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Reinventing Brantford

Author : Leo Groarke
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770705619
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Brantford written by Leo Groarke and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker’s Award One hundred years ago, the City of Brantford advertised itself as the most important manufacturing centre in Canada. During the century that followed, its industrial economy boomed, faltered, and finally collapsed. By the end of the twentieth century, Brantford was known for unemployment, hard luck, and the infamy of having "the worst downtown in Canada." For twenty years the downtown was in steep decline. Significant attempts at urban revival had failed until Wilfrid Laurier University decided to locate a campus in the heart of Brantford’s crumbling city centre. Leo Groarke revisists the grandeur of the city’s past, explores the economic downfall, and tells the story of the arrival of the university, its early struggles, its commitment to historic restoration, and its ultimate success as a catalyst for urban renewal. The compelling story he recounts will engage anyone interested in the plight of the North-American city core and the role that universities and colleges can play in re-establishing downtowns as vibrant centres of historical and contemporary importance.

Unique Urbanity?

Author : Tara Brabazon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9812872698
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Unique Urbanity? written by Tara Brabazon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis. They need to invent, develop and manage new reasons for their existence. The strengths and opportunities are often underplayed when compared to larger cities. These small cities do not have the profile of New York, London, Tokyo or Cairo, or second-tier cities like San Francisco, Manchester, Osaka or Alexandria. This book traces the current state of the creative industries literature after the GFC, but with a specific focus. The specific – and worsening – conditions in third-tier cities are logged. The social and economic challenges within these regions are great, particularly with regard to health and health services, education, employment, social mobility and physical activity. This is not a study that merely diagnoses problems but raises strategies for third-tier cities to create both a profile and growth. The current research field is synthesized to reveal how cities are defined, constituted, developed and, in many cases, suffering decline. There is an imperative to build relationships with other urban environments. The book enters these under-discussed locations and reveal the scarred layering of injustice, signified by depopulation, dis-investment, economic decline and a reduction in public services for health, transportation and education, while also developing specific and innovative models for improvement. The vista summoned in Unique Urbanity is international, with strong attention to trans-local strategies that offer wide relevance, currency and opportunities for policy makers. While third-tier cities are often hidden, marginalized, invisible or demeaned, Unique Urbanity shows that innovation, imagination and creativity can emerge in small places.

Reinventing Textiles

Author : Janis Jefferies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Textiles written by Janis Jefferies and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists

Author : Arlene B. Hirschfelder
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810877090
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists by : Arlene B. Hirschfelder

Download or read book The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists written by Arlene B. Hirschfelder and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communicates information about the histories, contemporary presence, and various other facts of the Native peoples of the United States. From publisher description.

The Inglorious Arts of Peace

Author : Elsbeth Heaman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802042729
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book The Inglorious Arts of Peace written by Elsbeth Heaman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaman examines the ways in which British North America was advertised at home and abroad in the pursuit of productivity, markets, capital, and immigrants, and evaluates the exhibitions' impact on private industry, the government, and Canadian identity. She also considers the participation of women and native peoples at local and international exhibits, showing how they transcended the limited spheres of representation imposed upon them.

Community Economic Development

Author : Eric Shragge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Community Economic Development written by Eric Shragge and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded, this second edition looks at situations anew in terms of current contexts of community economic development. Chapters on women, on an African example and community ownership, on marginalized peoples, and on community corporations have been added.

Museum Pieces

Author : Ruth Bliss Phillips
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773539050
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Museum Pieces written by Ruth Bliss Phillips and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ways in which Aboriginal people and museums work together have changed drastically in recent decades. This historic process of decolonization, including distinctive attempts to institutionalize multiculturalism, has pushed Canadian museums to pioneer new practices that can accommodate both difference and inclusivity. Ruth Phillips argues that these practices are "indigenous" not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects seminal exhibitions of Indigenous art to show how changes in display, curatorial voice, and authority stem from broad social, economic, and political forces outside the museum and moves beyond Canadian institutions and practices to discuss historically interrelated developments and exhibitions in the United States, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. Drawing on forty years of experience as an art historian, curator, exhibition critic, and museum director, she emphasizes the complex and situated nature of the problems that face museums, introducing new perspectives on controversial exhibitions and moments of contestation. A manifesto that calls on us to re-imagine the museum as a place to embrace global interconnectedness, Museum Pieces emphasizes the transformative power of museum controversy and analyses shifting ideas about art, authenticity, and power in the modern museum.

The Way We Were

Author : Brant Historical Society
Publisher : Brantford, Ont. : Brant Histprical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781895928129
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book The Way We Were written by Brant Historical Society and published by Brantford, Ont. : Brant Histprical Society. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imprints and Casualties

Author : League of Canadian Poets. Feminist Caucus
Publisher : Broken Jaw Press
ISBN 13 : 9781896647241
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (472 download)

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Book Synopsis Imprints and Casualties by : League of Canadian Poets. Feminist Caucus

Download or read book Imprints and Casualties written by League of Canadian Poets. Feminist Caucus and published by Broken Jaw Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reclaiming Culture

Author : J. Hendry
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403979421
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Culture written by J. Hendry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the renewal (or rekindling) of cultural identity, especially in populations previously considered 'extinct'. At the same time, Hendry sets out to explain the importance of ensuring the survival of these cultures. By drawing a fine and textured picture of these cultures, Hendry illuminates extraordinary diversity that was, at one point, seriously endangered, and explains why it should matter in today's world.

Households of Faith

Author : Nancy Christie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773522719
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Households of Faith written by Nancy Christie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Households of Faith examines a variety of religious traditions with a particular focus on the way in which religious communities define gender identities. The authors explore the boundaries drawn in religious discourse between the private and public, offering a revisionist perspective on the theoretical framework of separate spheres. By analysing gender relations within the matrix of the family, they explore both the conflicts and interdependency of gender roles.

Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario

Author : Françoise Noël
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077358370X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario written by Françoise Noël and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Françoise Noël explores the social context of Canada’s most famous family to show how family ritual and communal events structured everyday life between the wars.

Healing Traditions

Author : Laurence J. Kirmayer
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077485863X
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Healing Traditions written by Laurence J. Kirmayer and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aboriginal peoples in Canada have diverse cultures but share common social and political challenges that have contributed to their experiences of health and illness. This collection addresses the origins of mental health and social problems and the emergence of culturally responsive approaches to services and health promotion. Healing Traditions is not a handbook of practice but a resource for thinking critically about current issues in the mental health of indigenous peoples. Cross-cutting themes include: the impact of colonialism, sedentarization, and forced assimilation; the importance of land for indigenous identity and an ecocentric self; and processes of healing and spirituality as sources of resilience.

The Woman's Page

Author : Janice Fiamengo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442692537
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Woman's Page written by Janice Fiamengo and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, journalism, politics, and social advocacy were largely male preserves. Six women, however, did manage to come to prominence through their writing and public performance: Agnes Maule Machar, Sara Jeannette Duncan, E. Pauline Johnson, Kathleen Blake Coleman, Flora MacDonald Denison, and Nellie L. McClung. The Woman's Page is a detailed study of these six women and their respective works. Focusing on the diverse sources of their rhetorical power, Janice Fiamengo assesses how popular poetry, journalism, essays, and public speeches enabled these women to play major roles in the central debates of their day. A few of their names, particularly those of McClung and Johnson, are still well known today, although studies of their writings and speeches are limited. Others are almost entirely unknown, an unfortunate fact given the wit, intelligence, and passion of their writing and self-presentation. Seeking to return their words to public attention, The Woman's Page demonstrates how these women influenced readers and listeners regarding their society's most controversial issues.

Native Americans on Film

Author : M. Elise Marubbio
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813136814
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Native Americans on Film written by M. Elise Marubbio and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The film industry and mainstream popular culture are notorious for promoting stereotypical images of Native Americans: the noble and ignoble savage, the pronoun-challenged sidekick, the ruthless warrior, the female drudge, the princess, the sexualized maiden, the drunk, and others. Over the years, Indigenous filmmakers have both challenged these representations and moved past them, offering their own distinct forms of cinematic expression. Native Americans on Film draws inspiration from the Indigenous film movement, bringing filmmakers into an intertextual conversation with academics from a variety of disciplines. The resulting dialogue opens a myriad of possibilities for engaging students with ongoing debates: What is Indigenous film? Who is an Indigenous filmmaker? What are Native filmmakers saying about Indigenous film and their own work? This thought-provoking text offers theoretical approaches to understanding Native cinema, includes pedagogical strategies for teaching particular films, and validates the different voices, approaches, and worldviews that emerge across the movement.

Ingenious

Author : David Johnston
Publisher : Signal
ISBN 13 : 0771050917
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Ingenious written by David Johnston and published by Signal. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, Governor General David Johnston and Tom Jenkins have crafted a richly illustrated volume of brilliant Canadian innovations whose widespread adoption has made the world a better place. From Bovril to BlackBerrys, lightbulbs to liquid helium, peanut butter to Pablum, this is a surprising and incredibly varied collection to make Canadians proud, and to our unique entrepreneurial spirit. Successful innovation is always inspired by at least one of three forces -- insight, necessity, and simple luck. Ingenious moves through history to explore what circumstances, incidents, coincidences, and collaborations motivated each great Canadian idea, and what twist of fate then brought that idea into public acceptance. Above all, the book explores what goes on in the mind of an innovator, and maps the incredible spectrum of personalities that have struggled to improve the lot of their neighbours, their fellow citizens, and their species. From the marvels of aboriginal invention such as the canoe, snowshoe, igloo, dogsled, lifejacket, and bunk bed to the latest pioneering advances in medicine, education, philanthropy, science, engineering, community development, business, the arts, and the media, Canadians have improvised and collaborated their way to international admiration. Ingenious tells you why they did it and how they made the world a better place.

Reluctant Genius

Author : Charlotte Gray
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1628721405
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Genius written by Charlotte Gray and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of Alexander Graham Bell is that of an elderly American patriarch, memorable only for his paunch, his Santa Claus beard, and the invention of the telephone. In this magisterial reassessment based on thorough new research, acclaimed biographer Charlotte Gray reveals Bell’s wide-ranging passion for invention and delves into the private life that supported his genius. The child of a speech therapist and a deaf mother, and possessed of superbly acute hearing, Bell developed an early interest in sound. His understanding of how sound waves might relate to electrical waves enabled him to invent the “talking telegraph” be- fore his rivals, even as he undertook a tempestuous courtship of the woman who would become his wife and mainstay. In an intensely competitive age, Bell seemed to shun fame and fortune. Yet many of his innovations—electric heating, using light to transmit sound, electronic mail, composting toilets, the artificial lung—were far ahead of their time. His pioneering ideas about sound, flight, genetics, and even the engineering of complex structures such as stadium roofs still resonate today. This is an essential portrait of an American giant whose innovations revolutionized the modern world.