Tarnished Vision: Crime and Conflict in the Inner City
ISBN: 9780198257516 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once a group of young people (reformed street robbers) had a vision. To transform their poor divided community. But the vision was tarnished by harsh reality, violent feuds and factional strife, corrupt and ineffective leaders, and youths involved in networks of criminality.
LTarnished Vision is the story of the rise and fall of a utopian community project told against a background of crime and delinquency in a troubled neighbourhood. This vivid and authentic account of life in Satellite City' is set in the 1980s, a decade when the promises of the enterprise culture failed to deliver, and... Once a group of young people (reformed street robbers) had a vision. To transform their poor divided community. But the vision was tarnished by harsh ...
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158,14 zł |
Trauma and Rebirth: Intergenerational Effects of the Holocaust
ISBN: 9780275929060 / Angielski / Twarda / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the long-term consequences of the Holocaust on survivors and their children some four decades after the war. This book represents the culmination of nine years of collaborative effort, consisting primarily of findings drawn from two sample surveys of Jewish residents in Montreal. This volume covers new research topics that have been neglected in the survivor literature, including personality, familial interactions, vocational achievements, sociopolitical attitudes. an excellent source of material from a sociopolitical and psychological perspective. The assessment of... This volume examines the long-term consequences of the Holocaust on survivors and their children some four decades after the war. This book represe... |
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387,35 zł |
American National Security and Economic Relations with Canada, 1945-1954
ISBN: 9780275958916 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aronsen draws on recently declassified documents in Ottawa and Washington to provide a reassessment of Canada's special relationship with the U.S. Toward this end, detailed new information is provided about Canada's contribution to the creation of the postwar economic order from the Bretton Woods Agreement to GATT. Canada's cooperation was rewarded by special economic concessions including the extension of the Hyde Park agreement in 1945, the inclusion of the off-shore purchases clause to the Marshall Plan, and Article II of the NATO Treaty. After the outbreak of the Korean War, Canada's... Aronsen draws on recently declassified documents in Ottawa and Washington to provide a reassessment of Canada's special relationship with the U.S. ... |
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409,48 zł |
Indians of the North Pacific Coast
ISBN: 9780295740959 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a many-faceted examination of the cultures of the Tlingit, the Haida, the Tsimshian, the Bella Coola, the Kwakiutl, the Nootka, and the Salish--Indian peoples of the coast running from the Canadian border area of Juan de Fuca Strait to Yakutat Bay in southeastern Alaska. Professor McFeat has brought together key writings by seventeen authorities including Franz Boas, Helen Codere, Viola E. Garfield, and Wayne Suttles. General readers as well as scholars have an opportunity to examine a wide range of literature and thereby to increase their understanding of one of the... This book offers a many-faceted examination of the cultures of the Tlingit, the Haida, the Tsimshian, the Bella Coola, the Kwakiutl, the Nootka, an... |
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105,08 zł |
Columbia Journals
ISBN: 9780295987484 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David Thompson (1770-1857) is considered by many to have been the most important surveyor of North America. His achievements -- mapping the Saskatchewan River, the great bend of the Missouri River, the Great Lakes and the headwaters of the Mississippi as well as the Columbia watershed -- are the stuff of legend. Late in life Thompson wrote a retrospective memoir of his explorations, but the best way to understand his years in the fur trade is by reading his journals. In her new Preface to the Bicentennial Edition of Columbia Journals, Barbara Belyea considers the fur-trade... David Thompson (1770-1857) is considered by many to have been the most important surveyor of North America. His achievements -- mapping the Saskatc... |
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126,12 zł |
Days of Lorne
ISBN: 9780313200212 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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276,68 zł |
The French-Canadian Outlook: A Brief Account of the Unknown North Americans
ISBN: 9780313234965 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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237,94 zł |
Fur Nation: From the Beaver to Brigitte Bardot
ISBN: 9780415158749 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fur Nation traces the interwoven relationships between sexuality, national identity, and colonialism. Chantal Nadeau shows how Canada, a white settler colony, bases its existence and its nationhood on a complex sexual economy based on women wrapped in fur.
Nadeau traces the centrality of fur through a series of intriguing case studies, including: * Hollywood's take on the 330 year history of the Hudson Bay Company, founded to exploit Canada's rich fur resources * the life of a postwar fur fashion photographer * a 1950s musical called Fur Lady * the battle... Fur Nation traces the interwoven relationships between sexuality, national identity, and colonialism. Chantal Nadeau shows how Canada, a whit...
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194,45 zł |
National Identity and the Conflict at Oka: Native Belonging and Myths of Postcolonial Nationhood in Canada
ISBN: 9780415947329 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how these myths were challenged (and affirmed during the 1990 standoff at Oka. It draws upon history, literary criticism, anthropology, studies in nationalism and ethnicity and post-colonial theory.
Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of...
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814,81 zł |
Montréal: The Quest for a Metropolis
ISBN: 9780471949077 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of the World Cities series, Montreal provides a guide to the birth, growth and contemporary life of this unique North American metropolis. The authors address some of the fundamental paradoxes at the core of the city's dilemma: How does the city reconcile its identity as a French window on North America and a bilingual, increasingly multicultural metropolis? How can its economy, currently undergoing a successful transformation into a high-tech hotbed, still suffer from high unemployment? How can a city that is seemingly allergic to urban planning, that has such a long and cold winter and...
Part of the World Cities series, Montreal provides a guide to the birth, growth and contemporary life of this unique North American metropolis. The au...
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Managing Knowledge: Building Blocks for Success
ISBN: 9780471997689 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Knowledge Management (KM) concerns how you identify a crucial but under-used strategic asset present within all organizations (ie: 'knowledge') and exploit it to maximize competitive advantage. This book takes a building blocks approach to knowledge management. The authors present a straightforward framework of knowledge-related management processes and analyze each component separately, thus providing a practical and structured tool for assessing the entire range of knowledge-related activities in an organisation. The methodology and focus they develop should help readers identify and make...
Knowledge Management (KM) concerns how you identify a crucial but under-used strategic asset present within all organizations (ie: 'knowledge') and ex...
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315,41 zł |
Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade
ISBN: 9780520046375 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the effects of European contact and the fur trade on the relationship between Indians and animals in eastern Canada, from Lake Winnipeg to the Canadian Maritimes, focusing primarily on the Ojibwa, Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, and Micmac tribes.
Examines the effects of European contact and the fur trade on the relationship between Indians and animals in eastern Canada, from Lake Winnipeg to th...
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183,76 zł |
Frid Frameworktm for Enterprise Knowledge Management: A Common Km Framework for the Government of Canada
ISBN: 9780595306992 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Turn Knowledge Management into Action
"The Frid FrameworkTM for Enterprise Knowledge Management" is a book written for the business manager. Bridging the language barrier between business and academia the Frid FrameworkTM makes Knowledge Management clear and understandable for those that want to turn the concept of Knowledge Management into definitive and quantifiable action. Author Dr. Randy Frid has embodied 20 years of personal research, lessons learned and best practices into the framework, having implemented global KM frameworks and strategies for organizations like:
Turn Knowledge Management into Action
"The Frid FrameworkTM for Enterprise Knowledge Management" is a book written for the business manager. Bridg... |
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61,08 zł |
Canada: A Celebration from A to Z (Volume 1)
ISBN: 9780595388356 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Canada: A Celebration from A to Z" is an important survey of the people, events, and history of a country that holds peace and tolerance in the highest regard. Author Ray Solitaire, a respected chronicler of the country's much-lauded embrace of social, economic, racial, and sexual justice since the 1960s, takes an in-depth look at the many unique aspects of Canadian life in order to expose the country's exciting and true narrative to a wider audience. Liberally spiced with groundbreaking analyses and commentary, "Canada: A Celebration"will trigger comment among Canadians across the... "Canada: A Celebration from A to Z" is an important survey of the people, events, and history of a country that holds peace and tolerance in the hi... |
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The Devil from Saint-Hyacinthe: Senator Telesphore-Damien Bouchard
ISBN: 9780595403028 / Angielski / Miękka / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a political career spanning nearly half a century, Telesphore-Damien Bouchard was an advocate for progress in Quebec's history. He began his rise to the top in 1912 when he was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the city of Saint-Hyacinthe. He went on to become mayor of Saint-Hyacinthe for twenty-five years, Speaker of the House, Acting House Leader of the Liberal Party from 1936 to 1939 and finally, the most influential cabinet minister from 1939 to 1944. Bouchard emerged as one of the most powerful leaders of the Liberal Party. A leading anti-clerical who...
With a political career spanning nearly half a century, Telesphore-Damien Bouchard was an advocate for progress in Quebec's history. He began his rise...
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113,62 zł |
The Unhyphenated Canuck: Reflections and Confessions of an Opinionated Immigrant
ISBN: 9780595428199 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,84 zł |
Out of Darkness--Light: A History of Canadian Military Intelligence
ISBN: 9780595671847 / Angielski / Twarda / 684 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Intelligence is a key element of operations, enabling commanders to successfully plan and conduct operations. It enables them to win decisive battles and it helps them to identify and attack high value targets. Intelligence is an important part of every military decision. Military intelligence is the knowledge of a possible or actual enemy or area of operation. It encompasses combat intelligence, strategic intelligence, and counterintelligence, and is essential to the preparation and execution of military policies, plans, and operations.
The objective of military intelligence is to minimize... Intelligence is a key element of operations, enabling commanders to successfully plan and conduct operations. It enables them to win decisive battles ...
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209,95 zł |
Frenchmen Into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada
ISBN: 9780674323155 / Angielski / Twarda / 409 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In unprecedented detail, Leslie Choquette narrates the peopling of French Canada across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the lesser known colonial phase of French migration. Drawing on French and Canadian archives, she carefully traces the precise origins of individual immigrants, describing them by gender, class, occupation, region, religion, age, and date of departure. Her archival work is impressive: of the more than 30,000 emigrants who embarked for Quebec and the Maritimes during the French Regime, nearly 16,000 are chronicled here. In considering the pattern of... In unprecedented detail, Leslie Choquette narrates the peopling of French Canada across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the lesser known ... |
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442,41 zł |
Words and Occasions : An Anthology of Speeches and Articles Selected from His Papers by the Right Honourable L. B. Pearson
ISBN: 9780674956117 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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237,67 zł |
Around Lake Memphremagog
ISBN: 9780738512501 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Around Lake Memphremagog is a pictorial timeline of the thirty-mile-long body of water that shares its Vermont history with Canada. The lake has for thousands of years played a critical role in the lives and history of the Wabanaki. Memlabagwok-the Abenaki name for the lake-was the waterway crossroads at the heart of the western Abenaki homelands. Since the 1600s, Lake Memphremagog has influenced the development of the northern Vermont and southern Canadian towns and villages along its shores. This combined cultural history and heritage is recalled here through sketches, vintage photographs,...
Around Lake Memphremagog is a pictorial timeline of the thirty-mile-long body of water that shares its Vermont history with Canada. The lake has for t...
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109,42 zł |