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A Sports Myth

A Sports Myth

From: Myths We Live By

Insofar as sport operates with these mythic perspectives, providing a way of orienting ourselves in time and even offering hints of eternity, it clearly functions with mythic overtones of … 20 $2.60 Add
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A Translation (Text)

A Translation (Text)

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

A systematic attempt to apply semantic and pragmatic analyses to a Spanish text and to show how the semantic and pragmatic macrostructural constraints influence the morphosyntactic and lexical … 30 $3.60 Add
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A Tribute to Solidarity: My Oasis

A Tribute to Solidarity: My Oasis

From: Colonial Systems of Control

Prisoners are rejected people, abandoned by society and ignored by the world as a whole. Social discomfort with the unknown leaves those ” tagged” as prisoners to become the … 6 $0.60 Add
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A Two-Year Military Training Course or a Degree?

A Two-Year Military Training Course or a Degree?

From: To Serve Canada

Academic Policy and the Regular Officer Training Plan (ROTP). 17 $2.21 Add
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A Values Myth

A Values Myth

From: Myths We Live By

Talk of values may be a way of fooling ourselves into thinking we are dealing with something substantial when there is really no substance at all except whatever we choose to inject. 13 $1.69 Add
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A Very Canadian Revolution:

A Very Canadian Revolution:

The Transformation of Backroom Power in Canada's 1968

From: 1968 in Canada

Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the embodiment of Canada’s 1960s: young, hip, and impatient with the status quo, he bounded onto the political scene with fresh ideas and an image to match. Voters in … 17 $1.70 Add
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"a widening of the northern coterie":The Cross-Border Cultural Politics of Ezra Pound, Marshall McLuhan, and Louis Dudek

"a widening of the northern coterie":The Cross-Border Cultural Politics of Ezra Pound, Marshall McLuhan, and Louis Dudek

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

There is no better measure of the ambiguity surrounding Canadian modernism than the fact that the only uncontested understanding shared by critics on the matter is an almost universal familiarity … 25 $2.25 Add
Aboriginal Canada Revisited

Aboriginal Canada Revisited

Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film— Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and … 437 View
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Aboriginal Child Welfare: Symbolic Battleground in the News Media

Aboriginal Child Welfare: Symbolic Battleground in the News Media

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

Over the last three decades, dozens of First Nations have negotiated the devolution of delegated responsibility for child welfare, and many more are in the process of negotiating such agreements. … 39 $3.90 Add
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Aboriginal Peoples in the Twenty-first Century: A Plea for Realism

Aboriginal Peoples in the Twenty-first Century: A Plea for Realism

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

This paper has a single objective – to clarify the debate about how Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples are to live together in the future. 30 $2.40 Add
Accounting for Culture

Accounting for Culture

Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship

Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved … ; ; ; 286 View
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Achieving Objectives

Achieving Objectives

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

The aim of this methodology is to teach a skill—translating. As has already been stressed, the translation class is above all a practical class, and yet the students have to understand the … 5 $0.60 Add
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Across Borders and Cultures
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Across Borders and Cultures

Thomas King's Artistic Activism

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

This chapter analyzes works by Thomas King in terms of their diverse cultural expressions, border representations, and identity negotiations in figurative borderlands settings. It draws on ideas … 22 $2.20 Add
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Advancing Canada's Information Highway: Strategies for the New Millennium

Advancing Canada’s Information Highway: Strategies for the New Millennium

From: Cyberidentities

This paper outlines the work of the Information Highway Advisory Council and its vision for the knowledge-based society. ; 14 $1.96 Add
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Afterword: The Intersection of Northern and National Policies

Afterword: The Intersection of Northern and National Policies

From: Russia and the North

Afterword 7 $0.84 Add
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Alternatives to Imprisonment: Community Service Orders in Africa

Alternatives to Imprisonment: Community Service Orders in Africa

From: Colonial Systems of Control

The concept and implementation of community service orders are presented as a practical alternative to imprisonment. The chapter also puts forward the rationale for the call for more viable and … 15 $1.50 Add