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From Indicators to Governance to the Mainstream

From Indicators to Governance to the Mainstream

Tools for Cultural Policy and Citizenship

From: Accounting for Culture

Discusses the need to move along and up the "knowledge value chain" from data (statistics), to information (indicators), to knowledge (benchmarks), to wisdom (policy). 12 $1.44 Add
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From Iron Curtain to Paper Wall: The Influence of Border Regimes on Local and Regional Economies— The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Bazaars in the Lodz Region

From Iron Curtain to Paper Wall: The Influence of Border Regimes on Local and Regional Economies— The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Bazaars in the Lodz Region

From: Borderlands

In this chapter we trace the effects of the “Schengenization” of the eastern border of Poland on the functioning of the larger bazaars in the Lodz region, specifically those in Tuszyn … ; 32 $2.56 Add
From Subjects to Citizens

From Subjects to Citizens

A Hundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada

Australia and Canada are both lively, multicultural societies with British constitutional traditions. Historically, they have faced similar challenges in defining and sustaining citizenship that … ; ; 328 View
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From Terminological Data Banks to Knowledge Databases: The Text As the Starting Point

From Terminological Data Banks to Knowledge Databases: The Text As the Starting Point

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

Translators use tools to search for linguistic and conceptual information and to locate new resources that can help them in the translation process. They also use translation technology to … ; ; 14 $1.96 Add
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From Versailles (1919) to the United Nations

From Versailles (1919) to the United Nations

From: Interpreters as Diplomats

It had been necessary to devote two preliminary Council sessions to the question of the language medium to be used at the conferences 35 $4.55 Add
God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique

God and Argument – Dieu et l’argumentation philosophique

Given the challenge of anti-realism, anti-foundationalism, and post-modernism, is rational argument concerning religious belief still possible? This collection provides a broad range of … 277 View
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God and Argument: Strong and Weak Theories of Existence

God and Argument: Strong and Weak Theories of Existence

From: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique

In discussing the relation of ‘God and Argument,’ it is best to begin with a few fundamentals. So I will offer here some reflections on the philosophical treatment of existence and … 9 $1.08 Add
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God as Object of Philosophical Argument

God as Object of Philosophical Argument

From: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique

Introduction 14 $1.68 Add
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God, Ethos, Ways

God, Ethos, Ways

From: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique

Metaphysics is not just the philosophical discipline that examines and evaluates arguments for their rational cogency; not just the philosophical interprétation of the ethos as reconfigured … 19 $2.28 Add
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Governance and Emergent Transversal Citizenship: Toward a New Nexus of Moral Contracts

Governance and Emergent Transversal Citizenship: Toward a New Nexus of Moral Contracts

From: From Subjects to Citizens

Australian and Canadian citizenships are emergent idiosyncratic realities. These complex institutions are the result of the on-going interaction between values and environment. The sort of social … 31 $3.10 Add
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Governance and Emergent Transversal Citizenship: Toward a New Nexus of Social Contracts

Governance and Emergent Transversal Citizenship: Toward a New Nexus of Social Contracts

From: The New Geo-Governance

Australian and Canadian citizenships are emergent idiosyncratic realities. These complex institutions are the result of the on-going interaction between values and environment. The sort of social … 24 $2.16 Add
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Governance of Culture

Governance of Culture

Words of Caution

From: Accounting for Culture

Culture, cultural value, and heritage are all weasel words and connote multidimensional, shifting, and elusive realities. The deconstruction of these concepts and of these realities with the … 14 $1.68 Add
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Governance of the North American Arctic
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Governance of the North American Arctic

From: North America's Arctic Borders

This chapter assesses our understanding of globalization within the North American Arctic in light of larger geopolitical concepts of security and border management, including consideration of … ; 21 $2.10 Add
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Growth Poles and Ghost Towns in the Russian Far North

Growth Poles and Ghost Towns in the Russian Far North

From: Russia and the North

The analysis in this chapter is based on a combination of statistics showing changes in the size and composition of the population of the Far North, as well as policy documents of the Russian … 35 $4.20 Add
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"Happiness" 1946

"Happiness" 1946

From: The Quebec Anthology

"Le bonheur," translated here as "Happiness" by Wayne Grady, is a tale of urban despair, taken from Ringuet’s only book of short stories, L’Heritage (1946). The … 11 $0.66 Add
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"Hay Fever" 1917

"Hay Fever" 1917

From: The Quebec Anthology

"La fièvre des foins," translated by Wayne Grady as "Hay Fever," was first published in 1917, and is taken here from Clapin’s Contes et nouvelles, a collection of … 20 $1.20 Add