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This text is based on the assumption that nothing is inherently deviant, but that what is regarded as deviant is the result of socio-historical context. It focuses on five social categories in which it discusses how definitions of unconventionality are formed and how they influence control.

This is a study of the history and current state of the aboriginal politics in Canada, comparing them with aboriginal politics in New Zealand and the USA.

This volume is the culmination of an objective study of the attack on the Alberta deficit launched by Premier Ralph Klein's government in 1993. The book answers the question, "how was the goal achieved so quickly?" and examines Klein's cost cutting strategies and theories of government.

This work considers the question of Quebec's role and place in Canada, an issue that has been long ignored. It considers these and other questions in the light of Canada's constitutional past and its political present.

This book explores the difficult challenges that face any government as it determines when to treat dissent as legitimate political behaviour and when as an illegimitate threat to individuals and society.

Canadian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World examines the theoretical and practical realities of a unipolar world - a system in which a single power is disproportionally dominant and influential - and asks how it affects Canadian foreign policy.

The English Language: A Linguistic History surveys the development of the English language from its Indo-European past to the present day.

A core text for psychology of criminal behaviour courses offered out of psychology and criminology departments nation-wide.

Social Movements, third edition, is a core or supplemental text suitable for social movements courses offered out of sociology, labour studies, and political science departments in both colleges and universities. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories.

Specifically designed for third- and fourth-year students, Religion and Global Politics uses case studies from the US, India, and Latin America, as well as theoretical concepts to explore the relationship between religion and world order.

The book is simultaneously a history of law, aspects of the state, trade unions and labouring people, and their interaction within the broad and shifting terrain of political economy. The authors are attentive to regional differences and sectoral divergences, and they attempt to address the fragmentation of class experience.

In A Fatherly Eye, historian Robin Brownlie examines how paternalism and assimilation during the interwar period were made manifest in the 'field', far from the bureaucrats in Ottawa, but never free of their oppressive supervision.

By examining the cult of manliness as it developed in Victorian and Edwardian Ontario, Moss reveals a number of factors that made young men eager to prove their mettle on the battlefields of Europe.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada is the leading non-governmental land conservation organization, a private, not-for-profit organization that partners with corporate and individual landowners to protect natural lands. The NCC's work is supported by about 40,000 active donors and manages 2.2 million acres of ecologically important land nationwide. The NCC is by all accounts a rare good news environmental story.

Offering unparalleled guidance to the intricacies of the language, Writing English: The Canadian Handbook is an essential tool for writers, students, business people, and anyone who works with the written word in Canada.

The security and cultural policy measures examined here, from the RCMP investigations at the National Film Board that led to numerous firings, to the harassment of the extraordinary African-American singer and Soviet sympathizer Paul Robeson, 'attest to the fragility and the enduring power of art to effect social change'.

This book summarises, synthesizes, and asseses over forty years of research in new religious movements by historians, sociologists, and psychologists of religion. Comprehending Cults provides an excellent introduction to the study of new religious phenomena.

In Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, Third Edition scholars from around the world provide thirty-four concise, provocative, yet athoritative, analyses of various aspects of the rapid changes taking place in the global economic order.

Many people think that ethnocultural politics in Canada are spiralling out of control, with more groups making more demands. This book offers an optimistic picture. It argues that Canadians have learned lessons about how to accommodate ethnocultural diversity.