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  • av F.J. Marker
    380,-

    This book, the first to deal with Andersen as a man of the theatre, dispels the myth that he was a frustrated closet dramatist. The author has culled a unique body of theatrical sources from the archives of the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen and has collected a gallery of unpublished designs and ground plans to illustrate his story.

  • av J. Rodney Millard
    380,-

    Focusing on engineers, rather than engineering, J. Rodney Millard offers a social history of an important group of organized civil engineers and their struggle to obtain power and prestige. It is the story not so much of how engineers changed society, but how they survived the change through collective action.

  • av J.B.J. McKendry
    380,-

    Convinced that there is a need for a book in paediatrics that is neither a classical text nor a handbook, but a guide in the management of paediatric problems, the authors have compiled this book for the use of general practitioners, interns, and students.

  • av Edward Neufeld
    439,-

    Bank of Canada Operations and Policy is the most detailed examination of the growth of Canada's central bank that has yet been made and will be useful to all those concerned with central banking and monetary policy.

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    847,-

    Bruce Peel's Bibliography was hailed by authorities as the single, finest introduction to the literature of the Canadian Prairies ever compiled, and one of the pioneering monuments of Canadian bibliographic scholarship.

  • av G.H. Needler
    291,-

    Professor Needler presents here the evidence that the poem, more appropriately called "The Lone Shieling," forms a beautiful tie of sentiment between Upper Canada and the Scottish Highlands, as it was Galt's work for the Canada Company that gave Moir the direct inspiration for the writing of it.

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    729,-

    This is the first authoritative edition of the text and an important primary source for the study of Elizabeth language and culture. It includes an extensive introduction with biography and background to Mulcaster's wide-ranging ideas. The notes provide further background and explain the archaic forms of Mulcaster's English style.

  • av Hazel Matthews
    685,-

    Mrs. Mathews, descendant of a pioneer Oakville family, traces the development of a typical Ontario lake port and pictures social life at the various stages of the town's development. The history is complete, beginning with the earliest settlement and ending at a period in which Oakville has changed its character completely.

  • av Philip Ouston
    483

    The power of imagination to construct those myths which alone, according to Barres, give sense and value to our absurd existence and by which, above all, men are moved to believe and act, was at the centre of his life-long preoccupation with the art of arousing and directing spiritual energy in individuals and groups.

  •  
    439,-

    In June 1967, the Earth Science Division of the Royal Society of Canada held a symposium to assess the country's activities and accomplishments in the earth sciences and to provide some guidelines and predictions for the future. The papers given at the symposium are collected in this volume.

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    439,-

    The critical survey and annotated bibliography lists books and journal articles published on Calderon between 1951 and 1969. It continues the work on Calderon contained in W.T. McCready's bibliografia tematica de estudios sobre el Teatro Espanol Antiguo, and follows the pattern of the Lope de Vega Studies 1937-1962.

  • av Agnes MacKay
    431,-

    In The Universal Self Miss Mackay examines Val�ry's achievement, both as poet and creative thinker, placing him in the environment of literary life in Paris; tracing the development of his thought, from his early friendship with Mallarm� to the years when his genius was widely acknowledged.

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    518,-

    Where is Canada going in the next half-century? Have her people a sense of purpose for themselves or their country? A number of writers well known for their articles and books on the Canadian cultural, social, and political sense come together here to take up these vital questions.

  • av Desmond Morton
    439,-

    A Peculiar Kind of Politics presents the inside story of how Canadians earned their autonomy in war through the increasing competence they displayed, not merely in action, but in their own administrative management.

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    483

    Beckwith's career as a composer, performer, teacher, administrator, author, editor, and promoter of Canadian music is unparalleled. It is fitting, then, that this group of papers, organized as a tribute to him, reflects not only his contribution, but also the current major directions of Canadian music.

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    847,-

    This casebook contains collections of facts or events, some hypothetical, but most of them historical, that raises serious conflicts of interest and require settlement by some device, either the dictate of some private individual or group, or the exercise of a more orderly "legal" procedure.

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    788,-

    Thomas Hood, 1799-1845, is one of the most notable minor authors of the late Romantic and early Victorian period. This is the only edition of Hood's letters; it is definitive and thoroughly annotated.

  • av Patrick O'Flaherty
    439,-

    The Rock Observed is a study of how Newfoundland has been perceived over the centuries by the islanders themselves and by outsiders. It offers an integrated survey of Newfoundland literature, culture, and history.

  • - The Making of a University
    av Arthur Morton
    291,-

    This volume tells the story of the University from its beginning to the end of its first and most formative period in 1919-20. At his death in 1945, Professor Arthur S. Morton left uncompleted a manuscript of a history of the University; and from his material Dr. Carlyle King has extracted and assembled this book.

  • av Paul Riegert
    522,-

    This is the story of entomology in western Canada from the time of the explorers to the outbreak of the Second World War. Riegert describes the impact of insect hordes; from the mosquitoes which assaulted the Danish explore Jens Munk on the shores of Hudson Bay in 1619, to the devastating plagues of grasshoppers of the 1930s.

  • av George L. Parker
    513,-

    This first extensive history of Canada's early book trade begins with the impact of the Gutenberg printing revolution. Parker analyses the role of technological advances in printing, to the growing complexity of the book trade in the major cities up to the time in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

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    439,-

    Arnold J. Toynbee's voluminous studies of world history embraced every civilization and religion of the past and present. In this volume twelve historians of widely differing specializations re-examine Toynbee's work. The volume is published to commemorate the centenary of Toynbee's birth.

  • av Ernest Oppenheimer
    439,-

    The author examines a representative number of Goethe's poems, masques, theatrical prologues, and so on, and defines the circumstances of their origin, sometimes in detail and always in the context of the great artistic, social, and political movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

  • av Kenneth McKay
    483

    Rooted in close analyses of individual poems, Many Glancing Colours becomes a study of the development and character of Tennyson's liberal artistic imagination.

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    380,-

    The primary object of the series is to promote collaboration between lawyers, social scientists, juristic philosophers, and others who are interested in exploring social values, processes, and institutions. The present volume is devoted to topics relating to the changing role of trade union activity in Canada.

  • av Colin McNairn
    380,-

    As the state comes to play a larger role in the community the question of the extent to which government is subject to the general law of the land assumes increasing importance. This book examines the limits of two related forms of state immunity: crown or governmental immunity from statue and intergovernmental immunity.

  • av John Meisel
    483

    The book provides an account of conditions in Canada in 1957 as a background for its discussion of election issues and party organizations.

  • av Paul A. Marshall
    335,-

    In this book, Paul Marshall offers the first systematic study of the development of the idea of vocation in England from 1500 to 1700.

  • av Douglas McCalla
    380,-

    The trading business of Peter and Isaac Buchanan became one of Canada's largest. This history of success and failure reveals much about the Anglo-Canadian trading system and the Upper Canadian economy of the period. This book illuminates a key period in Canada's economic and historical development.

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    685,-

    Professor Hilborn has aimed primarily at presenting a Mexican national outlook, in the hope that more people may be led to interest themselves in the psychological and spiritual aspects of Mexican culture.

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