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  • Weary Warriors

    Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers

    As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers’ invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions—families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs—mediated ... Read more

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    Give Me This Mountain

    Faith To Go From Barely Surviving To Actually Thriving

    by Joseph Prince ...
    Narrated by Michael Davis ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 24 min

    This is a book—no—a guide to faith.Real, raw, and authentic faith.Not the kind of polished, feel-good faith that’s only good on the good days and vanishes the moment life turns up the heat.We’re talking about faith for when and where it really matters— in the face of adversity, disappointment, anxiety about the future, and the seemingly impossible odds we’re up against that the world and our ... Read more

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  • Absent Citizens

    Disability Politics and Policy in Canada

    Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic deficiencies in Canadian society and emphasizes the effects that these omissions have on the ... Read more

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  • War and German Memory

    Excavating the Significance of the Second World War in German Cultural Consciousness

    Germans often claim that "we have learned the lessons of our history." But what, precisely, are the lessons they have drawn from their Nazi-era past? What experiences from that time continue to hold significant meaning for Germans today, and how have those experiences shaped postwar German cultural identity? Though Germans have come to recognize the evils of Nazism, for them, its primary evil ... Read more

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  • Policy Analysis in Canada

    Series Book 13 - International Library of Policy Analysis
    Policy analysis in Canada brings together original contributions from many of the field’s leading scholars. Contributors chronicle the evolution of policy analysis in Canada over the past 50 years and reflect on its application in both governmental and non-governmental settings.As part of the International Library of Policy Analysis series, the book enables cross-national comparison of public ... Read more

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  • Adapting the Beat Poets

    Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac on Screen

    Series series Film and History
    In the post-World War II era, authors of the beat generation produced some of the most enduring literature of the day. More than six decades since, work of the Beat Poets conjures images of unconventionality, defiance, and a changing consciousness that permeated the 1950s and 60s. In recent years, the key texts of Beat authors such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac have ... Read more

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  • Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy

    No one is content with the state of health and social programs in Canada today. The Right thinks that there is too much government involvement, and the Left thinks there is not enough. In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state from its establishment in the 1940s, through its development in the mid 1970s, to the period of ... Read more

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  • Stupid Wars

    A Citizen's Guide to Botched Putsches, Failed Coups, Inane Invasions & Ridiculous Revolutions

    When winners write history, they sometimes "forget" to include their own embarrassing misjudgments. Fortunately, this take-no-prisoners edition of history isn't going to let the winners (or the losers) forget the mistakes of the past. Be prepared to laugh out loud—and gasp in horror—at the most painfully idiotic strategies, alliances, and decisions the world has ever known. These stupid wars have ... Read more

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  • The Shortest Way with Defoe

    Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the Novel

    A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe contends that Robinson Crusoe contains a secret satire, written against one person, that has gone undetected for 300 years. By locating Defoe's nemesis and discovering what he represented and how Defoe fought him, Michael Prince's book opens the way to a ... Read more

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  • Struggling for Social Citizenship

    Disabled Canadians, Income Security, and Prime Ministerial Eras

    The Canada Pension Plan disability benefit is a monthly payment available to disabled citizens who have contributed to the CPP and are unable to work regularly at any job. Covering the program’s origins, early implementation, liberalization of benefits, and more recent restraint and reorientation of this program, Struggling for Social Citizenship is the first detailed examination of the single ... Read more

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  • Microdystopias

    Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment

    This edited collection examines the effects that macrosystems have on the figuration of our everyday—of microdystopias—and argues that microdystopic narratives are part of a genre that has emerged in contrast to classic dystopic manifestations of world-shattering events. From different methodological and theoretical positions in fieldworks ranging from literary works and young adult series to ... Read more

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  • Three Bio-Realms

    Biotechnology and the Governance of Food, Health, and Life in Canada

    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
    Biotechnology has become one of the most important issues in public policy and governance, altering the boundaries between the public and the private, the economic and the social, and further complicating the divide between what is scientifically possible and ethically preferred. Given the importance of biotechnology in shaping relations between the state, science, the economy, and the citizenry, ... Read more

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