Author : Harry Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography
ISBN : 1551388561
Canada and the Nobel Prize
Harry Black
Canada And The Nobel Prize
Canada And The Nobel Prize Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Canada And The Nobel Prize book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Right to Be Cold
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Author : Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452957173
The Right to Be Cold by Sheila Watt-Cloutier Pdf
A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-Cloutier traveled only by dog team. Today there are more snow machines than dogs in her native Nunavik, a region that is part of the homeland of the Inuit in Canada. In Inuktitut, the language of Inuit, the elders say that the weather is Uggianaqtuq—behaving in strange and unexpected ways. The Right to Be Cold is Watt-Cloutier’s memoir of growing up in the Arctic reaches of Quebec during these unsettling times. It is the story of an Inuk woman finding her place in the world, only to find her native land giving way to the inexorable warming of the planet. She decides to take a stand against its destruction. The Right to Be Cold is the human story of life on the front lines of climate change, told by a woman who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential Indigenous environmental, cultural, and human rights advocates in the world. Raised by a single mother and grandmother in the small community of Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Watt-Cloutier describes life in the traditional ice-based hunting culture of an Inuit community and reveals how Indigenous life, human rights, and the threat of climate change are inextricably linked. Colonialism intervened in this world and in her life in often violent ways, and she traces her path from Nunavik to Nova Scotia (where she was sent at the age of ten to live with a family that was not her own); to a residential school in Churchill, Manitoba; and back to her hometown to work as an interpreter and student counselor. The Right to Be Cold is at once the intimate coming-of-age story of a remarkable woman, a deeply informed look at the life and culture of an Indigenous community reeling from a colonial history and now threatened by climate change, and a stirring account of an activist’s powerful efforts to safeguard Inuit culture, the Arctic, and the planet.
Scientific Elite
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412833760
Scientific Elite by Anonim Pdf
Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science. It tracks the careers of all American laureates who won prizes from 1907 until 1972, examining the complex interplay of merit and privilege at each stage of their scientific lives and the creation of the ultra-elite in science. The study draws on biographical and bibliographical data on laureates who did their prize-winning research in the United States, and on detailed interviews with forty-one of the fifty-six laureates living in the United States at the time the study was done. Zuckerman finds laureates being successively advantaged as time passes. These advantages are producing growing disparities between the elite and other scientists both in performance and in rewards, which create and maintain a sharply graded stratification system.
Who Killed the Canadian Military?
J. L. Granatstein
Author : J. L. Granatstein
Publisher : HarperFlamingo
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada
ISBN : NWU:35556035099415
Who Killed the Canadian Military? by J. L. Granatstein Pdf
"Jack Granatstein’s Who Killed the Canadian Military? is more than a history of the decline and rustout of a military that as late as 1966 boasted 3,826 aircraft (including cutting-edge Sea King helicopters) as opposed to today’s 328 aircraft-including those same Sea Kings and CF-18 fighters whose avionics are a generation out of date; the same can be said of the army and navy. Granatstein’s book is a convincing analysis of Canada’s embrace of a delusional foreign policy that equates knee jerk anti-Americanism with sovereignty and forgets that in a Hobbesian world of international relations, “power still comes primarily from the barrel of a gun” and not from Steven Lewis’s speeches about Canadian goodwill, tolerance or humanitarianism."--from amazon.com product desc.
Pearson's Peacekeepers
Michael K. Carroll
Author : Michael K. Carroll
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774858861
Pearson's Peacekeepers by Michael K. Carroll Pdf
In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez crisis. The award launched Canada's enthusiasm and reputation for peacekeeping. Pearson's Peacekeepers explores the reality behind the rhetoric by offering a detailed account of the UNEF's decade-long effort to keep peace along the Egyptian-Israeli border. While the operation was a tremendous achievement, the UNEF also encountered formidable challenges and problems. This nuanced account of Canada's participation in the UNEF challenges perceived notions of Canadian identity and history and will help Canadians to accurately evaluate international peacekeeping efforts today.
Canada and the Nobel Prize
Harry Black
Author : Harry Black
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9781551381503
Canada and the Nobel Prize by Harry Black Pdf
This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book explores Canadian achievements in peacekeeping, chemistry, physics, medicine, and literature over the last 100 years.
The English Short Story in Canada
Reingard M. Nischik
Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476668598
The English Short Story in Canada by Reingard M. Nischik Pdf
In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro. The award focused international attention on a genre that had long been thriving in Canada, particularly since the 1960s. This book traces the development and highlights of the English-language Canadian short story from the late 19th century up to the present. The history as well as the theoretical approaches to the genre are covered, with in-depth examination of exemplary stories by prominent writers such as Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.
Pearson's Prize
John Melady
Author : John Melady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1525258184
Pearson's Prize by John Melady Pdf
"In fall 1956, Canada's Lester B. Pearson brought the world back from the brink of war, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace."
The Discovery of Insulin
Michael Bliss
Author : Michael Bliss
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781487516741
The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss Pdf
The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-22 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin was a wonder-drug with ability to bring patients back from the very brink of death, and it was no surprise that in 1923 the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to its discoverers, the Canadian research team of Banting, Best, Collip, and Macleod. In this engaging and award-winning account, historian Michael Bliss recounts the fascinating story behind the discovery of insulin – a story as much filled with fiery confrontation and intense competition as medical dedication and scientific genius. Originally published in 1982 and updated in 1996, The Discovery of Insulin has won the City of Toronto Book Award, the Jason Hannah Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, and the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine.
Physiology Or Medicine, 1922-1941
Jan Lindsten
Author : Jan Lindsten
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9810234104
Physiology Or Medicine, 1922-1941 by Jan Lindsten Pdf
The View from Castle Rock
Alice Munro
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307266026
The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro Pdf
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet. A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro’s art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307814555
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro Pdf
The debut novel from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (The New York Times). “Munro has an unerring talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary.”—Newsweek Rural Ontario, 1940s. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father’s fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women—her mother, an agnostic, opinionated woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother’s boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence. Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro’s unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.
The Love of a Good Woman
Alice Munro
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551993980
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro Pdf
In eight stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes—the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met—the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. In others time is telescoped: a young girl finds in the course of an evening that the mother she adores, and whose fluttery sexuality she hopes to emulate, will not sustain her—she must count on herself. Some choices are made—in a will, in a decision to leave home—with irrevocable and surprising consequences. At other times disaster is courted or barely skirted: when a mother has a startling dream about her baby; when a woman, driving her grandchildren to visit the lakeside haunts of her youth, starts a game that could have dangerous consequences. The rich layering that gives Alice Munro's work so strong a sense of life is particularly apparent in the title story, in which the death of a local optometrist brings an entire town into focus—from the preadolescent boys who find his body, to the man who probably killed him, to the woman who must decide what to do about what she might know. Large, moving, profound, these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.
The Progress of Love
Alice Munro
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307814562
The Progress of Love by Alice Munro Pdf
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 Alice Munro, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her latest collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, is widely acknowledged as a modern master of the short story. In this earlier collection, she demonstrates all of those strengths that have won her so many literary accolades. A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents' confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his younger brother. In these and other stories Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.
This is Not that Dawn
Yashpal
Author : Yashpal
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143103134
This is Not that Dawn by Yashpal Pdf
Jhootha Sach is arguably the most outstanding piece of Hindi literature written about the Partiton. Reviving life in Lahore as it was before 1947,