Today architecture and other fields in the built environment face the steep task of answering complex questions pertaining to sustainability,... performance, and adaptability. How are these disciplines to accomplish these difficult tasks at such an immense pace? How might architectural practice renovate itself accordingly? Worldwide it is becoming increasingly clear that different modes of research are emerging which are triggered directly by the need to renovate practice. One significant prevailing mode is what has come to be known as ‘research by design’. This book delivers an overview of this pluralistic domain. Bringing together a range of leading architects, architectural theorists, and designers, it outlines the developments in current practice from leading individuals based in the USA, UK, Australia, Japan and Europe. Edited by a recognized expert, this book exposes the undercurrent of research, which is taking place and how this will contribute to the renovation of architectural practice.

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of study covering all aspects of employment relations. Coverage is national in scope and... spans private, public, and parapublic sectors. This new edition is highly readable, up-to-date, fresh in its approach, and it has an excellent writing style --qualities often found lacking in other IR texts. Canadian Industrial Relations includes separate chapters on Management and Industrial Relations, Employment Legislation, and Strikes and Lockouts.This new third edition builds on the  success of the previous two editions with streamlined and updated content and by providing additional pedagogy.

This new edition maintains the rigour and sophistication of the previous editions while making the material more accessible to students. The text... focuses on the practice of industrial relations and considers current issues and approaches. The various contributors bring a breadth of knowledge and experience, providing a balanced treatment of topics and of differing practices across the country.   Four themes (greater applications, greater understanding of management, union and nonunion differences, and sensitivity to international comparisons) are incorporated throughout the book.

This text is designed for college and university level courses in Canadian Law.   This exciting first edition provides readers with a... useful foundation that not only explains the basic components of the Canadian legal system but also explores its functions and goals.  It is broad and deep enough for students to grasp a thorough understanding of the system and to develop their own perspectives on the legal system and its relationship to society and social change.  Including examples of the sometimes brilliant and sometimes inane results that law produces, this text will intrigue students and prepare them for further work in a legal framework in any field and advance their understanding of the rights and duties entailed in being a member of Canadian society.  

Updated to keep pace with revisions in Canadian national and provincial law, this book is a concise guide to legal citation supplemented with... information on relevant source materials, particularly in cases and statutes. It defines important legal terms, describes the Canadian court system and presents The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in its entirely.

Canadian Literature in English strives to give a comprehensive and provocative picture of the history of English-Canadian literature by including... important writings by canonical and non-canonical Canadian authors and combining these with visual materials and contextual pieces.  Volume II contains writings and cultural materials from the 1920s to the present.

Canadian Local Government is a new ground-up text that focuses on local governments as political institutions. Its objective is to attempt to answer all... of the big questions political scientists ask about other political institutions: How are local governments defined? Why do we have them? What do they do? How do they relate to other political institutions? How is power attained and distributed within them? With a strong and powerful voice, Sancton answers these questions by assuming that we need to know as much about how our local governments work as we do about other levels of government and their influences. Part One of the book is concerned with the legal and political framework of Canadian local government. Part Two examines how structures of local government are adapted to urbanization. Part Three is about power, politics, and management within major Canadian municipalities, and Part Four discusses money, a subject particularly important at the local level. Sancton concludes his text by addressing issues that relate to the future of Canadian local government and theorizes that knowing about Canadian local government facilitates urban living.

This new title covers maternity and newborn topics with an emphasis on women's health across the lifespan. Content is focused exclusively on the... practice standards and priorities developed by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada. Special features include an examination of aboriginal populations, bicultural heritage, and information on the Canadian healthcare system, including the Canada Health Act. Comprehensive learning aids are included to help students master and apply important material. A companion Website includes journal articles, monographs on commonly prescribed drugs, and videos on key topics in maternity nursing.