Product Description: Tape-recorded interviews from the 20th and 21st centuries give voice to tradition-bearers from all walks of life adding color to this comprehensive picture of social behavior. The most up-to-date, authoritative work on the subject, this collection spans several centuries and, in three sections, deals with Childbirth and Infancy; Love, Courtship and Marriage; and Death and Burial...read more

Product Description: This work records the oral history, folklore and folk-life of emigrants from the Outer Hebrides to Quebec in the 19th century. It opens with the historical background before telling oral history as remembered and experienced by the emigrants' descendants, telling of land clearing, "homesteading", farming, lumbering, bridge building and all the other tasks required to build a new community in the wilderness...read more

Product Description: This excellent text provides an introduction to the concepts and theories of judgement and decision-making and their application to clinical problems. Coverage includes the effects of stress, tiredness and substance abuse upon the decision performance of the nurse, social influences on clinical decision making, the involvement of the patient in decision making, computer-assisted decision making, and more...read more

Product Description: Canadas Atlantic FolkloreFolklife Series has been awarded the Canadian Historical Association Regional History Certificate of merit in Recognition of an Excellent Contribution to the Development of History. Canadas Atlantic FolkloreFolklife Series has been created to record and help preserve a way of life unique to the Atlantic seaboard...read more