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The Ishtar Gate, a ceremonial gate from the palace of Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon, reconstructed and housed in the Staatliche Museum, Berlin, is the merging of ancient and modern culture, old goddess-centred religions and the scholarly, rational West. This work testifies to the author's belief in the indefatigable forces of poetry and imagination.

A detailed assessment of the degree to which religious commitment, or lack thereof, affects the psychological state of Canadians and the social fabric of Canada

An exploration of the critique of modern life and mass culture in wartime and postSecond World War Canada.

Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries white British Columbians directed recurring outbursts of prejudice against the Chinese, Japanese, and East Indians who lived among them. In White Canada Forever Peter Ward reveals the full extent and periodic virulence of west coast racism.

A detailed analysis of relations between the Canadian state and the Ukrainian Canadian community between 1939 and 1945. Drawing on Canadian, British, American and Soviet archival material, it highlights the connection between the government's foreign and domestic concerns.

It has been estimated that over 500 European women travelled or lived in Canada's Northwest Territories before 1940. They came as visiters, journalists, and artists, or worked as nurses, scientists, and missionaries. In Alone in Silence Barbara Kelcey describes the women who lived and worked in the north and the unique situations they faced.

Examines the careers of prominent authors, in relation to popular culture. This book places the authors-careers in an international setting and shows how, despite living a considerable distance from the leading cultural production centres of New York and London, they became internationally recognized and read.

Explores the relationship between economic changes in the Highlands and the clansmen's emigration to Canada in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This title challenges the accepted position endorsed in works by Eric Richards and J M Bumsted that the clearances and sheep farms did not have a central role in provoking mass emigration.

Explains the importance of the first six centuries of the Common Era in the history of Judaism. This title argues that the Judaism that emerged in late antiquity experimented with solutions to a critical and enduring issue of culture that continues to engage humanity - the crisis provoked by calamity.

Imagine yourself transported two thousand years back in time to Galilee at the moment of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. After hearing it, would you abandon your religious beliefs and ideology to follow him, or would you hold on to your own beliefs and walk away? In A Rabbi Talks with Jesus Jacob Neusner considers just such a spiritual journey.