Reflections of Canada

Illuminating Our Opportunities and Challenges at 150+ Years

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Canada's leading writers, researchers, and public intellectuals peer into the country's future in the provocative essay collection published in the 150th year since Conferderation.Reflections of Canada – intelligent, passionate, provocative – is a book with opinions as diverse as Canada. Leading thinkers take a stand on some of the most pressing issues facing Canada as it turns 150. Reflections of Canada inspires the reader to form her own opinions on subjects as big and thorny as health and aging, technological change, arts and culture, climate change and resource use, Aboriginal reconciliation, and multiculturalismA book of lively, respectful debate, Reflections of Canada reaffirms the place for public discussion of major societal questions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-06-21
Mått165 x 241 x undefined mm
Vikt557 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia
ISBN9780888652676

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