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Talcott Parsons and the capitalist nation-state: political sociology as a strategic vocation
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ISBN: 0802065317 0802056334 Year: 1985 Publisher: Toronto, Ont.

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Sketching user experiences : getting the design right and the right design
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ISBN: 9780123740373 9780080552903 0080552900 1281033081 9781281033086 9786611033088 6611033084 0123740371 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann,

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Hardly a day goes by that we don't see an announcement for some new product or technology that is going to make our lives easier, solve some or all of our problems, or simply make the world a better place. However, the reality is that few of these products survive, much less deliver on their promise. But are we learning from these expensive mistakes? Rather than rethink the underlying process that brings these products to market, the more common strategy seems to be the shotgun method, that is, keep blasting away in the hope that one of the pellets will eventually hit the bull's eye. This book's goal is to help with this problem: to inspire and encourage HCI and other design professionals to try new methods, test themselves with the exercises and projects, and see an improvement in innovative interaction design that works. Some of these methods are sketching-based, taking methods that have been traditionally used for design. Others are prototyping methods that have been traditionally used for testing and evaluating design in HCI. The result is a group of methods and process that successfully work in both HCI and design. This helps to give these fields a unity as well as a uniquely innovative way to design user experience. -- Publisher description.


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Harold Innis on Peter Pond : biography, cultural memory, and the continental fur trade
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ISBN: 0773559752 0773559760 Year: 2019 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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"Best known for his writings on economic history and communications, Harold Innis also produced a body of biographical work that paid particular attention to cultural memory and how it is enriched by the study of neglected historical figures. In this compelling volume, William Buxton addresses Innis's engagement with the legacy of the fur trader and adventurer Peter Pond. Harold Innis on Peter Pond comprises eight texts by Innis, including his 1930 biography of Pond as well as his writings on the explorer's myriad activities. The book also features a collection of eight letters exchanged between Innis and Florence Cannon, a descendent of Pond with a strong interest in her ancestor's life and times, and an unpublished 1932 article on Pond's 1773-75 activities as a fur trader on the upper Mississippi, written by Innis's former student R. Harvey Fleming. Situating Innis's writings on Pond in relation to his broader body of biographical work, Buxton interprets what these texts tell us about Innis's intellectual practice, historiography, and the writing of biography. The book explores how Innis's perspectives shifted with changing intellectual and political circumstances and shows that his advocacy of Pond as an unrecognized "father of confederation" challenged conventional views of Canadian nation-building. A critical edition of previously overlooked biographical texts, Harold Innis on Peter Pond traces what these writings disclose about the biographer's character and values even as they discuss their subject."--

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Fur trade --- History. --- Pond, Peter,


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Harold Innis and the north : appraisals and contestations
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ISBN: 0773588760 9780773588769 9780773588776 0773588779 9780773541641 9780773541672 Year: 2013 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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"Harold Innis is widely understood as the proponent of the "Laurentian school" of historiography, which mapped Canadian development along an East-West axis. Harold Innis and the North turns the axis North-South by examining Innis's intense and abiding interest in the North, and providing new perspectives on this seminal figure in Canadian political economy and communication studies. This collection reveals that Innis's advocacy of the North was closely bound up with his vision of northern Canada as the site of a second industrial revolution based on mining, hydro-electric power, pulp and paper, and enabled by new forms of transportation. Long preoccupied with Canada's coming of age as a balanced and integrated industrial nation-state, Innis grappled with the same issues about the North in the Canadian nation that we are dealing with today. Chapters explore the breadth of Innis's northern activities, including his early studies of the fur trade, his biography of eighteenth-century explorer and cartographer Peter Pond, his review essays on the North for the Canadian Historical Review, his leadership of the Rockefeller-sponsored Arctic Survey, and his trip to the Soviet Union. Harold Innis and the North crafts a new narrative about the nature and scope of Innis's intellectual project and provides a unique appreciation of his multi-faceted professional identity.--pub. desc.


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Harold Innis on Peter Pond : Biography, Cultural Memory, and the Continental Fur Trade.
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ISBN: 9780773559769 Year: 2020 Publisher: Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press

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A compelling study of Harold Innis's engagement with a remarkable - but largely overlooked - historical figure.

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Harold Innis in the new century : reflections and refractions
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ISBN: 0773517375 9786612855122 1282855123 0773567267 0773517383 9780773567269 9780773517370 9780773517387 Year: 1999 Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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The book is divided into three sections: "Reflections on Innis" provides a historical reassessment of Innis, "Gaps and Silences" considers the limitations of both Innis's thought and his interpreters, and "Innis and Cultural Theory" offers speculations on his influence on cultural analysis. The interpretations offered reflect the changing landscape of intellectual life as boundaries between traditional disciplines blur and new interdisciplinary fields emerge. Harold Innis in the New Century is a valuable resource for scholars and students of Canadian studies, communication studies, cultural studies, economic history, and political science. Contributors include Charles R. Acland (Calgary), Alison Beale (Simon Fraser), Jody Berland (York), James Bickerton (St Francis Xavier), William J. Buxton (Concordia), James Carey (Columbia), Ray Charron (Concordia), Cheryl Dahl (University College of the Fraser Valley), Michael Dorland (Carleton), Kevin Dowler (York), Donald Fisher (UBC), Sarah Fortin (McGill), Alain-G. Gagnon (McGill), Jane Jenson (Montréal), Heather Menzies (Carleton), Richard Noble (Winnipeg), Daniel Salée (Concordia), Liora Salter (Osgoode Hall), Kim Sawchuk (Concordia), Irene Spry (professor emerita, Ottawa), Judith Stamps (Victoria), and Andrew Werwick (Trent).


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2èmes journées d'étude internationale des musiques électroacoustiques
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Year: 1978 Publisher: Bourges : GMEB,

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American philanthropy and Canadian libraries : the politics of knowledge and information.
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ISBN: 0771705190 Year: 1998 Publisher: Montreal McGill university. Graduate school of library and information services

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