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By Michael Wise. 2016
In Producing Predators Michael D Wise argues that contestations between Native and non-Native people over hunting labor…
and the livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward The history of these anti-predator programs was significant not only for their ecological effects but also for their enduring cultural legacies of colonialism in the Northern Rockies By targeting wolves and other wild carnivores for extermination cattle ranchers disavowed the predatory labor of raising domestic animals for slaughter representing it instead as productive work Meanwhile federal agencies sought to purge the Blackfoot Salish-Kootenai and other indigenous peoples of their so-called predatory behaviors through campaigns of assimilation and citizenship that forcefully privatized tribal land and criminalized hunting and its related ritual practices Despite these colonial pressures Native communities resisted and negotiated the terms of their dispossession by representing their own patterns of work food and livelihood as productive By exploring predation and production as fluid cultural logics for valuing labor rather than just a set of biological processes Producing Predators offers a new perspective on the history of the American West and the modern history of colonialism more broadlyIn 5 years Steve Kamb has transformed himself from wanna-be daydreamer into a real-life superhero and actually turned his…
life into a gigantic video game flying stunt planes in New Zealand gambling in a tuxedo at the Casino de Monte-Carlo and even finding Nemo on the Great Barrier Reef To help him accomplish all of these goals he built a system that allowed him to complete quests take on boss battles earn experience points and literally level up his life If you have always dreamed of adventure and growth but can t seem to leave your hobbit-hole Level Up Your Life is for you Kamb will teach you exactly how to use your favorite video games books and movies as inspiration for adventure rather than an escape from the grind of everyday life Hundreds of thousands of everyday Joes and Jills have joined Steve s Rebellion through his popular website NerdFitness com and leveled up their lives losing weight getting stronger and living better In Level Up Your Life you ll meet more than a dozen of these members of The Rebellion men and women young and old single and married from all walks of life who have created superhero versions of themselves to live adventurously and happily Within this guide you ll follow in their footsteps and learn exactly how to Create your own Alter Ego with real-life super powers Build your own Epic Quest List broken into categories and difficulty levels Hack your productivity habits to start making progress Train your body for any adventure Build in rewards and accountability that will actually motivate you to succeed Travel the world freely and cheaply Recruit the right allies to your side and find powerful mentors for guidanceAdventure is out there and the world needs more heroes Will you heed the callBy Gerald Finley. 1983
George Heriot (1759-1839), a Scot, is best known as a skilled landscape watercolourist and as the contentious deputy postmaster general…
of British North America from 1800 to 1816. He was also a travel writer (his Travels through the Canadas was published in 1807) and a poet. In this volume, a combination of biography and art history, Gerald Finley presents, for the first time, a rounded picture of Heriot, revealing his motives and ideals while also illuminating the texture of life in Canada during the early years of settlement. In describing Heriot's several roles as artist, administrator, patriot, spy, Finley presents a portrait of an eighteenth-century gentleman whose superficial desires were for an active public life but whose deeper yearnings were for a life of contemplation. As a member of the gentry it was natural that Heriot found his way into public service, for which he was suited both by education and by upbringing. Nevertheless, his public career did not always run smoothly and it ended in frustration and sadness. However, through his writing and especially his art Heriot found welcome relief from the tensions of his public duties. Indeed, Heriot's chief importance lies in his art. Trained as a topographical artist, he was an important exponent of the picturesque landscape. As a mode of vision the Picturesque furnished him with a special way of looking at recording the Canadian scene – to him Canada possessed the qualities of Arcadia. This viewpoint served both as aesthetic consolation and as stimulus to inspiration. This volume serves to recognize Heriot's artistic achievement and to accord him the place he deserves in the history of Canadian art and of the country itself.By Gwen W. Steege. 2011
Knit a traditional gansey sweater with indigo yarn. Tour a spinning mill. Discover five ways to cast on for socks.…
Meet your personal knitting hero. The Knitter’s Life List is a richly illustrated compilation of 1,001 experiences and adventures that devout knitters won’t want to miss. You’ll find classic techniques to master, time-honored patterns to try, unusual yarns to work with, museums to see, books to read, and much more. Get inspired and live the knitting life of your dreams!By James Buckley, Max Hergenrother. 2013
As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently,…
Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance has all the drama of an action movie.How did an obscure tribal sport from precolonial Hawaii one that was nearly eliminated by Christian missionaries …
jump oceans to California and Australia And how did it become such a worldwide passion even in places where the surf may be excellent but the society is highly conservative or superstitious about the sea In Sweetness and Blood a brilliantly written travel adventure journalist and surfer Michael Scott Moore visits unlikely surfing destinations Israel and the Gaza Strip West Africa Great Britain Germany Indonesia Japan Cuba and Morocco to find out Whether he is connecting eccentric surf legend Doc Paskowitz to the Arab-Israeli conflict trying to deconstruct the terrorist bombing in a nightclub in Bali or being chased by the German police while surfing a river break in Berlin Moore masterfully weaves together politics culture history and surfing to create a book like no otherBy Richard A. Light. 2015
This is NOT another backpacking gear book. This book has one goal: to help backpackers lighten their loads. You need…
not sacrifice comfort to enter the world of ultralight backpacking, but you do need to change the way you think about gear, pack loads, and planning.By Bathroom Readers' Institute. 2013
Did you know that Canada was almost called Hochelaga That s just one of thousands of wacky facts awaiting…
readers in Uncle John s quirky celebration of Earth s second largest country You ll find page after page of bizarre history like why the beaver was once classified as a fish plus head-scratching news items like the crook who returned to the Tim Hortons he d just robbed to tip the workers odd places to go like Mr Spock s birthplace in a town called Vulcan and crazy eats like the restaurant that makes you eat in complete darkness So whether you live in Come By Chance Joe Batt s Arm Starvation Cove or anywhere else inside or outside of Canada yukon count on Uncle John to deliver a world of weirdness from all over this great country For example - Cow-patty bingo in Alberta Rule 1 Wear gloves - How to enforce the new Quebec law that requires dogs to be bilingual- The sea of Molson Golden that once shut down an Ontario freeway- The mystery of the mini earthquakes in a New Brunswick town- Why it s illegal to kill a sasquatch in British Columbia- The Nova Scotia company that makes mattresses for cowsAnd much moreBy J.D.M. Stewart. 1911
Behind the politics, discover the lives of Canada's leaders. “What a life it is to be prime minister!” — John…
Diefenbaker Canada has had twenty-three prime ministers, all with views and policies that have differed as widely as the ages in which they lived. But what were they like as people? Being Prime Minister takes you behind the scenes to tell the story of Canada’s leaders and the job they do as it has never been told before. From John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau, readers get a glimpse of the prime ministers as they travelled, dealt with invasions of privacy, met with celebrities, and managed the stress of the nation’s top job. Humorous and hard working, vain and vulnerable, Canada leaders are revealed as they truly were.By Roberto Perin. 2017
Places of worship are the true building blocks of communities where people of various genders, age, and class interact with…
each other on a regular basis. These places are also rallying points for immigrants, helping them make the transition to a new, and often hostile environment. The Many Rooms of this House is a story about the rise and decline of religion in Toronto over the past 160 years. Unlike other studies that concentrate on specific denominations, or ecclesiastical politics, Roberto Perin’s ecumenical approach focuses on the physical places of worship and the local clergy and congregants that gather there. Perin’s timely and nuanced analysis reveals how the growing wealth of the city stimulated congregations to compete with one another over the size, style, materials, and decoration of their places of worship. However, the rise of individualism has negatively affected these same congregations leading to multiple church closings, communal breakdown, and redevelopments. Perin’s fascinating work is a lens to understanding how this once overwhelmingly Protestant city became a symbol of diversity.Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage…
and long term implications of a pivotal labour law in Canada. Utilizing a wide array of primary materials and secondary sources, Hollander gets to the root of the policy-making process, revealing how the making of P.C. 1003 in 1944, a wartime order that forced employers to the collective bargaining table, involved real people with conflicting personalities and competing agendas. Each chapter of Power, Politics, and Principles begins with a quasi-fictional vignette to help the reader visualize historical context. Hollander pays particular attention to the central role that Mackenzie King played in the creation of P.C. 1003. Although most scholars describe the Prime Minister’s approach to policy decisions as calculating and opportunistic, Power, Politics, and Principles argues that Mackenzie King’s adherence to moderate principles resulted in a less hostile legal environment in Canada for workers and their unions in the long run, than a more far-reaching collective bargaining law in the United States.Sarah Carter reveals the pioneering efforts of the government, legal, and religious authorities to impose the “one man, one woman”…
model of marriage upon Mormons and Aboriginal people in Western Canada. This lucidly written, richly researched book revises what we know about marriage and the gendered politics of late nineteenth century reform, shifts our understanding of Aboriginal history during that time, and brings together the fields of Indigenous and migrant history in new and important ways.By Charles R. Menzies. 2016
A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In People of the Saltwater, Charles R. Menzies explores the history of an ancient…
Tsimshian community, focusing on the people and their enduring place in the modern world. The Gitxaała Nation has called the rugged north coast of British Columbia home for millennia, proudly maintaining its territory and traditional way of life.People of the Saltwater first outlines the social and political relations that constitute Gitxaała society. Although these traditionalist relations have undergone change, they have endured through colonialism and the emergence of the industrial capitalist economy. It is of fundamental importance to this society to link its past to its present in all spheres of life, from its understanding of its hereditary leaders to the continuance of its ancient ceremonies. Menzies then turns to a discussion of an economy based on natural-resource extraction by examining fisheries and their central importance to the Gitxaałas’ cultural roots. Not only do these fisheries support the Gitxaała Nation economically, they also serve as a source of distinct cultural identity. Menzies’s firsthand account describes the group’s place within cultural anthropology and the importance of its lifeways, traditions, and histories in nontraditional society today.By Elliott Coues, Lewis Clark. 1893
Volume 1 of the classic edition of Lewis and Clark's day-by-day journals that later became the basis for U.S. claims…
to Oregon and the West. Accurate and invaluable geographical, botanical, biological, meteorological, and anthropological material. Complete 1893 edition, edited by Elliott Coues from Biddle's authorized 1814 history.By Thomas R Tooke, William H Gillard. 1975
This book provides an informal history and tour of the Niagara Escarpment, the backbone of Ontario and one of Canada's…
natural wonders. Stretching from Tobermory at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula to Niagara Falls, the escarpment exhibits a wide diversity of landscape, people, and industry, in the present and in the past. The authors have divided it into three major regions. the rugged northern region which retains much of its primitive beauty serves primarily as a haven for tourists and summer residents, although it was once a centre for fishing and lumbering. Change has come also to the middle area. Its waterpower once made it an industrial region, but today the land from Meaford to Dundas is largely agricultural. The south, so rich in the early history of Canada, is heavily settled and industrialized. Over 80 photographs, taken by William H. Gillard, who himself lives on 'the mountain,' capture the various facets of the region. The rugged cliffs of the Bruce Peninsula contrast with the pastoral lands beneath Mount Nemo; the neatly trimmed harbour at Tobermory counterpoints the Dundas swamp of Coote's Paradise. We see the interplay of industry and agriculture, from Owen Sound's grain elevators through Hamilton's blast furnaces to Jordan's vineyards, and recreation and culture, from tourist landmarks through Hockley Hills skiing to the museums of history and art. The text provides entertaining glimpses of some of the people and some of the events in the history of settlement and growth, proceeding from town to town, north to south. This readable book is the first to deal with the landscape and history of the entire Niagara Escarpment. It is a useful guide to one of the most interesting and historic areas of Canada.By Charles C. Mann. 2009
A companion book to Mann's groundbreaking bestseller "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus," this is a fascinating journey…
that presents the Americas as young readers have never seen them before. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 9-10 at http://www.corestandards.org.]By Richard Allen, Salem Bland. 1973
This volume, a survey of the Canadian scene that urged various reforms, appeared shortly after the First World War. It…
was considered to be extremely radical in its proposals and implications at that time and had the distinction of being one of that rare breed of attempts to survey Canadian developments in terms of large principles of analysis or historical development. In The New Christianity, Salem Bland tried to place the unrest of the times in a large historical perspective and brought social, political, and economic developments into conjunction with main trends of religion in recent decades. His central theme was that the processes of industrial and social consolidation, the growth of organized labour, and the spread of sociological ideas spelled the end of the old order of capitalism and Protestantism which had dominated most of western Christendom for three centuries. Specifically, the primary impediment to full realization of democracy and brotherhood, Bland argued, was modern capitalism based on private property rights in industry and motivated by a competitive individualism. The second impediment to a new social order embodying the Christian spirit was the strong attachment of Christians to their traditions. The chief hope of the future lay in a marriage of labour Christianity and American Christianity that would unite with all other traditions in a worldwide ecumenical movement.Fifty years later, the reprinting of this book is important because it is an instructive study in how the highest traditions of Christianity came into radical conjunction with the currents of economic change, social reform, and political upheaval in Canada in the first decades of this century.By Robert Vipond, Andrew McDougall, Marcel Martel, Jacqueline Krikorian, David Cameron. 2017
In recognition of Canada’s sesquicentennial, this two-volume set brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation into one collection. The editors…
sought to reproduce not only the "classic" studies about the people, ideas, and events associated with the passage of the British North America Act, 1867, but also scholarly works that capture the complexities of the Confederation project. This ambitious anthology challenges the notion that there exists one dominant narrative underpinning 1867, and includes research that focuses on Indigenous peoples. Seven articles written in French are translated for the first time for publication in this collection. In the first volume of this anthology, Roads to Confederation introduces readers to the competing approaches to the study of Confederation and provides material that considers the nature of the 1867 project from the perspective of peoples and communities who have been traditionally excluded from the literature. It also includes the definitive scholarship on the ideational underpinnings of the making of Canada as well as several leading articles that set out different ways to understand the nature and purpose of the 1867 agreement.By Karyn Sharp, Henry S. Sharp. 2015
Denésuliné hunters range from deep in the Boreal Forest far into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a…
social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent several decades participating in fieldwork and observing hunts by this extended kin group. His daughter, Karyn Sharp, who is an archaeologist specializing in First Nations Studies and is Denésuliné, also observed countless hunts. Over the years the father and daughter realized that not only their personal backgrounds but also their disciplinary specializations significantly affected how each perceived and understood their experiences with the Denésuliné.In Hunting Caribou, Henry and Karyn Sharp attempt to understand and interpret their decades-long observations of Denésuliné hunts through the multiple disciplinary lenses of anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology. Although questions and methodologies differ between disciplines, the Sharps’ ethnography, by connecting these components, provides unique insights into the ecology and motivations of hunting societies.Themes of gender, women’s labor, insects, wolf and caribou behavior, scale, mobility and transportation, and land use are linked through the authors’ personal voice and experiences. This participant ethnography makes an important contribution to multiple fields in academe while simultaneously revealing broad implications for research, public policy, and First Nations politics.By Duncan MacGibbon. 1952
p This book traces in an accurate and objective manner the sequence of events during the last twenty years which…
have influenced the organization fo the Canadian grain trade During these years problems arising out of the production and marketing of western grain have been under continuous review in Canada leading at different times to royal commissions of inquiry The production and sale of cereals have become such a vital part of the economic life of the three prairie provinces and indeed of Canada that anything affecting this great industry becomes at once a subject of general interest p These twenty years have witnessed momentous changes The period marks a shift from free trading on the open market to the compulsory marketing of Canadian wheat and other grains through the medium of a Federal board endowed with wide powers Basically this change stems from conditions arising out of the Great Depression and World War II And in one form or another the Canadian Wheat Board will continue to be a significant factor in the marketing of Canadian wheat Noteworth also have been the dramatic recovery of the Pools and the negotiation of international agreements and on the farm front the establishment of a permit system to control deliveries of grain to country elevators and the enactment of legislation to protect producers against losses arising from the hazards of nature p