Presses De L Universite Du Quebec: 10 books

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Quebec-Ontario Relations

A Shared Destiny?

by Jean-François Savard
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

Ontario–Quebec relations have flourished in recent years. Environmental and economic agreements have proliferated (infrastructure, trade, investment, labour mobility) and a total of three joint provincial -cabinet meetings were held between 2008, 2009, and 2010. These closer ties provide a good...
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by Sylvie Gauthier, Alain Leduc, Louis De Grandpré
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009

Forest Ecosystem Management. A management approach that aims to maintain healthy and resilient forest ecosystems by focusing on a reduction of differences between natural and managed landscapes to ensure long-term maintenance of ecosystem functions and thereby retain the social and economic benefits...
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Art Deco

A Mode of Mobility

by Michael Windover
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

This book argues that mobility is the central theme of the interwar mode of design known today as Art Deco. It is present on the very surfaces of Art Deco objects and architecture – in iconography and general formal qualities (whether the zigzag rectilinear forms ­popular in the 1920s or curvilinear...
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Case Study as Research Method

A Practical Handbook

by Yves-Chantal Gagnon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Teeming with practical examples, this guide promotes an integrated approach for carrying out a case study. With a background emphasis on how to ensure the reliability and validity of results, the different steps of this approach are detailed: assessing the appropriateness of a case study; preparation; selecting cases; data collection, analysis and interpretation; and reporting results
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by Luc Chaput
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

This project design textbook arrives on the market none too soon. Project design books are very difficult to find. Performance-driven organizations feed on better process designs that are well aligned on strategy. The reader will find good design principles, as well as actual tests for designing effective...
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Transnational Borders, Transnational Lives

Academic Mobility at the Borderland

by Rémy Tremblay
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

Migrating is a life-changing decision that academics might take because of career. But leaving a homeland is a lot more than a job issue. Many other factors and adjustment challenges are put in the line. This book tells the stories of a selected group of geographers who migrated to one side to another...
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by Daniel Jacobi, Elihu Katz
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

“Non-public” was used for the first time in May, 1968, by those working professionally in the cultural domain in France. At the time, they were gathered in Villeurbanne at the head office of the TNP (French National Popular Theatres), and they used this notion in a very militant way to describe...
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Public and Civic Leisure in Québec

Dynamic, Democratic, Passion-driven, and Fragile

by Andrée Thibault
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008

Through more than 50 case studies that provide a compelling portrait of leisure in Québec, this work illustrates that public and civic leisure model that Quebecers use in their recreational pursuits. It presents the model’s mission, its values, certain principles, the resources used, the main challenges...
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by Louise Lafortune
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009

This guide complements the books Professional Competencies for Accompanying Change. A Frame of Reference and Professional Accompaniment Model for Change. For Innovative Leadership. Divided into two parts, it deals first with the change accompaniment model and then covers the professional competencies...
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Structured Interview

Enhancing Staff Selection

by Normand Petterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008

According to recent research, the structured interview is a more effective way to conduct interviews compared to the traditional approach. In addition, the structured interview offers a more equitable treatment of candidates and is more easily defensible in court. In this book, the authors present...
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