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The People Link
Human Resource Linkages Across The Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
This volume is the third in a series that examines Canada's economic relationships with the countries of East Asia. The purpose of this volume is to illuminate the links among the peoples of the region that Canadians needs to understand when doing business abroad or cooperating with East Asians in...
Multiple Account Benefit-Cost Analysis
A Practical Guide for the Systematic Evaluation of Project and Policy Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Most commonly used in economic and public policy decisions, benefit-cost analysis traditionally attempts to calculate a bottom line by assigning monetary values to all factors associated with a proposed project or action. By contrast, multiple account benefit-cost analysis recognizes that all values...
Lowering Higher Education
The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and...
Arab Dawn
Arab Youth and the Demographic Dividend They Will Bring
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
In the West, news about the Middle East is dominated by an endless stream of reports and commentary about civil war, sectarian violence, religious extremism, and economic stagnation. But do they tell the full story? For instance, who knew that university enrolment in the war-torn Palestinian territories...
by Dorothy MacKeracher
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Learning is an inseparable part of human experience. Understanding how adults learn and applying that expertise to practical everyday situations and relationships opens the window on a broader understanding of the capacity of the human mind.
Dorothy MacKeracher's Making Sense of Adult Learning...
Professionalism and Public Service
Essays in Honour of Kenneth Kernaghan
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2008
Representing the leading scholars in the field, Professionalism and Public Service assesses the state of public administration in Canada while also moving the discipline forward both as a profession and an academic discipline.
The contributors to this volume trace the evolution of public administration...
Watching YouTube
Extraordinary Videos by Ordinary People
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
An anonymous musician plays Pachelbel's Canon on the electric guitar in a clip that has been viewed over sixty million times. The Dramatic Gopher is viewed over sixteen million times, as is a severely inebriated David Hasselhoff attempting to eat a hamburger. Over 800 variations, parodies, and parodies-of-parodies...
Innovating for the Global South
Towards an Inclusive Innovation Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in today’s world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic. Hundreds of millions of people continue to live on less than $2 per day and lack basic human necessities such as nutritious food, shelter, clean water,...
Spatial Evolution of Manufacturing
Southern Ontario 1851-1891
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Europeans who settled previously unpopulated and unexploited regions of the world during the 18th and 19th centuries of the world had two economic alternatives: subsistence activities or the production of primary goods for export. In general the latter prevailed and the landscape and economy were...
by Carolee Kassman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Author and depression survivor Carolee Kassman released her e-book on combatting depression and suicide just in time for the holidays.
Regarding depression in the US, author Carolee Kassman remarks, “It is a shame that an internationally recognized form of mental illness as common as depression...
Economics in the Twenty-First Century
A Critical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Economics has always been nicknamed the “dismal science,” but today the field seems a little more dismal than usual as governments, social movements, and even students complain that the discipline is failing to make sense of the major economic problems of the day.
In Economics in the Twenty-First...
Allegories of Contamination
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his cinematic works. In Allegories of Contamination Patrick Rumble provides an incisive critical and...
by Terry Maley
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Max Weber is best known as one of the founders of modern sociology and the author of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but he also made important contributions to modern political and democratic theory. In Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought, Terry Maley explores, through...
by Michael J. Prince, James J. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
No one is content with the state of health and social programs in Canada today. The Right thinks that there is too much government involvement, and the Left thinks there is not enough. In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state...