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The Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30 (Pioneers of British Columbia)

1 review

UBC Press, 1999

Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30
I discovered this book while researching my family history. The bulk of it is daily entries by me who lived and worked at Fort Langley between 1827 and 1830. Fort Langley, constructed over the summer of 1827, was built for trading not military purposes, and was the first such construction on the Fraser River in what would become, in Nov 1858, British Columbia. If your family history has roots ...

The New Lawyer: How Settlement Is Transforming the Practice of Law (Law and Society)
Julie Macfarlane

UBC Press, 2007

The image of the adversarial "client warrior" dominates historical notions of the lawyer. Indeed, a zealous commitment to client advocacy remains one of the core norms of the legal model. However, structural changes, both in the justice system and the legal profession itself - in particular the shift towards conflict resolution rather than protracted litigation - have rendered the "warrior" notion obsolete.The new lawyer's skills go beyond court ...

Gandharan Buddhism: Archaeology, Art, and Texts (Asian Religions and Society)

UBC Press, 2007

Integrating archaeology, art history, numismatics, epigraphy, and textual sources, this is the first book to adopt a truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of Gandharan Buddhism. Contributioins articulate the nature of Gandharan Buddhism, its practices and relatinship with other regions, and the significance of the relic tradition. Pia Brancaccio is professor of art history at Temple University. Kurt Behrendt is professor of art history ...

The Klondike Stampede

2 reviews
Tappan Adney

UBC Press, 1994

Excellent details.
I recommend first reading Pierre Berton's book about the Klondike Gold Rush to get an excellent and accurate overview of what happened. Then read Tappan Adney's book to get lots of wonderful details about everything concerning the stampeder's life. Details such as how big his log cabin was, what was in it, how he lived, and so forth -- the interesting details of the gold rush and the ...

Adaptive Co-Management: Collaboration, Learning, and Multi-Level Governance (Sustainability and the ...

UBC Press, 2008

In Canada and around the world, governments are shifting away from regulatory models for governing natural and cultural resources. New concerns with adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships are reshaping the resource governance landscape. Meanwhile, ideas about collaboration and learning are converging around the idea of adaptive co-management.This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the core concepts, strategies, ...

Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories

1 review
Robert Bothwell

UBC Press, 1998

history live!
This book helps me to get a first a view of Canada-Quebec relations history in a very lively way which never bored me although I was discovering the subject. It shows the "problematique" of the subject and by presenting the different point of views it enables the reader to appreciate its complexity.

Pacific Salmon: Life Histories

2 reviews
G. Groot

UBC Press, 1991

By scientists for scientists
This is a reply to the first review: this book is not meant for bed-time reading, it's a book by some of the premier salmon researchers of the 1970s and 1980s, written as a compilation of their knowledge of the various salmon species, and, as a summary "of much of the available biological information on the life histories of the seven Pacific salmon species," it's not for the casual reader, ...

Sea Stars of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and Puget Sound (Royal British Columbia Museum Handbook,)
Philip Lambert

UBC Press, 2001

In this expanded and revised edition of Sea Stars of British Columbia, originally published in 1981, Philip Lambert describes 43 species and subspecies of sea stars in the coastal waters of northwestern North America. Lambert has expanded the geographic area to include the region from Glacier Bay in southeastern Alaska to the waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound in northern Washington. The sea star fauna of this region is the ...

Rethinking Domestic Violence

7 reviews
Donald G. Dutton

UBC Press, 2007

Dealing with a New Paradigm
Rethinking Domestic Violoence by Donald Dutton is an important book in presenting a comprehensive look at domestic violence. It unfolds the new paradigm that is emerging regarding the prevention of family violence. As Donald Dutton makes clear in the book, our North American societies have depended too long on responding with a law and order approach to family violence. It is time for a ...

Critical Disability Theory: Essays in Philosophy, Politics, Policy, and Law (Law and Society Series)

UBC Press, 2006

People with disabilities in Canada experience and inhabit a system of deep structural, economic, social, political, legal, and cultural inequality ? a regime of dis-citizenship. Despite the widespread belief that Canada is a country of liberty, equality, and inclusion, many persons with disabilities experience social exclusion and marginalization. They are socially constructed as second-class citizens. Critical Disability Theory inquires ...

Cross-Cultural Caring: A Handbook for Health Professionals

UBC Press, 2005

As North America's ethnic populations increase, health care and social service workers are recognizing the need to be more aware of the particular needs of their ethnic patients in order to provide culturally sensitive and effective treatment programs. This newly revised edition of "Cross-Cultural Caring: A Handbook for Health Professionals" describes Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese, Japanese, Iranian, South Asian, and Central American ...

The Great Blue Heron

1 review
Robert Butler

UBC Press, 1999

Definitive resource on a crucial environmental icon
Ecobeetle has concerns for all species and habitats and the great blue heron is a favorite animal. Beautiful and majestic in flight the Heron is the sentinel of the shoreline and wetlands. Throughout British Columbia this species is under threat through loss of habitat and nesting sites due to encroaching development. The appearance of a thriving heron population is a measurement of a healthy ...

Criminal Artefacts: Governing Drugs and Users (Law and Society Series)
Dawn Moore

UBC Press, 2008

Attitudes toward crime, criminals, and rehabilitation have shifted considerably, yet the idea that there is a causal link between drug addiction and crime prevails. As law reformers call for addiction treatment as a remedy to the failing war on drugs, it is also time to consider the serious implications of joining legal and therapeutic practices in an assumedly benevolent bid to cure the offender.Inspired by the works of Foucault, Latour, and ...

Brittle Stars, Sea Urchins and Feather Stars of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and Puget Sound (Royal BC ...
William C. Austin

UBC Press, 2007

Philip Lambert and William Austin describe and illustrate 34 species of brittle stars, sea urchins, and feather stars inhabiting the coastal waters of Puget Sound, the Alaska Panhandle, and British Columbia. As with previous Royal BC Museum Handbooks on sea stars and sea cucumbers, this book contains photographs and illustrations to help identify the species in each class: 24 brittle stars, 8 sea urchins, and 2 feather stars. The species ...

The Birds of British Columbia: Volume 4 - Passerines, Wood-Warblers through Old World Sparrows

1 review
R. Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, ...

UBC Press, 2001

TOO MUCH
This is actually a review of the entire four volume set that is The Birds of British Columbia. Clearly not restrained by limitations on space, the authors drone on endlessly. Finding useful information is like sifting river sand for gold flakes. It's there but requires a lot of work to accumulate. There are innumerable graphs, but these are just information blotted onto the pages without ...

The Chinese State at the Borders (Contemporary Chinese Studies)

UBC Press, 2008

The People's Republic of China claims to have 22,000 kilometres of land borders and 18,000 kilometres of coast line. How did this vast country come into being? The state credo describes an ancient process of cultural expansion, as border peoples gratefully accepted Chinese high culture en route to becoming inalienable parts of the country. And yet, the 'centre' also fights against manifestations of discontent in the border regions, not only to ...

Reclaiming Adat: Contemporary Malaysian Film And Literature
Khoo Gaik Cheng

UBC Press, 2006

In the early 1990s, adat, or Malay custom, became contentious for resurgent Islamicists in Malaysia due to its animist and Hindu remnants. This book focuses on the film-makers, intellectuals, and writers who reclaimed adat to counter both the homogenizing aspects of resurgent Islamic discourse and globalization. These artists practised their project of reclamation with an emphasis on sexuality, or a return to forms of the archaic, such as magic ...

Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care
Sherilyn MacGregor

UBC Press, 2007

Women's environmental activism is often described in maternalistic terhms, as if motherhood and caring for the environment go hand in hand. While feminists celebrate this connection, all those who care for people and environments are facing increasing burdens and decreasing time for civic engagement as governments download life-sustaining work to the voluntary sector. In Beyond Mothering Earth, Sherilyn MacGregor argues that celebrations of ...

Amphibians and Reptiles of British Columbia
David M. Green, Patrick T. Gregory

UBC Press, 2007

This new book is a revised and updated edition of two popular handbooks, combined into one. Matsuda, Green, and Gregory describe 22 species of amphibians and 17 species of reptiles, along with details on their biology, habits, breeding, and distribution. They also cover introduced, accidental, and unconfirmed species that may be recent arrivals to British Columbia. This useful handbook contains general information on the biology of amphibians ...

Journey to the Ice Age: Discovering an Ancient World
Peter L. Storck

UBC Press, 2006

At the end of the Ice Age, small groups of hunter-gatherers crossed from Siberia to Alaska and opened the last chapter in the human settlement of the earth. Many left little or no trace. But one group - the Early Paleo-Indians - exploded suddenly on the archaeological record about 11,500 years ago and expanded rapidly throughout North America and, eventually, into South America. Why was this group so successful? To understand this, we need to ...

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