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From ![]() NEW! "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 … | Krista Cooke; Molly McCullough; Stacey Barker | 54 | 2021 | $5.40 Add |
![]() Defending a Contested IdealMerit 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, … | Ken Rasmussen; Luc Juillet | 265 | 2008 | View |
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From ![]() NEW! Defending Indigenous Rights against the Just SocietyFrom: 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 … | Andrew Gemmell | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 Add |
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From ![]() Deliberative Democracy and the People: The Australian Experience |
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 … | John M. Williams | 16 | 2004 | $1.60 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 ![]() Deverbalization |
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 … | Allison Beeby-Lonsdale | 26 | 1996 | $3.12 Add |
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From ![]() Dorothy Livesay, the "Housewife," and the Radio in 1951: Modernist Embodiments of Audience |
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 … | Paul Tiessen | 24 | 2005 | $2.16 Add |
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From ![]() East-West Confrontation: China, Japan, India |
Infinitely harder to surmount are the psychological and cultural differences, of which language is a mere reflection. | Ruth Roland | 38 | 1999 | $4.94 Add |
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From ![]() Ecologies of Governance as Social TechnologiesFrom: 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 … | Gilles Paquet | 12 | 2005 | $1.08 Add |
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From ![]() Electronic Commerce Policy and the European CommissionFrom: 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 … | Paul Timmers | 5 | 1999 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() Elizabeth Smart and Cecil Buller: Engendering Experimental Modernism |
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 … | Anne Quéma | 29 | 2005 | $2.61 Add |
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From ![]() Epilogue – Interpreting After the Trial |
As a result of its use at Nuremberg, simultaneous interpretation spread to the United Nations in New York and to every major international conference. | Francesca Gaiba | 6 | 1998 | $0.78 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Equality, Equity, and the Royal Commission on the Status of WomenFrom: 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 … | Jane Arscott | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() Europe and the New World, to 1919 |
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 … | Ruth Roland | 41 | 1999 | $5.33 Add |
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From ![]() Evidentialism at its Origins and Anglo-American Philosophy of ReligionFrom: 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 … | William Sweet | 25 | 1999 | $3.00 Add |
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From ![]() Evolving State — Civil Society Relationships: The Beginning of a New Era? |
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 … | Susan D. Phillips | 30 | 2003 | $2.40 Add |















