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"Pomme Douly and the Instant of Eternity" 1988

"Pomme Douly and the Instant of Eternity" 1988

From: The Quebec Anthology

Jacob’s most recent book, Les Aventures de Pomme Douly (1988), is a collection of linked short stories depicting the somewhat chaotic life of a beautiful, intelligent, but directionless … 8 $0.48 Add
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Portrait of a Publisher
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Portrait of a Publisher

Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart in 1968

From: 1968 in Canada

Nineteen sixty-eight was a tremendously eventful year for publisher Jack McClelland and his publishing house, McClelland & Stewart. On the one hand, spurred by funding opportunities initiated … 19 $1.90 Add
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"Portraits of Elsa" 1990

"Portraits of Elsa" 1990

From: The Quebec Anthology

The story included here is the title story of Portraits d’Elsa et autres histoires, translated by David Homel. A remarkably subtle yet powerful story about the disappearance of the self, … 12 $0.72 Add
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Pour une convention multilaterale sur la culture

Pour une convention multilaterale sur la culture

From: The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle

Si les cultures du monde sont diverses, et elles le sont, si cette diversité constitue une valeur radicale, alors il faut en tirer les conséquences et lancer le grand chantier de … 6 $0.48 Add
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Pour une réinterprétation phénoménologique de la question de l'existence de Dieu

Pour une réinterprétation phénoménologique de la question de l’existence de Dieu

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

Il se trouve que la pertinence de la métaphysique est questionnée de façon radicale de toutes parts. Cette interrogation, voire cette contestation, qui touche à la … 25 $3.00 Add
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Preface

Preface

From: To Serve Canada

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Preface

Preface

From: Interpreters as Diplomats

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Professors in Place
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Professors in Place

From: The Elective Mind

The third section considers the role of professors in bringing an elective course and the curiosity, enthusiasm and desire for learning to life. 38 $3.80 Add
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Profiles of Interpreters

Profiles of Interpreters

From: The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation

(Interpreters’) different origins, careers and endeavorsbefore and after the trial are reflected in their extremely varied biographical sketches presented in this chapter, which attempt to … 23 $2.99 Add
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Prologue: Hospitality—Conditional and Unconditional

Prologue: Hospitality—Conditional and Unconditional

From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History

Kant’s understanding of hospitality raises a number of interesting questions. Although it is clear that his own definition considers the hospitality that we owe others to be conditional, … 8 $1.04 Add
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Protecting the Human Rights of People with Mental Health Disabilities in African Prisons

Protecting the Human Rights of People with Mental Health Disabilities in African Prisons

From: Colonial Systems of Control

It has been argued that the mentally ill are victims of two failed public policies: the failure of public officials to ensure an effective mental health system, and an overly ambitious criminal … 23 $2.30 Add
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Puritan Representation in Canonic Literature

Puritan Representation in Canonic Literature

From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

The following chapter will first provide an insight into two prototypes of literary representation of “purity” that define the Sabra and delimit the other. It will be followed by a … 21 $2.31 Add
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Qualitative Research Methods in Language Test Development and Validation

Qualitative Research Methods in Language Test Development and Validation

From: Language Testing Reconsidered

This chapter introduces readers to several qualitative research methods as they relate to language testing and assessment, namely: Discourse and Conversation Analysis, Observation Checklists and … ; 17 $1.70 Add
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Québécois Policy and the Development of the Information Highway

Québécois Policy and the Development of the Information Highway

From: Cyberidentities

The purpose of this article is to describe the Quebec government’s position with regard to the Internet. 4 $0.56 Add
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Real Universality as a Challenge to the Cosmopolitan Ideal

Real Universality as a Challenge to the Cosmopolitan Ideal

From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History

Through Kant’s idea that the intelligibility of the historical process as a whole should be grasped as revealing a "secret plan of Nature," he actually betrays, if not disdain … 19 $2.47 Add
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Recent Developments in the Russian Fisheries Sector

Recent Developments in the Russian Fisheries Sector

From: Russia and the North

Russian fisheries sector has earned a reputation as being inefficient, criminalized and unreformable. Official yearly catches are down to a third of the amounts produced towards the end of the … 20 $2.40 Add