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Improving Upper Canada

Agricultural Societies and State Formation, 1791–1852

By: Ross Fair

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Improving Upper Canada

Agricultural Societies and State Formation, 1791–1852

By: Ross Fair

Agricultural societies founded in the colony of Upper Canada were the institutional embodiment of the ideology of improvement, modelled on contemporary societies in Britain and the United States. In Improving Upper Canada, Ross Fair explores how the agricultural improvers who established and led these organizations were important agents of state formation. The book investigates the initial failed attempts to create a single agricultural society for Upper Canada. It examines the 1830 legislation that publicly funded the creation of agricultural societies across the colony to be semi-public agents of agricultural improvement, and analyses societies established in the Niagara, Home, and Midland Districts to understand how each attempted to introduce specific improvements to local farming practices. The book reveals how Upper Canada’s agricultural improvers formed a provincial association in the 1840s to ensure that the colonial government assumed a greater leadership role in agricultural improvement, resulting in the Bureau of Agriculture, forerunner of federal and provincial departments of agriculture in the post-Confederation era. In analysing an early example of state formation, Improving Upper Canada provides a comprehensive history of the foundations of Ontario’s agricultural societies today, which continue to promote agricultural improvement across the province.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487553552

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9781487553555

Walker and Walker: The Law of Evidence in Scotland

By: Margaret L Ross,James P Chalmers,Isla Callander

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Walker and Walker: The Law of Evidence in Scotland

By: Margaret L Ross,James P Chalmers,Isla Callander

A comprehensive and detailed examination of the law of evidence in the broadest of civil and criminal contexts. The emphasis is upon rigorous examination of the issues affecting all who work with the law of evidence whether in court, chamber practice or legal education. The fifth edition takes account of a range of relevant new legislation, including the following statutes: · Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) (Scotland) Act 2019 · Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 · Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016 · Inquiries into Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc (Scotland) Act 2016 · Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 It includes relevant case law, including significant developments in respect of opinion evidence, real evidence and corroboration.

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751

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1526514478

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9781526514479

The Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911–1943

Last Train from Jerusalem

By: Ross Davies

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The Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911–1943

Last Train from Jerusalem

By: Ross Davies

Actor, memoirist, novelist, playwright and poet, Stephen Haggard was a highly individual figure in the English literature and theatre of the 1930s and Second World War. Haggard was born in Guatemala City in 1911, the son of a British colonial officer – who was a nephew of H. Rider Haggard – and his French-Canadian wife. He died in mysterious circumstances in 1943 while serving with British Army Intelligence in the Middle East. Ross Davies’s biography retraces Stephen Haggard’s brief yet vivid and crowded life and work. From a colonial childhood and education in England, the Haggard story moves on to prewar theatre studies in Munich, stardom on the London and New York stages and from there to service with the Army, the BBC, the Special Operations Executive and its rival Political Warfare Executive. Davies shows that Haggard felt verse to be his vital outlet, artistic and emotional, although he did not seek publication until the outbreak of Hitler’s war. Wartime poems such "The Tear" and "Lotus" struck a chord with the many other young men and women who had to set aside civilian life, and Haggard's widow Morna collected the verse for publication with his memoir I’ll Go to Bed at Noon (1944). In this book, Davies traces a fascinating life story that has been largely lost from view and makes a convincing case for Haggard's important contribution to the interwar literary and cultural scene.

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149

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Liverpool University Press

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1835537154

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9781835537152

Phillipsastreid Corals from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of Western Canada

Taxonomy and Biostratigraphic Significance

By: Ross A. McLean,National Research Council Canada,National Research Council Canada. Monograph Publishing Program

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Phillipsastreid Corals from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of Western Canada

Taxonomy and Biostratigraphic Significance

By: Ross A. McLean,National Research Council Canada,National Research Council Canada. Monograph Publishing Program

Rugose corals of the Family Phillipsastreidae are abundant, diverse, and geographically widespread in the Frasnian (lower Upper Devonian) of western Canada.

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126

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NRC Research Press

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0660193647

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9780660193649

Faith at the Frontiers of Knowledge

By: R. Ross

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Faith at the Frontiers of Knowledge

By: R. Ross

Unity of knowledge is not easily achieved in todays Africa where often there is little conscious interaction between traditional beliefs, Christian faith and modern secularity. The challenge is taken up in this book as scholars from a variety of disciplines wrestle with the relation of faith and science at the frontiers of knowledge. The results are important alike for the integrity of faith, for scienti?c advance and for the attainment of creative cultural unity in society. Readers with such concerns at heart will ?nd much food for thought as they traverse the broad frontiers explored in these wide-ranging essays.

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African Books Collective

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9996098192

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Reflections on Blue Water

Journeys in the Gulf of Naples and in the Aeolian Islands

By: Alan Ross

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Reflections on Blue Water

Journeys in the Gulf of Naples and in the Aeolian Islands

By: Alan Ross

This valedictory volume is the quintessence of [Alan] Ross, a deft and deceptively airy set of literary wanderings through a part of the Mediterranean - the islands of the south-western coast of Italy - he had known since being demobilised from the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War... Ross's memoir is a showcase for a supremely poetic sensibility, and a naturally gifted writer with an unerring eye for detail, reporting on his experience with an infectiously joyous lyricism.' Eldon King, Observer 'A fund of associative literary information that could only have been amassed by a passionate reader. Gorky, Ibsen, Rilke, DH Lawrence, Walter Benjamin, Pablo Neruda and scores more wrote in or near Ischia; Ross describes their books and their lives with detailed succinctness, en route dipping in and out of his own thoughts and travel observations.' Helen Simpson, Guardian

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216

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Faber & Faber

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0571297862

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9780571297863

The Life of Adam Smith

By: Ian Simpson Ross

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The Life of Adam Smith

By: Ian Simpson Ross

This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith's life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has recently come to light, this full-scale biography of Adam Smith examines the personality, career, and social and intellectual circumstances of the Scottish moral philosopher regarded as the founder of scientific economics, whose legacy of thought - most notably about the free market and the role of the state - concerns us all. Ian Simpson Ross draws on correspondence, archival documents, the reports of contemporaries, and the record of Smith's publications to fashion a lively account of Adam Smith as a man of letters, moralist, historian, and critic, as well as an economist. Supported with full scholarly apparatus for students and academics, the book also offers 20 halftone illustrations representing Smith and the world in which he lived.

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624

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OUP Oxford

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0191613940

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9780191613944

David Livingstone

Mission and Empire

By: Andrew C. Ross

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David Livingstone

Mission and Empire

By: Andrew C. Ross

Now in paperback, Ross's biography is already established as the leading authority on its subject. >

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A&C Black

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1852855657

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9781852855659

Malawi and Scotland Together in the Talking Place Since 1859

By: Kenneth R. Ross

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Malawi and Scotland Together in the Talking Place Since 1859

By: Kenneth R. Ross

This pioneering and fascinating book is the first to tell the story of the remarkably enduring bonds between Malawi and Scotland from the time of David Livingstone to the flourishing cultural, economic and religious relationships of the present day. Why should there be any significant relationship between one small nation on Europe's north-western seaboard and another in the interior of Africa? How did it reach the stage where in 2012 Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs in the Scottish Government, could describe Malawi as Scotland's "sister nation"? This book attempts an answer.

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African Books Collective

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9996027074

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9789996027079

Suicide or Murder

By: Ian Ross Vayro

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Suicide or Murder

By: Ian Ross Vayro

Mina, a Lufthansa flight attendant, and Adam, a trainee police detective, establish a loving relationship formed around an astounding story (purported to be true) that boggled police investigators and medical examiners in LA. The story investigates the legal ramifications associated with a bizarre death that was chosen as the most unusual case on record for presentation at the 25th Anniversary dinner of the American Association of Forensic Scientists. It may be difficult to envisage a growing romance within the confines of a murder mystery; however, the unusually volatile pressures and emotions that surround this case are, in fact, the perfect vehicle to exhibit the unique personalities of the involved characters. This story is sometimes bizarre and sometimes amusing and it becomes quite difficult to keep in mind that a large part of it is claimed to have really happened.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398471690

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9781398471696

Desire Lines

A Scottish Odyssey - A Journey Through Her History

By: David R Ross

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Desire Lines

A Scottish Odyssey - A Journey Through Her History

By: David R Ross

David R. Ross not only shows us his Scotland but he teaches us it too. You feel as though you are on the back of his motorcycle listening to the stories of his land as you fly with him up and down the smaller roads, the 'desire lines', of Scotland. Ross takes us off the beaten track and away from the main routes chosen for us by modern road builders. He starts our journey in England and criss-crosses the border telling the bloody tales of the towns and villages. His recounting of Scottish history, its myths and its legends is unapologetically and unashamedly pro-Scots.

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Luath Press Ltd

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1913025802

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Improving Upper Canada

Improving Upper Canada

Walker and Walker: The Law of Evidence in Scotland

Walker and Walker: The Law of Evidence in Scotland

The Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911–1943

The Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911–1943

Phillipsastreid Corals from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of Western Canada

Phillipsastreid Corals from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of Western Canada

Faith at the Frontiers of Knowledge

Faith at the Frontiers of Knowledge

Reflections on Blue Water

Reflections on Blue Water

The Life of Adam Smith

The Life of Adam Smith

David Livingstone

David Livingstone

Malawi and Scotland Together in the Talking Place Since 1859

Malawi and Scotland Together in the Talking Place Since 1859

Suicide or Murder

Suicide or Murder

Desire Lines

Desire Lines

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