University Of Ottawa Press: 132 books
by Joël Beddows, Kenza Benali, Philippe Couton
Language: French
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Ottawa, lieu de vie français discusses the urban changes and the ways in which Ottawa francophones began thinking about and building their city, from the 1960s onwards, the ideas and actions of that period still shaping life in French Ottawa today.
Stemming from the Chantier Ottawa collaborative...
Tolstoy and Tolstaya
A Portrait of a Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Both Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828–1910) and his wife Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya (1844–1919) were prolific letterwriters.
Lev Nikolaevich wrote approximately 10,000 letters over his lifetime — 840 of these addressed to his wife. Letters written by (or to) Sofia Andreevna over her lifetime...
by Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
The Modern Language Association (MLA) awarded the Lois Roth Award to John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski of the University of Ottawa’s Slavic Research Group for their translation of Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya’s My Life memoirs.
My Life was selected among the top 100 non-fiction works...
Journey of a Thousand Miles
An Extraordinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Issu d’un milieu défavorisé dans un Taiwan sous occupation japonaise, Ruey Yu évite de justesse la famine qui déferle sur son pays pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le destin attend de lui autre chose : il devait devenir un biochimiste primé, puis le cofondateur de ce qui allait devenir la...
Future Indicative
Literary Theory and Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1987
The format of this book is arbitrary and exact, the way paint is in a landscape by Alex Colville. It follows the program of the symposium that took place at the University of Ottawa, from April 25 to 27, 1986.
As Bakhtin leaps from the sidelines to centre stage, as Derrida clambers out of orchestra...
The Copyright Pentalogy
How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
In the summer of 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada issued rulings on five copyright cases in a single day. The cases represent a seismic shift in Canadian copyright law, with the Court providing an unequivocal affirmation that copyright exceptions such as fair dealing should be treated as users’...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2008
Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film—Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and cultural position of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. While lauding improvements made in the past decades, the contributors...
A Nation Beyond Borders
Lionel Groulx on French-Canadian Minorities
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
This book, first published as Quand la nation débordait les frontières (Hurtubise HMH, 2004), is considered the most comprehensive analysis of Lionel Groulx's work and vision as an intellectual leader of a nationalist school that extended well beyond the borders of Québec.
Recipient of...
Alice Munro’s Miraculous Art
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Alice Munro’s Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro’s writings. The volume covers the entirety of Munro’s career, from the first stories she published in the early 1950s as an undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario to her final books....
The Academic Gateway
Understanding the Journey to Tenure
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The Academic Gateway: Understanding the Journey to Tenure investigates the experiences of professors employed in tenure-track positions who are starting their career within a university environment, but have not yet attained the affirmation and permanence that tenure offers. The role that they have...
Cahiers Charlevoix 12
Études franco-ontariennes
Language: French
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Coïncidant avec le vingt-cinquième anniversaire de la Société Charlevoix, la fournée 2018 de ce douzième cahier réunit six études.
Simon Laflamme publie l’affidavit qui a été utilisé par le Commissariat aux langues officielles pour appuyer la cause qu’il défendait contre la...
Identity Theft and Fraud
Evaluating and Managing Risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Personal data is increasingly being exchanged and stored by electronic means, making businesses, organizations and individuals more vulnerable than ever to identity theft and fraud. This book provides a practical and accessible guide to identity theft and fraud using a risk management approach. It...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
En 1979, Jean-François Lyotard a articulé la condition postmoderne, annonçant la fin de la modernité. Mais la modernité nous tient encore et se réinvente dans des nouvelles périodisations. Il nous incombe de reprendre la réflexion sur ce paradigme à la fois historique, culturel et social,...
The End of Iceland's Innocence
The Image of Iceland in the Foreign Media during the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
In the space of a few days, one of the world’s richest and most egalitarian nations, Iceland, toppled into financial chaos and sunk into an economic, ethical, moral and identity crisis. The vast empire built by Iceland’s young entrepreneurs, the “new Vikings”—who had propelled the country...