J.P. Bickell: The Life, the Leafs, and the Legacy
ISBN: 9781459740464 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. He stayed out of the spotlight, but Leafs fans know J.P. Bickell cast a long shadow.
A self-made mining magnate and the man who kept the Maple Leafs in Toronto and financed Maple Leaf Gardens, J.P. Bickell lived an extraordinary and purposeful life. As one of the most important industrialists in Canadian history, Bickell left his mark on communities across the nation. He was a cornerstone of the Toronto Maple Leafs, which awards the J.P. Bickell Memorial Award in his honour to recognize outstanding service to the organization. He was also a giant of Canadian industry, and one... He stayed out of the spotlight, but Leafs fans know J.P. Bickell cast a long shadow.
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109,95 zł |
Snacks: A Canadian Food History
ISBN: 9780887557996 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Snacks" is a history of Canadian snack foods, of the independent producers and workers who make them, and of the consumers who can't put them down. Janis Thiessen profiles several iconic Canadian snack food companies, including Old Dutch Potato Chips, Hawkins Cheezies, and chocolate maker Ganong. These companies have developed in distinctive ways, reflecting the unique stories of their founders and their intense connection to specific locations. These stories of salty or sweet confections also reveal a history that is at odds with popular notions of "junk food." Through extensive oral...
"Snacks" is a history of Canadian snack foods, of the independent producers and workers who make them, and of the consumers who can't put them down. J...
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140,56 zł |
Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada
ISBN: 9780190840815 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Canada: land of hockey, terrible weather, unfailing politeness-and little else, as far as many Americans are aware. For Canadians, the United States is seen as a land of unparalleled opportunity and unparalleled failure, a country of heights and abysses. The straitlaced country in the north could hardly have much to tell about its powerhouse of a neighbor to the south, eh? Not so, according to historian Robert Bothwell. In this witty and accessible book, Bothwell argues that the shared history of the United States and Canada reveals more about each country than most would suspect....
Canada: land of hockey, terrible weather, unfailing politeness-and little else, as far as many Americans are aware. For Canadians, the United States i...
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109,44 zł |
Victor and Evie: British Aristocrats in Wartime Rideau Hall
ISBN: 9780773551350 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the middle of the Great War, Victor Cavendish, the ninth Duke of Devonshire, and his wife Lady Evelyn landed in Halifax in November 1916 so he could serve as the governor general of Canada. Throughout the difficult years of the First World War and its aftermath, the new governor general travelled extensively, oversaw policy, presided over Canada's rejection of the British honours system, and walked a fine line between the colonial authorities and Canada's desire for greater independence. Meanwhile, the duchess managed their home at Rideau Hall and fretted over propriety between her...
In the middle of the Great War, Victor Cavendish, the ninth Duke of Devonshire, and his wife Lady Evelyn landed in Halifax in November 1916 so he coul...
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186,73 zł |
Going Public: The Art of Participatory Practice
ISBN: 9780774836623 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Going Public is a conversation among socially engaged practitioners in theatre, documentary media, the visual and multimedia arts, and oral history that explores how and with whom we collaborate, and why.
Going Public is a conversation among socially engaged practitioners in theatre, documentary media, the visual and multimedia arts, and oral history th...
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409,77 zł |
Not Fit to Stay: Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion
ISBN: 9780774832199 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,18 zł |
Trans-Pacific Mobilities: The Chinese and Canada
ISBN: 9780774833806 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As China's international influence grows, this timely collection reveals how the global movement of the country's people, culture, information, and economy continues to shape Canadian cities and China itself.
As China's international influence grows, this timely collection reveals how the global movement of the country's people, culture, information, and ec...
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155,56 zł |
Power Through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation
ISBN: 9780774833905 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking volume assesses the power of residential school survivors to reframe - through memory, story, and testimony - how Canadians think about residential schools and their long-term impact on individuals, families, communities, and the nation.
This groundbreaking volume assesses the power of residential school survivors to reframe - through memory, story, and testimony - how Canadians think ...
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145,18 zł |
Leaving Christianity: Changing Allegiances in Canada Since 1945volume 2
ISBN: 9780773550872 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even higher than in the United States, but the following decade witnessed emptying pews. What happened? In Leaving Christianity Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald quantitatively map the nature and extent of Canadians' disengagement with organized religion and assess the implications for Canadian society and its religious institutions. Drawing on a wide array of national and denominational statistics, they illustrate how the exodus that began with...
Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even highe...
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165,98 zł |
Au Risque de la Conversion: L'Expérience Québécoise de la Mission Au Xxe Siècle (1945-1980) Volume 33
ISBN: 9780773551541 / Francuski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this ambitious and pioneering work, Catherine Foisy puts the experiences of Quebec missionaries into perspective, describing the ways in which they interweave with the socio-ecclesiastical transformations peculiar to Quebec and with those of Catholicism in mission countries. This tapestry, extending to the four corners of the world, gives the reader a view of missionary work as a site of intercultural encounter and conversion, as revealed through the voices of its actors. These accounts offer an opportunity to gauge the extent to which twentieth-century missionary work provided fertile...
In this ambitious and pioneering work, Catherine Foisy puts the experiences of Quebec missionaries into perspective, describing the ways in which they...
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181,55 zł |
Au Risque de la Conversion: L'Expérience Québécoise de la Mission Au Xxe Siècle (1945-1980) Volume 33
ISBN: 9780773551534 / Francuski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this ambitious and pioneering work, Catherine Foisy puts the experiences of Quebec missionaries into perspective, describing the ways in which they interweave with the socio-ecclesiastical transformations peculiar to Quebec and with those of Catholicism in mission countries. This tapestry, extending to the four corners of the world, gives the reader a view of missionary work as a site of intercultural encounter and conversion, as revealed through the voices of its actors. These accounts offer an opportunity to gauge the extent to which twentieth-century missionary work provided fertile...
In this ambitious and pioneering work, Catherine Foisy puts the experiences of Quebec missionaries into perspective, describing the ways in which they...
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601,69 zł |
Leaving Christianity: Changing Allegiances in Canada Since 1945
ISBN: 9780773550865 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even higher than in the United States, but the following decade witnessed emptying pews. What happened? In Leaving Christianity Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald quantitatively map the nature and extent of Canadians' disengagement with organized religion and assess the implications for Canadian society and its religious institutions. Drawing on a wide array of national and denominational statistics, they illustrate how the exodus that began with...
Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even highe...
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534,26 zł |
Tappan Adney: and the Heritage of the St. John River Valley
ISBN: 9781988299082 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,55 zł |
The Making of a Tattoo: Canadian Armed Forces Tattoo 1967
ISBN: 9781525514036 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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186,71 zł |
The Making of a Tattoo: Canadian Armed Forces Tattoo 1967
ISBN: 9781525514043 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,15 zł |
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
ISBN: 9780062666543 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,95 zł |
One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada
ISBN: 9780774835336 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the eve of celebrating the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote in Canada comes a timely reassessment of everything Canadians thought they knew about the history of women, the vote, and democracy in our nation.
On the eve of celebrating the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote in Canada comes a timely reassessment of everything Canadians thought they kn...
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134,81 zł |
Lived Fictions: Unity and Exclusion in Canadian Politics
ISBN: 9780774836470 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing big thinking back to Canadian politics, Lived Fictions demonstrates how theories of political unity always exclude and shows why our comfortable assumptions about the promises of Canadian politics mask historical failures.
Bringing big thinking back to Canadian politics, Lived Fictions demonstrates how theories of political unity always exclude and shows why our comforta...
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383,84 zł |
The Terrific Engine: Income Taxation and the Modernization of the Canadian Political Imaginary
ISBN: 9780774836777 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Terrific Engine tells the story of how income taxation effected a profound transformation in the way people talk and think about politics in Canada, and of the energy Canadians invested in taxations political possibilities.
The Terrific Engine tells the story of how income taxation effected a profound transformation in the way people talk and think about politics in Canad...
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383,84 zł |
Sovereignty and Command in Canada-Us Continental Air Defence, 1940-57
ISBN: 9780774836876 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most thorough study of Canada-US command and control relations to date, Sovereignty and Command in Canada-US Continental Air Defence, 1940-57 traces Canada's efforts to protect its sovereignty by retaining command over its armed forces.
The most thorough study of Canada-US command and control relations to date, Sovereignty and Command in Canada-US Continental Air Defence, 1940-57 trac...
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383,84 zł |