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This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women's religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transformed their culturesâold and newâin modern Canada. Each essay explores the ways in which the religiosities of women serve as locations for both the ass...

Excerpt from The Juvenile Album: Or Tales From Far and Near "What! afraid of a dog! Come here Chance, and give your paw to this little boy. He will soon see that you do not mean to hurt him. Come Willy, make friends with poor Chance, and then I will tell you something about dogs, and particularly of our old favourite." The animal came close up to the little boy, who, taking fast hold of his aunt's hand, suffered him to put his paw on the tips...

Excerpt from Memoirs Baron CuvierHaving thus, I trust, obviated every feeling of disgust which accompanies all kinds of presumption, and which would, most probably be attached to me, were I to dare to think myself qualified for a biographer of savants, there yet remains something for me to say to those to whom I am. Unknown, for, when an individual starts from a private circle to give an account of an illustrious public character, it becomes n...

Excerpt from Rural School Improvement Houses may be classed among the great conservative forces of civilization. The beginnings of organized society may be traced back to the time when men first constructed for themselves permanent places of abode. The early Christian church insured the perpetuity of its creeds and its forms of worship by embodying these in cathedrals which have endured the ravages of time, and have come down to us as monumen...

Travel behaviour research has a pivotal role to play in informing the current worldwide debate over the degree to which the growth in personal travel, notably by private motor vehicle, should be encouraged or controlled. At stake are complex public interests concerning air quality, energy, lifestyle, economic development and the built environment. This international collection of papers on current methodological and substantive findings from t...

Focuses on issues that affect buyer behavior in an international context. This volume contains papers that contribute to theory development. It looks at the impact of direct to consumer prescription drug advertising on consumers, and at the role of emotions in advertising and retailing contexts and their impact on buyers.

A safe, revolutionary non-prescription "balance program" to restore gynecological health, energy, and sex drive--and slow the aging process before menopause, and even after.

Celebrated Tolkien illustrator Alan Lee, a conceptual designer for the blockbuster films based on "The Lord of the Rings, " contributes 50 beautiful full-page, full-color paintings to this elegant three-volume edition.

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During the 1950s two Senate investigations, both highly publicized through the new medium of television, revealed the spread of racketeers and corruption among labor unions. Taking advantage of these sensational revelations, business interests, who for years had chafed against the federal government's pro-labor policies, mounted a campaign to curb labor's power. With the support of the business-oriented administration of Dwight Eisenhower, the...

By the turn of the Twentieth Century, the emergence of modern public health was in its pioneering state and Samuel J. Crumbine and his Kansas Department of Health was on the cutting edge of this development.

Available for the first time in mass market--the breakthrough program that uses natural hormone balance to reduce the risk of breast cancer and help eliminate a recurrence.

The Force of Reason and the Logic of Force investigates the concept of force through various 'episodes' in the history of philosophy. The author argues that force arises on the basis of the distinction of reality and mere appearance. The book looks at figures who reduce force to something other than itself as well as figures who develop a 'logic of force' that allows them to trace the operation of force without such a reduction.

An informative and absorbing read for both medical practitioners and their patients, "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer" takes aim at "the breast cancer industry" with a barrage of thought-provoking ammunition.

The Force of Reason and the Logic of Force investigates the concept of force through various 'episodes' in the history of philosophy. The author argues that force arises on the basis of the distinction of reality and mere appearance. The book looks at figures who reduce force to something other than itself as well as figures who develop a 'logic of force' that allows them to trace the operation of force without such a reduction.

Not only the lives of this century's presidents, but also the figures and events that surround them are covered by the works in this series. This particular volume covers the lives and times of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Thousands of books, articles and dissertations are cited and summarised in each of these detailed, accessible bibliographies. The contents are organised by topic to enable researchers to easily focus on broad or na...

The wonderfully charming and poignant memoir of youth in a rural English village-and a fatherless family-set against the backdrop of the Great War.Cider with Rosie is the classic memoir of growing up in a remote Gloucestershire village, a world that Laurie Lee makes tangibly real even as it's now in a distant past. Abandoned by her husband, Laurie's adoring mother becomes the center of his world as she struggles to raise a family on her own. T...

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This revolutionary book about hormone replacement therapy--a classic bestseller since it was first published in 1996--is now fully revised and updated, providing potentially lifesaving facts and natural alternatives to balancing hormones.