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The Madman and the Butcher

Tim Cook
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Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143178835

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Based on newly uncovered sources, The Madman and the Butcher is a powerful double biography of Sam Hughes and Arthur Currie and the story of one of the most shocking and highly publicized libel trials in Canadian history. Sir Arthur Currie achieved international fame as Canadian Corps commander during the Great War. He was recognized as a brilliant general, morally brave, and with a keen eye for solving the challenges of trench warfare. But wars were not won without lives lost. Who was to blame for Canada's 60,000 dead? Sir Sam Hughes, Canada's war minister during the first two and a half years of the conflict, was erratic, outspoken, and regarded by many as insane. Yet he was an expert on the war. He attacked Currie's reputation in the war's aftermath, accusing him of being a butcher, a callous murderer of his own men. Set against the backdrop of Canadians fighting in the Great War, this engaging narrative explores questions of Canada's role in the war, the need to place blame for the terrible blood loss, the nation's discomfort with heroes, and the very public war of reputations that raged on after the guns fell silent.

Ra

qntm
Ra Book PDF

Author : qntm
Publisher : qntm
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ra by qntm Pdf

Magic is real. Discovered in the 1970s, magic is now a bona fide field of engineering. There's magic in heavy industry and magic in your home. It's what's next after electricity. Student mage Laura Ferno has designs on the future: her mother died trying to reach space using magic, and Laura wants to succeed where she failed. But first, she has to work out what went wrong. And who her mother really was. And whether, indeed, she's dead at all...

There Is No Antimemetics Division

qntm
There Is No Antimemetics Division Book PDF

Author : qntm
Publisher : qntm
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm Pdf

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it. Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you tried: complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams... But anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war? Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not your first day. ----- This ebook is an official release by me, qntm from the SCP Foundation wiki! PM me if you require confirmation. This ebook collects all of my Antimemetics Division fiction: SCP-055, SCP-2256 and the complete serials There Is No Antimemetics Division and Five Five Five Five Five.

Sam Hughes

Ronald G. Haycock,Canadian War Museum
Sam Hughes Book PDF

Author : Ronald G. Haycock,Canadian War Museum
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1986-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780889201774

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Sam Hughes by Ronald G. Haycock,Canadian War Museum Pdf

This book is based on the public career of a highly controversial Canadian, Sam Hughes 1885–1916. He is one of the most colourful, even bizarre, figures in Canadian history. Though he died in 1921, his name can still conjure up controversy and not a little misunderstanding. His long career—in so many respects the quintessential story of a poor backwoods Ontario farm boy who made good by his own efforts—continues to exert a fascination that few other Canadian political figures could duplicate. Even though there has never been a major scholarly study of Sam Hughes, historians and other writers have developed definite opinions about him, and they are held nearly as vigorously as those of his contemporaries. These vary from insisting that Hughes was mentally unbalanced to proclaiming him a genius. Hughes’ defenders have rarely been professional historians. Neither side have not produced an extensive or definitive literature on Hughes in proportion to other figures of a similar public stature. Whatever side the studies have taken, the assessments are still incomplete because they have not examined the entirety of Sam Hughes’ public life. To a large extent these limitations have allowed the folk image of him to persist. But Hughes had fibre and substance beyond this. Since historical figures must be explained in terms of their environment, this study tries to redress the previous imbalances by examining Hughes’ public career. It is the only way his historical significance can be explained and reasonable judgments made.

The Guide to Optimizing Recovery After Prostate Cancer Surgery

Sam Hughes
The Guide to Optimizing Recovery After Prostate Cancer Surgery Book PDF

Author : Sam Hughes
Publisher : Library and Archives Canada / Government of Canada
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1999068009

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The Guide to Optimizing Recovery After Prostate Cancer Surgery by Sam Hughes Pdf

Prostate Cancer is one of the most common form of cancer in men. Prostate Cancer Surgery (prostatectomy) is usually chosen to treat localize prostate cancer, but unfortunately can cause urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction in men. This is the guide for men that elected to have prostate cancer surgery and want to learn more about the recovery process. It summarizes the surgery, bladder physiology, pelvic floor muscle training and behavioural changes to improve urinary incontinence and other side effects of the surgery. Information has been carefully collected from clinical expertise and research, in an easy-to-read format with illustrations.

Sam Steele

Rod Macleod
Sam Steele Book PDF

Author : Rod Macleod
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781772123791

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Sam Steele by Rod Macleod Pdf

Sam Steele, “the man who tamed the Gold Rush,” had a high-profile public career, yet his private life has been closely protected. Sam Steele: A Biography follows Steele’s rise from farm boy in backwoods Ontario to the much-lauded Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele. Drawing on the vast Steele archive at the University of Alberta, this comprehensive biography vividly recounts some of the most significant events of the first fifty years of Canadian Confederation—including the founding of the North-West Mounted Police, the opening of the North through the Klondike, and Canada’s participation in the South African War—from the perspective of a policeman who became a military leader. Impeccably researched and accessibly written, Sam Steele is perfect for anyone interested in Canada’s early decades.

High Growth Handbook

Elad Gil
High Growth Handbook Book PDF

Author : Elad Gil
Publisher : Stripe Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781953953377

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High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil Pdf

High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.

Militia Myths

James A. Wood
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Author : James A. Wood
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774817653

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The image of farmers and workers called to the colours endures in Canada’s social memory of the First World War. But is the ideal of being a citizen first and a soldier only by necessity as recent as our histories and memories suggest? Militia Myths brings to light a military culture that consistently employed the citizen soldier as its foremost symbol, but was otherwise in a state of profound transition. At the time of Confederation, the defence of Canada itself represented the country’s only real obligation to the British Empire, but by the early twentieth century Canadians were already fighting an imperial war in South Africa. In 1914, they began raising an army to fight on the Western Front. By the end of the First World War, the ideological transition was complete: for better or for worse, the untrained civilian who had answered the call-to-arms in 1914 replaced the long-serving volunteer militiaman of the past as the archetypical Canadian citizen soldier. Militia Myths traces the evolution of a uniquely Canadian amateur military tradition -- one that has had an enormous impact on the country’s experience of the First and Second World Wars. Published in association with the Canadian War Museum.

The End of Work

John Hughes
The End of Work Book PDF

Author : John Hughes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780470766149

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The End of Work by John Hughes Pdf

Surveys twentieth century theologies of work, contrasting differing approaches to consider the “problem of labor” from a theological perspective. Aimed at theologians concerned with how Christianity might engage in social criticism, as well those who are interested in the connection between Marxist and Christian traditions Explores debates about labor under capitalism and considers the relationship between divine and human work Through a thorough reading of Weber’s Protestant Work Ethic, argues that the triumph of the "spirit of utility" is crucial to understanding modern notions of work Draws on the work of various twentieth century Catholic thinkers, including Josef Pieper, Jacques Maritain, Eric Gill, and David Jones Published in the new and prestigious Illuminations series.

Filling the Ranks

Richard Holt
Filling the Ranks Book PDF

Author : Richard Holt
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773549104

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Filling the Ranks by Richard Holt Pdf

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 administrative and organizational changes that fostered efficiency and sustained the army. Richard Holt describes national civilian and military recruitment policies and criteria both inside and outside of Canada; efforts to recruit women, convicts, and members of First Nations, African Canadian, Asian, and Slavic communities; the conduct of entry-level training; and the development of a coherent reinforcement structure. Canada’s ability to fill the ranks with trained soldiers ultimately helped make the Corps an elite formation within the British Expeditionary Force. Based on extensive research in British and Canadian archives, Filling the Ranks provides a wealth of new information on Canada"s role in the Great War.

Men, Machines, and War

Ronald Haycock,Keith Neilson
Men Machines and War Book PDF

Author : Ronald Haycock,Keith Neilson
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889207875

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Men, Machines, and War by Ronald Haycock,Keith Neilson Pdf

Using examples from the last two centuries, this collection of essays discusses the close links between technology and war. In the opening essay, distinguished historian William H. McNeill demonstrates the extent to which military technology has often led to differentiations among people, both within and between societies. The other studies examine various aspects of weapons technology, drawing on the history of the armed forces of Britain, Prussia, and Australia, among others. Some of these illustrate how the adoption of new weaponry frequently depended as much on national pride and party politics as it did on the purely technical merits of the weapons involved; that financial considerations became increasingly primary in technological developments in British army after World War I; and that decisions made prior to 1939 about the aviation technology to be developed for military purposes largely determined what kind of the RAF was able to fight. The chapter by Dr. G.R. Lindsay, the Chief of the Operational Research and Analysis Establishment at the Department of National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, makes the case that, with nuclear weapons added to the scene, the impact of technology on international security has never been as great as at present, and that the competition of nations seeking the technological edge in weaponry threatens to destabilize the precarious balance that has existed since 1945.

Image of the Indian

Ronald Haycock
Image of the Indian Book PDF

Author : Ronald Haycock
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1974-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889200005

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Image of the Indian by Ronald Haycock Pdf

The intention of this paper is to take a look at a representation of what Canadians were reading about their Indians over seventy years of this century. The purpose is to determine what view of the Canadian Indian writers were extending in the popular national magazines, and to suggest attitudes and changes in attitudes during these seven decades. It is hoped that this endeavor will not only suggest the shape and form of concepts of the Indians as they were portrayed for the Canadian reader but that the detailed content description of each essay, as well as the bibliography compiled will be of assistance to later researchers in choosing their material and in encouraging future studies on Canadian Indians.

Open graves, open minds

Sam George,William Hughes
Open graves open minds Book PDF

Author : Sam George,William Hughes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781526102164

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Open graves, open minds by Sam George,William Hughes Pdf

This collection of interconnected essays relates the Undead in literature, art and other media to questions concerning gender, race, genre, technology, consumption and social change. A coherent narrative follows Enlightenment studies of the vampire's origins in folklore and folk panics, the sources of vampire fiction, through Romantic incarnations in Byron and Polidori to Le Fanu's Carmilla. Further essays discuss the Undead in the context of Dracula, fin-de-siècle decadence, Nazi Germany and early cinematic treatments. The rise of the sympathetic vampire is charted from Coppola's film, Bram Stoker's Dracula, to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight. More recent manifestations in novels, TV, Goth subculture, young adult fiction and cinema are dealt with in discussions of True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and much more. Featuring distinguished contributors, including a prominent novelist, and aimed at interdisciplinary scholars or postgraduate students, it will also appeal to aficionados of creative writing and Undead enthusiasts. www.opengravesopenminds.com

1 Samuel (Redesign)

John Woodhouse
1 Samuel Redesign Book PDF

Author : John Woodhouse
Publisher : Preaching the Word
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433548844

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1 Samuel (Redesign) by John Woodhouse Pdf

Focused on the Old Testament book of 1 Samuel, this updated commentary explores God's solution to ancient Israel's leadership crisis and offers scriptural guidance related to godly leadership today. Part of the Preaching the Word commentary series.

The Last Day, The Last Hour

Robert J. Sharpe
The Last Day The Last Hour Book PDF

Author : Robert J. Sharpe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442697256

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The Last Day, The Last Hour by Robert J. Sharpe Pdf

On 11 November 1918, the last day of the Great War, the Canadian Corps, led by Sir Arthur Currie, liberated Mons after four years of German occupation. The push to Mons in the last days and weeks of the war had cost many lives. Long after the war, Currie was blamed by many for needlessly wasting those lives. When the Port Hope Evening Guide published an editorial in 1927 repeating this charge, Currie was incensed. Against the advice of his friends, he decided to sue for libel and retained W.N. Tilley, Q.C., the leading lawyer of the day, to plead his case. First published in 1988, The Last Day, the Last Hour reconstructs the events - military and legal - that led to the trial and the trial itself, one of the most sensational courtroom battles in Canadian history, involving many prominent legal, military and political figures of the 1920s. Now back in print with a new preface by the author, judge and legal scholar Robert J. Sharpe, The Last Day, the Last Hour remains the definitive account of a landmark legal case.