Author: Tom Brzustowski
Publisher: University of Ottawa Pre
Keywords: challenge, governance, series, productivity, canada, ahead, meeting, way
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-01-22
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0776606697
ISBN-13: 9780776606699

Canada is a prosperous country, but this prosperity is being stressed by demographics, pressures on the public purse, and low productivity growth. To maintain the nation’s high quality of life, prosperity must increase while remaining sustainable. Combining Tom Brzustowski’s extensive knowledge of government, industry, and academia, The Way Ahead, articulates a strategy for moving the Canadian economy towards higher-value products based on research and development, describing the practical steps government, industry and academia must take to improve things in the short term and pre

Authors:Janna Fox, Mari Wesche, Doreen Bayliss, Liying Che
Publisher: University of Ottawa Pre
Keywords: actexpress, reconsidered, testing, language
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0776606573
ISBN-13: 9780776606576

Language Testing Reconsidered provides a critical update on major issues that have engaged the field of language testing since its inception. Anyone who is working in, studying or teaching language testing should have a copy of this book. The information, discussions, and reflections offered within the volume address major developments within the field over the past decades, enlivened by current "takes" on these issues. The real value of this collection, however, lies in its consideration of the past as a means of defining the future agenda of language testing.

Author: Kerstin Knopf
Publisher: University of Ottawa Pre
Keywords: international, canadian, studies, series, century, expression, canada, revisited, politics, cultural, aboriginal
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2008-09-13
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0776606794
ISBN-13: 9780776606798

Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film—Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and cultural position of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. While lauding improvements made in the past decades, the contributors draw attention to the systemic problems that continue to marginalize Aboriginal people within Canadian society.From the Introduction: “[This collection helps to highlight areas where the colonial legacy still takes its toll, to acknowledge the manifold ways of Aboriginal cultural expression, and

Author: David Rampton
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Keywords: reappraisals, canadian, writers, old, directions, frye, new, northrop
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 2009-06-20
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0776606956
ISBN-13: 9780776606958

More than fifty years after the publication of Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye remains one of Canada’s most influential intellectuals. This reappraisal reasserts the relevance of his work to the study of literature and illuminates its fruitful intersection with a variety of other fields, including film, cultural studies, linguistics, and feminism. Many of the contributors draw upon the early essays, correspondence, and diaries recently published as part of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series, in order to explore the development of his extraordinary intellectual range and the

Authors:David Lyle Jeffrey, Dominic Manganiello,
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Keywords: series, mentor, university, future, rethinking
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1998-12-17
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0776604813
ISBN-13: 9780776604817

This distinguished collection of essays, edited under the direction of David Lyle Jeffrey and Dominic Manganiello, emerged from the discussions that surrounded the 1995-1996 McMartin Lectures. Dedicated to studying the relationship and contributions of historic Christian thought to the intellectual life of university disciplines, this series of lectures served as an occasion for scholars to rethink the present crisis in the relationship between the historic identity of the university and the development of the modern university.

Author:
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Keywords: writers, canadian, reappraisals, symposium, callaghan
Number of Pages: 123
Published: 1997-10
List price: $6.00
ISBN-10: 2760343871
ISBN-13: 9782760343870

Authors:Camille La Bossière, Linda M. Morra,
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Keywords: canadian, writers, reappraisals, contrarieties, davies, mingling, robertson
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-07-03
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0776605313
ISBN-13: 9780776605319

This collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies addresses the basic problems in reading his work by looking at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony, paradox, and dwelling in "gaps" or spaces "in between." The essays present new insights on a broad range of topics in Davies’ oeuvre and represent one of the first major discussions devoted to Davies’ work since his death in 1995.