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In "Through Feminist Eyes, " historian Joan Sangster uses a selection of her writings, published over a period of three decades, as a gateway into reflections on the themes and theoretical concerns that have shaped both the writing of women's history in Canada and her own evolution as a feminist historian. As in the original essays themselves, she brings to these reflections her distinctive combination of insight, honesty, and impeccable schol...

Connecting Canadians examines the burgeoning field of community informatics.

Frances W. Kaye is a professor in the Department ofEnglish at the University of Nebraska. She has held two FulbrightTeaching Program positions, in Montreal and in Calgary, the first ofwhich resulted in the book Hiding the Audience: Arts and ArtsInstitutions on the Prairies. Kaye divides her time between afarmstead outside Lincoln, Nebraska, and a house in Calgary, so thatshe may always be close to the prairie land that drives her research.

Dr. Lyse Langlois is an associate professor in theDepartment of Industrial Relations at Universit¿aval, with a focus onleadership and workplace ethics. She is a member of theInter-University Research Centre on Globalization and Work and theInstitut d¿¿ique appliqu¿at Universit¿aval. She also sitson the Board of Trustees for the Center for the Study of Leadership andEthics at Pennsylvania State University.

Carmela Patrias is a professor in the Department ofHistory at Brock University. Her publications include Patriots andProletarians: Politicizing Hungarian Immigrants in Canada, Discounted Labour: Women Workers in Canada, 1870�39, co-authored with Ruth Frager, and Jobs and Justice: FightingDiscrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939�45. LarrySavage is associate professor of labour studies and politicalscience and director of the Jobs and Justice Rese...

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Bringing his genuine poetic gifts to the project, Slavitt's translations provide stronger evidence of the originals' poetic qualities than has been available for at least a century. - Henry Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winner

Despite the market triumphalism that greeted the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet empire seemed initially to herald new possibilities for social democracy. In the 1990s, with a new era of peace and economic prosperity apparently imminent, people discontented with the realities of global capitalism swept social democrats into power in many Western countries. The resurgence was, however, brief. Neither the recurring economic crise...

Naomi McIlwraith is an educator, poet, and essayist, with a mixed Cree, Ojibwe, Scottish, and English inheritance. Shecurrently works at Grant MacEwan University and has held instructionalpositions at the University of Alberta and the King's UniversityCollege.

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Jon Dron is associate professor in the School ofComputing and Information Systems and a member of theTechnology-Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute at AthabascaUniversity. His current research concerns the social aspects oflearning technologies, with an emphasis on methods and technologiesthat enable learners to help each other. He is the author ofControl and Constraint in E-Learning: Choosing When toChoose.Terry Anderson is professor and re...

To understand how the legal system works, students must consider the law in terms of its structures, processes, language, and modes of thought and argument--in short, they must become literate in the field. "Legal Literacy" fulfills this aim by providing a foundational understanding of key concepts such as legal personhood, jurisdiction, and precedent, and by introducing students to legal research and writing skills. Examples of cases, statute...

Patrick Grant, professor emeritus of English at the University of Victoria, is best known for his studies on literature and religion. He is the author of Imperfection, which was short-listed for the Canada Prize, and of Literature, Rhetoric, and Violence in Northern Ireland, 1968¿98.

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Valerie Henitiuk is the executive director of the Centre for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence, and professor in the Department of English at MacEwan University. Her research focuses primarily on translation studies, world literature, Japanese literature, and women¿s writing. She is also editor-in-chief of the journal Translation Studies. Supriya Kar is an editor and translator from Odisha, India. She previously worked as an editor at Camb...

Christopher Walmsley is professor emeritus at Thompson Rivers University. He taught social work for over 25 years at Thompson Rivers University, University of Manitoba, and University of British Columbia. He is the author of Protecting Aboriginal Children and co-editor with Diane Purvey of Child and Family Welfare in British Columbia: A History. He has also published numerous articles and reports on fathers and child welfare. He lives in New W...

During the period between the two world wars, the Independent Labour Party was the main voice of radical socialism in Great Britain. Founded in 1893, the ILP had affiliated to the Labour Party in 1906, when that party formed, although relations between the two had often been marked by conflict. In the decade following World War I, as the Labour Party edged nearer to its 1929 electoral victory, the ILP found its own identity under siege. On one...

Lynda R. Ross is professor of women¿s and gender studies, and chair of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at Athabasca University. She has a doctorate degree in psychology from the University of New Brunswick. Her research focuses on the social construction of theory and disorder, attachment, and motherhood.

Norman D. Vaughan is a professor in the Departmentof Education, Faculty of Teaching and Learning at Mount RoyalUniversity. He is the co-author with D. Randy Garrison of BlendedLearning in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2008).Martha Cleveland-Innes is professor and chair inthe Center for Distance Education at Athabasca University and guestprofessor in the Department of Learning at the Royal Institute ofTechnology in Stockholm.D. Randy Garrison ...

Max Foran is a professor in the Faculty ofCommunication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He has writtenextensively on various western Canadian urban, rural, and culturaltopics, most recently on ranching, urban growth, and sustainability.