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  • Public Enterprises Today: Missions, Performance and Governance – Les entreprises publiques aujourd’hui : missions, performance, gouvernance

    Learning from Fifteen Cases – Leçons de quinze études de cas

    Edited by CIRIEC, Luc Bernier ...
    Series Book 5 - Économie sociale et Économie publique / Social Economy and Public Economy
    Over thirty years, privatization of public enterprises was in the air. Before and during this period of neo-liberalism, and since the 2008 crisis, public enterprises were nonetheless created: they did what they were set up for and they frequently managed to get interesting results, as much on their public mission as regarding profitability. How is this possible? This book looks at public ... Read more

    $94.19 CAD

  • The Art of Thinking in a Digital World

    Be Logical – Be Creative – Be Critical

    by Luc de Brabandere, Lina Benmehrez, Jonas Leyder ...
    Luc de Brabandere has had three careers in his fifty years of professional life. He started out as a computer engineer, before becoming a consultant in creativity, and today he is a corporate philosopher. This journey has led him to investigate successively the three modes of thinking that are permanently articulated within us: logical thinking, creative thinking and critical thinking. As a ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Origins of Human Language: Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates

    by Pascal Perrier, Louis-Jean Boë, Joël Fagot, Jean-Luc Schwartz ...
    Series Book 4 - Speech Production and Perception
    This book proposes a detailed picture of the continuities and ruptures between communication in primates and language in humans. It explores a diversity of perspectives on the origins of language, including a fine description of vocal communication in animals, mainly in monkeys and apes, but also in birds, the study of vocal tract anatomy and cortical control of the vocal productions in monkeys ... Read more

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  • Linking Research and Training in Internationalization of Teacher Education with the PEERS Program: Issues, Case Studies and Perspectives

    by Jean-Luc Gilles ...
    The PEERS program proposes international exchanges adapted to the context of teacher training institutions wishing to take advantage of internationalization in order to link training, research, and practice. PEERS is based on the completion of Research and Innovation (R&I) projects during the academic year, during which international groups of professors and students from teacher training partner ... Read more

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    Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense

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    Series series Bad Arguments
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  • Reading in the Brain

    The New Science of How We Read

    by Stanislas Dehaene ...
    A renowned cognitive neuroscientist?s fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires readingHow can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the ?reading paradox?: Our cortex is the product of ... Read more

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  • Accessibility and Active Offer

    Health Care and Social Services in Linguistic Minority Communities

    Edited by Marie Drolet, Pier Bouchard, Jacinthe Savard ...
    Series series Health and Society
    It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading professionals. Accessibility and Active Offer thus combines theory and empirical data to help ... Read more

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  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    by David Bellos ...
    People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not ... Read more

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  • Comparative Cognition

    by Mary C. Olmstead, Valerie A. Kuhlmeier ...
    Integrating developments from psychology, ethology and neuroscience, this is an undergraduate introduction to cognitive processes across species. The authors merge classic studies and contemporary research to give students a full picture of the evolving field of comparative cognition. Engaging students in the discipline from its roots in animal learning and evolutionary biology through to current ... Read more

    $63.19 CAD

  • Learning in the Global Era

    International Perspectives on Globalization and Education

    Edited by Marcelo Suarez-Orozco ...
    An international gathering of leading scholars, policymakers, and educators takes on some of the most difficult and controversial issues of our time in this groundbreaking exploration of how globalization is affecting education around the world. The contributors, drawing from innovative research in both the social sciences and the neurosciences, examine the challenges and opportunities now facing ... Read more

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  • The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

    The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

    by Terrence W. Deacon ...
    "A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book ReviewThis revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co ... Read more

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  • Global Urban Politics

    Informalization of the State

    by Julie-Anne Boudreau ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the StateIn what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics to transnational governing institutions.Organized thematically, the book examines urban social movements, diversity politics, ... Read more

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