Brian Young

Brian Young's powerful debut novel tells of a seemingly ordinary Navajo boy who must save the life of a Water Monster--and comes to realize he's a hero at heart. When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Nali and with his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night, while lost in the nearby desert, Nathan finds someone extraordinary: a Holy Being from the Navajo Creation Story--a Water Monster--in need of help. Now Nathan must summon all his courage to save his new friend. With the help of other Navajo Holy Beings, Nathan is determined to save the Water Monster, and to support Uncle Jet in healing from his own pain. The Heartdrum imprint centers a wide range of intertribal voices, visions, and stories while welcoming all young readers, with an emphasis on the present and future of Indian Country and on the strength of young Native heroes. In partnership with We Need Diverse Books.

Healer of the Water Monster

Heroes of the Water Monster

Angela Fernandez

Ian C. Pilarczyk

As the leading legal historian of his generation in Canada and professor at McGill University for over three decades, Blaine Baker (1952–2018) was known for his unique personality, teaching style, intellectual cosmopolitanism, and deep commitment to the place of Canadian legal history in the curriculum of law faculties. Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History examines important themes in Canadian legal history through the prism of Baker’s career. Essays discuss Baker’s own research, his influence within McGill’s law faculty, his complex personality, and the relationship between the private and the public in the life of a university intellectual at the turn of the twenty-first century. Inspired by topics Baker took up in his own writing, contributors use Baker’s broad interests in legal culture to reflect on fundamental themes across Canadian legal history, including legal education, gender and race, technology, nation building and national identity, criminal law and marginalized populations, and constitutionalism. Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History offers a contemporary analysis of Canadian legal history and thoughtfully engages with what it means to honour one individual’s enduring legacy in the study of law.

Essays in Honour of G. Blaine Baker

Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History

John A. Dickinson

John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social and economic development of the region as well as the identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth edition covers Quebec's recent political history and includes an updated bibliography and chronology and new illustrations. A Canadian classic, A Short History of Quebec now takes into account such issues as the 1995 referendum, recent ideological shifts and societal changes, considers Quebec's place in North America in the light of NAFTA, and offers reflections on the Gérard Bouchard-Charles Taylor Commission on Accommodation and Cultural Differences in 2008.

A Short History of Quebec

John Alexander Dickinson

DESTINÉ AU GRAND PUBLIC comme aux étudiants, ce livre retrace l'histoire du Québec depuis l'occupation du territoire par les Amérindiens jusqu'à l'élection du Parti libéral du Québec de Jean Charest en 2003. Grâce à une solide documentation, à la fine pointe des travaux les plus récents, cette synthèse ouvre des perspectives nouvelles et stimulantes ! Québécois d'origine anglophone, les auteurs profitent d'une distance de bon aloi pour analyser l'évolution de la société québécoise, en privilégiant une perspective socio-économique. Ils n'hésitent pas à examiner le passé à partir des questions actuelles : le rôle des femmes, la culture, les problèmes démographiques, le monde du travail et celui des affaires et la place réservée aux autochtones. Cette nouvelle mise à jour offre un très large développement sur l'histoire contemporaine du Québec et sa place à l'intérieur du Canada et de l'Amérique du Nord. Les deux auteurs étudient les idéologies associées aux référendums de 1980 et 1995 et les changements sociaux qui en ont découlé, jusqu'à la chute du gouvernement Landry. Grâce à un riche index, une bibliographie commentée à chaque chapitre, des nouveaux tableaux et des illustrations actualisées, cet ouvrage demeure une synthèse incontournable de l'histoire du Québec.

Brève histoire socio-économique du Québec

Paul Webley

Carole Burgoyne

Stephen Lea

From childhood through to adulthood, retirement and finally death, The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life uniquely explores the economic problems all individuals have to solve across the course of their lives. Webley, Burgoyne, Lea and Young begin by introducing the concept of economic behaviour and its study. They then examine the main economic issues faced at each life stage, including: * the impact of advertising on children * buying a first house and setting up home * changing family roles and gender-linked inequality * redundancy and unemployment * coping on a pension * obituaries, wills and inheritance. Finally they draw together the commonalties of economic problems across the lifespan, discuss generational and cultural changes in economic behaviour, and examine the significance of other, non-economic constraints, upon individuals. The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life provides a much-needed comprehensive and accessible guide to economic psychology which will be of great interest to researchers and students.

The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life

Dan Murphy

A walk-through wrestling history, starting with the founding fathers such as Ed “Strangler” Lewis and the incomparable Lou Thesz, to modern-day masters such as Daniel Bryan and Kurt Angle. The Wrestlers’ Wrestlers spotlights elite performers and analyzes exactly what made them your favorite wrestler’s favorite wrestlers. Authors Dan Murphy and Brian Young interviewed more than 40 in-ring veterans, historians, referees, and promoters to get a unique insider’s look at the people who have made a lasting impact on the world of professional wrestling. It offers a special peek “behind the curtain” and a rare look into the top stars’ thoughts on their peers, their influences, and their personal favorites. The Wrestlers’ Wrestlers is a history of professional wrestling but also a tribute to the frequently misunderstood art itself. Featuring stars of the 1920s to today, this essential read deserves a prominent spot on the bookcase of every fan and historian.

The Masters of the Craft of Professional Wrestling

The Wrestlers’ Wrestlers

Stefan Collini

Richard Whatmore

Brian M. Young

Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature Stefan Collini

Lecturer in Intellectual History School of English and American Studies Richard Whatmore

Brian William Young

Two volumes containing essays by leading scholars in modern British intellectual history.

British Intellectual History 1750-1950

Economy, Polity, and Society

Vaya! Nuevo. Assessment Support Pack

Creating Wealth (If It Is so Easy, Why Do so Few Do It?). So many people ask this question I feel it deserves an answer. We hope that this book explains the physiological reason why people struggle to move on. Of course, this is impossible unless some action is taken toward creating a better life. Many struggle to see opportunities when in fact they are surrounded by them. Why is this? This book sets out with the hope of helping people sort out what is anchoring them to where they are now. We hope they will adopt ideas which will empower them toward better health, wealth, and happiness.

If It Is so Easy Why Do so Few Do It?

Creating Wealth

Karen O'Brien

Provides an accessible overview of the achievement of Edward Gibbon (1737-94), one of the world's greatest historians.

The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon

History has often ignored the influence in modern Quebec of family dynasties, patriarchy, seigneurial land, and traditional institutions. Following the ascent of four generations from two families through eighteenth-century New France to the onset of the First World War, Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec compares the French Catholic Taschereaus and the Anglican and English-speaking McCords. Consulting private, institutional, and legal archives, Brian Young studies eight family patriarchs. Working as merchants or colonial administrators in the first generation, they became seigneurial proprietors, officeholders, and prelates. The heads of both families used marriage arrangements, land stewardship, and judgeships to position their heirs. Young shows how patriarchy was a central force in both domestic and public life, as well as the ways in which Taschereau and McCord family strategies extended into the marrow of Quebec society through moral authority, influence on national identities, and their positions within senior offices in religious, judicial, and university institutions. Through courthouses, cemeteries, belfries, and their own chapels and neoclassical estates, they created encompassing cultural landscapes. Later generations used museums, archives, historian collaborators, photography, and modern print to elevate family achievement to the status of heroic national narratives. Sagas of the monied and entrepreneurial, nationalist imperatives to protect a vulnerable people, and skepticism about the lasting power of great families and historical institutions have relegated the influence of the Taschereaus and McCords to obscurity. Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec resuscitates the central role these elite families played in English and French Quebec.

The Taschereaus and McCords

Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec

A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline. Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it is currently practiced. Presents an in-depth survey of recent research and practice of intellectual history Written in a clear and accessible manner, designed for an international audience Surveys the various methodologies that have arisen and the main historiographical debates that concern intellectual historians Pays special attention to contemporary controversies, providing readers with the most current overview of the field Demonstrates the ways in which intellectual historians have contributed to the history of science and medicine, literary studies, art history and the history of political thought Named Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 by Choice Magazine, a publication of the American Library Association

A Companion to Intellectual History

Written by two of Quebec's most respected historians, A Short History of Quebec offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the province from the pre-contact native period to the present-day.

Stephen E. G. Lea

From childhood through to adulthood, retirement and finally death, The Economic Psychology of Everyday Lifeuniquely explores the economic problems all individuals have to solve across the course of their lives. Webley, Burgoyne, Lea and Young begin by introducing the concept of economic behaviour and its study. They then examine the main economic issues faced at each life stage, including: * the impact of advertising on children * buying a first house and setting up home * changing family roles and gender-linked inequality * redundancy and unemployment * coping on a pension * obituaries, wills and inheritance. Finally they draw together the commonalties of economic problems across the lifespan, discuss generational and cultural changes in economic behaviour, and examine the significance of other, non-economic constraints, upon individuals. The Economic Psychology of Everyday Lifeprovides a much-needed comprehensive and accessible guide to economic psychology which will be of great interest to researchers and students.es a much-needed comprehensive and accessible guide to economic psychology which will be of great interest to researchers and students.

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