Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 2001
ISBN 10: 1551990814 ISBN 13: 9781551990811
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Reprint. Winner of the 2000 Quebec Writers' Federation First Book Award and the Mavis Gallant Prize for NonfictionA hip, enlightening portrait of a place most Canadians find baffling: Quebec without the politics.Why do three million Quebecers tune in the same absurd sitcom every week? How did they get the nickname "pepsis"? Why does Celine Dion put on a down-home accent when she returns to her home province?For referendum-weary English Canadians, Quebec is an enigma wrapped in a yawn. Taras Grescoe treats the province as an exotic destination. He takes readers onto the shuffleboard courts of Florida, to a francophone country-and-western festival in rural Mauricie, to the café tables of expatriate Quebecers in Paris. He deconstructs a Montreal Canadiens hockey game, explores the stunning diversity of Quebecs newspapers, and dismantles Bombardier snowmobiles. En route, he meets Mohawk Warriors, Yiddish-speaking French Canadians, and the UFO-obsessed followers of Ral.Informed and incisive, Sacré Blues explores the heart of contemporary Quebec: its love-hate relationship with France and the United States; the dance, theatre, and literary productions celebrated in Europe but little known here; its fears about distinctness on an increasingly uniform continent. Along the way we meet such Quebec residents as the playwright Michel Tremblay and the novelist Neil Bissoondath, Teleglobe CEO Charles Sirois and the arctic explorer Bernard Voyer, the foul-mouthed columnist Pierre Foglia and the esteemed philosopher Charles Taylor.Sacré Blues serves up a spicy, irreverent, inside view of this unique and little-known part of North America. With side orders of poutine, maple syrup, and Vachon snack cakes. And scarcely a mention of Lucien Bouchard.From the Hardcover edition.
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Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 2024
ISBN 10: 1551990741 ISBN 13: 9781551990743
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Canadian Edition. One of the prices we pay for human attachment is that we mourn when a loved one dies. Every society has found ways to support and contain the mourners grief, from the heavy crape veils of the Victorians to the boisterous wakes of the Irish, from the Jewish custom of shiva to Mexicos Day of the Dead.When her daughters fiancé died suddenly, Katherine Ashenburg experienced the varieties of modern mourning, the expected ceremonies and intuitive rituals that gave solace to her family. Their power to comfort or not led her to explore the choreography of mourning across centuries and cultures, the rich and endlessly inventive ways we have devised to mark a universal and deeply felt plight.North American culture favors a mourning that is private and virtually invisible, but as this captivating work reveals, the formalized grieving customs of the past were so integrated into daily life that ultimately they gave rise to public parks, department stores, and ready-to-wear clothing. In the poignant keepsakes, prescribed mourning garb, carefully tended cemeteries, etiquette book directives, Internet support groups, and displays of desperate keening or outrageous revelry lie clues to a societys most elemental beliefs and keys to personal consolation.The Mourners Dance uncovers the psychological wisdom embedded in mourning customs ancient and new, and the value of ritual in restoring a community unraveled by loss. It is about how, in the wake of death, we go on living.
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Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane, Walter n Ross, 2002
ISBN 10: 1551990954 ISBN 13: 9781551990958
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. September 11, 2001, marked the end of innocence for Canadas ill-conceived, poorly run, and highly partisan immigration and refugee programs. In a tightly argued book sure to inspire controversy, Daniel Stoffman debunks the myths surrounding Canadian immigration and offers well-foundedsuggestions for change.A Chinese fishing boat is intercepted off the British Columbia coast. The 123 people on board, seeking to enter Canada illegally, are arrested, then given taxpayers money and legal representation. They apply for refugee status. Pending their hearings, they disappear. Welcome to Canada.An Algerian man is searched disembarking from a ferry from Victoria, B.C., to Port Angeles, Wash. His rental car turns out to contain explosives he plans to use to blow up the Los Angeles airport. The man turns out to be an al-Qaeda-trained terrorist bearing a Canadian passport in a false name.The terrorism of September 11, 2001, turned an intense spotlight on Canadas lax immigration and refugee programs. The longest undefended border in the world became, for the United States, a pressing security concern, and for good reason. Canada is the most immigrant-friendly country in the world, accepting (on a per capita basis) twice as many immigrants as the next most welcoming nation, many of them people about whom little is known.Canadas immigration program used to be run in the national interest. Now it belongs to those who benefit from it, either politically (most newcomers vote Liberal, so the Liberals use immigration to increase support) or economically (a whole industry has grown up around immigration, refugee, and multicultural issues). Who Gets In shows how this came about, explains why its contrary to the national interest, and suggests ways to fix the mess.Daniel Stoffman points out that our immigration policy is based on two false premises: that immigration provides substantial economic benefits and that we need a huge influx of younger people to offset the aging of our population. Both assumptions he persuasively refutes. Add political correctness, diversity masquerading as multiculturalism, and a voting public that has not yet made immigration an election issue, and presto: you have the most generous, insecure, and muddled immigration system in the world. Like most Canadians, Stoffman heartily supports responsible immigration and a compassionate refugee program. We have neither, he argues, and its time for Canadians to demand of their leaders that this most important program be rescued from political partisanship and returned to the foundations of national interest and humanitarianism on which it was built.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 1996
ISBN 10: 0921912951 ISBN 13: 9780921912958
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Winner of The Ontario Historical Societys Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History.With 300 photos and 11 maps.A work of unexpected delights and surprises: here is a one-of-a-kind guidebook that pinpoints the best of Ontarios architectural heritage in its most charming towns, offers tantalizing and informative details of provincial history, indulges the near universal vice of real-estate voyeurism, and beckons even the most reluctant to physical exercise.Katherine Ashenburg is our knowledgeable and charmingly opinionated companion on walking tours of ten small (populations 1000 to 27,000) Ontario communities that provide a rewarding variety of domestic and public architecture in a walkable compass. Each tour begins with a brief historical sketch of the town, then, with the aid of a detailed map, guides the reader/walker to some 60 sites over a leisurely but carefully plotted two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half hour stroll. We visit churches and jails, libraries and town halls, theatres and factories, and all manner of houses - homes of startling grandiosity and humble integrity. We become conversant with belvederes and ogee arches, Flemish bond and board and batten, at ease with Regency and Queen Anne, Italianate and Romanesque. And along the way, Ashenburg reveals the towns true personality, its distinctive architectural styles, forms and materials, and the genius, ambition, and vanities of its founders and builders.Every town - Perth, Picton, Cobourg, St. Marys, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Merrickville, Port Hope, Paris, Stratford and Goderich - is a days excursion from Toronto by a car or public transit; most are day-trips from either Ottawa or London. Over 300 black and white photographs capture the highlights; 11 maps show the way. For easy reference, there is a helpful, illustrated Guide to Historical Styles and an exhaustive Glossary of Architectural terms - everything from Apse to Voussoir.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 2001
ISBN 10: 1551990512 ISBN 13: 9781551990514
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Canadian First. A briefcase full of cash is handed to the treasurer of a federal political party, but the donation is never registered on the party's books. A public prosecutor investigates a case that implicates influential business figures, but he dies in a car accident before charges are laid. At the height of the Gulf War, a sale of sophisticated tanks to Saudi Arabia yields millions in illegal commissions - almost half the value of the deal - for a network of middlemen.The figure who connects these seemingly unrelated episodes is Karlheinz Schreiber, a name much in the headlines since his arrest in Toronto in August 1999. Charged in Germany with bribery and tax evasion, he is at the centre of the most sensational political crisis to erupt in that country since World War II, a scandal that has brought down the country's revered former chancellor Helmut Kohl.But it is in Canada that Schreiber's fortune was made. A tireless dealmaker who cultivated the powerful, he made connections in Ottawa that served the interests of his European patrons and clients. One was Airbus Industrie, a company desperate to break into the North American market by selling its planes to Air Canada. It was the secret commissions attached to the Air Canada sale, close to $20 million on a $1.8-billion contract, that became the subject of an RCMP investigation, the same investigation that prompted a lawsuit by former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Those commissions were ultimately shared with Schreiber's European amigos and with his Canadian friends.The Last Amigo is about the labyrinth of international political and business alliances that are at the heart of the scandals swirling around Karlheinz Schreiber: how corporations win government contracts, how money is successfully hidden in foreign banks and distributed through coded accounts, how an international political agenda is promoted and financed. It is a tale of media spin, covert influence, and undeniable personal gain. And it is a portrait of a consummate middleman who knew precisely how to exploit the ambitions and vulnerabilities of others.
Publicado por Brand: MACFARLANE WALTER ROSS, 1995
ISBN 10: 0921912781 ISBN 13: 9780921912781
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 2003
ISBN 10: 1551990563 ISBN 13: 9781551990569
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Nuevo desde EUR 26,54
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Publicado por Brand: MacFarlane Walter n Ross [1994], 1995
ISBN 10: 0921912722 ISBN 13: 9780921912729
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 1997
ISBN 10: 1551990180 ISBN 13: 9781551990187
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: NEW.
Publicado por Brand: MacFarlane Walter n Ross, 1994
ISBN 10: 0921912730 ISBN 13: 9780921912736
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: NEW.
Publicado por Brand: Walter n Ross Macfarlane, 1999
ISBN 10: 1551990296 ISBN 13: 9781551990293
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new. Gable, Brian Ilustrador.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 1993
ISBN 10: 0921912714 ISBN 13: 9780921912712
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 1993
ISBN 10: 0921912552 ISBN 13: 9780921912552
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 1995
ISBN 10: 0921912927 ISBN 13: 9780921912927
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Publicado por Brand: MacFarlane, Walter n Ross, 1991
ISBN 10: 0921912064 ISBN 13: 9780921912064
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 1992
ISBN 10: 0921912382 ISBN 13: 9780921912385
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter Ross, 2000
ISBN 10: 1551990482 ISBN 13: 9781551990484
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross C1993, Toronto, 1993
ISBN 10: 092191248X ISBN 13: 9780921912484
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 2004
ISBN 10: 0771056885 ISBN 13: 9780771056888
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 1991
ISBN 10: 092191220X ISBN 13: 9780921912200
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 1991
ISBN 10: 0921912048 ISBN 13: 9780921912040
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 1993
ISBN 10: 0921912463 ISBN 13: 9780921912460
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane, Walter n Ross, 2002
ISBN 10: 1551991004 ISBN 13: 9781551991009
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 1998
ISBN 10: 1551990288 ISBN 13: 9781551990286
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 1997
ISBN 10: 1551990210 ISBN 13: 9781551990217
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 1993
ISBN 10: 0921912587 ISBN 13: 9780921912583
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Macfarlane Walter n Ross, 1990
ISBN 10: 092191203X ISBN 13: 9780921912033
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.