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Offers a collection of essays that examines issues posed by a naturalistic view of the world and explores some of the challenges it confronts. This title covers papers on freedom, Kant, Christianity, Homer, the history of analytic philosophy, the place of humanity in nature, and other topics.

Translating Canada examines cultural materials exported by Canada in addition to those selected for acquisition by German publishers, theatres, and other culture brokers. It also considers the motivations of particular translators and the reception by German reviewers of works by a wide variety of Canadian writers.

Analyzing issues ranging from urban planning and the provision of broadcasting services for minority languages, to principled debates over basic rights and entitlements, this title includes essays that offer summaries of each political culture while also prompting comparative reflection on the broad theme of 'democracy and difference'.

Provides a critical update on major issues that have engaged the field of language testing since its inception. Suitable for those working in, studying or teaching language testing, this title offers the information, discussions, and reflections that address major developments within the field over the past decades.

Border-security policies must enable security personnel to identify, or filter out, dangerous individuals and substances from among the millions of travelers and tons of goods that cross borders, particularly in large cross-border urban regions. This book addresses this gap between security needs and an understanding of borders and borderlands.

Deals with the other, that conceptual reality we increasingly encounter in our daily lives as the global village manifests itself in Canada and beyond. This collection of essays takes a hard look at how these perceptions are revealed through intercultural dialogue in the literary, political and sociological aspects of Canadian society.

Explores how and what the animals in this country have meant through all genres and periods of Canadian writing. This title tackles more than a century of writing, from 19th-century narrative of women travellers, to the 'natural' conversion of Grey Owl, to the award-winning novels of Farley Mowat, Marian Engel, Timothy Findley, and Yann Martel.

Offers an assessment and planning approach for children and youth in out of home care, first developed in the UK, and since 1997 adapted and used increasingly in Canada, particularly in Ontario. This title includes training material that can help practitioners understand and put the LAC approach and tools to effective use.

For the visionary, the scholar, the academic, the serious reader, picture a whole new inner deeper world containing a whole new you, an other deeper you. This concept itself is revolutionary. This book goes further by providing a step-by-step guide for coming face-to-face with the other deeper you.

Traces the evolution of the criminal justice system in the United States since 1973. The author discusses how he came to embrace the radical feminist view that patriarchy and the 'politics of fear' can provide explanations for the rise in incarcerations in the US, as well as for other forms of systemic power in society.

The translation of poetry has always fascinated the theorists, as the chances of replicating in another language the one-off resonance of music, imagery, and truth values of a poem are negligible. This title offers essays that focus on the poetically viable translation - the derived poem that, while resonating with the original, really is a poem.

Over the years there has been a substantial increase in the study of the history of translation. This book uncovers the role translation has played in many different times and settings such as Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle-east and Asia from the 6th century to the 20th.

Includes essays, notably those dealing with historical or literary documents, the texts in question are specific manuscripts that have been studied with a view to learning more about lexicographic and translation practice. The volume features a chapter on audiovisual translation that takes a non-conventional view of text, where text includes film.

Despite the Liberal Government's claims that its re-engineering initiative is a managerial matter with the aim of improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and economy of the public administration in Quebec, any administrative reform leads to a reconfiguring of the State's autonomy and capacities, which in turn leads to a redefining of governance.

Identifies the main drivers of e-government, assesses the responses of Canada's public sector, and sketches out the major challenges and choices. This book is of interest to those studying or working in the world of public sector management and e-governance.

Une anthologie bilingue de la poA(c)sie canadienne. A bilingual anthology of Canadian poetry.

The standing committees of the House of Commons and Senate make it possible for practically any person or group to access the policy-making process and become a lobbyist. This guide reveals the lessons and advice of experienced parliamentarians and those who work behind the doors of Parliament.

Issues of sexuality, censorship, and self-censorship in the formation of national and cultural identities are a focus of great interest in contemporary literary research. This work studies these combined issues in the context of translated and original Hebrew literature.

Abraham's intriguing and unfortunate story is told through several different perspectives, from Abraham's diary, the earliest known Inuit autobiography, and the missionaries' letters and reports, to a scholarly article, newspaper pieces, and even advertising.

A collection of essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. It raises questions - about modernism and antimodernism, nationalism and antinationalism, gender and class, originality and influence - that remain central to contemporary research on early to mid-twentieth-century English Canadian literature.

A collection of essays from leading Canadian and international scholars that critically examines cultural citizenship, cultural indicators, and governance in the context of evolving cultural practices and cultural policy-making.

Develops a general conceptual framework to deal with the reality of global governance. This title uses this framework to examine the territorial governance (hemispheric governance, meso-innovation systems, and smart city-regions) and tackles the more complex governance challenges raised by sustainability and common-property resources like oceans.

Collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall".

Examines the relations and interrelations among theoretical and practical analyses of human rights. This volume argues that the language of rights and corresponding legal and political instruments have an important place in contemporary social political philosophy.

With nine out of ten Canadians claiming a religious affiliation of some kind, faith has huge impact on our personal and social lives. In this book, the author offers a comprehensive history of religion in Canada and examines the tug-of-war between modernity and conservatism within the religious traditions themselves.

Australia and Canada are both lively, multicultural societies with British constitutional traditions. Historically, they have faced similar challenges in defining and sustaining citizenship that reach back into a common past. This title offers fresh perspectives on the culture and politics of citizenship.

Using constitutions of various Jewish organizations, this book uncovers the political history of Canadian Jewry since its beginning during the 1700s. Building on the premise that Jews, since time immemorial, have written down their values and ideologies, it shows how these writings record the principles and values that motivated a community.

A collection of essays wherein some of Canada's foremost writers and thinkers call for equilibrium among economics, culture, and technological change. While promoting the dynamism and change possible in Canadian society, they also call for a re-examination of Canada's past in order to chart its future.

What is Canada? This book addresses this question. It suggests that the Canadian approach of 'finding a way' may well contribute to successful resolution of both local and global challenges.

Offers a collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies that addresses the basic problems in reading his work. This title looks at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony, paradox, and dwelling in 'gaps' or spaces 'in between'.