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From  NEW! Meeting PlaceSocrates in the Agora From: The Elective Mind |
The first section discusses how learning requires a willingness to seek out and be transformed by truth and that the elective classroom is a space where that can still happen. She explores how … | Réal Fillion | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
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From  National Identity and Global Migration: Listening to the “Pariahs”From: Managing Diversity |
If we live in a world of the absolute Other, peopled by individuals whose histories have not been ours but with whom we must live in peace and harmony, we will have to accept each other much more … | Alastair Davidson | 19 | 2007 | $2.28 Add |
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From  Obscene Literature: Norms and Laws |
This chapter will discuss the introduction of modern obscenity laws; that is, formal censorship of the erotic, with special focus on the intricate relationship between laws and norms, formal … | Nitsa Ben-Ari | 30 | 2006 | $3.30 Add |
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From  On Second Thoughts |
An elderly student of language testing recalls some of the events in his career, attempting to relate them to current issues, and touching on such topics as overall language proficiency, the … | Bernard Spolsky | 10 | 2007 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Penal Coloniality |
Within contemporary African society and the diaspora there is an understanding that colonialism has transformed into neocolonialism. | Viviane Saleh-Hanna | 38 | 2008 | $3.80 Add |
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From  Perspectives on the Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century |
Introduction | Chad Gaffield | 4 | 2003 | $0.32 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: To Serve Canada |
Preface | Richard Preston | 5 | 1991 | $0.65 Add |
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From  Preface |
Preface | Ruth Roland | 2 | 1999 | $0.26 Add |
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From  NEW! Sight and Site on the LineThe Cultural Imaginary of Borderlands in North America |
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 |
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From  Telling Canada’s “Story” in German: Using Cultural Diplomacy to Achieve Soft PowerFrom: Translating Canada |
We want to understand why certain texts are selected for translation and why others are left aside. Which aesthetic, economic, or ideological considerations enter into the selection process? In … | Luise von Flotow | 18 | 2007 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! That Men May FightWomen and Military Service during the World Wars From: Material Traces of War |
This chapter describes what some Canadian women did in the military along with how they pushed and lobbied for expanded roles. From military nurses in both wars, to paramilitary auxiliary corps, … | Krista Cooke; Molly McCullough; Stacey Barker | 71 | 2021 | $7.10 Add |
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From  The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Causes, Aims, and Course of Events |
On October 23, 1956, a revolution broke out in Budapest and spread all over the country in just a few days. The demonstrators, strikers, armed insurgents, leaders of the organizations of the … | János M. Rainer | 20 | 2010 | $2.60 Add |
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From  The Importance of Prose Translation |
No one would deny the difficulties involved in translating into a foreign language, and yet it is a possibility. The practice is necessary in most countries. This has always been the case, and it … | Allison Beeby-Lonsdale | 4 | 1996 | $0.48 Add |
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From  The Maritime Borders of Europe: Upstream Migratory ControlsFrom: Borderlands |
This chapter explores the migration-monitoring devices that were set up in the 1990s surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. | Olivier Clochard | 22 | 2007 | $1.76 Add |
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From  The Origins of the Public Service Commission: 1867-1918 |
The Public Service Commission today is the legitimate heir to the civil service reform movement of the 19th century, which dedicated its efforts to creating an independent public service that … | Luc Juillet | 30 | 2008 | $3.00 Add |
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From  The Semantic Apparatus of Guy Miège’s New Dictionary French and English, with Another English and French |
In the following pages, we will look at the work of one specific lexicographer, Guy Miìge. Miìge’s first bilingual dictionary, entitled A New Dictionary French and English, … | Aline Francoeur | 12 | 2006 | $1.68 Add |
