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The Three Faces of Culture

Why Culture Is a Strategic Good Requiring Government Policy Attention

From: Accounting for Culture

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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? 11 $1.32 Add
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Tradition and Change in Military Education

From: To Serve Canada

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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 … 12 $1.56 Add
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Whose Security? Dilemmas of US Border Security in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands

From: Borderlands

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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 … 33 $2.64 Add
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"Yellow-Wolf, Malecite Chieftain of Old" 1893

From: The Quebec Anthology

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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, … 15 $0.90 Add
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“Sabra Puritanism”

From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

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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 … 36 $3.96 Add
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1968, vue du Québec

From: 1968 in Canada

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L’année 1968 s’inscrit dans la continuité d’une période évolutionnaire plus que révolutionnaire. Il s’agit d’un moment traversé par des … 19 $1.90 Add
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A Consumer Myth

From: Myths We Live By

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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 … 16 $2.08 Add
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Backing the Attack

Women Workers at War

From: Material Traces of War

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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 … ; ; 66 $6.60 Add
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Biased Books by Harmless Drudges: How Dictionaries Are Influenced by Social Values

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

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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 … 19 $2.66 Add
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Border Acrobatics between the European Union and Africa: The Management of Sealed-off Permeability on the Borders of Ceuta and Melilla

From: Borderlands

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This chapter discusses the peculiar border regime that has governed people and commodity flows across the borders of Ceuta and Melilla since 1986. 19 $1.52 Add
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Bordering Things

Objects and Subjugated Struggle at the Border

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

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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, … 21 $2.10 Add
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Bounded Citizenship and the Meaning of Citizenship Laws: Ireland’s Citizenship Referendum

From: Managing Diversity

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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 … 26 $3.12 Add
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Climate Change in the Russian North: Threats Real and Potential

From: Russia and the North

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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 … 33 $3.96 Add
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Controversy Over the Existence of the World

From: Roman Ingarden's Ontology and Aesthetics

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

A Fuzzy Cultural Policy Paradigm

From: Accounting for Culture

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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 of the Arctic Borderlands

From: North America's Arctic Borders

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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