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The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization

By: John Mackenzie Owen

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The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization

By: John Mackenzie Owen

This book outlines the consequences of digitization for peer-reviewed research articles published in electronic journals. It is argued that digitization will revolutionize scientific communication. However, this study shows that this is not the case where scientific journals are concerned. Authors make little use of the possibilities offered by the digital medium; electronic peer review procedures have not replaced traditional ones, and users have not embraced new forms of interaction offered by some electronic journals.

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274

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402053401

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9781402053405

Children of Peace

By: John McIntyre

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Children of Peace

By: John McIntyre

The Children of Peace, which existed from 1812 to 1890, was started by former Quakers from the United States who set up a utopian community near Toronto. With their propensity for fine architecture, music, and ritual, adherents to the sect attracted the attention of the religious, political, and social élites. Their leader and founder, David Willson, was one of the most prolific religious writers and theorists in Canada at the time. The Children of Peace sought to create a church where God spoke directly to all and where both Christians and Jews could find a home. McIntyre looks at life in the community and places the sect within its broader historical contexts. His examination of the community's buildings and artefacts provides insight into the beliefs and behaviour of its adherents. Children of Peace makes an important contribution to the growing field of religious and cultural history in Canada.

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277

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773564772

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9780773564770

Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike

By: John McTavish

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Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike

By: John McTavish

Big on style, slight on substance: that has been a common charge over the years by critics of John Updike. In fact, however, John Updike is one of the most serious writers of modern times. Myth, as this book shows, unlocks his fictional universe and repeatedly breaks open the powerful themes in his literary parables of the gospel. Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike also includes a personal tribute to John Updike by his son David, two essays by pioneer Updike scholars Alice and Kenneth Hamilton, and an anecdotal chapter in which readers share Updike discoveries and recommendations. All in all, weight is added to the complaint that the master of myth and gospel was shortchanged by the Nobel committee.

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203

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BoD – Books on Demand

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0718895371

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9780718895372

Resettling the Range

Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia

By: John Thistle

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Resettling the Range

Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia

By: John Thistle

The ranchers who resettled BC’s interior in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on grassland for their cattle, but in this they faced some unlikely competition from grasshoppers and wild horses. With the help of the government, settlers resolved to rid the range of both. Resettling the Range explores the ecology and history of the grassland and the people who lived there by looking closely at these eradication efforts. In the claims of “range improvement” and “rational land use,” author John Thistle uncovers more complicated stories of marginalization: the destruction of wild horses worked to dispossess aboriginal people, while the campaign to exterminate grasshoppers exposed class conflicts and competing versions of resettlement among immigrant ranchers. This unconventional history examines the lasting effects of range improvement, revealing a fascinating – and troubling – chapter of BC history.

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245

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UBC Press

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0774828404

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9780774828406

Making the Cut

Life Inside the PGA Tour System

By: John A. Fortunato

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Making the Cut

Life Inside the PGA Tour System

By: John A. Fortunato

The success of the PGA Tour lies in the compelling stories of the individual quests for achievement--making the tournament cut, winning a tournament, qualifying for the FedEx Cup Playoffs, and the ultimate challenge of making it onto the Tour, where victory is often determined by a single stroke. Based on interviews with more than twenty professional golfers, this book provides new insight into the PGA Tour system, the events affecting tournament outcomes, and the career-changing opportunities that result.

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258

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McFarland

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1476676194

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9781476676197

The Western Interior of Canada

A Record of Geographical Discovery, 1612-1917

By: John Warkentin

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The Western Interior of Canada

A Record of Geographical Discovery, 1612-1917

By: John Warkentin

This volume consists of excerpts from journals, diaries and reports of geographical explorations into the western interior of Canada from the first known journeys of Jens Munck and Luke Foxe up to the scientific surveys undertaken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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322

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773591532

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9780773591530

Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes

Catalogue of the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology

By: John Clay Bruner

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Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes

Catalogue of the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology

By: John Clay Bruner

The Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Allberta houses type specimens of fossil fishes. This book is a catalogue of these specimens. Included for each entry is taxonomy, detailed collection locality information, the citation wherein the species was originally described, and a list of individual type specimens. This is the first list ever compiled of the fossil fish types deposited in the collections of the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology (UALVP). This collection contains 88 fish holotypes, 966 fish paratypes, 55 casts of fish holotypes from other museums, and 20 casts of fish paratypes from other museums. Key selling features: List all of the type specimens of fossil fishes currently housed in the collection of the Laboratory of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Provides details of all 88 holotypes and nearly 1000 paratypes as well as casts of types specimens held in other museum collections. Includes information on unpublished "types" - type specimens of not yet described new species.

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179

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CRC Press

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0429676549

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9780429676543

Furs and Frontiers In the Far North

The Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade

By: John R. Bockstoce

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Furs and Frontiers In the Far North

The Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade

By: John R. Bockstoce

This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans, and members of fifty native nations competed and cooperated. The desire to dominate the fur trade fed the European expansion into the most remote regions of Asia and America and was an agent of massive change in these regions. Award-winning author John R. Bockstoce fills a major gap in the historiography of the area in covering the scientific, commercial, and foreign-relations implications of the northern fur trade. In addition, the book provides rare insight into the relationship between the Western powers and the Native Americans who provided them with fur, ivory, and whalebone in exchange for manufactured goods, tobacco, tea, alcohol, and hundreds of other things. But this is also the story of the enterprising individuals who energized the Alaskan fur trade and, in doing so, forever altered the region's history

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495

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Yale University Press

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0300154909

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9780300154900

Villages

A Novel

By: John Updike

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Villages

A Novel

By: John Updike

A delightful, witty, passionate novel that follows its hero from the Depression era to the early twenty-first century—from a master of American letters and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. John Updike’s twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows Owen Mackenzie from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts. In between these two settlements comes Middle Falls, Connecticut, where Owen, an early computer programmer, founds with a partner, Ed Mervine, the successful firm of E-O Data, which is housed in an old gun factory on the Chunkaunkabaug River. Owen’s education (Bildung) is not merely technical but liberal, as the humanity of his three villages, especially that of their female citizens, works to disengage him from his youthful innocence. As a child he early felt an abyss of calamity beneath the sunny surface quotidian, yet also had a dreamlike sense of leading a charmed existence. The women of his life, including his wives, Phyllis and Julia, shed what light they can. At one juncture he reflects, “How lovely she is, naked in the dark! How little men deserve the beauty and mercy of women!” His life as a sexual being merges with the communal shelter of villages: “A village is woven of secrets, of truths better left unstated, of houses with less window than opaque wall.” This delightful, witty, passionate novel runs from the Depression era to the early twenty-first century.

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338

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Random House

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0307417646

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9780307417640

The Ancient Welsh Grammar

By: John Williams

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The Ancient Welsh Grammar

By: John Williams

Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375174462

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9783375174460

Master the Postal Exams

By: John Gosney,Arco,Dawn Rosenberg McKay

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Master the Postal Exams

By: John Gosney,Arco,Dawn Rosenberg McKay

Offers information on salary and benefits, training and qualifications, and preparing for the right exam, and includes nine practice tests with answers and detailed explanation for every question.

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402

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Peterson's

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0768927161

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9780768927160

Ghost Stories of Ontario

By: John Robert Colombo

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Ghost Stories of Ontario

By: John Robert Colombo

A collection of 69 Ontario stories of haunted houses, ghosts, poltergeists, apparitions, and other eerie experiences.

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246

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Dundurn

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088882176X

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9780888821768

They Played Rugby for Wales, 2023 edition

By: Eric Lemon,John M. Jenkins

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They Played Rugby for Wales, 2023 edition

By: Eric Lemon,John M. Jenkins

A remarkable compilation of over 400 pages of statistics and records of every match and every player for the Wales national Rugby Union team from the first match in February 1881 up to December 2023.

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Eric Lemon

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0645362662

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9780645362664

Book's by John Mackenzie Owen

The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization

The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization

Children of Peace

Children of Peace

Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike

Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike

Resettling the Range

Resettling the Range

Making the Cut

Making the Cut

The Western Interior of Canada

The Western Interior of Canada

Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes

Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes

Furs and Frontiers In the Far North

Furs and Frontiers In the Far North

Villages

Villages

The Ancient Welsh Grammar

The Ancient Welsh Grammar

Master the Postal Exams

Master the Postal Exams

Ghost Stories of Ontario

Ghost Stories of Ontario

They Played Rugby for Wales, 2023 edition

They Played Rugby for Wales, 2023 edition

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