Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
My Life
Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Beaver Hills Country
Author: Graham MacDonald
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1897425376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. Ecological themes, such as climatic cycles, ground water availability, vegetation succession and the response of wildlife, and the impact of fires, shape the possibilities and provide the challenges to those who have called the region home or used its varied resources: Indians, Metis, and European immigrants.
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1897425376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. Ecological themes, such as climatic cycles, ground water availability, vegetation succession and the response of wildlife, and the impact of fires, shape the possibilities and provide the challenges to those who have called the region home or used its varied resources: Indians, Metis, and European immigrants.
A Modern Utopia
Author: H. G. Wells
Publisher: tredition
ISBN: 3347637275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A Modern Utopia - H. G. Wells - A Modern Utopia is a dystopian book by H. G. Wells. In his preface, Wells says that A Modern Utopia would be the last of a series of volumes on social problems. This book is a tale of two travelers who fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government. It is told to us by a sketchily described character known only as the Owner of the Voice. Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is sometimes called the "father of science fiction. During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction", while American writer Charles Fort referred to him as a "wild talent". Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption per work – dubbed "Wells's law" – leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 as "O Realist of the Fantastic!". His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), which was his first novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and the military science fiction The War in the Air (1907). Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
Publisher: tredition
ISBN: 3347637275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A Modern Utopia - H. G. Wells - A Modern Utopia is a dystopian book by H. G. Wells. In his preface, Wells says that A Modern Utopia would be the last of a series of volumes on social problems. This book is a tale of two travelers who fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government. It is told to us by a sketchily described character known only as the Owner of the Voice. Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is sometimes called the "father of science fiction. During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction", while American writer Charles Fort referred to him as a "wild talent". Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption per work – dubbed "Wells's law" – leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 as "O Realist of the Fantastic!". His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), which was his first novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and the military science fiction The War in the Air (1907). Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
Champagne and Meatballs
Author: Bert Whyte
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1926836081
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Active for over 40 years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist Party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs--a memoir written not long before his death in Moscow in 1984--we meet a cigar-smoking rogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat and comaraderie at the front lines in World War II, and of surviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought to light and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash, irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale is history and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye--the left one, of course.
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1926836081
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Active for over 40 years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist Party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs--a memoir written not long before his death in Moscow in 1984--we meet a cigar-smoking rogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat and comaraderie at the front lines in World War II, and of surviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought to light and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash, irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale is history and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye--the left one, of course.
The Doukhobors
Author: George Woodcock
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart ; Ottawa : Institute of Canadian Studies, Carleton University
ISBN: 9780771098079
Category : Dukhobors
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart ; Ottawa : Institute of Canadian Studies, Carleton University
ISBN: 9780771098079
Category : Dukhobors
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Canada and Its Provinces
Author: Adam Shortt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Canada's Ukrainians
Author: Ukrainian Canadian Centennial Committee
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802059789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
This collection of essays, first published in 1991, presents an overview of the Ukrainian-Canadian community's experience, and brings together the works of over twenty scholars in history, politics, and sociology.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802059789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
This collection of essays, first published in 1991, presents an overview of the Ukrainian-Canadian community's experience, and brings together the works of over twenty scholars in history, politics, and sociology.
Life of George Cadbury
Author: Alfred George Gardiner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Coyote Stories
Author: Mourning Dove
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803281691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
These tales feature Mole, Coyote's wife, Chipmunk, Owl-Woman, Fox, and others
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803281691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
These tales feature Mole, Coyote's wife, Chipmunk, Owl-Woman, Fox, and others
Where Once We Walked
Author: Gary Mokotoff
Publisher: Bergenfield, NJ : Avotaynu
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Gazetteer providing information about more than 23,500 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust.
Publisher: Bergenfield, NJ : Avotaynu
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Gazetteer providing information about more than 23,500 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust.