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  • Defending a Contested Ideal

    Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908-2008

    by Luc Juillet, Ken Rasmussen ...
    Series series Gouvernance | Governance Series
    In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This history, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Commission, recounts its unique contribution to the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Defending a Contested Ideal: Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908-2008

    Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008

    by Luc Juillet, Ken Rasmussen ...
    Series series Governance Series
    In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This history, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Commission, recounts its unique contribution to the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage

    Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967

    Edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost, Bryan Walls, Hilary Bates Neary, Frederick H. Armstrong ...
    Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage is composed of the collected works of Professor Fred Landon, who for more than 60 years wrote about African-Canadian history. The selected articles have, for the most part, never been surpassed by more recent research and offer a wealth of data on slavery, abolition, the Underground Railroad, and more, providing unique insights into the abundance of African ... Read more

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  • The Power of Place, the Problem of Time

    Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism

    by Keith Thor Carlson ...
    The Indigenous communities of the Lower Fraser River, British Columbia (a group commonly called the Stó:lõ), have historical memories and senses of identity deriving from events, cultural practices, and kinship bonds that had been continuously adapting long before a non-Native visited the area directly. In The Power of Place, the Problem of Time, Keith Thor Carlson re-thinks the history of Native ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • London Eh to Zed

    101 Discoveries for Canadian Visitors to London

    by Christopher Walters ...
    Discover London — and Canada — in one guidebook!Thousands of Canadians visit London, England, every year. But what their popular guidebooks always fail to mention are the over one hundred objects, monuments, and locations in the city associated with their own home and native land.Take for example the statue of half-mad General Charles Gordon standing beside the River Thames. His capture by rebels ... Read more

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  • Polarity, Patriotism, and Dissent in Great War Canada, 1914-1919

    by Brock Millman ...
    Compared to the idea that Canada was a nation forged in victory on Vimy Ridge, the reality of dissent and repression at home strikes a sour note. Through censorship, conscription, and internment, the government of Canada worked more ruthlessly than either Great Britain or the United States to suppress opposition to the war effort during the First World War.Polarity, Patriotism, and Dissent in ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Fields of Authority

    Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015

    by Jack Lucas ...
    Series series IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
    Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics – from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities – we encounter a peculiar institutional animal: the special purpose body. These “ABCs” of local government – library boards, school boards, transit authorities, and many others – provide vital public services, spend large sums of public money, and raise important questions ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • More than Just Games

    Canada and the 1936 Olympics

    by Harold Troper, Richard Menkis ...
    Held in Germany, the 1936 Olympic Games sparked international controversy. Should athletes and nations boycott the games to protest the Nazi regime? More Than Just Games is the history of Canada’s involvement in the 1936 Olympics. It is the story of the Canadian Olympic officials and promoters who were convinced that national unity and pride demanded that Canadian athletes compete in the Olympics ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Making a Global City

    How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity

    by Robert Vipond ...
    Series series Munk Series on Global Affairs
    Half of Toronto’s population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada – and many other western nations – has to face head on.Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street ... Read more

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  • Canada’s Department of External Affairs, Volume 3

    Innovation and Adaptation, 1968–1984

    by John Hilliker, Mary Halloran, Greg Donaghy ...
    Series series IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
    Volume three of the official history of Canada’s Department of External Affairs offers readers an unparalleled look at the evolving structures underpinning Canadian foreign policy from 1968 to 1984. Using untapped archival sources and extensive interviews with top-level officials and ministers, the volume presents a frank “insider’s view” of work in the Department, its key personalities, and its ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Death by a Thousand Cuts

    The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth

    by Ian Shapiro, Michael J. Graetz ...
    This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support? The mystery is all the more striking because the repeal was not done in the dead of night, like a ... Read more

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  • Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining

    by Sholom M. Weiss, Nitin Indurkhya, Tong Zhang ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    One consequence of the pervasive use of computers is that most documents originate in digital form. Widespread use of the Internet makes them readily available. Text mining – the process of analyzing unstructured natural-language text – is concerned with how to extract information from these documents. Developed from the authors’ highly successful Springer reference on text mining, Fundamentals of ... Read more

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