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Record Nr.

UNINA9910425156403321

Autore

Laforest Guy <1955-, >

Titolo

Interpreting Quebec's exile within the federation : selected political essays / / Guy Laforest ; with the collaboration of Oscar Mejia Mesa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2015

Brussels, [Belgium] : , : P.I.E. Peter Lang, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-0352-9916-1

3-0352-6503-8

Edizione

[Éditions scientifiques internationales.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Diversitas ; ; Volume 20

Disciplina

320.1

Soggetti

Political science

History

Québec (Province) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references .

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: ; ch. 1 The Internal Exile of Quebecers in the Canada of the Charter -- ; I. Pierre Trudeau, the Exile of Quebecers, and the Charter -- ; II. To End the Exile -- Conclusion -- ; ch. 2 The Contemporary Meaning and Utility of Federalism -- ; I. The Meaning and Utility of Federalism -- ; II. Federalism's Challenges and Problems -- Conclusion -- ; ch. 3 Making Sense of Canada as a Federal System: The Relevance of Historical Legacies -- ; I. Historical Legacies: Their Nature, Role, Interrelations, and Contemporary Significance -- Conclusion -- ; ch. 4 The Historical and Legal Origins of Asymmetrical Federalism in Canada's Founding Debates: A Brief Interpretive Note -- Conclusion -- ; ch. 5 What Canadian Federalism Means in Quebec -- ; I. Interpretive Context -- ; II. Contemporary Trends and Scholarship: Critical Reflections -- Conclusion -- ; ch. 6 Lord Durham, French Canada, and Quebec: Remembering the Past, Debating the Future -- ; I. Coming to Terms with Lord Durham's Report in French Canada and Quebec -- ; II. Janet Ajzenstat's Introduction: Debating Lord Durham's Influence on Canada and Assessing Him as a Human Being and as a Thinker -- ; III. A Critical Hermeneutics for the Present and for the



Future -- Conclusion -- ; ch. 7 Some Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Commission -- ; ch. 8 More Distress than Enchantment: The Constitutional Negotiations of November 1981 -- ; I. Causes -- ; II. Assessing the Behaviour of Participants -- ; III. Consequences -- Conclusion -- ; ch. 9 The Canadian State and the Political Freedom of Quebec: The Ideas of James Tully and Michel Seymour -- ; I. Canada's Political-Constitutional Identity and Quebec's Situation -- ; II. The Philosophical Approaches of James Tully and Michel Seymour -- ; III. From a Straightjacket to a Reworking of Democratic Constitutionalism with Universal Scope -- ; IV. Michel Seymour's Criticism -- ; V. Overall Consideration of the Theses in Light of Seymour's Objections -- Conclusion -- ; ch. 10 Trust and Mistrust between Harper and Quebec -- ; I. Some Reflections on Trust and its Derivatives -- ; II. Harper and Quebec -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book combines the approaches of political theory and of intellectual history to provide a lucid account of Québec's contemporary situation within the Canadian federation.  Guy Laforest considers that the province of Québec, and its inhabitants, are exiled within Canada. They are not fully integrated, politically and constitutionally, nor are they leaving the federation, for now and for the foreseeable future. They are in between these two predicaments. Laforest provides insights into the current workings of the Canadian federation, and some of its key figures of the past fifty years, such



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910855390603321

Autore

Mori Koichi

Titolo

Beamed-mobility Engineering : Wireless-power Beaming to Aircrafts, Spacecrafts and Rockets / / edited by Koichi Mori, Yasuhisa Oda, Takahashi Masayuki, Kohei Shimamura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

9789819946181

9819946182

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 pages)

Collana

Springer Tracts in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, , 2731-4219

Altri autori (Persone)

OdaYasuhisa

MasayukiTakahashi

ShimamuraKohei

Disciplina

629.11

Soggetti

Electric power production

Electrical engineering

Aerospace engineering

Astronautics

Lasers

Electrical Power Engineering

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Aerospace Technology and Astronautics

Laser Technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Microwave rockets -- Chapter 2. Laser rockets -- Chapter 3. Space debris removal -- Chapter 4. Wireless power transfer to aircrafts -- Chapter 5. Experimental study of microwave breakdown induced by gyrotron -- Chapter 6. Modeling and Theoretical Studies on Beamed-induced plasma -- Chapter 7. Laser-supported detonation wave -- Chapter 8. High-power beam source and beam transmission -- Chapter 9. Retrodirective wireless optical energy transmission using optical phase conjugation. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes the technologies of wireless power beaming to the aerospace crafts, such as the drone, flying car, aircraft, spacecraft, and



rocket. Using a highly directional electromagnetic wave beam, energy is remotely supplied to mobility that moves at high speed without waste, and it is efficiently converted into the driving force of mobility. This technology will be indispensable for the full electrification of mobility in the future.  This book specializes in aerospace mobility, where weight and other constraints are strict, and was written by researchers in different disciplines such as rocket engineering, plasma engineering, laser engineering, and communications and control engineering. Beamed-mobility forms a new area of integrated engineering. The new combination of optics and mechanical engineering creates a world where mobility is free to supply the energy needed for propulsion, wherever and wherever it goes. It is expected to become the core technology of mobility, energy, infrastructure, and services of the future society that extends to outer space. This book is good reference for the graduate students, researcher, and engineer in the field of aerospace, electrical, and mechanical engineering.