university of british columbia press jul 2013 (10 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The end of the Qing dynasty in China saw an unprecedented explosion of print journalism. By the turn of the twentieth century, not only had Chinese-owned newspapers become more influential than anyone could have anticipated, but it was the supposedly frivolous xiaobao, the 'little' or 'minor' papers, that captivated and empowered the public.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1992, a preventable explosion at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killed twenty-six miners. More than a decade later, the government introduced revisions to the Criminal Code of Canada aimed at strengthening corporate criminal liability. Bill C-45, dubbed the Westray bill, requires employers to ensure a safe workplace and attributes criminal liability to organizations for seriously injuring or killing workers and/or the public.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Once viewed as an inevitable if unpleasant part of growing up, bullying is now recognized as a serious safety issue - particularly in light of recent teen suicides linked with homophobia in schools.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Native women share their knowledge and insights about leadership at the community level.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New technologies and the science that created them have transformed our lives, posing challenges as to how technological change can be better integrated in society. Recognition of these issues has led to different ways of engaging the public in the assessment and regulation of emerging technologies. However, there has been no single approach that characterizes the relationship between publics and new technologies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First signed in 1886, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is still the cornerstone of international copyright law. At the centre of The Struggle for Canadian Copyright is Canada's experience with the Berne Convention. Set against the backdrop of Canada's development from a British colony into a so-called middle power, this book reveals the deep roots of conflict in the international copyright system that continue to divide 'developed' and developing countries.Canada's signing of the convention can be viewed in the context of a former British colony's efforts to find a place on the world stage. Throughout the past century, Canada's copyright policy has been used to project an image of the country as a good global citizen. In this groundbreaking book, Sara Bannerman examines Canada's struggle for copyright sovereignty and explores some of the problems rooted in imperial and international copyright that affect Canadians to this day.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Aboriginal people in Canada have long struggled to regain control over their traditional forest lands. There have been significant gains in the quest for Aboriginal self-determination over the past few decades, including the historic signing of the Nisga'a Treaty in 1998. Aboriginal participation in resource management is on the rise in both British Columbia and other Canadian provinces, with some Aboriginal communities starting their own forestry companies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The rapidly changing nature of life in Canadian rural communities is more than a simple response to economic conditions. People living in rural places are part of a new social agenda characterized by transformation of livelihoods, landscapes, and social relations - these profound changes invite us to reconsider the meanings of community, culture, and citizenship.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On 2 May 2011, Canadians watched as the Stephen Harper Conservatives won their first majority government. Jack Layton led the NDP to its best performance in history, and Michael Ignatieff and the federal Liberals had their worst showing to date. For most casual observers, this election marked a major shift in Canadian politics. In reality, the country's political landscape and national party system had been changing for quite some time.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that anumber of disciplines, including psychology, computer science,linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to thefield's immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to thefoundational assumption that cognition is information processing,cognitive science initially seemed more unified than psychology.However, as a result of differing interpretations of the foundationalassumption and dramatically divergent views of the meaning of the terminformation processing, three separate schools emerged:classical cognitive science, connectionist cognitive science, andembodied cognitive science.