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A Secret Between Us

A Novel

By: Daniel Poliquin,Donald Winkler

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A Secret Between Us

A Novel

By: Daniel Poliquin,Donald Winkler

Serving in World War I after a tragicomic Catholic childhood, an aborted writing career, and a life-changing encounter with an aristocratic fellow officer, Lusignan returns home a broken man and determined to reconnect with the officer, a plan with which he is assisted by a range of colorful companions. Original.

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Douglas & McIntyre Limited

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155365272X

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9781553652724

Obomsawin of Sioux Junction

By: Daniel Poliquin

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Obomsawin of Sioux Junction

By: Daniel Poliquin

One fine spring morning, a float plane lands on a lake near the northern Ontario town of Sioux Junction, and three men get out: a judge, a Crown prosecutor and a defence attorney. The trial of Thomas Obomsawin, a native painter who has been accused of setting fire to his mother's house, is scheduled to begin. It soon becomes clear that it is not only the painter who is on trial but everyone in Sioux Junction - from Jo and Cécil Constant, who own the town's only hotel, to the Sauvé brothers, whose decision to close down the sawmill has spelled the death of Sioux Junction, right up to the judge and the lawyers themselves. But at the heart of this novel is the tumultuous life of Thomas Obomsawin: his life and his art, his wiles and his weaknesses, his talent and his tragedy. Filled with humour and compassion, biting satire and flashing insight, Obomsawin of Sioux Junction is the story of a town—and a country—divided and united by language and history.

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D & M Publishers

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1926706013

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9781926706016

In the Name of the Father

An Essay on Quebec Nationalism

By: Daniel Poliquin

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In the Name of the Father

An Essay on Quebec Nationalism

By: Daniel Poliquin

Winner of the 2001 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Daniel Poliquin's mordant, polemical essay-novel created a storm upon its publication in Quebec in the fall of 2000. Not only did this Franco-Ontarian take on every sacred cow of Quebec nationalism, he did it in an outrageous and extremely witty manner. Poliquin has created two fictional characters, M. Labine and M. Lesieur, who represent the federalist and sovereignist positions in Quebec. He has great fun analyzing and dissecting these men, especially M. Lesieur. In the process he lays bare what he sees as the nationalists' father complex and the underlying cartoonishness of their thinking. Sacred cows such as the great martyr Lucien Bouchard, Hydro Quebec, de Gaulle's "Vive le Quebec Libre," and the Night of the Long Knives (the repatriation of the constitution) are skewered. Touchstone ideas such as the perilous position of the French language, the vacuousness of English Canadian culture and the irrelevance of any francophone living outside of Quebec are subject to hilarious and devastating attack. In the Name of the Father is an extended tiff on the question of who is colonially minded -- the Quebecois who looks beyond his borders to understand the world, or those completely ignorant of the outside world? Is the book unfair? Possibly. Is it refreshing and a joy to read? Yes. Le Devoir calls the book "vengeful" and says it will "make you grind your teeth." But Poliquin is far from an enemy of Quebec. He supports Bill 101 and recognizes how important nationalism was in the emergence of Quebec from its oppression by the anglophone minority.

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Douglas & McIntyre Limited

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1550548581

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9781550548587

Service-Oriented Crowdsourcing

Architecture, Protocols and Algorithms

By: Daniel Schall

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Service-Oriented Crowdsourcing

Architecture, Protocols and Algorithms

By: Daniel Schall

At a fundamental level, service-oriented crowdsourcing applies the principles of service-oriented architecture (SOA) to the discovery, composition and selection of a scalable human workforce. Service-Oriented Crowdsourcing: Architecture, Protocols and Algorithms provides both an analysis of contemporary crowdsourcing systems, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, and a statistical description of task-based marketplaces. The book also introduces a novel mixed service-oriented computing paradigm by providing an architectural description of the Human-Provided Services (HPS) framework and the application of social principles to human coordination and delegation actions. Finally, it examines previously investigated concepts and applies them to business process management integration, including the extension of XML-based industry standards and the instantiation of flexible processes in crowdsourcing environments. Service-Oriented Crowdsourcing is intended for researchers and other academics as an in-depth guide to developing new applications based on crowdsourcing platforms and evaluating various selection and ranking algorithms. Practitioners and other industry professionals will also find this book invaluable.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461459567

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9781461459569

Obomsawin of Sioux Junction

By: Daniel Poliquin

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By: Daniel Poliquin

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The Layperson's Guide to Exercise, Diet & Supplements

By: Daniel J. Shamy

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The Layperson's Guide to Exercise, Diet & Supplements

By: Daniel J. Shamy

We instinctively know that exercise, eating the right things, and taking vitamins sustains our health, maintains our youth, and offers a sense of wellbeing. Traditional fitness publications do a great job telling you what to do, but lack any explanation as to the why and how. They offer a map to youth by micromanaging your diet, exercise and or supplements. You blindly follow their lead in expectation of finding your fountain of youth through their training. Every body is different, which is why one map may work for one person, but not another; maybe it failed you, so you try another. What you may not realize is that although they offer step by step instruction to find the fountain, they are not teaching you how to read the map. Although the map is the same, the directions are different for each of us to find the fountain of youth. The difference between the layperson and expert is their ability to read the map as a whole; that map is our anatomy. That cartography lesson is learned by teaching you how exercise, diet and supplements work rather than being told what in the same to follow. At the end of the lesson, you may now understand that your journey may require parts of many methods, rather than the single direction of one. The author shares his own journey as he teaches you how to read the map, so you understand how one has successfully read the map to discover his fountain of youth.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479791849

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9781479791842

Worthless, Impossible and Stupid

How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value

By: Daniel

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Worthless, Impossible and Stupid

How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value

By: Daniel

Introducing the global mind-set changing the way we do business. In this fascinating book, global entrepreneurship expert Daniel Isenberg presents a completely novel way to approach business building—with the insights and lessons learned from a worldwide cast of entrepreneurial characters. Not bound by a western, Silicon Valley stereotype, this group of courageous and energetic doers has created a global and diverse mix of companies destined to become tomorrow’s leading organizations. Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid is about how enterprising individuals from around the world see hidden value in situations where others do not, use that perception to develop products and services that people initially don’t think they want, and ultimately go on to realize extraordinary value for themselves, their customers, and society as a whole. What these business builders have in common is a contrarian mind-set that allows them to create opportunities and succeed where others see nothing. Amazingly, this process repeats itself in one form or another countless times a day all over the world. From Albuquerque to Islamabad, you will travel with Isenberg to discover unusual yet practical insights that you can use in your own business. Meet the founders of Grameenphone in Bangladesh, PACIV in Puerto Rico, Sea to Table in New York, Actavis in Iceland, Studio Moderna in Slovenia, Hartwell Metals in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, Given Imaging in Israel, WildChina in China, and many others. You’ll be moved by the stories of these plucky start-ups—many of them fueled by adversity and, more often than not, by necessity. Great stories, stunning successes, crushing failures—they’re all here. What can we, in the East and West, learn from them? What can you learn—and what will these entrepreneurial stories, so compellingly told, inspire you to do? Let this book open doors for you where you once saw only walls. If you’ve ever felt the urge to turn a glimmer of an idea into something extraordinary, these stories are for you.

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Harvard Business Press

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1422186997

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9781422186992

The World in Six Songs

How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

By: Daniel J. Levitin

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The World in Six Songs

How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

By: Daniel J. Levitin

The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture in this thought-provoking book that “will leave you awestruck” (The New York Times). Daniel J. Levitin's astounding debut bestseller, This Is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets in our heads and stays there. Now in his second New York Times bestseller, his genius for combining science and art reveals how music shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history. Here he identifies six fundamental song functions or types—friendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge, and love—then shows how each in its own way has enabled the social bonding necessary for human culture and society to evolve. He shows, in effect, how these “six songs” work in our brains to preserve the emotional history of our lives and species. Dr. Levitin combines cutting-edge scientific research from his music cognition lab at McGill University and work in an array of related fields; his own sometimes hilarious experiences in the music business; and illuminating interviews with musicians such as Sting and David Byrne, as well as conductors, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists. The World in Six Songs is, ultimately, a revolution in our understanding of how human nature evolved—right up to the iPod.

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Penguin

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1101043458

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9781101043455

Is This Change Real?

Interpreting Patient Outcomes in Physical Therapy

By: Daniel L. Riddle,Paul W. Stratford

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Is This Change Real?

Interpreting Patient Outcomes in Physical Therapy

By: Daniel L. Riddle,Paul W. Stratford

Use outcome tools and measures to evaluate the effectiveness of your treatment methods. This step-by-step guide shows you how to incorporate evidence-based methods when interpreting outcomes of physical therapy on individual patients. Following the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) model, you will learn how to select the appropriate outcome measures by defining needs and barriers, identifying the steps to take when searching for a measure, and choosing critical appraisal criteria. You will also learn how to critically review studies from the literature that reports outcome measures.

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F.A. Davis

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0803639503

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9780803639508

Nourishing Broth

An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World

By: Sally Fallon Morell,Kaayla T. Daniel

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Nourishing Broth

An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World

By: Sally Fallon Morell,Kaayla T. Daniel

The follow-up book to the hugely best-selling Nourishing Traditions, which has sold over 500,000 copies, this time focusing on the immense health benefits of bone broth by the founder of the popular Weston A Price Foundation. Nourishing Broth: An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World Nourishing Traditions examines where the modern food industry has hurt our nutrition and health through over-processed foods and fears of animal fats. Nourishing Broth will continue the look at the culinary practices of our ancestors, and it will explain the immense health benefits of homemade bone broth due to the gelatin and collagen that is present in real bone broth (vs. broth made from powders). Nourishing Broth will explore the science behind broth's unique combination of amino acids, minerals and cartilage compounds. Some of the benefits of such broth are: quick recovery from illness and surgery, the healing of pain and inflammation, increased energy from better digestion, lessening of allergies, recovery from Crohn's disease and a lessening of eating disorders because the fully balanced nutritional program lessens the cravings which make most diets fail. Diseases that bone broth can help heal are: Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, Psoriasis, Infectious Disease, digestive disorders, even Cancer, and it can help our skin and bones stay young. In addition, the book will serve as a handbook for various techniques for making broths-from simple chicken broth to rich, clear consomme, to shrimp shell stock. A variety of interesting stock-based recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner from throughout the world will complete the collection and help everyone get more nutrition in their diet.

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Grand Central Life & Style

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1455529230

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9781455529230

The Animal Game

Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo

By: Daniel E. Bender

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The Animal Game

Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo

By: Daniel E. Bender

The spread of empires in the nineteenth century brought more than new territories and populations under Western sway. Animals were also swept up in the net of imperialism, as jungles and veldts became colonial ranches and plantations. A booming trade in animals turned many strange and dangerous species into prized commodities. Tigers from India, pythons from Malaya, and gorillas from the Congo found their way—sometimes by shady means—to the zoos of major U.S. cities, where they created a sensation. Zoos were among the most popular attractions in the United States for much of the twentieth century. Stoking the public’s fascination, savvy zookeepers, animal traders, and zoo directors regaled visitors with stories of the fierce behavior of these creatures in their native habitats, as well as daring tales of their capture. Yet as tropical animals became increasingly familiar to the American public, they became ever more rare in the wild. Tracing the history of U.S. zoos and the global trade and trafficking in animals that supplied them, Daniel Bender examines how Americans learned to view faraway places and peoples through the lens of the exotic creatures on display. Over time, as the zoo’s mission shifted from offering entertainment to providing a refuge for endangered species, conservation parks replaced pens and cages. The Animal Game recounts Americans’ ongoing, often conflicted relationship with zoos, decried as anachronistic prisons by animal rights activists even as they remain popular centers of education and preservation.

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Harvard University Press

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0674972767

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9780674972766

Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo

Stories from the Animal Archive

By: Daniel Vandersommers

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Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo

Stories from the Animal Archive

By: Daniel Vandersommers

Founded amid the urban commotion of Washington, DC, before the dawn of the twentieth century, the National Zoological Park opened to “preserve, teach, and conduct research about the animal world.” Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo is a study of this important cultural landmark from 1887 to 1920. Centered on the animals themselves, each chapter looks from a different angle at the influential science of popular zoology in order to shed new light on the complex, entangled relationships between humans and animals. Daniel Vandersommers’s goal is twofold. First, through narrative, he shows how zoo animals always ran away from the zoo. This is meant literally—animals escaped frequently—but even more so, figuratively. Living, breathing, historical zoo animals ran away from their cultural constructions, and these constructions ran away from the living bodies they were made to represent. The author shows that the resulting gaps produced by runaway animals contain concealed, distorted, and erased histories worthy of uncovering. Second, Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo demonstrates how the popular zoology fostered by the National Zoo shaped every aspect of American science, culture, and conservation during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Between the 1880s and World War I, as intellectuals debated Darwinism and scientists institutionalized the laboratory, zoological parks suddenly appeared at the heart of nearly every major American city, captivating tens of millions of visitors. Vandersommers follows stories previously hidden within the National Zoo in order to help us reconsider the place of zoos and their inhabitants in the twenty-first century.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700635696

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9780700635696

Raccoon

By: Daniel Heath Justice

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Raccoon

By: Daniel Heath Justice

Masked bandits of the night, raiders of farm crops and rubbish bins, raccoons are notorious for their indifference to human property and propriety. Yet they are also admired for their intelligence, dexterity, and determination. Raccoons have thoroughly adapted to human-dominated environments—they are thriving in numbers greater than at any point of their evolutionary history, including in new habitats. Raccoon surveys the natural and cultural history of this opportunistic omnivore, tracing its biological evolution, social significance, and image in a range of media and political contexts. From intergalactic misanthropes and despoilers of ancient temples to coveted hunting quarry, unpredictable pet, and symbols of wilderness and racist stereotype alike, Raccoon offers a lively consideration of this misunderstood outlaw species.

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Reaktion Books

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1789144256

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9781789144253

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A Secret Between Us

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Obomsawin of Sioux Junction

Obomsawin of Sioux Junction

In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father

Service-Oriented Crowdsourcing

Service-Oriented Crowdsourcing

Obomsawin of Sioux Junction

Obomsawin of Sioux Junction

The Layperson's Guide to Exercise, Diet & Supplements

The Layperson's Guide to Exercise, Diet & Supplements

Worthless, Impossible and Stupid

Worthless, Impossible and Stupid

The World in Six Songs

The World in Six Songs

Is This Change Real?

Is This Change Real?

Nourishing Broth

Nourishing Broth

The Animal Game

The Animal Game

Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo

Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo

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