Publications
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Law and the “Sharing Economy”
(2018)
The rapid expansion of sharing economy platforms such as Airbnb and Uber has generated enormous controversy. This book brings legal and interdisciplinary perspectives to the labour, market and technology and other regulatory ...
Décrocher son diplôme (et l’emploi de ses rêves!)
(2018)
"Everything you have always wanted to know to fully live your student life, position yourself advantageously
on the job market and develop healthy lifestyle habits. "
Touch in the Helping Professions
(2018)
Inappropriate touch cases have sparked public outcry and made headlines, but a discussion on the importance and ethics of positive, caring, appropriate touch in the helping professions such as teaching, nursing and counselling ...
Vulnerable
(2020)
Vulnerable examines the vulnerabilities and interconnections brought to light by the pandemic, as well as the legal, ethical and public policy responses. This book exposes the vulnerabilities of individuals, institutions, ...
La valeur des informations
(2020)
In the chaos of modern communication, how and why does a message succeed in pleasing? Through the methodical analysis of available scientific knowledge, this book explores the logics of production and reception of speeches.
Lire la communication-monde au XXIe siècle
(2023)
How can we grasp global communication issues when the term communication internationale is being instrumentalized by a most diverse range of actors? By contrast, Lire la communication-monde au xxie siècle offers a structured ...
The Future of Open Data
(2021)
The Future of Open Data est issu d’un projet de recherche en partenariat subventionné pendant plusieurs années par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines (CRSH) qui vise à explorer les données gouvernementales ...
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V34, #1
(2025)
VOLUME 34, Number 1 (2025) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on “Emotions and the Affective Politics of Incarceration” edited by Jennifer M. Kilty (University of Ottawa), Rachel Fayter (Carleton ...
Future Horizons
(2023)
Future Horizons examines how digital humanities transform conceptions of the humanities in Canadian contexts. It connects thematic concerns with individual techniques, scholarly investigations with artistic interventions; ...
À la frontière des mondes
(2021)
The Academic Sabbatical
(2021)
The Academic Sabbatical: A Voyage of Discovery est un recueil de récits révélant l’importance des congés sabbatiques pour les membres du corps professoral et, par extension, pour l’enseignement supérieur. Au moyen des ...
Staging Prison Theatre in Canada
(2025)
For over forty years, William Head on Stage (WHoS) has operated as an inmate-run prison theatre, making it one of Canada’s longest-standing prison arts initiatives.
Staging Prison Theatre in Canada: Setting the Spotlight ...
A Quarter-Century of Normalization and Social Role Valorization
(1999)
During the late 1960s, Normalization and Social Role Valorization (SRV) enabled the widespread emergence of community residential options and then provided the philosophical climate within which educational integration, ...
Sexual Assault in Canada
(2012)
"Sexual Assault in Canada" is the first English-language book in almost two decades to assess the state of sexual assault law and legal practice in Canada. Gathering together feminist scholars, lawyers, activists and ...
The Copyright Pentalogy
(2013)
The first comprehensive analysis of the July 2012 Supreme Court of Canada rulings on five copyright cases, this indispensible volume, edited by Michael Geist identifies the key aspects of the Court's decisions and considers ...
Sport Policy in Canada
(2013)
The first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012.
Homelessness & Health in Canada
(2014)
Homelessness & Health in Canada explores, for the first time, the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape the health of homeless persons in Canada. Covering a wide range of topics from youth homelessness ...
L'ère électrique - The Electric Age
(2011)
The scientific discovery and mastery of electricity created as many important changes in modern society as did the invention of alphabetical writing in antiquity and movable type in the fifteenth century. It is more than ...
Transfert
(2014)
The book has three axes of reflection on the concept of transference. In the first part of the volume, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink evokes contemporary changes that increase intercultural communications. Walter Moser examines the ...
Ricochet
(2011)
Fourteen lines, fourteen words – one poem.
De la couleur des lois
(2010)
Canadian history - discrimination - law
Le Droit de traduire
(2009)
right of (the) translation - copyright
Home-Work
(2004)
Canadian literature, and specifically the teaching of Canadian literature, has emerged from a colonial duty to a nationalist enterprise and into the current territory of postcolonialism. From practical discussions related ...
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. I
(1978)
The medieval poem <i>Cursor Mundi</i> is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the ...
Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China
(2009)
Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant ...
Pro-Poor Land Reform
(2007)
Using empirical case materials from the Philippines and referring to rich experiences from different countries historically, this book offers conceptual and practical conclusions that have far-reaching implications for ...
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. V
(2000)
The medieval poem <i>Cursor Mundi</i> is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the ...
Changing the Terms
(2001)
This volume explores the theoretical foundations of postcolonial translation in settings as diverse as Malaysia, Ireland, India and South America. <i>Changing the Terms</i> examines stimulating links that are currently ...
The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siècle
(2003)
In this collection of essays some of Canada's foremost writers and thinkers, including John Ralston Saul and Margaret Atwood, call for equilibrium among economics, culture, and technological change. While promoting the ...
Accounting for Culture
(2005)
Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional ...
Feminist Success Stories - Célébrons nos réussites féministes
(1999)
Abuses by international corporations, withdrawal of social services and implementation of regressive legislation continue to impoverish women and reduce the quality of their everyday lives: women have reason to be demoralized. ...
Building New Bridges - Bâtir de nouveaux ponts
(2005)
Questions of methodology and the use of sources are fundamental to all academic disciplines. In recent years, this topic has become far more challenging as scholars are increasingly adopting an interdisciplinary approach ...
Borderlands
(2007)
Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington ...
Charting the Future of Translation History
(2006)
Over the last 30 years there has been a substantial increase in the study of the history of translation. Both well-known and lesser-known specialists in translation studies have worked tirelessly to give the history of ...
Images of Canadianness
(1998)
<i>Images of Canadianness</i> offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of relevant--if relatively new--features of Canada, from political, cultural, and economic angles. Each of its four sections contains articles ...
Caring and Curing
(1994)
This collection of essays takes the reader from the early 19th century struggle between female midwives and male physicians right up to the late 20th century emergence of professionally trained women physicians vying for ...
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. II
(1990)
The medieval poem <i>Cursor Mundi</i> is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the ...
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. IV
(1997)
The medieval poem <i>Cursor Mundi</i> is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the ...
Voyages
(1997)
Susanna Moodie is, of course, best known for her books <i>Roughing It in the Bush</i> and <i>Life in the Clearings</i>, which are largely comprised of short sketches that she had previously published. What is not widely ...
Whence They Came
(1998)
Until recently, immigration policy was largely in the hands of a small group of bureaucrats, who strove desperately to fend off “offensive” peoples. Barbara Roberts explores these government officials, showing how they not ...
The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi, Vol. III
(1985)
The medieval poem <i>Cursor Mundi</i> is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the ...
Not Written in Stone
(2003)
Using long-ignored constitutions of various Jewish organizations, this unique book uncovers the political history of Canadian Jewry since its beginning during the 1700s. Building on the premise that Jews, since time ...
Cyberidentities
(1999)
This innovative study explores diverse aspects of Canadian and European identity on the information highway and reaches beyond technical issues to confront and explore communication, culture and the culture of communication.
Defending a Contested Ideal
(2008)
In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered ...
Language Testing Reconsidered
(2007)
<i>Language Testing Reconsidered</i> provides a critical update on major issues that have engaged the field of language testing since its inception. Anyone who is working in, studying or teaching language testing should ...
Margaret Laurence
(2001)
This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. The essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian ...
Rethinking the Future of the University
(1998)
This distinguished collection of essays, edited under the direction of David Lyle Jeffrey and Dominic Manganiello, emerged from the discussions that surrounded the 1995-1996 McMartin Lectures. Dedicated to studying the ...
Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter
(1995)
From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, traditionally called Acadia, with Eastern Canada's Algonkian-speaking ...
eGirls, eCitizens
(2015)
eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls’ and young women’s experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary ...
The China Challenge
(2011)
With the exception of Canada’s relationship with the United States, Canada’s relationship with China will likely be its most significant foreign connection in the twenty-first century. As China’s role in world politics ...
Life, Fish and Mangroves
(2012)
In Life, Fish and Mangroves, Melissa Marschke explores the potential of resource governance, offering a case study of resource-dependent village life. Following six households and one village-based institution in coastal ...
Rethinking Canadian Aid
(2016)
In 2013, the government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which had been Canada's flagship foreign aid agency for decades, and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of ...
eAccess to Justice
(2016)
How can we leverage digitization to improve access to justice, without compromising the fundamental principles of our legal system? eAccess to Justice describes the many challenges that come with the integration of information ...
Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History
(2008)
Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these texts are still relevant ...
Shakespeare and Canada: Remembrance of Ourselves
(2017)
As we commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, the most translated and performed playwright in the world continues to live on in our imagination. How might we historicize Shakespeare's influence in Canada?
Language is the Key: The Canadian Language Benchmarks Model
(2017)
This book is intended for broad readership. Given the dearth of comprehensive appraisals of the Canadian Benchmark system, it is meant as a basic academic reference for discussion, in the Canadian context, of language ...
Managing Diversity
(2007)
Australia, Canada, and Ireland are all engaged in questions of multiculturalism and in the politics of recognition and reconciliation, the opportunities and pressures of geographic regionalism, shifts in political agendas ...
Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy
(2005)
In Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy, Anoop Gupta develops an original theory of the self based on Kierkegaard's writings. Gupta proceeds by historical exegesis and considers several important ways of thinking about self outside ...
Colonial Systems of Control
(2008)
A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri ...
Esthétique et recyclages culturels
(2004)
artists - designers - cultural production - recycling - aesthetic experience
À l'ombre de l'INCO
(2001)
socio-economic history - a French-Canadian community in the Sudbury region
Aux origines de l'identité franco-ontarien
(1993)
the 1880's - the Francophones - Ontario
Néologie canadienne de Jacques Viger
(1998)
Jacques Viger - lexicography - nineteenth century - Montreal - Canada
Chercheurs de dieux dans l'espace public - Frontier Religions in Public Space
(2001)
religion - modernity
De l'écrit à l'écran
(2004)
African francophone novel - semiology of the image - postcolonial poetics and theory - literary texts - African cinema - African cinema - adaptation
Droits et voix - Rights and Voices
(2010)
University of Ottawa - Criminology
Anne Hébert
(2000)
Anne Hébert - literature - materialism - poetry - novel - theatre
La Démocratie à l'épreuve de la gouvernance
(2001)
functioning of organizations - governance - democracy
Le Deuil d'un pays imaginé
(1997)
Quebec - the Quiet Revolution - French Canada
Le Piège de la violence et les jeunes
(2008)
violence - youth
La Rénovation de l'héritage démocratique
(2009)
Quebec - Canada - politics - democracy - identity
Governance Through Social Learning
(1999)
Governance connotes the way an organization, an economy, or a social system co-ordinates and steers itself. Some insist that governing is strictly a top-down process guided by authority and coercion, while others emphasize ...
Revolution or Renaissance
(2008)
In <i>Revolution or Renaissance</i>, D. Paul Schafer subjects two of the most powerful forces in the world – economics and culture – to a detailed and historically sensitive analysis. He argues that the economic age has ...
Amériques transculturelles - Transcultural Americas
(2010)
Transculturality is a new way of viewing culture that sees cultures not as separate islands that are easily differentiated from one another, but as connected and interacting webs of meaning and practice. The Americas in ...
From Cognition to Being
(1999)
In this book, McHenry challenges the still-regnant paradigm of knowledge acquisition as the end and means of schooling, supplanting it with an inquiry into what knowledge is. Tracing the development of the idea of knowledge ...
Stephen Leacock
(1986)
This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of <i>Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town</i>.
The Way Ahead
(2008)
Canada is a prosperous country, but this prosperity is being stressed by demographics, pressures on the public purse, and low productivity growth. To maintain the nation's high quality of life, prosperity must increase ...
Understanding History
(1992)
Has any question about the historical past ever been finally answered? Of course there is much disagreement among professional historians about what happened in the past and how to explain it. But this incisive study goes ...
The Forgotten Peace
(2010)
In the early hours of April 22, 1914, American President Woodrow Wilson sent Marines to seize the port of Veracruz in an attempt to alter the course of the Mexican Revolution. As a result, the United States seemed on the ...
À la défense d'un idéal contesté
(2008)
democracy - Canadian Parliament - merit - Public Service Commission of Canada
Enseignement de la traduction et traduction dans l'enseignement
(1998)
professional translation - translation didactics
Pluralisme et délibération
(1999)
crisis - democracy - contemporary political philosophy - identity
Vision-Division
(2004)
Nancy Huston - essays - novels - duplication - duplicity
La Violence, la peur et le crime
(2001)
violence - fear - crime - non-violence - criminal and social justice
Femmes francophones et pluralisme en milieu minoritaire
(1996)
feminist discourse - Canadian francophone minority - pluralism
Teaching Translation from Spanish to English
(1996)
While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view. In her innovative book, she demonstrates how teachers can ...
Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era
(2015)
Years of surveillance-related leaks from US whistleblower Edward Snowden have fuelled an international debate on privacy, spying, and Internet surveillance. Much of the focus has centered on the role of the US National ...
Laïcité et humanisme
(2015)
Secularism, Humanism, Québec, tolerance
Des outils pour le changement
(2015)
global crisis - developing countries - international development studies
Accessibility and Active Offer
(2017)
It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to ...
Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?
(2020)
Canadians are deeply worried about wait times for health care. Entrepreneurial doctors and private clinics are bringing Charter challenges to existing laws restrictive of a two-tier system. They argue that Canada is an ...
Ethical Hacking
(2019)
How will governments and courts protect civil liberties in this new era of hacktivism? Ethical Hacking discusses the attendant moral and legal issues. The first part of the 21st century will likely go down in history as ...
Innovating South-South Cooperation
(2019)
Les changements en matière d’aide internationale et les défis soulevés par les crises alimentaires, financières et énergétiques exigent un examen critique des conventions actuelles en matière d’assistance et d’élaboration ...
The Afterworld
(2024)
La COVID-19 a provoqué la crise mondiale la plus importante et la plus globale du 21e siècle. Pour certains, les répercussions ont été rapides et dramatiques, la pandémie poussant des dizaines de millions de personnes dans ...
Gouverner les migrations pour perpétuer la mondialisation
(2024)
La gestion migratoire est un imaginaire qui préconise l’ouverture régulée face aux migrations internationales. Il réduit leur complexité pour les rendre intelligibles, les gouverner d’une manière dépolitisée et technocratique, ...
Haïti
(2023)
Les stratégies de développement priorisées correspondent-elles à la réalité et aux besoins locaux dans la société haïtienne ? Les acteurs locaux participent-ils au processus de développement économique ? Quelle place occupe ...
Not Written in Stone
(2023)
Using long-ignored constitutions of various Jewish organizations, this unique book uncovers the political history of Canadian Jewry since its beginning during the 1700s. Building on the premise that Jews, since time ...