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Gender Conflicts: New Essays in Women's History

Gender Conflicts: New Essays in Women's History

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New Essays in Women's History Franca Iacovetta, Mariana Valverde ... The couple had actually separated in the fall of 1956, when the Making 'New Canadians': Social Workers, Women, and Reshaping of Immigrant Families Franca Iacovetta.
Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto

Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto

Franca Iacovetta

Iacovetta examines the changes many had to face during the transition from peasant worker in an under-developed, rural economy to wage-earner in an urban, industrial society.
Enemies Within: Italian and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad

Enemies Within: Italian and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad

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FRANCA IACOVETTA and ROBERTO PERIN This book is concerned with a crucial issue confronting modern liberal democracies: how to achieve a balance between the civil liberties of minorities and the needs of majorities. Such a balance is ...
A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in ...

A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in ...

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FRANCA IACOVETTA In the spring of 1958 Mrs Gabura, a Hungarian refugee, entered the office of the International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto, a social agency offering aid to the city's non-British immigrants. With her husband employed ...
Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food ...

Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food ...

Franca Iacovetta

CATHERINE CARSTAIRS In the late 1960s and early 1970s, as concern about food additives, water pollution, pesticideuseand the nutritional value of processed foods mounted, an increasing number of Canadians began growing their own ...
Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada

Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada

Franca Iacovetta

Generously illustrated, Gatekeepers explores a side of Cold War history that has been left largely untapped. It offers a long overdue Canadian perspective on one of the defining eras of the last century.
Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of ...

Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of ...

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In this transnational analysis of women and gender in Italy s world-wide migration, Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia challenge the stereotype of the Italian immigrant woman as silent and submissive; a woman who stays 'in the shadows.' " ...
Sisters Or Strangers: Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women ...

Sisters Or Strangers: Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women ...

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Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women in Canadian History Franca Iacovetta, Frances Swyripa, Marlene Epp. 15 For a historical treatment of these themes, see , for example, Marlene Epp, 'Pioneers, Refugees, Exiles, and Transnationals: ...
Noncommutative Geometry: Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. ...

Noncommutative Geometry: Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. ...

Alain Connes

The purpose of the Summer School in Martina Franca was to offer a fresh invitation to the subject and closely related topics; the contributions in this volume include the four main lectures, cover advanced developments and are delivered by ...
Vinte luas

Vinte luas

Leyla Perrone-Moisés

Durante seis meses, Gonneville convive com os índios carijós. Ao voltar para a França, leva o filho do cacique, prometendo devolvê-lo no prazo de vinte luas.
Brasil-França: relações históricas no período colonial

Brasil-França: relações históricas no período colonial

Vasco Mariz

Finalmente, é indispensável sublinhar a significação do aparecimento do livro Guia de fontes para a história franco-brasileira, com organização de Marco Antonio Gonçalves Machado, editado pelo Projeto Resgate do Ministério da Cultura, ...
Dile si a Dios: A Call to Courageous Surrender

Dile si a Dios: A Call to Courageous Surrender

Kay Warren

La aventura empieza al abandonarse, dar un salto de fe y decirle que SÍ al Dios que te ama profundamente. Con franca honestidad Kay Warren va directo a la esencia del asunto: rendirse valientemente.
New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca

New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca

Heiko Motschenbacher

The idiom principle and its realizations. In Tracing English Through Time: Explorations in Language Variation, Ute Smit, Stefan Dollinger, Julia Hüttner, Gunther Kaltenböck & Ursula Lutzky (eds), 359–374. Wien: Braumüller. Sewell, Andrew.
Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Skills for Mental Health ...

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Skills for Mental Health ...

Alan M. Schwitzer

As the above quote from Ray Browne, cofounder, along with Marshall Fishwick of the Popular Culture Association, suggests popular culture is a lingua franca—a primary voice of the people, by the people, and for the people. Its study comes ...
Current Perspectives on Pedagogy for English as a Lingua Franca

Current Perspectives on Pedagogy for English as a Lingua Franca

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In Üte Smit, Stefan Dollinger, Julia Hüttner, Gunther Kaltenböck & Ursula Lutzky ( eds.). Tracing English through time: explorations in language variation, 359–374. Wien: Braummüller. Sinclair, John. 1991. Corpus, concordance, collocation.
O começo do fim: França, maio de 68

O começo do fim: França, maio de 68

ANGELO QUATTROCCHI

'O que aconteceu', de Angelo Quattrocchi, convida o leitor a ver uma revolução em marcha. 'Por que aconteceu', de Tom Nairn, mostra que o pensamento crítico atingira uma lucidez muito maior do que se supõe.
Cartas de Amor de Paris:

Cartas de Amor de Paris:

Samantha Vérant

Vinte anos depois do primeiro encontro, Samantha finalmente descobre o amor de sua vida... Aos 19 anos, Samantha Vérant conheceu o encantador Jean-Luc em uma curta viagem à França.

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