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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Ingarden’s Interpretation of Husserl From: Roman Ingarden's Ontology and Aesthetics View	This chapter offers a critical examination of Ingarden’s interpretation of Husserl as a ‘metaphysical idealist’.	Jeff Mitsecherling	38	1997	$4.18 Add
From Mapping Raymond Souster’s Toronto From: The Canadian Modernists Meet	That the city is an essential component of literary modernism—as image, as site, as trope—has long been accepted in modernist studies. […]Yet, in the Canadian context of …	Stephen Cain	17	2005	$1.53 Add
From Moral Enforcement in Israel From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature View	The purpose of the following chapter is to examine whether it was formal censorship or rather self-inflicted subordination to normative pressure that was responsible for the repression of the …	Nitsa Ben-Ari	29	2006	$3.19 Add
From On Being Certain About thé Existence of God From: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique View	Proofs far less elaborate than demonstrations can be enough for theoretical certainty, though even such proofs (beyond reasonable doubt, by clear and convincing evidence or prepondérance of …	James F. Ross	11	1999	$1.32 Add
From On the (Information) Highway: So Is This a Journey or What? From: Cyberidentities View	As we go from the bound and bounded book to the technologies that give us hypertext, we move from containment to expansion. The debate about what we call postmodernism focuses on that alteration. …	Robert Kroetsch	8	1999	$1.12 Add
From NEW! Placing the Text From: The Elective Mind View	The second section considers why and how the university classroom can provide a place for learning and transformation, as well as the role of texts in the classroom.	Réal Fillion	30	2021	$3.00 Add
From Real Universality as a Challenge to the Cosmopolitan Ideal From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History View	Through Kant’s idea that the intelligibility of the historical process as a whole should be grasped as revealing a "secret plan of Nature," he actually betrays, if not disdain …	Réal Fillion	19	2008	$2.47 Add
From Relevance in Dictionary Making: Sense Indicators in the Bilingual Entry From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation View	Lexicographic relevance became a hot topic with the development of the text corpus: this is now, for many lexicographers, the principal source of information about their headwords.	Beryl T. Sue Atkins	19	2006	$2.66 Add
From NEW! Selfless Service Women and Volunteering in Wartime From: Material Traces of War View	In both world wars, volunteering was arguably the most socially acceptable manner for women to support the war effort. This chapter includes a number of stories of individuals whose contributions …	Krista Cooke; Molly McCullough; Stacey Barker	54	2021	$5.40 Add
From Shifting Professional Boundaries: Gender Conflict in Public Health, 1920-1925 From: Caring and Curing View	Conflict and contradictions were inevitable as public health nurses and physicians attempted to work together.	Meryn Stuart	21	1994	$2.31 Add
From States, Communities, and Markets: The Distributed Governance Scenario From: The New Geo-Governance View	In the face of this new emerging institutional order, the whole difference between the perspectives of the optimist and the pessimist hinges on the extent to which one believes in the …	Gilles Paquet	14	2005	$1.26 Add
From The Challenge of (Diagnostic) Testing: Do We Know What We Are Measuring? From: Language Testing Reconsidered View	The language testing literature is confused about the nature of diagnostic tests. Diagnosis is a frequently used but under-problematized concept and a debate is needed that might lead to a …	J. Charles Alderson	19	2007	$1.90 Add
From The Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada: A Case Study of Aboriginal Health From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited View	In his final report, issued in 2002, Romanow, among other things, addressed the health status of Aboriginal people in Canada (First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples). His recommendations, and …	Falko Brede	22	2008	$2.20 Add
From NEW! The Great Jewish Migration, 1900–1919 From: History of the Jews in Quebec View	This chapter examines early Eastern European and Jewish immigration to Quebec (and specifically Montreal), the reasons why Jewish immigrants to Canada were concentrated in Montreal, …	Pierre Anctil	49	2021	$4.90 Add
From The Inclusive Shape of Complexity From: The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle View	At this time, all of us —just about everywhere in the world, especially in democracies or countries where the free market prevails—are victims of what could be called the Tristan and …	John Ralston Saul	15	2003	$1.20 Add
From The Linguist of Ancient and Medieval Days From: Interpreters as Diplomats View	As anthropologists know, even the most primitive of peoples maintained an intertribal communication which must be deemed an elementary form of diplomacy. But since not all tribes spoke the same …	Ruth Roland	31	1999	$4.03 Add