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Ian Poulter: The Biography of Britain's Golfing Hero

Ian Poulter: The Biography of Britain's Golfing Hero

Gavin Newsham

Charting Poulter's life from when he first picked up a golf club at age seven and hit the ball 140 yards to his triumphant, pumped-up charge in the 2012 Ryder Cup, this is a story every golf fan will want to read Ian Poulter has earned his ...
The Donut: A Canadian History

The Donut: A Canadian History

Steve Penfold

This group is now so thoroughly dispersed across the country that it seems appropriate to enumerate them geographically (by job or residence): Lisa Chilton and James Moran (Charlottetown), Gillian Poulter and Stephen Henderson ( Wolfville, ...
Visibly Canadian: Imaging Collective Identities in the ...

Visibly Canadian: Imaging Collective Identities in the ...

Karen Stanworth

... of researchers, such as Patricia Jasen in Wild Things or Gillian Poulter in Becoming Native, have made interdisciplinary and provocative contributions to the understanding of representations of and by aboriginals in nineteenth-century visual ...
Becoming Native in a Foreign Land: Sport, Visual Culture, ...

Becoming Native in a Foreign Land: Sport, Visual Culture, ...

Gillian Poulter

English Canadian identity was not formed solely by emulating what was British; this book shows that it gained ground by usurping what was indigenous in a foreign land.
Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

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GIllIaN PoultEr In the summer of 1860, a meeting was held in St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto to resolve a difficulty that had arisen in connection with preparations for the upcoming visit of Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales. The group ofnotable  ...
Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to ...

Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to ...

Ian Walter Radforth

... (the partial incorporation into the colonies of loyal Natives), Gillian Poulter examines the ways in which British and French-Canadian artists used Native figures to signify the 'Other' in paintings and engravings of Lower Canada. See her ...
Locating the English Diaspora, 1500-2010

Locating the English Diaspora, 1500-2010

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Sport, as Gillian Poulter has demonstrated in her examination of sport and Canadian identity, was both a practice and a product of specific identities.30 While the Scots pursued curling and shinty in Montreal during this period,31 the English ...
National Manhood and the Creation of Modern Quebec

National Manhood and the Creation of Modern Quebec

Jeffery Vacante

... of the ways that nineteenth-century English-speaking Montrealers embraced the outdoors and sports and appropriated Aboriginal and French Canadian cultures in the process of fashioning a new Canadian male identity, see Gillian Poulter, ...
Becoming Native in a Foreign Land: Sport, Visual Culture, ...

Becoming Native in a Foreign Land: Sport, Visual Culture, ...

Gillian Poulter

A portrait of the first MLC team in 1858 shows the players dressed in an assortment of clothing and posed in a casual grouping; see Don Morrow, A Sporting Evolution: The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, 1881-1981 ( Montreal: Montreal ...
Ethnicity, Sport, Identity: Struggles for Status

Ethnicity, Sport, Identity: Struggles for Status

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This is a shortcoming which Ethnicity, Sport, Identity attempts in part to put right. Gillian Poulter provides a provocative account of indigenous sport in nineteenthcentury Canada. Questioning the idea of ice-hockey as the original ' Canadian ...
Introduction aux études canadiennes: Histoires, identités, ...

Introduction aux études canadiennes: Histoires, identités, ...

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1-12; Gerald Redmond, The Sporting Scots, op. cit. 8 Gillian Poulter, « Snowshoeing and lacrosse: Canada's nineteenth-century national games », Culture, Sport, Society, vol. 6, nos 2/3, 2003, p. 293-320. 9 Gouvernement du Canada, Loi sur ...
Gillian Baverstock Remembers Enid Blyton

Gillian Baverstock Remembers Enid Blyton

Gillian Baverstock

Gillian Baverstock provides a personal insight into her mother's childhood, family, home town, schooldays and writing career.
No Limits: My Autobiography

No Limits: My Autobiography

Ian Poulter

An autobiography from golf's freshest, most individual voice Ian Poulter is one of golf's most charismatic figures, with an appeal extending way beyond his sport.
Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum: ...

Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum: ...

Gillian Wilson

Revised Edition Gillian Wilson, Sir Francis Watson. xi INTRODUCTION. WATSON AND DAUTERMAN r 966 —70 Watson, Francis, and Carl Dauterman. The Wrightsman Collection. 4 vols. New York, 1966—70. WILSON I 977 Wilson, Gillian.
The Fatal Heir: A Gillian Jones Mystery

The Fatal Heir: A Gillian Jones Mystery

Lois Lewandowski

Gillian Jones is a thirty-three-year-old probation officer.
The Grownup

The Grownup

Gillian Flynn

. . The Grownup, which originally appeared as 'What Do You Do?' in George R. R. Martin's Rogues short story anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world's most original and skilled voices in fiction.
Beating Overeating

Beating Overeating

Gillian Riley

Do you always give up because it's just too much effort? Gillian Riley, a self confessed former overeater, aims to banish the world of calorie counts, fat gram analysis, faddy diets - from cabbage soup to blood group - and weighing scales.
The Gillian Flynn Collection: Sharp Objects, Dark Places, ...

The Gillian Flynn Collection: Sharp Objects, Dark Places, ...

Gillian Flynn

What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick.
Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collections

Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collections

Adrian Sassoon

The Department of Decorative Arts under Gil— lian Wilson has previously produced Mounted Oriental Portelain (by E]. B. Watson, Gillian Wilson, and Anthony Derham; 1982) and will soon see the publication of Clocks (by Gillian Wilson et al.) ...
The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp ...

The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp ...

Gillian Flynn

A boxed collection of the author's internationally best-selling novels includes her debut work about a journalist's dark assignment, a tale about a family's role in a horrifying crime and a portrait of a marriage gone terribly wrong.
Food in Art: From Prehistory to the Renaissance

Food in Art: From Prehistory to the Renaissance

Gillian Riley

In this richly illustrated book, Gillian Riley provides fresh insight into how the relationship between humans and food has been portrayed in art from ancient times to the Renaissance.
Julia Gillian (and the Quest for Joy)

Julia Gillian (and the Quest for Joy)

Alison McGhee

Ten-year-old Julia Gillian's best friend is keeping secrets, their beloved lunch lady was replaced by a tyrant, and trumpet lessons prove difficult, making it hard for her to follow the music teacher's advice to "look for the joy."
The Omega

The Omega

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... Jennifer Ellis Angela Elstner Gillian Emlaw Chandra Ervin Greg Esmer Carlos Espinosa Jennifer Etzel Stephen Evans Jason Fairbanks Matt Falcone Rachel Fanta Scott Farmer Rob Ferrari Jennifer Fike Gillian Findlay Doug Finkbeiner Vicki ...
Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul ...

Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul ...

Gillian Wilson

Gillian Wilson, Catherine Hess. GPREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Tins BOOK 1s A REVISED AND EXPANDED EDrTiON or Decorative Arts: Art illustrated Summary Catalogue ofch Collection oftlte Paul Getty Museum, which was ...
French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes: Baroque and Régence : ...

French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes: Baroque and Régence : ...

J. Paul Getty Museum

Gillian Wilson, Adrian Sassoon, and Charissa Bremer-David, “Acquisitions Made by the Department of Decorative Arts in 1982,” The I. Paul Getty Museum Journal 11 (Malibu, 1983) “Acquisitions/1983,” IPGM Ioumal (1984) Gillian Wilson, ...
Introduction to Journalism

Introduction to Journalism

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AN INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM CAROLE FLEMING, EMMA HEMMINGWAY, GILLIAN MOORE AND DAVEWELFORD ®SAGE Publications London • Thousand Oaks • New Delhi © Carole Fleming, Emma Hemmingway, Gillian Moore ...
European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum:

European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum:

Gillian Wilson

Gillian Wilson, David Harris Cohen, Jean Nérée Ronfort, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Peter Friess. C EUROPEAN IN THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEU\M Gillian Wilson David Harris Cohen Jean Nérée Ronfort Jean-Dominique Augarde Peter Friess ...
Personal Development All-in-One

Personal Development All-in-One

Rhena Branch

Rhena Branch, Gillian Burn, Brinley Platts. Personal Development ALL-IN-ONE FORDUMmIES‰ 2ND EDITION Edited by Gillian Burn A John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Publication Personal Development All-in-One For Dummies®,2nd Edition ...

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