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From  The Trans-Canada Highway vs The Information Highway: The Road Less Traveled?From: Cyberidentities |
There has been much written to support the metaphor of the highway being used to describe this massive undertaking to “wire” the world. Headlines such as: “Information’s … | Irwin Shubert | 6 | 1999 | $0.84 Add |
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From  Troublemaking and Risk-Taking: The North in Russian Military ActivitiesFrom: Russia and the North |
In the Russian tradition, development of the Far North goes hand in hand with its militarization. Currently, Moscow has reasons to assume that while it may be lagging behind in exploration and … | Pavel K. Baev | 18 | 2009 | $2.16 Add |
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From  "The Roussis’ Fire" 1872From: The Quebec Anthology |
"Le Feu des Roussi," translated here by Yves Brunelle as "The Roussis’ Fire," first appeared in two instalments in the journal L ‘Opinion publique in 1872 under … | Narcisse-Henri-Edouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice | 16 | 1997 | $0.96 Add |
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From  “Two Solitudes”? Anglo-Canadian Literature in Translation in the Two GermaniesFrom: Translating Canada |
The two Germanies that were reunited in 1990 had different ideological outlooks on English literatures and their dissemination. | Barbara Korte | 25 | 2007 | $2.50 Add |
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From  A Sports MythFrom: Myths We Live By |
Insofar as sport operates with these mythic perspectives, providing a way of orienting ourselves in time and even offering hints of eternity, it clearly functions with mythic overtones of … | Colin Grant | 20 | 1998 | $2.60 Add |
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From  A Very Canadian Revolution:The Transformation of Backroom Power in Canada's 1968 From: 1968 in Canada |
Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the embodiment of Canada’s 1960s: young, hip, and impatient with the status quo, he bounded onto the political scene with fresh ideas and an image to match. Voters in … | P. E. Bryden | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  An Evolution of the Penal System: Criminal Justice in Nigeria |
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 … | Viviane Saleh-Hanna | 14 | 2008 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Can Translation be Taught? |
Translation programs can help students to improve their translating skills. The foundation of schools of translation around the world suggests that this principie is accepted by a wide body of … | Allison Beeby-Lonsdale | 5 | 1996 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Citizenship, Statehood, and AllegianceFrom: Managing Diversity |
Citizenship is simply a legal category, a matter of law. It does not, in and of itself, carry any particular individual qualities or attributes, or, with one arguable exception, give rise to any … | Helen Irving | 31 | 2007 | $3.72 Add |
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From  Could the Hungarian Revolution Have Succeeded in 1956? Myths, Legends, and Illusions |
Whether it could have been otherwise is the most frequent and poignant question for contemporaries and posterity alike when a revolution or an uprising has failed. Was defeat inevitable, or might … | Csaba Békés | 21 | 2010 | $2.73 Add |
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From  Creating a Merit System: 1918-1944 |
This chapter will explore three themes that characterized the Civil Service Commission’s struggle to create a merit system that would find broad support among Canadians between the two … | Luc Juillet | 26 | 2008 | $2.60 Add |
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From Cross-Border Cooperation in the North: The Case of Northwest RussiaFrom: Russia and the North |
This chapter gives a brief overview of BEAR and the bilateral cooperation between Russia and Norway on fisheries managementand environmental protection, including nuclear safety, in the Barents … | Geir Hønneland | 18 | 2009 | $2.16 Add |
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From  Description of the Interepreting System |
The eyes of the world were pointed on the crowded Nuremberg courtroom, and for the first time in history they marveled at something unknown: simultaneous interpretation. | Francesca Gaiba | 35 | 1998 | $4.55 Add |
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From  NEW! Governance of the North American Arctic |
This chapter assesses our understanding of globalization within the North American Arctic in light of larger geopolitical concepts of security and border management, including consideration of … | Andrew Chater; Heather Nicol | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Imagining Nighttime Detroit |
In this essay, Darroch reflects upon the border cities of Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, which lend themselves to studying urban nighttime as both practiced and imagined across the … | Michael Darroch | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Indices of Citizenship |
There is a tension in citizenship discourse and, more to the point in daily public debate, conflict over the very meaning of the term. | David E. Smith | 12 | 2004 | $1.20 Add |
