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The Meaning of Myth

From: Myths We Live By

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To appreciate myth in this comprehensive and engaging sense, we have to get away from the popular equation of myth with falsehood, and we must distinguish the personal sense of myth from the … 17 $2.21 Add
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"New Styles of Architecture, a Change of Heart"? The Architexts of A.M. Klein and ER. Scott

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

In view of the central role that architecture has always played as an embodiment and signal of change in Western culture, it is scarcely, if at all, surprising that Canada’s modern poets … 42 $3.78 Add
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"The Three Devils, or, All’s Well That Ends Well" 1867

From: The Quebec Anthology

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"Les trois diables," translated by Wayne Grady as "The Three Devils," first appeared in Contes populaires and was one of Stevens’s more successful stories. It is typical … 14 $0.84 Add
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A Science Myth

From: Myths We Live By

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Science itself may now be somewhat facing this problematic fate because of the ecologically destructive side effects of technological processes. 28 $3.64 Add
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A Sketch of Ingarden’s Life, Career, and Works

From: Roman Ingarden's Ontology and Aesthetics

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A Chronological Overview of Ingarden’s Life and Major Publications 32 $3.52 Add
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Before the Trial

From: The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation

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This chapter explores the path leading to the invention of simultaneous interpretation, the decision to use it and its installation in the courtroom. It provides a brief historical description of … 33 $4.29 Add
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Bobby and Pierre

From: 1968 in Canada

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In the spring of 1968, the political campaigns of Robert Kennedy in the United States and Pierre Trudeau in Canada generated wild crowd scenes featuring passionate adoration of the candidates. … 23 $2.30 Add
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Citizenship and Subject-Hood in 20th Century Australia

From: From Subjects to Citizens

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Australians were "subjects" before they were citizens. For almost the first fifty years after the Federation of the Australian colonies in 1901, they were – at least in law … 10 $1.00 Add
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De-colonizing Canadian Aboriginal Health and Social Services from the Inside Out: A Case Study – The Ahousaht Holistic Society

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

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This paper is a product of my observation of and participation in a decolonizing process that involved the creation of the Ahousaht Holistic Society in British Columbia and describes some of my … 20 $2.00 Add
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Forerunners and Founders, 1627–1900

From: History of the Jews in Quebec

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This chapter outlines the context for the emergence of a Jewish presence in Quebec; it examines where the Jewish population in Quebec came from, their integration, and the challenge of … 52 $5.20 Add
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From Indicators to Governance to the Mainstream

Tools for Cultural Policy and Citizenship

From: Accounting for Culture

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Discusses the need to move along and up the "knowledge value chain" from data (statistics), to information (indicators), to knowledge (benchmarks), to wisdom (policy). 12 $1.44 Add
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God and Argument: Strong and Weak Theories of Existence

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

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In discussing the relation of ‘God and Argument,’ it is best to begin with a few fundamentals. So I will offer here some reflections on the philosophical treatment of existence and … 9 $1.08 Add
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Helpers or Heroines? The National Council of Women, Nursing, and "Woman’s Work" in Late Victorian Canada

From: Caring and Curing

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The National Council of Women, Nursing, and "Woman’s work" in Late Victorian Canada 32 $3.52 Add
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Institutional Evolution in the Information Age

From: The New Geo-Governance

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This chapter examines the ways in which the institutional order has been reconfigured, and the likely consequences of this mutation. 21 $1.89 Add
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Kant and the Cosmopolitan Point of View

From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History

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For Kant, a position that enables us to consider the whole of history can be found if we adopt a cosmopolitan point of view. The idea of cosmopolitanism is quite popular at the present time … 18 $2.34 Add
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Lines on the Land and Sea

From: North America's Arctic Borders

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This chapter is an exploration of the historical definition of land and maritime boundaries in the North American North, as well as the related disputes that followed their delineation, … ; 22 $2.20 Add