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• No Escape: Anti-Cruelty Laws’ Property Foundations
• What’s Wrong with Personhood? The Humanizing Impact of Anthropos
• Toward a Post-Anthropocentric Legal Ontology
• Beingness: A New Legal Subjectivity for Animals
• Liberal Humanism Repackaged?.

"In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property. Through a rigorous but cogent analysis, Deckha calls for replacing the exploitative property classification for animals with a new transformative legal status or subjectivity called “beingness.” In developing a new legal subjectivity for animals, one oriented toward respecting animals for who they are rather than their proximity to idealized versions of humanness, Animals as Legal Beings seeks to bring critical animal theorizations and animal law closer together. Throughout, Deckha draws upon the feminist animal care tradition, as well as feminist theories of embodiment and relationality, postcolonial theory, and critical animal studies. Her argument is critical of the liberal legal view of animals and directed at a legal subjectivity for animals attentive to their embodied vulnerability, and desirous of an animal-friendly cultural shift in the core foundations of anthropocentric legal systems. Theoretically informed yet accessibly presented, Animals as Legal Beings makes a significant contribution to an array of interdisciplinary debates and is an innovative and astute argument for a meaningful more-than-human turn in law and policy."-- Provided by publisher.

In this gripping and honest memoir, Mira Sucharov shows what a search for political and emotional home looks like. Sucharov suffered from childhood phobias triggered by her parents' divorce, and she sought emotional refuge in Jewish summer camp. But three years spent living in Israel in her twenties shook her to her core. Ultimately, encounters with colleagues, students, friends and lovers force her to confront what it means to be able to write, advocate and teach about Israel/Palestine in a way that balances affirmation with authenticity.

• Section 1. Socialisation and identity-related experiences.
• Chapter 1. Understanding intercultural socialization and identity development of international students through duoethnography ;
• Chapter 2. Increasing awareness: cultural food experiences of international students in Canada ;
• Chapter 3. Learning at half capacity: the academic acculturation reality experienced by Chinese international students
• Section 2. Classroom-based experiences.
• Chapter 4. Connecting best practices for teaching international students with student satisfaction: a review of STEM and non-STEM student perspectives ;
• Chapter 5. Why don't they participate in class?: a study of Chinese students' classroom participation in an international master of education program ;
• Chapter 6. Multilingual international students from the perspective of faculty: contributions, challenges, and support ;
• Chapter 7. Chinese graduate students at a Canadian university: their academic challenges and coping strategies ;
• Chapter 8. Chinese international graduate students' perceptions of classroom assessment at a Canadian university
• Section 3. Beyond the classroom.
• Chapter 9. The role of two extracurricular programs in international students' informal learning experiences in Atlantic Canada ;
• Chapter 10. Within discipline and within culture advanced academic writing for Asian international students ;
• Chapter 11. International Turkish student experience in Canadian higher education
• Section 4. Student support and development.
• Chapter 12. Teaching and learning professional development for international graduate students: the role of teaching and learning centres ;
• Chapter 13. Plagiarism and information literacy workshops for international students ;
• Chapter 14. Effect of provision and utilization of support areas on international students' perceived academic success: a case study of a Canadian community college
• Section 5. Student satisfaction and recruitment.
• Chapter 15. International undergraduate student choice of Alberta for post-secondary education ;
• Chapter 16. Beyond recruitment: career navigation and support of international students in Canada ;
• Chapter 17. Internationalization through NNES student recruitment: anticipated gains and reported realities.

Canada has become one of the most popular destinations for international students at the higher education level. A number of complex factors and trends, both in Canada and globally, have contributed to the emergence of Canada as a destination for international higher education. However, more research is still needed to better understand the experiences of international students in Canada considering the rapid growth in numbers as well as the social, political, and linguistic singularity of Canada as a destination. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on International Student Experience in Canadian Higher Education is an essential scholarly publication that explores international students' experiences in Canadian colleges and universities. It seeks to explore the various factors, aspects, challenges, and successes that characterize the international student experience in Canadian higher education from the perspective of international students and the academic communities to which they belong. Featuring a wide range of topics such as information literacy, professional development, and experiential learning, this book is ideal for academicians, instructors, researchers, policymakers, curriculum designers, and students.
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"On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man's life. When a strange key is found in Stephen's possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d'Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand's godfather has kept for decades. A gruesome discovery in Stephen's Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. His own family. For even the City of Light casts long shadows. And in that darkness devils hide"--Provided by publisher.

"In #1 New York Times bestseller Kelley Armstrong's latest thriller, the hidden town of Rockton is about to face a challenge none of them saw coming: a baby. Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that's what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided to call this place home. Between all the secretive residents, the sometimes-hostile settlers outside, and the surrounding wilderness, there's always something to worry about. While on a much needed camping vacation with her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, Casey hears a baby crying in the woods. The sound leads them to a tragic scene: a woman buried under the snow, murdered, a baby still alive in her arms. A town that doesn't let anyone in under the age of eighteen, Rockton must take care of its youngest resident yet while solving another murder and finding out where the baby came from - and whether she's better off where she is. #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong again delivers an engaging, tense thriller set in perhaps the most interesting town in all of contemporary crime fiction"-- Provided by publisher

• List of Illustrations Foreword by James E. McClellan III Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Biographical Sketch
• Chapter 1. Arrival in New York, November 1785, and Relocation to Charleston, September 1786
• Chapter 2. Initial Journeys from Charleston, 1787
• Chapter 3. Exploring Florida, 1788
• Chapter 4. Exploring in the Carolinas, Georgia, and the Bahamas, 1788-1789
• Chapter 5. Charleston to New York, 1789
• Chapter 6. Charleston Interlude, 1790-1791
• Chapter 7. Journey to Canada, 1792
• Chapter 8. Journey into the Canadian Wilderness, 1792
• Chapter 9. Philadelphia, Western Expeditions Considered, 1793
• Chapter 10. Kentucky Journey for Genet, 1793
• Chapter 11. North Carolina Mountains, 1794
• Chapter 12. Journey West to the Mississippi River, 1795
• Chapter 13. Kaskaskia to Charleston, December 1795-April 1796
• Chapter 14. Charleston, Spring and Summer 1796
• Chapter 15. Return Voyage to France and Shipwreck, August 1796-January 1797 Epilogue: Michaux's Last Years, 1797-1802 Appendix: Plant and Animal Indexes Notes Bibliography Index.
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Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux's work to modern readers and scientists. Known to today's biologists primarily as the 'Michx, ' at the end of more than 700 plant names, AndrE Michaux was an intrepid French naturalist. Under the directive of King Louis XVI, he was commissioned to search out and grow new, rare, and never-before-described plant species and ship them back to his homeland in order to improve French forestry, agriculture, and horticulture. He made major botanical discoveries and published them in his two landmark books, Histoire des chEnes de l'AmErique (1801), a compendium of all oak species recognized from eastern North America, and Flora Boreali-Americana (1803), the first account of all plants known in eastern North America. Straddling the fields of documentary editing, history of the early republic, history of science, botany, and American studies, AndrE Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785-1797 is the first complete English edition of Michaux's American journals. This copiously annotated translation includes important excerpts from his little-known correspondence as well as a substantial introduction situating Michaux and his work in the larger scientific context of the day. To carry out his mission, Michaux traveled from the Bahamas to Hudson Bay and west to the Mississippi River on nine separate journeys, all indicated on a finely rendered, color-coded map in this volume. His writings detail the many hardships - debilitating disease, robberies, dangerous wild animals, even shipwreck - that Michaux endured on the North American frontier and on his return home. But they also convey the soaring joys of exploration in a new world where nature still reigned supreme, a paradise of plants never before known to Western science. The thrill of discovery drove Michaux ever onward, even ultimately to his untimely death in 1802 on the remote island of Madagascar.
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"The definitive biography of the rock 'n' roll kings of the North. With extensive, first-hand reflections from Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, as well as from family, friends, and fellow musicians, Anthem: Rush in the '70s is a detailed portrait of Canada's greatest rock ambassadors. The first of three volumes, Anthem puts the band's catalog, from their self-titled debut to 1978's Hemispheres (the next volume resumes with the release of Permanent Waves) into both Canadian and general pop culture context, and presents the trio of quintessentially dependable, courteous Canucks as generators of incendiary, groundbreaking rock 'n' roll. Fighting complacency, provoking thought, and often enraging critics, Rush has been at war with the music industry since 1974, when they were first dismissed as the Led Zeppelin of the north. Anthem, like each volume in this series, celebrates the perseverance of Geddy, Alex, and Neil: three men who maintained their values while operating from a Canadian base, throughout lean years, personal tragedies, and the band's eventual worldwide success."--Provided by publisher

• The lawyer as citizen : integrating theory and practice in legal education
• Contracts and the eclectic toolkit of legal reasoning
• Promise and performance in Canadian common law contracts casebooks
• Making better lawyers : the aspiration to translate theory into practice
• The failure to operationalize : realism and formalism in Canadian common law contracts teaching
• Transcending Langdell : agency, structure, and transformation in contemporary legal education

Contrary to conventional narratives about legal education, Aspiration and Reality in Legal Education reveals a widespread desire among law teachers to integrate both theory and practice into the education of versatile and civic-minded lawyers. Despite this stated desire, however, this aspiration is largely unrealized due to a host of intellectual and institutional factors that produce a profound gap between what professors believe about law and the ideas they communicate through their teaching. Drawing on interviews with over sixty law professors in Canada, David Sandomierski makes two important empirical discoveries in this book. First, he establishes that, contrary to a dominant narrative in legal education that conceives of theory and practice as oppositional, the vast majority of law professors consider theory to be vitally important in preparing "better lawyers." Second, he uncovers a significant gap between the realist theoretical commitments held by a majority of professors and the formalist theories they almost uniformly convey through their teaching and conceptions of legal reasoning. Understanding the intellectual and institutional factors that account for these tensions, Sandomierski argues, is essential for any meaningful project of legal education reform.
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"Unlike most public servants, top administrators - those who manage thousands of personnel and oversee millions of dollars in public spending - are appointed by the head of government. At the Pleasure of the Crown is a detailed exploration of this central but overlooked aspect of governing. Christopher A. Cooper analyzes the appointment of deputy ministers in Canada's provincial bureaucracies over the last century, as governments have looked first for partisan loyalty, then candid advice, and ultimately feverish devotion to the policy agenda. Throughout, turnover among bureaucratic elites has remained highly political, with important consequences for the integrity of Canadian public institutions."-- Provided by publisher.

A Publishers Weekly best picture book of 2019! A CBC Best Book of 2019! A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year! A Horn Book Fanfare Best Picture Book of 2019! A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2019! A Quill & Quire Kids Books of the Year! SHORTLISTED for the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award! A Globe and Mail top 100 books of 2019! A tender, luminous portrait of art, nature, and connecting across generations. When a young girl moves from the country to a small town, she feels lonely and out of place. But soon she meets an elderly woman next door, who shares her love of arts and crafts. Can the girl navigate the changing seasons and failing health of her new friend? Acclaimed author and artist Julie Flett's textured images of birds, flowers, art, and landscapes bring vibrancy and warmth to this powerful story, which highlights the fulfillment of intergenerational relationships and shared passions. A brief glossary and pronunciation guide to Cree-Metis words that appear in the text is provided on the copyright page.
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"David A. Robertson, the son of a Cree father and a white, settler mother, grew up with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family's Indigenous roots. His father, Dulas, or Don as he became known, had grown up on the trapline in the bush only to be transplanted permanently to a house on reserve in Manitoba, where he was not permitted to speak his language--Swampy Cree--and was forced to learn and speak only English while in day school, unless in secret in the forest with his friends. Robertson's mother, Beverly Eyers, grew up in a small town in Manitoba, a town with no Indigenous families, until Don came to town as a United Church minister and fell in love with her. Robertson's parents made the decision to raise their children, in his words, "separate from his Indigenous identity." He grew up without his father's teachings or knowledge of his life or experiences. All he had left was blood memory, the pieces of who he was engrained in the fabric of his DNA. Pieces that he has spent a lifetime putting together. Black Water is a family memoir of intergenerational trauma and healing, of connection, of story, of how David Robertson's father's life--growing up in Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba, then making the journey from Norway House to Winnipeg--informed the author's own life, and might even have saved it. Facing a story nearly erased by the designs of history, father and son journey together back to the trapline at Black Water, through the past to create a new future."-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface: Radioactive Footprints Introduction: Still Photographs
• 1 Nuclear Industry
• 2 Chalk River
• 3 Cold War Defence
• 4 Cloud Shadows
• 5 Atomic Soldiers
• 6 Mass Protest
• 7 Camera Targets Epilogue: Deadpan Pictures Atomic Timeline Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index.
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This book will have broad appeal, speaking not only to scholars of art history and photography, the Cold War, and the nuclear era, but also to other readers interested in these topics.
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• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. "Illegal Immigrants" in an Industrial Borderland
• Chapter 2. Defining Undesirables and Protesting Quotas
• Chapter 3. The Problem of Canadian Day Laborers
• Chapter 4. Reform, Repatriation, and Deportation During the Depression
• Chapter 5. Registering Immigrants in the Depression Era
• Chapter 6. The Immigrant Politics of Anticommunism
• Chapter 7. Aliens and Welfare in North America Conclusion. The Legacy of Restrictive Immigration
• Notes Index Acknowledgments.
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In contemporary discourse, much of the discussion of U.S. border politics focuses on the Southwest. In Bootlegged Aliens, however, Ashley Johnson Bavery considers the North as a borderlands region, demonstrating how this often-overlooked border influenced government policies toward illegal immigration, business and labor union practices around migrant labor, and the experience of being an illegal immigrant in early twentieth-century industrial America. Bavery examines how immigrants, politicians, and employers helped shape national policies toward noncitizen laborers. In the process, she uncovers the northern industrial origins of an exploitative system that emerged on America's border with Canada, whose legacy remains central to debates about America's borders today. Bavery begins in the 1920s to explore how that decade's immigration restrictions launched an era of policing and profiling that excluded America's foreign born from the benefits of citizenship. On the border between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, this process turned certain Europeans into undocumented immigrants, a group the press and policymakers referred to as bootlegged aliens. Over the next decade, deportation and policing practices stigmatized entire communities of ethnic Europeans regardless of their legal status. Moreover, restrictive laws allowed manufacturers to exploit workers in new ways. By the Great Depression, citizenship had become an invisible boundary that excluded hundreds of thousands of laborers from New Deal entitlements. Accepted wisdom suggests that the 1924 Immigration Act had allowed ethnic Europeans to shed ties to their homelands and assimilate into the "melting pot" of American culture by the 1930s. Bavery challenges this perspective, finding that, instead of forging a common culture with their fellow workers, European immigrants coming through Canada to Detroit faced statewide registration drives, exclusion from key labor unions, and disqualification from the Works Progress Administration, the cornerstone of America's nascent welfare state. In the heart of industrial America, Bootlegged Aliens reveals, citizenship was highly contingent.
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• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. "Illegal Immigrants" in an Industrial Borderland
• Chapter 2. Defining Undesirables and Protesting Quotas
• Chapter 3. The Problem of Canadian Day Laborers
• Chapter 4. Reform, Repatriation, and Deportation During the Depression
• Chapter 5. Registering Immigrants in the Depression Era
• Chapter 6. The Immigrant Politics of Anticommunism
• Chapter 7. Aliens and Welfare in North America Conclusion. The Legacy of Restrictive Immigration
• Notes Index Acknowledgments.
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In contemporary discourse, much of the discussion of U.S. border politics focuses on the Southwest. In Bootlegged Aliens, however, Ashley Johnson Bavery considers the North as a borderlands region, demonstrating how this often-overlooked border influenced government policies toward illegal immigration, business and labor union practices around migrant labor, and the experience of being an illegal immigrant in early twentieth-century industrial America. Bavery examines how immigrants, politicians, and employers helped shape national policies toward noncitizen laborers. In the process, she uncovers the northern industrial origins of an exploitative system that emerged on America's border with Canada, whose legacy remains central to debates about America's borders today. Bavery begins in the 1920s to explore how that decade's immigration restrictions launched an era of policing and profiling that excluded America's foreign born from the benefits of citizenship. On the border between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, this process turned certain Europeans into undocumented immigrants, a group the press and policymakers referred to as bootlegged aliens. Over the next decade, deportation and policing practices stigmatized entire communities of ethnic Europeans regardless of their legal status. Moreover, restrictive laws allowed manufacturers to exploit workers in new ways. By the Great Depression, citizenship had become an invisible boundary that excluded hundreds of thousands of laborers from New Deal entitlements. Accepted wisdom suggests that the 1924 Immigration Act had allowed ethnic Europeans to shed ties to their homelands and assimilate into the "melting pot" of American culture by the 1930s. Bavery challenges this perspective, finding that, instead of forging a common culture with their fellow workers, European immigrants coming through Canada to Detroit faced statewide registration drives, exclusion from key labor unions, and disqualification from the Works Progress Administration, the cornerstone of America's nascent welfare state. In the heart of industrial America, Bootlegged Aliens reveals, citizenship was highly contingent.
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"Verena Vitek shot and killed a man when she was fifteen. A youthful refugee from the conflict in Serbia, Verena dreams of the day when she can legitimately kill again. Her chance comes when she joins an animal-rights activists cell headed by John Borrowman, a London, Ontario, zoologist. He's haunted by a recent trip to China in which he witnessed the barbaric practice of milking Moon bears for their bile, an ingredient in a growing variety of commercial products. They make an odd pair. To stop the Chinese from establishing the barbaric practice of milking bears for their bile in Algonquin Park, John Borrowman finds himself having to rely on Verena--emotionally damaged, dysfunctional, but a crack shot with her AR-7 rifle. The bears may be saved, but death and ruined lives are the human price to be paid."-- Provided by publisher.

"Canada is a bounded land - a nation situated between rock and cold to the north and a border to the south. Cole Harris traces how society was reorganized - for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike - when Europeans resettled this distinctive land. Through a series of vignettes that focus on people's experiences on the ground, he exposes the underlying architecture of colonialism, from first contacts, to the immigrant experience in early Canada, to the dispossession of First Nations. In the process, he unearths fresh insights on the influence of Indigenous Peoples and argues that Canada's boundedness is ultimately drawing it towards its Indigenous roots."-- Provided by publisher.