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Conservative and subservient housewife Katherine Thurston wants for nothing. Her husband receives a hefty promotion within his company. Their twin five-year-old boys will start school just as the couple prepare for the arrival of twin daughters. Katherine believes she's living every woman's dream. She undoubtedly has the husband of every woman's fantasy. A husband she merely allows complete rule of her life. A husband that is so pristine, even...

Born in a small Prairie town, Daryl K. "Doc" Seaman is an icon of Canadian business and hockey. An air force veteran of 82 combat missions during the Second World War, Seaman is responsible for turning Bow Valley Industries into the global drilling giant it is today and for bringing NHL hockey to Calgary.

Tackles many of the issues which journalists face in their everyday lives - from the media's supposed obsession with sex, sleaze and sensationalism, to issues of regulation and censorship. This book presents an overview of ethical dilemmas and features interviews with a number of journalists, including investigative reporter Phillip Knightley.

Reflects on how our understanding and experience of health at later ages interacts with social and bio-medical developments. This book points out that debates on longevity and disability are being transformed by the emergence of a fitter and healthier older population. It is useful for students and researchers of medical sociology and gerontology.

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How "does" having a female body affect one s experience of indigenized Christianity in Africa? "Spirit, Structure, and Flesh "addresses this question by exploring the ways ritual, symbol, and dogma circumscribe, constrain, and liberate women in AICs.

Explores our biological and psychological responses to fearful events, examines the culture of fear in which we live, and suggests ways in which we, both as individuals and as members of a community, can overcome our anxieties and face our fears with courage and hope.

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Emphasizing a top-down approach, this volume considers the purpose and basic features of design and how the concept of value can provide a quantitative measure of that wider interaction of the engineered object with its environment. This work alsodevelops the domain in which functional design takes place and explores how the system concept can be embedded in that domain. It proposes a number of functional design elements and develops them in c...

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Providing the status of Islam in inter-war Europe, this book states that the Muslim population of Europe in the period from 1918-1939 was not one of isolated islands of belief and practice. It suggests that rather, there was far more interaction between Muslim communities than had hitherto been imagined.

In this lavishly illustrated volume, Toronto historian Mike Filey regales readers with the best of his meditations on everything Toronto, including stories of the city's past told through its landmarks, neighbourhoods, streetscapes, social customs, pleasure palaces, politics, sporting events, celebrities, and defining moments.

Offers an appraisal of the teachings, beliefs and lifestyle of the Ahmaddiya Jama'at, an Islamic reform group founded in nineteenth-century India. Following an account of the life of Ghulam Mirza Ahmad, the movement's founder, this book discusses the history of the Ahmadis, their proselytisation strategies, and the role of mosques and madrasas.

Little known in the English-speaking world, Burundi is Rwanda's twin, a small Central African country with a complex history of ethnic tension between its Hutu and Tutsi populations that has itself experienced traumatic events, including mass killings of over 200, 000 people. The country remained in a state of simmering civil war until 2004, after which Julius Nyerere and Nelson Mandela took turns as mediators in a lengthy, and eventually succ...

Ioan Lewis details the history and culture of the Somali people, providing a unique window into this little-known culture and its increasingly public predicaments. He provides insight into the complex social, historical, and cultural hinterland that is the Somali heritage and pays close attention to the pervasive influence of traditional nomadism, especially its extremely decentralized nature. Lewis also addresses developments in the Somali po...

The most extensive and detailed analysis of the reporting of the Spanish Civil War ever undertaken.

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