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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Selfless Service Women and Volunteering in Wartime From: Material Traces of War View	In both world wars, volunteering was arguably the most socially acceptable manner for women to support the war effort. This chapter includes a number of stories of individuals whose contributions …	Krista Cooke; Molly McCullough; Stacey Barker	54	2021	$5.40 Add
From Semi-automatic Corpus Construction from Informative Texts From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation View	Constructing a corpus is the first step in the process of building a terminological knowledge base (TKB). To do so, terminologists face the difficult task of finding informative domain-specific …	Barriè Caroline re	12	2006	$1.68 Add
From Sentences in Context From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English View	Teaching units 5 to 10: Sentences out of context I, Sentences out of context II, Imagining contexts – Registers, Imagining contexts and readers, Comic strips and Textual Interaction.	Allison Beeby-Lonsdale	22	1996	$2.64 Add
From NEW! Sephardim, Hasidim, and New Political Realities, 1960–1995 From: History of the Jews in Quebec View	This chapter looks at language and culture and the Jewish population of Montreal; it examines the pushes for the cultural and economic integration of this population during this period. Both the …	Pierre Anctil	57	2021	$5.70 Add
From Serving Personnel at RMC From: To Serve Canada View	This chapter outlines the introduction into the RMC course of personnel already serving in the armed forces with and without commissions.	Richard Preston	13	1991	$1.69 Add
From Sheila Watson, Aboriginal Discourse, and Cosmopolitan Modernism From: The Canadian Modernists Meet	Sheila Watson’s work has been insightfully discussed in both modernist and postmodernist terms. This essay will aim to enhance our understanding of the influence of cosmopolitan modernism …	Glenn Willmott	16	2005	$1.44 Add
From Shifting Professional Boundaries: Gender Conflict in Public Health, 1920-1925 From: Caring and Curing View	Conflict and contradictions were inevitable as public health nurses and physicians attempted to work together.	Meryn Stuart	21	1994	$2.31 Add
From NEW! Sight and Site on the Line The Cultural Imaginary of Borderlands in North America From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization View	This chapter considers contemporary art and media projects located in North American border regions in the last decade and their role as critical practices and forms of translocal resistance …	Lee Rodney	22	2021	$2.20 Add
From Smart Communities and the Geo-governance of Social Learning From: The New Geo-Governance View	Smart communities are creating new geo-governance challenges: they require a new form of governance and leadership if they are to yield their promised returns, and this will only emerge in action …	Gilles Paquet	19	2005	$1.71 Add
From Social Learning, Collaborative Governance, and the Strategic State From: The New Geo-Governance View	The strategic state undoubtedly has a role to play in jump-starting, catalyzing, and steering the process of social learning, while allowing the other two domains (the private and civic sectors) …	Gilles Paquet	18	2005	$1.62 Add
From NEW! Sport, Globalization, and the Bordering Process The Iroqouis Nationals Lacrosse Team and the Issue of Contested National Identities From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization View	This essay focuses on the struggle of Indigenous communities to assert their identity(ies) within a contested northeastern borderland and under the influence of the globalizing processes …	Heidi Weigand and Colin Howell	16	2021	$1.60 Add
From St. Thomas and thé Existence of God: Owens vs Gilson, and Beyond From: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique View	In this paper I wish to present and explore one disagreement, that between Joseph Owens and Etienne Gilson. Here we have two philosophers who worked closely together in Toronto, who surely agree …	Lawrence Derwan	27	1999	$3.24 Add
From NEW! Standing on Guard for Our Waters Ottawa's Response to the Transit of Alaskan Oil From: 1968 in Canada View	The discovery of massive quantities of recoverable oil on the north slope of Alaska in July 1968 and competing shipping alternatives to transit the hydrocarbons south, through or adjacent to …	Christopher Kirkey	25	2021	$2.50 Add
From States, Communities, and Markets: The Distributed Governance Scenario From: The New Geo-Governance View	In the face of this new emerging institutional order, the whole difference between the perspectives of the optimist and the pessimist hinges on the extent to which one believes in the …	Gilles Paquet	14	2005	$1.26 Add
From Stolen Sisters’: Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women as Represented in Canadian Films From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited View	In spite of cautious improvements, the situation of many Aboriginal women face is still appalling, and the report reveals cases of sexually assaulted, missing, and/or brutally murdered Aboriginal …	Kerstin Knopf	36	2008	$3.60 Add
From Struggling to Defend Political Neutrality: 1979-2006 From: Defending a Contested Ideal View	This chapter will recount the debates of the last few decades about the principle of the political neutrality of the public service and the events that challenged the traditional norms and …	Ken Rasmussen; Luc Juillet	28	2008	$2.80 Add