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The only history of conscription in Canada, by one of Canada's finest historians, now re-issued with a new introduction ...

Compulsory military service has always been a controversial issue, and nowhere more so than in Canada. Award-winning historian J.L Granatstein considers the thorny questions it raises: "Is it worthwhile to impose conscription if by so doing you threaten to destroy the nation and the national unity that the men at the front are presumably fighting to preserve?"

This new edition of Granatstein's classic account begins with a reflection about why he...

As unique sources of coherent high-power, microwave, and millimeter-wave radiation, gyrotrons are an essential part of the hunt for controlled fusion. Presently, gyrotrons are actively used for electron cyclotron resonance plasma heating and current drive in various controlled fusion reactors. These sources have been under development in many countries for more than forty years. In spite of their widespread use, however, there is as yet no single book to introduce non-specialists to this vital field.

Now Gregory S. Nusinovich, an early pioneer of the gyrotron and widely regarded...