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An einem kalten Wintertag kreuzen sich die Leben der Einwohner eines kleines Dorfes an der schottischen Küste. Frances hat vor kurzem ihren Mann nach schwerer Krankheit verloren. Sie verzweifelt an dem Verlust und kümmert sich auch nicht mehr um ihren Teenager-Sohn Alex. Und so macht sich Frances gebrechliche Mutter Elspeth auf den beschwerlichen Weg durch die Eiseskälte, um die Tochter aus ihrer Lethargie zu holen. Das belastete Verhältnis de...

Carbon Province, Hydro Province is a major contribution to both academic understanding and the vital question of how our federal and provincial governments can effectively work together, and thereby, for the first time, achieve a Canadian climate-change target.

Carbon Province, Hydro Province is a major contribution to both academic understanding and the vital question of how our federal and provincial governments can effectively work together, and thereby, for the first time, achieve a Canadian climate-change target.

A bilingual (SPANISH AND ENGLISH) children's book for ages 3-7 that contains 32 pages, with full color illustrations by award-winning professional Rosemarie Gillen on 27 pages. In glossy cover paperback. The book tells the story of a mouse that sees Santa's gift bag near a fireplace on Christmas Eve. The mouse unwittingly goes into the bag for candy and gets swept up when Santa grabs the bag and puts it on his sleigh. They ascend into the sky ...

This co-operative venture by thirty-eight leading Canadian lawyers, jurists, and scholars is the first published survey on a major scale to cover nearly all aspects of Canadian relations with international organization.

Douglas H. MacDonald is professor of anthropology at the University of Montana and specializes in Native American archaeology of the Rock Mountains and Great Plains of Montana and Wyoming. The author of Montana Before History: 11, 000 Years of Hunter-Gatherers in the Rockies and Plains and coeditor of Yellowstone Archaeology: Northern Yellowstone and Yellowstone Archaeology: Southern Yellowstone and Lithics in the West, he lives in Missoula wi...

This is an important and probing analysis and is without doubt the definitive book on business and environmental politics and policy in Canada." - G. Bruce Doern, Carleton University

What happens when buses reach the end of their useful life

A history of Baxter's of Airdrie

A history of Renfewshire buses

Lodekka

A history of Ayrshire buses

The humble omnibus has been seen on the UK's highways and byways for many decades, not least in the era before car ownership reached its zenith. This book traces the 'afterlife' of vehicles withdrawn by their original owners, examining the myriad purposes second-hand buses serve.

Can--or should--the United States try to promote reform in client states in the Third World? This question, which reverberates through American foreign policy, is at the heart of Adventures in Chaos. A faltering friendly state, in danger of falling to hostile forces, presents the U.S. with three options: withdraw, bolster the existing government, or try to reform it. Douglas Macdonald defines the circumstances that call these policy options in...

A nostalgic look at the buses transporting workers to and from work in the days before mass car ownership.

Windham, a reclusive old man, has survived numerous disasters and tragedies before finding his last refuge in the Colorado Mountains. He finds and rescues Max, a brash young businessman caught by a sudden winter storm while on a long distance drive home to resolve a personal crisis. While traveling the high country, Windham reveals an astonishing past life and Max faces a future more devastating than he ever imagined.The story begins in Zanzib...

Windham, a reclusive old man, has survived numerous disasters and tragedies before finding his last refuge in the Colorado Mountains. He finds and rescues Max, a brash young businessman caught by a sudden winter storm while on a long distance drive home to resolve a personal crisis. While traveling the high country, Windham reveals an astonishing past life and Max faces a future more devastating than he ever imagined.The story begins in Zanzib...

Montana Before History, organized chronologically from the Paleoindian period to the Late Prehistoric period, details how Montana�s early peoples adapted to the rugged environment and several dramatic changes in climate.

In this intimate family ethnography, Douglas MacDonald tells the story of the DiVolis and their relatives - three generations of Italian-Americans, together negotiating the changes and challenges of 20th-century life in a small Northeastern American town. Through interviews and participant observation, the author examines the structural and interactive nature of familial bonds that continue to "tie" the DiVolis, Pucillos, and other relatives t...

Much discussion has occurred over a possible "clash of civilizations" between the Muslim world and the West for the last decade. While controversial, the "clash" thesis has had a large influence in the debate over the causes of, and possible remedies for, the spread of terrorist activity. Dr. Douglas Macdonald argues that the social identity theory behind the "clash" thesis is useful for analyzing the tasks before us in the "Long War" on Terro...