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The North American Sea Ducks

By: Paul Johnsgard

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The 21 species of sea ducks are one of the larger subgroups (Tribe Mergini) of the waterfowl family Anatidae, and the 16 species (one historically extinct) that are native to North America represent the largest number to be found on any continent, and also the largest number of endemic sea duck species native to any continent. Although generally not important as game birds, the sea ducks include some economically important birds such as the eiders, the basis for the Arctic eiderdown industry and a historically important food source for some Native American cultures. They also include what is probably the most northerly breeding species of all waterfowl and an icon of Arctic bird life, the long-tailed duck. The sea ducks also include species having some of the most complex and diverse pair-forming postural and acoustic displays of all waterfowl (goldeneyes and bufflehead), and some of the deepest diving species of all waterfowl (scoters and long-tailed duck). Sea ducks are highly prone to population disasters caused by oil spills and other water contaminants and, like other seabirds, are among the first bird groups that are being affected by current global warming trends in polar regions. This book is an effort to summarize succinctly our current knowledge of sea duck biology and to provide a convenient survey of the vast technical literature on the group, with over 900 literature references. It also includes 90,000 words of text (more than 40 percent of which is new), 15 updated range maps, 11 black & white and 20 color photographs, over 30 ink drawings, and nearly 150 sketches. Lastly, the North American sea ducks include the now extinct Labrador duck, the only northern hemisphere waterfowl species to have gone extinct in modern times. I have gratefully reprinted a Labrador duck watercolor by Sir Peter Scott. Considering recent population crashes in other sea ducks, such as the Steller's eider and spectacled eider, it should also offer a sobering reminder of the fragility of our natural world and its inhabitants, including us.

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First Frontier

By: Paul Heisel

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First Frontier

By: Paul Heisel

The year is 2015. The USA is about to put men on Mars. The Frontier Project is nearly complete. Or is it? Moments before lift off, the project is in peril - ripe to be sold to the highest bidder. Private industry will make it to Mars to unlock her secrets. Only the Deputy Director of the Frontier Project, Vicky Hawthorne, can expose the conspiracy. Killers lurk in the shadows, following her every move.They will find her.They will kill her.Time is running out.At NASA Langley Research Center, three scientists make a startling discovery. A computer tape from the Viking Missions indicates a previously discovered - then covered up - piece of data. Before the scientists can begin the analysis of the complex metal, they are silenced.Halfway across the world on the remote island of Pohnpei, an archaeological team uncovers Egyptian artifacts. The ancient City of Nan Madol has more secrets yet to be discovered.Join us for the adventure of a lifetime.

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Quebec Since 1930

By: Paul-André Linteau,René Durocher,Jean-Claude Robert,François Ricard

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Quebec Since 1930

By: Paul-André Linteau,René Durocher,Jean-Claude Robert,François Ricard

List of Tables List of Maps List of Figures Preface PART 1: THE DEPRESSION AND THE WAR 1930-1945 Introduction Quebec in 1929 The Depression A Troubled Period The Second World War

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James Lorimer & Company

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1550282964

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Tales of Dorias

Book 1: Kahlen's Burden

By: Paul H Lesage

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Tales of Dorias

Book 1: Kahlen's Burden

By: Paul H Lesage

Tales of Dorias: Kahlen’s Burden by Paul H. LeSage Paul H. LeSage shows us his imaginative process as he takes us to the beautiful, yet unpredictable continent of Dorias. Kahlen’s Burden shares just a glimpse into an adventurous world of monarchy and magic, while consistently introducing us to new characters we feel we’ve known for a lifetime. Just like Kahlen, we are along for a journey, but we have very little idea where we’re going next.

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Financial Accounting

Tools for Business Decision Making

By: Paul D. Kimmel,Jerry J. Weygandt,Jill E. Mitchell,Barbara Trenholm,Wayne Irvine,Christopher D. Burnley

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Financial Accounting

Tools for Business Decision Making

By: Paul D. Kimmel,Jerry J. Weygandt,Jill E. Mitchell,Barbara Trenholm,Wayne Irvine,Christopher D. Burnley

Provide future business professionals with a practical introduction to financial accounting. With its unique focus on building students' decision-making skills and emphasis on financial statements, Financial Accounting, 9th Canadian Edition meaningfully integrates data analytics and the importance of using accounting information in real-world decision-making. Adaptive practice opportunities and engaging real-world industry examples strengthen student understanding of accounting concepts and illustrate how these are relevant to their everyday lives and future careers in business and accounting. An increased emphasis on Indigenous perspectives and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues serves as a first step in urging students to acknowledge their role as individuals, students, and aspiring professionals in addressing societal inequities.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119877946

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French Manual of Grammar, Conversation, and Literature

By: Paul Baume

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French Manual of Grammar, Conversation, and Literature

By: Paul Baume

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382142848

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Heroines of Vichy France

Rescuing French Jews during the Holocaust

By: Paul R. Bartrop,Samantha J. Lakin

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Heroines of Vichy France

Rescuing French Jews during the Holocaust

By: Paul R. Bartrop,Samantha J. Lakin

This book tells the largely unknown story behind the rescue activities of several remarkable young Jewish women in Vichy France during World War II and their role in the resistance against Nazi and Vichy France deportation policies. Few studies of Vichy France and the Holocaust have looked at the rescue of Jews by those prepared to risk everything to escort them to safety in the border regions, and even fewer have considered Jewish rescue of Jews, specifically of Jewish children by women. This work will be arguably the first book in which the experiences and efforts of a number of female rescuers—all of whom knew or knew of each other—have been brought together in a single volume, with the object of honoring their memory and showing how the value of human life was sustained through the Holocaust. Focusing on a number of young Jewish women who defied the Nazis, this narrative highlights their courage and sacrifice in their efforts to rescue Jews in France during World War II. Additionally, it shows how these French women responded to Nazi and Vichy France policies of deportation through resistance activities. This is a story that will captivate anyone with an interest in the innate goodness of human beings that can shine even when confronted with the darkest expressions of depravity that occurred during the Holocaust.

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Memoirs of a Dwarf at the Sun King's Court

By: Paul Weidner

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Memoirs of a Dwarf at the Sun King's Court

By: Paul Weidner

Set in the over-scaled, decadent Versailles of Louis XIV, Memoirs of a Dwarf is the story of Hugues, an impoverished dwarf who maneuvers his way up into the very highest of court circles by clandestinely serving the needs of a mob of unscrupulous gamblers, of a priest notorious for saying black Masses at midnight, and--from under the gaming tables--of a number of sex-starved society women, including Louis's mistress. Along the way, Hugues finally discovers the truth of his own identity, a revelation which is a political bombshell and which subjects him to a grisly turn. The story combines historical events and characters--Louis, his mistresses, his outrageous brother Philippe, and many other baroque personalities--with fictitious ones. Hugues's tale reaches its climax during the famous affaire des poisons, the sexual and political scandal that thundered through the royal court and threatened wholesale destruction.

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Terrace Books

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029920510X

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Stations of the Cross

Adorno and Christian Right Radio

By: Paul Apostolidis

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Stations of the Cross

Adorno and Christian Right Radio

By: Paul Apostolidis

DIVAnalysis of the nationally broadcast radio program "Focus on the Family" that argues that the Christian right's popularity stems from its resistance to the increasing influence of market forces in the welfare state, the electoral system, and the/div

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Duke University Press

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0822325411

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Getting it Wrong

How Canadians Forgot Their Past and Imperilled Confederation

By: Paul Romney

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Getting it Wrong

How Canadians Forgot Their Past and Imperilled Confederation

By: Paul Romney

This provocative book explains how divergent views of Canada's past have sown dissension between Qu?b?cois and other Canadians, disclosing a lost middle ground between the Canadian nationalist and Qu?bec nationalist visions of Canadian history.

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Spatial Econometrics

From Cross-Sectional Data to Spatial Panels

By: J. Paul Elhorst

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Spatial Econometrics

From Cross-Sectional Data to Spatial Panels

By: J. Paul Elhorst

This book provides an overview of three generations of spatial econometric models: models based on cross-sectional data, static models based on spatial panels and dynamic spatial panel data models. The book not only presents different model specifications and their corresponding estimators, but also critically discusses the purposes for which these models can be used and how their results should be interpreted.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642403409

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Precious irony

The theatre of Jean Giraudoux

By: Paul A. Mankin

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Precious irony

The theatre of Jean Giraudoux

By: Paul A. Mankin

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

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3111698203

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Tax Havens and International Human Rights

By: Paul Beckett

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Tax Havens and International Human Rights

By: Paul Beckett

This book sails in uncharted waters. It takes a human rights-based approach to tax havens, and is a detailed analysis of structures and the laws that generate and support these. It makes plain the unscrupulous or merely indifferent ways in which, using tax havens, businesses and individuals systematically undermine and for all practical purposes eliminate access to remedies under international human rights law. It exposes as abusive of human rights a complex structural web of trusts, companies, partnerships, foundations, nominees and fiduciaries; secrecy, immunity and smoke screens. It also lays bare the cynical manipulation by tax havens of traditional legal forms and conventions, and the creation of entities so bizarre and chimeric that they defy classification. Yet from the perspective of the tax havens themselves, these are entirely legitimate; the product of duly enacted domestic laws. This book is not a work of investigative journalism in the style of the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Panama Papers, exposing political or financial corruption, money laundering or the financing of terrorism. All those elements are present of course, but the focus is on international human rights and how tax havens do not merely facilitate but actively connive at their breach. The tax havens are compromising the international human rights legal continuum.

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Routledge

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1317210921

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A Throne in Brussels

Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs and the Belgianisation of Europe

By: Paul Belien

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A Throne in Brussels

Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs and the Belgianisation of Europe

By: Paul Belien

Offers a history of the monarchy of Belgium, a country artificially created in 1817. This book argues that the pan-European super-state resembles a 'Greater-Belgium' rather than a 'Greater-Switzerland'.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1845406400

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International Corporate Reporting

Global and Diverse

By: Pauline Weetman,Ioannis Tsalavoutas,Paul Gordon

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International Corporate Reporting

Global and Diverse

By: Pauline Weetman,Ioannis Tsalavoutas,Paul Gordon

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of international corporate reporting which enhances students’ understanding of diversity and convergence in the field. The authors discuss the institutional and cultural context in which international corporate reporting has developed over the years as well as the global reach of IFRS Standards from the IASB throughout and beyond the European Union, into interest groups and emerging economies. Other key elements explored throughout the book include assurance through auditing and corporate governance, narrative reporting, strategic and corporate social responsibility, group accounting, current accounting issues and taxation in corporate reports. Indicative research examples show how the methods used in research papers may be understood and applied. Case studies outline short projects based on corporate cases, with related links to material on corporate websites. Helpful and reliable sources of information and data are identified through hyperlinks to accessible websites. End-of-chapter questions encourage discussion of the main issues. Throughout there is a focus on accountability and the information needs of stakeholders. This new edition of a classic text is fully revised and updated in order to remain essential reading for students of international accounting and corporate reporting globally. The book will be an invaluable resource for postgraduate taught programmes and final-year undergraduate courses in accounting, finance and business studies.

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0429774613

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Henri de Rothschild, 1872–1947

Medicine and Theater

By: Harry W. Paul

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Henri de Rothschild, 1872–1947

Medicine and Theater

By: Harry W. Paul

Dr Henri de Rothschild was a fifth generation Rothschild and perhaps the most famous of the Paris Rothschilds of the fin-de-siècle period. A 'sleeping partner' of the bank and the non-drinking owner of Mouton-Rothschild, Henri spent much of his life building medical institutions and promoting scientific medicine, including the promotion of Ehrlich's Salvarsan to cure syphilis and the use of radium to cure cancer. His hospital in a working class area of northern Paris boasted the latest in medical advances. Henri was particularly influential in developing the new science of infant feeding, while his broader concerns with infant health led to his playing a prominent role in the development of the specialty of pediatrics. This biography of Henri de Rothschild focuses on his medical achievements and that of his close family in France. Henri, his wife Mathilde and his mother Thérèse all had busy medical careers during World War I. The book also gives an account of both women's experiences of the war. Along with his explicitly scientific medical concerns, Henri was also a prolific playwright and, under the pseudonym André Pascal, wrote several plays about doctors. This book situates the plays, and particularly the themes of charlatanism, women doctors and medical ethics, in their contemporary context of the social and medical life of Paris. A fascinating and vividly written study of a somewhat neglected figure in the history of the illustrious Rothschild family, this book will make a valuable addition to the libraries of scholars in the history of medicine and those studying child health and welfare, the portrayal of doctors in literature, and more broadly the social and cultural life of early-twentieth century Paris.

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1351931032

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The Crisis of the European Mind

1680-1715

By: Paul Hazard

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The Crisis of the European Mind

1680-1715

By: Paul Hazard

Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the future, Hazard traces the process by which new developments in the sciences, arts, philosophy, and philology came to undermine the stable foundations of the classical world, with its commitment to tradition, stability, proportion, and settled usage. Hazard shows how travelers’ tales and archaeological investigation widened European awareness and acceptance of cultural difference; how the radical rationalism of Spinoza and Richard Simon’s new historical exegesis of the Bible called into question the revealed truths of religion; how the Huguenot Pierre Bayle’s critical dictionary of ideas paved the way for Voltaire and the Enlightenment, even as the empiricism of Locke encouraged a new attention to sensory experience that led to Rousseau and romanticism. Hazard’s range of knowledge is vast, and whether the subject is operas, excavations, or scientific experiments his brilliant style and powers of description bring to life the thinkers who thought up the modern world.

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New York Review of Books

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1590176197

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Dictionary Learning Algorithms and Applications

By: Bogdan Dumitrescu,Paul Irofti

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Dictionary Learning Algorithms and Applications

By: Bogdan Dumitrescu,Paul Irofti

This book covers all the relevant dictionary learning algorithms, presenting them in full detail and showing their distinct characteristics while also revealing the similarities. It gives implementation tricks that are often ignored but that are crucial for a successful program. Besides MOD, K-SVD, and other standard algorithms, it provides the significant dictionary learning problem variations, such as regularization, incoherence enforcing, finding an economical size, or learning adapted to specific problems like classification. Several types of dictionary structures are treated, including shift invariant; orthogonal blocks or factored dictionaries; and separable dictionaries for multidimensional signals. Nonlinear extensions such as kernel dictionary learning can also be found in the book. The discussion of all these dictionary types and algorithms is enriched with a thorough numerical comparison on several classic problems, thus showing the strengths and weaknesses of each algorithm. A few selected applications, related to classification, denoising and compression, complete the view on the capabilities of the presented dictionary learning algorithms. The book is accompanied by code for all algorithms and for reproducing most tables and figures. Presents all relevant dictionary learning algorithms - for the standard problem and its main variations - in detail and ready for implementation; Covers all dictionary structures that are meaningful in applications; Examines the numerical properties of the algorithms and shows how to choose the appropriate dictionary learning algorithm.

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Springer

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3319786741

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The North American Geese

Their Biology and Behavior

By: Paul Johnsgard

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The North American Geese

Their Biology and Behavior

By: Paul Johnsgard

The eight currently recognized species of North American geese are part of a familiar group of birds collectively called waterfowl, all of which are smaller than swans and generally larger than ducks. They include the most popular of our aquatic gamebirds, with several million shot each year by sport hunters. Our two most abundant waterfowl, the Canada goose and snow goose, have populations collectively totaling about 15 million individuals. Like swans, the lifelong pairbonding of geese, their familial care, and prolonged social attachment to their offspring are legendary. Their seasonal migratory flights sometimes span thousands of miles, and the sight of their long, wavering flight formations are as much the symbols of seasonal change as are the spring songs of cardinals or the appearance of autumnal leaf colors. This book describes each species' geographic range and subspecies, its identification traits, weights and measurements, and criteria for its age and sex determination. Ecological and behavioral information includes each species' breeding and wintering habitats, its foods and foraging behavior, its local and long distance movements, and its relationships with other species. Reproductive information includes each species' age of maturity, pair-bond pattern, pair-forming behaviors, usual clutch sizes and incubation periods, brooding behavior, and postbreeding behavior. Mortality sources and rates of egg, young, and adult losses are also summarized, and each species' past and current North American populations are estimated. In addition to a text of nearly 60,000 words, the book includes 8 maps, 21 line drawings, and 28 photographs by the author, as well as more than 700 literature citations.

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The State of the System

A Reality Check on Canada's Schools

By: Paul W. Bennett

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The State of the System

A Reality Check on Canada's Schools

By: Paul W. Bennett

Over the last fifty years, Canada's public schools have been absorbed into a modern education system that functions much like Max Weber's infamous iron cage. Crying out for democratic school-level reform, the system is now a centralized, bureaucratic fortress that, every year, becomes softer on standards for students, less accessible to parents, further out of touch with communities, and surprisingly unresponsive to classroom teachers. Exploring the nature of the Canadian education order in all its dimensions, The State of the System explains how public schools came to be so bureaucratic, confronts the critical issues facing kindergarten to grade 12 public schools in all ten provinces, and addresses the need for systemic reform. Going beyond a diagnosis of the stresses, strains, and ills present in the system, Paul Bennett proposes a bold plan to re-engineer schools on a more human scale as the first step in truly reforming public education. In place of school consolidation and managerialism, one-size-fits-all uniformity, limited school choice, and the "success-for-all" curriculum, Bennett advocates for a new set of priorities: decentralize school governance, deprogram education ministries and school districts, listen to parents and teachers, and revitalize local education democracy. Tackling the thorny issues besetting contemporary school systems in Canada, The State of the System issues a clarion call for more responsive, engaged, and accountable public schools.

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0228002273

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Trudeaumania

By: Paul Litt

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Trudeaumania

By: Paul Litt

In 1968, Canadians dared to take a chance on a new kind of politician. Pierre Trudeau became the leader of the Liberal Party in April and two months later won the federal election. His meteoric rise to power was driven by Trudeaumania, an explosive mix of passion and fear fueled by media hype and nationalist ambition. This book traces what happened when the fabled spirit of the sixties met the excitement of the Centennial and Expo 67. Canadians wanted to modernize their nation, differentiate it from the US, and defuse Quebec separatism. Far from being a sixties crazy moment, Trudeaumania was a passionate quest for a new Canada that would define the values of Canadians for decades to come.

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UBC Press

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0774834064

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The Guitar and its Music

From the Renaissance to the Classical Era

By: James Tyler,Paul Sparks

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The Guitar and its Music

From the Renaissance to the Classical Era

By: James Tyler,Paul Sparks

Following on from James Tyler's The Early Guitar: A History and Handbook(OUP 1980) tthis collaboration with Paul Sparks (their previous book for OUP, The Early Mandolin, appeared in 1989), presents new ideas and research on the history and development of the guitar and its music from the Renaissance to the dawn of the Classical era. Tyler's systematic study of the two main guitar types found between about 1550 and 1750 focuses principally on what the sources of the music (published and manuscript) and the writings of contemporary theorists reveal about the nature of the instruments and their roles in the music making of the period. The annotated lists of primary sources, previously published in The Early Guitar but now revised and expanded, constitute the most comprehensive bibliography of Baroque guitar music to date. His appendices of performance practice information should also prove indispensable to performers and scholars alike. Paul Sparks also breaks new ground, offering an extensive study of a period in the guitar's history—notably c.1759-c.1800—which the standard histories usually dismiss in a few short paragraphs. Far from being a dormant instrument at this time, the guitar is shown to have been central to music-making in France, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, and South America. Sparks provides a wealth of information about players, composers, instruments, and surviving compositions from this neglected but important period, and he examines how the five-course guitar gradually gave way to the six-string instrument, a process that occurred in very different ways (and at different times) in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Britain.

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OUP Oxford

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0191518514

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When Television was Young

Primetime Canada 1952-1967

By: Paul Rutherford

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When Television was Young

Primetime Canada 1952-1967

By: Paul Rutherford

A decade after the first Canadian telecasts in September 1952, TV had conquered the country. Why was the little screen so enthusiastically welcomed by Canadians? Was television in its early years more innovative, less commerical, and more Canadian than current than current offerings? In this study of what is often called the 'golden age' of television, Paul Rutherford has set out to dispel some cherished myths and to resurrect the memory of a noble experiment in the making of Canadian culture. He focuses on three key aspects of the story. The first is the development of the national service, including the critical acclaim won by Radio-Canada, the struggles of the CBC's English service to provide mass entertainment that could compete with the Hollywood product, and the effective challenge of private television to the whole dream of public broadcasting. The second deals with the wealth of made-in-Canada programming available to please and inform vviewers - even commercials receive close attention. Altogether, Rutherford argues, Canadian programming reflected as well as enhanced the prevailing values and assumptions of the mainstream. The final focus is on McLuhan's Question: What happens to society when a new medium of communications enters the picture? Rutherford's findings cast doubt upon the common presumptions about the awesome power of television. Television in Canada, Rutherford concludes, amounts to a failed revolution. It never realized the ambbitions of its masters or the fears of its critics. Its course was shaped not only by the will of the government, the power of commerce, and the empire of Hollywood, but also by the desires and habits of the viewers.

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University of Toronto Press

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080206647X

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The Strange Demise of British Canada

The Liberals and Canadian Nationalism, 1964-68

By: Christian Paul Champion

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The Strange Demise of British Canada

The Liberals and Canadian Nationalism, 1964-68

By: Christian Paul Champion

Did Canada come of age in the 1960s, or does it remain a British country?

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0773536906

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The Biker Trials

Bringing Down the Hells Angels

By: Paul Cherry

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The Biker Trials

Bringing Down the Hells Angels

By: Paul Cherry

The story of outlaw biker Edward Winterhalder and what happened when the Quebec-based Rock Machine gang became a chapter of the American-based Bandidos.

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1554902509

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