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Smith's commentary ages well, the works have a time capsule authenticity and a rhetorical urgency." -- J.P. Lewis, CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEWSince the days when John Diefenbaker was prime minister, Denis Smith has studied and written about the innermost workings of Canadian government as well as the men and women who make it work. Rogue Tory, his biography of John Diefenbaker, was acclaimed by Books in Canada as "finely written, thoroughly res...

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Since the days when John Diefenbaker was prime minister, Denis Smith has studied and written about the innermost workings of Canadian government as well as the men and women who make it work. Rogue Tory, his biography of John Diefenbaker, was acclaimed by Books in Canada as "finely written, thoroughly researched, superbly organized, and scrupulously fair. It rivals Donald Creighton on Sir John A. Macdonald as the best biography of a Canadian p...

Smith's clam reassessment of post-war history sheds considerable light on the roots of East-West relations in the later 1980s, and should assist current efforts to see these relations with renewed realism and good sense

From the curious clauses in a miser's will, to a sinister tradition in an old Tudor manor-house, these twelve cases, from the early years of Holmes's career in the 1880s, present a singular collection of mysteries for the world's first consulting detective to resolve.What is the significance of the arrival in the post one morning of a cardboard packet of children's bricks? Who is the man found dying in a deserted warehouse in London's East End...

From the cold-blooded murder of a man well known in London's Bohemian society, to a sinister tradition in an old Tudor manor-house, these six cases, from the early years of Holmes's career in the 1880s, present a singular collection of mysteries for the world's first consulting detective to resolve.Who is it that bangs on the front door of Mr Lidington's isolated cottage in the dead of night? Why does Henry Barton's job interview proceed in su...

From the curious clauses in a miser's will, to a plea for help on a tiny scrap of paper, these six cases, from the early years of Holmes's career in the 1880s, present a singular collection of mysteries for the world's first consulting detective to resolve.What is the significance of the arrival in the post one morning of a cardboard packet of children's bricks? Who is the man found dying in a deserted warehouse in London's East End, and what ...

An invitation to take lunch at the Great Western Hotel at Paddington station leads Sherlock Holmes into a baffling mystery. Who is it that is watching every move made by popular journalist, Farringdon Blake, and why? When the trail goes cold in London, Holmes and his friend, Dr Watson, must travel down to Foxwood Grange, Blake's home in rural Oxfordshire, to seek a solution to the mystery there. But Foxwood Grange, a 300-year-old Elizabethan m...

Excerpt from Leaves From a Physician's JournalNor does the author claim for his book, regarded as a medium of instruction, of encouragement to the practice of virtues, or warning by the consequences of vice, any especial pre-eminence, either in a medico - literary or in a moral point of view, though he hopes that when his narrations are scrutinized in the latter particular, it will be found that he has not pandered to a vicious or doubt ful mo...

Excerpt from Leaves From a Physician's JournalNor does the author claim for his book, regarded as a medium of instruction, of encouragement to the practice of virtues, or warning by the consequences of vice, any especial pre-eminence, either in a medico - literary or in a moral point of view, though he hopes that when his narrations are scrutinized in the latter particular, it will be found that he has not pandered to a vicious or doubt ful mo...

Is it really possible, do you suppose, ' said Sherlock Holmes to me one morning, as we took breakfast together, 'that a healthy and robust man may be so stricken with terror that he drops down dead?'”The much praised Denis O. Smith introduces twelve new Sherlockian stories in this collection, including "The Adventure of the XYZ Club, ” "The Secret of Shoreswood Hall, ” and "The Adventure of the Brown Box.” Set in the late nineteenth century be...

Environmental issues are currently high on political agendas in Europe and the United States. This concern springs from an increased public awareness of problems like acid rain, global warming and ozone depletion, and from specific pollution and crisis incidents such as Seveso, Bhopal, Piper Alpha and the Exxon Valdez. Public pressure over environmental issues has created a new set of constraints over environmental protection. The internati...

An invitation to take lunch at the Great Western Hotel at Paddington station leads Sherlock Holmes into a baffling mystery. Who is it that is watching every move made by popular journalist, Farringdon Blake, and why? When the trail goes cold in London, Holmes and his friend, Dr Watson, must travel down to Foxwood Grange, Blake's home in rural Oxfordshire, to seek a solution to the mystery there. But Foxwood Grange, a 300-year-old Elizabethan m...

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Is it really possible, do you suppose, ' said Sherlock Holmes to me one morning, as we took breakfast together, 'that a healthy and robust man may be so stricken with terror that he drops down dead?'”The much praised Denis O. Smith introduces twelve new Sherlockian stories in this collection, including "The Adventure of the XYZ Club, ” "The Secret of Shoreswood Hall, ” and "The Adventure of the Brown Box.” Set in the late nineteenth century be...

This volume on the Sung Dynasty and its precursors presents the history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty to the Mongol conquest.

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This text brings together the seminal papers in the area of crisis management and organizational theory along with the analysis of the leading names of the field, covering the subject area from both a theoretical and practical perspective.