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Hard Surface: In Search of the Canadian Road

Hard Surface: In Search of the Canadian Road

Peter Unwin

' ' The Globe and Mail 'His passionate writing style is intoxicating.' ' Toronto Star 'Peter Unwin's prose is swift and exuberant.'' Ottawa Citizen 'Peter Unwin's stories are a joy to read'if you choose this book as a gift'¦buy it early.
1956: Power Defied

1956: Power Defied

Peter Unwin

In this work, Peter Unwin discusses the run up to Suez and the conflict itself, and also provides an account of the crisis and uprising in Hungary.
Battleground: A-N

Battleground: A-N

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Boston: Unwin and Hyman, 1989a; Fiske, John, Understanding Popular Culture, Boston: Unwin and Hyman, 1989b; Gray, Jonathan, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington, eds. Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated. New York: ...
Jules Verne: Journeys in Writing

Jules Verne: Journeys in Writing

Timothy A. Unwin

Jules Verne's reputation undergoes a much-needed rehabilitation in the hands of Timothy Unwin, who reexamines the author's work, from his earliest writings to his later and only recently discovered manuscripts.
Effective Social Work with Children and Families: A Skills ...

Effective Social Work with Children and Families: A Skills ...

Peter Unwin

This text will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students, particularly as they prepare to go on placement.
The Peoples and Politics of the Far East: Travels and ...

The Peoples and Politics of the Far East: Travels and ...

Henry Norman

This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by T. Fisher Unwin in London, 1895. This book contains color illustrations.
Kanthapura

Kanthapura

Raja Rao

Originally published: London: Allen & Unwin, 1938. This is the story of how Ghandi's struggle for independence from the British came to a typical village, Kanthapura, in South India.
Nanoparticles: Allen & Unwin shorts

Nanoparticles: Allen & Unwin shorts

Charlotte Wood

In 'Nanoparticles', Lisa cannily observes the people waiting alongside her at the motor registry, from the harried mother of two to the man engrossed in his newspaper.
Canadian Folk: Portraits of Remarkable Lives

Canadian Folk: Portraits of Remarkable Lives

Peter Unwin

From doomed explorers to celebrated poets of cheese, this collection provides a fascinating look at the eminent and no-so-eminent characters who came before us and left their colourful mark on Canada’s history.
Reformations of the Body: Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early ...

Reformations of the Body: Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early ...

J. Waldron

On the difficulties of the terms “Anglican” and “puritan,” see Peter Lake, Anglicans and Puritans?: Presbyterianism and English Conformist Thought from Whitgift to Hooker (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988). On orthopraxis, see Jonathan Sheehan,  ...
The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society - ...

The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society - ...

David Lyon

See for example Desmond Ball and Jeffrey Richelson, The Ties That Bind, Boston, Unwin Hyman; and Jeffrey Michelson, The US Intelligence Community, Cambridge MA, Ballinger, 1989. Governments in North America are increasingly under ...
The Best Australian Essays 2014:

The Best Australian Essays 2014:

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Caroline Baum's 'Waltzing the Jaguar' appeared in My Mother, My Father:On Losing aParent, editedby Susan Wyndham, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2013. J.M. Coetzee's 'The Last Instructions of Patrick White' appeared in the New YorkReview of ...
The First Urban Churches 1: Methodological Foundations

The First Urban Churches 1: Methodological Foundations

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4, part 2 of Corinth (Cambridge, Ma: asCsa, 1930), §633. see Cavan W. Concannon, “'not for an olive Wreath, but our lives': gladiators, athletes, and early Christian bodies,” JBL 133 (2014): 193–214; James r. Unwin, “'Thrown down but not ...
Case critical: challenging social services in Canada

Case critical: challenging social services in Canada

Ben Carniol

See also Janis Fook, Radical Casework: A Theory of Practice (St. Leonards, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1993), p.1 12; and Michael Lerner, Surplus Powerlessness: The Psychodynamics of Everyday Life . . . and the Psychology of Individual and ...
African Art and Agency in the Workshop

African Art and Agency in the Workshop

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Pp. 198—216. London: George Allen and Unwin. Masunda, David. 2000. Love in the Time of AIDS. In Material Matters: Appliqués by the Weya Women in Zimbabwe and Needlework by South African Collectives. Brenda Schmahmann, ed.
Searching for Petronius Totem

Searching for Petronius Totem

Peter Unwin

Or will Jack return home to his wife Elaine whom it seems, with good reason, will shoot him on sight? Searching for Petronius Totem is a love story for the age: a wild, imaginative, and utterly original novel.
Analysing Architecture

Analysing Architecture

Simon Unwin

'Analysing Architecture' presents an introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design, thereby offering a greater understanding of architecture's creative disciplines and allowing readers to develop their own design capacities.
Routledge Handbook of Political Management

Routledge Handbook of Political Management

Dennis W. Johnson

45 Frank Gruen and Michelle Grattan, Managing Government (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993), 82. 46 See Peter Van Onselen and Wayne Errington, “Electoral Databases; Big Brother or Democracy Unbound?” Australian Journal of Political ...
Postmodern Revisionings of the Political

Postmodern Revisionings of the Political

Anna Yeatman

Anna Yeatman. GTOSZ, E, Sexual Subversions: Thre' French Feminists. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, I989. Grosz, E. “Contemporary Theories of Power and Subjectivity." In Feminist Knowledge.Critique and Construct, edited by Sneja Gunew.
L'occhio elettronico. Privacy e filosofia della sorveglianza

L'occhio elettronico. Privacy e filosofia della sorveglianza

David Lyon

40 Si veda per esempio Desmond Ball e Jeffrey Michelson, The Ties That Bind, Unwin Hyman, Boston, e Jeffrey Michelson, The US Intelligence Community, Ballinger, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1989. 41 I governi nordamericani sono ...
Common Goods: Economy, Ecology, and Political Theology

Common Goods: Economy, Ecology, and Political Theology

Elias Ortega-Aponte

Nancy Lieber (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982); Rudolf Meidner, Employee Investment Funds: An Approach to Collective Capital Formation ( London: George Allen and Unwin, 1978); Jonas Pontusson, “Radicalization and Retreat ...
Australian Book Review

Australian Book Review

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Dream On Alice Spigelman Mark Wakely DREAM HOME Allen & Unwin, $29.95 pb, 236pp, 1 98608 548 0 A FASCINATION WITH THE KINDS of abodes we humans inhabit, and dream about, is the central theme around which Mark Wakely ...
Independent Schools Yearbook 2012-2013

Independent Schools Yearbook 2012-2013

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... MA Mrs J Plows, BA M D Beazor, BA R C Sadler, FRICS ¶HH Judge Revd M A Bishop, MA S H Siddall, MA ¶A V Silverton, BSc, FSI Mrs A Brunner BA Revd Canon Graham Mrs C Crawford, MA Thompson M Elliott, BSc ¶D C W Unwin, MA,  ...
Strategic Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond

Strategic Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond

Jefferson Adams

8 Cited by AmyW. Knight, The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union ( Boston, MA: Allen &Unwin, 1988), 98. 9 Cited by David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (New York, NY: Random House, 1993), 342¥ 343.
A Guide To The Plays Of Bertolt Brecht

A Guide To The Plays Of Bertolt Brecht

Stephen Unwin

Brecht's Life Eugen Bertolt Brecht was born on 10 February 1898 in the south German city of Augsburg. His father, Berthold (1869–1939), was a paper manufacturer and Brecht enjoyed a comfortable middleclass childhood. His mother, Sophie ...
Britain and World War One

Britain and World War One

Alan G. V. Simmonds

59 Paul Kennedy, The Rise of Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860–1914, London: Allen & Unwin, 1980; Zara Steiner and Keith Neilson, Britain and the Origins of the First World War, op. cit., pp. 44–83. 60 Viscount Grey of Falloden, Twenty-Five  ...

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