Where better to hide a body than at the bottom of a deep lake? A deep lake that is frozen over? The only problem-ice fishermen. Of course, the fishermen expect to catch fish, not parts of a human body. As the saying goes, "The Best Laid Plans Of MIce and Men." When Zebulah Pyke reels in his fish and finds that he has caught a human finger, the mystery begins. Who is the body in the ice and why was the body put in the lake. And who killed the deceased. Cameron's best work to date, The Body in the Ice has more intriguing questions than answers and it's up to Dugal McBruce and his friend, Sheriff Nathanial Jefferson to find the answers. The questions were obvious: was the body male or female? Who did what to whom, why and when? Those answers will lead to the totally unexpected sadistic killer who wanted to keep his victim on ice.
Terrorists kidnap newly elected U.S. president's children and threaten beheading if their demands are not met. Action adventure with U.S. Secret Service.
Political Conspiracy Death is in the air! What do butterflies and political assassination have in common? In Washington, DC, it is approximately forty-eight hours until a new president is inaugurated. Not just any president, but the first female to be elected President of the United States-- and a killer stands poised to prevent it. Halfway around the world a butterfly beats its wings. The impact of one person on another's life spreads around the globe until it strikes one man/woman who gets sudden insight into the killer's plan. But, can it be stopped?
Although the United States did not enter the First World War until April 1917, Canada enlisted the moment Great Britain engaged in the conflict in August 1914. The Canadian contribution was great, as more than 600,000 men and women served in the war effort--400,000 of them overseas--out of a population of 8 million. More than 150,000 were wounded and nearly 67,000 gave their lives. The war was a pivotal turning point in the history of the modern world, and its mindless slaughter shattered a generation and destroyed seemingly secure values. The literature that the First World War generated, and continues to generate so many years later, is enormous and addresses a multitude of cultural and social matters in the history of Canada and the war itself. Although many scholars have brilliantly analyzed the literature of the war, little has been done to catalog the writings of ordinary participants: men and women who served in the war and wrote about it but are not included among well-known poets, novelists, and memoirists. Indeed, we don't even know how many titles these people published, nor do we know how many more titles were added later by relatives who considered the recollections or collected letters worthy of publication. Brian Douglas Tennyson's The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs is the first attempt to identify all of the published accounts of First World War experiences by Canadian veterans.
This seventh edition of A History of Psychology: The Emergence of Science and Applications traces the history of psychology from antiquity through the early twenty-first century, giving students a thorough look into psychology’s origins and key developments in basic and applied psychology. It presents internal, disciplinary history as well as external contextual history, emphasizing the interactions between psychological ideas and the larger cultural and historical contexts in which psychologists and other thinkers conduct research, teach, and live. It also has a strong scholarly foundation and more than 400 new references. This new edition retains and expands the strengths of previous editions and introduces several important changes. The text features more women, people of color, and others who are historically marginalized as well as new sections about early Black psychology and barriers faced by people who are diverse. It also includes expanded discussions of eugenics and racism in early psychology. There is new content on the history of the biological basis of psychology; the emergence of qualitative methods; and ecopsychology, ecotherapy, and environmental psychology. Recent historical findings about social psychology, including new historical findings about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Milgram’s obedience research, and Sherif’s conformity studies, have also been incorporated. Continuing the tradition of past editions, the text focuses on engaging students and inspiring them to recognize the power of history in their own lives, to connect history to the present and the future, and to think critically and historically.
Examines three celebrated scientific landscapes: Adelaide's Hallett Cove, Lake Callabonna in South Australia, and the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region of NSW. It offers philosophical insights into significant issues of heritage management, and our understanding of place, time, nation and science.
More adventures from one of Canada's premier editors and storytellers Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country's leading editors and publishers for 40 years, he coaxed modern classics out of some of Canada's finest minds, and then took to telling his own stories in his first memoir, Stories About Storytellers. Gibson turned his memoir into a one-man stage show that eventually played almost 100 times, in all ten provinces, from coast to coast. As a literary tourist, he discovered even more about the land and its writers and harvested many more stories, from distant past and recent memory, to share. Now in Across Canada by Story, Gibson brings new stories about Robertson Davies, Jack Hodgins, W.O. Mitchell, Alistair MacLeod, and Alice Munro, and adds lively portraits of Al Purdy, Marshall McLuhan, Margaret Laurence, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Margaret Atwood, Wayne Johnson, Linwood Barclay, Michael Ondaatje, and many, many others. Whether fly fishing in Haida Gwaii or sailing off Labrador, Douglas Gibson is a first-rate ambassador for Canada and the power of great stories.
Echoes of Memories Past is the powerful sequel to 'The Price.' Cameron's return to the future becomes a horrible nightmare. He finds himself erased from time. Tamlyn, who had waited centuries for Cameron's return could only reveal that his soul in this divergent timeline had found its mate. As Cameron's world fades from reality, his body fades away with it, leaving his soul behind. Inexplicably it merges into Morgan Hamilton, the man who replaced him in this new timeline. The invasion of Cameron's soul causes chaos within Morgan's brain creating terrible life threatening seizures. Tamlyn discovers that this was all part of the Lavender eyed Goddess' wicked vengeance. Two souls locked in perpetual conflict. He strives to save Cameron and Morgan from the madness within as the Azael and their evil brethren thwart him at every turn. Ultimately, he learns that salvation may only exist in a journey back in time to Scotland's turbulent past, only there can Tamlyn hope to save both souls.
Leonardo DiCaprio is officially Hollywood's hottest property. Brought up by his mother on the mean streets of L.A., Leonardo DiCaprio has lived it large downtown but now finds himself catapulted into Tinseltown. He has starred in such films as "The Quick and the Dead," "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?," and, of course, Baz Luhrmann's beautiful adaptation of "William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet." He achieved true superstar status with his role in James Cameron's epic romantic adventure, "Titanic," but he is quick to quote Sharon Stone's advice: "'When you are famous you've got to accept it as an advantage. It will make you stronger.' I feel pretty strong." DiCaprio is a Generation-X rebel who defies definition, continuing to carve his own unique place in the pantheon of Hollywood legends. This is DiCaprio's story: a study of his unconventional past, magnetic looks and powerful personality, illuminated by over 60 glorious color photographs.
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