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The Canadian Experience of the Great War

A Guide to Memoirs

By: Brian Douglas Tennyson

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The Canadian Experience of the Great War

A Guide to Memoirs

By: Brian Douglas Tennyson

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.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0810886790

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9780810886797

After Sound

Toward a Critical Music

By: G Douglas Barrett

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After Sound

Toward a Critical Music

By: G Douglas Barrett

After Sound considers contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond the limitation of sound. This book is called After Sound because music and sound are, in Barrett's account, different entities. While musicology and sound art theory alike typically equate music with pure instrumental sound, or absolute music, Barrett posits music as an expanded field of artistic practice encompassing a range of different media and symbolic relationships. The works discussed in After Sound thus use performance, text scores, musical automata, video, social practice, and installation while they articulate a novel aesthetic space for a radically engaged musical practice. Coining the term "critical music," this book examines a diverse collection of art projects which intervene into specific political and philosophical conflicts by exploring music's unique historical forms. Through a series of intimate studies of artworks surveyed from the visual and performing arts of the past ten years-Pussy Riot, Ultra-red, Hong-Kai Wang, Peter Ablinger, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, and others-After Sound offers a significant revision to the way we think about music. The book as a whole offers a way out of one of the most vexing deadlocks of contemporary cultural criticism: the choice between a sound art effectively divorced from the formal-historical coordinates of musical practice and the hermetic music that dominates new music circles today.

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257

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501308114

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9781501308116

Labor Law in a Nutshell

By: Douglas L. Leslie

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Labor Law in a Nutshell

By: Douglas L. Leslie

Early Regulation by Law and a Statutory Overview; NLRB Structure and Procedure; Selecting a Bargaining Representative; Organizational Picketing; Employer Economic Responses to Concerted Employee Activity; Secondary Boycotts, Hot Cargo Agreements, Union Jurisdictional Disputes and Featherbedding; Duty to Bargain; Labor and the Antitrust Laws; Enforcement of Collective Bargaining Agreements; Federal Preemption of State Legislation; NLRA Regulation of Internal Union Affairs; LMRDA Regulation of Internal Union Affairs.

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436

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West Publishing Company

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0314922059

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9780314922052

Young, Gifted and Diverse

Origins of the New Black Elite

By: Camille Z. Charles,Douglas S. Massey,Kimberly C. Torres,Rory Kramer

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Origins of the New Black Elite

By: Camille Z. Charles,Douglas S. Massey,Kimberly C. Torres,Rory Kramer

An in-depth look at the rising American generation entering the Black professional class Despite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group. Drawing from a representative sample of over a thousand Black students and in-depth interviews and focus groups with over one hundred more, Young, Gifted and Diverse highlights diversity among the new educated Black elite—those graduating from America’s selective colleges and universities in the early twenty-first century. Differences in childhood experiences shape this generation, including their racial and other social identities and attitudes, and beliefs about and interactions with one another. While those in the new Black elite come from myriad backgrounds and have varied views on American racism, as they progress through college and toward the Black professional class they develop a shared worldview and group consciousness. They graduate with optimism about their own futures, but remain guarded about racial equality more broadly. This internal diversity alongside political consensus among the elite complicates assumptions about both a monolithic Black experience and the future of Black political solidarity.

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472

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Princeton University Press

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0691237395

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9780691237398

Psychology: Australia and New Zealand with Online Study Tools 12 Months

By: Douglas A. Bernstein,Julie Ann Pooley,Lynne Cohen,Bethanie Gouldthorp,Stephen C. Provost,Jacquelyn Cranney,Louis A. Penner,Alison Clarke-Stewart,Edward J. Roy

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Psychology: Australia and New Zealand with Online Study Tools 12 Months

By: Douglas A. Bernstein,Julie Ann Pooley,Lynne Cohen,Bethanie Gouldthorp,Stephen C. Provost,Jacquelyn Cranney,Louis A. Penner,Alison Clarke-Stewart,Edward J. Roy

Psychology 2ed will support you to develop the skills and knowledge needed for your career in psychology and within the professional discipline of psychology. This book will be an invaluable study resource during your introductory psychology course and it will be a helpful reference throughout your studies and your future career in psychology. Psychology 2ed provides you with local ideas and examples within the context of psychology as an international discipline. Rich cultural and indigenous coverage is integrated throughout the book to help your understanding. To support your learning online study tools with revision quizzes, games and additional content have been developed with this book.

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1016

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Cengage AU

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0170386309

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9780170386302

Football U.

Spectator Sports in the Life of the American University

By: J. Douglas Toma

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Football U.

Spectator Sports in the Life of the American University

By: J. Douglas Toma

Toma scores with a balanced look at the use of athletic programs as a tool in "branding" universities and in building community spirit, support, and identity both on campus and off. 11 photos.

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326

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University of Michigan Press

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0472112996

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9780472112999

Image Statistics in Visual Computing

By: Tania Pouli,Erik Reinhard,Douglas W. Cunningham

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Image Statistics in Visual Computing

By: Tania Pouli,Erik Reinhard,Douglas W. Cunningham

To achieve the complex task of interpreting what we see, our brains rely on statistical regularities and patterns in visual data. Knowledge of these regularities can also be considerably useful in visual computing disciplines, such as computer vision, computer graphics, and image processing. The field of natural image statistics studies the regularities to exploit their potential and better understand human vision. With numerous color figures throughout, Image Statistics in Visual Computing covers all aspects of natural image statistics, from data collection to analysis to applications in computer graphics, computational photography, image processing, and art. The authors keep the material accessible, providing mathematical definitions where appropriate to help readers understand the transforms that highlight statistical regularities present in images. The book also describes patterns that arise once the images are transformed and gives examples of applications that have successfully used statistical regularities. Numerous references enable readers to easily look up more information about a specific concept or application. A supporting website also offers additional information, including descriptions of various image databases suitable for statistics. Collecting state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary knowledge in one source, this book explores the relation of natural image statistics to human vision and shows how natural image statistics can be applied to visual computing. It encourages readers in both academic and industrial settings to develop novel insights and applications in all disciplines that relate to visual computing.

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CRC Press

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1568817258

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9781568817255

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The Canadian Experience of the Great War

The Canadian Experience of the Great War

After Sound

After Sound

Labor Law in a Nutshell

Labor Law in a Nutshell

Young, Gifted and Diverse

Young, Gifted and Diverse

Psychology: Australia and New Zealand with Online Study Tools 12 Months

Psychology: Australia and New Zealand with Online Study Tools 12 Months

Football U.

Football U.

Image Statistics in Visual Computing

Image Statistics in Visual Computing

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