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Discovering the Mammoth

A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science

By: John J McKay

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Discovering the Mammoth

A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science

By: John J McKay

The fascinating saga of solving the mystery of this ancient animal who once roamed the north country—and has captivated our collective imagination ever since. Today, we know that a mammoth is an extinct type of elephant that was covered with long fur and lived in the north country during the ice ages. But how do you figure out what a mammoth is if you have no concept of extinction, ice ages, or fossils? Long after the last mammoth died and was no longer part of the human diet, it still played a role in human life. Cultures around the world interpreted the remains of mammoths through the lens of their own worldview and mythology. When the ancient Greeks saw deposits of giant fossils, they knew they had discovered the battle fields where the gods had vanquished the Titans. When the Chinese discovered buried ivory, they knew they had found dragons’ teeth. But as the Age of Reason dawned, monsters and giants gave way to the scientific method. Yet the mystery of these mighty bones remained. How did Enlightenment thinkers overcome centuries of myth and misunderstanding to reconstruct an unknown animal? The journey to unravel that puzzle begins in the 1690s with the arrival of new type of ivory on the European market bearing the exotic name "mammoth." It ends during the Napoleonic Wars with the first recovery of a frozen mammoth. The path to figuring out the mammoth was traveled by merchants, diplomats, missionaries, cranky doctors, collectors of natural wonders, Swedish POWs, Peter the Great, Ben Franklin, the inventor of hot chocolate, and even one pirate. McKay brings together dozens of original documents and illustrations, some ignored for centuries, to show how this odd assortment of characters solved the mystery of the mammoth and, in doing so, created the science of paleontology.

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Simon and Schuster

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168177481X

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9781681774817

The Perils of Patient Government

Professionals and Patients in a Chronic-Care Hospital

By: Joseph W. Lella,J.R. Bayne,J.Z. Csank,J. McKay

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The Perils of Patient Government

Professionals and Patients in a Chronic-Care Hospital

By: Joseph W. Lella,J.R. Bayne,J.Z. Csank,J. McKay

In 1964 the Senate Committee on Aging reported that “once admitted to an institution ... the veteran begins ... to show signs of social and physical degeneration,” a phenomenon that has not escapted the attention of clinicians, social scientists, veterans, and other chronic-care patients. Assuming that social withdrawal in the institutional setting was avoidable ad that a strictly medical model of chronic care was inappropriate, Lella and his collaborators established a patient-government project designed to give thirty elderly men in a large veterans’ hospital, who suffered from various degrees of social withdrawal, an opportunity to express their individuality and independence and to shape institutional decisions. The Perils of Patient Government goes well beyond a description and analysis of the projects’ successful side—a general improvement in the lives of the veterans on Ward 23; it also exposes and analyzes the project’s failures, portraying negotiation and conflict among change-oriented and conservative staff of varying professional identities, ideologies, and career strategies. While struggling over the idea and practice of patient self-government, nurses, and other professionals did make progress but also set severe limits on what patients could achieve for themselves. As well, Lella’s study tackles the larger question of how change affects organizations and institutions. Lively and well-written, this is an enlightening work for students of gerontology and geriactics, for professionals and para-professionals, administrators, and policy-makers involved in chronic care, and for researchers probing the fields of medical sociology and institutional organization.

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249

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889207348

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9780889207349

Picturing the Land

Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500-1950

By: Marylin J. McKay

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Picturing the Land

Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500-1950

By: Marylin J. McKay

Emphasizing the ways in which social, economic, and political conditions determine representation, Marylin McKay moves beyond canonical images and traditional nationalistic interpretations by analyzing Canadian landscape art in relation to different concepts of territory. Taking an expansive and inclusive perspective on Canadian landscape art, McKay depicts this tradition in all its diversity and draws it into the larger body of Western landscape art, broadening the horizon of future study, appreciation, and criticism. Richly illustrated and filled with sophisticated and innovative commentary, Picturing the Land provides new and distinct histories of the landscape art of French and English Canada.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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077359096X

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9780773590960

National Soul

Canadian Mural Painting, 1860s - 1930s

By: Marylin J. McKay

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National Soul

Canadian Mural Painting, 1860s - 1930s

By: Marylin J. McKay

Examining their social, political, and economic contexts, McKay shows how the murals of this period glorified Canada as a modern nation state, extolled the virtues of commerce and industry, inculcated conventions of gender and race, and shared the intensity of nationalistic sentiment that led to the work of the more renowned painters of Toronto's Group of Seven. Bringing together for the first time a body of Canadian work - civic, commercial, religious, and private - that has been largely ignored by art historians, A National Soul challenges previous histories of Canadian painting. This generously illustrated book reproduces seldom-seen works from across the country, many of which have been moved or destroyed, and includes a comprehensive listing of all works from the period, their original and present locations, and their state of preservation.

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329

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773569782

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9780773569782

A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain

Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector since 1945

By: M. Hilton,N. Crowson,J. Mouhot,J. McKay

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A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain

Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector since 1945

By: M. Hilton,N. Crowson,J. Mouhot,J. McKay

Aiming to furnish the reader with the historical data to engage with the debates surrounding the Cameron government's 'Big Society' and civil society, this book gives the reader a greater and more informed historical consciousness of how the NGO sector has grown and influenced.

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428

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Springer

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1137029021

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9781137029027

Canadian Handbook of Flexible Benefits

By: Robert J. McKay

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Canadian Handbook of Flexible Benefits

By: Robert J. McKay

The definitive guide to flexible benefit programs in Canada – completely revised and updated. Now in a new third edition, Canadian Handbook of Flexible Benefits offers everything organizations need to know about designing, implementing, communicating, and administering a successful flexible benefits program. The 2007 Handbook is equally relevant to employers introducing a new plan and to those looking for insight and direction on maintaining an existing program. This edition answers the question "What’s new in flex?" and includes up-to-date information on: the expansion in the range of flexible programs in the last decade, from simplified to total compensation designs; incorporating the numerous innovations in health care cost management into a flexible program; legal aspects of flexible benefits, including the latest word from Canada Revenue Agency on converting taxable performance bonuses to pretax benefits; administration alternatives, including outsourcing, co-sourcing and multi-process outsourcing; Completely new material covering: retiree flexible benefit programs, maintaining and revitalizing an existing plan flex for executives, special considerations for specific provinces, case studies of companies that have successfully implemented flexible benefits, and flexible benefit developments in eight countries on five continents.

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656

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Wiley

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0470838256

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9780470838259

She: Delighting In The Examples Of The Women Of the Bible - Vol. 2

By: Delight Thyself Design Ministries,Allison J. McKay

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She: Delighting In The Examples Of The Women Of the Bible - Vol. 2

By: Delight Thyself Design Ministries,Allison J. McKay

Volume 2 of "She"... A study of the lives of women of the Bible of whom a "She..." statement is found. Each of these women was used of the Lord for a purpose. Most for good, some for what we would deem to be bad, but all ordained of Him. He worked in and through each of them so that we may learn from their lives. He preserved the details of their perspectives and actions so that we could apply them to ours today. For every "She...", the Lord has a lesson for us to learn.

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She

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0999517562

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9780999517567

Book's by J. McKay

Discovering the Mammoth

Discovering the Mammoth

The Perils of Patient Government

The Perils of Patient Government

Picturing the Land

Picturing the Land

National Soul

National Soul

A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain

A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain

Canadian Handbook of Flexible Benefits

Canadian Handbook of Flexible Benefits

She: Delighting In The Examples Of The Women Of the Bible - Vol. 2

She: Delighting In The Examples Of The Women Of the Bible - Vol. 2

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