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"Deeply Regret to Inform you"
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"Deeply Regret to Inform you"

Women, Worry, and Loss

From: Material Traces of War

This chapter looks at the stress and anguish that was women’s persistent and most commonly shared experience of the world wars. Here, the authors consider objects that suggest women’s … ; ; 54 $5.40 Add
Defending a Contested Ideal

Defending a Contested Ideal

Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008

In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, … ; 265 View
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Defending Indigenous Rights against the Just Society
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Defending Indigenous Rights against the Just Society

From: 1968 in Canada

This chapter traces the historical importance of, and interrelations between, developments in federal “Indian policy” and investments in fossil fuel extraction, and Indigenous … 27 $2.70 Add
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Deliberative Democracy and the People: The Australian Experience

Deliberative Democracy and the People: The Australian Experience

From: From Subjects to Citizens

This paper will explore the notion of the people and their manifestations in the evolving deliberative democracy. While this topic can be explored from any number of avenues, the approach of this … 16 $1.60 Add
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Description of the Interepreting System

Description of the Interepreting System

From: The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation

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. 35 $4.55 Add
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Deverbalization

Deverbalization

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

Teaching units 11 to 17: Intersemiotic translation, Oral summary of oral text, Oral translation of oral text, Subtitling, Conversation interpreting – Role play, Police and court … 26 $3.12 Add
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Dorothy Livesay, the "Housewife," and the Radio in 1951: Modernist Embodiments of Audience

Dorothy Livesay, the "Housewife," and the Radio in 1951: Modernist Embodiments of Audience

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

When radio programming began in the early 1920s, radio’s disembodied voice suggested to the public a live announcer’s or entertainer’s spatial proximity yet simultaneously drew … 24 $2.16 Add
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East-West Confrontation: China, Japan, India

East-West Confrontation: China, Japan, India

From: Interpreters as Diplomats

Infinitely harder to surmount are the psychological and cultural differences, of which language is a mere reflection. 38 $4.94 Add
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Ecologies of Governance as Social Technologies

Ecologies of Governance as Social Technologies

From: The New Geo-Governance

It is most effective to partition the problem into compartments, and to put in place ecologies of governance making the highest and best use—in an eclectic way—of all the possible … 12 $1.08 Add
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Electronic Commerce Policy and the European Commission

Electronic Commerce Policy and the European Commission

From: Cyberidentities

During the last year significant progress has been achieved in mapping out the issues in global electronic commerce, and even in reaching a certain degree of consensus on principles between major … 5 $0.70 Add
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Elizabeth Smart and Cecil Buller: Engendering Experimental Modernism

Elizabeth Smart and Cecil Buller: Engendering Experimental Modernism

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

It is is because of their gender-inflected approach to the world, the body, and systems of signs that both were led to question the poetics of impersonality and the aesthetics of purity of their … 29 $2.61 Add
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Epilogue - Interpreting After the Trial

Epilogue – Interpreting After the Trial

From: The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation

As a result of its use at Nuremberg, simultaneous interpretation spread to the United Nations in New York and to every major international conference. 6 $0.78 Add
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Equality, Equity, and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
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Equality, Equity, and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women

From: 1968 in Canada

In 1968, Canadian women addressed women’s equality in the spotlight of a royal commission’s public hearing process. Predominantly white, married women spoke truth to power in … 22 $2.20 Add
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Europe and the New World, to 1919

Europe and the New World, to 1919

From: Interpreters as Diplomats

We have seen how bilingual Greek scholars, steeped in Byzantine diplomatic lore, relocated to the four corners of Europe and, in the greatest numbers, to Venice. From them the Venetians learned … 41 $5.33 Add
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Evidentialism at its Origins and Anglo-American Philosophy of Religion

Evidentialism at its Origins and Anglo-American Philosophy of Religion

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

There is no doubt that proofs for the existence of God are no longer fashionable amongst contemporary philosophers. Many people attribute the death of such proofs to the critique given by … 25 $3.00 Add
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Evolving State — Civil Society Relationships: The Beginning of a New Era?

Evolving State — Civil Society Relationships: The Beginning of a New Era?

From: The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle

The relationship between the coluntary sector and the state is undergoing fundamental change in Canada, as elsewhere. Thisis a result of a transformation in both the nature of governance and … 30 $2.40 Add