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Jesus Christ in the Epistle to the Hebrews
The interest that Hebrews holds today is testimony to its enduring message. Central to its message is what Jesus Christ did and continues to do for his people. This is spelled out in arresting images. Dr. McKelvey provides new insight …
View book details for The Professionalization of Pastoral Care
The SBCs Journey from Pastoral Theology to Counseling Psychology
When the organization and structure of the church in America was altered in the early 1900s to meet modern demands, the role of the pastorate became more specialized to adapt to the burdens of the new, "efficient" structure. In 1920, …
View book details for What Teachers Need to Know
Topics in Diversity and Inclusion
Every generation has sought to make teaching and learning more inclusive and equitable, but pesky questions always remain, such as, how can teaching and learning be conducted in ways that satisfies and respects everyone? What are the parameters of an …
Do negative campaigns win elections? Do voters abandon candidates accused of scandalous behaviour? Do government apologies affect prospects for re-election? While many people assume the answer to each of these questions is yes, there is limited empirical evidence to support …
View book details for The New Climate Activism
NGO Authority and Participation in Climate Change Governance
At the 2019 UN climate change conference, activists and delegates from groups representing Indigenous, youth, women, and labour rights were among those marching through the halls chanting "Climate Justice, People Power." In The New Climate Activism, Jen Iris Allan looks …
The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented at renowned institutions around the world, including the Universities of Oxford, Harvard, and Yale. In …
View book details for Hope in a Collapsing World
Youth, Theatre, and Listening as a Political Alternative
For young people, the space of the drama classroom can be a space for deep learning as they struggle across difference to create something together with common purpose. Collaborating across institutions, theatres, and community spaces, the research in Hope in …
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How Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg Survived Nazi Captivity
After the Anschluss (annexation) in 1938, the Nazis forced Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to resign and kept him imprisoned for seven years, until his rescue by the Allies in 1945. Schuschniggs privileged position within the concentration camp system allowed him …
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Global Invention in the Early Modern Period
Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period. This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and …
The Multilevel Politics of Trade presents a timely comparative analysis of eight federations (plus the European Union) to explore why some sub-federal actors have become more active in trade politics in recent years. As the contributing authors find, there is …
Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives analyses the role of passion particularly indignation and how it shapes intention and inspires the work of many contemporary Italian writers and filmmakers. Noting how art often holds the power to …
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Klaus Barbie and Frances First Trial for Crimes against Humanity
The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was Frances first trial for crimes against humanity. Known as the "Butcher of Lyon" during the Nazi occupation of that city from 1942 to 1944, Barbie tortured, deported, and …
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A History of Cardiac Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital
Great innovations take place within great institutions. Founded in 1819, Toronto General Hospital (TGH) is one of Canadas oldest hospitals and has created a nurturing environment for early Canadian innovations in heart surgery. The Heartbeat of Innovation tells the story …
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Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal
This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Andrew Fernando Holmes, famous for his work on congenital heart disease. Physician, surgeon, natural historian, educator, Protestant evangelical. Andrew Fernando Holmess name is synonymous with the McGill medical …
View book details for The Conflict over the Conflict
The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate
The Conflict over the Conflict chronicles one of the most divisive and toxic issues on todays college and university campuses: Israel/Palestine. Some pro-Palestinian students call supporters of Israel's right to exist racist, and disrupt their events. Some pro-Israel students label …
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Cultural Politics and Citizenship in the Wake of the Madrid Bombings
On March 11, 2004, Islamist terrorists carried out a massive bombing on Madrids largely working-class commuter trains, leaving 191 people dead and more than 1,500 others wounded. This event, known in Spain as 11-M, was the second of three highly …
View book details for Beyond the Great War
Making Peace in a Disordered World
Following the end of the First World War, a new world order emerged from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It was an order riddled with contradictions and problems that were only finally resolved after the Second World War. Beyond …
View book details for Newfoundland and Labrador
A Health System Profile
There is not, and has never been, a single Canadian health system. Part of a series on the health systems of Canadas provinces and territories, Newfoundland and Labrador: A Health System Profile provides a critical analysis of how the single-payer …
View book details for Creating Indigenous Property
Power, Rights, and Relationships
While colonial imposition of the Canadian legal order has undermined Indigenous law, creating gaps and sometimes distortions, Indigenous peoples have taken up the challenge of rebuilding their laws, governance, and economies. Indigenous conceptions of land and property are central to …
Most Jewish communities continue to cite intermarriage as the most serious threat to Jewish continuity. Contrary to this view, The AZ of Intermarriage reveals that intermarriage is a force for good in the lives of Jewish families and communities. Written …
View book details for The Persistence of the Sacred
German Catholic Pilgrimage, 18321937
For millions of Catholic believers, pilgrimage has offered possible answers to the mysteries of sickness, life, and death. The Persistence of the Sacred explores the religious worldviews of Europeans who travelled to Trier and Aachen, two cities in Western Germany, …
View book details for From Malaise to Meltdown
The International Origins of Financial Folly, 1844
For the past two centuries, the great power sitting atop the international global financial system has enjoyed outsized rewards. As the saying goes, however, all good things come to an end. Providing insights into the evolution of the global political …
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Conrad, Aristotle, and Modernity
The Discerning Narrator sheds new light on Joseph Conrads controversial critique of modernity and modernization by reading his work through an Aristotelian lens. The book proposes that we need Aristotle a key figure in Conrads education to recognize the profound …
View book details for The Life of Permafrost
A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science
In the Anthropocene, the thawing of frozen earth due to global warming has drawn worldwide attention to permafrost. Contemporary scientists define permafrost as ground that maintains a negative temperature for at least two years. But where did this particular conception …
This important book sheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives. Harvey Amani Whitfield unearths the stories of men, women, and children who would not otherwise …
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