Ultra Libris

Author : Rowland Lorimer
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781770902909

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Ultra Libris by Rowland Lorimer Pdf

Reflecting cultural, political, and technological changes, this detailed exploration of Canadian book publishing displays trends of the industry from the last 50 years. Against the backdrop of historical highlights, the book dives into modern events in book publishing, focusing on the explosion of national book publishing in the 1970s and detailing the sparring match between the industry and government during the 1970s through the 1990s. While industry and government policy both aimed at national survival in the face of globalization, the book documents how, beginning in the mid-1990s, Ontario established an emphasis on financial stability for the cultural sector accompanied by stimulants to encourage participation in domestic and international markets. This new vision laid the foundation for and anticipated the growing recognition of the creative economy worldwide. Coinciding with that recognition came an embrace of technology not just as a business catalyst, but also as a transformative medium for expression with the potential to change the nature of both book publishing and human understanding. Finally, the text concludes with a discourse on the future of books and book publishing, not only in Canada but in the world as a whole.

Author : Church of England
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1761
Category : Ecclesiastical law
ISBN : UOM:39015035336604

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Codex juris ecclesiastici anglicani by Church of England Pdf

Author : Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521830834

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Lollards of Coventry, 1486-1522 by Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) Pdf

In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Coventry harboured a community of Lollards, adherents of medieval England's only popular heresy. Allowed to flourish relatively unmolested for decades, the Coventry Lollards came under close episcopal scrutiny in 1511 and 1512 when Geoffrey Blyth, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, began a concerted effort to uncover and eradicate their community. This volume presents a remarkable record of the testimony compiled during Blyth's crackdown, along with all other surviving evidence for heretical activities in Coventry. The documents, offered here both in their original languages of Latin and Middle English and in modern English translation, give new insights into the nature of religious dissent in the years just prior to the first stirrings of the English Reformation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004452893

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The Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan by Anonim Pdf

This book is a collection of papers on the metaphysics and natural philosophy of John Buridan (ca. 1295-1361), one of the most innovative and influential thinkers of the later Middle Ages. It brings together original contributions by fifteen Buridan scholars on a number of central topics in the Buridanian corpus, including the theory of universals, the role of definitions in scientific practice, necessity and probability, time, the natural order, the theory of motion, time and infinity, certitude, sensation, dreams, and volition. The papers provide a unified picture of Buridan's non-logical writings, most of which are still unedited, emphasizing throughout his particular methods of presenting and solving philosophical problems. The result suggests that Buridan's reputation for brilliance in logic and semantics deserves to be extended to other areas of philosophy, and that his work deserves closer study. Contributors include: Paul J.J.M. Bakker, Joël Biard, Dirk-Jan Dekker, Peter King, Gyula Klima, Simo Knuuttila, Gerhard Krieger, John E. Murdoch, Fabienne Pironet, Olaf Pluta, Rolf Schönberger, Peter G. Sobol, Edith Dudley Sylla, Johannes M.M.H. Thijssen, and Jack Zupko.

Author : Richard Rufus (of Cornwall)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0197262740

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In Physicam Aristotelis by Richard Rufus (of Cornwall) Pdf

As one of the earliest Western physics teachers, Richard Rufus of Cornwall helped transform Western natural philosophy in the 13th century. But despite the importance of Rufus's works, they were effectively lost for 500 years, and the Physics commentary is the first complete work of his ever to be printed. Rufus taught at the Universities of Paris and Oxford from 1231 to 1256, at the very time when exposure to Aristotle's ibri naturales was revolutionizing the academic curriculum; indeed Rufus gave the earliest surviving lectures on physics and metaphysics. Rufus not only expounded the views of Aristotle and the commentator Averroes, but he also challenged them, and this lively discussion proved to be enormously influential. Rufus rejected Aristotle's theory of projectile motion, and this rival view was later adopted by Franciscus de Marchia. His revised account of the place of the heavens was taken up by Roger Bacon and Thomas Aquinas; and his defence of creation, still considered a cogent reply to Aristotle's claims for a beginningless universe, was to be embraced by both Bacon and Bonaventure. Professor Wood's meticulous edition sheds light on that Crucial period when the medieval West for the first time acquired a comprehensive scientific account of the cosmos.

Author : Thomas M'Crie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Reformation
ISBN : HARVARD:32044105521108

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Works by Thomas M'Crie Pdf

Author : Thomas M'Crie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Reformation
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU60728280

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Life of Andrew Melville by Thomas M'Crie Pdf

Author : Thomas M'Crie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100023000J

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Life of Andrew Melville, Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland During the Latter Part of the Sixteenth and Beginning of the Seventeenth Century, with an Appendix Consisting of Original Papers by Thomas M'Crie Pdf

Author : Thomas M'Crie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z254040206

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“The” Works of Thomas M'Crie by Thomas M'Crie Pdf

Author : Thomas MACCRIE (D.D., the Elder.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026984129

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The Works of Thomas M'Crie ... A New Edition, Edited by His Son Thomas M'Crie by Thomas MACCRIE (D.D., the Elder.) Pdf

Author : Thomas M'Crie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555061619

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Works of the rev. Thomas M'Crie, ed. by his son (T. M'Crie). New and uniform ed by Thomas M'Crie Pdf

Author : Nicole Oresme
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Euclid's Elements
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Quaestiones Super Geometriam Euclidis by Nicole Oresme Pdf

Contains a English translation of Questions 1-21 with a bibliography.

Author : Joe Karaganis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262535014

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Shadow Libraries by Joe Karaganis Pdf

How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks. From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the institutions that shape the provision of educational materials, from the formal sector of universities and publishers to the broadly informal ones organized by faculty, copy shops, student unions, and students themselves. It looks at the history of policy battles over access to education in the post–World War II era and at the narrower versions that have played out in relation to research and textbooks, from library policies to book subsidies to, more recently, the several “open” publication models that have emerged in the higher education sector. From the bottom up, Shadow Libraries explores how, simply, students get the materials they need. It maps the ubiquitous practice of photocopying and what are—in many cases—the more marginal ones of buying books, visiting libraries, and downloading from unauthorized sources. It looks at the informal networks that emerge in many contexts to share materials, from face-to-face student networks to Facebook groups, and at the processes that lead to the consolidation of some of those efforts into more organized archives that circulate offline and sometimes online— the shadow libraries of the title. If Alexandra Elbakyan's Sci-Hub is the largest of these efforts to date, the more characteristic part of her story is the prologue: the personal struggle to participate in global scientific and educational communities, and the recourse to a wide array of ad hoc strategies and networks when formal, authorized means are lacking. If Elbakyan's story has struck a chord, it is in part because it brings this contradiction in the academic project into sharp relief—universalist in principle and unequal in practice. Shadow Libraries is a study of that tension in the digital era. Contributors Balázs Bodó, Laura Czerniewicz, Miroslaw Filiciak, Mariana Fossatti, Jorge Gemetto, Eve Gray, Evelin Heidel, Joe Karaganis, Lawrence Liang, Pedro Mizukami, Jhessica Reia, Alek Tarkowski

Author : Laura K. Davis,Linda M. Morra
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781772123937

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Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters by Laura K. Davis,Linda M. Morra Pdf

Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland—one of Canada’s most beloved writers and one of Canada’s most significant publishers—enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals a professional relationship that evolved into deep friendship over a period of enormous cultural change. Both were committed to the idea of Canadian writing; in a very real sense, their mutual and separate work helped bring “Canadian Literature” into being. With its insider’s view of the book business from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters presents a valuable piece of Canadian literary history curated and annotated by Davis and Morra. This is essential reading for all those interested in Canada’s literary culture.

Author : Linda M. Morra,Sarah Henzi
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771125154

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On the Other Side(s) of 150 by Linda M. Morra,Sarah Henzi Pdf

On the Other Side(s) of 150 explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations. It asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories have been suppressed and invites consideration about what happens once a commemorative moment has passed. Like a Cubist painting, this modality offers a critical strategy by which also to approach the volume as dismantling, reassembling, and re-enacting existing commemorative tropes; as offering multiple, conditional, and contingent viewpoints that unfold over time; and as generating a broader (although far from being comprehensive) range of counter-memorial performances. The chapters in this volume are thus provisional, interconnected, and adaptive: they offer critical assemblages by which to approach commemorative narratives or showcase lacunae therein; by which to return to and intervene in ongoing readings of the past from the present moment; and by which not necessarily to resolve, but rather to understand the troubled and troubling narratives of the present moment. Contributors propose that these preoccupations are not a means of turning away from present concerns, but rather a means of grappling with how the past informs or is shaped to inform them; and how such concerns are defined by immediate social contexts and networks.