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Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: History, Medical, History Of Medicine, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale began working on hospital reform even before she founded her famous school of nursing; hospitals were dangerous places for nurses as well as patients, and they urgently needed fundamental ...

Fostering Nation?

By Veronica Strong-Boag
Subjects: Political Science, Social Services, Social Science, Sociology, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. It ...

Found in Alberta

Edited by Mario Trono & Robert Boschman
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Cultural Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene is a collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. This is ...

Footnotes to a Theology

By Martin Rumscheidt
Subjects: Religion
Series: SR Supplements

The essays which are brought together here were originally delivered during the first colloquium of the Karl Earth Society of North America. It met at Victoria University in Toronto on October 26 to 28, ...

Francisco Giner de los Rios

By Solomon Lipp
Subjects: History, Biography & Autobiography, Philosophy

During the nineteenth century, traditional Catholic Spain and its "decadent intellectual climate" was chalenged by liberal Europeanizing influences. It had happened before, but this time the status quo ...

German Diasporic Experiences

By Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach
Edited by David G. John, Grit Liebscher, James M. Skidmore, Mathias Schulze, and Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach
Subjects: Social Science, Emigration & Immigration, History
Series: WCGS German Studies

Co-published with the Waterloo Centre for German Studies
For centuries, large numbers of German-speaking people have emigrated from settlements in Europe to other countries and continents. In German ...

God and the Chip

By William A. Stahl
Subjects: Religion, Social Science, Sociology
Series: Editions SR

Our ancestors saw the material world as alive, and they often personified nature. Today we claim to be realists. But in reality we are not paying attention to the symbols and myths hidden in technology. ...

Going by the Moon and the Stars

By Pamela E. Klassen
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Religion

So, it was January the 18 and it was the middle of the night. And it was very, very cold. Snow was — we went just about knee deep in snow — And we went on the road going toward Posen, capital of ...

Growing Up in Armyville

By Deborah Harrison & Patrizia Albanese
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Social Science, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous “Armyville,” Canada, were scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville school district ...

Governing Cities Through Regions

Edited by Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, Roger Keil, and Stefan Kipfer
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Geography, Urban Studies

The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja’s terms, “an epochal shift in the nature of ...