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Dorothy Livesay, the "Housewife," and the Radio in 1951: Modernist Embodiments of Audience

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

When radio programming began in the early 1920s, radio’s disembodied voice suggested to the public a live announcer’s or entertainer’s spatial proximity yet simultaneously drew … 24 $2.16 Add
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Features of a Governance Regime for Oceans

From: The New Geo-Governance

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Canada’s marine dominion underpins numerous industries including commercial fishing, aquaculture, transport, shipbuilding, tourism, mining, and oil and gas extraction. Access to the oceans … 34 $3.06 Add
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First Sabra Pornographic Novel: Dahn Ben-Amotz’s Screwing Isn’t Everything

From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

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In view of the ban (normative more than legislative) on erotica in the canonic Sabra culture, this chapter will describe the attempt to build an erotic repertoire, lingual and literary, in the margins. 18 $1.98 Add
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Humorous Restorifications: Rewriting History with Healing Laughter

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

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Canada’s Indigenous "colours" have started to "bleed through," as increasing numbers of Native writers "paint" Native people back into the picture. This … 26 $2.60 Add
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Just Showing Up

Social and Cultural Capital in Everyday Life

From: Accounting for Culture

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A synthesis of current knowledge about social and cultural capital and their relationship to questions of citizenship. 22 $2.64 Add
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Le Dieu indémontrable et indubitable de Kant

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

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L’existence de Dieu est aussi indubitable qu’elle est indémontable. Elle est indémontrable parce qu’elle est indubitable. 21 $2.52 Add
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Managing US-Mexico Transborder Cooperation on Local Security Issues and the Canadian Relationship

From: Borderlands

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This chapter analyzes some concerns and challenges for US-Mexico cross-border cooperation on security issues, with particular emphasis on the experience of the San Diego-Tijuana region. 17 $1.36 Add
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Meaningful Myth

From: Myths We Live By

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There are indications of an increasing recognition of our self-conscious involvement in myth in the sense of basic perspectives and priorities that shape life for us. But this living sense of … 10 $1.30 Add
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Portrait of a Publisher

Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart in 1968

From: 1968 in Canada

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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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Teledemocracy in the Province: An Experiment with Internet-Based Software and Public Debate

From: Cyberidentities

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The experiment with Besliswijzer provided an opportunity to explore the possible contribution that a new communication technology could have on citizen involvement in political debate. ; ; ; 12 $1.68 Add
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The 1956-1957 Refugee Movement in the Context of Hungarian Immigration to Canada since the Late 19th Century

From: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

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The main purpose of this paper is to examine the 1956 refugee experience, place it in the context of a century and a half of Hungarian immigration to Canada, and establish to what extent and in … 29 $3.77 Add
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The Canadian Defence Educational Establishments and Canadian Military Professionalism in RMC

From: To Serve Canada

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The Department of National Defence transforms the ad hoc Officer Development Board into a permanent agency, the Canadian Defence Educational Establishments. CDEE was expected to carry out General … 17 $2.21 Add
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The Doctrine of Corroboration in Sexual Assault Trials in Early 20th Century Canada and Australia

From: From Subjects to Citizens

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This paper seeks to determine what the law of sexual assault in the early twentieth century illustrates about the similarity and distinctiveness of Canadian and Australian legal traditions. 37 $3.70 Add
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The System I Have Come to Know

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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I was arrested on April 17,1992. I was taken to the Lagos State Police Command in Ikeja, where I was hung like a monkey from the ceiling, with my hands holding up the rest of my body. 3 $0.30 Add
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The Teaching Context

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

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Having compared student translator competence with ideal translator competence within the teaching context, it is now possible to adapt the list of general translation teaching objectives to the … 4 $0.48 Add
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Translated or Traduced? Canadian Literary and Political Theory in a German Context: Northrop Frye, Michael Ignatieff, and Charles Taylor

From: Translating Canada

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This chapter reveals that the importation, translation, marketing, and reception of English Canadian children’s literature in Germany have been governed by two major principles: first, up … 31 $3.10 Add