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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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Imagine Your Library’s Future: Scenario Planning for Libraries and Information Organizations
(Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2012)"Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research" Vol. 7 no. 2 (2012): 1-3. -
Interview with Dr. Earl A. Levin
(2011-11-09)Interview with Dr. Levin concerning his life and career. -
Introduction to Information Science
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Introduction: Public Libraries and Resilient Cities
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Joseph Rosenblum, “The Authorship Questions,” in The Definitive Shakespeare Companion: Overviews, Documents, and Analysis (vol. 1): 79-94
(Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2018-11)An early chapter of the 2018 reference work, The Definitive Shakespeare Companion: A Comprehensive Guide for Students concerning the Shakespeare Authorship Question, is found to be inadequate, poorly-researched and filled ... -
Knowledge Ill-Inhabited: The Subjugation of Post-Stratfordian Scholarship in Academic Libraries
(The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2015-09-13)Since 2000 there has been a surge of scholarly and popular publishing supporting the proposition that the name “Shake-Speare” was a pseudonym disguising a nobleman named Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, while the ...
