Wingfield S World

Author : Dan Needles
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780307360854

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Wingfield's World by Dan Needles Pdf

Walt Wingfield, the character beloved by thousands in every part of the country, is back with a new and complete book, with a new introduction from the author. Walt Wingfield is a Bay Street stockbroker who quits his job and buys a hundred-acre farm in Persephone Township, Ontario. In a series of letters to the editor of the local newspaper, Walt chronicles his modest successes and spectacular defeats in an age when farming has become difficult for farmers old and new. Dan Needles' rich and charming rural neighbourhood may be difficult to find on a map but it is very close to the Canadian soul. Including a new introduction from Dan Needles, the writer who brought this marvellous world to life 27 years ago, and all your favourite mishaps, triumphs and eccentric neighbours Wingfield's World is the full story of one man's attempt to embrace a less complicated world and how he ends up with more complication and drama, and more love and richness than he could have imagined.

Author : Dan Needles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Canadian wit and humor
ISBN : 1550131575

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Letters from Wingfield Farm by Dan Needles Pdf

Businessman Walt Wingfield yearns for a simpler life, so he buys a 100-acre farm and decides to use horse-drawn equipment. In these humorous letters to a local newspaper, Wingfield chronicles his first three years, including his battles with developers and barnyard disease, and his trials with a former racehorse that can only turn left.

Author : Nancy Meriwether Wingfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198801658

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The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria by Nancy Meriwether Wingfield Pdf

In this study of prostitution in late imperial Austria, Nancy M. Wingfield brings to light the real women behind contemporary constructions of prostitution, with the aim of restoring their historical agency and placing them in their larger social context

Author : Nancy Meriwether Wingfield
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0674025822

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Flag Wars and Stone Saints by Nancy Meriwether Wingfield Pdf

In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, Wingfield analyzes what many historians have treated separately--the construction of the Czech and German nations--as a single phenomenon. Illustrations show how people absorbed, on many levels, visual clues that shaped how they identified themselves and their groups.

Author : R D Wingfield
Publisher : Random House
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448110445

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Winter Frost by R D Wingfield Pdf

‘Possibly the most accurate picture of police work in crime fiction today... An absolute cracker’ – Mike Ripley Denton is having more than its fair share of crime. A serial killer is murdering local prostitutes; a man demolishing his garden shed uncovers a long-buried skeleton; there is an armed robbery at a local minimart and a ram raid at a jewellers. But Detective Inspector Jack Frost's main concern is for the safety of a missing eight-year-old. And soon after another girl is reported missing, her body is found . . . raped and strangled. Then Frost's prime suspect hangs himself in his cell, leaving a note blaming Frost for driving him to suicide. Frost may be coarse, insubordinate and fearless. But he’s also in serious trouble.

Author : Dan Needles
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781771621700

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True Confessions from the Ninth Concession by Dan Needles Pdf

Author and playwright Dan Needles has long delighted readers and audiences alike with his insightful and laugh-out-loud perspective on small-town life, published in such bestselling books as Wingfield's World (Random House, 2011), Wingfield's Hope (Key Porter, 2005), With Axe and Flask (McFarlane, Walter and Ross, 2002) and Letters From Wingfield Farm (Key Porter, 1988). In 1988, Needles and his wife left the city to start a family in a country community located two hours north of Toronto. Together they stocked their farm with sheep, cattle, chickens, pigs and, eventually, four children. Needles' charming chronicle unfolds in essays dated from 1997 to 2016, offering homespun advice for successful country living--like whether to wave from the elbow or to merely raise one finger from the steering wheel when passing a neighbour in the car. He cautions on rural superstitions, such as when his neighbour hesitated before selling him weaner pigs because every time he does the wife of the farmer who's buying them becomes pregnant--which turned out to be true. Here too is the tale of an unlikely friendship between a "borderline" collie ("he's never bitten anything in his life and the sheep are catching on") and an odd duck named Ferdinand, as well as other hilarious stories involving an assortment of farm animals, including the weapon of choice to properly dispatch a rooster-gone-bad; the risks of giving a name to a potential Sunday dinner entrée; and how to outsmart a free-range pig. With his witty insight, Needles shares the art of neighbouring in the country--a place made for visits, and "where a figure walking across your field is more of a reason to put the kettle on than to call the police." True Confessions from the Ninth Concession is a sesquicentennial crop of antics and aphorisms by Canada's funniest farmer--one that presents a wonderful escape for world-weary city dwellers, and affirmative reading for anyone who is from, or has moved to, rural Canada.

Author : Harold Goodglass,Arthur Wingfield
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0080527272

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Anomia by Harold Goodglass,Arthur Wingfield Pdf

Anomia is the inability to access spoken names for objects, most often associated with the elderly or those with brain damage to the left hemisphere. Anomia offers the state-of-the-art review of disorders of naming, written by acknowledged experts from around the world, approached from both clinical and theoretical viewpoints. Goodglass, known around the world for his research in aphasia and speech pathology, edits this first book devoted exclusively to naming and its disorders. Wingfield is known for his classic studies of lexical processing in aphasic and normal speakers. The book includes comprehensive literature reviews, a summary of relevant research data, as well as astudy of recent advances in cognitive analysis and anatomic findings. Anomia is an immensely useful work for all those involved in the study of language, particularly those in cognitive neuroscience, neurology, speech pathology, and linguistics. Devoted entirely to naming and its disorders Includes up-to-date descriptions of advances in cognitive analysis Contains approaches from both clinical and theoretical viewpoints Brings together the top researchers from the U.S., England, and Italy

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:402983147

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The Glass Menagerie by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nancy M. Wingfield,Maria Bucur
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253111935

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Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe by Nancy M. Wingfield,Maria Bucur Pdf

This volume explores the role of gender on both the home and fighting fronts in eastern Europe during World Wars I and II. By using gender as a category of analysis, the authors seek to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the subjective nature of wartime experience and its representations. While historians have long equated the fighting front with the masculine and the home front with the feminine, the contributors challenge these dichotomies, demonstrating that they are based on culturally embedded assumptions about heroism and sacrifice. Major themes include the ways in which wartime experiences challenge traditional gender roles; postwar restoration of gender order; collaboration and resistance; the body; and memory and commemoration.

Author : Dan Needles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 155263695X

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Wingfield's Hope by Dan Needles Pdf

Walt Wingfield jumped off the corporate ladder of his Bay Street investment company to embrace the simple life on a hundred-acre farm in the sand hills of Persephone Township. In a series of letters to the editor of the local newspaper, Walt describes his struggle to make ends meet and gain acceptance in a community that distrusts anyone from the big city. His Letters from Wingfield Farm chronicle the modest successes and spectacular defeats of his first three seasons on the farm.Wingfields Hope finds Walt in his fourth season, married to Maggie, the girl next door, and balancing the expenses of the farm with a part-time job at his old firm in the city. He should be happy, but Persephone Township faces an uncertain future. The voices of the old rural community are slipping away. Can they be preserved or will they be lost forever? Can the community move forward or will they always be paralyzed by feuds and rivalries?In creating Persephone Township, Dan Needles has brought to life a marvelous rural community, populated by eccentric philosophers, wily survivors, rascals, cranks and modest heroes. Walt Wingfields brave attempt to embrace a less complicated world constitutes the signal triumph of a clear-eyed spirit over human frailty and natural adversity.

Author : Adia Harvey Wingfield
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520300347

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Flatlining by Adia Harvey Wingfield Pdf

What happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources are scarce? In Flatlining, Adia Harvey Wingfield exposes how hospitals, clinics, and other institutions participate in “racial outsourcing,” relying heavily on black doctors, nurses, technicians, and physician assistants to do “equity work”—extra labor that makes organizations and their services more accessible to communities of color. Wingfield argues that as these organizations become more profit driven, they come to depend on black health care professionals to perform equity work to serve increasingly diverse constituencies. Yet black workers often do this labor without recognition, compensation, or support. Operating at the intersection of work, race, gender, and class, Wingfield makes plain the challenges that black employees must overcome and reveals the complicated issues of inequality in today’s workplaces and communities.

Author : Ulrika Candolin,Bob B.M. Wong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199602568

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Behavioural Responses to a Changing World by Ulrika Candolin,Bob B.M. Wong Pdf

Species are typically adapted to the local environmental conditions in which they have evolved.

Author : Joseph Rothschild,Nancy Meriwether Wingfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004325203

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Return to Diversity by Joseph Rothschild,Nancy Meriwether Wingfield Pdf

Written by one of the world's foremost authorities on East Central Europe, Return to Diversity has proven to be an invaluable guide for readers of modern European history and politics. This third edition introduces a new co-author, Nancy M. Wingfield, and has been fully updated to take into account recent and ongoing developments in the region.

Author : David M. Richardson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444335859

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Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology by David M. Richardson Pdf

Invasion ecology is the study of the causes and consequences of the introduction of organisms to areas outside their native range. Interest in this field has exploded in the past few decades. Explaining why and how organisms are moved around the world, how and why some become established and invade, and how best to manage invasive species in the face of global change are all crucial issues that interest biogeographers, ecologists and environmental managers in all parts of the world. This book brings together the insights of more than 50 authors to examine the origins, foundations, current dimensions and potential trajectories of invasion ecology. It revisits key tenets of the foundations of invasion ecology, including contributions of pioneering naturalists of the 19th century, including Charles Darwin and British ecologist Charles Elton, whose 1958 monograph on invasive species is widely acknowledged as having focussed scientific attention on biological invasions.

Author : Karen Jacobs,Chantal Knowles,Chris Wingfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9088902712

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Trophies, Relics and Curios? by Karen Jacobs,Chantal Knowles,Chris Wingfield Pdf

The British Missionary movement, which began in earnest in the early 19th century, was one of the most extraordinary movements of the last two centuries, radically transforming the lives of people in large parts of the globe, including in Europe itself. By exploring a range of artifacts, photographs and archival documents that have survived, or emerged from, these transformations, this volume sheds an oblique light on the histories of British Missionaries in Africa and the Pacific, and the ways in which their work is remembered in different parts of the world today. Short contributions describing the histories of particular items, accompanied by rich visual imagery, showcase the extraordinary l items that were caught up in histories of conversion, and are still controversial for many today. By focusing on the varied forms of missionary heritage, this volume aims to question the often used categories of trophies, relics or curios, and highlight the complexity involved in the missionary encounter. This volume is the result of a research networking project bringing together specialists of missionary collections, i.e. artifacts, photographs or archival documents. These specialists are academics of various disciplines, museum curators and indigenous stakeholders who aim to show to a wide audience what missionary heritage constitutes and how varied it is. The heritage in focus is based in museums, archives, churches and archaeological sites in Britain, the Pacific and Africa. With contributions by Ben Burt of the British Museum, Sagale Buadromo of the Fiji Museum, Ghanaian artist, art historian and curator Atta Kwami, Jack Thompson of the University of Edinburgh, Steven Hooper of the Sainsbury Research Unit, Joshua Bell of the Smithsonian Institute, Samoan artist Greg Semu and many more.