The Canada Pension Plan disability benefit is a monthly payment available to disabled citizens who have contributed to the CPP and are unable to work regularly at any job. Covering the program’s origins, early implementation, liberalization of benefits, and more recent restraint and reorientation of this program, Struggling for Social Citizenship is the first detailed examination of the single largest public contributory disability plan in the country.Focusing on broad pol...

Germans often claim that "we have learned the lessons of our history." But what, precisely, are the lessons they have drawn from their Nazi-era past? What experiences from that time continue to hold significant meaning for Germans today, and how have those experiences shaped postwar German cultural identity? Though Germans have come to recognize the evils of Nazism, for them, its primary evil derived from the war it unleashed and the hardships, death, and destruction that the war wrought o...

Sylvia's had more than her fair share of hardship. Abandoned by her husband, sold into slavery by her father, and now ruled by a harsh master, she's never felt free.But everything changes when she discovers an injured stranger in the woods. Despite his initial hostility and the language barrier between them, Sylvia decides to help him at any cost. She's determined to save him from a cruel fate...and he's become her new secret. But she never realized that he'd be a ...

Policy analysis in Canada brings together original contributions from many of the field’s leading scholars. Contributors chronicle the evolution of policy analysis in Canada over the past 50 years and reflect on its application in both governmental and non-governmental settings.As part of the International Library of Policy Analysis series, the book enables cross-national comparison of public policy analysis concepts and practice within national and sub-national governments, media,...

A town harboring sinister secrets panics at the arrival of an enigmatic foreigner in this gothic romance by a New York Times–bestselling author.A stranger has come to Middleburg, Maryland, a visitor from abroad with a mysterious purpose. But this quaint, affluent community has dark secrets of its own. And when the interloper, Peter Stewart, becomes involved with the bewitching, seductive ward of noted local author Kate More, the townfolk fear the chilling p...

I thought Peter Pan was a myth and Neverland a fairytale. A story spun by my mother who had lost her mind a long time ago.But there was no denying the overwhelming shadow cast by Peter Pan when he was standing in my house.Pan took me captive to Neverland and I somehow found my place among him and the Lost Boys.I’ve never looked back.Now I’m entangled right alongside him in a war we can’t seem to escape. We thought we had defeated our enemies...

Four years have passed since Kaal led the Sky Dwellers to wage war against the land below.His forces have devastated one place after another, sparing no effort as they seek to conquer the world. Captured by his own brother during the first siege, Keil finds himself helpless to protect those whom he was forced to leave behind. It seems all he has left is the comfort of his dear wife, Sylvia, and the days spent with his children as they live in quiet confinement. But...

Few authors have achieved such renown as World Fantasy Life Achievement honoree and Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Andre Norton. With the love of readers and the praise of critics, Norton's books have sold millions of copies worldwide.Michael Karl's dreams for the future do not include becoming the monarch of an obscure Morvanian kingdom, but he soon discovers he has no say in the matter. He, the result of a misalliance between a Morvanian Prince an...

MaceFind a wife, or watch my sisters pay the price. That's the ultimatum from my cruel father.None of the women he has in mind interests me, and the only one I want hates me.But fate intervenes when Cassia witnesses a crime that could cost her life… and I'm the only one who can save her.In the world of the rich and powerful, wives are protected, and I've just found a solution to both of our problems.I've wanted Cassia for years. And ...

A dark secret. A corrupt marriage. And a beast who might just fall for the beauty.DarePower. Control. Darkness.I've built an empire with those three things, and I'll destroy anyone who tries to threaten it.When Rose Miller's father announces her arranged marriage to a man far worse than me, I step in. She needs my protection. But she doesn't know the price of my help.We share a secret, one that could ruin us both. A ...

Fan Favorite Romaces by NY Times and USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Michelle M. Pillow.Cat-shifter Pirate Prince Jarek sails the high sky in his spaceship doing as he pleases… that is until intergalactic drug dealers take his pilot hostage. But the rescue mission goes wrong when, instead of a crewman, he liberates a woman who he believes is desperately trying to escape her captors.Jarek soon discovers he unwittingly kidnaped a princess.Princ...

The Prince is a political treatise by Machiavelli that is not considered to be representative of the work published during his lifetime, but is the most remembered. The theories in this book describe methods that an aspiring prince can use to acquire the throne, or an existing prince can use to maintain his reign. These theories include defense and military, perceived reputation, generosity, cruelty versus mercy, gaining honors, fortune and a number of other discourses.