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Most Dangerous Branch

How the Supreme Court of Canada Has Undermined Our Law and Our Democracy

By: Robert Martin

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How the Supreme Court of Canada Has Undermined Our Law and Our Democracy

By: Robert Martin

One of those rare books with the potential to revive a dying society." National Post

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0773529179

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The Lyon In Mourning - Or A Collection Of Speeches, Letters, Journals Etc. Relative To The Affairs Of Price Charles Edward Stuart

By: Robert Forbes

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The Lyon In Mourning - Or A Collection Of Speeches, Letters, Journals Etc. Relative To The Affairs Of Price Charles Edward Stuart

By: Robert Forbes

The Lyon in Mourning is a collection of Journals, Narratives, and Memoranda relating to the life of Prince Charles Edward Stuart at the subsequent to the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The Formation of this collection was to a great extent the life-work of the Rev. Robert Forbes, M.A., Bishop of Ross and Caithness. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Read Books Ltd

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1447497775

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The Scope of Information Ethics

Challenges in Education, Technology, Communications, Medicine and Other Domains

By: Robert Hauptman

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The Scope of Information Ethics

Challenges in Education, Technology, Communications, Medicine and Other Domains

By: Robert Hauptman

The field of information ethics (IE)--a subdivision of ethics--was developed during the 1980s, originating and maturing in library science and slowly working its way into other disciplines and practical applications. Some years later, a secondary field emerged, emphasizing theoretical and philosophical concepts, with little focus on real-world applicability. The first of its kind, this comprehensive overview of IE evaluates the production, dissemination, storage, accessing and retrieval of information in an ethical context in areas including the humanities, sciences, medicine and business. A leading figure in the field, the author is concerned with misconduct (falsification, fabrication, plagiary), peer review, the law, privacy, imaging and robotics, among other matters.

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McFarland

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1476675678

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The Historiography of Genocide

By: Anton Weiss-Wendt,Robert Krieken,Alfred A. Cave,Ben Kiernan,Doris Bergen,David Moshman,Victoria Sanford,John Docker,Robert Hitchcock

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The Historiography of Genocide

By: Anton Weiss-Wendt,Robert Krieken,Alfred A. Cave,Ben Kiernan,Doris Bergen,David Moshman,Victoria Sanford,John Docker,Robert Hitchcock

The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to genocides.

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Springer

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0230297781

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9780230297784

Operation Suicide

By: Robert Lyman

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Operation Suicide

By: Robert Lyman

During the Second World War, it is hard to imagine a situation where the British High Command could think that one of the only ways they could attack Hitler was to send ten canoeists with limpet mines to paddle one hundred miles up the Gironde estuary, in the middle of winter, in an attempt to sink German blockade ships in Bordeaux harbor. Yet this is precisely what happened in 1942. The man who gave the go-ahead for the audacious commando raid--Lord Louis Mountbatten, head of Combined Operations--fully anticipated that all ten men would die in the attempt. Mountbatten wasn't far wrong--two ripped their collapsible canoes as they were manhandling them out of the submarine; two drowned when their canoes capsized entering the Gironde estuary; and a further six were captured by the Germans and later executed. By complete chance, the two canoeists who managed to escape--Major "Blondie" Hasler and Marine Bill Sparks--stumbled into the arms of the French resistance. Once in their care, Hasler and Sparks made their way across France and into Spain, crossing the Pyrenees in the company (though they did not know it) of a Gestapo agent intent on bringing down the resistance network. Operation Suicide is the first account of this enthralling raid for over fifty years. In utilizing primary source material, including detailed German records captured by the British in 1944 (which remained censored until 1976), Robert Lyman brings to life one of the most courageous and dramatic events to take place in the darkest days of the Second World War.

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Quercus

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1623652626

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9781623652623

Explaining Creativity

The Science of Human Innovation

By: R. Keith Sawyer,Danah Henriksen

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Explaining Creativity

The Science of Human Innovation

By: R. Keith Sawyer,Danah Henriksen

Genius. Invention. Talent. And, of course, creativity. These words describe the highest levels of human performance. When we're engaged in the act of being creative, we feel we are performing at the peak of our abilities. Creative works give us insight and enrich our lives. Creativity is part of what makes us human. Our nearest relatives, chimpanzees and other primates, are often quite intelligent but never reach these high levels of performance"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197747531

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History of the Peninsular War

Vol. 5

By: Robert Southey

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History of the Peninsular War

Vol. 5

By: Robert Southey

Reproduction of the original.

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336890387X

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War Is Here

The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature

By: Robert McGill

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War Is Here

The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature

By: Robert McGill

Canada did not fight in the Vietnam War, but the conflict seized the Canadian imagination with an energy that has persisted. In War Is Here Robert McGill explains how the war contributed to a golden age for writing in Canada. As authors addressed the conflict, they helped to construct an enduring myth of Canada as liberal, hospitable, and humanitarian. For many writers, the war was one that Canadians could and should fight against, if not in person, then on the page. In this pioneering account of war-related Canadian literature McGill observes how celebrated books of the era channel Vietnam, sometimes in subtle but pervasive ways. He examines authors’ attempts to educate their readers about American imperialism and Canadian complicity, and he discusses how writers repeatedly used language evoking militarism and violence – from the figure of the United States as a rapist to the notion of Canada as a “peaceable kingdom” – in order to make Canadians feel more intensely about their country. McGill also addresses the recent spate of prize-winning Canadian novels about the war that have renewed Vietnam’s resonance in the wake of twenty-first century conflicts involving America. War Is Here vividly revisits a galvanizing time in world history and Canadian life, offering vital insights into the Vietnam War’s influence on how people think about Canada, its place in the world, and the power of the written word to make a difference.

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0773551689

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9780773551688

Directors in British and Irish Cinema

A Reference Companion

By: Robert Murphy

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Directors in British and Irish Cinema

A Reference Companion

By: Robert Murphy

A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director's career, evaluates their achievements and provides a complete filmography. It is useful for those interested in film-making in Britain and Ireland.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838715339

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9781838715335

Going Places

A Reader's Guide to Travel Narrative

By: Robert Burgin

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Going Places

A Reader's Guide to Travel Narrative

By: Robert Burgin

Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

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9798216091059

Consciousness and Being

From Being to Truth in the Thomistic Tradition

By: Robert C. Trundle

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Consciousness and Being

From Being to Truth in the Thomistic Tradition

By: Robert C. Trundle

This book is of vital interest to anyone who yearns to know how science, theology, ethics, art, and politics do really afford objective truths. Not only that, but how these truths in seemingly clashing areas are interrelated by common sense and rooted in our incontrovertible consciousness of Being itself. Being itself, as the basis for truth, is defended against truth-denying modern philosophers who, having headed in the wrong direction with tragic costs of murderous ideologies, have completely misunderstood the simple origin of truth in the realist tradition of Aristotle, Aquinas, Etienne Gilson, and others. Their profoundness is not bamboozled by the covert and corrupting sophism of today's teachings. Anyone interested in surmounting these teachings that include political correctness and a false divide of fact from value, which paralyze the very modern ethics that helped to create them, should read this book. The book reveals how ethics, art, and politics can be as true as the sciences that inform them.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532649703

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Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and round the World

By: Robert McCormick

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Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and round the World

By: Robert McCormick

This two-volume 1884 work describes a doctor and naturalist's polar voyages with William Parry, James Clark Ross and Edward Belcher.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108072062

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9781108072069

The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder

The First Amendment and the Censor's Dilemma

By: Robert Corn-Revere

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The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder

The First Amendment and the Censor's Dilemma

By: Robert Corn-Revere

Beginning in the nineteenth century with Anthony Comstock, America's 'censor in chief,' The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder explores how censors operate and why they wore out their welcome in society at large. This book explains how the same tactics were tried and eventually failed in the twentieth century, with efforts to censor music, comic books, television, and other forms of popular entertainment. The historic examples illustrate not just the mindset and tactics of censors, but why they are the ultimate counterculture warriors and why, in free societies, censors never occupy the moral high ground. This book is for anyone who wants to know more about why freedom of speech is important and how protections for free expression became part of the American identity.

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1108216102

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9781108216104

Logical and Epistemological Studies in Contemporary Physics

By: Robert Sonné Cohen

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Logical and Epistemological Studies in Contemporary Physics

By: Robert Sonné Cohen

Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1969/1972

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9027703779

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Churches of Nova Scotia

By: Robert Tuck

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Churches of Nova Scotia

By: Robert Tuck

Both text and photographs tell the story of more than 30 churches from all parts of the province and a variety of denominations and eras.

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Dundurn

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1550024787

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Putin's Preventive Counter-Revolution

Post-Soviet Authoritarianism and the Spectre of Velvet Revolution

By: Robert Horvath

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Putin's Preventive Counter-Revolution

Post-Soviet Authoritarianism and the Spectre of Velvet Revolution

By: Robert Horvath

This book examines the 'preventive counter-revolution,' a programme of reforms and repression that transformed the face of Russian politics during Vladimir Putin's second term as president. Kremlin propagandists hailed this programme as a defence of national sovereignty against Western attempts to foment a 'velvet revolution' in Russia. But this book shows that the Putin regime was reacting to a real domestic threat: opposition leaders and youth activists who had begun to employ 'velvet' revolutionary methods in a campaign to harness popular grievances and to challenge Putin in the streets and at the ballot box. It traces the formulation and implementation of the regime's two-track response, which was based on a careful analysis of the lessons of the recent 'velvet’ (or ‘coloured’) revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine. The first track was repressive: the imposition of controls on NGOs, restrictions on electoral competition, and a crackdown on opposition demonstrations. The second was the mobilisation of supporters in 'patriotic' youth organisations that employed both gang violence and 'velvet' revolutionary techniques. Drawing on a wide range of Russian-language sources, including opposition activists' blogs, this book charts the end of Russia's experiment with liberal democracy and the emergence of a new type of authoritarian order.

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113623490X

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Most Dangerous Branch

Most Dangerous Branch

The Lyon In Mourning - Or A Collection Of Speeches, Letters, Journals Etc. Relative To The Affairs Of Price Charles Edward Stuart

The Lyon In Mourning - Or A Collection Of Speeches, Letters, Journals Etc. Relative To The Affairs Of Price Charles Edward Stuart

The Scope of Information Ethics

The Scope of Information Ethics

The Historiography of Genocide

The Historiography of Genocide

Operation Suicide

Operation Suicide

Explaining Creativity

Explaining Creativity

History of the Peninsular War

History of the Peninsular War

War Is Here

War Is Here

Directors in British and Irish Cinema

Directors in British and Irish Cinema

Going Places

Going Places

Consciousness and Being

Consciousness and Being

Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and round the World

Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and round the World

The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder

The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder

Logical and Epistemological Studies in Contemporary Physics

Logical and Epistemological Studies in Contemporary Physics

Churches of Nova Scotia

Churches of Nova Scotia

Putin's Preventive Counter-Revolution

Putin's Preventive Counter-Revolution

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