Long a topic of intricate political and social debate, Canadian identity has come to be understood as fragmented, amorphous, and unstable, a multifaceted and contested space only tenuously linked to traditional concepts of the nation. As Canadians, we are endlessly defining ourselves, seeking to locate our sense of self in relation to some Other. By examining how writers and performers have con…
This book discusses the economic, political, and environmental issues surrounding the international exploration and exploitation of conventional and unconventional natural gas. Shale gas development in recent years has changed the energy discussion in the US as existing reserves of natural gas coupled with horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing make exploitation of these reserves economic…
Sport literature is never just about sport. The genre’s potential to explore the human condition, including aspects of violence, gender, and the body, has sparked the interest of writers, readers, and scholars. Over the last decade, a proliferation of sport literature courses across the continent is evidence of the sophisticated and evolving body of work developing in this area. Writing the B…
Meningkatkan resolusi dan perbaikan dalam model iklim dapat membantu mengurangi ketidakpastian. Namun, karena peristiwa ekstrem dan perubahan yang sangat nonlinier (mis., keruntuhan AMOC), menurut definisi, ditemukan di' ekor ' distribusi, ansambel atau model iklim yang panjang mungkin diperlukan. Meskipun tidak mungkin untuk mengukur kemungkinan peristiwa yang sangat langka atau fenomena yang …
As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right. By critically situating and assessing specific Alberta authors according to genre, this volume continues the work begun with Melnyk’s Literary History of Alberta.
Kita hidup di dunia yang berjejaring. Platform jejaring sosial online dan World Wide Web telah mengubah cara berpikir masyarakat tentang konektivitas. Karena sifat teknologi dari jaringan semacam itu, studi mereka sebagian besar terjadi dalam domain ilmu komputer dan bidang ilmiah terkait. Tetapi para sarjana seni dan humaniora semakin banyak menggunakan jenis analisis visual dan kuantitatif ya…
Membahas sejarah produksi dan penerimaan puisi abad pertengahan yang agung, Piers Ploughman, Lawrence Warner mengungkapkan banyak cara di mana para sarjana, editor, dan kritikus selama berabad-abad menciptakan narasi spekulatif mereka sendiri tentang puisi tersebut, yang lambat laun dianggap sebagai benar secara faktual. Warner memulai dengan mempertimbangkan kemungkinan Langland menulis roman …
Studi inovatif ini menunjukkan bagaimana pembangun kekaisaran Jepang menemukan dan menyesuaikan wacana kelebihan populasi untuk membenarkan kolonialisme pemukim Jepang di seluruh Pasifik. Lu mendefinisikan wacana kelebihan populasi ini sebagai "ekspansionisme Malthus.” Ini adalah seperangkat gagasan yang menuntut tambahan lahan di luar negeri untuk mengakomodasi kelebihan penduduk dalam masya…
After tracing the causes of the global financial crisis, the book focuses on two fundamental systemic issues connected with its manifestation: financial-sector regulation and the problem of the dollar-centric international monetary system, both of which have been widely cited among the important factors leading to the 2008 financial crisis. The important analytical question of monetary policy t…
This book analyzes extensive data on the world’s rapidly changing and growing access to, use and geographies of information and communications technologies. It studies not only the spatial differences in technology usage worldwide, but also examines digital differences in the major world nations of China, India, the United States and Japan at the state and provincial levels. At the global lev…