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The Queen Mother and Her Century

An Illustrated Biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on Her 100th Birthday

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

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The Queen Mother and Her Century

An Illustrated Biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on Her 100th Birthday

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

To honour the Queen Mother and mark the occasion of her 100th birthday, Dundurn Press is publishing a biography of this remarkable woman in words and pictures. Since her marriage to George VI, the Queen Mother has been a public figure who has always evoked passionate reactions: whether it was the anonymous soldier who vowed "to fight for that little lady," Adolf Hitler who described her as "the most dangerous woman in Europe," or the Canadian journalist who coined the expression "the Queen Mum." A Canadian perspective on a sovereign who created and cultivated a special relationship with Canada informs The Queen Mother and Her Century. The first of many tours of Canada, the Royal Tour of 1939, which gave Canadians our initial opportunity to experience the Queen Motherâe(tm)s personal magnetism first-hand, is described in detail, along with the many Canadian relationships the Queen Mother has formed since. The Queen Mother and Her Century is a wonderful album-sized (81/2âe x 11âe ) commemorative keepsake and makes a thoughtful gift for the many admirers of the Queen Mother. The text and 120 colour photographs are complemented by time bars, lists of the Queen Motherâe(tm)s official tours, associations the Queen Mother is patron of, places that are named after the Queen Mother, and the Royal Family tree.

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Dundurn

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1550023497

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Canadian Cultural Poesis

Essays on Canadian Culture

By: Garry Sherbert,Sheila Petty,Annie Gérin

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Canadian Cultural Poesis

Essays on Canadian Culture

By: Garry Sherbert,Sheila Petty,Annie Gérin

Annotation Examining culture as social identity, this collection explores issues such as gender, technology, cultural ethnicity, and regionalism in four general areas: the media, individual and national identity, languages, and cultural dissent.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889204861

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9780889204867

Royal Tours 1786-2010

Home to Canada

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

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Royal Tours 1786-2010

Home to Canada

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

Royal Tours explores the visitations of 11 royals who were or would be monarchs, viceroys, and commanders in-chief of Canada. This full-colour volume is a captivating look at how these tours shaped Canada and the royals themselves.

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Dundurn

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155488800X

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9781554888009

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1900-2002

The Queen Mother and Her Century

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1900-2002

The Queen Mother and Her Century

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

Elizabeth provided inspired leadership for a society faced with the stark prospect of destruction in a war to save the world.

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Dundurn

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1550023918

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9781550023916

Garry Lyon

Autobiography

By: Garry Lyon,Andrew Maher

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Garry Lyon

Autobiography

By: Garry Lyon,Andrew Maher

Garry Lyon has spent 15 years in VFL/AFL when football went through its greatest transition. He started as a footballer with another career. This will not only be the life story of Garry Lyon but will also cover the pivotal moments in football in that 15 year period and, specifically, those which impacted on him directly. Garry will for the fist time openly discuss what he perceives to be the most significant issue in his career: a motion was moved by the board to merge the oldest football club in the world (Melbourne) with the Hawthorn FC. The issues of sacking Neale Balme; Garry's struggles with chronic back injuries; captaincy, loyalty and he will take a person 'crystal ball' view of the AFL in the future.

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HarperSports

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0732266599

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9780732266592

Fifty Years the Queen

A Tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on Her Golden Jubilee

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

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Fifty Years the Queen

A Tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on Her Golden Jubilee

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

This tribute examines the life of this outstanding personality and monarch, with emphasis on her Canadian experiences.

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Dundurn

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1550023608

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9781550023602

Religions of Melanesia

A Bibliographic Survey

By: Garry Trompf

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Religions of Melanesia

A Bibliographic Survey

By: Garry Trompf

Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1567206662

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Royals in Canada 5-Book Bundle

Royal Tours / Fifty Years the Queen / Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother / and 2 more

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

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Royals in Canada 5-Book Bundle

Royal Tours / Fifty Years the Queen / Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother / and 2 more

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

Discover the Royal Family as they “go home to Canada.” Collected together are five must-have books on the Royal Family’s relationship with Canada, their tours, and a Canadian perspective on their biographies. Includes: Royal Tours 1786–2010 Fifty Years the Queen Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 1900–2002 Royal Observations Royal Spring

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Dundurn

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1459736745

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9781459736740

Controversial Issues in Special Education

By: Garry Hornby,Jean Howard,Mary Atkinson

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Controversial Issues in Special Education

By: Garry Hornby,Jean Howard,Mary Atkinson

First published in 1997. This book provides practitioners in the field of special education with the information they need to decide whether controversial diagnoses and treatments in this field are valid. The aim of this book is to review the literature on each topic and comment on the current state of the art of each in a way which is accessible to teachers, other professionals and parents. The book is of relevance to all teachers and other professionals who are concerned with the education of children with SEN, including teachers in mainstream and special schools.

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Routledge

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1134094388

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9781134094387

Streams of Civilization

Cultures in Conflict Since the Reformation Until the Third Millenium After Christ

By: Christian Libery Press,Garry J. Moes

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Streams of Civilization

Cultures in Conflict Since the Reformation Until the Third Millenium After Christ

By: Christian Libery Press,Garry J. Moes

This world history text provides a comprehensive overview of modern history (1600s-2000) from a Christian perspective. Each chapter includes a timeline, listing of key terms, recommended projects, and comprehension questions. It is beautifully illustrated and contains numerous high-quality, two-color maps. Grade 10.

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Christian Liberty Press

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1930367465

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9781930367463

Building and Using a Groundwater Database

By: Garry Rowe

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Building and Using a Groundwater Database

By: Garry Rowe

Building and Using a Groundwater Database is an introductory book that focuses on the fundamentals of groundwater database use. It is an excellent guide for people who collect and use groundwater quality data, hydrogeological data, and general geological data, as well as people who are required to prepare information about groundwater resources for others to use. The book also serves as a textbook for computer-based hydrogeology courses. Many university courses now make use of computerized groundwater data, yet no textbook exists to guide students in database use. Building and Using a Groundwater Database provides detailed information regarding the steps and perspectives required to create a database and use it for groundwater management, land use practices, planning, cleanups, site investigations, and general hydrogeologic reporting. The book is structured to take the reader from the foundations of database development through maintenance and everyday use of the database. Actual examples from selected case studies are used to illustrate database principles. This book is unique in that it deals with the management and structuring of groundwater data, as opposed to the collection and interpretation of data. It illustrates how database software managers can be integrated with groundwater software tools. Building and Using a Groundwater Database provides consultants, engineers, public officials, university instructors, local and municipal water utilities, and banking and loan institutions with a clear, concise guide to using groundwater databases.

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CRC Press

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1351087258

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9781351087254

Reagan's America

Innocents at Home

By: Garry Wills

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Reagan's America

Innocents at Home

By: Garry Wills

New York Times Bestseller: A “remarkable and evenhanded study of Ronald Reagan” from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg (The New York Times). Updated with a new preface by the author, this captivating biography of America’s fortieth president recounts Ronald Reagan’s life—from his poverty-stricken Illinois childhood to his acting career to his California governorship to his role as commander in chief—and examines the powerful myths surrounding him, many of which he created himself. Praised by some for his sunny optimism and old-fashioned rugged individualism, derided by others for being a politician out of touch with reality, Reagan was both a popular and polarizing figure in the 1980s United States, and continues to fascinate us as a symbol. In Reagan’s America, Garry Wills reveals the realities behind Reagan’s own descriptions of his idyllic boyhood, as well as the story behind his leadership of the Screen Actors Guild, the role religion played in his thinking, and the facts of his military service. With a wide-ranging and balanced assessment of both the personal and political life of this outsize American icon, the author of such acclaimed works as What Jesus Meant and The Kennedy Imprisonment “elegantly dissects the first U.S. President to come out of Hollywood’s dream factory [in] a fascinating biography whose impact is enhanced by techniques of psychological profile and social history” (Los Angeles Times).

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Open Road Media

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1504045416

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9781504045414

Best of the Britcoms

From Fawlty Towers to The Office

By: Garry Berman

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Best of the Britcoms

From Fawlty Towers to The Office

By: Garry Berman

This book covers the most noteworthy situation comedies ever to cross the pond. Each entry has a show summary and descriptions of standout episodes and behind-the-scenes details. This revised edition contains 7 new chapters on programs that have aired in the U.S. since the original edition and includes the later developments of older series' storylines and detailed information on specials and cast reunions!

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Taylor Trade Publications

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1589795660

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9781589795662

Future Shock

By: Garry Johnson

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Future Shock

By: Garry Johnson

Three friends, in love with life, navigate their conscience through an uncertain and disturbing reality. The sins of the father continue to plague the children. New frontiers beckon change in an ever-progressing universe. Earth is challenged to survive. Only those with character question the ethics and morality of their lives. Welcome to the futurea world of infinite possibilities and advancements. New technology anesthetizes everyone. Times are hard for many, but the rewards draw everyone into the game being played. Hope and promise still live in the hearts and minds of those expanding the human race into space.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1984537636

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9781984537638

Rewriting Maya Religion

Domingo de Vico, K’iche’ Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum

By: Garry G. Sparks

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Rewriting Maya Religion

Domingo de Vico, K’iche’ Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum

By: Garry G. Sparks

In Rewriting Maya Religion Garry Sparks examines the earliest religious documents composed by missionaries and native authors in the Americas, including a reconstruction of the first original, explicit Christian theology written in the Americas—the nearly 900-page Theologia Indorum (Theology for [or of] the Indians), initially written in Mayan languages by Friar Domingo de Vico by 1554. Sparks traces how the first Dominican missionaries to the Maya repurposed native religious ideas, myths, and rhetoric in their efforts to translate a Christianity and how, in this wake, K’iche’ Maya elites began to write their own religious texts, like the Popol Vuh. This ethnohistory of religion critically reexamines the role and value of indigenous authority during the early decades of first contact between a Native American people and Christian missionaries. Centered on the specific work of Dominicans among the Highland Maya of Guatemala in the decades prior to the arrival of the Catholic Reformation in the late sixteenth century, the book focuses on the various understandings of religious analyses—Hispano-Catholic and Maya—and their strategic exchanges, reconfigurations, and resistance through competing efforts of religious translation. Sparks historically contextualizes Vico’s theological treatise within both the wider set of early literature in K’iche’an languages and the intellectual shifts between late medieval thought and early modernity, especially the competing theories of language, ethnography, and semiotics in the humanism of Spain and Mesoamerica at the time. Thorough and original, Rewriting Maya Religion serves as an ethnohistorical frame for continued studies on Highland Maya religious symbols, discourse, practices, and logic dating back to the earliest documented evidence. It will be of great significance to scholars of religion, ethnohistory, linguistics, anthropology, and Latin American history.

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University Press of Colorado

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1607329700

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9781607329701

Royal Spring

The Royal Tour of 1939 and the Queen Mother in Canada

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

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Royal Spring

The Royal Tour of 1939 and the Queen Mother in Canada

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

A beautiful and nostalgic look at the royal tour that captured a generation — the first visit of a reigning monarch to Canada. This six week visit from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back again (with a short excursion to the United States) enthralled a young nation. Fifty years ago, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrived at Quebec City to tour "the senior daughter of the dominions". This is a fond recollection of those few magic weeks and the outpouring of affection for the new king and his beautiful wife. Filled with contemporary pictures and anecdotes, this book captures the feeling of the times with a look at the way Canadians reacted to seeing their sovereign: the formal and informal photographs, the speeches and tributes, the advertising art, the menus for formal dinners, the music and poetry composed for the event. The second section of the book chronicles the King and Queen’s other visits to Canada before and after that epochal visit. The King was here as a young man. The Queen Mother has been to Canada many times since 1939, and in a moving speech at Queen’s Park in Toronto in 1979 reflecting on the tour she said "I lost my heart to Canada and Canadians...." Royal Spring includes an 8-page section on the most recent and golden anniversary visit — July 1989.

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Dundurn

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1459713524

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9781459713529

A Necessary Evil

A History of American Distrust of Government

By: Garry Wills

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A Necessary Evil

A History of American Distrust of Government

By: Garry Wills

The author blames American's long-standing mistrust of government on a misreading of history, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the Founding Fathers.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684870266

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9780684870267

Queen and Consort: Elizabeth and Philip

60 Years of Marriage

By: Lynne Bell,Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

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Queen and Consort: Elizabeth and Philip

60 Years of Marriage

By: Lynne Bell,Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

Princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact" -- so said the nineteenth-century writer Walter Bagehot. In 2007, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary. This love story of the world's most famous couple presents a thematic look at the most outstandingly successful marriage of recent times. This illustrated study explores the pressures and stresses of living life in the glare of public scrutiny. It is an early case of a married couple leading independent lives of extraordinary public service and indicating a path for others to follow. The historical experience of queens and their consorts and Elizabeth and Philip's Canadian and Commonwealth roles add scope to this biography.

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Dundurn

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1459714342

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9781459714342

Wyatt

By: Garry Disher

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Wyatt

By: Garry Disher

Garry Disher's cool, enigmatic anti-hero Wyatt has a job--a jewel heist. The kind Wyatt likes. Nothing extravagant, nothing greedy. Stake out the international courier, one Alain Le Page, hold up the goods in transit and get away fast. Wyatt prefers to work alone, but this is Eddie Oberin's job. Eddie's very smart ex-wife Lydia has the inside information. Add Wyatt's planning genius and meticulous preparation, and what could possibly go wrong? Plenty. And when you wrong Wyatt, you don't get to just walk away. Taut plots, brilliant writing and relentless pace; plus an unforgettable cast, including the ever-elusive Wyatt himself: these are the hallmarks of Garry Disher's Wyatt series.

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Soho Press

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1569479631

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9781569479636

School Crisis Prevention and Intervention

Second Edition

By: Mary Margaret Kerr,Garry King

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School Crisis Prevention and Intervention

Second Edition

By: Mary Margaret Kerr,Garry King

In the latest edition of School Crisis Prevention & Intervention, Mary Margaret Kerr, a nationally recognized expert in school crisis response and a leading urban educator, along with new coauthor, Garry King, a specialist in youth welfare, synthesizes and assembles the best current practices of law enforcement, threat assessment, psychology, and communications in a single, streamlined volume. Such a valuable guide prepares school personnel, including counselors and administrators, with the requisite skills at all crisis stages—from preparation and prevention to intervention and recovery. Dozens of actual cases illustrate key concepts and procedures, while allowing readers to assess their preparedness. Helpful forms and checklists can be used to set priorities and ensure accountability. Interactive features inspire critical reflection and aid in developing problem-solving skills. Outstanding features include . . . • Latest federal guidelines and policies dealing with all phases of crises • Comprehensive agenda for initial crisis team training • Practical and sensitive methods to facilitate recovery and provide support • Recommendations for collaborating with community-based emergency response services • Proficient ways to communicate with staff, students, parents, community, and media

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Waveland Press

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1478638397

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9781478638391

Chain of Evidence

By: Garry Disher

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Chain of Evidence

By: Garry Disher

A pedophile terrorizes the peninsula while Challis cares for his dying father.

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Soho Press

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1569474613

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9781569474617

Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors

The Many Routes to Career Success

By: Anna Garry

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Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors

The Many Routes to Career Success

By: Anna Garry

Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors: The Many Routes to Career Success provides stories behind the many paths to professorship taken by these featured women. It includes information on their diverse life stories and how they navigated the beginning, middle stages, and other parts of their careers, including unexpected paths, support and how they got hooked by science/their field. In addition, they discuss why they chose this career, the obstacles they encountered, and how they found a way forward. Each interview encapsulates the advice and practical solutions they give. - Features interviews with a diverse group of females in faculty and leadership positions, and from a broad range of STEM disciplines - Includes coverage of the tenure-track process, integration into the academic community, challenges at leadership level, and advantages of corporate governance - Focuses on strong, actionable solutions for overcoming career obstacles

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Academic Press

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0128125500

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9780128125502

Deep Thinking

Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

By: Garry Kasparov

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Deep Thinking

Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

By: Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capable of beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game. That moment was more than a century in the making, and in this breakthrough book, Kasparov reveals his astonishing side of the story for the first time. He describes how it felt to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent with the whole world watching, and recounts the history of machine intelligence through the microcosm of chess, considered by generations of scientific pioneers to be a key to unlocking the secrets of human and machine cognition. Kasparov uses his unrivaled experience to look into the future of intelligent machines and sees it bright with possibility. As many critics decry artificial intelligence as a menace, particularly to human jobs, Kasparov shows how humanity can rise to new heights with the help of our most extraordinary creations, rather than fear them. Deep Thinking is a tightly argued case for technological progress, from the man who stood at its precipice with his own career at stake.

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PublicAffairs

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1610397878

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9781610397872

Colin Colahan

A Portrait

By: Garry Kinnane,Colin Colahan

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Colin Colahan

A Portrait

By: Garry Kinnane,Colin Colahan

Colin Colahan was an Australian painter of outstanding ability and reputation who from the 1920s to the 1970s was remarkably productive. Colahan was one of the more brilliant pupils of the painter Max Meldrum. Identification with the unfashionable 'Meldrumites' is one explanation for Colahan's disappearance from the public gaze. The other has murkier origins in the still unsolved murder of his girlfriend, Mollie Dean, in 1930. There was nothing of substance to link Colahan to the brutal murder, but fevered public speculation cast a depressing shadow for many years and helped propel him to Europe in 1935. There he stayed for the rest of his long life. The story of Colahan's personal life is tantalising in itselfandmdash;three marriages, five children, numerous lovers, beautiful houses in England and Italy, portrait painter of the rich and famous. It was an urbane life. He was a witty, charming, talented man. This intimate, engaging portrait is indeed most welcome, and will restore Colahan's life and work to its rightful place in the history of Australian art.

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Melbourne University Publish

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0522847102

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9780522847109

The Devil's Own

By: Garry Douglas Kilworth

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The Devil's Own

By: Garry Douglas Kilworth

The first of the colourful exploits of Jack Crossman, The Devil's Own sees him in the thick of the fighting during the notoriously brutal and bloody Crimean War. In an uneasy nineteenth century alliance with the French and the Turks, the British troops faced the dreaded Cossacks on the battlefield and debilitating diseases such as cholera in their campsites. Sergeant Jack Crossman, referred to by his admiring comrades as 'Fancy Jack', is a tough, shrewd and skilful soldier, part of the proud 88th Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, also known as 'The Devil's Own.' When Crossman is selected to lead a covert operation, he knows that his success or failure could determine the outcome of the war. Whether he and his men will survive their mission is another matter.

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Constable

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1780335067

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9781780335063

Video Games as Culture

Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society

By: Daniel Muriel,Garry Crawford

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Video Games as Culture

Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society

By: Daniel Muriel,Garry Crawford

Video games are becoming culturally dominant. But what does their popularity say about our contemporary society? This book explores video game culture, but in doing so, utilizes video games as a lens through which to understand contemporary social life. Video games are becoming an increasingly central part of our cultural lives, impacting on various aspects of everyday life such as our consumption, communities, and identity formation. Drawing on new and original empirical data – including interviews with gamers, as well as key representatives from the video game industry, media, education, and cultural sector – Video Games as Culture not only considers contemporary video game culture, but also explores how video games provide important insights into the modern nature of digital and participatory culture, patterns of consumption and identity formation, late modernity, and contemporary political rationalities. This book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, interested in fields such Video Games, Sociology, and Media and Cultural Studies. It will also be useful for those interested in the wider role of culture, technology, and consumption in the transformation of society, identities, and communities.

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Routledge

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1317223926

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9781317223924

Consuming Sport

Fans, Sport and Culture

By: Garry Crawford

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Consuming Sport

Fans, Sport and Culture

By: Garry Crawford

Consuming Sport offers a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of its followers. It examines the processes of becoming a sport fan, and the social and moral career that supporters follow as their involvement develops over a life-course. The book argues that while for many people sport matters, for many more, it does not. Though for some sport is significant in shaping their social and cultural identity, it is often consumed and experienced by others in quite mundane and everyday ways, through the media images that surround us, conversations overheard and in the clothing of people we pass by. As well as developing a new theory of sport fandom the book links this discussion to wider debates on audiences, fan cultures and consumer practices. The text argues that for far too long consideration of sport fans has focused on exceptional forms of support ignoring the myriad of ways in which sport can be experienced and consumed in everyday life.

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Routledge

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1134440685

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9781134440689

Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Canadian Culture in a Globalized World The impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life

By: Garry Neil

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Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Canadian Culture in a Globalized World The impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life

By: Garry Neil

Since the first trade deal with the US in 1984, Canada has insisted on a "cultural exemption" to ensure that governments were free to protect Canadian culture and to restrict foreign ownership and limit foreign content in the media. Negotiators and government ministers considered the cultural exemption key to reassuring Canadians that the deal did not undermine our cultural sovereignty. In every trade deal since, culture has been a contentious issue. Media giants and foreign governments have pushed for unlimited access to Canada. Ottawa has worked with cultural industries to maintain the cultural exemption. Garry Neil has been close to every one of these negotiations, and has been a key advisor to cultural groups on trade deals. He has been part of the international initiative to assert the importance of cultural diversity in the world, and to create effective measures to guarantee it. This book reflects his experience trying to ensure that the reality matches the rhetoric when it comes to culture. As he sees it, in spite of the claims, Canadian cultural policies and programs have been steadily restricted by successive trade deals. He explains how this has happened, and what needs to be done for Canada to maintain our cultural sovereignty and creative life in the face of multinational corporations and their government supporters who are promoting a world monoculture.

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American Marine Goju Within Arms Reach Self-Defense

By: Garry N. Klaus

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By: Garry N. Klaus

Sinner Among Puritans, A Prosecutor's Story is a 93,737 word novel that is directed toward the adult fiction market. Although it is currently published as a print-on-demand book that can be found through online bookstores, it is available for contract to traditional houses for republication, promotion and distribution. A now retired Florida Assistant State Attorney (prosecutor) writes the book. The setting is in Indiana with the action starting in 1938, the time of the Great Depression. It is entertaining fiction with the historical aspects thoroughly research for authenticity. Online readers that have reviewed it have given it a 5 star rating! (The novel is divided into three books. For those just interested in lawyer type stories can go directly to Book III: The Law Years; but the author feels that all readers will find the whole novel worthwhile reading.) Book I: The Formative Years begins in recent times with the aging prosecutor, Charlie Brentwood, nearing the end of his crime fighting career. He is trying to resolve the ghastly conflicts and traumas that have resulted from his harrowing past. He wants to leave the bad memories behind, remembering the good ones. He is looking to find his uncertain future, something older men and women can relate too. He chooses to do this by reviewing his life. The story begins with his pregnant mother, Anna, losing her beloved mate in a tragic railroad accident. She and her small child seek to survive during a horrendous economic depression, soon replaced by World War II. The charismatic mother and child start out as transients, but find an earthly angel in the form of nurse, Miss Mary Collins, who takes them into her home. She helps the young mother care for Charlie's diagnosed medical problems. This is a story that caregivers can especially relate to. Mothers of male children will find the book even instructional. The story tastefully includes what all boys really feel and do as they grow through puberty and their teens. Mothers will not be left wondering what it is like sexually to be a boy. Parents will also learn that it is not only strangers that they have to worry about regarding abuse of their children. Book II: Military/Business Years is about Charlie's desire to be a soldier and peacemaker. Along the way he discovers the hardships of boot camp, then about the dangers that can accompany military service, including riot duty on the streets of 1960s America. While in service, he falls in love with a nurse. They enjoy each other in ways others might find bizarre, including the awakening of his male G-Spot. For them, they see only through clean eyes and the purity of love, which later includes the conception of a child in a most memorable way. But the birth of his daughter points out how bittersweet such a joyful event can be. Eventually Charlie becomes a trucker in business with two mentors, a husband and wife team. But at the time, he is touched by organized crime and witnesses other horrific traumas, including the drowning of a child, and a bloody murder. In Book III: The Law Years, the reader discovers what it is like to go through law school, then on to being a prosecutor who survives brain tumor surgery, then later survives a liver

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Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, Part 3

1993-2005

By: Garry Kasparov

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1993-2005

By: Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov: Part III is the final volume in a major three-volume series made unique by the fact that it records the greatest chess battles played by the greatest chessplayer of all-time. Kasparov's series of historical volumes have received great critical and public acclaim for their rigorous analysis and comprehensive detail regarding the developments in chess that occurred both on and off the board. The first two volumes in this series saw Kasparov emerging as a huge talent, toppling his great rival Anatoly Karpov and then defending the World Championship title on three occasions. This third volume focuses on the final 12 years of Kasparov's career up until his retirement from full-time chess in 2005. This period witnessed three further World Championship matches: wins against Short (London 1993) and Anand (New York 1995) before the loss against Kramnik (London 2000) which finally ended Kasparov's 15-year tenure as world champion. This period also saw Kasparov achieve a colossal 2851 rating (1999), a record which stood until 2013. Despite loss of the World Championship, Kasparov continued to be ranked as the world number one and dominated the elite tournament circuit. He won the Linares super-tournament for four consecutive years (1999-2002) with the fourth of these victories in 2002 concluding an unprecedented run of ten straight wins in the world's elite events (Linares 4, Wijk aan Zee 3, Sarajevo 2 and Astana 1). The games in this volume feature many masterpieces of controlled aggression played against the world's absolute best.

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1781941858

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Daniel Sickles: A Life

By: Garry Boulard

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Daniel Sickles: A Life

By: Garry Boulard

The name Daniel Sickles and the word controversy are synonymous. Any student of 19th century American political history is familiar with Sickles’ 1859 murder of Philip Barton Key, the son of Francis Scott Key, who had seduced Sickles’ young wife. That murder, because Sickles was at the time a New York Congressman and Key a district attorney for Washington, captured the country’s imagination, a front-page event that inevitably ensnarled President James Buchanan, a close Sickles friend, inviting in the process explorations of what was seen as a sordid Washington society of the late 1850s. Civil War historians know Sickles as the General who led the men of the Union’s III Corps out onto the exposed expanse of the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg, a decision many scholars have regarded as disastrous, and one that nearly led to an overall Union defeat at the famous battlefield, while losing for Sickles his right leg from Confederate shelling. But these two singular, if spectacular events, in a very real sense represent only two days out of an extraordinary lifetime of 94 years. The rest of Sickles’ career was made up of his rise as a young stalwart of New York’s notorious Tammany Hall; his two terms in Congress leading up to the Civil War; his contentious service as a military governor of the Carolinas after the War; his newsworthy tenure as U.S. Minister to Spain in the late 1860s and early 70s; and even his stint, at the age of 70, as the sheriff of the county encompassing New York City. Beyond the headlines were Sickles’ relationships with presidents ranging from Franklin Pierce to Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, not to mention an improbable friendship with Theodore Roosevelt at the turn of the century. Daniel Sickles: A Life is the first full-length published treatment looking in depth at the entirely of one man’s almost unbelievably colorful and contentious career. Garry Boulard is the author of The Expatriation of Franklin Pierce—The Story of a President and the Civil War (iUniverse, 2006), and The Worst President—The Story of James Buchanan (iUniverse, 2015). Boulard’s essays and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Southern History, Journal of Ethnic Studies, Louisiana History, Journal of Mississippi History, and Florida Historical Quarterly, among many other publications.

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1532088442

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Royal Observations

Canadians and Royalty

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

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Canadians and Royalty

By: Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli

These observations and quotations comprise a witty anthology of anecdotes by and about the royal family in Canada over the last 400 years. Enhanced by drawings from the well-known cartoonist Vince Wicks, this book looks at the memorable encounters, sometimes touching, sometimes disconcerting, sometimes hilarious, that Canadians have had with their own and other royal families. Arranged thematically Royal Observations covers such topics as Queen Victoria, English/French relations, World War Two, native peoples and royal tours.

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1554882834

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Winter Is Coming

Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

By: Garry Kasparov

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Winter Is Coming

Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

By: Garry Kasparov

The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship-and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen. The ascension of Vladimir Putin-a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB-to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years-as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him-Putin has grown not only into a dictator but an international threat. With his vast resources and nuclear arsenal, Putin is at the center of a worldwide assault on political liberty and the modern world order. For Garry Kasparov, none of this is news. He has been a vocal critic of Putin for over a decade, even leading the pro-democracy opposition to him in the farcical 2008 presidential election. Yet years of seeing his Cassandra-like prophecies about Putin's intentions fulfilled have left Kasparov with a darker truth: Putin's Russia, like ISIS or Al Qaeda, defines itself in opposition to the free countries of the world. As Putin has grown ever more powerful, the threat he poses has grown from local to regional and finally to global. In this urgent book, Kasparov shows that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not an endpoint-only a change of seasons, as the Cold War melted into a new spring. But now, after years of complacency and poor judgment, winter is once again upon us. Argued with the force of Kasparov's world-class intelligence, conviction, and hopes for his home country, Winter Is Coming reveals Putin for what he is: an existential danger hiding in plain sight.

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Virtually Lost

Young Americans in the Digital Technocracy

By: Garry Robson

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Virtually Lost

Young Americans in the Digital Technocracy

By: Garry Robson

This book examines the connections between the psycho-social difficulties and challenges faced by children and younger people in their online lives; the structure, character, and motivations of the corporate system ‘behind’ the screen; and the possibility that the digital technostructure may come to form the backbone of a new post-democratic system of technocratic governance. Much of the originality of this book lies in its blending of subjects that are not often combined, thereby offering a fresh perspective: ‘generation studies’; the philosophy of technology; the history of the idea of technocracy; the technologically enhanced merger of corporate・governmental power in the U.S. system; the society-shaping goals and capabilities of the big tax-exempt American foundations over the last hundred years; the elite ‘superclass’ gaming of formally constituted transnational and global institutions; and the way the United Nations-centred SDG・ESG system is itself developing in the direction of a technocratic system of economic and population management. The book will appeal to readers interested in relationships between our contemporary global power elite, the structures it has created and processes it has set in motion, and how these affect young people whose development is already being over-determined by the activities of the big Silicon Valley entities and their associates.

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1000875008

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