Law and morality

readings in legal philisophy

Since the publication of the first edition in 1996 and the second in 2001, "Law and Morality" has filled a long-standing need for a contemporary Canadian textbook in the philosophy of law. Now in its third edition, this essential volume has been significantly revised and ...

Strategic science in the public interest

Canada's goverment laboratories and science-based agencies

The past twenty years have seen considerable shifts and struggles in 'government science' - that is, in the way the state funds, supports, regulates, conducts and uses scientific and technological activity. Focusing on federal labs and agencies, "Strategic Science in the Public Interest" explores how these ...

Socrates on trial

a play based on Aristophanes' Clouds and Plato's Apology, Crito, and Phaedo adapted for modern performance

More than 2,400 years after his death, Socrates remains an iconic but controversial figure. To his followers, he personified progressive Greek ideals of justice and wisdom. To his detractors, he was a corruptor of the young during wartime and one of the reasons Athens ...

Working in the vineyard of the Lord

jesuit confraternities in early modern Italy

By highlighting the intersection of clergy, elites, and outcast groups, Working in the Vineyard of the Lord illuminates the understanding of religious reform, popular devotion, and changing attitudes toward charity in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Italy. Lance Lazar's work represents a new look at ...

The Jesuits.T.II: Cultures, sciences and the arts, 1540-1773

Recent years have seen scholars re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. In 1997, a major international conference was convened to discuss the world of the Jesuits between 1540 and 1773. This meeting led to the creation of the first volume in this series ...

Seeing through the Veil

optical theory and medieval allegory

During the later Middle Ages, new optical theories were introduced that located the power of sight not in the seeing subject, but in the passive object of vision. This shift had a powerful impact not only on medieval science but also on theories of knowledge ...

Rules, rules, rules, rules

multilevel regulatory governance

The dynamics of multi-level regulatory governance are ever-changing, not just in a North American context, but in a global one as well. "Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules", clarifies the nature, causes, and dynamics of levels of regulatory governance in, or affecting, Canada. Edited by G. Bruce ...

The politics of Candu Exports

In "The Politics of CANDU Exports", Duane Bratt provides a comprehensive history of the export of the Canada Deuterium-Uranium (CANDU) reactor - nuclear power reactor designed and marketed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Bratt examines every CANDU sale, as well as some important unsuccessful sales ...

The Canadian Senate in bicameral perspective

The Canadian Senate in Bicameral Perspective is the first book-length scholarly study of the Senate in over a quarter century and the first such analysis of the upper house as one chamber of a bicameral legislature. David E. Smith's aim is to demonstrate the ...

Appointing judges in an age of judicial power

critical perspectives from around the world

The global expansion in judicial power has led to a growing interest in the way judges are chosen. Reform of the judicial selection process is on the political agenda in many countries but the nature of that process differs according to the type of process ...

Adages

III iv 1 to IV ii 100

This fifth of seven volumes on the Adages continues from where the Collected Works of Erasmus volume 34 left off and includes 900 more adages from III iv 1 to IV ii 100. The aim of the Adages volumes in the CWE is to provide ...

Controversies

responsio ad epistolam paraeneticam Alberti PII : Apologia adversus rhapsodias Alberti PII brevissima scholia

This new volume of the CWE presents three of Erasmus' polemic works against Alberto Pio, Prince of Carpi. A leading diplomat of the period, patron of artists and humanists, and conservative Catholic, Pio continually angered Erasmus by criticizing him for his denunciations of church practices ...

A concise history of the Jewish people

This book describes the most important events and people in Jewish history from Abraham to the present day, in a very concise, accessible way. These read-bites include up-to-date essays discussing the impact of - the Iraq War, Muslim Fundamentalism, and rise of European anti- Semitism on ...

Downsizing in Academic Libraries

The Canadian Experience

The 1990s provided many challenges for Canadian academic library managers. Financial cutbacks at the federal and provincial levels quickly trickled down to universities and their libraries, and administrators were forced to learn how to manage with shrinking budgets. Ethel Auster and Shauna Taylor's Downsizing ...

Medieval families

perspectives on marriage, household, and children

During the past 30 years, the study of medieval families has emerged as a focus of discussion in European history. Largely unexplored in professional publications and teaching curricula until the 1970s, family history is now accepted as an aspect of medieval history essential to the ...

Israel, diaspora, and the routes of national belonging

Many diasporic Jews are committed to Israel, but is diasporic nationalism necessarily tied to territory? Over the course of four years, Jasmin Habib was a participant observer on tours of Israel organized for diaspora Jews as well as at community events focusing on Israel and ...

The Fiscal Sustainability of Health Care in Canada

Establishing the rules of the game

election laws in democracies

Families of the king

writing identity in the Anglo-Saxo Chronicle

Past futures

the impossible necessity of history: based on the 1996 Joanne Goodman Lectures

Ploughing up the farm

neoliberalism, modern technology and the State of the World's Farmers

Question of tradition