A country's abundant natural resources may serve as a curse or a blessing, with the outcome often dependent on prevailing governance structures and experience managing these assets.
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Author:Besada, Hany Gamil
Summary:Genre: Social scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Vattimo, Gianni
Summary:Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers and most famously associated with the concept of weak thought, explores theoretical and practical issues flowing from his fun
Genre: PhilosophyAvailable Formats:
Author:Dechêne, Louise
Summary:Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canadais a study of colonial
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Author:Peterson, Nadya L.
Summary:Anton Chekhov's representations of children have generally remained on the periphery of scholarly attention.
Genre: Social scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Heiti, Warren
Summary:Attending - patient contemplation focused on a particular being - is a central ethical activity that has not been recognized by any of the main moral systems in the European philosophical tradition
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, PhilosophyAvailable Formats:
Author:Douville, Bruce
Summary:In The Uncomfortable Pew Bruce Douville explores the relationship between Christianity and the New Left in English Canada from 1959 to 1975.
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Author:Carson, Edward
Summary:in the poem / of the world / there once / was a map / of the map / composed in / the likeness / of a poemIn this riddling and seeking book of poems, Edward Carson navigates the emotional, often con
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Summary:In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making
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Author:Neary, Peter
,Baker, Melvin
Summary:No other figure, historical or political, features more prominently in recent Newfoundland history than Joey Smallwood.
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Author:Summary:Alongside the major narratives of ethics in the tradition of Western philosophy, a reader with an eye to the vague and the peripheral, to the turbulent and shifting, will spy minor lines of thinkin
Genre: PhilosophyAvailable Formats:
Author:Michels, Georg B.
Summary:During the seventeenth century Hungary's diverse population of peasants, townsmen, soldiers, and county nobles rose up against the violent imposition of the Counter-Reformation, the Habsburg m
Genre: History and geographyAvailable Formats:
Author:Zajko, Mike
Summary:Today's internet service providers mediate communication, control data flow, and influence everyday online interactions.
Genre: Math and scienceAvailable Formats:
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School : building a new approach to policy and the social sciencesAuthor:Summary:Elinor Ostrom was the first female winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, and her achievement has generated renewed interest in the Bloomington School research program in institutional economics a
Genre: Business and economicsAvailable Formats:
Author:Pedwell, Carolyn
Summary:Although we tend to associate social transformation with major events, historical turning points, or revolutionary upheaval, Revolutionary Routines argues that seemingly minor everyday habits are t
Genre: Philosophy, Political scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Dyson, Nancy
,Rubenstein, Dan
Summary:It is an account of two people working at a Residential School on northern Vancouver Island and writing about the terrible conditions they witnessed at the school.
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