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• The Handbook of Educational Linguistics is an Essential Volume for Students, Researchers, Language Educators, Curriculum Developers, and Educational Policy Makers

  - 2008-01-28

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c80869) has announced the addition of Handbook of Educational Linguistics to their offering. The Handbook of Educational Linguistics is a dynamic, scientifically grounded overview revealing the complexity of this growing field while remaining accessible for students, researchers, language educators, curriculum developers, and educational...

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• Introduction.(deindustrialization in Canada)

  - 2007-03-22

  Historian Rosemary Ommer gave the W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lecture at the University of New Brunswick in 1993, a year after the collapse of groundfish stocks had led the federal government to issue fishing moratoria in Atlantic Canada. It was entitled "One Hundred Years of Fishery...

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• Canada's "newer constitutional law" and the idea of constitutional rights.

  - 2006-09-22

  This article places F.R. Scott's 1935 call for entrenched constitutional rights within the context of marked changes in constitutional scholarship in the 1930s--what the author refers to as the "newer constitutional law". Influenced by broader currents in legal theory and inspired by the political and economic...

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• Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960.(Book review)

  - 2006-03-22

  Harris, Richard. Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. x, 204. Illustrations. $19.95. Paper. In his many studies of building and developing the urban fringe, Richard Harris has helped define our understanding of twentieth-century suburbs. Creeping...

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• Roberts, Caroline. The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies.(Book Review)

  - 2005-09-22

  Roberts, Caroline. The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies. University of Toronto Press, 2002. Reviewed by Alexis Easley, University of St. Thomas Harriet Martineau (1802-76) published a variety of influential texts on women's issues during the Victorian era. Yet Martineau has...

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• Levy, F. J. Tudor Historical Thought.(Book Review)

  - 2004-09-22

  Levy, F. J. Tudor Historical Thought Toronto: University of Toronto Press 317 pp., $27.50, ISBN 0-8020-3775-5 Publication Date: March 2004 In almost every recent work touching on Tudor intellectual history some reference is made to Tudor Historical Thought, first published in 1967, and now...

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• The Royal Society of Canada: Toronto Architect Earns an Adenauer Research Award.

  - 2003-01-28

  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Jan 28, 2003 CCNMatthews via COMTEX The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation bestowed the 2002 Konrad Adenauer Research Award on a Canadian scholar. Professor Detlef Mertins, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Toronto, has won the prestigious Konrad Adenauer Research Award (up...

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• Modernization and reaction: Postwar evolutions and the critique of higher learning in English-speaking Canada, 1945-1970

  - 2001-07-01

  Higher education underwent the final stage of modernization after 1945. The Second World War had accelerated modernizing trends that were decades in the making. In the postwar era, universities in English-speaking Canada continued to develop as utilitarian institutions: they were funded by the public purse, responsive to both governments and...

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• Kaiser and Fuhrer: A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics.(Review) (book review)

  - 2000-03-22

  Kaiser and Fuhrer: A Comparative Study of Personality and Politics. By Robert G. L. Waite. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 511. $50.00.) In 1977, Robert G. L. Waite published his controversial psychobiography of Adolf Hitler, The Psychopathic God. The book received...

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