University of Ottawa Press
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Decrocher son diplome (et l'emploi de ses reves!)
Thomas R. Klassen
- University of ottawa press
- Praxis
- 25 Avril 2018
- 9782760326460
Poursuivre ses études, c'est palpitant, mais c'est également stressant. Quels cours devrais-je suivre? Quel programme devrais-je choisir? Vais-je décrocher un emploi après avoir obtenu mon diplôme? Rassurez-vous : ce livre permet de constater que la meilleure façon de bien préparer son entrée ...
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Hockey
Jenny Ellison, Jennifer Anderson
- University of ottawa press
- Mercury Series
- 25 Avril 2018
- 9780776626000
For Canadians, hockey is the game. Shared experiences and memories-lacing up for the first time, shinny on an outdoor rink, Sidney Crosby's historic goal, or the one scored by Maurice Richard-make hockey more than just a game. While the relationship between hockey and national identity has be...
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Touch in the Helping Professions
Martin Rovers, Judith Malette, Manal Guirguis-Younger
- University of ottawa press
- Health and Society
- 10 Avril 2018
- 9780776627571
Touch may well be one of the least understood or talked about subjects in the helping professions. A discussion on the importance and ethics of positive, caring, and appropriate touch in professions such as teaching, nursing and counselling is long overdue. Touch in the Helping Professions delivers ...
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Le quartier du musee : histoire et architecture
Michelle Guitard
- University of ottawa press
- Études régionales
- 14 Mars 2018
- 9782760326767
In Gatineau, the Quartier du Musée heritage neighbourhood regularly makes the news as it has been earmarked for large-scale development that would modernize the downtown area. Discover the 65 early-20th century buildings and their history. The Quartier du Musée is located in front of the Cana...
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Drugs and Crime
Serge Brochu, Natacha Brunelle, Chantal Plourde
- University of ottawa press
- Health & Society
- 13 Mars 2018
- 9780776626345
Discussing illegal drugs without taking into account its criminal context is a difficult proposition. Certain questions come back repeatedly: Does doing drugs really lead to delinquency? Do some drugs have criminal properties? Why would a drug addict turn to crime? What are the best methods of inter...
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Mike Starr of Oshawa
Myron Momryk
- University of ottawa press
- Mercury Series
- 23 Janvier 2018
- 9780776625928
La carrière de Mike Starr en politique canadienne a sans contredit été remarquable. En juin 1957, il a été nommé ministre du Travail dans le cabinet de John Diefenbaker, faisant sensation auprès des groupes ethnoculturels canadiens, notamment. Il a marqué l'histoire politique à titre de premier Cana...
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Antonine maillet, laureate de la medaille symons 2016
Antonine Maillet
- University of ottawa press
- The Symons Medal Series/Collection de la
- 22 Novembre 2017
- 9780776625898
Antonine Maillet, prodigieuse « Acadienne, femme et écrivaine », tisse habilement les fils du mythe, de la patrie et de lendemains nouveaux dans cette inspirante allocution prononcée à l'occasion de la cérémonie de remise de la Médaille Symons. En véritable artiste, Maillet se fait « créateur d...
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Journey of a Thousand Miles
Ruey J. Yu
- University of ottawa press
- Biographies et mémoires
- 14 Novembre 2017
- 9780776625690
Born into poverty in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Ruey Yu overcame near-starvation during the Second World War. Destiny, however, had other plans for him: he was to become an award-winning biochemist, then the co-founder of what would soon become the multi-million-dollar skin care company NeoStrata. ...
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Accessibility and Active Offer
Marie Drolet, Pier Bouchard, Jacinthe Savard
- University of ottawa press
- Health and Society
- 1 Novembre 2017
- 9780776625652
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 lea...
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Le ministère des Affaires extérieures du Canada
John Hilliker
- University of ottawa press
- Politique et politiques publiques
- 7 Juin 2017
- 9782760326064
Le premier volume de l'histoire officielle du ministère des Affaires extérieures porte sur la croissance administrative du ministère à partir de sa création en 1909; il fait état entre autres des changements majeurs amenés par la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Après un chapitre d'introduction traitant de...
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Le ministère des Affaires extérieures du Canada
John Hilliker, Donald Barry
- University of ottawa press
- Politique et politiques publiques
- 7 Juin 2017
- 9782760326026
Le ministère entretint des relations particulièrement étroites avec les dirigeants politiques sous la direction de Lester Pearson qui, après avoir été sous-secrétaire d'État pendant deux ans devint ministre des Affaires extérieures en 1948. À la fin des années 1950, le consensus en matière de pol...
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The Blue Shirts
Hugues Theoret
- University of ottawa press
- Canadian Studies
- 16 Mai 2017
- 9780776624693
While Adolf Hitler was seizing power in Germany, Adrien Arcand was laying the foundations in Quebec for his Parti national social chrétien. The Blue Shirts, as its members were called, wore a military uniform and prominently displayed the swastika. Arcand saw Jewish conspiracy wherever he turned and...
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Tu sais, mon vieux jean-pierre
Willis Johnn
- University of ottawa press
- Mercury
- 28 Avril 2017
- 9780776624587
Tu sais, mon vieux Jean-Pierre is inspired by the work of archaeologist Jean-Pierre Chrestien (1949-2008), who worked hand-in-glove with a generation of researchers in helping to unearth unexpected and always interesting aspects of New France. Contributions focus first upon the door to New France...
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The Forgotten Songs of the Newfoundland Outports
Anna Kearney Guigne
- University of ottawa press
- Mercury
- 12 Décembre 2016
- 9780776623856
In 1951, musician Kenneth Peacock (1922-2000) secured a contract from the National Museum of Canada (today the Canadian Museum of History) to collect folksongs in Newfoundland. As the province had recently joined Confederation, the project was deemed a goodwill gesture, while at the same time adding...
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Voice and Versification in Translating Poems
James W. Underhill
- University of ottawa press
- Perspectives on Translation
- 9 Décembre 2016
- 9780776622781
Great poets like Shelley and Goethe have made the claim that translating poems is impossible. And yet, poems are translated; not only that, but the metrical systems of English, French, Italian, German, Russian and Czech have been shaped by the translation of poems. Our poetic traditions are inspired...
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The Life and Work of W. B. Nickerson (1865-1926)
Ian Dyck
- University of ottawa press
- Mercury
- 2 Novembre 2016
- 9780776623894
During his spare time, William Baker Nickerson investigated sites from New England to the Midwest and into the Canadian Prairies. In the course of exploration, he created an elegant and detailed record of discoveries and developed methods which later archaeologists recognized as being ahead of their...
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EAccess to Justice
Karim Benyekhlef, Jane Bailey, Jacquelyn Burkell, Fabien Gelinas
- University of ottawa press
- Law, Technology and Media
- 22 Septembre 2016
- 9780776624310
Part I of this work focuses on the ways in which digitization projects can affect fundamental justice principles. It examines claims that technology will improve justice system efficiency and offers a model for evaluating e-justice systems that incorporates a broader range of justice system values. ...
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A Journey in Translation
Lee Skallerup Bessette
- University of ottawa press
- Canadian Literature Collection
- 3 Août 2016
- 9780776623788
This book traces the remarkable journey of Hébert's shifting authorial identity as versions of her work traveled through complex and contested linguistic and national terrain from the late 1950s until today. At the center of this exploration of Hébert's work are the people who were inspired by her p...
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Ottawa
Jeff Keshen, Nicole St-Onge
- University of ottawa press
- Actexpress
- 14 Juillet 2016
- 9782760315709
Ottawa - Making a Capital is a collection of 24 never-before published essays in English and in French on the history of Ottawa. It brings together leading historians, archeologists and archivists whose work reveals the rich tapestry of the city. Pre-contact society, French Canadian voyageurs, the e...
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Meet Me on the Barricades
Charles Yale Harrison
- University of ottawa press
- Canadian Literature Collection
- 31 Mai 2016
- 9780776623702
Meet Me on the Barricades is Harrison's most experimental work. The novel includes a series of fantasy sequences that culminate in a scene heavily indebted to the Nighttown episode in James Joyce's Ulysses (the novel was published a year before James Thurber's better-known short story, "The Secret L...
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Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story
Laurie Kruk
- University of ottawa press
- Canadian Literature Collection
- 27 Mai 2016
- 9780776623245
Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior, Carol Shields and Guy Vanderhaeghe. With the 2013 Nobel Priz...
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The God of Gods: A Canadian Play
Carroll Aikins
- University of ottawa press
- Canadian Literature Collection
- 14 Avril 2016
- 9780776623283
Carroll Aikins's play The God of Gods (1919) has been out of print since its first and only edition in 1927. This critical edition not only revives the work for readers and scholars alike, it also provides historical context for Aikins's often overlooked contributions to theatre in the 1920s and pre...
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Short Stories by Thomas Murtha
Thomas Murtha
- University of ottawa press
- Canadian Short Story Library
- 16 Décembre 2015
- 9780776608655
This is a collection of the published and previously unpublished short stories by Thomas Murtha, a Canadian writer born and raised in Ontario. Murtha was one of the notable experimental writers of the 1920s, but his work has been largely ignored by literary historians. Thomas Murtha was a classmate ...
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The Fate of Bonté III
Alain Poissant
- University of ottawa press
- Literary Translation
- 1 Décembre 2015
- 9780776622866
Bonté III was five years old. A cow at that age is at her prime. Prime is an accounting term. A dairy farm is a business and must be managed as such. From this perspective, Bonté III's days were numbered. Numbered is not an empty word. She had been a good representative of her breed. A cow, after al...
