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Myths We Live By	Colin Grant challenges the popular use of "myth" as a dismissive designation of the superstitions and falsehoods of "other" cultures. The author maintains that myths occupy a …	Colin Grant	195	1998	View
From National Identity and Global Migration: Listening to the “Pariahs” From: Managing Diversity View	If we live in a world of the absolute Other, peopled by individuals whose histories have not been ours but with whom we must live in peace and harmony, we will have to accept each other much more …	Alastair Davidson	19	2007	$2.28 Add
From NEW! New Context, New Arrivals, 1945–1960 From: History of the Jews in Quebec View	This chapter examines the postwar period, which marked a critical break with the past and the unfolding of a new world for Montreal Jewry. It looks at linguistic and cultural movements within the …	Pierre Anctil	57	2021	$5.70 Add
From "New Styles of Architecture, a Change of Heart"? The Architexts of A.M. Klein and ER. Scott From: The Canadian Modernists Meet	In view of the central role that architecture has always played as an embodiment and signal of change in Western culture, it is scarcely, if at all, surprising that Canada’s modern poets …	D.M.R Bentley	42	2005	$3.78 Add
From Nigerian Penal Interactions From: Colonial Systems of Control View	The reflections presented in this chapter emerge from a daily journal I kept during my time as a community organizer and activist inside Nigerian prisons. The experiences I had were inundated …	Viviane Saleh-Hanna	50	2008	$5.00 Add
From Nigerian Women in Prison: Hostages in Law From: Colonial Systems of Control View	The Daniel case problematizes the common-sense equation between crime and punishment, and demonstrates that what is considered “criminal” is situational and culturally specific. In …	Biko Agozino	22	2008	$2.20 Add
From "No Longer an Invisible Minority": Women Physicians and Medical Practice in Late Twentieth-Century North America’ From: Caring and Curing View	While Canadian medicine even today continues to be male-dominated in terms of numbers and of power, and medicine itself still remains at the pinnacle of the late twentieth-century health care …	Deborah Gorham	28	1994	$3.08 Add
From NEW! North American Cyber New Regionalism in Canada Online Cultural Borderlands and Change through New Media From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization View	This chapter seeks to answer two key questions: How will the lack of domestic control over the Internet contribute to Canadian culture? What are the implications of any possible changes in …	Alexander Rudolph	28	2021	$2.80 Add
NEW! North America’s Arctic Borders A World of Change	Although part of a broader circumpolar world, North America’s Arctic and sub-Arctic borders—and the establishment of new boundaries in the wake of significant, and regionally unique, …	Andrew Chater; Heather Nicol	194	2021	View
From Northern Lights in German Theatres: How Quebec Plays Come to Germany From: Translating Canada View	This chapter explores the different ways in which theatre texts from francophone Canada travel to Germany. It examines the support available from European and Canadian institutions and the roles …	Andreas Jandl	12	2007	$1.20 Add
From Northern Offshore Oil and Gas Resources: Policy Challenges and Approaches From: Russia and the North View	The aim of this chapter is to assess the place of offshore petroleum development in the context of overall Russian energy priorities and to examine the evolution of offshore policy and strategy …	Arild Moe; Elana Wilson Rowe	21	2009	$2.52 Add
From Obscene Literature: Norms and Laws From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature View	This chapter will discuss the introduction of modern obscenity laws; that is, formal censorship of the erotic, with special focus on the intricate relationship between laws and norms, formal …	Nitsa Ben-Ari	30	2006	$3.30 Add
From Oil and Gas Development in Russia and Northern Indigenous Peoples From: Russia and the North View	This chapter discusses some of the current problems in the relationships between the northern indigenous peoples of Russia, oil and gas developers and governmental structures. These …	Anna A. Sirina	16	2009	$1.92 Add
From On Being Certain About thé Existence of God From: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique View	Proofs far less elaborate than demonstrations can be enough for theoretical certainty, though even such proofs (beyond reasonable doubt, by clear and convincing evidence or prepondérance of …	James F. Ross	11	1999	$1.32 Add
From On Hemispheric Governance From: The New Geo-Governance View	Over the past 40 years, the relative importance both of Canada’s government and of its banks has declined considerably on the world scene. Canada has had to make a number of adjustments to …	Gilles Paquet	27	2005	$2.43 Add
From On Second Thoughts From: Language Testing Reconsidered View	An elderly student of language testing recalls some of the events in his career, attempting to relate them to current issues, and touching on such topics as overall language proficiency, the …	Bernard Spolsky	10	2007	$1.00 Add