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Wicked Strategies
How Companies Conquer Complexity and Confound Competitors
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
In business, some problems are so complex, intractable and threatening to organizations—or entire industries—that they are best described as “wicked.” These problems appear to be unsolvable and they render traditional analytical tools of strategy virtually impotent.
Wicked Strategies...
Dominion and Agency
Copyright and the Structuring of the Canadian Book Trade, 1867-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
The 1867 Canadian confederation brought with it expectations of a national literature, which a rising class of local printers hoped to supply. Reforming copyright law in the imperial context proved impossible, and Canada became a prime market for foreign publishers instead. The subsequent development...
The Internet Trap
Five Costs of Living Online
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Whether we are checking emails, following friends on Facebook and Twitter, catching up on gossip from TMZ, planning holidays on TripAdvisor, arranging dates on Match.com, watching videos on Youtube, or simply browsing for deals on Amazon, the Internet pervades our professional and personal environments....
Back from the Brink
Lessons from the Canadian Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
As global markets toppled during the 2008 financial crisis, the Canadian market for non-bank asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) seemed on the verge of collapsing. Fueled by a top rating from DBRS, ABCP had found its way into the portfolios of some of Canada’s most sophisticated investors as well...
A World of Songs
Selected Poems, 1894–1921
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942) is far less known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a period of half a century.Although this output included a chapbook and a full-length collection in...
The Metaphor of Celebrity
Canadian Poetry and the Public, 1955-1980
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The Metaphor of Celebrity is an exploration of the significance of literary celebrity in Canadian poetry. It focuses on the lives and writing of four widely recognized authors who wrote about stardom – Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, Irving Layton, and Gwendolyn MacEwen – and the specific moments...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
An academic book is much more than paper and ink, pixels and electrons. A dynamic social network of authors, editors, typesetters, proofreaders, indexers, printers, and marketers must work together to turn a manuscript into a book.
Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text explores the theories...
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...