Press Publishing: 3010 books
Atlantic Canadian Imprints
A Bibliography, 1801-1820
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1991
The first comprehensive analytical bibliography of Atlantic Canadian imprints, this volume covers some 320 books, pamphlets, broadsides, government publications, and serials. Most have not been listed before in any bibliography or catalogue. They represent the holdings of more than thirty libraries...
Editing Modernity
Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1916-1956
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
The period between 1916 and 1956 was a unique interval in the history of Canadian publishing. During this period not only were a significant number of non-commercial literary, arts, and cultural magazines established, but it also happened that an unprecedented number of those involved in the creation...
Flux
What Marketing Managers Need to Navigate the New Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The past decade has seen a number of developments that threaten the very fabric of how marketing activities have traditionally been conducted. On one hand, consumers are increasingly socially networked and value-conscious, with heightened expectations of how companies will react to their demands....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Canada's Founding Debates is about Confederation—about the process that brought together six out of the seven territories of British North America in the years 1864-73 to form a country called Canada. It presents excerpts from the debates on Confederation in all of the colonial parliaments from...
Western and Eastern Rambles
Travel Sketches of Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Joseph Howe was not yet a prominent politician in 1828 but he was already developing a deep interest in the political institutions of Nova Scotia, and his love of the land and its people was innate. In that year he began publishing, in the Novascotian of which he was then editor, a series of sketches...
Useless Joyce
Textual Functions, Cultural Appropriations
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Tim Conley’s Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical, are in fact...
by James Daly
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) was a defender of 'the Natural Power of Kings against the Unnatural Liberty of the People.' His doctrine of omnicompetent sovereignty had little influence on the thought and political debates of his time, for none of his writings was published until the last few years...
The Book Unbound
Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors examine and re-evaluate...
Artistry Unleashed
A Guide to Pursuing Great Performance in Work and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2010
Artistry Unleashed is about working and living at the edge of what you know and beyond. Surprise, uncertainty, ambiguity, intensity, and change are all disruptive forces that we often avoid or fear. Yet they are the essential origin of both creativity and great performance.
Imagine if you could...
Russian Literature, 1988-1994
The End of an Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
The collapse of the Soviet Union brought about radical changes in the Russian literary world. With the state's relinquishment of control over literary production, writers acquired freedom of expression and publication. State publishing houses, now self-supporting enterprises, stopped printing money-losing...
The Epic of Juan Latino
Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe’s first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria).
Piecing together the surviving evidence, Wright traces Latino’s life in Granada, Iberia’s...
Writing Unemployment
Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This landmark study explores the cultural and literary history of unemployment in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s, which were crucial decades in the formation of our current conception of Canada as a nation. Writing Unemployment asks how writers with diverse political affiliations participated...
Something's Got to Give
Balancing Work, Childcare and Eldercare
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
A perfect storm of factors are brewing that will redefine dependent care in the coming decades. Delayed marriage and parenthood, longer life-spans, lower birthrates, and the health policy shift to informal caregiving have drastically increased the number of employees whose mental and physical health...
Working in a Multicultural World
A Guide to Developing Intercultural Competence
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Measureable, data driven outcomes are not the only indicators of success in today’s multicultural and globalized workforce. How employees interact with their colleagues and customers is also a significant factor in their career development.
Luciara Nardon draws on her extensive research...