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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Material Traces of War Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914-1945	Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914–1945, looks at how Canadian women experienced the world wars through objects, images, and archival documents. The book puts …	Krista Cooke; Molly McCullough; Stacey Barker	338	2021	View
Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx	Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these …	Réal Fillion	185	2008	View
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
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
Roman Ingarden’s Ontology and Aesthetics	A leading Polish philosopher of the 20th century, Roman Ingarden is principally renowned in Western culture for his work in aesthetics and the theory of literature. Jeff Mitscherling …	Jeff Mitsecherling	246	1997	View
Russia and the North	Russia holds more Arctic territory than any other state, yet unlike other Arctic states it does not have a unified strategy identifying economic and political aims for the North. Russia’s …	Elana Wilson Rowe	232	2009	View
Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature	Issues of sexuality, censorship, and self-censorship in the formation of national and cultural identities are a focus of great interest in contemporary literary research. This is the first work …	Nitsa Ben-Ari	423	2006	View
Teaching Translation from Spanish to English Worlds Beyond Words	While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view. In her innovative book, she …	Allison Beeby-Lonsdale	257	1996	View
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives	In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was …	Christopher Adam; Tibor Egervari	306	2010	View
The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century – La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle	In this collection of essays some of Canada’s foremost writers and thinkers, including John Ralston Saul and Margaret Atwood, call for equilibrium among economics, culture, and …	Chad Gaffield; Karen Gould	335	2003	View
NEW! The Elective Mind Philosophy and the Undergraduate Degree	This book discusses the relevance of philosophy courses within the undergraduate curriculum as integral to the self-formation that is at the heart of a liberal education. The objective is to …	Réal Fillion	164	2021	View
The New Geo-Governance A Baroque Approach	Over the last few decades, the Westphalian nation-state has lost its hegemonic position in the system of geo-governance. A dispersive revolution has led to the emergence of powerful newly …	Gilles Paquet	362	2005	View
The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation The Nuremberg Trial	This book offers the first complete analysis of the emergence of simultaneous interpretation a the Nuremburg Trail and the individuals who made the process possible. Francesca Gaiba offers new …	Francesca Gaiba	191	1998	View
The Quebec Anthology 1830-1990	The Quebec Anthology: 1830-1990 provides a complete overview of the Quebec short story from its beginnings to the 1990s and offers a unique opportunity for English readers to discover the essence …	Matt Cohen	427	1997	View
To Serve Canada A History of the Royal Military College of Canada	During the four decades following the Second World War, the Royal Military College of Canada has adapted to the need to produce professional career officers by evolving into an academic centre of …	Richard Preston	267	1991	View
Translating Canada	In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this patronage of …	Luise von Flotow; Reingard M. Nischik	351	2007	View