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New World Myth

Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Fiction

By: Marie Vautier

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New World Myth

Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Fiction

By: Marie Vautier

There is an emphasis on de-constructing, de-centring, de-stabilizing, and especially de-mythologizing in the study that illustrates New World myth narrators questioning the past in the present and carrying out their original investigations of myth, place, and identity. Underlining the fact that political realities are encoded in the language and narrative of the works, Vautier argues that the reworkings of literary, religious, and historical myths and political ideologies in these novels are grounded in their shared situation of being in and of the New World.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773566880

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Vom Mond am anderen Ende der Welt. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Marie Zwicker

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Vom Mond am anderen Ende der Welt. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Marie Zwicker

Von Westen nach Osten, Vancouver Island bis Cape Breton. Mit achtzehn Jahren bricht sie auf nach Kanada, heraus aus dem erdrückenden Kleinstadtleben. Mit verschiedenen Gelegenheitsjobs reist Marie durch das zweitgrößte Land der Welt. Eine intime Sammlung verschiedener Texte - Briefe an und von Reisebegegnungen, Postkarten nach Hause, Gedichte, Notizbucheinträge, Widmungen. Aus allen sprechen die Sehnsüchte und die Begeisterungsfähigkeit eines jungen Menschen, die uns viel zu häufig entrinnen. Es sind Liebesgeständnisse an eine Welt, die intensiv und kompromisslos erlebt werden will - und jene Menschen, die dabei begleiten.

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3710841992

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Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850–1913

By: Ann Marie L. Davis

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Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850–1913

By: Ann Marie L. Davis

In the winter of 1913, a small crowd gathered on the streets of a famous red-light district on the outskirts of Tokyo. Curious patrons, journalists, and onlookers formed a steady procession to see the prostitute, Wada Yoshiko, and celebrate the release of her new book. A Prostitute’s Tale divulged inner secrets about her co-workers, patrons, and difficult confinement in a government-run syphilis hospital. According to the press, the author was a literary prostitute, a new expert, and a compelling version of Japan’s new woman. Soon widely acclaimed, her literary work heralded a growing public desire for inside knowledge about the lived experiences of pleasure workers. Wada’s success was the product of more than half-a-century of high-stakes conversations about the future of Japan. Her fame as an author simultaneously challenged and complemented previous discussions about the role of the female prostitute in the modern nation-state. However, while her perspective was new, the information she shared invoked key themes that had proliferated about her in prior decades. Since the 1850s, when Japan was forced to sign the “unequal” commercial treaties with the Western imperial powers, wide-ranging debates had taken place that linked the prostitute to national security and international prestige in imperative new ways. Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan traces the symbol of the prostitute as a project of nation- and empire-building from the 1850s to 1913, ending one year after the death of the Meiji emperor, and coincidentally, the year of Wada’s publication. It untangles how ideas about pleasure work intersected with Japan’s transformation into a modern nation according to Western models. It asserts that the figure of the prostitute was a powerful symbolic resource that wide-ranging interest groups deployed, variously, to negotiate and define shifting distinctions of status, identity, and power. Each of the debates about the prostitute was in turn central to and mutually constitutive of the emergent social order in Meiji Japan.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498542158

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9781498542159

Cognitive Neuroscience

By: Marie T. Banich,Rebecca J. Compton

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Cognitive Neuroscience

By: Marie T. Banich,Rebecca J. Compton

Revised and updated, this comprehensive text covers key concepts in cognitive neuroscience. Written by two active researchers and experienced teachers, the coverage is both up to date and accessible with clear links made across chapters. Clinical applications, case studies and examples demonstrate the real-world significance of the science.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108924336

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9781108924337

Apart at the Seams

By: Marie Bostwick

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Apart at the Seams

By: Marie Bostwick

When her marriage of twenty-six years seems to be coming apart at the seams, Gayla flees to New Bern, Connecticut, to see if she can overcome the feelings of betrayal, forgive her husband, and create a new future"--Provided by publisher.

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Kensington Books

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0758269307

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9780758269300

Interactive Shape Design

By: Marie-Paule Cani,Takeo Igarashi,Geoff Wyvill

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Interactive Shape Design

By: Marie-Paule Cani,Takeo Igarashi,Geoff Wyvill

Providing an intuitive modeling system, which would enable us to communicate about any free-form shape we have in mind at least as quickly as with real-world tools, is one of the main challenges of digital shape design. The user should ideally be able to create, deform, and progressively add details to a shape, without being aware of the underlying mathematical representation nor being tied by any constraint on the geometrical or topological nature of the model. This book presents the field of interactive shape design from this perspective. Since interactively creating a shape builds on the humans ability of modeling by gesture, we note that the recent advances in interactive shape design can be classified as those that rely on sculpting as opposed to sketching metaphors. Our synthetic presentation of these strategies enables us to compare the different families of solutions, discuss open issues, and identify directions for future research. Table of Contents: Introduction / Sculpting Metaphors / Sketching Systems / Future Directions: Modeling by Gesture

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Springer Nature

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3031795342

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Oedipus; or, The Legend of a Conqueror

By: Marie Delcourt

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Oedipus; or, The Legend of a Conqueror

By: Marie Delcourt

Marie Delcourt’s brilliant study of the Oedipus legend, an unjustly neglected monument of twentieth-century classical scholarship published in 1944 and issued here for the first time in English translation, bridges the gap between Carl Robert’s influential Oidipus (1915) and the work of Lowell Edmunds seventy years later. Delcourt studies the legend in its various aspects, six episodes that have equal weight and that stress the same themes: greatness, conquest, domination, the right to rule—all of them bound up with the idea of kingship. Together they form the biography of a Theban hero, the fullest account that has come down to us about the prehistory of sovereign power among the ancient Greeks. Delcourt does not suppose that Oedipus, or indeed any other Greek hero, was a historical figure. The personality familiar to us from the plays of the tragedians of the fifth century—our oldest source, and a very late one—was the result of their extraordinary artistry in linking together themes rooted in very ancient social and religious rites that in the interval had come to describe the feats of Oedipus, then his life, and finally his character. It was in order to explain these rites, whose meaning had ceased to be understood, that myths and legends were invented in the first place. Oedipus, Delcourt argues, is the archetype of all heroes of essentially (if not exclusively) ritual origin, whose acts were prior to their person. This is a very different— and far more complex—Oedipus than the one rather implausibly imagined by Freud. More generally, the origin and transmission of the Oedipus legend tells us a great deal about the strength and persistence of public memories in prehistoric societies.

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MSU Press

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162895387X

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9781628953879

Acoustics of Fluid Media 1

Principles and Applications

By: Daniel Juvé,Marie-Annick Galland,Vincent Clair

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Acoustics of Fluid Media 1

Principles and Applications

By: Daniel Juvé,Marie-Annick Galland,Vincent Clair

Acoustics of Fluid Media 1 is intended for undergraduate students and engineering students, as well as graduate students and professionals in the industry who are increasingly faced with the need to consider acoustic constraints in the design of new products. The physical principles and theoretical foundations of acoustics in fluids are first developed, including reflection and refraction of plane and spherical waves. The book then introduces notions of signal processing applied to sound waves, followed by radiation from surface or volume acoustic sources and the use of Green’s functions, as well as the description of diffraction and scattering phenomena. The final chapters are devoted to sound propagation in ducts and room acoustics. Each chapter is accompanied by a limited number of exercises, ranging from the simple application of formulas to problems requiring a more advanced theoretical analysis or a numerical solution. Throughout the book, the theoretical results are illustrated with numerous figures obtained from measurements or numerical simulations resulting from the evaluation of complex formulas or from the use of a finite element solver.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1786309327

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9781786309327

Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada

A Question of Ethics

By: Marie J. Carrière

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Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada

A Question of Ethics

By: Marie J. Carrière

This important work considers the contemporary movement of "writing in the feminine", by examining the work of five women writers from French and English Canada and the dialogue therein with feminist and psychoanalytic theory and theories of ethics. Informing the author's interpretations are the ideas of French theorists Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva, as well as American feminists Kelly Oliver and Jessica Benjamin. Marie Carrière explores the unfolding, complex questions of sexual difference, female subjectivity, and mother-daughter relations. She also uncovers and examines the occasional breakdown of the feminist ethics postulated by Nicole Brossard, France Theoret, Di Brandt, Erin Mouré, and Lola Lemire Tostevin. Carrière views these instances of deviation not as a failure of writing in the feminine, but as an inevitability in the relatively new intellectual terrain of feminist ethics. Writing in the Feminine will be of great interest to scholars of literary theory, women's studies, and Canadian literature in French and English. As a challenging study of the connections between gender and authorship, it will also appeal to those who have a particular interest in women's literature.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802036201

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9780802036209

Celtic Gods and Heroes

By: Marie-Louise Sjoestedt

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Celtic Gods and Heroes

By: Marie-Louise Sjoestedt

Noted French scholar and linguist discusses gods of the continental Celts, beginnings of mythology in Ireland, Irish mother-goddesses and chieftain-gods, and heroes.

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Courier Corporation

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0486115887

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9780486115887

Taxing Soda for Public Health

A Canadian Perspective

By: Yann Le Bodo,Marie-Claude Paquette,Philippe De Wals

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Taxing Soda for Public Health

A Canadian Perspective

By: Yann Le Bodo,Marie-Claude Paquette,Philippe De Wals

This timely reference analyzes the rationale, impact, and feasibility of taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) as a public health measure to contribute curbing obesity and diabetes rates, specifically in Canada. It presents the pros and cons of taxing soda, with the latest data on adverse health effects of its consumption, plus the various business and political issues surrounding the contentious proposition. Reviewed research is multidisciplinary, spanning health and medicine to ethics, economics, and law. Conclusions and caveats are clear and presented at a comfort level for the general reader. The result is a blueprint for analyzing the relevancy of taxes on sweetened soft drinks or other low-nutrition food products, plus a trove of valuable insights into aspects of government decision-making and consumer food behavior. Included in the coverage: · Reasons for specifically targeting SSBs · SSB taxation as a public health policy instrument · Effects of SSB taxation on energy intakes and population health · Potential undesirable effects relating to SSB taxation · Social and political acceptability of SSB taxation · Evaluability of SSB taxation Taxing Soda for Public Health will interest policymakers, public health professionals, advocacy groups, and researchers at the Canadian and international levels (e.g., in areas such as public health, nutrition, food and health policies, health economics, and evaluation), as well as students and all other parties interested in nutrition policies.

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Springer

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3319336487

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9783319336480

Hamilton and Hardy's Industrial Toxicology

By: Raymond D. Harbison,Marie M. Bourgeois,Giffe T. Johnson

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Hamilton and Hardy's Industrial Toxicology

By: Raymond D. Harbison,Marie M. Bourgeois,Giffe T. Johnson

Providing a concise, yet comprehensive, reference on all aspectsof industrial exposures and toxicants; this book aidstoxicologists, industrial hygienists, and occupational physiciansto investigate workplace health problems. • Updates and expands coverage with new chapterscovering regulatory toxicology, toxicity testing, physical hazards,high production volume (HPV) chemicals, and workplace druguse • Includes information on occupational and environmentalsources of exposure, mammalian toxicology, industrial hygiene,medical management and ecotoxicology • Retains a succinct chapter format that has become thehallmark for the previous editions • Distils a vast amount of information into one resourcefor both academics and professionals

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118834216

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9781118834213

Love Letters to Poe

A Toast to Edgar Allan Poe

By: Jeremy Megargee,J. L. Royce,Eleanor Sciolistein

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Love Letters to Poe

A Toast to Edgar Allan Poe

By: Jeremy Megargee,J. L. Royce,Eleanor Sciolistein

Raise a glass in a toast to Edgar Allan Poe with this jam-packed gothic anthology, including 12 themed issues containing 48 short stories and 7 poems from 55 masterful weavers of gothic fiction. Take a tour through Poe's Baltimore home, experience "The Tell-Tale Heart" through the old man's eyes, go corporate at Raven Corp., witness "The Fall of the House of Usher" from the perspective of a hidden Usher sibling, and much more. Don't miss the award-nominated stories "The Heart of Alderman Kane" by Eleanor Sciolistein and "Midnight Rider" by Melanie Cossey, both nominees for Poe Baltimore's Saturday 'Visiter' Awards.Curl up with Love Letters to Poe and enjoy these haunting tales!

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Fun, Fiction, Fandom

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1956546014

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9781956546019

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New World Myth

New World Myth

Vom Mond am anderen Ende der Welt. Life is a Story - story.one

Vom Mond am anderen Ende der Welt. Life is a Story - story.one

Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850–1913

Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850–1913

Cognitive Neuroscience

Cognitive Neuroscience

Apart at the Seams

Apart at the Seams

Interactive Shape Design

Interactive Shape Design

Oedipus; or, The Legend of a Conqueror

Oedipus; or, The Legend of a Conqueror

Acoustics of Fluid Media 1

Acoustics of Fluid Media 1

Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada

Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada

Celtic Gods and Heroes

Celtic Gods and Heroes

Taxing Soda for Public Health

Taxing Soda for Public Health

Hamilton and Hardy's Industrial Toxicology

Hamilton and Hardy's Industrial Toxicology

Love Letters to Poe

Love Letters to Poe

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