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Contemporary Success Stories
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Contemporary Success Stories

From: History of the Jews in Quebec

This chapter looks at the roots of contemporary Jewish identity in Quebec society. 51 $5.10 Add
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Controversy Over the Existence of the World

Controversy Over the Existence of the World

From: Roman Ingarden's Ontology and Aesthetics

An examination of several of Controversy’s central existential-ontological and formal-ontological investigations. 43 $4.73 Add
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Corpora and Translation

Corpora and Translation

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

Beginning with the word processors and the term banks of the 1970s, translators have turned to computers for assistance with at least three different tasks: documentary and terminological … ; ; 14 $1.96 Add
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Could the Hungarian Revolution Have Succeeded in 1956? Myths, Legends, and Illusions

Could the Hungarian Revolution Have Succeeded in 1956? Myths, Legends, and Illusions

From: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

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 … 21 $2.73 Add
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Creating a Merit System: 1918-1944

Creating a Merit System: 1918-1944

From: Defending a Contested Ideal

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 … ; 26 $2.60 Add
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Creative Pique

Creative Pique

On Governance and Engagement in the Cultural Sector

From: Accounting for Culture

Examines the nature and functioning of non-hierarchical relationships and the means of working towards effective co-ordination when power, resources, and information are highly distributed across … ; 20 $2.40 Add
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Criticizing Translations: The Notion of Disparity

Criticizing Translations: The Notion of Disparity

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

Criticizing a literary translation is not about making subjective value judgments, nor about conveying a feeling, an impression, a pleasure in the reading. On the contrary, it is about performing … 15 $2.10 Add
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Cross-Border Cooperation in the North: The Case of Northwest Russia

Cross-Border Cooperation in the North: The Case of Northwest Russia

From: 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 … 18 $2.16 Add
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Cultural Indicators and Benchmarks in Community Indicator Projects

Cultural Indicators and Benchmarks in Community Indicator Projects

From: Accounting for Culture

The presence of cultural indicators in community indicator projects has evolved from isolated scenes characterized by fledgling, pioneering attempts to that of an emerging field and more … 16 $1.92 Add
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Cultural Participation

Cultural Participation

A Fuzzy Cultural Policy Paradigm

From: Accounting for Culture

Argues that "cultural participation" should be a basic building block of cultural citizenship, suggesting that the term is better thought of as a means but not an end of citizenship and … 23 $2.76 Add
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Culture, Globalization, and Canada's Borders
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Culture, Globalization, and Canada’s Borders

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

In the introduction, the editors of the volume outline and discuss the essays that follow. The first group of essays deals with "border culture" and the second with borders and cultures … 30 $3.00 Add
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Culture of the Arctic Borderlands
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Culture of the Arctic Borderlands

From: North America's Arctic Borders

Chapter 4 continues the theme of subnational actors and Indigenous governance, examining the implications of border delineation for Indigenous Peoples and cultures within the Canadian and … ; 23 $2.30 Add
Cyberidentities

Cyberidentities

Canadian and European Presence in Cyberspace

This innovative study explores diverse aspects of Canadian and European identity on the information highway and reaches beyond technical issues to confront and explore communication, culture and … 220 View
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De-colonizing Canadian Aboriginal Health and Social Services from the Inside Out: A Case Study - The Ahousaht Holistic Society

De-colonizing Canadian Aboriginal Health and Social Services from the Inside Out: A Case Study – The Ahousaht Holistic Society

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

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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Debating Citizenship in Canada: The Collide of Two Nation-Building Projects

Debating Citizenship in Canada: The Collide of Two Nation-Building Projects

From: From Subjects to Citizens

In Canada, debates on citizenship take on the important issue of symbolism. These debates are framed by a context in which the legitimacy of the society to which citizenship refers is contested, … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Decolonizing the Mind': Drew Hayden Taylor's Play with the Semantics of Irony in Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth

Decolonizing the Mind’: Drew Hayden Taylor’s Play with the Semantics of Irony in Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

Like all culture, Native (Canadian) culture is not static. Native (Canadian) writing, as an expression of Native (Canadian) cultures, likewise, continues to develop. Some writers tell stories in … 22 $2.20 Add