Lori Jones reveals changing perceptions across four centuries. Using plague tracts to explore how medical and wider social understandings of the plague evolved, this innovative study considers the array of factors that influence how people think about epidemic disease.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Florence Nightingale is known as a hospital reformer, a social reformer, and the founder of professional nursing; few realize that she worked closely with doctors on these issues. In Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men Lynn McDonald details the involvement of doctors in Nightingale's legacy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using concepts from attachment theory, D.H. Lawrence and Attachment presents innovative readings of Lawrence's fiction. Ronald Granofsky teases out hidden patterns in Lawrence's work, deepening our understanding of his fictional characters and revealing new significance to key thematic concerns like gender identification, marriage, and class.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In late 2017 and early 2018, South Africa and Zimbabwe both saw the unexpected fall of their sitting presidents, Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe. New Leaders, New Dawns explores these political transitions and the way they were received, revealing that despite what the new leaders may have promised, a 'new dawn' has not yet arrived in southern Africa.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Expo 67 and Its World brings together Québécois, Canadian, First Nations, and international scholars to propose a reappraisal of Expo 67 as an opportunity for collective re-imagining across a range of social spaces, from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples to the increasingly global ambit of youth culture, medicine, film, and finance.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Une relecture provocatrice et transnationale des éRbellions du Bas-Canada Longtemps consiédére comme une érbellion mineure, la tentative de érvolution de 1837 a en éraliét secoéu l'ensemble de l'Aémrique du Nord, menacant de renvoyer le pouvoir britannique hors du continent, maisé galement d'inaugurer une exéprience érpublicaine diféfrente. La érvolution aé choéu, mais les iédes qu'elle a évhicuéles - tant progressistes qué'litistes - érsonnent encore aujourd'hui. L'auteur se penche sur les érseaux des patriotes canadiens en exil aux âEtats-Unis en s'appuyant sur des sources canadiennes eté tasuniennes. En sollicitant le soutien de leurs ' fèrres ' au sud de la frontèire, les rebelles ont pousés les autoriéts des âEtats-Unisà cooéprer activement avec l'Empire britannique, dans un édnigrement surprenant de leurs racines érvolutionnaires et antibritanniques. Initialement favorables a l'annexion des Canadas aux âEtats-Unis, les patriotes ont du repenser leur avenir en dehors d'une érpublique qui affichait ses faiblesses. Ils ont envisaég de fonder leur propre érpublique a ' deuxé toiles ', avec l'espoir de érégénrer la édmocratisation en Aémrique et de teinter la transition au capitalisme moderne de morale, de responsabiliét sociale et de bienveillance envers les travailleurs manuels. Le livre explore cette guerre singulèire en se penchant sur un largeé ventail d'acteurs, de faits et de questions historiques, comme le nationalisme, les rapports de force politiques ou encore les iédaux des ' droitsé gaux ' et du ' laissez-nous faire '. En proposant un regard novateur et inforém sur uné èvnement que nous pensions bien connaitre, La guerre d'inédpendance des Canadas suscitera la discussion pendant de nombreuses anénes.'--leslibraires.ca.