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Musings of a Native Son

By: Tom Massiah,Thomas Frederick Massiah

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Musings of a Native Son

By: Tom Massiah,Thomas Frederick Massiah

My story begins in Montreal on August 6, 1931, the day before my father died. I was not quite 5 years old, and I was the fourth of six siblings that my mother was left to raise -- at the height of the so-called 'Great Depression'. "I trace and comment on my life struggles through public school, high school and thence to my first university degree. Throughout, I faced the dual problem of going to school without having the mandatory fees. But I point out that I completed my education debt-free, never having applied for or received a student loan. "I also reveal how I coped with the double-edged difficulty of being both black and ambitious, while persevering in a mostly unwelcoming, white dominated environment. Then I tell how I managed to overcome numerous obstacles, to obtain a doctorate (in Organic Chemistry), and eventually go on to become a pioneering Canadian-born black scientist and educator -- more than 40 years ago. Parenthetically, the pivotal breakthrough in my professional career, took place at about the same time (1947) in the same city (Montreal), that Jackie Robinson was making his breakthrough into organized baseball. "So in every sense, this is the story of a 'Native Son'." Thomas (Tom) F. Massiah

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1412018099

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Emanations from the Corpse of Little Burgundy

By: Tom Massiah

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Emanations from the Corpse of Little Burgundy

By: Tom Massiah

Little Burgundy was a small vibrant part of Central Montreal. Perhaps somewhat sadly, that area no longer exists, having been changed largely through gentrification. But the area and its residents had many worthwhile stories to tell. However, up till now, I am unaware of anyone undertaking to tell any of them. So in this mini novel, I am adopting the posture of a reporter, who will try to recall some of the most noteworthy stories about this place. Hopefully, the few stories that I have selected will give the reader a sense of what day-to-day life was like for those of us who lived there at that time.

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103

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Trafford Publishing

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1466949740

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9781466949744

Brand Fusion

Purpose-driven brand strategy

By: Terry Smith,Tom Williams

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Brand Fusion

Purpose-driven brand strategy

By: Terry Smith,Tom Williams

Brand Fusion: Purpose-driven brand strategy presents a compelling case for what consumers, customers, employees, and wider society are now demanding from companies – the development of brands that deliver profit with purpose, are sustainable, and create mutually beneficial meaning. It fuses theory-practice-application to purpose-driven brand strategies in order to develop a unique approach that has comprehensive theoretical underpinning as well as practical and thought-provoking lessons from industry. Data-driven case studies from a broad range of brands and contexts show the application of this learning–from micro-brands to corporates; charities to technology companies; retirement villages to aspiring high-growth start-ups. Brand Fusion: Purpose-driven brand strategy is an in-depth analysis of the philosophy and practice behind creating a purposeful brand.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110718731

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9783110718737

The Lineup Card

An Illustrated History of the Baseball Collectible

By: Tom O’Reilly

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The Lineup Card

An Illustrated History of the Baseball Collectible

By: Tom O’Reilly

This is the first book to focus on a small but essential piece of every baseball game played during the last 100-plus years--the lineup card, used to record the full lineup and batting order for both teams. Drawing on input from dozens of memorabilia experts, collectors, team and league executives, umpires, coaches and managers, the author tells the story of the lineup card's role in America's pastime, from its history and usage to cards from famous games and the people who collect them. Nearly 200 illustrations include cards for Sandy Koufax's 1965 perfect game, Cal Ripken's record-breaking 2,131st consecutive game and the final game of Boston's first World Series title in 86 years.

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McFarland

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1476691606

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9781476691602

What We Made

Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation

By: Tom Finkelpearl

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What We Made

Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation

By: Tom Finkelpearl

In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series of fifteen conversations, artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively, joined at times by colleagues from related fields, including social policy, architecture, art history, urban planning, and new media. Issues discussed include the experiences of working in public and of working with museums and libraries, opportunities for social change, the lines between education and art, spirituality, collaborative opportunities made available by new media, and the elusive criteria for evaluating cooperative art. Finkelpearl engages the art historians Grant Kester and Claire Bishop in conversation on the challenges of writing critically about this work and the aesthetic status of the dialogical encounter. He also interviews the often overlooked co-creators of cooperative art, "expert participants" who have worked with artists. In his conclusion, Finkelpearl argues that pragmatism offers a useful critical platform for understanding the experiential nature of social cooperation, and he brings pragmatism to bear in a discussion of Houston's Project Row Houses. Interviewees. Naomi Beckwith, Claire Bishop, Tania Bruguera, Brett Cook, Teddy Cruz, Jay Dykeman, Wendy Ewald, Sondra Farganis, Harrell Fletcher, David Henry, Gregg Horowitz, Grant Kester, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Pedro Lasch, Rick Lowe, Daniel Martinez, Lee Mingwei, Jonah Peretti, Ernesto Pujol, Evan Roth, Ethan Seltzer, and Mark Stern

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401

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Duke University Press

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0822395517

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9780822395515

The Supreme Court

An Analytic History of Constitutional Decision Making

By: Tom S. Clark

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The Supreme Court

An Analytic History of Constitutional Decision Making

By: Tom S. Clark

This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings together humanistic and social-scientific approaches to studying law. Using theoretical models of adjudication, Tom S. Clark presents a statistical model of law and uses the model to document the historical development of constitutional law. Using sophisticated statistical methods and historical analysis of court decisions, the author documents how social and political forces shape the path of law. Spanning the history of constitutional law since Reconstruction, this book illustrates the way in which the law evolves with American life and argues that a social-scientific approach to the history of law illuminates connections across disparate areas of the law, connected by the social context in which the Constitution has been interpreted.

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455

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Cambridge University Press

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1108530001

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9781108530002

Third Man in Havana

Finding the heart of cricket in the world's most unlikely places

By: Tom Rodwell

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Third Man in Havana

Finding the heart of cricket in the world's most unlikely places

By: Tom Rodwell

When Tom Rodwell embarked on a cricketing tour of India, he had only ever thought of the game as great fun. But the simple joy of the local street kids when his team donated their kit to them made him realise that it could be more than that. By turns touching and amusing, and imbued with a deep love of the game, Third Man in Havana is the story of the charity cricket programmes 'Major' Tom Rodwell has helped run around the world, and of the people he has encountered along the way. From Be'er Sheva Cricket Club pavilion in Israel – a converted nuclear bomb shelter, useful in the face of Hamas' regular rocket attacks – to a game of tapeball cricket with ex-Tamil Tiger child soldiers behind barbed wire in Sri Lanka, Rodwell discovered that the heart of the game is beating fast in countries more used to conflict than cricket. Third Man in Havana is a wonderfully positive story, revealing that the spirit of cricket is alive and well.

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Icon Books Ltd

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1906850356

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Musings of a Native Son

By: Tom Massiah,Thomas Frederick Massiah

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By: Tom Massiah,Thomas Frederick Massiah

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Musings of a Native Son

Musings of a Native Son

Emanations from the Corpse of Little Burgundy

Emanations from the Corpse of Little Burgundy

Brand Fusion

Brand Fusion

The Lineup Card

The Lineup Card

What We Made

What We Made

The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court

Third Man in Havana

Third Man in Havana

Musings of a Native Son

Musings of a Native Son

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