University Of Ottawa Press imprint: 133 books
Borderlands
Comparing Border Security in North America and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2007
Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC. Governments are now confronted with managing secure borders, a policy...
Moving Images of Eternity
George Grant’s Critique of Time, Teaching, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
William F. Pinar presents a comprehensive and original study that demonstrates the significance and pertinence of the scholarship of George Grant for teaching today. While there are studies of Grant’s political philosophy, there has been no sustained study of his teaching. Pinar not only draws upon...
by Pamela Russell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
How to Write a Précis is designed to teach students how to read and comprehend a text, and then reduce its length without omitting the essential details or radically altering the style of the original. It contains theoretical background, practical step-by-step instructions on how to write a précis,...
Language is the Key
The Canadian Language Benchmarks Model
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The CLB/NCLC success was dependent on many factors—outstanding work by leading Canadian scholars; steady commitment of the government and non-governmental stakeholders at the federal, provincial, and local level; and, last but not least, unconditional commitment and caring on the part of an invested...
Translocated Modernisms
Paris and Other Lost Generations
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Translocated Modernisms is a collection of ten chapters partitioned into sections and framed by an introduction by the editors and a coda by Kit Dobson, which is interested in those who thronged to the vibrant streets, cafés, and salons of Montparnasse, those who stayed such as Brion Gysin and Mavis...
Touch in the Helping Professions
Research, Practice and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Touch may well be one of the least understood or talked about subjects in the helping professions. A discussion on the importance and ethics of positive, caring, and appropriate touch in professions such as teaching, nursing and counselling is long overdue. Touch in the Helping Professions delivers...
Man Should Rejoice, by Hugh MacLennan
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Man Should Rejoice is one of two hitherto unpublished novels by acclaimed novelist Hugh MacLennan. Completed in 1937 and left unpublished due to economic conditions during the Great Depression, it lay in the McGill archives until now.
This critical edition of Man Should Rejoice , which is also...
by Charles Yale Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Meet Me on the Barricades is Harrison’s most experimental work. The novel includes a series of fantasy sequences that culminate in a scene heavily indebted to the Nighttown episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses (the novel was published a year before James Thurber’s better-known short story, “The...
Waste Heritage
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2007
A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s. Irene Baird’s Waste Heritage is a groundbreaking work of Canadian fiction based on the dramatic and violent labour disputes that took place in British Columbia in 1938. The story follows the progress of two friends, Matt...
Northrop Frye and Others
Volume III: Interpenetrating Visions
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Robert D. Denham pursues his quest to uncover the links between Northrop Frye and writers and others who directly influenced his thinking but about whom he did not write an extensive commentary.
The first chapter is about Frye’s reading of Patanjali, the founder of the philosophy of Hindu...
Waken, Lords and Ladies Gay
Selected Stories of Desmond Pacey
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
From the Canadian Short Story Library, twelve stories from Desmond Pacey, a major figure in Canadian Literature and criticism. The twelve stories are typical of Pacey's story-telling technique and what emerges from them is a distinctive, even powerful optimism, charity, tolerance and deep understanding...
Recovering the Body
A Philosophical Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
Following the metaphysical and epistemological threads that have led to our modern conception of the body as a machine, the book explores views of the body in the history of philosophy. Its central thesis is that the Cartesian paradigm, which has dominated the modern conception of the body (including...
A Journey in Translation
Anne Hébert's Poetry in English
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
This book traces the remarkable journey of Hébert’s shifting authorial identity as versions of her work traveled through complex and contested linguistic and national terrain from the late 1950s until today. At the center of this exploration of Hébert’s work are the people who were inspired...
A Reluctant Welcome for Jewish People
Voices in Le Devoir's Editorials, 1910-1947
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Noted historian Pierre Anctil takes a deep dive into editorials devoted to Jews and Judaism in Quebec’s daily Le Devoir in the first half of the twentieth century. Long one of the most discussed historiographical issues in Canadian Jewish history, these editorials are of great significance as they...