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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 |
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From ![]() National Identity and Global Migration: Listening to the “Pariahs”From: Managing Diversity |
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 |
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From ![]() NEW! New Context, New Arrivals, 1945–1960 |
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 |
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From ![]() "New Styles of Architecture, a Change of Heart"? The Architexts of A.M. Klein and ER. Scott |
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 |
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From ![]() Nigerian Penal Interactions |
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 |
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From ![]() Nigerian Women in Prison: Hostages in Law |
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 |
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From ![]() "No Longer an Invisible Minority": Women Physicians and Medical Practice in Late Twentieth-Century North America’From: Caring and Curing |
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 |
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From ![]() NEW! North American Cyber New Regionalism in CanadaOnline Cultural Borderlands and Change through New Media |
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 BordersA 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 |
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From ![]() Northern Lights in German Theatres: How Quebec Plays Come to GermanyFrom: Translating Canada |
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 |
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From ![]() Northern Offshore Oil and Gas Resources: Policy Challenges and ApproachesFrom: Russia and the North |
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 |
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From ![]() Obscene Literature: Norms and Laws |
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 |
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From ![]() Oil and Gas Development in Russia and Northern Indigenous PeoplesFrom: Russia and the North |
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 |
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From ![]() On Being Certain About thé Existence of GodFrom: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique |
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 |
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From ![]() On Hemispheric GovernanceFrom: The New Geo-Governance |
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 |
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From ![]() On Second Thoughts |
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 |

















