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From backwoods roughing to backroom politics, Cliff Scott tells the story of Canada's capital city through its most colourful characters and most shocking events. A must-read for anyone interested in Ottawa's history. Meet the real-life Paul Bunyan and the home-grown princess of Denmark as Scott highlights the great and small, famous and infamous.

The first courts handled crimes like lying, idleness and card playing with punishments that ranged from fines to public whipping to death by hanging. Constables kept order until Portsmouth's first police officer took up the shield in 1800. But no force could keep all crime at bay. The court sentenced the beautiful, educated Ruth Blay to hanging on shaky evidence that she might have killed her baby. Business magnate Frank Jones played corrupt p...

Delve into Ontario's brewing traditions and craft beer renaissance with Alan McLeod and Jordan St. John. From the early brews of Hudson's Bay traders, to the underground beermakers of Prohibition, to the rise modern independent breweries, McLeod and St. John have tapped the cask of Ontario brewing to tell complete story, from foam to dregs.

Investigate the citizens of Grand Rapids, even those above suspicion, with author and local history enthusiast Amberrose Hammond as she uncovers a seedy cast of characters from the city's past. Meet career criminals like Clem Blood, who tore off all his clothes during sentencing, only to be presented with a new suit at public expense. Open a love letter from Grand Rapids' own Lonely Hearts killer, who lured his victims by direct mail. Unseal t...

Orillia, once a gathering place for Huron, Iroquois and Chippewa Nations, is now a well-loved, year-round recreation destination. Orillia native Dennis Rizzo joins other locals to tell the fascinating and diverse history of this gateway to Muskoka, from its pre-European origins, to the fur trade, forestry, and now tourism.

What is life worth without the love you're meant for?Sent to the brink of death by his own brother's blade, Eoghanan McMillan clings to the brief moments he spends in the shadows, watching from afar the beautiful lass he's never met. He spends his time some four centuries after his birth, slowly building his strength so that he may return home, but each glimpse into the woman's life leaves him wanting. He wants nothing more than to know her…Wh...

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Peter von Ziegesar had just moved to New York and was awaiting the birth of his first child when a dark shape stepped from the looking glass of his past onto a Greenwich Village street. The Looking Glass Brother is Peter von Ziegesar's remarkable memoir of a life that began in the exquisite enclaves of Long Island's Gilded Age families and is now lived, in part, as the keeper of his homeless and schizophrenic stepbrother, Little Peter. The Loo...

This monograph presents the results of the first planned archaeological excavations in the important Italo-Greek Abbey of Grottaferrata that was founded near Rome by St. Nilus of Rossano in 1004 over the ruins of a grand Roman villa. The research focuses on the transformation of the settlement and on the social, economic and cultural dynamics from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance and it has revealed the existence of previously unknown Late An...

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The story of Tulsa's transformation from a nineteenth-century cow town into the "Oil Capital of the World" has been above ground for years, but a great reservoir of Tulsey Town's heritage has remained beneath the surface. These neglected tales include the dirigible flyover of 1929, the Hominy Indians' victory over the New York Giants and the legendary final performance of Spade Cooley, convicted killer and the self-proclaimed "King of Western ...

In this revised edition of The Secret Connexion, Galen Strawson explores one of the most discussed subjects in philosophy: David Hume's work on causation. He argues that Hume believes in causal influence, but insists that we cannot know its nature. The regularity theory of causation is indefensible, and Hume never adopted it in any case.

In this six-session small group Bible study, If You Want to Walk on Water, You've got to Get Out of the Boat, by John Ortberg, participants learn how to move beyond fear, responding to God's unique calling.

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ThisbookistheresultoftheprocessingoftheexcavationdataandofthepotterycomingfromthestratigraphyunderneaththecathedralofSiena.ThesurveyswereconductedbetweenAugust2000andMay2003bytheDepartmentofArchaeologyandHistoryofArtsoftheUniversityofSiena, withthescientificcoordinationofProf.

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Exploring Veenapani Chawla's contribution to modern Indian theatre, this book opens a window to the creative genius of one of the foremost experimental theatre exponents of modern India.

This book presents aspects of research on the archaeological investigations at the multi-period site of Priniatikos Pyrgos and surrounding area. Incorporating the Vrokastro Survey Project, the Istron Geoarchaeological Project, the Priniatikos Pyrgos Excavation Project and other researches, this volume presents interdisciplinary case-studies that deal with domestic, technological and mortuary practices at the site and how these relate to settle...

First published 2002 by Pearson Education.