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The Practice of Human Resource Management in Canada

This introductory human resource management (HRM) textbook provides an overview of the major domains of HRM with a focus on the practical application of the most recent research and best practices. Barnetson and Foster provide thought-provoking political analysis to better prepare students for the real-world practice of human resource management.

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Writing Ukraine

Myrna Kostash’s term as writer in residence at Athabasca University began shortly after the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022. In this essay, based on her writer-in-residence lecture at Athabasca University, Kostash offers a self-critical reflection on her body of work and considers how her visits to Ukraine and the ongoing war have nuanced her writing about and understanding of Ukrainian Canadian identity.

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Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees

Reckoning with the experiences of refugees can inform epistemological and practical approaches to humanizing migrant populations before, during, and after their resettlement. Contributors explore what it means to experience dehumanization, offering urgent insights and policy-relevant perspectives to improve refugees’ social well-being and integration.

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Cultural Dialectics provides an open arena in which to debate questions of culture and dialectic—their practices, their theoretical forms, and their relations to one another and to other spheres and modes of inquiry.

How to Read Like You Mean It

Kyle Conway

Speaking Power to Truth Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual

edited by Michael Keren and Richard Hawkins

Imperfection

Patrick Grant

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