On 3 September 1996, Bill C-41 was proclaimed in force, initiating one significant step in the reform of sentencing and parole in Canada. This is the first book to provide an overview of the law.

This collection of essays brings Fellini criticism up to date, employing a range of recent critical filters, including semiotic, psychoanalytical, feminist and deconstructionist.

Paynter discusses the many controversial issues relating to Silone and his writing and argues that a profound simplicity is at the core of Silone's writing.

This study claims that Spenser sought authority for The Faerie Queene by grounding its narrative in a divinely ordained natural order, intelligible in terms derived from the ancient sources of poetry and philosophy. The Faerie Queene is interpreted as an unfolding pattern.

The most exhaustive and up-to-date reference book on Canadian film and filmmakers, combining 700 reviews and biographical listings with a detailed chronology of major events in Canadian film and television history.

This collection of original essays uses contemporary theory to examine Renaissance writers? reworking of Ovid?s texts in order to analyze the strategies in the construction of the early modern discourses of gender, sexuality, and writing.

The essays in this intriguing collection all discuss Claude Levi-Strauss' Canonical Formula. The purpose of the work is to test the significance of the Formula, which is controversial and, for some, worthless.

As a survey of many technical results in probability theory and probability logic, this monograph by two widely respected scholars offers a valuable compendium of the principal aspects of the formal study of probability.

Moon argues that recognition of the social dynamic of communication is critical to understanding the potential value and harm of language and to addressing questions about the scope and limits on one?s rights to freedom of expression.

The authors describe a successful community development, action-research project designed to revitalize a southwestern Ontarian town that had lost its core manufacturing, municipal status, and its civic pride.

Here, Julia Krane offers a first-hand look into everyday protection practices of child welfare from the perspective of mothers of sexually abused children and their female social workers, charting women's complex relations with the child welfare arm of the Canadian state.

With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first historical overview of domestic life in Canada, showing how families have both changed and remained the same, through transitions brought about by urbanization, industrialization, and war.