Browsing Library by Title
Now showing items 1-20 of 79
-
The Amsterdam years of Joseph Margetts, father-in-law of Adriaen Hegeman of New Netherland
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2000) -
Becoming an Oxfordian: The Phenomenology of Shifting Research Paradigms in Shakespearean Biography
(2018-06-16)This essay seeks to gain a phenomenological understanding of the journey from skepticism in the traditional biography of Shakespeare to belief that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the poet-playwright, and how this ... -
“By Nature Fram’d to Wear a Crown”? Decolonizing the Shakespeare Authorship Question
(Brief Chronicles, 2014-01-01)The paper suggests that the academy's marginalization of Shakespeare authorship scholarship originates in the imperial origins of the broader culture, in particular within the totalizing, essentialist and self-aggrandizing ... -
A Characterization of Wilson-Lerch Primes
(Integers, 2016-07)This note presents criteria in terms of Bernoulli numbers for a prime to be simultaneously a Wilson prime and a Lerch prime. -
The Cheapest Police
(University of Birmingham, 2024)Current debates within librarianship around intellectual freedom echo debates in broader society around free speech, cancel culture, and "culture war". This thesis argues that, far from being a transcendental value or ... -
Churchill Sustainability Planning Framework (CSPF)
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2011-02)e current report is the Churchill Sustainability Planning Framework (CSPF) which sets out the Vision, Values and Priorities for making Churchill a more sustainable community, and provides a “toolkit” for moving these ... -
Cinema and the ‘City of the Mind’: Using Motion Pictures to Explore Human-Environment Transactions in Planning Education.
(Springer, 2010)This chapter examines the pedagogical use of film in planning education, specifically as it relates to the teaching of environmental psychology. The intersections between film, theory, and pedagogy are important because ... -
Community Distress Towards a National Measure
(Policy Research and Coordination Directorate, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2008-01)This report developed and tested a proposed Canadian Distress Index (CDI) model capable of exploring distress across and within Canadian cities. The proposed index is discussed in terms of its ability to inform policy ... -
Cornelis De Potter revisited
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2000) -
The Curious Case of Academic Publishing
(Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2013)The recent controversy over The Edwin Mellen Press lawsuit against McMaster University librarian Dale Askey is considered a symptom of a larger problem: the unsustainable demands from the academy itself which have created ... -
Defensive dispersal and the nuclear imperative in postwar planning: a study in the sociology of knowledge
(University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba, 2001-05-01)In the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final days of World War II, an urban planning concept known as 'defensive dispersal' came to be advocated by city planners, architects, atomic ... -
Downstream
(Library Juice Press, 2023) -
Enhancing Cultural Capital: The Arts and Community Development in Winnipeg
(2005-09-17)This research highlights the contribution that community-based arts organizations are making in Winnipeg ‘s inner city. The project reveals that there is not only a wealth of artistic and cultural resources in the inner ... -
The Family of Hendrick Cock of Amsterdam
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2011) -
Finding Reliable Information: Beyond the Paywall
(2021-10-20)Learn how and where to find free Open Access research that is scholarly and trustworthy. Explore searching tips and tools for finding appropriate and relevant articles and publications. -
The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent
(Annals of Genealogical Research, 2006)Jerome B. Holgate, in his American Genealogy (fictitiously dated 1848), derives the Rapalje family from an alleged Gaspard Colet de Rapalje "born in France, at Châtillon, sur Loire, in 1505." We suggest that this personage ... -
The German Origin of Andreas Flach, of Flocktown, German Valley, Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey
(Genealogical Society of New Jersey, 2017)While previously known records of Andreas Flach (1711-1779) of Flocktown contain no direct clue as to his place of origin, the basic structure of his family is established by the account in Chambers's Early Germans of New ... -
Guide to the Wanka Collection, University of Winnipeg
([University of Winnipeg Library], 1994-12)The items that comprise the Wanka Collection reflect the late Wilhelm Wanka’s interest in the fate of the Germans who, after World War II, were expelled from what was known as the Sudetenland. The Sudetenland was never a ... -
Housing Distress in Winnipeg: Implications for Policy Programs and Services
(2008-01-01)This is the Final Report of the research project “Structural Causes of Housing Distress in Winnipeg: Implications for Policy Programs and Services” undertaken by the Institute of Urban Studies on behalf of the National ...
