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University of Calgary Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"At the dawn of the third millennium, dramatic challenges face human civilization everywhere. Relations between human beings and their environment are in peril, with mounting threats to both biological diversity of life on earth and cultural diversity of human communities. The peoples of the Circumpolar Arctic are at the forefront of these challenges and lead the way in seeking meaningful responses." "In Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of...
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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Indigenous methodologies flow from tribal knowledge, and while they are allied with several Western qualitative approaches, there are key distinctions. In this work, Margaret Kovach examines the theoretical and epistemological basis of Indigenous methodologies and offers practical guidance to those conducting research in Indigenous communities."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"A century ago, agriculture was the dominant economic sector in much of Africa. By the 1990s, however, African farmers had declining incomes and were worse off, on average, than those who did not farm. Colonial policies, subsequent 'top-down' statism, and globalization are usually cited as primary causes of this long-term decline. In this unprecedented study of the Igbo region of southeastern Nigeria, author Chima Korieh points the way to a more complex...
Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A unique workshop held at the University of Calgary in 2007 marked the beginning of an interdisciplinary project to bring together scholars from philosophy and religion for discussion on a regular basis. This book consists of thirteen essays stemming from the workshop.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Cold War Comforts examines Canadian women's efforts to protect children's health and safety between the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Amid this global insecurity, many women participated in civil defense or joined the disarmament movement as means to protect their families from the consequences of nuclear war. To help children affected by conflicts in Europe and Asia, women also organized...
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Music education in Canada is a vast enterprise that encompasses teaching and learning in thousands of public and private schools, community groups, and colleges and universities. This book offers a collection of essays that look critically at various global issues in music education from a Canadian perspective.
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Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
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The "H" in the H factor stands for "Honesty-Humility," one of the six basic dimensions of the human personality. People who have high levels of H are sincere and modest; people who have low levels are deceitful and pretentious. It isn't intuitively obvious that traits of honesty and humility go hand in hand, and until very recently the H factor hadn't been recognized as a basic dimension of personality. But scientific evidence shows that traits of...
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The University of Alberta Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A collection of Aboriginal perspectives on the history of tuberculosis in Canada's indigenous communities and on the federal government's Indian Health Services. This book features oral accounts from patients, families, and workers who experienced Canada's Indian Hospital system. An intercultural history that models new methodologies and ethics for researching and writing about indigenous Canada based on indigenous understandings of "story" and its...
17) The nature of empires and the empires of nature: Indigenous peoples and the Great Lakes environment
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Explores the power of Nature and the attempts by Empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it from Indigenous or Indigenous influenced perspectives. This title hopes to inspire ways of looking at the Great Lakes watershed and the people and empires contained within it.
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