In November 2000, the Family Coalition Party of British Columbia (FCP) merged with four other conservative parties to form the Unity Party of British Columbia. Rising from the ashes of BC's once venerable Social Credit Party nine years earlier, the FCP comprised a group of pro-life, pro-family activists, and provides a prime example of a political party that was initially launched to do the work of a social movement. A unique piece of scholarship, Pro-Family Politics and Fringe Parties in Canada examines the FCP's development from its origins as a group of alienated Socred members,...

This two volume work on Positivity in Algebraic Geometry contains a contemporary account of a body of work in complex algebraic geometry loosely centered around the theme of positivity. Topics in Volume I include ample line bundles and linear series on a projective variety, the classical theorems of Lefschetz and Bertini and their modern outgrowths, vanishing theorems, and local positivity. Volume II begins with a survey of positivity for vector bundles, and moves on to a systematic development of the theory of multiplier ideals and their applications. A good deal of this...