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Mountain and Prairie - A Journey from Victoria to Winnipeg, viâ Peace River Pass is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are avai...

Why is postmodernist discourse so biased against the Enlightenment? Indeed, postmodern theory challenges the validity of the rational basis of modern historical scholarship and the Enlightenment itself. Rather than avoiding this conflict, the contributors to this vibrant collection return to the philosophical roots of the Enlightenment, and do not hesitate to look at them through a postmodernist lens, engaging issues like anti-Semitism, Utopia...

Utilizing case studies and an original set of interviews with community members, elected officials, and city employees, this book provides a rare window onto the participatory budgeting process through the words and experiences of the very individuals involved. This book provides students, local government elected officials, practitioners, and citizens with a comprehensive understanding of participatory budgeting and straightforward guidelines...

Excerpt from Mountain and Prairie: A Journey From Victoria to Winnipeg, Via Peace River Pass, With Maps and Illustrations Carlyle says that some books are suited for imme diate use and immediate oblivion. It is the writer's hope that ere the accompanying record of his journey across mountain and prairie passes into oblivion it may be of use in acquainting some of his fellow-countrymen, in a slight degree, with the character and the resources ...

The first book to tell the full story of immigrants impact on the New Left, this record focuses on their place in French history and considers the Left s evolution from 1961 to 1983. Touching upon a variety of topics including the use of migrant workers as cheap labor, the reactions to the massacre of Algerians in Paris in 1961, and the immigrant view of leftists who sought to politicize them it also shows how mainstream politics responded in ...

In a wide-ranging interpretation of French thought in the years 1670-1789, Daniel Gordon takes us through the literature of manners and moral philosophy, theology and political theory, universal history and economics to show how French thinkers sustained a sense of liberty and dignity within an authoritarian regime. A penetrating critique of those who exaggerate either the radicalism of the Enlightenment or the hegemony of the absolutist state...

Roots of Empathy is the acclaimed program for fostering empathy and emotional literacy in children--with the goal of creating a more civil society, one child at a time. Gordon explains the value of and how best to nurture empathy and social and emotional literacy in all children--and thereby reduce aggression, antisocial behavior, and bullying.

The National Institute of Justice strives to assist criminal justice practitioners through research, development, and evaluation of technologies and methods. RAND researchers interviewed an extensive sample group to assess priorities at the state and local levels, the means by which those agencies commonly receive information on technology, and the effectiveness of outreach by the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center

bTitle:/b Mountain and Prairie, a journey from Victoria to Winnipeg ... with maps and illustrations.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. I...

2006: Isabel Montgomery, una joven de diecisiete años, comienza a recibir correos electrónicos de su padre, que la había abandonado en un hotel diez años antes. Él necesita su ayuda, y por fin está dispuesto a contarle la verdad: así Isabel descubre que su padre, un adinerado abogado izquierdista, vivía bajo una falsa identidad y era en realidad el prófugo Jason Sinai, antiguo militante de la organización radical Weather Underground buscado de...

The catastrophe in Atlantic fisheries resource management in the 1990s has had important national and international implications that we would ignore at our peril. What lessons can be learned from the disappearance of cod from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland? Can we apply this knowledge to help explain the recent disappearance of millions of salmon off the coast of British Columbia? While Atlantic Canada is the specific focus of the papers in ...

Why is postmodernist discourse so biased against the Enlightenment? Indeed, postmodern theory challenges the validity of the rational basis of modern historical scholarship and the Enlightenment itself. Rather than avoiding this conflict, the contributors to this vibrant collection return to the philosophical roots of the Enlightenment, and do not hesitate to look at them through a postmodernist lens, engaging issues like anti-Semitism, Utopia...

This book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of power relations within a heavily bureaucratized organization attempting to introduce post-bureaucratic structures, policies, and systems. The organization in question, the New South Wales Police Service, was rife with corruption. Postbureaucratic reform was seen as a means of enhancing social control through the facilitation of democracy. Despite institutional...

A guidebook for patients who have developed, or who fear developing, late stage breast cancer. Provides information necessary to understand and discuss medical and end-of-life decisions with providers, as well as information on reducing the chances of dev