Fifty years in a law profession she loves, twenty-four of which were spent as judge, Nancy Morrison has stories to tell. Being a former judge, Nancy could not have written this book during the 24 years on the bench. It is very much a political book, focusing on the need for law reform. Entertaining, at times warm and witty, it is also a memoir that reminds us of dark days. Nancy Morrison’s career spanned three provinces and two territories, as a lawyer, arbitrator and judge. Although the b...

Fifty years in a law profession she loves, twenty-four spent as a judge, Nancy Morrison is a story-teller and trail-blazer. Entertaining, at times warm and witty, this memoir also reminds us of dark times, of the ever-relevant social and political issues of the day, the need for law reform. Here is a life that was never dull, including the twenty-four years Nancy shared with actor Bruno Gerussi. Benched is a must-read for members of the law profession, written by one of their own, and for ...

Women in Criminal Justice is Book Four in the Durvile True Cases Series and in it, Canadian women judges and criminal lawyers tell of cases that they have found particularly challenging. Some were disquieting/perplexing or had surprising turns, many are high-profile, and many continue to have interesting social or personal effect. Unique to this book, are distinctly women’s perspectives, and many chapters deal with sexual assault, Indigenous, child protection and motherhood, mental health,...

Indigenous Justice is Book 10 in the Durvile True Cases series. In the spirit of truth and reconciliation and respectful of Indigenous cultural integrity, judges, lawyers, and law enforcement officers write about working with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples through their trials and tribulations with the criminal justice system. The stories are a mix of previously published essays from the True Cases anthologies with an equal number of new chapters by legal and law enforcem...

Indigenous Justice is Book 10 in the Durvile True Cases series. In the spirit of truth and reconciliation and respectful of Indigenous cultural integrity, judges, lawyers, and law enforcement officers write about working with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples through their trials and tribulations with the criminal justice system. The stories are a mix of previously published essays from the True Cases anthologies with an equal number of new chapters by legal and law enforcement profe...

Los elementos que reúne esta novela publicada en 1933 –un padre ensimismado y severo, pastor protestante de una pequeña congregación campesina; una madre ingenua y bondadosa que vive conforme a su fe; sus tres hijas, en su camino a la vida adulta; la sirvienta de toda la vida, que atesora una sabiduría consoladora, todo ello enmarcado en la naturaleza abrupta de la exuberante Escocia– podrían darle al lector de hoy la impresión de que estamos ante una novela de corte tradicional. Sin embar...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

Ten skills for agile leadershipComplex challenges are all around us—they impact our companies, our communities, and our planet. This complexity and the emergence of networks is changing the practice of strategic management. Today’s leaders need to understand how to design and guide complex collaborations to accelerate innovation and change—collaborations that cross boundaries both inside and outside organizations.Strategic Doing introduces you to t...

A Plain Sailorman in China is a biography of Cdr. Irvin Van Gorder Gillis, USN that recounts both his extraordinary family history – a fascinating slice of Americana in the 1800’s – and Irvin’s multi-faceted career as a naval officer for 25 years and then as successful rare Chinese book collector. Son of a U. S. Navy Rear Admiral, as a U.S. Naval Academy graduate in 1894 he distinguished himself academically at the Academy and soon operationally while serving aboard his first U. S...

Where and what is the place of the wild? Is the goal of preserving biodiversity across the landscape of North America compatible with contemporary Western culture?Place of the Wild brings together original essays from an exceptional array of contemporary writers and activists to present in a single volume the most current thinking on the relationship between humans and wilderness. A common thread running through the volume is the conviction that everyone concerned with the...

This revised and updated third edition of Best New Horror showcases some of the very best short stories and novellas published in 1991. In this vilifying volume you will rediscover terrifying tales by, amongst many others, Ramsey Campbell, Robert McCammon, Dennis Etchison, Elizabeth Hand, Michael Marshall Smith, Charles L. Grant, Joel Lane and Thomas Tessier, along with an overview of the year in horror by the editors and a nightmare necrology of those who kicked off this mortal coil durin...

O. ZEGNA RATA, L’acheminement vers la parole, ou l’éducation de Gargantua; I.R. MORRISON, Rabelais contre Machiavel dans Gargantua; P. GILMAN and A.C. KELLER, Why Rabelais wrote Gargantua after Pantagruel?; E. McPHAIL, Rabelais’s Allegory of Prudence; L.K. DONALDSON-EVANS, The Peregrina-tions of Pantagruel: Rabelais and the Travel Literature of the Renaissance; N. FRELICK, “J’ouis-sens”: Thaumaste dans le Pantagruel de Rabelais et le “sujet-supposé-savoir”; P. GILMAN and A.C. KELLER, “Et f...