Political scandal power and visability in the media age

Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today. From Profumo to the cash-for-questions scandal, from Watergate to...

Organized crime a cultural introduction

This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct,...

Cengage advantage books western civilization beyond boundaries

Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this text is an economically priced version of WESTERN...

Putting psychology in its place critical historical perspectives

This fourth edition of Putting Psychology in Its Place builds on the previous three in introducing the history of Psychology...

History of medicine

Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine has for ten years been one of the leading texts used to teach medical and...

The british prime minister in an age of upheaval

In this timely book, Mark Garnett provides a bracing reassessment of the role of the British Prime Minister, from Margaret...

The other quiet revolution national identities in english canada

The Other Quiet Revolution traces the under-examined cultural transformation woven through key developments in the formation of Canadian nationhood, from...

Fire and fury inside the trump white house

#1 New York Times Bestseller With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the...

Classical myth

Comprehensive and scholarly, this well-designed text presents Greek and Roman myths in a lively and easy-to-read manner. The material has...

Quaqtaq modernity and identity in an inuit community

How, in a world that is drastically changing, can the Inuit preserve their identity? Louis-Jacques Dorais explores this question in...

A soaring spirit time frame

Discusses the major historical events which took place between 600 and 400 B.C.

The secular enlightenment

A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people’s everyday lives The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of...

Clandestine operations the arms and techniques of the resistance

A dictionary of geography

This invaluable dictionary provides comprehensive coverage in one volume of both human and physical geography. For this third edition, existing...

Health care and the charter legal mobilization and policy change in canada

Health Care and the Charter explores the systematic use of Charter litigation in the area of health care and the...

Enduring hardship the chinese laundry in canada

Faced with systematic discrimination in Canada, early Chinese immigrants had little choice but to create their own economic niche. From...

The house on lippincott

Embedded in Canadian and world history, and set in downtown Toronto between 1947 and the turn of the century, The...

Surviving bhopal dancing bodies

On December 2-3, 1984, India witnessed arguably the world’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, which continues to this...

Japan before perry a short history

By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial...

Jews in italy under fascist and nazi rule

The Jews of Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945 brings to light the Italian-Jewish experience from the start of...

In search of wealth and power yen fu and the west

In a serious effort to divine the secret of the West's success in achieving wealth and power, Yen Fu, a...

Physics and philosophy volume

This collection of the writings of Paul Feyerabend is focused on his philosophy of quantum physics, the hotbed of the...

China's intellectuals and the state in search of a new relationship

Today's intellectuals in China inherit a mixed tradition in terms of their relationship to the state. Some follow the Confucian...

Drum songs glimpses of dene history

'Drum Songs' examines the history of the Dene, one of the aboriginal peoples of Canada's western subarctic, from ancient times...