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Canada : what it is, what it can be
\"Canadians have achieved an enviable balance of economic prosperity and civic harmony, but as emerging countries like China, India, and Brazil take their place alongside developed economies, we cannot be complacent. Our high paying jobs, world-class learning and research institutes, excellent health care, and social safety nets exist only to the extent that we are innovative and competitive globally.
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Networks of knowledge : collaborative innovation in international learning
The network is the pervasive organizational image of the new millennium. This book examines one particular kind of network - the 'knowledge network' - whose primary mandate is to create and disseminate knowledge based on multidisciplinary research that is informed by problem-solving as well as theoretical agendas. In their examination of five knowledge networks based in Canadian universities, and in most cases working closely with researchers in developing countries, the authors demonstrate the ability of networks to cross disciplinary boundaries, to blend the operational with the theoretical, and to respond to broad social processes. Operating through networks, rather than through formal, hierarchical structures, diverse communities of researchers create different kinds of knowledge and disseminate their results effectively across disciplinary, sectoral, and spatial boundaries. Analysis of networks in health, environment, urban, and educational fields suggests that old categories of 'north' and 'south' are becoming blurred, and that the new structures of knowledge creation and dissemination help to sustain collaborative research.
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Navigating on the Titanic
Navigating on the Titanic outlines the brief history of economic growth and the private and public institutions - markets, corporations, households, and governments - which underpin that growth. Bryne Purchase examines mega-risks related to our economy's use of fossil fuels and specifically looks at resource depletion, energy security, and climate change - all \"mega-risks\" because they are both global in scope and potentially existential in impact. Focusing on North America, with a particular emphasis on the United States, Purchase's central argument is that the institutions which have produced spectacular economic growth are not capable of acting with prudence to deal with these mega-risks before they become a real danger. He identifies certain institutional design flaws that, while underwriting economic growth, leave society open to potentially catastrophic failure and reveals how these design flaws have been compounded by the stresses of the growing income inequality in society.
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A regional geography of the United States and Canada : toward a sustainable future
\"Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this text offers a comprehensive discussion of the physical and human geography of the United States and Canada, weaving in the key themes of environment and sustainability throughout.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Canada
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country
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The Search for a Method in American Studies
The Search for a Method in American Studies was first published in 1973. Among scholars in the field of American Studies there has been intensive discussion for some years over the possibility of developing a systematic interdisciplinary method for the study of American culture. Professor Tate contributes significantly to the development of such a method by presenting a summary view or platform from which to survey the assumptions and achievements of American Studies. Commenting on the book, Professor Harold H. Kolb, Jr., of the University of Virginia writes: “The work is timely since Americans seem to be presently engaged in rethinking not only American Studies, but also interdisciplinary relationships, the entire climate of academic studies, and cultural concepts and values. Mr. Tate contributes intelligently to these currents of revaluation. And I think his conclusions -- synthetic and eclectic, able to see the strengths and limitations of a variety of different and often opposed points of view -- are sound and useful.” The author explores two central concepts as they have come to be used in American Studies, holism and myth, by examining four key works: Roy Harvey Pearce’s The Continuity of American Poetry, Henry Nash Smith’s Virgin Land, John William Ward’s Andrew Jackson, and R. W. Lewis’s The American Adam. In his consideration he assesses the achievements and limitations of organic holism and goes on to consider some extensions of the central concepts: American Studies as a reply to the New Critics, the problem of language and culture, the concept of national character, and literary nationalism. He shows that much of the scholarly writing in the field exhibits a true originality which can be defined as a unique American Studies methods, but he also emphasizes the need to explore alternatives to holism, such as structuralism, for, as he explains, “it seems to me that we have most to learn from structural anthropology and linguistics, which once again have raised the possibility of the unity of knowledge.”
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Canada
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country
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