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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From The Three Faces of CultureWhy Culture Is a Strategic Good Requiring Government Policy Attention From: Accounting for Culture |
Why do we have the notion that every society should have a culture of its own, and why do we get nervous when it is threatened? | Dick Stanley | 11 | 2005 | $1.32 Add |
From Tradition and Change in Military EducationFrom: To Serve Canada |
How have other countries coped with the challenges that faced the Royal Military College of Canada? How have they accommodated the academic and military elements in their mandate, and how have … | Richard Preston | 12 | 1991 | $1.56 Add |
From Whose Security? Dilemmas of US Border Security in the Arizona-Sonora BorderlandsFrom: Borderlands |
The Arizona-Sonera borderlands, especially since September 11, 2001, represent the quintessential example of a civil and criminal social networking revolution, a self-defeating federal border … | Julie A. Murphy Erfani | 33 | 2007 | $2.64 Add |
From "Yellow-Wolf, Malecite Chieftain of Old" 1893From: The Quebec Anthology |
After de Gaspé’s death in 1871, one of his sons, Alfred-Patrice, found a manuscript of stories among his father’s papers. This was published in 1893 as Divers. Jane Brierley, … | Philippe Aubert de Gaspé | 15 | 1997 | $0.90 Add |
From “Sabra Puritanism” |
This research,[…], deals with “life” only in as much as it is regulated by law and norm (in the case of literary censorship), otherwise focusing on the representation of life in … | Nitsa Ben-Ari | 36 | 2006 | $3.96 Add |
From NEW! 1968, vue du QuébecFrom: 1968 in Canada |
L’année 1968 s’inscrit dans la continuité d’une période évolutionnaire plus que révolutionnaire. Il s’agit d’un moment traversé par des … | Jocelyn Létourneau | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
From A Consumer MythFrom: Myths We Live By |
The consumer myth is not about materialism,- it is about spiritual reality. It represents the most sustained attempt in the history of humanity to accord total spiritual significance to material … | Colin Grant | 16 | 1998 | $2.08 Add |
From NEW! Backing the AttackWomen Workers at War From: Material Traces of War |
Women pushed against many barriers during the world wars, breaking through some and weakening others, and the labour force was one of them. The women in this chapter came from a variety of … | Krista Cooke; Molly McCullough; Stacey Barker | 66 | 2021 | $6.60 Add |
From Biased Books by Harmless Drudges: How Dictionaries Are Influenced by Social Values |
As keepers of our language, monolingual dictionaries are important cultural objects and therefore must adhere to certain social rules. Some of those rules can affect the forms of the definitions … | Kristen Mackintosh | 19 | 2006 | $2.66 Add |
From Border Acrobatics between the European Union and Africa: The Management of Sealed-off Permeability on the Borders of Ceuta and MelillaFrom: Borderlands |
This chapter discusses the peculiar border regime that has governed people and commodity flows across the borders of Ceuta and Melilla since 1986. | Xavier Ferrer Gallardo | 19 | 2007 | $1.52 Add |
From NEW! Bordering ThingsObjects and Subjugated Struggle at the Border |
In this chapter the authors outline the centrality of objects, or physical things, at the border as instrumental and pivotal in struggles to formulate and assert legitimacy and to claim asylum, … | Anelynda Mielke and Nadya Pohran | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
From Bounded Citizenship and the Meaning of Citizenship Laws: Ireland’s Citizenship ReferendumFrom: Managing Diversity |
Different conceptions of political community favour different constellations of citizenship laws. Although most states in practice combine elements of these, they may also incline towards one or … | Iseult Honohan | 26 | 2007 | $3.12 Add |
From Climate Change in the Russian North: Threats Real and PotentialFrom: Russia and the North |
This chapter begins with a brief introduction to global climate change and trends in greenhouse gases (GHGs) before turning to the trends and sources of Russian GHGs and the role of the Russian … | Craig ZumBrunnen | 33 | 2009 | $3.96 Add |
From Controversy Over the Existence of the World |
An examination of several of Controversy’s central existential-ontological and formal-ontological investigations. | Jeff Mitsecherling | 43 | 1997 | $4.73 Add |
From Cultural ParticipationA 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 … | Catherine Murray | 23 | 2005 | $2.76 Add |
From NEW! Culture of the Arctic Borderlands |
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 … | Andrew Chater; Heather Nicol | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |