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Michael Cook rapidly built a reputation in the 1970s as a playwright of Newfoundland life. Although not born on the island, he soon became better known than such writers as Al Pittman and Ted Russell. Four full-length plays (Colour the Flesh the Colour of Dust; The Head, Guts and Sound Bone Dance; Jacob's Wake; and The Gayden Chronicles) and six one-act plays (Tiln; Quiller; On the Rim of the Curve; Therese's Creed; The Fisherman's Revenge; and the unpublished Not as a Dream) were staged between 1971 and 1978. He is also the outstanding Canadian radio dramatist of his generation, with over fifty plays. As an essayist, his columns for the St. John's Evening Telegram enhance his interpretation of what defines Newfoundland and examine the big issues of Canadian culture.

These proceedings from the seminar cover the following topics: new political agendas, government's changing role in the resource sector, globalization and the new political realities, public perceptions and political agendas, business-government relations in changing global agendas, Canada's mineral industries and interest associations, environmental issues in the media: competing agendas, a personal view of changing political agendas, a competitive and responsible industry, the impact of independent research on mineral policy formulation, quantifying government-mandated costs, reaching the public, expanding labour's role, developing communication strategies for major-project development, the Save Our North campaign, public relations and the B.C. Forest Alliance, and getting the most from a public relations firm.

Few illnesses in the early modern period carried the impact of the dreaded pox, a lethal sexually transmitted disease usually thought to be syphilis. In the early sixteenth century the disease quickly emerged as a powerful cultural force. Just as powerful were the responses of doctors, bureaucrats, moralists, playwrights, and satirists. These ten essays gauge the impact of sexual disease on early modern society by exploring the ways in which European culture reacted to the presence of a new deadly sexual infection. Articles about scientific and medical responses analyze how physicians incorporated the disease within existing intellectual frameworks. Studies in literary and metaphoric responses examine how early modern writers put images of sexual infection and the diseased body to a range of rhetorical and political uses. Finally, essays about institutional and policing responses chronicle how authorities responded to the crisis and how these public health responses linked up with wider campaigns to police sexuality.