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Transnational Indians in the North American West
ISBN: 9781623493264 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of eleven original essays goes beyond traditional, border-driven studies to place the histories of Native Americans, indigenous peoples, and First Nation peoples in a larger context than merely that of the dominant nation.
AsTransnational Indians in the North American West shows, transnationalism can be expressed in various ways. To some it can be based on dependency, so that the history of the indigenous people of the American Southwest can only be understood in the larger context of Mexico and Central America. Others focus on the importance of movement between... This collection of eleven original essays goes beyond traditional, border-driven studies to place the histories of Native Americans, indigenous people...
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The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada During the 1930s
ISBN: 9780822321767 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the leftist literary subculture of the United States and Canada during the 1930s to reconstruct the ideas of mass culture, class, and nationality that emerged as a result of the Great Depression.
Explores the leftist literary subculture of the United States and Canada during the 1930s to reconstruct the ideas of mass culture, class, and nationa...
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479,98 |
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Flying Canucks II: Pioneers of Canadian Aviation
ISBN: 9780888821935 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the many technological advances of this century that have shrunk our country, few have had as great an impact as aviation. Technologies evolve and national priorities change, but the qualities necessary to design aircraft, fly them in war and peace, and manage airlines remain constant. In this, his second book about pioneers of Canadian aviation, Peter Pigott brings a richness and understanding of the individuals themselves to the reader.
Flying Canucks II takes us into Air Canada s boardroom with Claude I. Taylor, to the Avro Arrow design office with Jim Floyd, inside... Among the many technological advances of this century that have shrunk our country, few have had as great an impact as aviation. Technologies evolve a...
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The Minor Intimacies of Race: Asian Publics in North America
ISBN: 9780252040139 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An attempt to put an Asian woman on Canada's $100 bill in 2012 unleashed enormous controversy. The racism and xenophobia that answered this symbolic move toward inclusiveness revealed the nation's trumpeted commitment to multiculturalism as a lie. It also showed how multiple minor publics as well as the dominant public responded to the ongoing issue of race in Canada. In this new study, Christine Kim delves into the ways cultural conversations minimize race's relevance even as violent expressions and structural forms of racism continue to occur. Kim turns to literary texts, artistic works,...
An attempt to put an Asian woman on Canada's $100 bill in 2012 unleashed enormous controversy. The racism and xenophobia that answered this symbolic m...
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445,69 |
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The Minor Intimacies of Race: Asian Publics in North America
ISBN: 9780252081620 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An attempt to put an Asian woman on Canada's $100 bill in 2012 unleashed enormous controversy. The racism and xenophobia that answered this symbolic move toward inclusiveness revealed the nation's trumpeted commitment to multiculturalism as a lie. It also showed how multiple minor publics as well as the dominant public responded to the ongoing issue of race in Canada. In this new study, Christine Kim delves into the ways cultural conversations minimize race's relevance even as violent expressions and structural forms of racism continue to occur. Kim turns to literary texts, artistic works,...
An attempt to put an Asian woman on Canada's $100 bill in 2012 unleashed enormous controversy. The racism and xenophobia that answered this symbolic m...
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117,50 |
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The Moyer Site: A Pre-Historic Village in Waterloo County
ISBN: 9780889200036 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,09 |
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Toronto Then and Now(r)
ISBN: 9781910904077 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Toronto has long been a financial powerhouse in North America, and this is represented by its many grand bank buildings. Canada's capital may be Ottawa, but the financial power emanates from this thriving city, the fourth most populous in North America. Sites include: Toronto Harbour, Fort York, Queen's Quay Lighthouse, Toronto Island Ferries, Queen's Quay Terminal, Canadian National Exhibition, Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion, Princes' Gates, Royal York Hotel, Union Station, City Hall, St. Lawrence Market, St. James Cathedral, Canadian Pacific Building, Bank of Montreal, Dineen Building, Elgin...
Toronto has long been a financial powerhouse in North America, and this is represented by its many grand bank buildings. Canada's capital may be Ottaw...
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88,59 |
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300 Wasted Years
ISBN: 9781681811420 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is Charles Edward Scheideman's fourth book, all of which grew from his years in the RCMP and the experiences of a lifetime. 300 Wasted Years is about the natives of Canada, and to some extent, North America. Charles grew up on the Canadian prairie, in close proximity to a large population of natives. This gave him knowledge of these people far beyond the average person. His experiences with natives were enhanced by his policing career, which involved him with more than twenty reserve locations. His career took his family to seven locations in British Columbia. On retirement, he moved to...
This is Charles Edward Scheideman's fourth book, all of which grew from his years in the RCMP and the experiences of a lifetime. 300 Wasted Years is a...
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52,03 |
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Time and a Place: An Environmental History of Prince Edward Islandvolume 5
ISBN: 9780773546929 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Canada s first province-based environmental history tracks changes from the Ice Age to the Information Age."
Canada s first province-based environmental history tracks changes from the Ice Age to the Information Age."
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489,77 |
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Time and a Place: An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island
ISBN: 9780773546936 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Canada s first province-based environmental history tracks changes from the Ice Age to the Information Age."
Canada s first province-based environmental history tracks changes from the Ice Age to the Information Age."
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151,83 |
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W poszukiwaniu Największej Tajemnicy
ISBN: 9788363566470 / Polski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Książka pełna jest anegdot, ciekawych, inspirujących opowieści z różnych kultur i religii, opowieści prezentujących wydawałoby się całkiem inne spojrzenie na sens życia, na sposób odkrywania Największej Tajemnicy.
Bohaterami książki są: John - Kanadyjczyk polskiego pochodzenia, Dan - Indianin z plemienia Mohawk i Sita - hinduska mieszkająca w Delhi. Losy tych trzech osób splatają się kilka tysięcy stóp nad ziemią, w trakcie podróży z Toronto do Brukseli. Czytając książkę ma się wrażenie, że siedzimy w tym samym samolocie, dzieli nas od bohaterów kilka... Książka pełna jest anegdot, ciekawych, inspirujących opowieści z różnych kultur i religii, opowieści prezentujących wydawałoby się całkiem...
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A History of Domestic Space: Privacy and the Canadian Home
ISBN: 9780774806848 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Homes are our most personal, private places, at the heart of how we conceive of life outside the public sphere. A History of Domestic Space explores how domestic architecture has shaped and been shaped by family and social relationships over the past three centuries. The changing form, setting, and technology of the home have profoundly affected our opportunities for individual privacy within a family and family privacy within a community. The earliest Canadian house form consisted of a single room. We've added and moved rooms and their functions according to the needs and... Homes are our most personal, private places, at the heart of how we conceive of life outside the public sphere. A History of Domestic Space ... |
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426,10 |
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Abenaki Daring, 88: The Life and Writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869
ISBN: 9780773547926 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Abenaki born in St Francis, Quebec, Noel Annance (17921869), by virtue of two of his great-grandparents having been early white captives, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Determined to apply his privileged education, he was caught between two ways of being, neither of which accepted him among their numbers. Despite outstanding service as an officer in the War of 1812, Annance was too Indigenous to be allowed to succeed in the far west fur trade, and too schooled in outsiders ways to be accepted by those in charge on returning home. Annance did not crumple, but all his life...
An Abenaki born in St Francis, Quebec, Noel Annance (17921869), by virtue of two of his great-grandparents having been early white captives, attended ...
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181,22 |
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Productivity and Prosperity: A Historical Sociology of Productivist Thought
ISBN: 9781487500788 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite Canada's economic success over the past thirty years, the country's ranking in productivity has continued to decline when compared to other industrialized nations. Economic experts and pundits repeatedly call for means of improving productivity, arguing that it is the lynchpin to prosperity. However, there is growing evidence to the contrary. In Productivity and Prosperity, Karen Foster zeroes in on the paradox of productivity: that it is the key to economic prosperity and yet its connection to well-being and median incomes has all but disappeared. Drawing... Despite Canada's economic success over the past thirty years, the country's ranking in productivity has continued to decline when compared to other... |
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284,07 |
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Productivity and Prosperity: A Historical Sociology of Productivist Thought
ISBN: 9781487520571 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite Canada's economic success over the past thirty years, the country's ranking in productivity has continued to decline when compared to other industrialized nations. Economic experts and pundits repeatedly call for means of improving productivity, arguing that it is the lynchpin to prosperity. However, there is growing evidence to the contrary. In Productivity and Prosperity, Karen Foster zeroes in on the paradox of productivity: that it is the key to economic prosperity and yet its connection to well-being and median incomes has all but disappeared. Drawing... Despite Canada's economic success over the past thirty years, the country's ranking in productivity has continued to decline when compared to other... |
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137,09 |
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Linguistic Conflict and Language Laws: Understanding the Quebec Question
ISBN: 9781349664887 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; The Quebec language laws provide a case in point of the relation between social change and language planning.
In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; The Quebec language laws provide a...
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201,24 |
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The Central Eskimo
ISBN: 9781473310797 / Angielski / Miękka / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1888 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. The Central Eskimo was his first monograph and details his time spent on Baffin Island studying the Inuit people. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden, Westphalia. Even though Boas had a passion the natural sciences, he enrolled at the University at Kiel as an undergraduate in Physics. Boas completed his degree with a dissertation on the optical properties of water, before continuing his studies and receiving his doctorate in 1881. Boas became a...
This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1888 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. The Central Esk...
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198,49 |
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It Can't Last Forever: The 19th Battalion and the Canadian Corps in the First World War
ISBN: 9781771122368 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 19th Battalion was an infantry unit that fought in many of the deadliest battles of the First World War. Hailing from Hamilton, Toronto, and other communities in southern Ontario and beyond, its members were ordinary men facing extraordinary challenges at the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, Amiens, and other battlefields on Europe's Western Front. Through his examination of official records and personal accounts, the author presents vivid descriptions and assessments of the rigours of training, the strains of trench warfare, the horrors of battle, and the camaraderie of life behind the...
The 19th Battalion was an infantry unit that fought in many of the deadliest battles of the First World War. Hailing from Hamilton, Toronto, and other...
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230,19 |
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Filling the Ranks: Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918: Volume 239
ISBN: 9780773548770 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Manpower is the lifeblood of armies regardless of time or place. In the First World War, much of Canada's military effort went toward sustaining the Canadian Expeditionary Force, especially in France and Belgium. The job was not easy. The government and Department of Militia and Defence were tasked with recruiting and training hundreds of thousands of men, shipping them to England, and creating organizations on the continent meant to forward these men to their units. The first book to explore the issue of manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Filling the Ranks examines the...
Manpower is the lifeblood of armies regardless of time or place. In the First World War, much of Canada's military effort went toward sustaining the C...
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181,22 |
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Lady Day śpiewa bluesa
ISBN: 9788380494305 / Polski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ta biografia już przeszła do historii. Wydana 50 lat temu wzbudziła sensację, a przez kolejne dziesięciolecia stała się biblią dla tych, którzy chcieli poznać Billie Holiday. Lady Day – pierwsza dama jazzu, artystka obdarzona niezwykłym głosem, który wciąż nie przestaje elektryzować, jedna z najbardziej inspirujących wokalistek wszech czasów – sama opowiada o sobie. O życiu w czarnym getcie, pracy prostytutki, alkoholu, narkotykach, rasizmie i o najlepszych muzykach, z którymi grała. Nie stawia sobie postumentu, staje przed czytelnikiem taka, jaka była:...
Ta biografia już przeszła do historii. Wydana 50 lat temu wzbudziła sensację, a przez kolejne dziesięciolecia stała się biblią dla tych, któr...
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