Perspectives on Flourishing in Schools

(Lexington Books, 2018)
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This book provides perspectives and insights across the educational system for how we might move toward living out this wish in all schools. The chapters provide perspectives on fundamental questions that have been guiding recent research on wellbeing in schools: How do school communities flourish together? How does supporting educator wellbeing connect to teaching, learning, leading in schools? What characteristics, qualities and strategies support the wellbeing of the whole school community? This book is unique in that it answers these questions from the perspectives of teachers, students, administrators in K-12 schools, as well as from university and the wider community. Importantly, these chapters provide a repertoire of varied answers to the question that underpins this shift in research toward a positive organizational perspective: How can we leverage what works well to grow more, to instill in each community member a sense of their value and capacity to contribute? These chapters serve as examples, invitations, and inspiration for readers to notice in their own contexts ways they can grow wellbeing through a focused attention on building appreciative, strengths-based, positive approaches to teaching, learning, and leading in all schools.

(Description Source: Rowman and Littlefield)

Editors

Sabre Cherkowski is a professor of Education and the Director of Graduate Programs at UBC Okanagan. She has been researching what it means for educators to grow their professional and personal potential toward flourishing at work. She has examined how teacher wellbeing contributes to building positive school experiences and the role of leadership in cultivating positive workspaces. In recognition of her innovative research, Cherkowski received UBC Okanagan’s 2020 Researcher of the Year award for Social Sciences and Humanities in 2020.

Keith Walker is a professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Saskatchewan.

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Constitutional Dialogue
Rights, Democracy, Institutions

(Cambridge University Press, 2019)
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The metaphor of dialogue has been put to different descriptive and evaluative uses by constitutional and political theorists studying interactions between institutions concerning rights. It has also featured prominently in the opinions of courts and the rhetoric and deliberations of legislators. This volume brings together many of the world’s leading constitutional and political theorists to debate the nature and merits of constitutional dialogues between the judicial, legislative, and executive branches. Constitutional Dialogue explores dialogue’s democratic significance, examines its relevance to the functioning and design of constitutional institutions, and covers constitutional dialogues from an international and transnational perspective.

Contributors include Geoffrey Sigalet, Grégoire Webber, Rosalind Dixon, Alison Young, Jacob T. Levy, Jeff King, Dwight Newman, Janet L. Hiebert, James B. Kelly, Kent Roach, Rivka Weill, John Finnis, Stephen Macedo, Dennis Baker, Frederick Schauer and Richard Ekins.

(Description Source: Routledge)

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Geoffrey Sigalet is an assistant professor of Political Science at UBC Okanagan. He completed his PhD in political theory and public law at Princeton University, where his dissertation developed a neo-republican political theory of dialogical judicial review and constitutional interpretation. His research investigates how constitutional principles such as the separation of powers, proportionality in rights adjudication, judicial independence, and parliamentary supremacy relate to democratic politics. His focus is on principles that matter in the Westminster and the U.S. constitutions. Other research projects concern topics such as the principle of proportionality in Canadian and American rights adjudication, the historical origins and purposes of sections 1 and 33 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the idea of republican freedom as it relates to bills of rights.

Grégoire Webber holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law at Queen’s University and is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rosalind Dixon is a professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and Co-President of the International Society of Public Law.

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The Political Foundations of Judicial Independence in Dictatorship and Democracy

(Oxford University Press, 2019)
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The Political Foundations of Judicial Independence in Dictatorship and Democracy offers a fresh perspective on voice as a subject of critical inquiry by employing an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach.

This book argues that explaining judicial independence-considered the fundamental question of comparative law and politics requires a perspective that spans the democracy/autocracy divide. Rather than seeking separate explanations in each regime context, in The Political Foundations of Judicial Independence in Dictatorship and Democracy, Brad Epperly argues that political competition is a salient factor in determining levels of de facto judicial independence across regime type, and in autocracies a factor of far greater import. This is because a full “insurance” account of independence requires looking not only at the likelihood those in power might lose elections but also the variable risks associated with such an outcome, risks that are far higher for autocrats. First demonstrating that courts can and do provide insurance to former leaders, he then shows via exhaustive cross-national analyses that competition’s effects are far higher in autocratic regimes, providing the first evidence for the causal nature of the relationship. Epperly argues that these findings differ from existing case study research because in democratic regimes, a lack of political competition means incumbents target the de jure independence of courts. This argument is illustrated via in-depth case study of the Hungarian Constitutional Court after the country’s 2010 “constitutional coup,” and then tested globally. Blending formal theory, observational and instrumental variables models, and elite interviews of leading Hungarian legal scholars and judges, Epperly offers a new framework for understanding judicial independence that integrates explanations of both de jure and de facto independence in both democratic and autocratic regimes.

(Description Source: Oxford University Press)

Author

Brad Epperly is an assistant professor of Political Science at UBC Okanagan. His research on the rule of law appears in numerous journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, and the Journal of Law and Courts. His research interests revolve around various facets of the rule of law, including judicial independence, corruption, and equality before the law, generally in the context of Eastern European/post-communist politics.

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Wayward Shamans
The Prehistory of an Idea

(University of California Press, 2013)
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Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity’s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent’s eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male sorcerer emerged as the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent efforts to provide a universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity. By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex history.

(Description Source: University of California Press)

Author

Silvia Tomášková is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UBC Okanagan. A native of a country no longer in existence – Czechoslovakia, Dr. Tomášková came to Canada as a political refugee in the 1980’s. She found her new home in academia, in the discipline of Anthropology. Dr. Tomášková taught at Deep Springs College in California, the University of Texas, Austin, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A feminist anthropologist/archaeologist with field and historical research in Eastern & Central Europe, Siberia, South Africa, Dr. Tomášková is interested in knowledge production, particularly about places and spaces in the deep past, as alternatives to modernity. She received her BA from McGill University, MA from Yale University, and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Industrial Organization, Trade, and Social Interaction
Essays in Honour of B. Curtis Eaton

(University of Toronto Press, 2010)
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B. Curtis Eaton is one of Canada’s leading microeconomists. As an applied economic theorist, Eaton has contributed greatly to industrial organization literature and has also worked in labour economics, economic geography, and organizational theory. The essays in this volume, by former students and present and former colleagues, call attention to the path-breaking work of Professor Eaton.

The first two chapters provide a short overview of Eaton’s research contributions and argue that his work laid the foundation for important research programs across the country. The remaining chapters, including an unpublished paper by Eaton himself, consist of original work that can be divided into the three broad categories of industrial organization and spatial competition, trade and productivity, and social interaction. Not only a collection of laudatory essays, Industrial Organization, Trade, and Social Interaction presents cutting edge research by leading scholars.

(Description Source: University of Toronto Press)

Authors

B. Curtis Eaton is an applied economic theorist. He thinks about and then models real situations which have captured his attention. He has worked in a number of economic areas, including industrial organization, labour economics, economic geography and organizational theory. He was educated at the University of Colorado, receiving a BA in 1965 and a PhD in 1969. He joined the Economics Department at the University of Calgary in 1999. Prior to joining the department of Economics, Philosophy at Political Science at UBC Okanagan, he worked at three other Canadian universities: The University of British Columbia (1969 to 1980), The University of Toronto (1981 to 1987), and Simon Fraser University (1987 to 1999).

Gregory K. Dow is a professor in the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser University.

Andrew Eckert is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Alberta.

Douglas S. West is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Alberta.

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The Performative Power of Vocality

(Routledge, 2020)
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The Performative Power of Vocality offers a fresh perspective on voice as a subject of critical inquiry by employing an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach.

Addressed to qualitative researchers, artist-scholars, and activists committed to decolonization, cultural revitalization, and social justice, this monograph opens up new avenues of understanding across Indigenous and Western philosophy, performance studies, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound and voice studies, anthropology, sociology, phenomenology, cognitive science, physics, ecology, and biomedicine.

Drawing from her performance training, research collaborations, and commitment to cultural diversity, Magnat explores vocality as a vital source of embodied knowledge, creativity, and well-being grounded in process, practice, and place, as well as a form of social and political agency.

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Virginie Magnat is an associate professor at UBC who holds a joint appointment in the Departments of English & Cultural Studies and Languages & World Literatures. She conducts research across performance studies, cultural anthropology, qualitative research, arts-based inquiry, Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies. Her two monographs, The Performative Power of Vocality (Routledge 2020), which received the American Theatre and Drama Society Book Award Honorable Mention, and Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance: Meetings with Remarkable Women (Routledge 2014), which received the Canadian Association for Theatre Research Book Award Honorable Mention, are both based on research funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). She co-authored with seven Indigenous artists, scholars, and Elders/Traditional Knowledge Keepers and four graduate students the book chapter “Experiencing Resonance as a Practice of Ritual Engagement,” also based on SSHRC-funded research and featured in Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing through Indigenous Relationships (Canadian Scholars 2019).

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Legal Institutions and the Sources of Law

(Springer, 2005)
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The book is Volume 3 of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, a twelve-volume survey of the theory and history of legal thought in the Western tradition. Both the common law and the civil law traditions are covered, from ancient Greece to the twentieth century. The project was based in the Faculty of Law, University of Bologna — the oldest law faculty in the world. The range of contributors to the project is international.

The book theorizes strictly institutionalized sources of law primarily in the common law tradition. One chapter on strictly institutionalized sources of law in the civil law tradition is contributed by Antonino Rotolo of the University of Bologna. The idea of a strictly institutionalized source of a legal norm, briefly, is that the appropriate activities of a legal institution both provide the existence conditions for the norm and a full contextual justification for the norm. Other volumes in the Treatise theorize quasi-institutional sources of law — sources that are not fully institutional such as interpretation — and social-scientific accounts of the origins of laws.

The book begins with two chapters that analyze the functioning of the paradigm strictly institutionalized sources of law in the common law: legislation and precedent. The next three chapters discuss sources of common law whose characterization as strictly institutionalized sources is more theoretically controversial: custom, delegation and constitutions. These chapters seek to explain how the controversies arise in terms of these sources being both like and unlike legislation and precedent. The two final chapters cover the sources of international law and the idea of the authority of law from an institutionalized perspective. The sources of international law are difficult to frame as strictly institutionalized in the sense foregrounded in the book, as the boundary between law and politics is fluid in the case of international law. Reference to legislation and precedent as “authorities” is pervasive in the practice of the common law, and the chapter defends such a strictly institutionalized view of authority.

(Description Source: Roger A. Shiner)

Author

Roger Shiner is an adjunct professor of Philosophy at UBC Okanagan. He began his university teaching career at the University of Alberta specializing in Ancient Philosophy and Ethics. He specialized in philosophy of law from mid-1970s onwards. He also began research and teaching in aesthetics around the same time, and began teaching business ethics in mid-1980s. He took an early retirement from the University of Alberta in 1966, before teaching part-time for Okanagan University College in 2002 and subsequently for both Okanagan College and UBCO. He retired from teaching in 2018.

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Okanagan Geology: British Columbia
3rd edn

(Okanagan Geology Committee, 2014)
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Travel through ancient history, visualize the volcanism in the Okanagan, imagine mountain building forces, envision the landscape 12,000 years ago when Glacial Lake Penticton stretched for two hundred kilometres or more, and discover the beginnings of present-day Okanagan Lake and area. These are just a few of the fascinating subjects in this account of Okanagan geology.

This book is designed for the local lay-person, visitors, and as a resource guide for educators. It focuses on the geologic landmarks of the area and how geology has influenced the evolution of the present landscape and touched the lives of everyone. It is hoped that the information provided will enrich the visitor, inspire earth science students and offer everyone a new perspective on the natural history of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. Profits from the book will be dedicated to the Kelowna Geology Committee Award endowment fund for geological, water science, engineering and archeology students, and for local projects to enhance the awareness of geologic history.

This third edition has been further edited, and includes an Addendum that reports on new discoveries and projects that have developed in the last ten years. A very old glaciation was discovered in 2009 and called the West Kelowna Advance. This glaciation occurred approximately one million years ago, and was part of a regional ice dome that occupied the interior of British Columbia. A variety of spectacular bottom features in Okanagan Lake were discovered in 2009 during side-scanning sonar surveys of the lake bottom. The Geological Survey of Canada in 2013 released a coloured bedrock geology map presenting a compilation for the entire Okanagan Watershed, and a new surficial geology map of the Kelowna area was published in 2009. Of major public interest the William R. Bennett Bridge opened in 2008. The Addendum includes a detailed account of how this bridge was built, written by the engineer who designed it.

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Murray A. Roed is a geological and engineering consultant with a PhD in Geology from the University of Alberta, and has taught as a sessional at UBC Okanagan. He is the lead author and editor of the Okanagan Geology series, and painted the cover art.

John D. Greenough is a professor of Petrology and Mineralogy in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences at UBC Okanagan. He received his PhD from the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He specializes in using the trace element composition of mafic rocks to study the early history of the Earth and the processes that cause differentiation in recent basalt lava flows. Along with his various research projects, a number of personal and professional interests occupy his time. These include running the annual Science Photography Contest and exploring the world of Gemology.

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On the Foundations of Monopolistic Competition and Economic Geography
The Selected Essays of B. Curtis Eaton and Richard G. Lipsey

(Edward Elgar, 1997)
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On the Foundations of Monopolistic Competition and Economic Geography presents important work by B. Curtis Eaton and Richard G. Lipsey on product differentiation, including studies of spatial differentiation and the industrial structures that give rise to this phenomenon.

The book opens with an introductory overview essay and explains why the authors reject the neoclassical, competitive vision of the economy. The essays included cover issues such as: the theory of multinational plant location, product differentiation, monopoly, models of value theory, capital with special reference to entry and exit barriers and entry equilibrium, the existence of pure profit and the theory of market pre-emption.

This volume will be welcomed by academics and researchers interested in the microeconomic issues of competition, monopoly, firm behaviour and markets.

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Curtis Eaton is an applied economic theorist. He thinks about and then models real situations which have captured his attention. He has worked in a number of economic areas, including industrial organization, labour economics, economic geography and organizational theory. He was educated at the University of Colorado, receiving a BA in 1965 and a PhD in 1969. He joined the Economics Department at the University of Calgary in 1999. Prior to joining the department of Economics, Philosophy at Political Science at UBC Okanagan, he worked at three other Canadian universities: The University of British Columbia (1969 to 1980), The University of Toronto (1981 to 1987), and Simon Fraser University (1987 to 1999).

Richard G. Lipsey is a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and a professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University.

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Modelling in Healthcare

(American Mathematical Society, 2010)
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This volume is both a broad overview of how modelling works and a practical and usable introduction to the styles of modelling most applicable to healthcare.

An introductory section covers the basics of modelling, explaining how to select, build, and implement a model, along with an overview of data collection and statistical analysis. The heart of the book is a series of self-contained chapters covering different styles of modelling applicable to healthcare, each with an overview, a list of common uses, mathematical details, examples, and related reading. Readers can quickly scan the model overview and common uses sections to determine if a model is applicable to the problem that they are interested in and can study the mathematical details and examples sections if more detail is desired.

Requiring no more than a solid high school level of mathematics, this book is an ideal stepping stone for those new to the subject and a valuable reference guide for those with more experience.

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Warren Hare is a professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He received his PhD in Mathematical Optimization from Simon Fraser University. He serves as an associate editor with Set Valued and Variational Analysis and the Pacific Journal of Optimization. He is co-author of the book Derivative-Free and Blackbox Optimization, and his research focuses on structured blackbox optimization.

Alexander Rutherford is the director for the Complex Systems Modeling Group with a PhD in Mathematical Physics from the University of British Columbia.

Krisztina Vásárhelyi is the coordinator of the IMPACT-HIV Project with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Zurich.

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