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by Jennifer Alsop, Matthew Beaudoin, Jean-Sébastien Boutet
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
People across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of the economy. Researchers from the Social Economy Research Network...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
by C.d. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
A twisted short story of a loving family that had major issues of their own and want to inherit there practice to another.
The Vicuña
The Theory and Practice of Community Based Wildlife Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Things have changed. In 1969 when the Convention for the Conservation of the Vicuña was drafted, in an attempt to save the vicuña from its tumbling decline towards extinction, both the science and the philosophy of wildlife conservation were radically different. It is thus a tribute to the prescience...
Global TV
Exporting Television and Culture in the World Market
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
A reporter for the Los Angeles Times once noted that “I Love Lucy is said to be on the air somewhere in the world 24 hours a day.” That Lucy’s madcap antics can be watched anywhere at any time is thanks to television syndication, a booming global marketplace that imports and exports TV shows....
by C. D. Sutherland, Beverly Flanders, Judy Buford
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
The writing styles used in short stories can be somewhat unusual or surprising to its readers, sometimes their writers use literary techniques which might wear a reader down if employed through the length of a novel. Short stories make the perfect fodder to create anthologies. You will discover the...
Shovel Ready
Archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Shovel Ready provides a comprehensive lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology.
In this collection of diverse essays united by a common theme, Bernard K. Means and his contributors deliver a valuable research tool for...
by C. D. Elledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Resurrection of the dead represents one of the more enigmatic beliefs of Western religions to many modern readers. In this volume, C. D. Elledge offers an interpretation of some of the earliest literature within Judaism that exhibits a confident hope in resurrection. He not only aids the study of...
by D. H. C. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The Foundation of Heaven is a historical fictional work about the fall of the Aztec empire (old Mexico). Using his familiar style of mixing historical narrative with literary fiction, author D.H.C. Carter takes us into the world of the early 16th century and shows the collision of cultures that takes...
Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family
How to Eat, How to Raise Good Eaters, How to Cook
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Ellyn Satter's Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family takes a leadership role in the grassroots movement back to the family table. More a cooking primer than a cookbook, this book encourages singles, couples, and families with children to go to the trouble of feeding themselves well. Satter uses simple,...
by D.L.C. Maclachlan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
How do we acquire knowledge through a sensory input from our environment? In The Enigma of Perception, D.L.C. Maclachlan revives the traditional causal representative theory of perception which dominated philosophical thinking for hundreds of years by revealing the important element of truth the theory...
by C.D. Reimer
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2011
With 15 minutes left on the clock until the county courthouse closes for the weekend, Leticia was all alone at the front desk, deep into a bodice-ripper paperback and hoping that no one walks in at the last minute. As fate would have it, an old man walks through the door wanting to pay his tax bill....
The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation
Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2004
From Los Angeles and New York to Chicago and Miami, street gangs are regarded as one of the most intractable crime problems facing our cities, and a vast array of resources is being deployed to combat them. This book chronicles the astounding self-transformation of one of the most feared gangs in...
by C.D. Reimer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
As three veteran spymasters discuss the future of a senior spymaster running late for his own surprise birthday party, the uninvited spook across the street listens in and disagrees with every word they say.This 1,000-word short story was first published in The Storyteller (July/August/September 2008).