Crime and Criminology: An Introduction to Theory, 4th Canadian Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

White, Rob

Haines, Fiona

Eisler, Lauren

Social Sciences

OUP Canada

Designed to accompany J.M. Bumsted's introductory history texts (the two-volume Peoples of Canada and the single-volume History of the Canadian Peoples), Interpreting Canada's Past is a collection of readings that now includes primary documents as well as previously published scholarly articles.

Interpreting Canada's Past

History

Bumsted, J. M. (edit)

Americas

In this monumental, two-volume set--the first comprehensive study of Canadian architecture--Harold Kalman presents a rich panorama, treating the vast range of Canadian building, from the native peoples and first settlers to the recent past to the present day. He describes the country's architectural history in a lucid and engaging narrative, placing the buildings firmly in a social and cultural context to illuminate distinct characteristics of Canadian architects and architecture. Lavishly illustrated with over eight hundred black and white drawings and photographs, this work will be an essential reference for anyone interested in architectural history.

A Concise History of Canadian Architecture

Arts & Photography

Kalman, Hal

History & Criticism

Canadian politics has been fundamentally changed by the growing influence of pressure groups. Their expanded role in shaping public policy is feared by some as a threat to political parties. Others welcome pressure groups as the most effective means of communicating with political leadersand government officials. All agree, though, that with the mass media, pressure groups have opened significant issues to major public debate. Women's issues, environmental concerns, language rights, free trade, and many other topics have been widely debated as the result of the intervention ofpressure groups.Since its first publication in 1986, this book has been accepted as the major study of the full range of Canadian pressure groups and the part they play in making public policy. It addresses such important questions as: What are pressure groups? Why have they acquired so much influence? Do wereally need them? And if so, why? What dangers do they pose for Canadian democracy? How can they be safely absorbed into our political system? The text argues that pressure groups are essential in any modern state and that they have enhanced, not undermined, Canadian democracy.This second edition addresses these questions in light of the rapid development of Canadian pressure group behaviour since the mid-1980s. Among the most important changes that are discussed are groups' intervention in constitutional politics; their growing use of the courts; their participation inelection advertising; and the impact of international lobbying. Government concern over the public funding of groups is reviewed, as is the implementation of the federal government's Lobbyists' Registration Act.This book also offers an historical survey and framework - including a new approach to the classification of groups - that can be used to illuminate today's trends and evaluate measures designed to harness their political power.

Group Politics and Public Policy

Pross, A.Paul

Politics & Government

20th Century Poetry and Poetics is considered the most important teaching anthology published in Canada for poetry courses at the college and university market. The greatly anticipated fourth edition of the anthology was published in the Spring of 1996 and the number of poets included was expanded by more than fifty per cent. The twenty-five poets new to this edition - - twelve women and thirteen men - are from Canada, the UK, the United States, and the Commonwealth. The list of new poets include Nobel Prize winner Dereck Walcott; well-known American poets Sharon Olds, Louise Gluck, Denise Levertov, Galway Kinnell, Robert Hass, Robert Bly, John Ashbery, Philip Levine, and Rita Dove; Irish poet Eavan Boland; Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy; and Canadians Patrick Lane, Sharon Thesen, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Don McKay, Daphne Marlatt, Gary Geddes, Bronwen Wallace, Robert Kroetsch, Lorna Crozier, Tim Lilburn, Roo Borson, and bpNichol. The book provides in-depth selections from the work of each poet, and where possible, places the poems in the significant context of the poets' own views on poetics. In addition, there are useful biographies and comments on the poets in the form of headnotes that appear at the beginning of each poet's work.

20th Century Poetry and Poetics

Literature & Fiction

Geddes, Gary

Poetry

Purpose and Pattern is a response to the need expressed by a great many teachers and students for a description of the English language that explains how contemporary English is spoken and written and why it is spoken and written in this way. The text is descriptive rather than prescriptivein its approach; that is, it presents the English language as it is currently being used rather than as a set of ironclad rules.The text moves forward through the function of words as parts of our speech to their patterns in sentences, paragraphs, and essays. As the students' knowledge of the patterns of the English language develops, so do the choices available to them for the expression of their ideas and emotions.Those who study this text will discover the freedom that comes with an understanding of how language can serve their needs for expression.

Purpose and Pattern

Thompson, Anne

Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father for the wilder shores of Montparnasse. He remained there until his money ran out and his health collapsed, and he enjoyed every minute of his stay. Remarkable for their candor and humor, Glassco's memoirs have the daft logic of a wild but utterly absorbing adventure, a tale of desire set free that is only faintly shadowed by sadness at the inevitable passage of time. Book jacket.

Memoirs of Montparnasse

john-glassco

Biographies & Memoirs

This first detailed comprehensive study has been long awaited. Until now, interest in the history of Canadian architecture has been satisfied mainly by brief surveys or local histories. Writing these two volumes over ten years, Kalman has produced a rich panorama, treating the vast range of Canadian building from the dwellings of the native peoples and the first settlers to buildings of the recent past and the present day. Describing the country's architectural history in a lucid and interesting narrative, and placing the buildings firmly in a social and cultural context, Kalman brings to light some distinctive characteristics of Canadian architects and architecture: a respect for nature, natural forms, and local materials; the tendencies to absorb ideas from abroad and then simplify and restrain them, and to take a middle position between extreme modernism and extreme traditionalism; the development of marked regional differences; and the flair for producing innovations in response to social issues.

A History of Canadian Architecture (Vol 2)

Kalman, Harold

Writing Prose is designed to acquaint students with the techniques of good prose through a range of writing samples including classics, such as Swift's 'A Modest Proposal', as well as contemporary essays by lesser-known authors. Ranging in length from short paragraphs to complete essays, the readings are grouped according to traditional rhetorical categories--exposition, argument, description, and narration, along with definition, persuasion, and 'writing about writing'.

Writing Prose

Education & Teaching

Thomas S. Kane

Leonard J. Peters

Maurice R. Legris

Schools & Teaching

In 1867 Canada was born as a new nation dedicated to promoting 'peace, order, and good government'. For about one hundred years we seem to have been pretty satisfied with our performance. In the past thirty, however, even though we seem to have held onto the first two ideals, there has been anever-growing suspicion that the third is slipping away from us. The discovery of new depths in public cynicism about politicians and politics is no longer news. We don't seem to trust the people we elect to run our governments, and we only vote for them because the alternatives seem even worse. Thatis, if we bother to vote at all.In A Question of Ethics, the authors went directly to the public in a broad-based survey to try and map out more precisely the contours of acceptability in political behaviour. Chapter One discusses the basic concepts and principles of political ethics and includes ethical rules, such as they are,that apply to public officials in Canada. Chapter Two expands on this background and lays out the methodological and analytical framework that guides the rest of the book. The next four chapters examine in detail a particular type of problematic political behaviour. In Chapter Three, the authorsjump directly into the murky and confusing waters of 'Conflict of Interest'. Chapter Four examines 'Gifts and Gains', Chapter Five covers 'Patronage', and Chapter Six covers 'Lying'.In each chapter the authors look at examples of each behaviour, the forces that pressure officials to indulge in or avoid them, and arguments that have been made to defend or rationalize their use. What will emerge from these discussions and some concluding thoughts is a better understanding of howour fellow Canadians feel about political ethics, and how those feelings apply in specific areas.

A Question of Ethics

Greene, Ian

Atkinson, Michael M.

Nevitte, Neil

Blais, André

Mancuso, Maureen

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