Escape from the Staple Trap: Canadian Political Economy After Left Nationalism
ISBN: 9780802099419 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From fur and fish to oil and minerals, Canadian development has often been understood through its relationship to export staples. This understanding, argues Paul Kellogg, has led many political economists to assume that Canadian economic development has followed a path similar to those of staple-exporting economies in the Global South, ignoring a more fundamental fact: as an advanced capitalist economy, Canada sits in the core of the world system, not on the periphery or semi-periphery. In Escape from the Staple Trap, Kellogg challenges statistical and historical analyses... From fur and fish to oil and minerals, Canadian development has often been understood through its relationship to export staples. This understandin... |
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308,23 zł |
Digital Mosaic: Media, Power, and Identity in Canada
ISBN: 9781442608863 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital Media has transformed the way Canadians socialize and interact, conduct business, experience culture, fight political battles, and acquire knowledge. Traditional media, including newspapers and conventional TV networks, remain the primary link to Canada's political sphere but are under concerted attack. YouTube, blogs, online broadcasting, Facebook, and Twitter have opened new and exciting avenues of expression but offer little of the same "nation-building glue" as traditional media. Consequently, Canada is experiencing a number of overlapping crises simultaneously: a crisis in... Digital Media has transformed the way Canadians socialize and interact, conduct business, experience culture, fight political battles, and acquire ... |
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247,05 zł |
Digital Mosaic: Media, Power, and Identity in Canada
ISBN: 9781442608870 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital Media has transformed the way Canadians socialize and interact, conduct business, experience culture, fight political battles, and acquire knowledge. Traditional media, including newspapers and conventional TV networks, remain the primary link to Canada's political sphere but are under concerted attack. YouTube, blogs, online broadcasting, Facebook, and Twitter have opened new and exciting avenues of expression but offer little of the same "nation-building glue" as traditional media. Consequently, Canada is experiencing a number of overlapping crises simultaneously: a crisis in... Digital Media has transformed the way Canadians socialize and interact, conduct business, experience culture, fight political battles, and acquire ... |
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340,67 zł |
Working Bodies: Chronic Illness in the Canadian Workplace
ISBN: 9780773543782 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While significant research has been produced in the field of disability studies, little attention has been paid to experiences of chronic illness. Working Bodies emphasizes the workplace as an important site for understanding such experiences, as employment status has an enormous impact on social and economic standing in Canadian society. The essays in this collection examine the perspectives of both workers and employers, painting a disturbing picture of the challenges that people with chronic illness face in an already demanding labour market. The focus on the Canadian workplace allows for...
While significant research has been produced in the field of disability studies, little attention has been paid to experiences of chronic illness. Wor...
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151,36 zł |
Essays in the History of Canadian Law: In Honour of R.C.B. Risk
ISBN: 9781442657618 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority. The fifteen original essays are by notable scholars, some of whom were students of Professor Risk, and represent some of the best and most original work in the area of Canadian legal history. They cover a number of important topics that range from the form of the criminal trial in the eighteenth century, to debates over the meaning of property in the nineteenth,... This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers... |
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215,76 zł |
Democratic Illusion: Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy
ISBN: 9781442611245 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, and create laws that are responsive to their interests and aspirations. While deliberative processes are being adopted in an increasing number of cases, decision-making power remains mostly in the hands of traditional elites. In Democratic Illusion, Genevieve Fuji Johnson examines four representative examples: participatory budgeting in the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, Deliberative Polling by Nova Scotia Power... The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, an... |
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133,52 zł |
Democratic Illusion: Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy
ISBN: 9781442642270 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, and create laws that are responsive to their interests and aspirations. While deliberative processes are being adopted in an increasing number of cases, decision-making power remains mostly in the hands of traditional elites. In Democratic Illusion, Genevieve Fuji Johnson examines four representative examples: participatory budgeting in the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, Deliberative Polling by Nova Scotia Power... The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, an... |
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262,00 zł |
Fighting for Votes: Parties, the Media, and Voters in an Ontario Election
ISBN: 9780774829281 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elections are not just about who casts ballots ? they reflect the citizens, parties, media, and history of an electorate. Fighting for Votes examines how these factors interacted during a recent Ontario election. Drawing on a wealth of sources, the authors ask three questions: How do parties position themselves to appeal to voters? How is information from and about parties transmitted to voters? How do voters respond to the information around them? The result is a sophisticated analysis of how parties influence voters in an era where Twitter feeds and other new media are reshaping... Elections are not just about who casts ballots ? they reflect the citizens, parties, media, and history of an electorate. Fighting for Votes... |
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159,25 zł |
A Short History of the State in Canada
ISBN: 9781442628687 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A concise, elegant survey of a complex aspect of Canadian history, A Short History of the State in Canada examines the theory and reality of governance within Canada's distinctive political heritage: a combination of Indigenous, French, and British traditions, American statism and anti-statism, and diverse, practical experiments and experiences. E.A. Heaman takes the reader through the development of the state in both principle and practice, examining Indigenous forms of government before European contact; the interplay of French and British colonial institutions before and... A concise, elegant survey of a complex aspect of Canadian history, A Short History of the State in Canada examines the theory and reality ... |
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164,39 zł |
Red, White, and Kind of Blue?: The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture
ISBN: 9781442629479 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Situated between two different constitutional traditions, those of the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada has maintained a distinctive third way: federal, parliamentary, and flexible. Yet in recent years it seems that Canadian constitutional culture has been moving increasingly in an American direction. Through the prorogation crises of 2008 and 2009, its senate reform proposals, and the appointment process for Supreme Court judges, Stephen Harper's Conservative government has repeatedly shown a tendency to push Canada further into the US constitutional orbit. Red,... Situated between two different constitutional traditions, those of the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada has maintained a distinctive th... |
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323,64 zł |
Red, White, and Kind of Blue?: The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture
ISBN: 9781442629486 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Situated between two different constitutional traditions, those of the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada has maintained a distinctive third way: federal, parliamentary, and flexible. Yet in recent years it seems that Canadian constitutional culture has been moving increasingly in an American direction. Through the prorogation crises of 2008 and 2009, its senate reform proposals, and the appointment process for Supreme Court judges, Stephen Harper's Conservative government has repeatedly shown a tendency to push Canada further into the US constitutional orbit. Red,... Situated between two different constitutional traditions, those of the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada has maintained a distinctive th... |
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247,05 zł |
A Short History of the State in Canada
ISBN: 9781442637078 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A concise, elegant survey of a complex aspect of Canadian history, A Short History of the State in Canada examines the theory and reality of governance within Canada's distinctive political heritage: a combination of Indigenous, French, and British traditions, American statism and anti-statism, and diverse, practical experiments and experiences. E.A. Heaman takes the reader through the development of the state in both principle and practice, examining Indigenous forms of government before European contact; the interplay of French and British colonial institutions before and... A concise, elegant survey of a complex aspect of Canadian history, A Short History of the State in Canada examines the theory and reality ... |
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308,23 zł |
Call Me Giambattista: A Personal and Political Journey
ISBN: 9780773545779 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What draws a person to the political life? In Call Me Giambattista, John Ciaccia recounts his immigration to Canada from Italy as a small child in 1937 to his retirement from the National Assembly of Quebec in 1998. After studying at McGill University's Faculty of Law, practising in a Montreal law firm, and shifting gears to work as a federal civil servant, a phone call in 1973 from Premier Robert Bourassa launched Ciaccia's twenty-five-year career in Quebec politics. As a member federalist politician from an Italian background, Ciaccia faced many challenges. When first elected, he negotiated...
What draws a person to the political life? In Call Me Giambattista, John Ciaccia recounts his immigration to Canada from Italy as a small child in 193...
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210,62 zł |
The Handbook of Canadian Higher Education Law
ISBN: 9781553394426 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A detailed look at of the laws that govern postsecondary education from inside and out.
A detailed look at of the laws that govern postsecondary education from inside and out.
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210,62 zł |
Income Inequality: The Canadian Story
ISBN: 9780886453299 / Angielski / Miękka / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rising income inequality has been at the forefront of public debate in Canada in recent years, yet there is still much to learn about the economic forces driving the distribution of earnings and income in this country and how they might evolve in the future. With research showing that the tax-and-transfer system is losing the ability to counteract income disparity, the need for policy-makers to understand the factors at play is all the more urgent. Income Inequality provides a comprehensive review of Canadian inequality trends, including changing earnings and income dynamics among the middle...
Rising income inequality has been at the forefront of public debate in Canada in recent years, yet there is still much to learn about the economic for...
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210,62 zł |
The Lost Canadians: A Struggle for Citizenship Rights, Equality, and Identity
ISBN: 9780994055408 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Vancouver-born Don Chapman was six years old, he was stripped of his Canadian citizenship, thanks to an arcane provision of the 1947 Canadian Citizenship Act. Years later, he was stunned to discover that he couldn't return to his homeland, and thus began his David and Goliath battle to change Canada's discriminatory citizenship laws. He's since become the voice for hundreds of thousands of others like himself, now collectively known as the Lost Canadians, whose ranks have included such Canadian icons as Romeo Dallaire, Guy Lombardo, Leslie Nielsen, Ricky Gervais, and Nobel Prize winners...
When Vancouver-born Don Chapman was six years old, he was stripped of his Canadian citizenship, thanks to an arcane provision of the 1947 Canadian Cit...
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76,74 zł |
Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them
ISBN: 9781771621090 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second edition offers an insightful and provocative look at the inside world of political marketing in Canadaand what this means about the state of our democracy in the twenty-first centuryfrom a leading political commentator.
Inside the political backrooms of Ottawa, the Mad Men of Canadian politics are planning their next consumer friendly pitch. Where once politics was seen as a public service, increasingly it s seen as a business, and citizens are the customers. But its unadvertised products are voter apathy and gutless public policy. Susan Delacourt takes readers into the world... This second edition offers an insightful and provocative look at the inside world of political marketing in Canadaand what this means about the state ...
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100,86 zł |
Human Rights: Current Issues and Controversies
ISBN: 9781442609532 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written largely by Canadian scholars for Canadian readers, this overview of contemporary human rights concerns introduces the human rights instruments--provincial, national, and international--which protect Canadians. The volume begins with an outline of the history of human rights before moving on to discuss such important topics as the relationship between political institutions and rights protection, rights issues pertaining to specific communities, and cross-cutting rights issues that affect most or all citizens. Contemporary and comprehensive, Human Rights: Current Issues and... Written largely by Canadian scholars for Canadian readers, this overview of contemporary human rights concerns introduces the human rights instrume... |
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251,72 zł |
Human Rights: Current Issues and Controversies
ISBN: 9781442609549 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written largely by Canadian scholars for Canadian readers, this overview of contemporary human rights concerns introduces the human rights instruments--provincial, national, and international--which protect Canadians. The volume begins with an outline of the history of human rights before moving on to discuss such important topics as the relationship between political institutions and rights protection, rights issues pertaining to specific communities, and cross-cutting rights issues that affect most or all citizens. Contemporary and comprehensive, Human Rights: Current Issues and... Written largely by Canadian scholars for Canadian readers, this overview of contemporary human rights concerns introduces the human rights instrume... |
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565,09 zł |
Easy Prey Investors: Why Broken Safety Nets Threaten Your Wealth
ISBN: 9780773548190 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past twenty-five years, a series of actions, omissions, and failures by Canada's lawmakers and the purported gatekeepers of investors' rights have left Canadians' investments, pensions, and retirement savings at greater risk. Bodies such as provincial securities commissions have abandoned their obligations to safeguard investors and allowed published and audited financial statements in Canada to become unreliable. Yet these distorted financial statements are often used by financial analysts who present them as accurate, leaving investors in the dark about serious risks and negative...
Over the past twenty-five years, a series of actions, omissions, and failures by Canada's lawmakers and the purported gatekeepers of investors' rights...
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231,17 zł |