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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.
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.
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.
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,  ...
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.
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 ...
Canadian Folk: Portraits of Remarkable Lives

Canadian Folk: Portraits of Remarkable Lives

Peter Unwin

100 More Canadian Heroines Famous and Forgotten Faces Merna Forster 978- 1554889709 $24.99 In this second installment of the bestselling Canadian Heroines series, author Merna Forster brings together 100 more incredible stories of ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
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.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
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.
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Peter Turchin

Many people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
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 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 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 ...

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