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Alvin Plantinga's Slip

Alvin Plantinga’s Slip

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

All inquiry, they say, is carried on within the framework of a presupposed set of principles that determine, for instance, what is to count as being reasonable grounds for what. Therefore, they … 9 $1.08 Add
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An Ecology Myth

An Ecology Myth

From: Myths We Live By

In posing issues of life and death in a particularly dramatic way, the ecology crisis may be posing the issue of our fundamental mythic allegiance today more forcefully than does any other area. 17 $2.21 Add
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An Evaluation Methodology for Comparing Two Approaches to Search and Retrieval in Translation Memory Databases

An Evaluation Methodology for Comparing Two Approaches to Search and Retrieval in Translation Memory Databases

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

The methodology provides a valid and reliable comparison of the two approaches to searching for and retrieving information from a database. 11 $1.54 Add
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An Evolution of the Penal System: Criminal Justice in Nigeria

An Evolution of the Penal System: Criminal Justice in Nigeria

From: Colonial Systems of Control

This chapter looks at the historical circumstances that came together to implement the Nigerian Prison Service and how they have affected its performance. What challenges has the institution been … ; 14 $1.40 Add
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“An Unselfish Interest?”: Canada and the Hungarian Revolution, 1954–1957

“An Unselfish Interest?”: Canada and the Hungarian Revolution, 1954–1957

From: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

Hungarian revolution had important implications for Canadian foreign policy. This paper explores Canada’s nuanced diplomatic reaction to the crisis against the backdrop of Ottawa’s … 19 $2.47 Add
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Another Face of Slavery

Another Face of Slavery

From: Colonial Systems of Control

After the abolition of slavery and the slave trade towards the end of the eighteenth century, people around the world, particularly the black race, were gladdened in body and in mind because it … 6 $0.60 Add
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Anselm's Proof and Some Problems of Meaning and Reference

Anselm’s Proof and Some Problems of Meaning and Reference

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

What exists necessarily in the strongest sense of necessarily is surely what could not under any circumstances fail to exist. And such an entity must be compatible with anything else which could … 17 $2.04 Add
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Anti-terrorism in North America: Is There Convergence or Divergence in Canadian and US Legislative Responses to 9/11 and the US-Canada Border?

Anti-terrorism in North America: Is There Convergence or Divergence in Canadian and US Legislative Responses to 9/11 and the US-Canada Border?

From: Borderlands

This chapter underlines arguments for increasing the legislative and policy convergence that exists between Canada and the United States in the area of security, particularly border security, a … 34 $2.72 Add
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Antonine Maillet in German: A Case Study

Antonine Maillet in German: A Case Study

From: Translating Canada

The Goncourt Prize always ensures international interest. In German-speaking countries, this particular award did not, however, garner much interest, nor did it lead to a German translation of … 9 $0.90 Add
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Appendix: Conference Notes

Appendix: Conference Notes

From: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

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Arrival and Reception: Hungarian Refugees, 1956–1957

Arrival and Reception: Hungarian Refugees, 1956–1957

From: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

The government of Canada is well organized to recruit, screen, transport, and receive large numbers of immigrants. The situation was not different in the mid-1950s. In 1956, 165,000 immigrants … 33 $4.29 Add
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Artists' Behaviour in the First Decade

Artists’ Behaviour in the First Decade

From: Accounting for Culture

The concept of cultural citizenship will only be useful if the public understands and embraces it. The first question artists will ask is whether or not they belong to a specific culture. Time … 7 $0.84 Add
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As for Me and My Blueprint: Sinclair Ross's Debt to Arthur Stringer

As for Me and My Blueprint: Sinclair Ross’s Debt to Arthur Stringer

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

Critics have often called Sinclair Ross’s As For Me and My House a pivotal text in our literature. […] Ross’s novel has certainly been the subject of some of Canada’s most … 22 $1.98 Add
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Assessing Academic English Language Proficiency: 40+ years of U.K. Language Tests

Assessing Academic English Language Proficiency: 40+ years of U.K. Language Tests

From: Language Testing Reconsidered

The paper offers an explanatory account of the progress of academic language proficiency testing in the U.K. (and later Australia) from the British Council’s English Proficiency Test … 14 $1.40 Add
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Attempts at Constructing an Erotic/Sexual Repertoire

Attempts at Constructing an Erotic/Sexual Repertoire

From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

Building an erotic repertoire, be it lexical or literary, was especially problematic in a language developing in such anomalous conditions and in a period that swept erotica aside to the … 45 $4.95 Add
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"Back on April Eleventh" 1969

"Back on April Eleventh" 1969

From: The Quebec Anthology

"De retour le 11 avril," translated by Alan Brown as "Back on April Eleventh," first appeared in Liberté in the March-April 1969 issue, and was later reprinted in Point … 13 $0.78 Add