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Shoestring Soldiers
The 1st Canadian Division at War, 1914-1915
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
The Great War was a pivotal experience for twentieth-century Canada. Shoestring Soldiers is the first scholarly study since 1938 to focus exclusively on Canada's initial overseas experience from late 1914 to the end of 1915.
In this exciting new work, Andrew Iarocci challenges the dominant...
Cinderella Army
The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2006
In his controversial and award-winning 2003 book Fields of Fire, Terry Copp offered a stunning reversal of accepted military history, challenging the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a failure. Cinderella Army continues the story of the operations carried...
North/South
The Great European Divide
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The division of European society and culture along a North/South axis was one of the most decisive and enduring developments in the modern world. In North/South, which completes a trilogy of works devoted to the study of the mind and body of Europe, Ricardo J. Quinones examines the momentous early...
by Bryce Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
The modern hospital represents a complex community in which life and death decisions are made on the front lines of patient care, and difficult operational and strategic initiatives are developed in the offices of institutional leaders. Effective Medical Leadership describes the unusual position of...
by Dr. Richard Bruce Williams MD
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This work explores how spirit is defined in the Bible. It then applies the concepts learned in order that an individual may mature his spirit in strength and spiritual standing. The work explores how an individual with a mature spirit can be of use to God in spiritual warfare. There is also some comparison...
Creative Canada
A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Creative and Performing Artists (Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Did he ever play Hamlet? Has she worked in television? What was the title of his first novel? Under whom did she study? How many children has he? Answers to such questions about contemporary Canadian artists have often been difficult, even impossible, to find. This series has been created to provide...
The Primacy of Semiosis
An Ontology of Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
How do things come to stand for something other than themselves? An understanding of the ontology of relations allows for a compelling account of the action of signs. The Primacy of Semiosis is concerned with the ontology of relations and semiosis, the action of signs. Drawing upon the work of Gilles...
by Gerard Bouchard, Les Editions du Boreal
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologically driven world, myths – Western or Eastern, ancient or modern, religious or scientific – are...
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2357 to 2471
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Many of the letters in this volume, which covers the period August 1530 to March 1531, reflect Erasmus' anxieties over events at the Diet of Augsburg (June-November 1530), at which the first of many attempts to achieve a negotiated settlement of the religious division in Germany came to a rancorous...
Building a Civil Society
Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The most passionate advocates of Italy’s unification in the nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern: once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were established, would ordinary Italians naturally...
Canada's Odyssey
A Country Based on Incomplete Conquests
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
150 years after Confederation, Canada is known around the world for its social diversity and its commitment to principles of multiculturalism. But the road to contemporary Canada is a winding one, a story of division and conflict as well as union and accommodation.
In Canada’s Odyssey, renowned...
Pride in Modesty
Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2011
Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects...
Tournaments of Value
Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world.
Meneley’s data...
Creative Canada
A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Creative and Performing Artists (Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Did he ever play Hamlet? Has she worked in television? What was the title of his first novel? Under whom did she study? How many children has he? Answers to such questions about contemporary Canadian artists have often been difficult, even impossible, to find. This series has been created to provide...