2008
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From ![]() The Image of Confederation |
From More Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers | Frank H. Underhill | 87 | 2008 | $8.70 Add |
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From ![]() The Imaginary Indian in German Children’s Non-Fiction Literature |
This essay explores the images of North American Native people in German children’s non-fiction literature and examines how these limited and partly distorted perceptions of Native people … | Geneviè Susemihl; Geneviè Susemihl; ve | 35 | 2008 | $3.50 Add |
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From ![]() The Management Assault on the Public Service Commission: 1967-1979 |
This chapter has focused on how the Public Service Commission was caught up in various attempts to play down the role of merit and was increasingly asked to see its role as helping to elevate the … | Ken Rasmussen; Luc Juillet | 27 | 2008 | $2.70 Add |
![]() The Mean Girl MotiveNegotiating Power and Femininity |
Prior to the 1980s, girls were completely excluded from research on childhood aggression, presumably because their ‘sugar and spice and everything nice’ made them averse to … | Nicole E.R. Landry | 96 | 2008 | View |
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From ![]() The Militarization of Nigerian Society |
This chapter makes a demand not only on Nigeria’s political and civil society leaders but also on the international community, particularly policy-makers in Europe and the United States … | Biko Agozino; Unyierie Idem | 50 | 2008 | $5.00 Add |
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From ![]() The Nisga’a Common Bowl in Tradition and Politics |
In the year 1887; a delegation of Nisga a travelled by canoe and steamboat to Victoria in order to discuss their land question with the governor of British Columbia. […] In 1913 they … | Antino Spanjer; Mansell Griffin | 14 | 2008 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() The Origins of the Public Service Commission: 1867-1918 |
The Public Service Commission today is the legitimate heir to the civil service reform movement of the 19th century, which dedicated its efforts to creating an independent public service that … | Ken Rasmussen; Luc Juillet | 30 | 2008 | $3.00 Add |
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From ![]() The PSC as a Cautious Reformer: Staffing Reforms during the Mulroney Years: 1984-1993 |
The events examined in this chapter illustrate how, in contrast to a common misperception, the commission was more than willing to reform itself and the staffing process. While it is clear that … | Ken Rasmussen; Luc Juillet | 32 | 2008 | $3.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations |
From More Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers | Barbara Ward | 120 | 2008 | $12.00 Add |
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From ![]() The Social Dynamics of Canadian Protest Participation |
Nick Scott | 27 | 2008 | $2.70 Add | |
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From ![]() The System I Have Come to Know |
I was arrested on April 17,1992. I was taken to the Lagos State Police Command in Ikeja, where I was hung like a monkey from the ceiling, with my hands holding up the rest of my body. | Sylvester Monday Anagaba | 3 | 2008 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() The Tenth International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA X) |
Following a long line of academic literature, and growing through activist affiliations, this chapter outlines penal abolitionism as it was presented to the Nigerian community in efforts to … | Viviane Saleh-Hanna | 32 | 2008 | $3.20 Add |
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From ![]() Time As History |
From More Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers | George Grant | 64 | 2008 | $6.40 Add |
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From ![]() Unrecognized Champions and Media DarlingsFrom: Immodest and Sensational |
Examines the shift in media coverage of women’s sport in the 1960s and 70s. Outlines those who did not receive media attention and showcases a shift in reporting to one taking female … | M. Ann Hall | 12 | 2008 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Why Us? The Campaign Against Wage Controls in Saint John, New Brunswick, 1975-76 |
David Frank | 11 | 2008 | $1.10 Add | |
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From ![]() Women, Law, and Resistance in Northern Nigeria: Understanding the Inadequacies of Western Scholarship |
This chapter focuses on women in the contemporary northern Nigerian context: their interactions with pluralities of law in northern Nigeria, and the modes of resistance they employ in facing … | Viviane Saleh-Hanna | 61 | 2008 | $6.10 Add |










