University Of Ottawa Press: 132 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language Testing Reconsidered provides a critical update on major issues that have engaged the field of language testing since its inception. Anyone who is working in, studying or teaching language testing should have a copy of this book. The information, discussions, and reflections offered within...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Almost twenty years ago, conceptual work began in the United Kingdom on what was to become the international Looking After Children initiative. Looking After Children has had a profound influence on child welfare in Canada and some fifteen other countries, including the UK, Australia, Sweden, and...
Drugs and Crime
A Complex Relationship. Third revised and expanded edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Discussing illegal drugs without taking into account its criminal context is a difficult proposition. Certain questions come back repeatedly: Does doing drugs really lead to delinquency? Do some drugs have criminal properties? Why would a drug addict turn to crime? What are the best methods of intervention...
Taking Aviation to New Heights
A Biography of Pierre Jeanniot
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
To chart the inspiring journey of Pierre Jeanniot is to trace the remarkable development of the air transport industry. In his youth, Jeanniot survived the bombing of Rome, the occupation of France, and was a witness to the Resistance in the Jura Mountains. In 1963, after the Sainte-Thérèse air...
Antonine Maillet : Les trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures
Les trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
A veritable artist, Maillet becomes a “creator of sounds, of colours, of forms and words.” As she speaks, she paints a vast landscape of mountains and oceans, history and story, using the tools on her palette: blending the colours of myths and those of contemporary issues, creating an epic poem...
Les Belles Étrangères
Canadians in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
While translation history in Canada is well documented, the history of the translation of Canadian fiction outside the nation remains obscure. Les Belles Étrangères examines the translation of Canadian English-language fiction in France. This book considers the history of this practice, the reasons...
DanceHall
From Slave Ship to Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies...
Engendering Genre
The Works of Margaret Atwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Winner of the 2010 Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Prize.
In Engendering Genre, renowned Margaret Atwood scholar Reingard M. Nischik analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Atwood’s works. She approaches Atwood’s oeuvre by genre – poetry, short fiction, novels, criticism,...
Home Ground and Foreign Territory
Essays on Early Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Home Ground and Foreign Territory is an original collection of essays on early Canadian literature in English. Aiming to be both provocative and scholarly, it encompasses a variety of (sometimes opposing) perspectives, subjects, and methods, with the aim of reassessing the field, unearthing neglected...
Eight Men Speak
A Play by Oscar Ryan et al.
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian Post Office. The play can be...
Gender and Modernity in Central Europe
The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
At the end of the nineteenth century, Austro-Hungarian society was undergoing a significant re-evaluation of gender roles and identities. Debates on these issues revealed deep anxieties within the multi-ethnic empire that did not resolve themselves with its dissolution in 1918. Concepts of gender...
At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination
A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination 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. Given McLuhan’s...
The Wrong World
Selected Stories and Essays of Bertram Brooker
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avantgardist, successfully experimenting in literature,...
RE: Reading the Postmodern
Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the last quarter century—even if the concept has been understood in various, even contradictory, ways. An interest in postmodernism and postmodernity has been...