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Democratic Government in Canada

By: Robert M. Dawson,Robert MacGregor Dawson,William Foster Dawson,Norman Ward

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Democratic Government in Canada

By: Robert M. Dawson,Robert MacGregor Dawson,William Foster Dawson,Norman Ward

For more than a generation, Democratic Government in Canada has been the classic introduction to the structure and fundamental ideas of the federal government. A close examination behind the interrelationships of the House of Commons, the cabinet, the Senate, the monarchy and governor general, the courts and the public service provides a concise survey of the practice of democracy in Canada. Winner of the 1949 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1989.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802067034

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9780802067036

Private Interest, Public Spending

Balanced-budget Conservatism and the Fiscal Crisis

By: Sidney Plotkin,William E. Scheuerman

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Private Interest, Public Spending

Balanced-budget Conservatism and the Fiscal Crisis

By: Sidney Plotkin,William E. Scheuerman

This book goes against the grain of current conservative thinking to provide a radical democratic critique of deficit policies. Scheuerman and Plotkin trace the process by which the government has abandoned its public functions, foced in part by the exigencies of capitalism both here and abroad.

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310

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South End Press

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0896084647

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9780896084643

Scandal!!

130 Years of Damnable Deeds in Canada's Lotus Land

By: William Rayner

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Scandal!!

130 Years of Damnable Deeds in Canada's Lotus Land

By: William Rayner

Lotus Land's scandals of the past 130 years may seem to be all about money, but there's also been sex, corruption, staggering incompetence and outright lies. Jump aboard as veteran political junkie William Rayner explores BC's scandal-ridden history. Read about the comely juror and the murder suspect, the two politicians who fell in love on the job, the crooked cops, the scam artists, the double-talking bureaucrats and--above all--the fast ferries from hell.

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298

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Heritage House Publishing Co

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1894384245

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9781894384247

Cities of the Dead

Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914

By: William A. Blair

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Cities of the Dead

Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914

By: William A. Blair

Exploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays, Emancipation Day celebrations, and other remembrances in the context of Reconstruction politics and race relations in the South. His grassroots examination of these civic rituals demonstrates that the politics of commemoration remained far more contentious than has been previously acknowledged. Commemorations by ex-Confederates were intended at first to maintain a separate identity from the U.S. government, Blair argues, not as a vehicle for promoting sectional healing. The burial grounds of fallen heroes, known as Cities of the Dead, often became contested ground, especially for Confederate women who were opposed to Reconstruction. And until the turn of the century, African Americans used freedom celebrations to lobby for greater political power and tried to create a national holiday to recognize emancipation. Blair's analysis shows that some festive occasions that we celebrate even today have a divisive and sometimes violent past as various groups with conflicting political agendas attempted to define the meaning of the Civil War.

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265

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807876232

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9780807876237

History of Soybean Crushing: Soy Oil and Soybean Meal (980-2016):

Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook

By: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi

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History of Soybean Crushing: Soy Oil and Soybean Meal (980-2016):

Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook

By: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 378 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.

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3666

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Soyinfo Center

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1928914896

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9781928914891

Colonial Families of Maryland

Bound and Determined to Succeed

By: Robert William Barnes

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Colonial Families of Maryland

Bound and Determined to Succeed

By: Robert William Barnes

The main purpose of this work is to chronicle and categorize the life experiences of 519 persons who entered Maryland as indentured servants or, to a lesser extent, as convicts forcibly transported [between 1634-1777]. The text itself is composed of solidly researched sketches of Maryland servants and convicts and their descendants, including 84 that are traced to the third generation or beyond."--Amazon.com.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806353163

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9780806353166

Wild Bill Wellman

Hollywood Rebel

By: William Wellman, Jr.

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Wild Bill Wellman

Hollywood Rebel

By: William Wellman, Jr.

The extraordinary life—the first—of the legendary, undercelebrated Hollywood director known in his day as “Wild Bill” (and he was!) Wellman, whose eighty-two movies (six of them uncredited), many of them iconic; many of them sharp, cold, brutal; others poetic, moving; all of them a lesson in close-up art, ranged from adventure and gangster pictures to comedies, aviation, romances, westerns, and searing social dramas. Among his iconic pictures: the pioneering World War I epic Wings (winner of the first Academy Award for best picture), Public Enemy (the toughest gangster picture of them all), Nothing Sacred, the original A Star Is Born, Beggars of Life, The Call of the Wild, The Ox-Bow Incident, Battleground, The High and the Mighty... David O. Selznick called him “one of the motion pictures’ greatest craftsmen.” Robert Redford described him as “feisty, independent, self-taught, and self-made. He stood his ground and fought his battles for artistic integrity, never wavering, always clear in his film sense.” Wellman directed Hollywood’s biggest stars for three decades, including Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, and Clint Eastwood. It was said he directed “like a general trying to break out of a beachhead.” He made pictures with such noted producers as Darryl F. Zanuck, Nunnally Johnson, Jesse Lasky, and David O. Selznick. Here is a revealing, boisterous portrait of the handsome, tough-talking, hard-drinking, uncompromising maverick (he called himself a “crazy bastard”)—juvenile delinquent; professional ice-hockey player as a kid; World War I flying ace at twenty-one in the Lafayette Flying Corps (the Lafayette Escadrille), crashing more than six planes (“We only had four instruments, none of which worked. And no parachutes . . . Greatest goddamn acrobatics you ever saw in your life”)—whose own life story was more adventurous and more unpredictable than anything in the movies. Wellman was a wing-walking stunt pilot in barnstorming air shows, recipient of the Croix de Guerre with two Gold Palm Leaves and five United States citations; a bad actor but good studio messenger at Goldwyn Pictures who worked his way up from assistant cutter; married to five women, among them Marjorie Crawford, aviatrix and polo player; silent picture star Helene Chadwick; and Dorothy Coonan, Busby Berkeley dancer, actress, and mother of his seven children. Irene Mayer Selznick, daughter of Louis B. Mayer, called Wellman “a terror, a shoot-up-the-town fellow, trying to be a great big masculine I-don’t-know-what. David had a real weakness for him. I didn’t share it.” Yet she believed enough in Wellman’s vision and cowritten script about Hollywood to persuade her husband to produce A Star Is Born, which Wellman directed. After he took over directing Tarzan Escapes at MGM, Wellman went to Louis B. Mayer and asked to make another Tarzan picture on his own. “What are you talking about? It’s beneath your dignity,” said Mayer. “To hell with that,” said Wellman, “I haven’t got any dignity.” Now William Wellman, Jr., drawing on his father’s unpublished letters, diaries, and unfinished memoir, gives us the first full portrait of the man—boy, flyer, husband, father, director, artist. Here is a portrait of a profoundly American spirit and visionary, a man’s man who was able to put into cinematic storytelling the most subtle and fulsome of feeling, a man feared, respected, and loved.

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657

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Pantheon

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0307377709

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9780307377708

William Friday

Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education

By: William A. Link

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William Friday

Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education

By: William A. Link

Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday (1920-2012). The former president of the University of North Carolina remained prominent in public affairs in the state and elsewhere throughout his life and ranked as one of the most important American university presidents of the post-World War II era. In the second edition of this comprehensive biography, William Link traces Friday's long and remarkable career and commemorates his legendary life. Friday's thirty years as president of the university, from 1956 to 1986, spanned the greatest period of growth for higher education in American history, and Friday played a crucial role in shaping the sixteen-campus UNC system during that time. Link also explores Friday's influential work on nationwide commissions, task forces, and nonprofits, and in the development of the National Humanities Center and the growth of Research Triangle Park. This second edition features a new introduction and epilogue to enrich the narrative, charting the later years of Friday's career and examining his legacy in North Carolina and nationwide.

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UNC Press Books

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1469611864

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9781469611860

Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community

By: Joseph Lancaster,William Corston

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Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community

By: Joseph Lancaster,William Corston

The revised 1805 third edition of an influential 1803 work, reissued here with an 1840 biography of Joseph Lancaster.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108066348

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Democratic Government in Canada

Democratic Government in Canada

Private Interest, Public Spending

Private Interest, Public Spending

Scandal!!

Scandal!!

Cities of the Dead

Cities of the Dead

History of Soybean Crushing: Soy Oil and Soybean Meal (980-2016):

History of Soybean Crushing: Soy Oil and Soybean Meal (980-2016):

Colonial Families of Maryland

Colonial Families of Maryland

Wild Bill Wellman

Wild Bill Wellman

William Friday

William Friday

Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community

Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community

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