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A Sourcebook of Canadian Media Law

By: Robert Martin,Gordon Stuart Adam

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A Sourcebook of Canadian Media Law

By: Robert Martin,Gordon Stuart Adam

This edition examines the Canadian Constitution and its effect on the principle of freedom of expression. The balance of the book directs attention to the laws that have been enacted that limit such freedom.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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088629231X

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9780886292317

Friends Divided

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

By: Gordon S. Wood

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Friends Divided

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

By: Gordon S. Wood

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slaveowner, while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist view of government. They worked closely in the crucible of revolution, crafting the Declaration of Independence and leading, with Franklin, the diplomatic effort that brought France into the fight. But ultimately, their profound differences would lead to a fundamental crisis, in their friendship and in the nation writ large, as they became the figureheads of two entirely new forces, the first American political parties. It was a bitter breach, lasting through the presidential administrations of both men, and beyond. But late in life, something remarkable happened: these two men were nudged into reconciliation. What started as a grudging trickle of correspondence became a great flood, and a friendship was rekindled, over the course of hundreds of letters. In their final years they were the last surviving founding fathers and cherished their role in this mighty young republic as it approached the half century mark in 1826. At last, on the afternoon of July 4th, 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration, Adams let out a sigh and said, "At least Jefferson still lives." He died soon thereafter. In fact, a few hours earlier on that same day, far to the south in his home in Monticello, Jefferson died as well. Arguably no relationship in this country's history carries as much freight as that of John Adams of Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Gordon Wood has more than done justice to these entwined lives and their meaning; he has written a magnificent new addition to America's collective story.

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Penguin

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0735224730

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9780735224735

Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Echo's Economies

By: J. Gordon

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Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Echo's Economies

By: J. Gordon

Jan Gordon proposes that a reviled communicational 'interest' in gossip and its purveyors be given its proper due in the development of the novel in Britain. Commencing with Sir Walter Scott's historically persecuted (but economically and politically necessary) androgynous voices in caves and concluding with Oscar Wilde's premature celebration of gossip at the very moment it is transformed from public opinion to public judgment, the author finds gossip to be both deforming and shaping nineteenth century 'letters' in surprising ways. Like the ignominious orphan-figure of nineteenth-century fiction, gossip is the 'unacknowledged reproduction' searching for a political antecedence which might lend a legitimacy to its often discontinuous testimony, for a culture historically resistant to obtrusive voices.

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459

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Springer

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0230376940

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9780230376946

The History of the Province of Moray

Vol. II

By: Lachlan Shaw,James Frederick Skinner Gordon

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The History of the Province of Moray

Vol. II

By: Lachlan Shaw,James Frederick Skinner Gordon

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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434

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385416698

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9783385416697

Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland

By: Gordon Bigelow

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Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland

By: Gordon Bigelow

We think of economic theory as a scientific speciality accessible only to experts, but Victorian writers commented on economic subjects with great interest. Gordon Bigelow focuses on novelists Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell and compares their work with commentaries on the Irish famine (1845–1852). Bigelow argues that at this moment of crisis the rise of economics depended substantially on concepts developed in literature. These works all criticized the systematized approach to economic life that the prevailing political economy proposed. Gradually the romantic views of human subjectivity, described in the novels, provided the foundation for a new theory of capitalism based on the desires of the individual consumer. Bigelow's argument stands out by showing how the discussion of capitalism in these works had significant influence not just on public opinion, but on the rise of economic theory itself.

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246

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Cambridge University Press

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1139440853

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9781139440851

2015 Minor League Baseball Analyst

By: Rob Gordon,Jeremy Deloney,Brent Hershey

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2015 Minor League Baseball Analyst

By: Rob Gordon,Jeremy Deloney,Brent Hershey

The first book of its kind to fully integrate sabermetrics and scouting, the 2015 Minor League Baseball Analyst provides a distinctive brand of analysis for more than 1,000 minor league baseball players. Features include scouting reports for all players, batter skills ratings, pitch repertoires, performance trends, major league equivalents, and expected major league debuts. A complete sabermetric glossary is also included. This one-of-a-kind reference is ideally suited for baseball analysts and those who play in fantasy leagues with farm systems.

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153

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Triumph Books

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1633192520

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9781633192522

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

By: Gordon S. Wood

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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

By: Gordon S. Wood

“I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and balanced . . .” —The New York Sun “Exceptionally rich perspective on one of the most accomplished, complex, and unpredictable Americans of his own time or any other.” —The Washington Post Book World From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes—comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the genial polymath, self-improver, and quintessential American, Gordon S. Wood reveals a figure much more ambiguous and complex—and much more interesting. Charting the passage of Franklin’s life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin sheds invaluable light on the emergence of our country’s idea of itself.

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Penguin

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0143035282

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9780143035282

The History and Philosophy of Social Science

By: H. Scott Gordon

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The History and Philosophy of Social Science

By: H. Scott Gordon

Scott Gordon provides a magisterial review of the historical development of the social sciences from their beginnings in renaissance Italy to the present day.

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Routledge

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1134863071

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The Authoritarian Family and Political Attitudes in 17Th-Century England

Patriarchalism in Political Thought

By: Gordon J. Schochet

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The Authoritarian Family and Political Attitudes in 17Th-Century England

Patriarchalism in Political Thought

By: Gordon J. Schochet

Available for the first time in paperback, this classic study of the relationship between paternal and political authority identifies patriachalism as a leitmotif of western social and political thought since the time of Plato and Aristotle. Gordon Schochet shows that patriarchal doctrines can be found in the writings of all major political theorists form Plato to Bodin and that almost every significant political thinker in the seventeenth century England acknowledged and addressed patriarchalism. In the Stuart period, patriarchalism was the primary alternative to social contract and populist justifications of political authority. Moreover, patriarchal power was a major presupposition of those very doctrines that were offered in opposition to it. The author demonstrates that the ideological, social structural, and philosophic roots of the patriarchal tradition are deeply embedded in the political consciousness and practices of Western Europe. In earlier political thought, familial doctrines provided anthropological accounts of the origins of political order, whereas in the Stuart period, patriarchalism was primarily a justification of political obligation. Analyzing these essential differences, Professor Schochet offers a number of sociological, and virtual disappearance of patriarchal conceptions of obligations during the seventeenth century. Untangling the patriarchal theory, he shows that it comported well with the implicit ideology and everyday life of the masses and was fully consistent with the level of historical awareness of the early modern period. The final chapter traces the ultimate demise of patriarchalism in the eighteenth century and its transformation back into a theory of political origins. In addition, the author discusses a number of important questions about the nature of political theory, how its historical documents may be analyzed, and the resort to symbols in political discourse.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412835992

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9781412835992

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland

By: Christopher Wright,Catherine May Gordon

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British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland

By: Christopher Wright,Catherine May Gordon

This book sets a new standard as a work of reference. It covers British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and it encompasses nearly 9,000 painters and 90,000 paintings in more than 1,700 separate collections. The book includes as well pictures that are now lost, some as a consequence of the Second World War and others because of de-accessioning, mostly from 1950 to about 1975 when Victorian art was out of fashion. By listing many tens of thousands of previously unpublished works, including around 13,000 which do not yet have any form of attribution, this book becomes a unique and indispensable work of reference, one that will transform the study of British and Irish painting.

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950

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Yale University Press

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0300117302

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9780300117301

Evangelicalism: a Very Short Introduction

By: John G. Stackhouse Jr.

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Evangelicalism: a Very Short Introduction

By: John G. Stackhouse Jr.

Original evangelicalism -- Evangelicalism defined -- Evangelicalism expands -- Modern challenges -- The end of evangelicalism?

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Oxford University Press

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0190079681

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9780190079680

The Indian World of George Washington

The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation

By: Colin Gordon Calloway

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The Indian World of George Washington

The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation

By: Colin Gordon Calloway

The Indian World of George Washington offers a fresh portrait of the most revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told.

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Oxford University Press

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0190652160

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9780190652166

Parliamentary Sovereignty in the UK Constitution

Process, Politics and Democracy

By: Michael Gordon

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Parliamentary Sovereignty in the UK Constitution

Process, Politics and Democracy

By: Michael Gordon

The status of the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty in the contemporary UK Constitution is much contested. Changes in the architecture of the UK Constitution, diminishing academic reverence for the doctrine, and a more expansive vision of the judicial role, all present challenges to the relevance, coherence and desirability of this constitutional fundamental. At a time when the future of the sovereignty of Parliament may look less than assured, this book develops an account of the continuing significance of the doctrine. It argues that a rejuvenation of the manner and form theory is required to understand the present status of parliamentary sovereignty. Addressing the critical challenges to the doctrine, it contends that this conception of legally unlimited legislative power provides the best explanation of contemporary developments in UK constitutional practice, while also possessing a normative appeal that has previously been unrecognised. This modern shift to the manner and form theory is located in an account of the democratic virtue of parliamentary sovereignty, with the book seeking to demonstrate the potential that exists for Parliament – through legislating about the legislative process – to revitalise the UK's political constitution.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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178225580X

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9781782255802

Revolutionary Characters

What Made the Founders Different

By: Gordon S. Wood

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Revolutionary Characters

What Made the Founders Different

By: Gordon S. Wood

A historical analysis of America's founding leaders identifies the character qualities that enabled them to make their pivotal contributions to the country's formation, discussing what their examples can teach modern readers and how their shared vision of a national meritocracy was shaped by period beliefs about character and leadership. 75,000 first printing.

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Penguin

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1594200939

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9781594200939

Maleficium

Witchcraft and Witch Hunting in the West

By: Gordon Napier

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Maleficium

Witchcraft and Witch Hunting in the West

By: Gordon Napier

An examination of the origins of belief in witchcraft and the extraordinary witch-hunts in Western Europe during the early modern period

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445665115

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9781445665115

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Pulitzer Prize Winner

By: Gordon S. Wood

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The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Pulitzer Prize Winner

By: Gordon S. Wood

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

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Vintage

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0679736883

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9780679736882

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A Sourcebook of Canadian Media Law

A Sourcebook of Canadian Media Law

Friends Divided

Friends Divided

Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

The History of the Province of Moray

The History of the Province of Moray

Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland

Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland

2015 Minor League Baseball Analyst

2015 Minor League Baseball Analyst

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

The History and Philosophy of Social Science

The History and Philosophy of Social Science

The Authoritarian Family and Political Attitudes in 17Th-Century England

The Authoritarian Family and Political Attitudes in 17Th-Century England

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

Evangelicalism: a Very Short Introduction

Evangelicalism: a Very Short Introduction

The Indian World of George Washington

The Indian World of George Washington

Parliamentary Sovereignty in the UK Constitution

Parliamentary Sovereignty in the UK Constitution

Revolutionary Characters

Revolutionary Characters

Maleficium

Maleficium

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

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